We made a playlist. Thirteen songs whose titles, or band names, play on electricity, all in one player on our Songs about power page. Press play, leave it running, and it works through the lot.
There is nothing you have to fill in and nothing about your bill. We spend our days talking about volts, panels and kilowatt hours, and we fancied a list where the electricity is in the song titles instead.
How the page works
- One player, thirteen songs. It starts on mute, so it will not blare out across the office. Tap for sound and it plays them one after another.
- Tap any card to jump to it. Every song has a line on why it made the list.
- Nod along. If a song gets your foot going, tap Nod along. The counts are shared, so you can see which ones everyone else rates.
- Five words from our day job. Volt, amp, watt, ohm and joule, each explained in a line and paired with a song.
- Tell us what we missed. There is a suggestion form at the bottom of the page.
The thirteen
It opens loud, wanders through Brixton, Detroit, Düsseldorf and the Wirral, and finishes on one any pub would pick.
| # | Song, and why it is on the list |
|---|---|
| 01 | ThunderstruckAC/DC · 1990AC and DC: alternating current and direct current. They were always getting in. |
| 02 | Electric AvenueEddy Grant · 1982Named after a Brixton street that was one of the first in Britain with electric lighting. |
| 03 | Danger! High VoltageElectric Six · 2003Often credited to The Darkness. It is Electric Six, from Detroit. |
| 04 | Electric FeelMGMT · 2007A slow, warm one for when the kettle is on. |
| 05 | The PowerSnap! · 1990One of the biggest dance records of 1990. Turn it up. |
| 06 | ElectricitySilk City and Dua Lipa · 2018Mark Ronson and Diplo with Dua Lipa. It won the Grammy for Best Dance Recording. |
| 07 | Together in Electric DreamsPhilip Oakey and Giorgio Moroder · 1984Written for a film hardly anyone remembers. The song outlived it by decades. |
| 08 | RadioactivityKraftwerk · 1975Six minutes from the Düsseldorf pioneers, a breather in the middle of the list. |
| 09 | ElectricityOrchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark · 1979The Wirral duo’s first single, on Factory Records. |
| 10 | POWERKanye West · 2010A drum stomp built on a King Crimson sample. One for the van. |
| 11 | Higher PowerColdplay · 2021Launched with a live link to an astronaut on the International Space Station. |
| 12 | She’s ElectricOasis · 1995Never a single, still one everyone can sing. |
| 13 | Don’t Bring Me DownElectric Light Orchestra · 1979The band name is the joke. The closer any pub would pick. |
In listening order, not date order.
A playlist a month
This is the first of a series. From now on we will publish one themed playlist here on the blog every month, with a short note on why each song made the cut.
Our Halloween playlist lands later this month, in time for the 31st. Expect the lights to go out at some point. Got a song that has to be on it? Email hello@energygiants.co.uk or message us on Facebook.
What have we missed?
The rule for Songs about power is simple: the title, or the band name, has to play on power, electricity, energy, voltage, current or charge. Mainstream, please. If a 45 year old in Clitheroe would not know it, it is probably not one for this list.
Suggest a songPlay the playlist
And the other kind of power
If you came for the music, that is the lot. If you came for the other kind of power, we do have a day job. Start with our full guide to solar panels in Lancashire or the piece on sizing a home battery properly.
Miles has spent two decades in retrofit and has worked at scale across the UK, with long-standing relationships with local authorities including Kirklees Council, Durham County Council and Ribble Valley Borough Council. He has project-directed programmes for housing associations and delivery partners including Aspire Housing, Sureserve, LivGreen and BroadOak, and for energy suppliers including E.ON Next, Utilita, British Gas, Octopus and UKEM.