Psychedelic Song Name Generator

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Generate psychedelic song names for psych rock, psych pop and neo-psych tracklists: small surreal scenes, character songs and invitations such as "She Paints the Sky Paisley", "Mr. Pettigrew Mends the Weather", "Follow the Lamplighter Down", "Marmalade Morning Raga" and "Slow Melt".

About psychedelic song names

A psychedelic song title rarely names a feeling outright. It describes a small scene that is slightly wrong and says so in a calm voice: The Kettle Whistled a Symphony, Tea Was Served on the Ceiling, My Shadow Took the Streetcar Home. That is also what separates a track title from a band name. The titles here are sentences, characters, places, invitations and numbered parts, the forms a tracklist uses and a band name does not.

The list is written in sixteen styles so rerolls stay varied: whimsical British psych with toy shop and village green imagery, character songs about odd neighbors and shopkeepers, West Coast first-person sentences, raga rock, space rock and kosmische long titles, garage warnings such as Don't Look in the Third Window, short hazy neo-psych and dream pop titles, desert and heavy psych, jams, suites and reprises, nursery-rhyme twists, journeys, invitations, pastoral psych folk, household surrealism, dedications, and portraits such as She Tells Her Secrets to Trains.

The raga titles borrow real terms from Hindustani classical music. An alap is the slow, unmetered opening of a raga, and tintal is the common rhythmic cycle of sixteen beats. Use those titles where the music really nods to that tradition, with a drone or a twelve-string lead, not as decoration.

How to choose psychedelic song names

  • Write a sentence, not a label. The Lamplighter Forgot His Ladder gives the listener a scene before the first chord, while two stacked nouns read more like a band name.
  • Match the title to the arrangement. The raga titles suit drones and twelve-string leads, the desert titles suit slow down-tuned riffs, and the short hazy ones suit reverb-heavy dream pop.
  • Let a character or a place come back. Mr. Pettigrew and Marigold Lane each turn up twice in this list, which is how a run of songs starts to feel like one world.
  • Use parts, suites and reprises sparingly. One Part Two or one reprise on a tracklist looks deliberate, so add the tag only when the music really returns to the theme.
  • Search a title together with your band name before you release it. Short titles such as Daze or Flutter are shared by many songs, and a longer scene is easier for listeners to find.

Frequently asked questions

What makes a song title sound psychedelic?

Ordinary things behaving strangely, described as if nothing were odd. The Mirror Has Two Suns, Thursday Arrived a Day Early and The Butler Polished the Moon all set a scene in a few words. Characters, journeys and invitations do the same job, which is why so many titles in the style are full sentences.

What are some good psychedelic song names?

For whimsical psych pop try She Paints the Sky Paisley, Mr. Pettigrew Mends the Weather or Follow the Lamplighter Down. For heavier or longer tracks try Slow Signal from the Outer Planets, The Dunes Are Moving Tonight or Marmalade Morning Raga. For a short hazy title there are Slow Melt, Underglow and Almost Liquid.

Can I use these titles for songs I release?

Yes, use them freely for albums, singles, demos and fictional tracklists. The list was screened for duplicates and offensive terms, and it was not compared with existing releases. Short titles are often shared between songs, so search yours together with your artist name before you upload.

How is this different from the Psychedelic Name Generator?

That page names bands, solo aliases and projects. This one gives the titles that go under the band name: sentences, character songs, places, suites and reprises such as Tuesday Fell Upwards (Part Two). Use the two together to sketch a whole fictional 1967 line-up and its album.

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A: 47 names

  • A Crown of Buttercups for the Postman
  • A Door Marked Elsewhere
  • A Drone Beneath the Floorboards
  • A Gate in the Wall of Number Eleven
  • A Lighthouse at the Edge of the Galaxy
  • A Magic Lantern Show for One
  • A Map of the Puddles
  • A Minute Lasts All Week in Here
  • A Mirage Called My Name
  • A Monolith Stood in the Arroyo
  • A Parasol for the Queen of Puddles

A, continued

  • A Postcard from the Pier of Mirrors
  • A Scale That Only Rises at Dawn
  • A Short Raga, Then Cake
  • A Sitar Bends the Afternoon
  • A Slow Barge Through the Tulip Fields
  • A Slow Waltz for Mission Control
  • A Small Storm in the Sugar Bowl
  • A Sympathetic String Is Ringing
  • A Thousand Hands Made of Light
  • A Toast to the Tilting Room
  • A Wooden Horse Named Thursday
  • A Wren Sat on My Dulcimer

A, continued

  • Acorns Falling in Waltz Time
  • Aglow
  • Alap, Jor and a Cup of Chai
  • Algernon's Ark
  • All Aboard the Slow Rainbow
  • All Change at Dreaming Junction
  • All My Clocks Disagree
  • All the Meadow Was a Choir
  • Almost Liquid
  • An Hour Grew on the Windowsill
  • An Hour of Silence Around Titan
  • An Invitation from the Paper Duchess

