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Songs Inspired by India

Aug. 2, 2018
Blog
Column
Writer: George Boyland (sonofwebcore)
At: The Guardian

A List

	Title	Artist	Nominated by
1	Games People Play	Joe South	IsabelleForshaw
2	Within You Without You	The Beatles	gordonimmel
3	Wild Mountain Honey	Steve Miller Band	IsabelleForshaw
4	Signed, Sealed, Delivered (I’m Yours)	Stevie Wonder	IsabelleForshaw
5	Mother India	Fun-Da-Mental	Shoegazer
6	Krishna Blue	David Sylvian	EddyBamyasi
7	New Way New Life	Asian Dub Foundation	DarceysDad
8	Guru Song	The Future Sound of London	658spark
9	Blue Raga	Davey Graham	dave56
10	Filhos de Gandhi	Giberto Gil & Jorge Ben	drunkenpanda
11	Bird in Hand	Lee “Scratch” Perry & the Upsetters	DenryMachin
12	Ever So Lonely	Monsoon	gordonimmel

B List

	Title	Artist	Nominated by
1	Homelands	Nitin Sawhney	nilpferd
2	Devotion No. 1	Loop Guru	philipphilip99
3	The Man from Nagpur	Quasimode	nilpferd
4	My Dark Star	Suede	OlivesNightie
5	Get Ur Freak On	Missy Elliott	FatherChewyLouie
6	Inside the Taj Mahal	Paul Horn	nilpferd
7	Govinda	Kula Shaker	gordonimmel
8	Ravi Shankar	Dub Syndicate	Shoegazer
9	The India Song	Big Star	GreatGrendel
10	Nadia	Jeff Beck	blackshadow
11	66 Metres	Indian Ropeman	philipphilip99
12	India	Shakti	SvenDog
13	Raga Bairagic	Charanjit Singh	SpotTheWhopper
14	Three Is a Green Crown	The Incredible String Band	GreatGrendel
15	Om Nama Shivaya	Steve Hillage	leedslily2
16	Fifty Dollar Habit	William Bell	philipphilip99

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Songs About Obsolete Things

July 26, 2018
Blog
Column
Writer: Frank Mastropolo
At: The Guardian

A List

	Title	Artist	Nominated by
1	Want Ads	The Honey Cone	SethMiller
2	The Shoeshine Boy	The Humblebums	Slademan
3	Switch Board Susan	Nick Lowe	StevenFlanagan
4	CB Song	The Legendary Shack Shakers	WilliumCobblers
5	Kodachrome	Paul Simon	MrCanoehead
6	I Love Rock ‘n’ Roll	Joan Jett & the Blackhearts	MrCanoehead
7	Pontiac Blues	Sonny Boy Williamson II	attwilightlarks
8	Everybody’s Goin’ to the Love-In	Bob Brady & the Con Chords	attwilightlarks
9	The Low Spark of High Heeled Boys	Traffic	mikedow
10	He’s Just a Scientist	Connie Francis	philipphilip99

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Songs About Bread and Baking

July 19, 2018
Blog
Column
Writer: Pairubu
At: The Guardian

A List

	Title	Artist	Nominated by
1	Eleanor’s Cake (Which Ate Her)	Kevin Ayers	sonofwebcore
2	Le Petit Pain au Chocolat	Joe Dassin	NotSoLittleMouse
3	Pizza Pie	Norman Fox & the Rob Roys	LyntonCrosby
4	Breadfan	Budgie	AlfieHisself
5	Orange Rolls, Angel’s Spit	Sonic Youth	vanwolf
6	Cake and Sodomy	Marilyn Manson	manyofhorror
7	Big Pink Cake	Razorcuts	vanwolf
8	Joy Division Oven Gloves	Half Man Half Biscuit	Shoegazer
9	Cookie Thumper!	Die Antwoord	onarope
10	Oi Can’t Git a Noice Loaf a Bread	The Singing Postman	Thesubhuman
11	The Doughnut Song	Smoky Dawson	Ravi Raman
12	Lazy Day	The Moody Blues	IsabelleForshaw
13	No Buredi (No Bread)	Fela Kuti	Fuel

