10 Song Titles Containing the Word Better

1. Better Regina Spektor
2. Better Day Ocean Colour Scene
3. Better Things The Kinks
4. Getting Better The Beatles
5. It's Getting Better Mamas and the Papas
6. Gonna Get Better Gabrielle
7. I Should Have Known Better The Beatles
8. You Better You Bet The Who
9. Nobody Does It Better Carly Simon
10. I'll Feel a Whole Lot Better The Byrds

10 Pop Songs whose titles do not appear in their lyrics

1. Bob Dylan - “Subterranean Homesick Blues” (also, “Positively 4th Street,” “Just Like Tom Thumb’s Blues,” “My Back Pages,” etc)
2. Led Zeppelin - “Immigrant Song” “The Lemon Song” etc
3. The Beatles -" A Day in the Life" (Also "Ballad of John and Yoko", "Tomorrow never knows")
4. Nirvana — “Smells Like Teen Spirit”, etc
5. 40 - U2, etc
6. Queen — “Bohemian Rhapsody”
7. Coldplay — “Viva La Vida”
8. The Who — “Baba O’Riley”
9. David Bowie — “Space Oddity”
10. Paranoid - "Black Sabbath"

(Also - The Righteous Brothers - Unchained Melody; Chumbawumba - Tubthumping)

10 popular songs that feature violin

1. Coz I luv u Slade
2. Baba O'Riley The Who
3. Come on Eileen Dexy's Midnight Runners
4. Rather be Clean Bandit
5. Devil went down to Georgia Charlie Daniels Band
6. I am a man of constant sorrow Soggy Bottom Boys
7. Seven drunken nights The Dubliners
8. Sunday Bloody Sunday U2
9. Don't pass me The Beatles
10. Hocus Pocus Vanessa Mae

The Who - Baba O'Riley (with Nigel Kennedy)

If you find an expletivve in here, please excuse it,

10 Songs that reference T Rex or Bolan

1. Mott the Hoople/All the young dudes
The television man is crazy Saying we're juvenile delinquent wrecks Man I need a TV when I've got T. Rex Hey brother you guessed I'm a dude
2. The Who/You better you bet
I love to hear you say my name especially when you say yes I got your body right now on my mind and I drunk myself blind to the sound of old T.Rex To the sound of old T.Rex - who's next?
3. The Ramones/Rock'n'roll radio
Will you remember Jerry Lee, John Lennon, T. Rex and Ol' Moulty? It's the end, the end of the 70's It's the end, the end of the century
4. Dada/Posters
She locked the door behind me she lit a candle Then blew it out said the moon would do just fine The lizard king and T. Rex for wall paper Above her bed hung a No-Parking sign
5. Zodiac Mindwarp/Prime Mover
Yeah yeah yeah yeah Well I love TV and I love T. Rex I can see through your skirt I've got x-ray spex
6. R.E.M./The Wake Up Bomb
Practice my T. Rex moves and make the scene get drunk and sing along to Queen
7. B A Robertson/Kool in the Kaftan
Do yourself a favour Don't you savour All that hippy thing find what's next Hey man don't you stop and pray man Go out and buy T Rex
8. Smog/Floating
Floating Hear a name From which planet Do you beckon I don't reckon It could be too far from here I'll bet you look like Marc Bolan's girlfriend
9. Kate Bush/Blow away (For Bill)
Put out the light, then, put out the light Vibes in the sky invite you to dine Dust to dust Blow to blow Bolan and Moony are heading the show tonight
10. Devendra Benhart/The Beatles Yo sí oigo a (I have listened to) Donovan. Yo sí oigo a Marc Bolan. Yo sí oigo a Ben Chasny. A Six Organs me gusta a mí.

Another cassette

Another cassette I found is Volume 1 of a two volume collection of 28 classic rock numbers. I don't think I ever owned Volume 2. I bought it in a sale and Volume 2 was missing then.

Volume 2 contained T Rex/Ride a white swan, The Who/My generation, Peter Frampton/Show me the way. Steve Harley and Cockney Rebel/Make Me Smile, Canned Heat/Let's Work Together, Fleetwood Mac/Albatross – which I would have loved (the rest are okay - Julie Driscoll, Brian Auger & The Trinity/This Wheel's On Fire, Pink Floyd/Money, Dire Straits/Lady Writer, Lou Reed/ Walk On The Wild Side, Lynyrd Skynyrd/Freebird. Meatloaf/Dead Ringer For Love, Far Corporation/Stairway To Heaven, Deep Purple/Smoke On The Water).

If I remember rightly I bought the cassette for Free/My Brother Jake plus Derek And The Dominos/Layla, Thin Lizzy/Waiting For An Alibi, Status Quo/Caroline, Santana She's Not There, Electric Light Orchestra/Roll Over Beethoven, Jethro Tull/Living In The Past, Rod Stewart/Maggie May, Black Sabbath/Paranoid. I'm alsop happy enough with Mott The Hoople/All The Young Dudes, The Jimi Hendrix Experience/Voodoo Chile, Cream/Strange Brew , Rainbow/Since You Been Gone/Traffic/Paper Sun.

In some ways this is a broad range of rock and shows what good stuff was going down back in the late sixties and early seventies. I currently have on my ipod and listen to exactly half (ie 14) of these tracks.

10 Popular Songs that feature the 12 string guitar

1 A horse with no name (America)
2 Turn turn turn (Byrds)
3 Hotel California (Eagles)
4 Give a little bit (Supertramp)
5 Free fallin' (Tom Petty)
6 Stairway to heaven (Led Zeppelin)
7 Maggie May (Rod Stewart)
8 Space Oddity (Davi Bowie)
9 More than a feeling (Boston)
10 Pinball Wizard (The Who)

10 Hair References in Pop Songs

1. T Rex Telegram Sam

"Me I funk but I don't care/I ain't no square with my corkscrew hair"

2. Larry Norman Why should the Devil have all the good music

"They Say to Cut my Hair / They're Driving Me Insane / I Grew it out Long to make Room for my Brain"

3. Sonny and Cher I got you babe

"So let them say your hair's too long /'Cause I don't care, with you I can't go wrong"

4. Musical Hair Frank Mills

"But he wears his hair/ Tied in a small bow at the back"

5. Beach Boys Surfin' USA

"Huarachi sandals too/A bushy bushy blonde hairdo/Surfin' U.S.A."

6. Scott McKenzie If you're going to San Francisco

"If you're going to San Francisco Be sure to wear some flowers in your hair"

7. The Who Cut my hair

"Why should I care If I have to cut my hair? I've got to move with the fashion Or be outcast"

8. Led Zeppelin The Girl I Love She Got Long Black Wavy Hair

9. Aretha Franklin I say a little prayer

"While combing my hair now And wondering what dress to wear now I say a little prayer for you"

10.  Almost cut my hair CSNY

"Almost cut my hair Happened just the other day It's gettin' kind of long I could've said it was in my way"