A, continued

  • Annabel Has Gone to Seed
  • Anthem for the Half Asleep
  • Apology to a Sunflower
  • Apple Blossom on the Mellotron
  • Araminta's Paper Orchard
  • Are You Sure This Is the Floor
  • Arthur Pennywhistle's Tin Airplane
  • Ascending Through the Ionosphere
  • Aunt Philippa Dusts the Planets
  • Aurelia's Attic
  • Autumn in the Airing Cupboard
  • Away with the Tide Tables

B: 32 names

  • Baa Baa, Rainbow Sheep
  • Backwards Guitar for Beginners
  • Ballad of the Backward Bicycle
  • Barefoot in the Music Room
  • Barefoot on the Roof of the Morning
  • Barley Field in a Minor Key
  • Bartholomew's Bubble
  • Bass Player Lost in the Badlands
  • Bazaar Song at Closing Time
  • Beatrix Blinks and It Is Winter

B, continued

  • Bending the Third Until It Sings
  • Between the Bandstand and the Stars
  • Beware the Girl with the Strobe
  • Beyond the Fence the Grass Is Violet
  • Bicycle Bells Across the Common
  • Bindweed Climbing Up the Chorus
  • Biscuit Tin Full of Yesterdays
  • Blessing for a Leaky Boat
  • Bluebells Ringing for No One
  • Blurring
  • Bobby Shafto Sailed into the Wallpaper

B, continued

  • Bolero for a Melting Snowman
  • Bones of the Old Radio Tower
  • Brambles Round the Wishing Well
  • Brass Bells on the Mountain Road
  • Break the Glass Before It Thinks
  • Breakfast at the Speed of Light
  • Bring Your Mother to the Light Show
  • Bring Your Own Horizon
  • Brother, the Trees Are Applauding
  • Buried the Van at Dry Lake
  • Burnt Orange Was the Sound

C: 40 names

  • Cactus Casts a Longer Shadow
  • Camel Through the Eye of the Sun
  • Can You Hear My Jumper Singing
  • Can't Stop the Spinning Room
  • Can't You Hear the Walls
  • Captain Marchbanks Sails the Laundry
  • Caravan of the Slow Drum
  • Careful, the Organ Bites
  • Carol for the Shortest Night
  • Carried by Kite to the Northern Hills
  • Caspian and the Candle Factory
  • Catkins and a Glockenspiel
  • Chapter Six, Sung from the Wardrobe

C, continued

  • Children of the Open Door
  • Chrome Skull, Golden Horizon
  • Cider Sun Over the Low Field
  • Clementina and the Clockwork Swan
  • Climb Aboard the Feather Bed
  • Close Your Eyes and Count the Suns
  • Coda for a Sleeping Drummer
  • Come and See the Upside-Down Parade
  • Come Apart Gently
  • Come Down to the River and Rise
  • Come Inside, the Weather's Strange
  • Come Round for Tea and Levitation
  • Come the Thaw, Come the Singing

C, continued

  • Cordelia Collects Thunderstorms
  • Cornelius Under Glass
  • Corridor of a Hundred Humming Doors
  • Count Backward from Thirteen
  • Countdown in a Language of Bells
  • Cousin Algernon Lives in the Wardrobe
  • Coyote Sings the Low End
  • Crawling Toward the Rock That Hums
  • Cressida Smiles in Slow Motion
  • Croquet on the Lawn at Midnight
  • Cross-Legged in the Feedback
  • Crossing the Common in a Paper Boat
  • Curly Locks Sews a Seam in the Sea
  • Cycling to the Edge of the Map

D: 40 names

  • Daisies Opened All at Once
  • Daisy Chains for the Night Watchman
  • Dance with Me Across the Ceiling
  • Dandelion Seeds Know the Way
  • Daughter of the Hedgerow King
  • Daydreamt
  • Daylight Poured Through the Bass Drum
  • Daze
  • Delphine Dreams in Wide Screen
  • Departure Lounge on Phobos
  • Did Anyone Else Hear the Color Change
  • Did You See the Staircase Smile
  • Diddle Diddle Dumpling, My Son Jupiter

D, continued

  • Dim Bloom
  • Dissolve a Little
  • Distant, Warm
  • Do Not Adjust Your Mind
  • Do the Flowers Know We're Here
  • Do You Remember Being Rain
  • Docking Procedure in A Minor
  • Doctor Foster Went to Saturn
  • Don't Answer the Telephone Tree
  • Don't Blink at the Carousel
  • Don't Feed the Feedback
  • Don't Follow Me into the Echo
  • Don't Look in the Third Window