B List

	Title	Artist	Nominated by
1	The Ballad of the Peshwari Naan	The Pocket Gods	thepocketgod
2	Petootie Pie	Ella Fitzgerald	philipphilip99
3	La Baguette	Pigalle	philipphilip99
4	Sweat Loaf	Butthole Surfers	Opium Harlot
5	Cake	The B-52s	IsabelleForshaw
6	Song of a Baker	Small Faces	Clunkfish
7	Ball and Biscuit	The White Stripes	GreatGrendel
8	Your Majesty Is Like a Cream Donut	Hatfield and the North	Clunkfish
9	Cut the Cake	The Wolfhounds	vanwolf
10	Nothing Can Change This Love	Sam Cooke	SethMiller
11	Who’s Been Warming My Oven?	James Carr	Slademan
12	Johnny Was a Baker	Dr. Alimantado	Thesubhuman
13	Toast and Marmalade for Tea	Tin Tin	Slademan
14	Chinese Bakery	The Auteurs	Dougal
15	Pizza	Knower	ajostu

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Songs About Deserts

July 12, 2018
Blog
Column
Writer: Scott Blair (misterbadexample)
At: The Guardian

A List

	Title	Artist	Nominated by
1	In a Big Country	Big Country	buskerdoo
2	Midnight at the Oasis	The Brand New Heavies	LuDux22
3	Contrast	Count Five	Pairubu
4	Mon Légionnaire	Édith Piaf	suzi
5	Atacama	Crisilada	argybargy
6	Antarctica Starts Here	John Cale	Pairubu
7	Mojave Winters	Brenda Kahn	BlueMagus
8	Shnitzled in the Negev	Shpongle	ScorchTheBlueDragon
9	A Horse with No Name	Horace Andy	LyntonCrosby
10	Mirage	Siouxsie and the Banshees	Shoegazer
11	Traveller in the Desert	Tinariwen	Mussoliniheadkick
12	29 Palms	Robert Plant	mikedow

B List

	Title	Artist	Nominated by
1	Tenere	Bombino	onarope
2	Sahara	Camel	SplishySploshy
3	Desert Knight	Ihab Darwish	ameliaAD
4	Hotter Than the Mojave in My Heart	Iris Dement	jrowen81
5	Desert Raven	Jonathan Wilson	Richard Banks
6	Desert Song	Michael Schenker Group	philipphilip99
7	No One Knows	Queens of the Stone Age	David Kelly
8	Dry Is the Desert	Screeching Weasel	Pairubu
9	Charlton Heston	Stump	vastariner
10	Pressure Drop	Toots and the Maytals	LilyDale
11	There’s Just Nothing Better Than a Beard	The Beards	FatherChewyLouie
12	The Sands of Mexico	The Chieftains ft Ry Cooder	jrowen81
13	He Told Her the City Was Killing Him	The Delines	DarceysDad
14	Far from Any Road	The Handsome Family	attwilightlarks2
15	Nights Over Egypt	The Jones Girls	SpotTheWhopper

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Songs About Being Lost

June 28, 2018
Blog
Column
Writer: Samantha Birchard (drunkenpanda)
At: The Guardian

A List

	Title	Artist	Nominated by
1	Lost in the Stars	Abbey Lincoln	SethMiller
2	Pearl’s a Singer	Elkie Brooks	Pairubu
3	Lost Highway	Hank Williams	StevenFlanagan
4	He’s Simple, He’s Dumb, He’s the Pilot	Grandaddy	SpotTheWhopper
5	A Forest	The Cure	bllckchps
6	Lost in the Supermarket	The Clash	London2471
7	Walkabout	Throbbing Gristle	Mussoliniheadkick
8	Let’s Get Lost	Chet Baker	severin
9	Can’t Find My Way Home	Steve Winwood & Eric Clapton	PatLux
10	The Forest of No Return	Sun Ra	SethMiller

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Songs About Writing

April 26, 2018
Blog
Column
Writer: Sarah Chappell (AFictionHabit)
At: The Guardian

