Inspired by Materials World’s recent #materialsplaylist game on Twitter I decided that I would make a more complete and structured playlist of “materials”. While looking up songs I found both Materials World’s #materialsplaylist 2013 and this very useful list of songs featuring gold. I found that there were too many instrumental and heavy metal songs so I generally avoided them, preferring instead to list songs that audibly and explicitly names the element or material of their title in the song itself. There were also too many songs featuring diamonds to list so I chose to exclude them altogether rather than trying to select my favourites.
In the end I made 2 different playlists:
- Materials Playlist – materials grouped by their classifications, including composites and alloys and plastics
- Periodic Table of Elements Playlist – elements only and ordered by mass number
Listen to the Spotify materials playlist here – http://spoti.fi/1gVWBZl
METALS
• Tenacious D – The Metal
• Siouxsie And The Banshees – Metal Postcard
• Cat Power – Metal Heart
• Walter Eagan – Magnet And Steel
• Bob Marley & The Wailers – Iron Lion Zion
• Johnny Cash – Big Iron
• Black Sabbath – Iron Man
• Foster The People – Life on the Nickel
• The New Seekers – Nickel Song
• Tom Waits – On The Nickel
• Bob Dylan – Copper Kettle – Remastered
• Steve Earle – Copperhead Road
• Pixies – Silver
• Kasabian – West Ryder Silver Bullet
• Neil Young – Silver & Gold
• Fleetwood Mac – Silver Springs
• Small Faces – Tin Soldier
• The Kinks – Heart of Gold
• David Bowie – Velvet Goldmine
• The Cribs – Glitters Like Gold
• Ash – Goldfinger
• The Stone Roses – Fools Gold
• Metric – Gold Guns Girls
• Yeah Yeah Yeahs – Gold Lion
• My Arcadia – Mixed in Gold
• Pink Floyd – The Gold It’s In The …
• Dire Straits – Love Over Gold
• Sting – Fields Of Gold
• Fleetwood Mac – Gold Dust Woman
• Ed Sheeran – Gold Rush – Deluxe Edition
• Bombay Bicycle Club – Ivy & Gold
• Twenty One Pilots – House Of Gold
• Wake Owl – Gold
• Tori Amos – Gold Dust
• The Apples In Stereo – Stay Gold
• Foals – Black Gold
• Radical Face – Always Gold
• Laura James & The Lyres – Spinning Gold
• Rebecca Ferguson – Glitter & Gold
• Britt Nicole – Gold
• Spandau Ballet – Gold
• Dan Fogelberg – The Power of Gold
• The Lone Bellow – Green Eyes and a Heart of Gold
• The Wanted – Gold Forever
• Owl City – Gold
• Macklemore & Ryan Lewis – Gold – feat. Eighty4 Fly
• Kanye West – Gold Digger
• Sam Sparro – Black & Gold
• The Cat Empire – Brighter Than Gold
• 3OH!3 – Streets Of Gold
• Tyler Evanston Moore – Fool’s Gold
• The Big Pink – Stay Gold
• Bat For Lashes – All Your Gold
• Wintersleep – Drunk On Aluminium
• David Guetta – Titanium (feat. Sia)
CERAMICS & GLASS
• P!nk – Raise Your Glass
• Blondie – Heart Of Glass
• David Bowie – Breaking Glass – 1999 Digital Remaster
• Annie Lennox – Walking on Broken Glass
• The Beatles – Glass Onion
• Coldplay – Glass Of Water
• Noah And The Whale – Slow Glass
• Bob Marley & The Wailers – Concrete Jungle
• Editors – Bricks And Mortar
PLASTICS
• Portugal. The Man – Plastic Soldiers
• Arctic Monkeys – Plastic Tramp
• Less Than Jake – Plastic Cup Politics
• Low – Plastic Cup
• Stereophonics – Plastic California
• Scott Walker – Plastic Palace People
• Radiohead – Fake Plastic Trees
• Gorillaz – Welcome To The World of The Plastic Beach – feat. Snoop Dogg and Hypnotic Brass Ensemble
• Gorillaz – Little Pink Plastic Bags
• Gorillaz – Plastic Beach – feat. Mick Jones and Paul Simonon
• Miike Snow – Plastic Jungle
• The Buggles – The Plastic Age
• The Kinks – Plastic Man – Mono Version
• Sound Of Guns – Silicon
• Eiffel 65 – Silicon World
• Lifelike – Silicon Love
• Cardboard Shed – Polystyrene Days
• Golden Rocket Pony – Polystyrene Head
• Suuns – PVC
• Tim Burgess – A Case For Vinyl
• Brother Strut – Vinyl Is My Bible
• Shakira – Hips Don’t Lie (HIPS – High Impact Polystyrene)
• 10cc – Rubber Bullets
• Bobby Vee – Rubber Ball
• The Blues Brothers – Rubber Biscuit
• Marmaduke Duke – Rubber Lover
• Cage The Elephant – Rubber Ball
• The Smiths – Rubber Ring – 2011 Remastered Version
• Radiohead – India Rubber
NATURAL TEXTILES
• Bob Dylan – Boots of Spanish Leather
• Rednex – Cotton Eye Joe – Original Version
TIMBER & BOARDS
• M.I.A. – Paper Planes
• Lady Gaga – Paper Gangsta
• Groove Armada – Paper Romance
• Darkside – Paper Trails
• Frightened Rabbit – The Woodpile
• Alison Moyet – Solid Wood
• Eddie Floyd – Knock On Wood
• The Beatles – Norwegian Wood (This Bird Has Flown)
Blue Pigeons 
2 thoughts on “Materials Playlist”