Best songs about moms

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That almost rhymes!
Anyway, I need to know some.

― Nowell (Nowell), Thursday, 2 December 2004 19:34 (nineteen years ago) link

"Mother" by Danzig

― p.j. (Henry), Thursday, 2 December 2004 19:38 (nineteen years ago) link

2Pac 'Dear Mama'
Genesis 'Mama'
SPice Girls 'Mama'
Fountains Of Wayne 'Stacey's Mom'
Junior Giscombe 'Mama Used To say'

― Frankenstein On Ice (blueski), Thursday, 2 December 2004 19:38 (nineteen years ago) link

"Cosmic Slop" - Funkadelic

― m0stly clean (m0stly clean), Thursday, 2 December 2004 19:39 (nineteen years ago) link

"I'll Always Love My Mama," the Intruders
"Mama Tried," Merle Haggard
"Mother," John Lennon
"Is Heaven Good Enough For You," Allison Moorer (although make sure mama's dead first for this one)

― mottdeterre (mottdeterre), Thursday, 2 December 2004 19:42 (nineteen years ago) link

"Full On Kevin's Mom" by Soundgarden
"I Like Your Mom" by the Bouncing Souls

Avoid:
"Mother" by the Police
"Mother" by Pink Floyd

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Thursday, 2 December 2004 21:05 (nineteen years ago) link

Also to avoid: "The End" by the Doors. But then, I avoid the Doors, period.

― mottdeterre (mottdeterre), Thursday, 2 December 2004 21:19 (nineteen years ago) link

A sound plan, that.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Thursday, 2 December 2004 21:20 (nineteen years ago) link

I thought this said "Best songs about momus".

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Thursday, 2 December 2004 21:20 (nineteen years ago) link

Depending on what you need the songs for, consider

"Does Your Mother Know," ABBA
"Take Your Mama," Scissor Sisters

― mottdeterre (mottdeterre), Thursday, 2 December 2004 21:24 (nineteen years ago) link

I know I won't be needing that last one.

― Nowell (Nowell), Thursday, 2 December 2004 21:25 (nineteen years ago) link

Our wedding band struck up "Someone to Watch Over Me" as I danced with my mom. I recommend Jimmy Scott's version.

― Jazzbo (jmcgaw), Thursday, 2 December 2004 21:30 (nineteen years ago) link

Oh, I like that. That's sweet.

― Nowell (Nowell), Thursday, 2 December 2004 21:31 (nineteen years ago) link

if anyone knows the 10cc song (i believe that it's from their first album) that feature's a line about "how I met your mom", please tell me what its called. I heard it this summer and loved it, but cannot find it anymore. I would say that is a best song about moms.

― Aaron_Spell1ng, Friday, 3 December 2004 01:03 (nineteen years ago) link

JJ Barrie's "No Charge" - every Mom's secret weapon

― noodle vague (noodle vague), Friday, 3 December 2004 01:06 (nineteen years ago) link

woman's work - kate bush.

― molly, Friday, 3 December 2004 01:11 (nineteen years ago) link

uhh, kate bush "mother stands for comfort"

― cutty (mcutt), Friday, 3 December 2004 01:14 (nineteen years ago) link

You got all my top picks, so

Mama Told Me Not To Come - Randy Newman

― Ken L (Ken L), Friday, 3 December 2004 02:01 (nineteen years ago) link

"tell me momma" - bob dylan

― cinniblount (James Blount), Friday, 3 December 2004 02:02 (nineteen years ago) link

"osama yo mama" - ray stevens

― cinniblount (James Blount), Friday, 3 December 2004 02:02 (nineteen years ago) link

tell mama - etta james

― Fritz Wollner (Fritz), Friday, 3 December 2004 02:03 (nineteen years ago) link

annie had a baby - hank ballard & the midnighters

― Fritz Wollner (Fritz), Friday, 3 December 2004 02:04 (nineteen years ago) link

"MAMA SAID KNOCK YOU OUT" by LL Cool J

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Friday, 3 December 2004 02:33 (nineteen years ago) link

"Your Mother Should Know"--Beatles

― steve hise, Friday, 3 December 2004 02:40 (nineteen years ago) link

Just heard Mark Chesnutt's "I'm A Saint" on the radio:

I’m just ordinary on most days.
Extraordinary on my best.
I got a good job, but the way I spend money I’ll never have any left.
Hey I drink too much coffee, and I’m always running late.
I was born a sinner, but my mama thinks I’m a saint.

If this thread doesn't reach the 150 posts already on the "Songs About Cunnilingus" thread, I'm telling Mom.

― briania (briania), Friday, 3 December 2004 02:42 (nineteen years ago) link

Spin Doctors, "Yo Mama's a Pajama"

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Friday, 3 December 2004 02:49 (nineteen years ago) link

"Me And Jesus The Pimp In A '79 Granada Last Night" - The Coup

― m0stly clean (m0stly clean), Friday, 3 December 2004 04:02 (nineteen years ago) link

Iron and Wine - "Upward Over the Mountain" seriously.

