Trope Namers/Music

You're likely to find a lot of tropes on this website that get their names from popular songs, even if the songs themselves don't use them.

Anonymous
 * Sweet Polly Oliver

The 13th Floor Elevators
 * Psychedelic Rock

Fifty Cent
 * In Da Club

Aerosmith
 * Dude Looks Like a Lady
 * Elevator Going Down

Anita Baker
 * Caught Up in the Rapture

Band Aid
 * Do They Know It's Christmas Time?

Beastie Boys
 * Fight Fur Your Right to Party

The Beatles
 * Abbey Road Crossing
 * Bigger Than Jesus
 * Day in the Life
 * Kaleidoscope Eyes (from "Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds")
 * Magical Mystery Doors
 * The Pete Best
 * The Walrus Was Paul (from "Glass Onion")
 * Yoko Oh No

The Bee Gees
 * Knight Fever
 * Staying Alive

Blue Oyster Cult
 * Don't Fear the Reaper

Garth Brooks
 * Calling the Old Man Out

James Brown
 * Take It to the Bridge

Buckner & Garcia
 * Pac-Man Fever

Johnny Cash
 * Ring of Fire

Chamillionaire
 * Trying to Catch Me Fighting Dirty (from "Ridin'")

Harry Chapin
 * When You Coming Home, Dad? (from "Cat's in the Cradle")

Cherrelle
 * I Didn't Mean to Turn You On

The Clash
 * A Nuclear Error (from "London Calling")

Sam Cooke
 * Working on the Chain Gang

Alice Cooper
 * I Love the Dead

Jonathan Coulton
 * Creepy Doll

Creedence Clearwater Revival
 * Bad Moon Rising

Cutting Crew
 * Died in Your Arms Tonight

The Dandy Warhols
 * We Used to Be Friends

Taylor Dayne
 * Love Will Lead You Back

Dead Kennedys
 * Holiday in Cambodia
 * Kill the Poor

Chris DeBurgh
 * Lady in Red

Devo
 * Whip It Good (from "Whip It")

Dire Straits
 * Money for Nothing

Carl Douglas
 * Everybody Was Kung-Fu Fighting

Ian Dury
 * Sex, Drugs and Rock and Roll

Bob Dylan
 * Everybody Must Get Stoned
 * Knocking on Heathens' Door

Electric Light Orchestra
 * Taken for Granite (a rephrasing of "Turn To Stone")

Everly Brothers
 * Love Hurts

Falco
 * Rock Me, Amadeus
 * Rock Me, Asmodeus

Fatboy Slim
 * Weapon of Choice

Five Man Electrical Band
 * Can't You Read the Sign?

Stephen Foster
 * Beautiful Dreamer

The Four Lads
 * Istanbul (Not Constantinople)

Fountains of Wayne
 * Stacy's Mom

The Gershwins
 * They All Said We Never Could Be Happy

The Geto Boys
 * Damn, It Feels Good to Be a Gangster!

Guns N' Roses
 * Nuns-N-Rosaries

Woody Guthrie
 * Vigilante Man

The Happy Mondays
 * Twenty-Four-Hour Party People

Corey Hart
 * Sunglasses At Night

Yoshiki Hayashi
 * Visual Kei (from the X Japan band concept of "Crime of Visual Shock," he was also the first to define the style he had a large position in originating as "Visual Kei.")

Janet Jackson Antônio Carlos Jobim
 * Let's Wait a While
 * The Elevator From Ipanema

Billy Joel
 * We Didn't Start the Billy Joel Parodies
 * We Didn't Start the Fuhrer

Elton John
 * This Is Your Song

Judas Priest
 * Hell-Bent for Leather

R. Kelly
 * I Believe I Can Fly

King Missile
 * Jesus Was Way Cool

L7
 * Pretend We're Dead

Led Zeppelin
 * Stairway to Heaven
 * The Song Remains the Same
 * Trampled Underfoot

