Trope Namers/Music
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You're likely to find a lot of tropes on this website that get their names from popular songs, even if the songs themselves don't use them.
Anonymous
Anita Baker
Band Aid
- Abbey Road Crossing
- Bigger Than Jesus
- Day in the Life
- Kaleidoscope Eyes (from "Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds")
- Magical Mystery Doors
- The Pete Best
- The Walrus Was Paul (from "Glass Onion")
- Yoko Oh No
Buckner & Garcia
Chamillionaire
- Trying to Catch Me Fighting Dirty (from "Ridin'")
- When You Coming Home, Dad? (from "Cat's in the Cradle")
Cherrelle
- A Nuclear Error (from "London Calling")
Sam Cooke
Cutting Crew
The Dandy Warhols
Taylor Dayne
Chris DeBurgh
- Whip It Good (from "Whip It")
Carl Douglas
Ian Dury
- Taken for Granite (a rephrasing of "Turn To Stone")
Everly Brothers
Falco
Fatboy Slim
Five Man Electrical Band
Stephen Foster
The Four Lads
Fountains of Wayne
The Gershwins
The Geto Boys
Woody Guthrie
The Happy Mondays
Corey Hart
- Visual Kei (from the X Japan band concept of "Crime of Visual Shock," he was also the first to define the style he had a large position in originating as "Visual Kei.")
Antônio Carlos Jobim
Billy Joel
R. Kelly
King Missile
- The Walls Are Closing In (Inspired by the line, "My walls are closing in," from the song "Crawling")
Harry S. Miller
National Anthems
- God Save Us From the Queen (the trope's context may cross this over with the song by Sex Pistols)
- Those Who've Come Across the Seas (from the little-known (even in Australia) second verse of Australia's national anthem)
Nelly
Nine Days
Kenny Rogers
- Know When to Fold'Em (from "The Gambler")
- Man of Wealth and Taste (song title is below)
- Sympathy for the Devil
- The Revolution Will Not Be Civilized
- The Revolution Will Not Be Vilified
- The Revolution Will Not Be Bureaucratized
- The Resolution Will Not Be Identified
- The Resolution Will Not Be Televised
Nancy Sinatra
Johnny Smith
- Walk, Don't Swim (Named for his oft-covered hit "Walk, Don't Run".)
Soul Asylum
Sweet
The Temptations
Toto
The Turtles
Shania Twain
Bonnie Tyler
- Three Chords and the Truth (via their cover of the Bob Dylan song "All Along the Watchtower")
The Weather Girls
- Asian and Nerdy (from "White and Nerdy")
- Black and Nerdy
- Drives Like Crazy
- Frank's 2000-Inch TV
- Weird Al Effect
Hank Williams
- ↑ while the Holy Modal Rounders were the first to use the word "psychedelic" in a song, the Elevators were arguably the first to coin the exact phrase "psychedelic rock"