D, continued

  • Don't Step on the Humming Stair
  • Don't Wake the Weathervane
  • Don't Wind Me Up Again
  • Dorothea's Door in the Hedge
  • Down the Canal to Somewhere Greener
  • Down-Tuned for the Sunrise
  • Dr. Halloway's Traveling Rainbow
  • Draw the Curtains on the Moon
  • Drifted
  • Drifting Past the Last Known Color
  • Drone in D for the Rising Sun
  • Drone Piece for a Broken Fridge
  • Dust Devil Takes a Solo
  • Dust Motes Dancing a Quadrille

E: 20 names

  • Ebenezer Plum, Purveyor of Moonlight
  • Echoing
  • Elderflower Evening, Barefoot Band
  • Elegy for a Lost Marble
  • Elevenses on the Edge of Forever
  • Emigrating to the Rug
  • Emmeline's Umbrella Song
  • Engines Humming in the Key of Nowhere
  • Epilogue on the Ceiling
  • Epitaph for an Afternoon

E, continued

  • Etude for Echo Unit
  • Evangeline's Echo
  • Evening Raga for a Sleeping Street
  • Every String Is a River
  • Every Teaspoon Is a Mirror
  • Every Window Is a Different Summer
  • Everybody into the Fountain
  • Everybody on the Hill Is Glowing
  • Everything Past Neptune Is Humming
  • Everything Slower

F: 24 names

  • Fade Up
  • Falling Sideways Toward Jupiter
  • Fanfare for the Wrong Monarch
  • Feather Bed in a Field of Rye
  • Feathers Falling Up on Fulton
  • February Fell Out of the Calendar
  • Felicity Hung Her Heart on the Line
  • Ferdinand Feeds the Fog
  • Finale: Everybody Turns into Light
  • First Morning on the Seventh Moon
  • Flicker and Stay
  • Float Here

F, continued

  • Flutter
  • Follow the Bells Through the Bracken
  • Follow the Girl with the Lantern Hair
  • Follow the Lamplighter Down
  • Footprints Leading into the Painting
  • Forty Miles of Wavering Road
  • Four and Twenty Blackbirds Unionized
  • Four Seasons Before Lunch
  • Free-Form Racket at the Village Hall
  • Friday Melted on the Step
  • From the Pier You Can See Last Year
  • Fugue for Fuzz Bass

G: 22 names

  • Garland for the Girl Who Flew
  • Generator Party at the Wash
  • Georgie Porgie Floated Away
  • Get Out of My Kaleidoscope
  • Ghost Town Jukebox Still Plays
  • Gideon Marsh Sweeps the Aurora
  • Girl, Your Halo's Slipping
  • Glass Capsule Over the North Sea
  • Glimmering Out
  • Glow Slowly
  • Go Tell the Stairs I'm Coming

G, continued

  • Golden Gate, Swing Wide for Me
  • Good Evening, Is Your Shadow Home
  • Good Morning, Mr. Hollyhock
  • Goosey Gander Wandered Through the Wall
  • Grandfather's Watch Ran Backward All Summer
  • Gravity Is Only a Suggestion
  • Great-Aunt Maud's Telescope for Sale
  • Green Man at the Garden Gate
  • Greenhouse Improvisation (Take 9)
  • Greensleeves Had a Younger Sister
  • Guinevere Glides Down Gasworks Lane

H: 55 names

  • Halation
  • Half a Pound of Tuppenny Starlight
  • Half an Hour Fell Behind the Sofa
  • Half Awake in Color
  • Halfway House on the Whistling Moor
  • Halfway to the Pleiades by Teatime
  • Harvest Moon in a Wicker Basket
  • Have Another Cup of Sky
  • Have You Seen My Sister's Aura
  • Haze Over Me
  • Hazed
  • He Carries the Tide in a Thimble
  • He Grows Quieter in Color

H, continued

  • He Is Mostly Made of Bells
  • He Keeps a Rainbow in His Briefcase
  • He Lit the Candle and the Candle Sang
  • He Looks at Me Like Weather
  • He Never Came Back from the Mirror
  • He Only Speaks in Wind Chimes
  • He Played Until the Stars Tuned Up
  • He Sold His Shadow for a Song
  • He Traded His Voice for a Bird
  • He Whistles and the Streetlamps Bow
  • Head Full of Feathers
  • Heatstroke Sermon
  • Heavy Sun, Heavy Head
  • Hello, Andromeda, Are You Receiving

H, continued

  • Help Me Find My Other Head
  • Henrietta's Hat Is a Garden
  • Her Bicycle Runs on Daydreams
  • Her Eyes Were Two Open Windows
  • Her Hair Is Full of Lighthouses
  • Her Kitchen Is a Kingdom of Steam
  • Her Majesty's Flying Tricycle
  • Her Mother Was a Thunderstorm
  • Her Shadow Stays Out Late
  • Her Smile Arrives Before She Does
  • Here We Go Round the Lamp Post
  • Hey, Who Moved the Moon
  • Hickory Dickory, the Clock Ran Up the Mouse
  • His Hat Is Where the Birds Live Now