A List

	Title	Artist	Nominated by
1	Magic Word	Fucked Up	happyclapper
2	I’m Writing a Novel	Father John Misty	kelso77
3	The Blend	The Herbaliser ft What What	ForfallForFall
4	Rewrite	Paul Simon	Maggie B
5	(The Ballad of) Dorothy Parker	Prince	Fuel
6	Hey Jack Kerouac	10,000 Maniacs	GreatGrendel
7	Paperback Writer	The Beatles	FatherChewyLouie
8	Everyday I Write the Book	Elvis Costello	LyntonCrosby
9	How I Wrote Elastic Man	The Fall	bllckchps
10	Storytelling	Belle and Sebastian	ToffeeBoy
11	Mr. Writer	Stereophonics	LadyToothill
12	Hurricane Room	Lin-Manuel Miranda	oligarchic
13	The Booklovers	The Divine Comedy	Dougal

B List

	Title	Artist	Nominated by
1	The Wrote and the Writ	Johnny Flynn	Shoegazer
2	Mr. Reporter	The Kinks	YippeeYouCantSeeMe
3	Oh Mighty Engine	Neil Halstead	barbryn
4	Lyrical Content	[spunge]	d33pf1x
5	My Pen & Pad	Blackalicious	Fuel
6	The Letter	PJ Harvey	GreatGrendel
7	Box Full of Letters	Wilco	attwilightlarks
8	Dorothy Parker Blue	The Real Tuesday Weld	saneshane
9	Bukowski	Modest Mouse	saneshane
10	Burn It Down	Dexys Midnight Runners	Mussoliniheadkick
11	You Could Write a Book	Someone Still Loves You Boris Yeltsin	saneshane
12	When I Write the Book	Nick Lowe	StevenFlanagan
13	I Could Write a Book	Dinah Washington	Xanh_cay

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Songs About the Commonwealth

Apr. 19, 2018
Blog
Column
Writer: Chaz Cozens (HopelessCase)
At: The Guardian

A List

	Title	Artist	Nominated by
1	Royal Tour	Roaring Lion	BeltwayBandit
2	Hit Me with Your Rhythm Stick	Ian Dury & the Blockheads	FatherChewyLouie
3	I’ve Been Everywhere	Geoff Mack	mikedow
4	I’ve Been Everywhere	Rajiv Rajaram	bllckchps
5	Gambia-Zambia	Super Eagles	LyntonCrosby
6	Zambezi	The Piranhas	Mussoliniheadkick
7	Ghana Guinea Mali	E.T. Mensah	GreatGrendel
8	Mozambique	Traffic	WordChazer
9	Des Mera Rangrez	Indian Ocean	Ravi Raman
10	Van Diemen’s Land	Steeleye Span	grisgris
11	He’s on the Beach	Kirsty MacColl	SnoopDogStevens
12	Isa Lei	The Seekers	Naguchi
13	Far Far Away	Slade	misterbadexample
14	Hurricane Room	The Blessing	DarceysDad
15	Dreadlock Holiday	10cc	suzi
16	God Save the Queen	Queen	ajostu

B List

	Title	Artist	Nominated by
1	We’ll Rant and We’ll Roar (Like True Newfoundlanders)	Great Big Sea	philipphilip99
2	Up in Canada	The Sheepdogs	misterbadexample
3	Orinoco Flow	Enya	BlackCombe
4	Funky Nassau	The Beginning of the End	gordonimmel
5	Barbados	Typically Tropical	mutty meme
6	Australia	The Kinks	BeltwayBandit
7	Sir Garfield Sobers	Mighty Sparrow	BeltwayBandit
8	Qu’appelle Valley Saskatchewan	Buffy Sainte-Marie	GreatGrendel
9	South Australia	The Pogues	bllckchps
10	Canada	Low	happyclapper
11	The Log Drivers’ Waltz	Kate and Anna McGarrigle	albertasaurus
12	She’s Called Nova Scotia	Rita McNeil	Naguchi
13	Hunting Tigers Out in ‘Indiah’	Bonzo Dog Band	billyin
14	Red River Valley	Stevie Nicks & Chris Isaak	moggscreek
15	Caledonia	Dougie MacLean	Goldie Dee

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