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A '''List Song''' is a song whose lyrics lists a bunch of things that all tie together in some way.
Not quite the same thing as a [[Patter Song]] (though a '''List Song''' can also be a [[Patter Song]]). A patter song is a song which spits out a lot of words in very little time. Lots of sixteenth notes, a moderate-to-fast tempo, and more often than not, a very limited melody. The test of patter-songitute lies in the ''music''. An example of a patter song that isn't a list song would be "The Worst Pies in London" from ''[[Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (theatre)|Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street]]'', or "Trouble" from ''[[The Music Man]]'', or "I've Just Seen a Face" by [[The Beatles (band)|The Beatles]].
A list song is made so by the ''lyrics''. List songs that aren't patter songs include "I'm Still Here" from ''Follies'', and "It Might as Well Be Spring," from ''State Fair''. Admittedly, most list songs are going to be patter songs, but they aren't interchangeable terms.
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* [[Song of Song Titles]]
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{{examples}}
== [[Advertising]] ==
* McDonald's had an ad back in the '80's - the McDonald's Menu Song that was [[Exactly What It Says on the Tin]] - it came as a 45 record in the Sunday edition of major newspapers, and if your copy had the class able to sing it all the way through, you won a million dollars.
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* San Francisco Bay Area tropers of a certain age will undoubtedly remember the infectious jingle for Denevi Camera mentioning their store’s locations (“Dublin, Berkeley, San Lorenzo, Cupertino, San Jose”).
== [[Anime]] and [[Manga]] ==
* The ''[[Ranma ½]]'' tie-in song, the [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YdXRFkNlypo "Nekohanten Menu Song"], sung by [[Rei Sakuma]], lists the dishes available at the titular cafe.
== [[Comedy]] ==▼
* Australian comic duo The Scary Little Weird Guys did a couple. One was about the (highly venomous) wildlife of Australia, and the other was (supposedly) every name in the telephone book.▼
* A Brazilian radio does pratically every day a parody of "Because I Got High" in which the lyrics are the streets on which the traffic will get jammed. And they change the names every time!▼
== [[Film]] ==
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* On the ''[[Sesame Street]]'' soundtrack, Oscar the Grouch sings "I Love Trash," a list of...well...[[Exactly What It Says on the Tin|types of trash.]]
* On an episode of ''[[Happy Days]]'', Potsie sings "Pumps Your Blood," a song that lists the steps in which blood circulates through the body. It was forgotten by all but devoted fans of the show until years later, when it resurfaced in an aspirin commercial.
* Rockapella's song "Capital", in which they list the capitals of the 50 United States. They inadvertently left off the capital of South Dakota (Pierre), and
* The [[Ending Theme]] to ''[[Kaizoku Sentai Gokaiger]]'', considered by fans to be ''[[Super Sentai]]''{{'}}s take on the [[Pokémon (anime)|Pokerap]], lists all the previous 34 ''Super Sentai'' squadrons. [[Ear Worm|Given how catchy the song is]], it's quite an easy method to make one remember the names of every ''[[Super Sentai]]'' ever.
* Prior to that, the various ''[[Kamen Rider]]'' crossovers often featured a special song listing all riders involved in the crossover. Black RX' crossover song is appropriately titled "11 Kamen Rider". Bonus points that the first two are Ichigô (one) and Nigô (two).
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* "[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hnQScdw24yg That's a Woman]" by Celtic Thunder.
* [[Billy Joel]]'s "[http://www.teacheroz.com/fire.htm We Didn't Start The Fire]", along with [[We Didn't Start the Billy Joel Parodies|its innumerable parodies]], is one of the most widely-known List Songs.
{{quote|''Harry Truman, Doris Day, Red China, Johnnie Ray
''South Pacific, Walter Winchell, Joe DiMaggio''
''Joe McCarthy, Richard Nixon, Studebaker, television''
''North Korea, South Korea, Marilyn Monroe''.}}
:* And ''that'' is just the first verse!
* [["Weird Al" Yankovic]] does this once an album. Sometimes more than once. Examples include "White & Nerdy" (Nerdy things he does), "One More Minute" (Things he'd rather do than [[Anti-Love Song|spend time with his ex]]), its converse "You Make Me" (things his love makes him do) and "Hardware Store" (Things he plans to do and buy when the eponymous store opens).