H, continued

  • His Sister Lives in Technicolor
  • Hold My Hand While the Room Unfolds
  • Hold On, the Floor Is Turning
  • Hold Out Your Hat for the Starfall
  • Honey, the Horizon Is Bending
  • Hopscotch on the Palace Roof
  • Hot Cross Buns on the Ceiling
  • Hovering
  • How Do You Get Down from a Song
  • How Many Miles to the Candle Moon
  • Humphrey's Hall of Echoes
  • Humpty Decided to Climb Back Up
  • Hush Now, the Furniture Is Dreaming
  • Hymn to the Number 31 Bus

I: 31 names

  • I Can Taste the Sound of Your Name
  • I Can't Find the Floor
  • I Dreamed the Cable Cars Were Whales
  • I Followed a Flute into the Hills
  • I Gave My Shoes to the Ocean
  • I Heard the Colors Arguing
  • I Married the Morning Mist
  • I Poured the Morning on My Cereal
  • I Said Turn the Color Down
  • I Saw the Ocean Breathing

I, continued

  • I Told You Not to Open It
  • I Took the Stairs to the Sea
  • I Tuned My Guitar to the Sunrise
  • I Was a Cloud in Another Life
  • I Was Elsewhere
  • I'm Not Coming Down the Ladder
  • Ignatius Has a Head Full of Bells
  • Imogen Is Made of Weather
  • Improvisation on a Dripping Tap
  • In Praise of Gentle Wobbling

I, continued

  • Incense Curling Round the Chorus
  • Incy Wincy Up the Rainbow Spout
  • Instrumental with Someone Laughing
  • Interlude for Kettle and Fuzz
  • Intermission with Birds
  • Inwardly
  • Is It Tomorrow Yet
  • Is There Room in Your Balloon
  • Is Your Blue the Same as Mine
  • Isadora's Staircase Waltz
  • It Rained Inside the Wardrobe

J: 11 names

  • Jack and Jill Went Up and Kept Going
  • Jack Be Nimble, Jack Be Vapor
  • Jam for a Leaking Roof, No. 4
  • Jam in the Key of Purple
  • Jasmine in the Sound Hole
  • Jemima's Jar of Daylight
  • Jeremiah Finch Has Gone Sideways
  • Jhala for a Runaway Train
  • Join Us in the Hollow Tree
  • Josephine's Traveling Staircase
  • Joshua Trees Waving Us Through

K: 4 names

  • Keep Out of the Sunken Garden
  • Keep Your Hands Off My Shadow
  • Kingfisher Flash on the Mill Pond
  • Kosmische Musik for Empty Motorways

L: 49 names

  • Lady Evangeline's Indoor Rainbow
  • Lady of the Lily Pond
  • Ladybird, Your House Is Humming
  • Lament for a Deflated Balloon
  • Languid
  • Last Chance to Leave the Pattern
  • Last Tram to the Glass Orchard
  • Launch Window Closing Softly
  • Lavender's Green When the Bells Are Blue
  • Lavinia Sparrow Waters the Lampposts
  • Leave My Head Alone Tonight
  • Leave Your Name at the Door

L, continued

  • Leaves Applaud When You Walk By
  • Lend Me Your Kaleidoscope, Madam
  • Leopold Lost in the Looking Glass
  • Let the Children Steer the Cloud
  • Let the Organ Carry You Over
  • Let Us Now Praise Wobbly Things
  • Let's Go Fishing in the Mirror
  • Letter to the Girl in the Wallpaper
  • Light Years Between the Notes
  • Lighter Than Tuesday
  • Lines Written on a Balloon
  • Listen, the Garden Is Tuning Up

L, continued

  • Little Bo Peep Has Found Too Many Sheep
  • Little Boy Blue Is Turning Green
  • Little Edwin Sailed the Bathtub East
  • Little Jack Horner Pulled Out a Planet
  • Little Miss Muffet Befriends the Spider
  • Little Song for the Longest Day
  • Little Tommy Tucker Sings for His Shadow
  • Little Wandering by the Weir
  • Lock the Door, the Sound Is Loose
  • London Bridge Is Floating Up
  • Long Drift Toward a Colder Sun
  • Long Fade in D Major

L, continued

  • Long Jam for Short Attention Spans
  • Long Walk Round a Small Pond
  • Look What the Rain Has Drawn
  • Loose in the Light
  • Lost in the Maze at Quillington Hall
  • Lost the Edges
  • Lost the Trail at Echo Rock
  • Love Is a Slow Electric River
  • Love Song to a Lampshade
  • Lucid Enough
  • Lucinda Lives Upstairs from the Sun
  • Lullaby for a Field of Foxgloves
  • Lysander's Lantern

