Hold onto your toilet paper, folks! I am serving a soundtrack for all things bathroom-related. Enjoy the ninety minutes long suggestive playlist including shower serenades, toilet tunes and flush-worthy ballads for while you’re doing your business!
| Title | Artist | Comment |
|---|---|---|
| Against the Wind | Bob Seger & The Silver Bullet Band | “Against the Wind” is a song by Bob Seger & The Silver Bullet Band, released in 1980. The song reflects on life’s challenges and the resilience required to overcome them. It explores themes of perseverance, nostalgia, and the passage of time. Against the Wind” won a Grammy Award for Best Rock Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocal in 1981. |
| Many Shades of Black (ft. The Raconteurs) | ADELE | “Many Shades of Black” was released by the Raconteurs but gained additional attention when it was performed with Adele and featured on the deluxe version of 19 in November 2008. |
| Every Little Thing She Does Is Magic | The Police | “Every Little Thing She Does Is Magic” is a balad written by Sting and performed by The Police, released in 1981. |
| Come As You Are | Nirvana | “Come as You Are” is a song by American rock band Nirvana, written by frontman and guitarist Kurt Cobain, released in 1992. Similarities of the guitar riff can be found with Bauhaus “hollow hills” (1981), The Damned “life goes on” (1982), Garden Of Delight “22 faces” (1984) and Killing Joke “eighties” (1985). |
| Everytime You Go Away | Paul Young | “Everytime You Go Away” is a song written and composed by Daryl Hall, first recorded in 1980 by the American duo Hall & Oates. A cover version of the song by Paul Young became an international hit in 1985. |
| Gone | China Forbes | “”Gone” is written and performed by China Forbes (born April 29, 1970), an American singer and songwriter who has been the lead singer of the band Pink Martini since 1995. In 2022 she was the Ella Fitzgerald award winner at the Montreal International Jazz Festival. Infinitely Polar Bear is a Movie of Her Family, made by written and directed by her sister Maya Forbes. |
| Big In Japan | Alphaville | “Big in Japan” is the debut single of the German synth-pop band Alphaville released in 1984. The refrain “big in Japan”, inspired by the short lived British band Big in Japan of the late 1970s and influenced by “The Safety Dance” by Canadian band Men Without Hats, symbolises the idea of being successful in another world, a fantasy about being drug-free. |
| The Safety Dance | Men Without Hats | Men Without Hats’ breakout single “The Safety Dance” in 1982, written by Canadian founding member and lead singer Ivan Doroschuk was issued with a bewildering array of B-sides. Men Without Hats is a Canadian new wave group from Montréal, Québec, formed in 1980 and initially active until 1993. They reformed in 2010. In 1987 they released the title song of their album called “Pop Goes The World”. |
| Pop Goes the World | Gossip | ‘Pop Goes The World’ by Gossip was released in 2009. Beth Ditto once stated: “There is another song called ‘Pop Goes The World’ (by Men Without Hats) – I always feel like I need to acknowledge that so they won’t be angry”. The use of the word “pop” in the song title conveys a sense of explosion and disruption, symbolizing the desire for change and the breaking of boundaries. |
| Waiting On The World To Change | John Mayer | “Waiting On The World To Change” written and performed by John Mayer, released in 2006, describes how most people deal with problems in the world. Mayer won a Grammy for Best Male Pop Vocal Performance with this song. |
| (I Just) Died In Your Arms | Cutting Crew | Cutting Crew lead singer Nick Van Eede, was inspired by the one night back together after a year apart with the mother of his daughter. Mika used a great deal of this song on his 2007 track “Relax (Take It Easy). |
| Relax (Take It Easy) | Mika | Mika wrote the song after being stuck in the London underground during the 7 July 2005 London bombings. It uses the melody from “(I Just) Died in Your Arms Tonight” by the Cutting Crew. It is in the same vein of hypnotic, danceable melancholy as the Scissor Sisters’ reworking of ‘Comfortably Numb’. |
| Comfortably Numb | Scissor Sisters | The music of “Comfortably Numb” was composed by the guitarist, David Gilmour, while the lyrics were written by the bassist, Roger Waters, who based them on his experience of being injected with tranquilisers before a performance in 1977. American pop rock band Scissor Sisters recorded a radically re-arranged disco-oriented version released in January 2004. |
| The Architect | dEUS | “The Architect” by Belgian band dEUS is about the architect and visionary Buckminster Fuller, more specifically about the experiment he embarked on after having tried to commit suicide: “An experiment, to find what a single individual can contribute to changing the world and benefiting all humanity.” The quotes, “Ah, never mind that outer space stuff, let’s get down to earth” and “I feel it’s touch and go” are excerpts from Fuller’s lectures. |
| Fly Me To The Earth | Wallace Collection | “Fly me to the earth” by Belgian band Wallace Collection was written by Belgian guitarist, flutist, singer, producer and songwriter Sylvain Vanholme and violin player Raymond Vincent. |
| Waiting On The World To Change | John Mayer | “Waiting On The World To Change” written and performed by John Mayer, released in 2006, describes how most people deal with problems in the world. Mayer won a Grammy for Best Male Pop Vocal Performance with this song. |
| What Goes Around Comes Around | Lenny Kravitz | “What Goes Around Comes Around” by Lenny Kravitz was released in 1991 featuring Karl Denson, aka “Diesel”, on saxophone. |
| Who Can It Be Now? | Men At Work | “Who Can It Be Now?” was Australian band’s ‘Men at Work’ first single, prior to the recording of their debut album Business as Usual. The song opens with a saxophone hook by Greg Ham. |
| I Hear You Knocking | Dave Edmunds | “I Hear You Knocking” written by Dave Bartholomew and guitarist Earl King, was first recorded in 1955 by Smiley Lewis, a New Orleans singer. Dave Edmunds brought this song back to the charts with a rocking guitar version released in 1970. In his version, he name checks some of his musical contemporaries, including Smiley Lewis, who originally recorded the song, Chuck Berry, Huey Smith,and Fats Domino, who also covered it. |
| Fais comme l’oiseau | Michel Fugain | “Fais comme l’oiseau” (Do like the bird) by Michel Fugain & Le Big Bazar is an ode to liberty and the joy of life. It is a cover of the original “Você Abusou” written and performed in 1971 by Brazilian duo Antonio Carlos & Jocafi. |
| Rat In Mi Kitchen (ft. Herb Alpert) | UB40 | “Rat in Mi Kitchen” written and performed by British reggae group UB40, featuring Herb Alpert on trumpet, was released in 1987. |
| Suspicious Minds | Elvis Presley | “Suspicious Minds”, written by a Memphis singer Mark James, was Elvis’ big comeback song and his last #1 hit in his lifetime. |
| Twist In My Sobriety | Tanita Tikaram | “Twist In My Sobriety” by Tanita Tikaram was released in 1988. Tanita Tikaram, of Malaysian and Indo-Fijian ancenstry, was born in Münster, Germany, but since her early teens has lived in the UK. I remember listening to her debut CD album “Ancient Heart”, she released when she was just 19, on my flights to the US in the late eighties. “sobriety” in America has a very specific meaning about recovery… and alcohol while for the Tikaram the meaning is “just to be very serious and sober in your behavior”. |
| Bad Day | Daniel Powter | “Bad Day” by by Canadian (British Columbia) Daniel Powter was released in Europe, in 2005 and became a hit when Coca-Cola used it as the theme song for an advertising campaign on the continent. |
Sources
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