** The bridge from "Hardware Store", which is somehow said in one breath:▼
{{quote|''They've got allen wrenches, gerbil feeders, toilet seats, electric heaters, trash compactors, juice extractors, shower rods and water heaters, walkie-talkies, copper wires, safety goggles, radial tires, BB pellets, rubber mallets, fans and dehumidifiers, picture hangers, paper cutters, waffle irons, window shutters, paint removers, window louvers, masking tape and plastic gutters, kitchen faucets, folding tables, weather stripping, jumper cables, hooks and tackle, grout and spackle, power foggers, spoons and ladles, pesticides for fumigation, high-performance lubrication, metal roofing, water proofing, multi-purpose insulation, air compressors, brass connectors, wrecking chisels, smoke detectors, tire gauges, hamster cages, thermostats and bug deflectors, trailer hitch demagnetizers, [[Groin Attack|automatic circumcisers]], tennis rackets, angle brackets, Duracells and Energizers, soffit panels, circuit breakers, vacuum cleaners, coffee makers, calculators, generators, [[Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking|matching salt and pepper shakers]].}}▼
** "Dare To Be Stupid" (Various phrases and stupid acts), "One Of Those Days" (Bad things that happened in the singer's day), "Fat" (Things that happen due to massive obesity), "Good Old Days" (Things that happened in the titular days)...
** "Albuquerque" (Donut types that the donut shop is out of).
** Weird Al's song "Virus Alert" lists all of the awful things that will happen to you if the titular virus is downloaded onto your computer.
{{quote|''It's gonna melt your face right off of your skull
''And make your iPod only play [[Acceptable Targets|Jethro Tull]]
''And tell you knock-knock jokes while you're tryin' to sleep
''And make you [[But You Screw One Goat!|physically attracted to sheep]]
''Steal your identity and your credit cards
''Buy you a warehouse full of pink leotards
''Then cause a [[Reality Warper|major rift in time and space]]
''And [[Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking|leave a bunch of Twinkie wrappers all over the place]] }}
▲** The bridge from "Hardware Store", which is somehow said in one breath:
▲{{quote|They've got allen wrenches, gerbil feeders, toilet seats, electric heaters, trash compactors, juice extractors, shower rods and water heaters, walkie-talkies, copper wires, safety goggles, radial tires, BB pellets, rubber mallets, fans and dehumidifiers, picture hangers, paper cutters, waffle irons, window shutters, paint removers, window louvers, masking tape and plastic gutters, kitchen faucets, folding tables, weather stripping, jumper cables, hooks and tackle, grout and spackle, power foggers, spoons and ladles, pesticides for fumigation, high-performance lubrication, metal roofing, water proofing, multi-purpose insulation, air compressors, brass connectors, wrecking chisels, smoke detectors, tire gauges, hamster cages, thermostats and bug deflectors, trailer hitch demagnetizers, [[Groin Attack|automatic circumcisers]], tennis rackets, angle brackets, Duracells and Energizers, soffit panels, circuit breakers, vacuum cleaners, coffee makers, calculators, generators, [[Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking|matching salt and pepper shakers]].}}
** "Bob" is a list of palindromes sung in the style of [[Bob Dylan]].
** From
* [[Tom Lehrer]]'s "The Elements", which is a listing of all the known elements [[Science Marches On|at the time]]. (Its tune is taken from "[[Major-General Song|I am the very model of a modern Major-General]]" by [[Gilbert and Sullivan]].)
** "Lobachevsky" also includes a short list segment where he describes the course news takes across Russia, listing a bunch of Russian city names.
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* Extreme's "Play With Me" is a big list of children's games.
* Cat Stevens, "Moonshadow" (a list of all the body parts X that if he ever loses he won't have to Y)
* "If I Had A Million Dollars" by [[Barenaked Ladies]]. The narrator, apparently, is willing to buy such things as a house, furniture for the house, a tree fort, a miniature fridge to go into the tree fort, a fur coat (but not a real fur coat, that's cruel), a green dress (but not a real green dress, that's cruel), the remains of John Merrick, an exotic pet (like a llama or an emu), art (maybe a [[Pablo Picasso|Picasso]] or [[Simon and Garfunkel|Garfunkel]]), and his girlfriend's love.
