Five a day - bands named after fruit & veg

• Apple
  
• The Electric Banana Band
  
• The Black-Eyed Peas
  
• Kid Creole and the Coconuts
  
• The Cranberries
  
• Black Grape
  
• The Huckleberries
  
• Orange Juice
  
• Red Hot Chilli Peppers
  
• Smashing Pumpkins
  
• Prefab Sprout
  
• Strawberry Switchblade
  
• The Cucumbers
  
• Zucchini
  

Heavenly Bodies

Pythagoras believed that the planets orbited in proportions that created harmony, and called this the music of the spheres. In honour of Pythagoras, then, here is a
Spotify playlist of songs related to planets, stars, comets, moons, and other heavenly bodies.
Sample tunes:

• That Lucky Old Sun - Sam and Dave
  
• Mercury Blues - Wishbone Ash
  
• Venus in Furs - Velvet Underground
  
• Planet Earth - Duran Duran
  
• Teenagers from Mars - The Misfits
  
• Uranus - Sacred Weird Little Guys
  
• etc. etc.
  

Please feel free to add to the spotify list, but I don't think we need any more moon songs unless they're really, really good.

Burn, baby, burn! Inappropriate Funeral Songs

Funerals could be a lot less miserable if they were accompanied by some downright unsuitable music. Imagine a cremation where, when the coffin slides away on the conveyor belt, you hear the unmistakable bass intro to Disco Inferno. I think that would lighten the atmosphere a bit.

I've collected some suggestions on this
Spotify playlist. Feel free to add some more.

Four Legs Good

Four Legs Good is the name of a Spotify playlist created by my mate Greg. You'll soon get the jist.


http://open.spotify.com/user/gregfinch/playlist/2e8zzrAPW9D4xqGQV3wEv5

You will need to download the Spotify software before you can listen in.

Future listmungous lists may well become Spotify playlists.

Ars Gratia Artis

Amo, Amas, Amat... Takes me back. Jumpers for goalposts. Floral gums. Latin lessons at Keswick School - Assurgit Skidda stabilis, mons nunquam non mutabilis... In honour of the Roman tongue, here's a list of bands named entirely in Latin.

• Arcanae Legioniis - Italian Black Metal band.
• Augustana
  
• Carpe Diem - several bands called this.
  
• De Profundis - Hungarian Melodic Black Metal band.
• Deus Ex Machina, an Italian prog rock outfit. Who can forget their album "Non est ars quae ad effectum casus venit"? Wise words.
  
• Focus
  
• In Extremis - the "all-out rock band", not to be confused with...
  
• In Extremo - the German Folk Metal band
  
• Ipso Facto
  
• Mea Culpa. All that leaping into the drum kit's gonna hurt.
  
• Procol Harum. Attempted a Latin name, but got it wrong. Disqualified.
  
• Saliva - it's Latin for saliva
  
• Status Quo
  
• Tyrannosaurus Rex - which means "King of the Tyrant Lizards", also a good name for a band
  

Birds

A list of pop songs featuring our feathered friends. No generic "bird" songs, please (sorry Lynyrd Skynyrd).

• Albatross - Fleetwood Mac
  
• Bird of Paradise - Snowy White
  
• Blackbird - The Beatles, Sarah McLachlan
  
• Mexican Blackbird - ZZ Top
  
• Blue Jay Way - The Beatles
  
• Buzzards and Crows - Dirty Pretty Things
  
• El Condor Pasa - Simon & Garfunkel
  
• Dodo - Genesis
  
• Eagle - ABBA
  
• Swan Swan H(ummingbird) - R.E.M. Listed as Swan Swan H on the album.
  
• Nightingale - Julie Cruise (YouTube)
  
• Being For The Benefit Of Mr Kite - The Beatles
  
• Night Owl - Gerry Rafferty
  
• Parakeet - R.E.M.
  
• Peacock Suit - Paul Weller
  
• Pelican - The Maccabees
• Rockin' Robin - The Jackson 5
  
• Little Red Rooster - Rolling Stones
  
• Seagull - Bad Company
  
• Little Sparrow - Dolly Parton
  
• No Tit - The Queers. The Ramones would have been proud.
  
• Ride A White Swan - T. Rex
  

We could do bands as well:

• Sheryl Crow
  
• Counting Crows
  
• Doves
  
• The Eagles
  
• Guillemots
  
• Gil Scott-Heron
  
• The Housemartins
  
• The Partridge Family
  
• Edith Piaf - which apparently is colloquial French for "sparrow"
  
• Lieutenant Pigeon
  
• Rooster
  
• A Flock of Seagulls