M: 69 names

  • Mammoth in the Tar Pit Blues
  • Marbles Rolling Up the Hill
  • March of the Half-Remembered
  • Marguerite's Merry-Go-Round
  • Marianne Glows a Little After Dark
  • Marigold Is Late for the Sunrise
  • Marigold Lane Runs Both Ways
  • Marigolds on the Mixing Desk
  • Marmalade Morning Raga
  • Mary's Garden Grows Sideways
  • Matilda Mislaid the Horizon
  • May I Introduce My Other Self
  • Maypole Ribbons Tangled in the Sky

M, continued

  • Meend into the Evening
  • Meet Me Where the Wallpaper Ends
  • Mellotron in the Cargo Bay
  • Melting Is Easy
  • Message Found in a Teapot
  • Midnight Drone for Electric Guitar
  • Midsummer Eve on Tumbledown Hill
  • Mind the Gap in the Sky
  • Minuet for Marcus and His Moth
  • Miss Clementine Thackeray Is Out Floating
  • Miss Tabitha Crane Folds Paper Oceans
  • Miss Winterbourne Irons the Clouds
  • Mister, Your Shadow's on Fire
  • Monday Wore a Paper Hat

M, continued

  • Monday's Child Is Made of Glass
  • Monsoon on the Fretboard
  • Morning Came On Like an Orchestra
  • Morning Dew on the Autoharp
  • Mossy Stone Told Me a Secret
  • Mostly Air
  • Mother Goose Has Left the Nest
  • Mother Left the Rainbow in the Wash
  • Motorcycle Made of Thunder
  • Mouthful of Light
  • Movement Three: The Stairs Dissolve
  • Mr. Blenkinsop Fell Up the Stairs
  • Mr. Catchpole Keeps Bees in His Hat
  • Mr. Dobbs Is a Balloon Today

M, continued

  • Mr. Farthingale Opens a Zoo for Clouds
  • Mr. Gladwyn Winks at the Moon
  • Mr. Hargreaves and His Invisible Dog
  • Mr. Lovelace Collects Doorknobs
  • Mr. Ormsby Walks His Goldfish
  • Mr. Pargeter Has Tea with His Shadow
  • Mr. Pettigrew Mends the Weather
  • Mr. Pettigrew Returns (Short Reprise)
  • Mr. Quince Has Lost His Reflection
  • Mr. Sprott Paints Zebra Crossings
  • Mr. Tolliver Counts the Raindrops
  • Mr. Wetherby Never Opens the Curtains
  • Mrs. Abernathy Grows Umbrellas
  • Mrs. Dunwoody's Lodger Glows at Night

M, continued

  • Mrs. Featherstone Knits a River
  • Mrs. Honeycombe Minds the Echo
  • Mrs. Lumley Bottles the Fog
  • Mrs. Nettleship Never Lands
  • Mrs. Popplewell's Cabinet of Sighs
  • Mrs. Tidmarsh Trains Her Wallpaper
  • Mrs. Underhill Is Underwater Again
  • My Armchair Is Drifting Out to Sea
  • My Guitar Grew Leaves Last Night
  • My Mirror Has Been Sleeping In
  • My Shadow Took the Streetcar Home
  • My Slippers Know the Way to Mars
  • My Teacup Has a Tide
  • My Umbrella Blossomed in the Hall

N: 17 names

  • Nanny Says the Stars Are Loose
  • Nathaniel's Night Garden
  • Nearly There, Nearly Gone
  • Never Trust a Smiling Clock
  • Night Bus to the Aviary
  • Night Drive to the Radio Observatory
  • Night Fell Like a Velvet Curtain
  • Night Flight on a Motorik Beat

N, continued

  • Nine Rings Around a Quiet World
  • No Exit on Revolving Street
  • Nobody Out Here but the Fuzz
  • Nobody Told the Sun to Stop
  • Nocturne for Wah Pedal
  • Noon Came Twice Today
  • North by Lantern Light
  • Note Left on the Milk Bottle
  • Number Nine Bus, Extended Version

O: 22 names

  • Octavia in the Observatory
  • Ode to a Disappearing Staircase
  • Odette Opened and the Room Poured Out
  • Old Barnaby Sells Bottled Echoes
  • Old Fenwick Winds the Town Hall Clock
  • Old Mother Twelvetrees and Her Radio
  • One Chord for Eleven Minutes
  • One, Two, Buckle My Cloud
  • Open Letter to the Sky
  • Open Tuning for an Open Window
  • Open Up Your Window, Let Me Out

O, continued

  • Opening Raga, Closing Time
  • Ophelia's Aquarium
  • Oranges and Lemons, Say the Stars
  • Organ Jam at the Bottom of the Pool
  • Oscillators Over Düsseldorf
  • Out of Phase with You
  • Out, Out, Electric Daydream
  • Outline of You
  • Outro That Refused to End
  • Over the Hill and Under the Lake
  • Overexposure

