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Superhero songs

Tom Robinson curates a show of songs that mention superheroes, as a slightly tenuous tease ahead to Laurie Anderson's Artist in Residence on 6 Music.

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Sun 15 Dec 202418:00
BBC Radio 6 Music

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Music Played

  • The Flaming Lips

    Waitin' for a Superman (Radio Edit)

    • Waitin' for a Superman.
    • Warner Records.
    • 1.

  • Kate Rusby & Sarah Jarosz

    Planets

    • 20.
    • Universal-Island Records Ltd..
    • 5.

  • Tame Impala

    The Less I Know The Better

    • Fiction / Polydor.

  • Black Sabbath

    Iron Man

    • Castle.

  • Run The Jewels

    Ooh LA LA (feat. DJ Premier & Greg Nice)

    • BMG.

  • The Breeders

    Cannonball

    • ALTERNATIVE 90S.
    • Sony Music TV.

  • Donovan

    Sunshine Superman

    • Rhino.

  • Bonnie “Prince” Billy

    Squid Eye

    • Squid Eye.
    • Universal Music Australia Pty. Ltd..
    • 1.

  • Aimee Mann

    Save Me

    • Magnolia (Music from the Motion Picture).
    • Reprise.
    • 9.

  • The Charlatans

    One To Another

    • Beggars Banquet.

  • Robert Glasper

    Black Superhero (feat. Killer Mike, BJ the Chicago Kid & Big K.R.I.T.)

    • Loma Vista.

  • The Fall

    Shoulder Pads 2#

    • Bend Sinister.
    • Beggars Banquet.
    • 11.

  • Tricky

    #1 Da Woman

    • Blowback.
    • Hollywood Records.
    • 6.

  • AC/DC

    What's Next To The Moon

    • Powerage.
    • Columbia.
    • 6.

  • Wu-Tang Clan

    Protect Ya Neck

    • Enter The Wu-Tang (36 Chambers).
    • RCA.

  • Aretha Franklin

    Save Me

    • Atlantic.

  • The Cure

    Lullaby

    • Fiction.

  • Sufjan Stevens

    The Man Of Metropolis Steals Our Hearts

    • Asthmatic Kitty.

  • Pixies

    Tony's Theme

    • Surfer Rosa.
    • 4AD.
    • 9.

  • Chali 2na & Krafty Kuts

    Guard The Fort

    • Manphibian Music.

  • Arctic Monkeys

    Batphone

  • They Might Be Giants

    Particle Man

    • ELEKTRA.

  • Trentemøller

    Silver Surfer, Ghost Rider Go!!!

    • Into The Great Wide Yonder.
    • In My Room.

  • Laurie Anderson

    O Superman

    • Big Science.
    • Nonesuch.
    • 6.

Broadcast

  • Sun 15 Dec 202418:00
    BBC Radio 6 Music