Music

References to the making of music (instruments, lyrics, singing, etc.) or music itself.

Central theme

• 123 Band Intro
• 3 Chords, 2 Teeth, 1 Eye - "All right, I'm playing all the hairs on my body"
• A TMBG Song
• The Bells Are Ringing
• Blues In
• Charleston - Venue song for "The Music Farm"
• The Communists Have The Music
• Cyclops Rock
• D Is For Drums
• Dan Hickey's Actual Drums
• Dan Vs. Cog - Drumming
• Dewey Rag
• Disappointing Show
• Disco Lover
• Doctor Worm - "I like to play the drums"
• Doris Cunningham - performing a song
• The End Of The Tour - "The engagements are booked through the end of the world"
• Everybody Conga
• The Famous Polka
• The Future Of Sound
• G-L-O-ckenspiel Intro
• Greasy Kid Stuff
• The Guitar
• Guitar Was The Case
• Heart Of The Band - Drums
• Hillbilly Drummer Girl
• How Can I Sing Like A Girl?
• I Just Want To Dance
• I Love To Sing
• I'm Just A Note
• I Wasn't Listening - "The songs on that telephone line"
• In Fact - "I have rolled under your piano / That you don't play / A lot"
• Los Angeles
• Man, It's So Loud In Here
• Marty Beller Mask - "I'm really Whitney Houston on the drums"
• The Mesopotamians
• Mr. Tambourine Man
• Music Jail, Pt. 1 & 2
• Number Three - "There's only two songs in me and this is number three"
• Other Father Song
• Rhythm Section Want Ad
• (She Was A) Hotel Detective In The Future Commentary - A fake commentary track describing the process of making (She Was A) Hotel Detective In The Future.
• The Shitty, Shitty Blues
• Songs
• Space Jam
• Stomp Box
• Taste The Bass
• Touring In Australia
• Trap Door - "Somewhere on this stage / We didn't warn them of the strobe lights"
• Violin
• We're The Replacements
• Working Undercover For The Man - "I've been working hard, trying to sing and play guitar" and "Paid to fake it in a traveling band"
• XTC Vs. Adam Ant