― cws (cws), Friday, 3 December 2004 04:06 (nineteen years ago) link

Eighties Matchbox B-Line Disaster- "Celebrate Your Mother"

― bbc6 personality (bbc6 personality), Friday, 3 December 2004 04:14 (nineteen years ago) link

"Mother of the Bride" by Billy Bragg (at the wedding, she tells him that the bride ought to have married him)

― Layna Andersen (Layna Andersen), Friday, 3 December 2004 04:19 (nineteen years ago) link

The Spinners, "Sadie." Especially for the beginning where he suggests that young mothers got no respect!

― Joseph McCombs (Joseph McCombs), Friday, 3 December 2004 04:21 (nineteen years ago) link

Diana Ross & the Supremes, "I'm Livin' in Shame." For the subset, "songs about mamas who don't know how to use cutlery."

― Joseph McCombs (Joseph McCombs), Friday, 3 December 2004 04:39 (nineteen years ago) link

Those last two are excellent picks.

The Shirelles-Mama Said
Smokey Robinson and the Miracles -Shop Around

and this one apparently almost didn't see the light of day
Elton John - Mama Can't Buy You Love

― Ken L (Ken L), Friday, 3 December 2004 04:48 (nineteen years ago) link

two weeks pass...

You Can Never Go Home Anymore

― isadora (isadora), Tuesday, 21 December 2004 00:24 (nineteen years ago) link

Thirstin Howl III, "I Still Live With My Moms"

― OCP (OCP), Tuesday, 21 December 2004 00:34 (nineteen years ago) link

"Mummy Trade" - Busted
"Stacey's Mom" - Fountains of Wayne

― Catty (Catty), Tuesday, 21 December 2004 03:10 (nineteen years ago) link

Goodie Mob: Guess Who?

― Forksclovetofu (Forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 21 December 2004 07:29 (nineteen years ago) link

"Daughter" by Pearl Jam!

Totally.

― me, Wednesday, 22 December 2004 07:54 (nineteen years ago) link

Mr. T - Treat your mother right

FEMALE CHORUS: (x2)

Treat her right
Treat your mother right
Treat her right
Treat her right

MR. T's CHORUS:

Mother
There is no other
Like Mother
So treat Her right
Mother
I always Love Her
My Mother
So treat Her right, treat Her right

M is for the moan, and the miserable groan
from the pain that She felt when I was born

O is for the oven with it's burnin' heat
where She stood makin' sure I had something to eat

T is for the time that She stayed up at night
and took my temperature when I wasn't feelin' right

H is for the hard earned money She spent
to keep clothes on my back and try to pay da' rent

E is every wrinkle I put on Her face
and every worry that I caused when I stayed out late

The last letter R is that She taught me Respect
and for the room up in Heaven that I know She'll get

MR. T Chorus

Female Chorus

She's a Queen
Second to none
Take care of Mother
You only get one

http://www.inzenity.com/mrt/snd/Treat_Your_Mother_Right.mp3

― David Allen (David Allen), Wednesday, 22 December 2004 14:32 (nineteen years ago) link

"I'm in love with your mom" - Vom

― Colonel Poo (Colonel Poo), Wednesday, 22 December 2004 15:32 (nineteen years ago) link

The Bouncing Souls' "I Like Your Mom" is brilliant:

I like your mom, and it's no fad.
I wanna marry her and be your dad!
I like your mom x3

(repeat)

― martin m. (mushrush), Wednesday, 22 December 2004 18:56 (nineteen years ago) link

Pharcyde "Ya Momma"

― sjv (randomwalrus), Thursday, 23 December 2004 02:55 (nineteen years ago) link

three years pass...

all of the above, and more...

happy birthday, Mom!

― henry s, Wednesday, 13 February 2008 18:46 (sixteen years ago) link

The last verse of David Allen Coe's "You Never Even Called Me By My Name"

― dad a, Wednesday, 13 February 2008 19:20 (sixteen years ago) link

Captain Beefheart's "Apes Ma" is a great momma-tune.

― t**t, Wednesday, 13 February 2008 19:31 (sixteen years ago) link

The best song about moms is "Early Mother's Day Card" by Whodini.

― Eazy, Wednesday, 13 February 2008 21:30 (sixteen years ago) link

Jandek, "Mother's Day Card"

― ian, Wednesday, 13 February 2008 21:31 (sixteen years ago) link

Kind of weird of me to cite a hip-hop song here ;) but Swedish rapper Ken had a very heartfelt lyric (in Swedish) about his mum, whom he lost to cancer when he was just 14.

― Geir Hongro, Wednesday, 13 February 2008 21:38 (sixteen years ago) link

"I Love My Mom" - The Roches
"Momma's Gotta Die Tonight" - Body Count

Which I think covers the spectrum pretty well.

― Hideous Lump, Thursday, 14 February 2008 03:33 (sixteen years ago) link

six years pass...

Heard Junior's "Mama Used to Say" on the radio this morning. Still love this soulful pop number

― curmudgeon, Friday, 18 July 2014 13:09 (nine years ago) link

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IWwAUAWN5lQ

― Iago Galdston, Friday, 18 July 2014 14:10 (nine years ago) link

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