List of songs about disasters

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This is a list of songs about disasters, if the song is about a real life disaster the disaster aforementioned will follow.

This is an incomplete list of songs, which can or may never satisfy any objective standard for completeness. Revisions and additions are welcome.

Contents 1 Transportation 1.1 Car Crashes 1.2 Trains 1.3 Boats 1.4 Submarines 1.5 Planes 1.6 Space Travel 2 Labor 2.1 Mining 2.2 Chemical Plant 3 Natural Disasters 3.1 Earthquake 3.2 Flood 3.3 Fire 3.4 Hurricane 4 The Apocalpyse 4.1 As Caused By God 4.2 As Caused By Mankind 5 Monsters 6 See also

[edit] Transportation

[edit] Car Crashes

• "The Artist In the Ambulance" by Thrice
• "Last Kiss" by J. Frank Wilson and later covered by Pearl Jam
• "Untitled (How Could This Happen to Me") by Simple Plan
• "Transfusion" by Nervous Norbert

[edit] Trains

• "Casey Jones" by Robert Hunter and Jerry Garcia
• "The Ballad of Casey Jones", a traditional song recorded by various artists. (Johnny Cash, Mississippi John Hurt, Pete Seeger, etc.)
• "The Wreck of the Virginian" by Blind Alfred Reed
• "Tube Disaster" by The Epileptics
• "The Story" by Raiderz Of The Lost

[edit] Boats

• "Captain Torres" by James Keelaghan
• "Dance Band on the Titanic" by Harry Chapin
• "Down Among The Dead Men" by Flash And The Pan
• "The Great Ship" by Woody Guthrie (the sinking of RMS Lusitania)
• "The Jeannie C" by Stan Rogers
• "The Last Scene of the Titanic" by Frank Hutchison
• "Kaptain Krude" by Galactic Cowboys
• "Mary Ellen Carter" by Stan Rogers
• "Odessa" by Barry, Maurice, and Robin Gibb
• "Sultana" by Jon Waterman
• "The Sinking of the Ruben James" by Woody Guthrie
• "SOS" by Saxon
• "Talkin' Bear Mountain Picnic Massacre Blues" by Bob Dylan
• "Unreal" by Custom Floor, regarding the Exxon Valdez oil spill catastrophe
• "When that Great Ship went Down" by Vesey and William Smith
• "Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald" by Gordon Lightfoot

[edit] Submarines

• "One of Our Submarines" by Thomas Dolby
• "Travel Is Dangerous" by Mogwai (band)

[edit] Planes

• "American Pie" by Don McLean
• "At the Bottom of Everything" by Bright Eyes
• "At This Velocity" by Thursday
• '"Balloon Burning" by The Pretty Things
• "Dalai Lama" by Rammstein
• "D.O.A." by Bloodrock
• "Enola Gay"by Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark
• "Falling in Love" by NOFX
• "Fire and Rain" by James Taylor is often misinterpreted as referring to a plane crash, though it actually refers to Taylor's heroin addiction, his experience in an asylum and the suicide of a friend. A book with this title was written about a Delta crash at Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport.
• "Flight From Ashiya" by Kaleidoscope
• "From The Sky" by Laurie Anderson The references to a plane crash may be purely symbolic.
• "Glow Girl" by The Who
• "Going Down" by A
• "Going to California" by Led Zeppelin
• "I Can't See New York" by Tori Amos
• "I Don't Want To Die In An Air Disaster" by Albert Hammond
• "I'm Mandy, Fly Me" by 10cc
• "Munich Air Disaster 1958" by Morrissey and Alain Whyte
• "Not The Red Baron" by Tori Amos
• "Plane" by Jason Mraz
• "Plane Wreck at Los Gatos (Deportees)" by The Byrds
• "Rammstein" by Rammstein
• "Skylines and Turnstiles" by My Chemical Romance
• "The Wreck of the Fairchild" by Thomas Dolby
• "There Was a Young Man Who Blew Up a Plane" by Macabre
• "Thirty-Five Thousand Feet of Despair" by The Flaming Lips

[edit] Space Travel

• "January 28, 1986" by Tape Eaters (specifically regards the Space Shuttle Challenger disaster]])

[edit] Labor

[edit] Mining

• "Big Bad John" by Jimmy Dean
• "Explosion in the Fairmount Mines" by Blind Alfred Reed
• "Diglake Fields" by Phil and June Colclough
• "Lydia" by Slaid Cleaves
• "New York Mining Disaster 1941" by The Bee Gees
• "The Caves of Kentucky" by The Band
• "The Gresford Disaster" by Anon. Recorded by The Albion Band, Ewan MacColl, The Hennessys, Alex Campbell
• "The Ballad of Springhill" by Peggy Seeger & Ewan MacColl
• "Timothy" by Rupert Holmes
• "The Dying Miner" by Woody Guthrie
• "Not All The Flowers Grow" by David Cousins
• "The Poison Train" by Roy Bailey

[edit] Chemical Plant

• "No Thunder No Fire No Rain" by Tim Finn - (specifically regarding the Bhopal disaster at the Union Carbide plant).