Tom Lehrer
 * The Masochism Tango

Lemon Demon
 * Ultimate Showdown of Ultimate Destiny

Linkin Park
 * The Walls Are Closing In (Inspired by the line, "My walls are closing in," from the song "Crawling")

Lordi
 * The Devil Is a Loser

Marilyn Manson
 * The Beautiful Elite

Bob Marley
 * Dreadlock Rasta

Paul McCartney
 * Silly Love Songs

Meat Loaf
 * Two Out of Three Ain't Bad
 * Bat Out of Hell
 * Like a Badass Out of Hell

Metallica
 * Ride the Lightning

Harry S. Miller
 * The Cat Came Back

The Monkees
 * Daydream Believer

Alanis Morissette
 * Isn't It Ironic?

Motley Crue
 * Dr. Feelgood

Muse
 * Bullet Holes and Revelations

National Anthems
 * God Save Us From the Queen (the trope's context may cross this over with the song by Sex Pistols)
 * Those Whove Come Across the Seas (from the little-known (even in Australia) second verse of Australia's national anthem)

Nelly
 * Getting Hot in Here

Randy Newman
 * You Can Leave Your Hat On

Newsboys
 * Step Up to the Microphone

Nine Days
 * When She Smiles

Nine Inch Nails
 * Happiness in Slavery

The Offspring
 * Pretty Fly for a White Guy
 * Pretty Spry for a Dead Guy

Yoko Ono
 * Yoko Oh No

Tom Petty
 * The Last DJ

Pink Floyd
 * Careful with That Axe
 * Goodbye, Cruel World

Elvis Presley
 * Elvis Has Left the Planet
 * Elvish Presley

Prince
 * The Trope Formerly Known as X

Queen
 * Bohemian Parody
 * Thunderbolts and Lightning
 * Who Wants to Live Forever?

Rammstein
 * Music to Invade Poland To
 * We All Live in America

Red Hot Chili Peppers
 * Catholic School Girls Rule

R.E.M.
 * The End of the World as We Know It
 * Something Something Leonard Bernstein

Kenny Rogers
 * Know When to Fold'Em (from "The Gambler")

The Rolling Stones
 * Man of Wealth and Taste (song title is below)
 * Sympathy for the Devil

Gil Scott-Heron
 * The Revolution Will Not Be Civilized
 * The Revolution Will Not Be Vilified
 * The Revolution Will Not Be Bureaucratized
 * The Resolution Will Not Be Identified
 * The Resolution Will Not Be Televised

Nancy Sinatra
 * These Tropes Are Made for Walking

Johnny Smith
 * Walk, Don't Swim (Named for his oft-covered hit "Walk, Don't Run".)

Soul Asylum
 * Runaway Train

Britney Spears
 * Oops I Did It Again

The Statler Brothers
 * This Bed of Roses

Sweet
 * Ballroom Blitz

The Temptations
 * Ain't Too Proud to Beg

They Might Be Giants
 * Hell Hotel

George Thorogood
 * Bad to the Bone

Toto
 * Hold the Line

The Turtles
 * So Happy Together

Shania Twain
 * Man, I Feel Like a Woman

Bonnie Tyler
 * Holding Out for a Hero
 * Total Eclipse of the Plot

U2
 * Three Chords and the Truth (via their cover of the Bob Dylan song "All Along the Watchtower")

Van Halen
 * Right Now Montage

Venom
 * Black Metal

The Weather Girls
 * It's Raining Men
 * Its Raining Salesmen

"Weird Al" Yankovic
 * Asian and Nerdy (from "White and Nerdy")
 * Black and Nerdy
 * Drives Like Crazy
 * Frank's 2000-Inch TV
 * Weird Al Effect

The Who
 * Going Mobile
 * Magic Bus
 * Meet the New Boss
 * Power Pop
 * Teenage Wasteland

Hank Williams
 * Your Cheating Heart

Wu-Tang Clan
 * Comics Rule Everything Around Me

ZZ Top
 * Sharp-Dressed Man
 * She's Got Legs