** Don't forget the pre-wrapped bacon, or the dijon ketchup for the piles of KD he'd be buying.
** Or the monkey!! Haven't you always wanted a monkey!!!
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* [[Paul Simon]]'s ''Fifty Ways To Leave Your Lover'', although he only does 6 or 7...
** Which is parodied in Rob Balder's [[Filk Song]] ''Fifty Ways To Leave Your Planet''.
* [[The Notorious B.I.G.
* [[Tom Waits]]' ''Cemetary Polka'' lists the bizarre activities of all his 'uncles'.
* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VGHa6XwJo54 The Rant Song] from ''[[Scrubs]]''' [[Musical Episode]].
* The Nails, "88 Lines About 44 Women".
** Brunching Shuttlecocks' [
** "88 lines about 44 Simpsons" by the great Luke Ski as well.
*
* The [[KMFDM]] song "Inane" manages to list the titles of every album and single they had produced up to that point, which works well as many of those titles are single common words.
** "Me and My Gun" lists the names of various firearms.
* The song "7 Things" by [[Miley Cyrus]].
* "Drop That Name" from ''Bells Are Ringing''.▼
* Mylo's "Destroy Rock & Roll" is basically a list of various artists from the history of music.
** Mostly based on a sample of some hellfire preacher from the Church Universal And Triumphant.
* "The Begat" from ''[[Finian's Rainbow]]''.▼
* While the chorus of "Bicycle Race" by [[Queen]] is just a man describing his urge to ride bikes, the verses list all of the popular things he is escaping by going on his bike rides.
* [[Neil Diamond]]'s "Done Too Soon" is a seemingly random list of names of celebrities and historical figures, the common thread being that they all supposedly died before their time. (Most of the people in the list did indeed die quite young, but a few of the people mentioned, such as Buster Keaton, managed to reach old age.)
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* [[The Divine Comedy (band)|The Divine Comedy]] did a couple - the best is "Gin Soaked Boy". They also covered [[Noel Coward]] ("I've Been To A Marvellous Party").
** See also; The Booklovers and A Seafood Song
* [[Jonathan Coulton]] has at least two of these: "
* "Up My Ass" by [[King Missile]] is a list of things (and sometimes ''people'') that are literally, well... [[Exactly What It Says on the Tin]]. Funnier than it sounds due to the intense vocals and how specific the list gets ("Encyclopedia Britannica! The Louisiana Purchase!").
** Don't forget "I Wish..." (a long list of increasingly less plausible wishes the narrator makes).
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* Jay Foreman played one of these at his 2007 Edinburgh Fringe Show "20 Songs For Free" which listed all the countries of the world.
* [[Insane Clown Posse]]'s "Fuck The World" is a [[Cluster F-Bomb]], ending with the line "Fuck Violent J!" (spoken by himself).
* ''[[Children of Eden]]'' has "The Naming" of the animals, which [[Stephen Schwartz]] has some fun with by including many extremely obscure animals, and "Generations" which is one of those big long "begetting" lists from [[The Bible]] done as a fun production number.▼
* "Feel Good Hit Of The Summer" by [[Queens of the Stone Age]]. It's a short list, but potent.
* The '40s novelty song "I'm My Own Grandpa".
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** Then there is "Give Peace A Chance," which isn't so much sung as shouted, interspersed with the chorus.
** Similarly [[U2]]'s "God Part II" a quasi sequel to Lennon's song also has the singer list the things he does not believe in.
* [[The Beatles (band)|The Beatles]] themselves also had a couple: "Come Together" is a list of things old flattop be and got, "I am the Walrus" is partly a list of things the singer is (including, yes, the walrus), and "Penny Lane" is a list of things found in Penny Lane
* Bazooka Girl's "Cantare Ballare (Happy Eurobeat)" lists the titles of other Eurobeat songs in its lyrics.
** Similarly, Time Allstars - 150 uses parts of the lyrics from various older TIME eurobeat songs, including Ding-a-Ling, Dark in the Night, and Music Fever.
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* [[The Kinks]]' "Village Green Preservation Society" lists things they think are worth preserving, including [[Donald Duck]], strawberry jam, and virginity.
