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* From Billy Joel's "Blonde Over Blue":

And the TV works but the clicker is broken" }}

** From his "Only the Good Die Young" (although it doesn't actually mention the word hell):

* The Irving Berlin song "Pack Up Your Sins And Go To The Devil."

* [[Iron Maiden]] would like to remind you that "Hell ain't a bad place; Hell is From Here To Eternity". But they also told us of "the evil face that twists my mind and brings me to despair". Maybe it's only not a bad place for girls like Charlotte.

* The [[Venom]] song "To Hell and Back" depicts a rollicking party full of breeding mutants, dancing zombies, Satanic queens and so forth. By metalhead standards, it sounds pretty cool. (A similar song by the same band begs "Leave Me in Hell"; granted, that narrator's daddy "rules hell's domain," so it's a good bet he's got a privileged perspective on the place.)

* A fairly common theme in [[The Smiths|Morrissey]]'s solo work.

* [[U2|U2's]] "The Fly" features a narrator who calls his lover from hell. The twist is he kind of likes it there.

* [[Voltaire (band)|Apparently,]] Satan likes gothic musicians, and invites the damned to enjoy the buffet. [[Horny Devils|He also has a wife.]]

* Played as a [[Tear Jerker]] in [[Bruce Springsteen]]'s "Youngstown", where an unemployed iron worker sums up his life:

To stand in the fiery furnaces of hell }}

* Played with in "Death Death (Devil, Devil, Devil, Devil, Evil, Evil, Evil, Evil Song)" by Voltaire. After dying and going to hell, Voltaire finds that Satan and his wife are his biggest fans...and then Satan jabs him in the junk with a pitchfork. But then he says he was just kidding, welcomes Voltaire to hell, and tells him to "enjoy the buffet".

* In Jacques Offenbach's operetta ''Orphee aux Enfers'' (Orpheus in the Underworld), the gods hold a massive party in Hell. (Though its not the same thing as the Christian hell, in ancient [[Greek Mythology]], ''hell'' is practically a portmanteau synonym of afterlife.)

* In the third act of [[George Bernard Shaw]]'s ''Man and Superman'', referred to as ''Don Juan in Hell'' when performed separately, Dona finds Don Juan and the Devil discussing philosophy, and is horrified that her guardian, the Commendatore killed by Don Juan, is present as well. He has quit heaven due to boredom and moved downstairs.