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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.
* Sweet Polly Oliver
* Psychedelic Rock
* In Da Club
* Dude Looks Like a Lady
* Elevator Going Down
* Caught Up in the Rapture
* Do They Know It's Christmas Time?
* Fight Fur Your Right to Party
* Abbey Road Crossing
* Bigger Than Jesus
* Day in the Life
* I Am He as You Are He (from "I Am The Walrus")
* 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
* Knight Fever
* Staying Alive
* Don't Fear the Reaper
* Calling the Old Man Out
* Take It to the Bridge
* Pac-Man Fever
* Ring of Fire
* Trying to Catch Me Fighting Dirty (from "Ridin'")
* When You Coming Home, Dad? (from "Cat's in the Cradle")
* I Didn't Mean to Turn You On
* A Nuclear Error (from "London Calling")
* Working on the Chain Gang
* I Love the Dead
* Creepy Doll
* Bad Moon Rising
* Died in Your Arms Tonight
* We Used to Be Friends
* Love Will Lead You Back
* Holiday in Cambodia
* Kill the Poor
* Lady in Red
* Whip It Good (from "Whip It")
* Money for Nothing
* Everybody Was Kung-Fu Fighting
* Sex, Drugs and Rock and Roll
* Everybody Must Get Stoned
* Knocking on Heathens' Door
* Taken for Granite (a rephrasing of "Turn To Stone")
* Love Hurts
* Rock Me, Amadeus
* Rock Me, Asmodeus
* Weapon of Choice
* Can't You Read the Sign?
* Beautiful Dreamer
* Istanbul Not Constantinople
* Stacy's Mom
* They All Said We Never Could Be Happy
* Damn, It Feels Good to Be a Gangster!
* Nuns-N-Rosaries
* Vigilante Man
* Twenty-Four-Hour Party People
* Sunglasses At Night
* 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.")
* Let's Wait a While
* The Elevator From Ipanema
* We Didn't Start the Billy Joel Parodies
* We Didn't Start the Fuhrer
* This Is Your Song
* Hell-Bent for Leather
* I Believe I Can Fly
* Jesus Was Way Cool
* Pretend We're Dead
* Stairway to Heaven
* The Song Remains the Same
* Trampled Underfoot
* The Masochism Tango
* Ultimate Showdown of Ultimate Destiny
* The Walls Are Closing In (Inspired by the line, "My walls are closing in," from the song "Crawling")
* The Devil Is a Loser
* The Beautiful Elite
* Dreadlock Rasta
* Silly Love Songs
* Two Out of Three Ain't Bad
* Bat Out of Hell
* Like a Badass Out of Hell
* Ride the Lightning
* The Cat Came Back
* Daydream Believer
* Isn't It Ironic?
* Dr. Feelgood
* Bullet Holes and Revelations
* God Save Us From the Queen (the trope's context may cross this over with the song by Sex Pistols)
* Those Whove Come Across the Seas (from the little-known (even in Australia) second verse of Australia's national anthem)
* Getting Hot in Here
* You Can Leave Your Hat On
* Step Up to the Microphone
* When She Smiles
* Happiness in Slavery
* Pretty Fly for a White Guy
* Pretty Spry for a Dead Guy
* Yoko Oh No
* The Last DJ
* Careful with That Axe
* Goodbye, Cruel World
* Elvis Has Left the Planet
* Elvish Presley
* The Trope Formerly Known as X
* Bohemian Parody
* Thunderbolts and Lightning
* Who Wants to Live Forever?
* Music to Invade Poland To
* We All Live in America
* Catholic School Girls Rule
* The End of the World as We Know It
* Something Something Leonard Bernstein
* 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
* These Tropes Are Made for Walking
* Walk, Don't Swim (Named for his oft-covered hit "Walk, Don't Run".)
* Runaway Train
* Oops I Did It Again
* This Bed of Roses
* Ballroom Blitz
* Ain't Too Proud to Beg
* Hell Hotel
* Bad to the Bone
* Hold the Line
* So Happy Together
* Man, I Feel Like a Woman
* Holding Out for a Hero
* Total Eclipse of the Plot
* Three Chords and the Truth (via their cover of the Bob Dylan song "All Along the Watchtower")
* Right Now Montage
* Black Metal
* It's Raining Men
* Its Raining Salesmen
* Asian and Nerdy (from "White and Nerdy")
* Black and Nerdy
* Drives Like Crazy
* Frank's 2000-Inch TV
* Weird Al Effect
* Going Mobile
* Magic Bus
* Meet the New Boss
* Power Pop
* Teenage Wasteland
* Your Cheating Heart
* Comics Rule Everything Around Me
* Sharp-Dressed Man
* She's Got Legs
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