* "Time to Think" by [[Kimya Dawson]] is entirely a List Song, first listing things she needs, then listing things she's seen. Under the 'seen' category, she pays homage to two other famous list songs:
{{quote|"Close calls and
* The Pittsburgh-based band The Clarks have "Born Too Late," a list of historical figures that they were born too late to have known.
* [[Harry Potter|Wizard Rock]] band Riddle TM has [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KkGNpGGQFNM "Beans"], which lists different kinds of 'Bertie Bott's Every-Flavor Beans'. Lyrics are [https://web.archive.org/web/20120207062656/http://realwizardrock.com/more-bands/riddletm/secrets-of-the-darkest-art/beans/ here].
* [[Lemon Demon]]'s song "Ode To Crayola":
{{quote|''Outrageous Orange, Laser Lemon, Jungle Green''
''That's what I said -- Wild Watermelon, Midnight Blue, Atomic Tangerine''
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* Jazz musician and baseball fan David Frishberg's [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nKzobTlF8fM "Van Lingle Mungo"].
* "These Foolish Things" is a song listing [[Exactly What It Says on the Tin|foolish things]] which remind the singer of his lost love. More entertaining is [[Mitch Benn]]'s "These Ghoulsih Things", a parody which does the same but with a bunch of [[Anti-Love Song|truly disgusting or downright evil]] things.
{{quote|''A fallen crow with a broken back;
''The smell of blood by a railroad track;
''A mushroom cloud in a sky of blue;
''These ghoulish things remind me of you. }}
* [[Alanis Morissette]] loves these.
** Many of her songs have verses where nearly every line begins with the same words, completing the phrase a different way each time. "Are You Still Mad?", "Eight Easy Steps" and "Still" fit the format particularly well.
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** ''De Fyra Klädesplaggen'' (The Four Garments) from ''En himla många fina program'' is a list of articles of clothing set to the music of ''Puttin' on the Ritz''. (The B part is instead a list of things that come in fours.)
** ''Piff puff paff!'' from ''En himla många fina program'' is a list of things you can do to perplex people.
** ''S:t Sigfridsplan'' (Saint Sigfrid's Place) from ''En himla många fina program'' is a list of things that can be found in a particular busy Gothenburg intersection.<ref>Asphalt! Asphalt! There almost everything is asphalt. Redlights! Idles! Cars in a queue, what a
** ''Bragdmamma'' from ''Stinsen brinner'' contains long lists of the suppplies that the [[Doting Parent|Doting Mother]] is sending to her numerous sons, daughters{{spoiler|, and exhusbands}} as well as the places around the world where they live.
*
* The B-52s, on their first album, have the song "52 Girls", singing of "the principal girls of the USA" but only list 23. In "Dance this Mess Around" they sing about how "they do all sixteen dances" but only list eight.
* The song ''Rodeo'' from Garth Brooks has a chorus that is nothing but a list of things one would see at a rodeo.
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* A good chunk of the lyrics to "The Girls Of Porn" by Mr. Bungle (essentially a glorified ode to [[A Date with Rosie Palms]]) is dedicated to listing ultra-[[Squick]]y kinks and fetishes.
* Born This Way-[[Lady Gaga]] [http://www.billboard.com/news/lady-gaga-gives-new-born-this-way-lyrics-1005014592.story#/news/lady-gaga-gives-new-born-this-way-lyrics-1005014592.story Check em out]
* [[NanowaR]]'s "[https://web.archive.org/web/20111209031050/http://www.jamendo.com/en/track/44362 Intrue]" lists metals (...and an alloy!), probably parodying "The Elements" by [[Tom Lehrer]] among other things.
* [[The Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band]]'s "The Intro and the Outro," best known for having [[John Wayne]] on the saxophone and [[Adolf Hitler]] on vibes (not really).
* The verses of Don Williams' "I Believe In You" list the things he doesn't believe in and the chorus list the things he ''does'' believe in.
* [[U2]]'s "Numb", where The Edge sings what's basically a list of "Don't"s.
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* Serbian artist Djordje Belasevic has the song Namcor about all the things he doesn't like (aside from the woman he loves and he doesn't really like that he loves her)
* Steven Wilson's Index lists... ways to list things.
