Readers Recommend
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Related Topics

There have been over 150 topics covered by Readers Recommend since it was created.  Sometimes these topics overlap or are similar in theme. Below you'll find a list of related topics. Some of the topics appear in more than one category. Email me if you think I should add a new category or add a topic to an existing category or even to suggest splitting a category into smaller categories.

Recently Chris 7572 sent me his own compilation of related songs and you can see that here:  Chris's Related Songs Table

• Buildings - buildings, hospitals, nightclubs, pubs and bars, school

• Business and Work - anti-work, austerity, brands, companies and corporations, hunting, manual labour, money, newspapers, shopping, wealth, work

• Careers - art & photography, journalism, law enforcement, police, superheroes, theatre, wealth, work

• Colours - colours, red

• Communication and the Media - arguments, heated arguments, call & response, comics and cartoons, deception, dialogue, eavesdropping, false endings, famous last words, goodbyes, gossip, great opening lines, indecipherable songs,  inspired by poetry, insulting songs, jokes, journalism, letters, emails, etc., lies, long titles, mistaken identity, newspapers, opening album tracks, photographs, please & thank you, questions, radio, repetition, spoken word, storytelling, superheroes, television, ten words or fewer, theatre, TV themes, whispering songs

• Conflict - arguments, austerity, heated arguments, change of mind, criminals, cruel songs, deception, desperation, divorce, eavesdropping, elections, failure, futility, gambling, gossip, insulting songs, lies, losers, mistaken identity, mistakes, nuclear war, police, reckless consumption, royalty, separation, surveillance, the truth, uncertainty, victory, villains, violence, visitors, war

• Cover Songs - Beatles covers, covers better than the originals, unlikely cover songs

• Disease and Well Being - accidents, austerity, beauty, desperation, escape, euphoria, falling, fetishes, fools, forgetting, futility,  gambling, hangovers, hospitals, illness, laziness, losers, mental illness, mistakes, old age, reckless consumption, sleep and insomnia, tiredness, uncertainty, unsettling songs, vim

• Education and Knowledge - ancient history, change of mind, school, newspapers, science, the truth, uncertainty

• Emotions - anniversaries, anxiety, being alone, boredom, coming of age, coming home, songs that make you cry, cruel songs, crying, consolation, desperation, euphoria,  failure, futility, guilt and apology, insulting songs, jealousy, jokes, joyous songs, scary songs, separation, smiling and laughing, uncertainty, unsettling songs, victory, weddings, youth cults

• Families - adolescence, anniversaries, babies and childbirth, bereavement, birthdays, children, children's songs, coming of age, coming home, death, domestic songs, fathers, getting older, holidays, home, mothers, old age, pets, photographs, royalty, separation, siblings, weddings

• Food and Drink - austerity, drinking, food, meat, pubs and bars, sweet foods, vegetables, water, wine

• Fun - adventure, anniversaries, birthdays, call & response, carnivals & funfairs, children's songs, coming home, concerts, dance styles, dancing, departures, escape, euphoria, fetishes, fools, funny songs, gambling, gardens, handclaps, hunting, jokes, joyous songs, laziness, na-na-hey-hey songs, parties and going out, photographs, pubs and bars, shoes, showing off, smiling and laughing, sound effects, sport, toys, theatre, TV themes, visitors, weddings, wine

• Geographical Places - Africa,  America, Asia, California, coming home, Europe, fictional places, London, named after towns, New York, Northern England, rivers, roads and streets, rural songs, the sea, South America. suburbia, US cities & states

• History - ancient history, assassination, Beatles, elections, famous people, historical events, historical figures, memory, modernity, newspapers, royalty,  surveillance, victory

• Holidays - anti-Christmas, birthdays, Christmas, escape, halloween, holidays, summer, visitors, the weekend

• Hopes and Dreams - advice, austerity, beauty, change, change 2, desperation, dreams, elections, escape, euphoria,  failure, fate & destiny, fresh starts, futility, hero worship, holidays, lessons in life, losers, marriage, mistakes, modernity, new resolutions, new year songs, optimistic songs, reckless consumption, showing off, uncertainty,  victory, wealth, weddings

• Instruments - handclaps, impressive intros, instrumental soundtracks, instrumentals, musical instruments, super solos

• Languages - foreign language versions,  multilingual songs, na-na-hey-hey songs, songs in French

• Manufactured Items - beds, machines, robots and computers

• Movie Business - actors, celebrity, discordant songs, effects of fame, inspired by or about films, redefined by films, recorded for films

• Music Business -  B sides, Beatles, Beatles covers, call & response, children's songs, comeback songs, concerts, covers better than the originals, debuts, duets, false endings, famous last words, great middle eights, great opening lines, handclaps, impressive intros, indecipherable songs, long songs, long titles, music genres, na-na-hey-hey songs, opening album tracks, other musicians, other songs, short songs, songs, sound effects, special guests, super solos, ten words or fewer, unlikely cover songs, whispering songs, youth cults

• Names - historical figures, Mr. and Mrs., named after men, named after women, named after towns

• Nature - animals, birds, flowers, gardens, hunting, insects, mammals, nature, pets, trees, grass and flowers

• Numbers - list songs, numbered 1-10, numbers

• Outer Space - celestial bodies, moon, sci-fi and space, space, star signs, the sun

• Personal Appearance - beauty, fashion, hair, hats, shoes, shopping, showing off

• Personalities - actors, Beatles, celebrity, character songs, effects of fame, fools, historical figures, self-referential songs, special guests, superheroes

• Politics and Political Issues - assassination, austerity, crime, criminals, deception, eavesdropping, elections, environment, freedom, gambling, hunting, nuclear war, police,  politicians, poverty, protest, rallying cries, reckless consumption, revolution, royalty, social class, surveillance, the truth, unemployment, uncertainty, victory, war, wealth

• Relationships - anti-love, anniversaries, coming of age, coming home, cruel songs, deception, departures, devoted love, divorce, falling, first love, friendship, homosexuality, insulting songs, jealousy, kissing, infidelity, the heart, marriage, mistaken identity, missing someone, Mr. and Mrs., one night stands, separation, sexy songs, strangers, the truth, uncertainty, unrequited love, upbeat break-up, visitors, weddings

• Religion - afterlife, biblical songs, God and the Devil, heaven and hell, resurrection

• The Senses - beauty, colours, discordant songs, eyes and sight, fetishes, fire, handclaps, heat, light, noise, red, silence, sound effects,  surveillance, surreal songs

• Stories - ancient history, fantasy, hatchet jobs, I Am Songs, inspired by poetry, literary songs, myths & legends, newspapers, songs with a twist, superheroes, theatre

• Superstition - afterlife, fate & destiny, ghosts, luck, magic, myths & legends, resurrection,  star signs

• Temperature - cold, fire, heat

• Time - afternoon, autumn, dates, dawn, Friday & Saturday, the future, midnight, modernity, morning songs, new year songs, night & darkness, repetition, September, spring, summer, times of day, the weekend

• Transportation & Travel - bicycles, cars and driving, coming home, departures, flying, motorbikes, trains, rivers, shoes, travelling, walking and running

• Vice and Crime - assassination, cocaine & heroin, crime, criminals, deception, desperation, drinking, eavesdropping, escape, fetishes,  gambling, gossip, guns, hangovers, hunting, law enforcement, lies, losers, mistaken identity, mistakes, police, prisons, revenge, secret vices, showing off, smoking, superheroes, surveillance, sweary songs, the truth, unsettling songs, victory, villains, violence

• Water - crying, rain, rivers, the sea, water

• Weather - bad weather, cold, heat, rain