Music
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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"