{{quote|''Hoard – Collect – File – Index
''Catalog – Preserve – Amass – INDEX }}
* The refrain to "Johnny Saucepan" by [[Moxy Fruvous]]
* Swedish rock group Sator has the song "World" which lists things that... well, the chorus goes "How can we fail?/It's such a wonderful world/What could go wrong?/It's such a wonderful world". The first verse includes:
{{quote|''UFO's - Donald Duck - Buddha - Jesus - Michael Jackson
''Santa Claus - USA - Challenger and science fiction
''King Kong - Bud Light - Old McDonald's got a farm
''Elvis Presley - Son of Sam - alcohol and bubblegum }}
* Most of Luniz' seminal "I Got 5 On It" is a list of synonyms for marijuana.
* Todd Snider has "Vinyl Records," a list of [[Exactly What It Says on the Tin|artists that the narrator has on vinyl:]]
{{quote|''I got [[Willie Nelson|Willie,]] [[Waylon Jennings|Waylon,]] and Woody Guthrie,
''[[Jimmy Buffett]], Lyle Lovett, and Bobby Gentry,
''Jerry Jeff, [[Bob Dylan]], Donnie Fritts, [[Grateful Dead|The Dead]] and [[The Doors]],
''Patsy Cline, John Prine, and more... }}
* "Dumpsite" by the Filipino band Pan, which lists off stuff you can find in piles of trash that are stinking up rivers—even [[Nausea Fuel|corpses of insects, rats, dogs, cats, and humans!]]
* "King of Pain" by [[The Police]] is primarily a list of people, animals, and objects caught in dangerous situations, each followed by "That's my soul up there":
{{quote|''There's a fossil that's trapped in a high cliff wall (that's my soul up there)
''There's a dead salmon frozen in a waterfall (that's my soul up there)
''There's a blue whale beached by a springtime's ebb (that's my soul up there)
''There's a butterfly trapped in a spider's web (that's my soul up there) }}
* The new version of [[Blue Man Group]]'s finale, "[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vtz-P1XOlr4 Shake It]"
* MC Lars' "Hot Topic Is Not Punk Rock" consists mostly of a list of things Hot Topic sells that are [[Exactly What It Says on the Tin|not punk rock]].
* Let's not forget the traditional hymn "All Things Bright and Beautiful"...
** ...brilliantly parodied by [[Monty Python]]'s "All Things Dull and Ugly".
* Martyn Joseph's ''Everything in heaven comes apart''. Poet Stewart Henderson, his co-writer on that song, specialises in this sort of thing.
* The Church's ''Welcome''. [https://web.archive.org/web/20120308154758/http://homepage.mac.com/fipster/church/lyrics/church/15-mats.html#welcome These] are the lyrics to the song. And [http://www.shadowcabinet.net/454/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=400&Itemid=26 here] is a breakdown of who all the people mentioned in the song actually ''are''.
* [[The White Stripes]] have done a couple. "Lafayette Blues" is entirely composed of a long list of all the French street names in the band's native Detroit. On their final album, the song "Rag and Bone" includes a list of locations that the song's subjects intend to buy secondhand items at.
* "Money for Nothing" by [[Dire Straits]] has a List Chorus, rattling off the working-class schlub's electronics-store inventory of ovens, refrigerators, and televisions that the narrator has "got to move".
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* Every instance of [[Adam Sandler]]'s "Chanukah Song" (four as of 2017) is a comedic list of Jewish (well, mostly) celebrities set to music.
* "Inside of You, In Spite of You" by [[ThouShaltNot]] is both a List Song and an [["I Am" Song]]... and about as comprehensible as "I Am The Walrus".
* [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2nk8-MqnHlw "Cows Around" by Corb Lund] rattles off a list of cattle breeds about two-thirds of the way through the song.
* Fans of the [[Dr. Demento]] show will fondly recall its "theme song", the 1947 song [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iyz3g3vRb-8 "Pico and Sepulveda"] by Freddy Figueroa and his Orchestra (actually [[Freddy Martin]] and his orchestra), which is just a list of streets and sights in the Los Angeles area set to a tune with a Latin beat.
