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