List song

A list song is a song based wholly or in part on a list. List songs typically develop by working through a list, sometimes using items of escalating absurdity.

Examples of list songs (and their composers/performers) include: the following. Songs are in alphabetical order by title (omitting the definite article where relevant).

A to D

*"'A' - You're Adorable" (Sid Lippman, Buddy Kaye and Fred Wise)
*"A Hard Rain's a-Gonna Fall" (Bob Dylan)
*"At the Hop" by Danny and the Juniors lists many popular dances of the late 50s
*"Bike (song)" (Syd Barrett's Pink Floyd)
*"The Begat" (Burton Lane and E.Y. Harburg)
*"The Booklovers" The Divine Comedy
*"Can U Dig It" (Pop Will Eat Itself)
*"Come To the Supermarket In Old Peking" (Cole Porter)
*"Done Too Soon" (Neil Diamond)

E to J

*"Eclipse" (Pink Floyd)
*"The Elements" (Tom Lehrer)
*"Elephant Talk" (King Crimson)
*"Endless Art" A House
*"The Green Grass Grows All Around" (Traditional)
*"Green Grow the Rushes, O" (Traditional)
*"God" (John Lennon)
*"Hello (The Beloved song)" The Beloved
*"I'm Still Here" (Stephen Sondheim)
*"I Started a Blog Nobody Read" (Sprites)
*"I've Been Everywhere" (Geoff Mack/Lucky Starr)
*"It's Grim Up North" (The Justified Ancients of Mu Mu)
*"It's the End of the World As We Know It" (R.E.M.)

K to O

*"La Vie Boheme" (Jonathan Larson)
*"Let's Do It, Let's Fall in Love" (Cole Porter)
*"Life Is a Rock (But the Radio Rolled Me)" (Reunion)
*"Lost Property" (The Divine Comedy)
*"Mambo No. 5" (Lou Bega)(Performed by Lou Bega and Perez Prado)
*"MfG" (Die Fantastischen Vier)
*"Mr. Goldstone" (music, Jule Styne; lyrics, Stephen Sondheim)
*"Moments to Remember" (Robert Allen and Al Stillman)
*"My Favorite Things" (Rodgers and Hammerstein)
* [http://truthsite.org/MyFavoriteThings"My Favorite Things (Conservative Version)"] (a political parody, with lyrics by Don Smith)
*"One Hundred Easy Ways (To Lose a Man)" (music, Leonard Bernstein; lyrics, Betty Comden and Adolph Green)

P to S

*"People Who Died" (Jim Carroll)
*"Pepper" (Butthole Surfers)
*"Plane Too" (Loudon Wainwright III)
*"The Rattl'n Bog" (Traditional)
*"Reasons To Be Cheerful, Part 3" Ian Dury & the Blockheads
*"(Get Your Kicks on) Route 66" by Bobby Troup
*"Start Button" (Private Thoughts in Public Places featuring Streamer, on As Heard On Radio Soulwax Pt. 2)
*"Subterranean Homesick Blues" (Bob Dylan)

T to Z

*The chorus of "Tam Pierce" (Widdecombe Fair) lists all the people accompanying the narrator to the fair.
*"Telefonbuchpolka" (Georg Kreisler)
*"To Kokoraki" (the Cockerel) (Flanders and Swann)
*"Thou Shalt Always Kill" (Dan le sac Vs Scroobius Pip)
*"The Twelve Days of Christmas" (Traditional)
*"Waters of March" (Antonio Carlos Jobim)
*"We Care a Lot" (Faith No More)
*"We Didn't Start the Fire" (Billy Joel)
*"What Shall We Do Now?", (Pink Floyd) in the film of ""
*"Vogue" (Madonna)
*"You're the Top" (Cole Porter)
*"Zip" (Rodgers and Hart)

0 to 9

*"50 Ways to Leave Your Lover" (Paul Simon)
*"88 Lines About 44 Women" (The Nails)

Many patter songs fall into this genre such as:
*KoKo's "List Song" from The Mikado
*"Tchaikovsky" (Kurt Weill and Ira Gershwin)
*"The Major-General's Song" (Gilbert and Sullivan)