Music Playlist: Palindrome Songs

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This week's playlist contains songs whose titles are palindromes. That is, a word or phrase that reads the same backward as it does forward. My only requirement was that the word be at least 5 characters in length. The only exception is the song "Bob" by Weird Al Yankovic. This kicks the playlist off because the lyrics are all palindromic phrases. How cool is that? Al is a goof, but a song composed completely of palindromes called "Bob" sung in the style of Bob Dylan is simply brilliant. And before the comments start, They Might Be Giant's "I palindrome I" from the album Apollo 18 does not qualify. The title of the song is not a palindrome, so it is omitted.

Are we not drawn onward, we few, drawn onward to new era?

Please add any songs with palindromic titles that I missed to the comments.

The Palindrome Playlist:

1. Bob - Weird Al Yankovic
2. UFO TOFU - Bela Fleck & The Flecktones
3. Radar - Morphine
4. If I Had a Hi-fi - William BOTTIN
5. Hannah - Ray Lamontagne
6. Level - Shootyz Groove
7. Rats Live On nO eviL staR - Ookla the Mok
8. Xanax - Scott Henderson
9. Flee To Me, Remote Elf - The Badger King
10. Rotator - Stickleback
11. Somos - Julio Iglesias
12. No Lemon No Melon - William BOTTIN
13. Madam, I'm Adam - Dan Crow
14. Party Trap - William BOTTIN
15. Malayalam - Rudresh Mahanthappa Quartet
16. Aha Aha - Falguni Pathak & Chorus
17. Pull Up - Elephant Man
18. Rotor - DJ Savage
19. Racecar - The Addictions
20. Solos - Yuri

Robert Burke spends much of his time lovingly crafting thematic music playlists at the Rhapsody Radish.

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  • 1 - Matthew T. Sussman

    Nov 16, 2005 at 4:18 pm

    What, no "Mmmm Mmmm Mmmm Mmmm"?

  • 2 - Robert

    Nov 16, 2005 at 4:22 pm

    hmmm... Now that's a stretch, but we'll give it an honorable mention.

  • 3 - Mark Saleski

    Nov 16, 2005 at 4:29 pm

    Aja - Steely Dan

  • 4 - DJRadiohead

    Nov 16, 2005 at 4:45 pm

    That playlist will be fucking with my head for some time to come.

  • 5 - scim

    Nov 17, 2005 at 6:26 pm

    Whoa, nice list.

  • 6 - Chuck

    Dec 08, 2008 at 1:21 pm

    What about ABBA's hit "S.O.S" in the 70s?

  • 7 - Matty

    Dec 10, 2011 at 6:15 pm

    where's 'mr owl atemy metal worm'
    or 'Laminated ET animal'?
    great song name palindromes

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