Briefly mentioned

• '85 Radio Special Thank You - "We all sang a duet with Tina Turner"
• A Self Called Nowhere - "The store where they let me play the organ"
• Absolutely Bill's Mood - "Put a dime in my jukebox; you'll only hear this song"
• All Time What - "...playing a dirge"
• Alphabet Of Nations - West Xylophone
• Backstabbing Liar - "Backstabbing liar has learned to write songs"
• The Ballad Of Timothy McSweeney - "the journal of prose... and music, and art"
• Bed Bed Bed, Bed Bed Bed Bed Bed - "I practiced the guitar"
• Black Ops - "You'll be standing when the music stops", "Stick to the music job", "We'll sing our special song"
• Boat Of Car - "Daddy'll sing bass"
• The Bright Side - "That the crowd keeps singin', singin'"
• Brontosaurus - "Join the chorus"
• By The Time You Get This - "And the peaceful air is filled / with a silent harmony"
• Camp Campingston URGR8 - "I hate this song, fellas"
• CATENAS MEAS AMISI - (transl.) "The trumpet sits idle / Untrumpeted"
• Celebration - "To play a record, select an album and put it on the turntable."
• Celebrities - "I tried to rock and roll"
• Certain People I Could Name - "Music underscores the tragedy"
• Christmas In The Big House - "playing a song on the bars with a spoon"
• Crushed By Dust - "The sad sad sound of the parlor organ"
• Damn Good Times - "Can she do the karaoke"; "When it comes to opera"
• The Darlings Of Lumberland - "A little melody, if time permits"
• Don't Let's Start - "Over an overture"
• Drown The Clown - "Your ears are ringing / From this idiotic singing"
• Everything Right Is Wrong Again - "Every four is waltz again"
• Feast Of Lights - "I got you a harmonica"
• Feign Amnesia - "If the bass won't get you, the treble will get you"
• Fibber Island - "We strum rubber guitars"; "No one sings along"
• Flying V - "Now a flying V is made of a guitar", entire verse is guitar centric
• Happy Doesn't Have To Have An Ending - "You've got to sing out loud when the music starts"
• Hidden Track - "I am alone but my love of music is keeping my spirit alive"
• Homunculus - "Your headliner blues got 'em crying"
• I Got My T-Shirt Back - "Play the bongos!"
• I Should Be Allowed To Think - "I saw the worst bands of my generation"
• I Was Dancing In The Lesbian Bar - "In this bar, things were rock and roll"
• I'm Def - "We have our own song"
• I'm Not A Loser - "You're not hallucinating the sea anemone chorus line at all", Clarinet solo!"
• Idaho - "Play that drumroll"
• If I Wasn't Shy - "I'd steal from all microphones from all the masters of ceremony"
• In Fact - "I have rolled under your piano / That you don't play / A lot"
• I Never Go To Work - "practice trumpet every day"
• It Could Be Worse - "As the day the music died"
• John Postal - "Play the soothing music of New Orleans brass bands"
• Karate! - "Oboe"
• Kids Go! - "If you're hearing this song"
• Larger Than Life - "All music lovers"
• Less Than One - "Ten radios are playing"
• Let's Get This Over With - "The drumbeat never changes tempo"
• Madam, I Challenge You To A Duel - "By spirits taught to sing"
• Mario Speaks - "Maybe an accordion would be good. I don't know."
• McCafferty's Bib - "They're massing in public squares / And they're singing a note / That rises from low to high"
• Mink Car - "Driven by a guitar"
• Mission Control - "I forgot to bring my guitar"
• Morgan In The Morning ID - "Playing lots of records"
• Mrs. Bluebeard - "Death metal albums"
• Negative Ad - "And now They Might Be Giants are playing their breakthrough album Flood... (All of it.) And they still have time for other songs"
• New Haven - "Pollywog strummin' my six-string", "holdin' the mike stand"
• New York City - "We met in the springtime at a rock-and-roll show"
• No One Knows My Plan - "The lovely music"
• Nonagon - "Turning the music on is a six-sided hexagon"
• Oddball - "Like the notes between the chords in this song"
• Our Cannibal Friends - "We're gonna jam until our beards are long and white"
• Outboard Part Of Man - "Everybody singing"
• P.S.O.K. (Paul Stanley Of KISS) - "We haven't played this one but once on this whole tour", "The keyboard player"
• Photosynthesis - "Photosynthesis does not involve a [...] synthesizer (although that's interesting too)"
• Protagonist - "She stole my air guitar"
• Return To The Planet Of The Apes - "G minor" (if that is indeed what they're saying)
• Santa Claus - "A twangy guitar"
• Santa's Beard - "She's been humming cheating songs"
• S-E-X-X-Y - "This is the way the talking part goes"
• Shape Shifter - "What used to be my house, is it that purple tentacle? Or is that the TV repairman? The clarinet?"
• She's An Angel - "When they sing you can't hear, there's no air"
• She Thinks She's Edith Head - "A new wave fan"
• Shoehorn With Teeth - "Tour the world with a heavy metal band"
• Sold My Mind To The Kremlin - "...and country music with all those lists..."
• Stone Cold Coup D'État - "The orchestra conductor has been captured and tried and killed"
• The World's Address (Joshua Fried Remix) - "Paging Mr. Saxophone"
• They'll Need A Crane - "Call off the wedding band"
• They Got Lost (Song) - "But she's running out of records"
• They Might Be Giants (Song) - "They might be Dr. Spock's backup band"
• Three Might Be Duende - "The song is a march"
• Trucker's Coffee - "A few years back they had a big rock show"
• Turn Around - "She played a xylophone and sang me this song"
• Twisting - "Turn off your ... Marshall stack", "dB's records", "Young Fresh Fellows tapes"
• Wait Actually Yeah No - "Swimming tambourine", "Odorless guitar chord"
• Waves - "Birds make waves when they sing"
• We Want A Rock - The title itself is a pun on "We wanna rock." I don't know if that counts, but I just thought it was interesting.
• Wearing A Raincoat - "You will play the drums to help you sleep"
• Weep Day - "And it's samba time for Tambo"
• Why Does The Sun Really Shine? - "Don't play that song"
• Words Are Like - "a minor scale"
• Yeh Yeh - "Open your mind to electric guitars"
• Yellow Submarine - "There's a guy who sang this song, and he sang until he died"
• You're On Fire - "The music is extremely loud"
• Your Mom's Alright - "Pop rock (bongos)"
• Your Own Worst Enemy - "...as some music fills the room, and the song they play is the guy with the messed-up face"
• Youth Culture Killed My Dog - "Bacharach and David used to write his favorite songs" , "The hip-hop and the white funk"

See also

• Musical Stores