P: 29 names

  • Part Four, in Which We Float
  • Parts Five Through Infinity
  • Pass the Morning Around
  • Passing Through the Rings at Dawn
  • Past the Waterworks and into the Blue
  • Pat-a-Cake for the Man in the Moon
  • Pease Porridge in the Sky, Nine Days Old
  • Penelope's Paper Planetarium
  • Penny Farthing Over the Rooftops
  • Percival's Pocket Universe
  • Peripheral
  • Peter Piper Picked a Different Dimension
  • Petroglyph of a Man with a Guitar
  • Phase One: The Curtains Breathe

P, continued

  • Phase Two: The Carpet Replies
  • Pilgrims of the Outer Dark
  • Platform Seven for the Land of Nod
  • Polly Put the Ocean On
  • Poor Old Septimus Sprang a Leak
  • Portrait of Aunt Dot as a Sunbeam
  • Postcard to My Former Shape
  • Pour Yourself into the Afternoon
  • Prelude to a Longer Afternoon
  • Primrose Hill Is Breathing
  • Professor Dimmock's Singing Barometer
  • Ptolemy's Periscope
  • Pulse of a Distant Lighthouse Star
  • Put That Rainbow Down
  • Put Your Ear to the Sunflower

Q: 1 name

  • Quit Bending My Afternoon

R: 36 names

  • Raga at the Gates of Sleep
  • Raga for a Flooded Field
  • Raga for a Rainy Rooftop
  • Raga for My Neighbor's Peacock
  • Raga for the Garden Hose
  • Raga for the Last Bus Home
  • Raga for the Night Train to Jaipur
  • Raga in the Key of Rain
  • Raga of the Second Summer
  • Raga of the Unfolding Hand
  • Raga When the Lamps Are Lit
  • Rain on the Conservatory Glass

R, continued

  • Rattlesnake in the Reverb Tank
  • Recipe for a Purple Afternoon
  • Rehearsal Room Drift, 4 a.m.
  • Reprise of the Thing We Forgot
  • Requiem for a Decommissioned Satellite
  • Requiem for a Wind-Up Bird
  • Return Ticket to the Hanging Gardens
  • Reverberate
  • Ride a Paper Horse to Banbury Cross
  • Ride with Me on the Back of a Breeze
  • Riding the Heat Shimmer Home
  • Ring Around the Radio Tower

R, continued

  • Robin on the Microphone Stand
  • Rock-a-Bye on the Telephone Wire
  • Roll Me Down the Moonlit Wash
  • Rosamund Floats Above the Bus Queue
  • Roses Are Violet, Violets Are Loud
  • Round and Round Tollgate Green
  • Row Your Boat Gently Through the Ceiling
  • Rub-a-Dub-Dub, Three Moons in a Tub
  • Run and Tell the Bandstand
  • Run Before the Organ Starts
  • Rupak for a Walking Cloud
  • Rupert and the Reluctant Rainbow

S: 113 names

  • Saffron Dust on the Amplifier
  • Sailing a Bedstead to the Morning
  • Sand in the Tape Machine
  • Saturday Folded in Half
  • Say Hello to the Humming
  • Scorpion Crossed the Wah Pedal
  • Seaside Town in a Teacup
  • Sebastian's Soap Bubble Empire
  • Second Attempt at Levitation
  • See-Saw, Margery Saw the Future
  • Segue into Something Greener
  • Seven Bridges Past the Sleeping Mill
  • Seven Hours Past the Heliopause
  • Seven Notes Ascending

S, continued

  • Seventeen O'Clock and All Is Well
  • Shake It Till the Fuzz Bleeds
  • Shall We Paint the Vicar's Bicycle
  • Shanty for a Bathtub Navy
  • She Arrives in Seven Shades of Rain
  • She Came Home Wearing a River
  • She Counts in Colors I Can't See
  • She Folds the Dawn into Her Purse
  • She Is Everywhere on Thursdays
  • She Is Half Past Beautiful
  • She Is the Garden Gate Ajar
  • She Keeps the Canyon in a Locket
  • She Keeps the Weather in a Hatbox
  • She Left Her Laughter on the Stairs

S, continued

  • She Only Loves You in Stereo
  • She Paints the Sky Paisley
  • She Planted Her Piano in the Lawn
  • She Poured Herself a Cup of Dusk
  • She Rides Sidesaddle on a Breeze
  • She Said Her Name Was Echo
  • She Said the Hills Were Listening
  • She Talks in Slow Fireworks
  • She Tells Her Secrets to Trains
  • She Wears a Dress of Falling Leaves
  • She Wore the Whole Pacific
  • She Writes Her Letters on the Wind
  • She's a Carousel When She Laughs
  • She's Got Reverb for a Heart

S, continued

  • Shimmerer
  • Shout It Through the Fuzzbox
  • Shut Your Third Eye
  • Side Two Begins Underwater
  • Sidewinder Leaves a Melody
  • Signposts to the Village That Moves
  • Simple Simon Met a Planet
  • Sing a Song of Seven Suns
  • Sing Me the Shape of the Wind
  • Sinking Upward
  • Sister Agnes Rides a Comet
  • Sister Sunrise, Don't Be Late
  • Sister Swallow, Carry My Tune
  • Sit with Me Beneath the Organ