[edit] Natural Disasters

[edit] Earthquake

• "Earthquake Weather" by Beck
• "Sin City" by The Flying Burrito Brothers

[edit] Flood

• "Back Water Blues" by Bessie Smith
• "Crash on the Levee (Down in the Flood)" by Bob Dylan
• "Five Feet High and Risin'" by Johnny Cash
• "Flood" by Jars of Clay
• "Flood" by Tool
• "Floods" by Pantera
• "Here Comes The Flood" by Peter Gabriel
• "High Water" by Bob Dylan
• "High Water Everywhere" by Charlie Patton
• "Louisiana 1927" by Randy Newman
• "New Orleans Is Sinking" by The Tragically Hip
• "The Big Flood" by Bob Dylan
• "(The great flood of) Tupelo" by John Lee Hooker
• "When the Levee Breaks" by Kansas Joe and his wife Memphis Minnie, later remade by Led Zeppelin, among others
• "Wissen Schaetlich River Blues" by John Fahey
• "Ænema" by Tool

[edit] Fire

• "Ballad of the Triangle Shirtwaist fire" by Ruth Rubin
• "Big Bruce" by Steve Greenberg
• "Burning Down the House" by Talking Heads
• "Cold Missouri Waters" by James Keelaghan
• "Cuyahoga" by R.E.M.
• "Hamlet Chicken Plant Disaster" by Jello Biafra and Mojo Nixon(based on a true story)
• "Happyland" by Joe Jackson
• "Hurrah, Hurrah, Die Schule Brennt" by Busted
• "My Little Shirtwaist Fire" by Rasputina
• "Sin of the City" from the album Duran Duran (1993 album) by Duran Duran (about the Happy Land Fire)
• "Smoke on the Water" by Deep Purple
• "The Baltimore Fire" by Charlie Poole
• "The Natchez Fire" by Gene Gilmore
• "The School House Fire" by The Dixon Brothers
• "This House is on Fire" by AC/DC
• "Tragic, Tragic Track Jacket" by HeavyHeavyLowLow
• "When that Great Building Burned Down" by Leola Manning
• "Fire Water Burn (The Roof Is On Fire)" by The Bloodhound Gang

[edit] Hurricane

• "Bad Moon Rising" by Creedence Clearwater Revival
• "Florida Hurricane" by St Louis Jimmy
• "Hurricane" by Natalie Imbruglia
• "Let Your Light Shine" by R. Kelly
• "Like A Hurricane" by Neil YoungThis song is not really about a disaster, actually it is not even really about a hurricane. The hurricane is used symbolically, as the similie "Your are like a hurricance" suggests.
• "Like A Hurricane" by Ruslana
• "Ride the Hurricane's Eyes" by the Rednex
• "Rise Again" by CC40
• "Rock You Like A Hurricane" by Scorpions
• "St Louis Cyclone Blues" by E Roberts
• "The Saints are Coming" by U2 and Green Day
• "The Cyclone of Rye Cove" by The Carter Family

[edit] The Apocalpyse

[edit] As Caused By God

• "Ruby Doomsday" by Soul-Junk
• "The Man Comes Around" by Johnny Cash
• "Smile" by The Pillows
• "Redemption Day" by Sheryl Crow
• "Visions of Angels" by Genesis
• "Supper's Ready" by Genesis

[edit] As Caused By Mankind

• "Symphony of Destruction" by Megadeth
• "Blackened" by Metallica
• "Fight Fire With Fire" by Metallica
• "Livin' On The Edge" by Aerosmith
• "Nobody's Fault" by Aerosmith
• "Spaced" by Aerosmith
• "99 Red Balloons" by Nena
• "Stagnation" by Genesis
• "The Return of the Giant Hogweed" by Genesis
• "Watcher of The Skies" by Genesis
• "The Day The Light Went Out" by Genesis
• "Domino" by Genesis
• "Two Suns in the Sunset" by Roger Waters (with Pink Floyd)
• "It's the End of the World As We Know It (and I Feel Fine)" by R.E.M.
• "Ænema" by Tool
• "The Earth Dies Screaming" by UB40

[edit] Monsters

• "Godzilla" by Blue Öyster Cult
• "King Kong" by LA Symphony

[edit] See also

• List of songs about nuclear war