* The [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j5mwvVzd_ss 1986 Extended Version of "Paranoimia"] by [[The Art of Noise]] (featuring [[Matt Frewer]] as [[Max Headroom]]) spends its first three minutes listing all the celebrities allegedly in the band and what instruments they're playing -- along with a few bad jokes about them.
▲== [[Recorded and Stand Up Comedy]] ==
▲* Australian comic duo The Scary Little Weird Guys did a couple. One was about the (highly venomous) wildlife of Australia, and the other was (supposedly) every name in the telephone book.
▲* A Brazilian radio does
== [[Theater]] ==
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** 'If you want a receipt for that popular mystery' from ''Patience'', which is filled with literary references.
** One of their most famous is the "little list" song from The Mikado, about all the useless people the Lord High Executioner can kill, because they surely won't be missed!
** Most famous of all, and frequently parodied: "[[Major-General Song|I am the very model of a modern Major-General]]" from ''The Pirates of Penzance''.
* "They All Laughed" from ''Shall We Dance'' has a refrain that starts as a List Song and ends as a love song.
* The song "Joseph's Coat" from the musical ''[[Joseph and The Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat]]''
{{quote|''<small>"It was {{color|red| red}} and {{color|gold| yellow}} and {{color|green| green}} and {{color|brown| brown}}</small>
''<small>And {{color|darkred| scarlet}} and {{color|black| '''black'''}} and {{color|saddlebrown| ochre}} and {{color|Moccasin| peach}}</small>
''<small>And {{color|deeppink| ruby}} and {{color|olive| olive}} and {{color|darkviolet| violet}} and {{color|sandybrown| fawn}}</small>
''<small>And {{color|plum| lilac}} and {{color|darkgoldenrod| gold}} and {{color|chocolate| chocolate}} and {{color|violet| mauve}}</small>
''<small>And {{color|blanchedalmond| cream}} and {{color|crimson| crimson}} and {{color|silver| silver}} and {{color|magenta| rose}}</small>
''<small>And {{color|dodgerblue| azure}} and {{color|yellow| lemon}} and {{color|maroon| russet}} and {{color|gray| gray}}</small>
''<small>And {{color|indigo| purple}} and {{color|white| white}} and {{color|hotpink| pink}} and {{color|orangered| orange}} and [[Overly Long Gag|BLUE]]!"</small> }}
** Played to the same effect in the ''[[Harry Potter]]'' [[Filk Song|filk musical]] ''[http://www.harrypotterfilks.com/musicals/turncoat.htm Harry and the Amazing Fifty-Percent-Blooded Turncoat]'':
{{quote|''<small>He is bad and evil and mean and snide</small>
''<small>And snarky and dank and snaky and base</small>
''<small>And rotten and awful and violent and rude</small>
''<small>And wicked and foul and crooked and rank</small>
''<small>And vile and vicious and slimy and gross</small>
''<small>And hateful and hostile and hurtful and harsh</small>
''<small>And wretched and damned and cold and cruel!</small> }}
* "Down With Everything That's Up" from ''Let 'Em Eat Cake''.
* The Catalogue Aria from Mozart's ''[[Don Giovanni]]'', which outlines Don Giovanni's [[Really Gets Around|sexual history.]]
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* "Mystery" from ''Vanities''(5th Avenue Theater/ACT version), sung at the beginning of each act while the cast is putting on their makeup and costumes. The first act's version lists the various makeup implements, the second lists makeup brands, the third lists clothes designers, and the fourth lists signs of aging. The [["I Want" Song]] "[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KOeQASqFmQI I Don't Wanna Miss a Thing]" lists the things the girls want in adulthood.
* "Tchaikowsky (And Other Russians)" from ''Lady In The Dark'', a list of four dozen Russian composers [[Danny Kaye]] could rattle off in well under a minute. It was the inspiration for "The Elements."
▲* ''[[Children of Eden]]'' has "The Naming" of the animals, which [[Stephen Schwartz]] has some fun with by including many extremely obscure animals, and "Generations" which is one of those big long "begetting" lists from [[The Bible]] done as a fun production number.
▲* "The Begat" from ''[[Finian's Rainbow]]''.
▲* "Drop That Name" from ''Bells Are Ringing''.
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