S, continued

  • Sitar Lesson Number Nine
  • Sixpence for the Man in the Mirror
  • Sixteen Beats Around the Fire
  • Sketch for Sitar and Lawnmower
  • Sleepers Awake in the Cryo Bay
  • Sleeping Giant Under the Highway
  • Slipping Sideways
  • Slow Alap Before the Storm
  • Slow Coach to the Singing Sands
  • Slow Dissolve to Summer
  • Slow Hawk Over Red Sand
  • Slow Melt
  • Slow Planet, Heavy Orbit
  • Slow Riff for a Sleeping Mesa

S, continued

  • Slow Signal from the Outer Planets
  • Slowly, Then All at Once
  • Soft Rain on the Hayloft
  • Soften
  • Softer Still
  • Solar Wind in the Aerial
  • Solomon Grundy, Born Again on Monday
  • Somebody Left the Rainbow Running
  • Somebody Opened the Sky Like a Letter
  • Somebody Painted the Ballroom Gold
  • Somebody Shut the Sky
  • Somebody Unplugged the Afternoon
  • Somebody Wound the Nursery Too Tight
  • Somewhere a Pulsar Keeps the Beat

S, continued

  • Somewhere Behind My Eyes
  • Somewhere East of Butterwick
  • Song About Nothing in Particular, Sung Twice
  • Song of the Sleepwalking Postman
  • Sound Collage with Ice Cream Van
  • Spin with Me Until It's June
  • Spring Arrived by Second Post
  • Stained Glass in the Garden Shed
  • Starlight Takes the Long Way Round
  • Static from the Birth of the Universe
  • Stay a While Inside the Chord
  • Stay Away from Marigold Lane
  • Step Back from the Mirror
  • Step into the Painting, Please

S, continued

  • Steps Cut into the Waterfall
  • Still Humming
  • Stone Circle on the Salt Pan
  • Stop Staring at the Sun, Girl
  • Study in Tremolo and Tea
  • Summer Lives in the Potting Shed
  • Sunbeam Caught in the Recorder
  • Sunburned and Seeing Double
  • Sunday Never Got Out of Bed
  • Sunday Parade of the Wind-Up Mice
  • Sunflower Variations
  • Sunrise Seen from the Wrong Planet
  • Swim Back
  • Swoon
  • Synthesizer on the Launch Pad

T: 269 names

  • Tabitha's Telescope
  • Tabla Rain, Tabla Thunder
  • Take Off Your Shoes and Float
  • Take the Ladder to the Lower Sky
  • Tape Loop Orbiting a Dead Star
  • Tape Reversed, Hearts Forward
  • Tea at the Foot of the Himalayas
  • Tea Was Served on the Ceiling
  • Tell Me What the Tulips Told You
  • Tell Your Eyes to Stop
  • Ten Beats, Then the Sky
  • Thaddeus and the Thunder Machine
  • The Admiral's Buttons Went Sailing
  • The Antenna Dreams of Thunder

T, continued

  • The Astronomer Counts to Infinity
  • The Attic Is Bigger Than the House
  • The Baker Bakes a Second Sun
  • The Balloon Man Never Came Down
  • The Ballroom Floor Is a Rolling Sea
  • The Bandstand Floated Out to Sea
  • The Bandstand Is a Long Way Down
  • The Barber Trims the Hedges of Time
  • The Bath Is Full of Evening
  • The Bathwater Remembers the Sea
  • The Bay Is a Mirror Tonight
  • The Beekeeper's Wedding Song
  • The Boulder Rolled Uphill
  • The Boy Next Door Is Underwater
  • The Boy Who Fell in Love with a Chord

T, continued

  • The Boy Who Painted Noise
  • The Boy with the Barometer Heart
  • The Bridge Is Out but the River Is In
  • The Brook Ran Backward for a Day
  • The Butler Polished the Moon
  • The Calendar Shed Its Leaves
  • The Canal Boat Called Persephone
  • The Canyon Swallowed the Sound
  • The Captain Has Turned Off the Ceiling
  • The Carousel Song (Backwards)
  • The Carpet Seller Hums a Scale
  • The Carpet Tide Is Coming In
  • The Cat Borrowed the Fiddle Again
  • The Ceiling Rose Has Bloomed
  • The Chandelier Is Raining Notes

T, continued

  • The Chemist on Candle Street
  • The Chimney Sweep Swept the Sky
  • The Clock Struck a Color
  • The Clockmaker at Number Nine
  • The Clocks Suite: Morning Bells
  • The Clockwork Admiral Salutes
  • The Coast Road Hums at Dawn
  • The Cobbler Mends a Pair of Wings
  • The Comet Returns Every Verse
  • The Cosmonaut Sleeps Through Saturn
  • The Cow Came Back with Moon Dust on Her Hooves
  • The Crooked Man Bought a Straight Mile
  • The Cuckoo Sang in Colors
  • The Curtains Applauded Politely
  • The Dial Glows When Nobody Is Home

T, continued

  • The Dish Never Wrote to the Spoon
  • The Doorbell Rang in Slow Motion
  • The Drone Came Up Through My Feet
  • The Drone That Would Not End
  • The Dunes Are Moving Tonight
  • The Engine Room Sings in Octaves
  • The Ferris Wheel Kept On Rising
  • The Ferry Captain Rows by Starlight
  • The Ferryman's Lullaby for a Swan
  • The Fishmonger's Silver Opera
  • The Florist Speaks Fluent Lilac
  • The Fog Came in Wearing Your Coat
  • The Fog Horn Knows My Name
  • The Fox Wore a Coat of Evening
  • The Fridge Sings Baritone

T, continued

  • The Front Door Opens onto October
  • The Fuzz Is Coming to Get You
  • The Garden Came Indoors for Tea
  • The Garden Gnomes Held an Election
  • The Girl from the Flickering Window
  • The Girl in the Orange Raincoat Sings
  • The Girl Who Borrowed the Moon
  • The Girl Who Whispered to the Fuzz
  • The Girl with Sunflower Hands
  • The Goldfish Has Seen the Future
  • The Gramophone Sang in Its Sleep
  • The Grand Old Duke Got Stuck Halfway
  • The Greengrocer Weighs the Wind
  • The Greenhouse Is Dreaming Again
  • The Hallway Stretched and Yawned

T, continued

  • The Harmonium Breathes Out Slowly
  • The Hedgehog Carries the Dusk
  • The Heron Stands in Yesterday
  • The Hill Street Levitation
  • The Hill That Hums at Harvest
  • The Horizon Keeps Backing Away
  • The Hot Air Balloon Regatta
  • The Hours Are Hiding in the Piano
  • The Ironmonger Sells Keys to Nowhere
  • The Island That Arrives on Sundays
  • The Jack-in-the-Box Has Retired
  • The Kettle Song (Demo)
  • The Kettle Whistled a Symphony
  • The Kite That Ate the Afternoon
  • The Lamp Is Leaning In to Listen

T, continued

  • The Lamplighter (Reprise)
  • The Lamplighter Forgot His Ladder
  • The Landlady Counts Her Ghosts
  • The Lane Behind the Lane
  • The Lanterns Are Swimming Tonight
  • The Last Moon Before the Dark
  • The Lawn Is Thinking It Over
  • The Librarian Whispered in Colors
  • The Lift Only Goes Sideways
  • The Light Show Followed Me Home
  • The Lighthouse Keeper's Daughter Hums
  • The Lighthouse on Dry Land
  • The Lion and the Unicorn Share a Flat
  • The Long Exposure of Everything
  • The Long Road East by Morning

T, continued

  • The Machine That Dreamed in Sine Waves
  • The Meadow Behind the Wardrobe Door
  • The Meadow Kept My Shoes
  • The Mesa Breathes at Noon
  • The Milk Float Hums a Madrigal
  • The Milky Way Seen from a Bicycle
  • The Miller's Wheel Turns Widdershins
  • The Milliner Wears a Garden
  • The Mirror Has Two Suns
  • The Monolith Hummed When We Touched It
  • The Morning Has Twenty-Two Shrutis
  • The Mountain Came Down for Breakfast
  • The Mountain Wears a Halo of Dust
  • The Mouse Wound the Clock Instead
  • The Mulberry Bush Went Round Us

T, continued

  • The Music Box Knows My Name
  • The Nebula Has Your Eyes
  • The Night Ferry to Halfmoon Quay
  • The Night Porter Knows the Way
  • The North Wind Brought a Carousel
  • The Oasis Was a Drum Circle
  • The Observatory Is Listening Back
  • The Old Stile Leads to Elsewhere
  • The Old Woman Moved Out of the Shoe
  • The Orchard at the Back of My Mind
  • The Organ Grinder Waved Goodbye
  • The Organist Lives Inside the Pipes
  • The Owl Read Me My Fortune
  • The Park Keeper Locks the Rainbow In
  • The Park Was Full of Gentle Lightning

T, continued

  • The Path Forgot Where It Was Going
  • The Pendulum Took a Holiday
  • The Photograph Blinked Twice
  • The Pier Is Longer Than It Was
  • The Pier Song (Mono Mix)
  • The Pig Flew to Market
  • The Planetarium Opens Its Roof
  • The Pond Has Turned to Looking Glass
  • The Punch and Judy Man Went Quiet
  • The Queen of Hearts Baked a Staircase
  • The Radio Played Tomorrow's News
  • The Rain Went Home Early
  • The Redwoods Know What You Did
  • The Riff That Ate the Valley
  • The River Learned the Melody First

T, continued

  • The Riverbed Remembers Water
  • The Road Sign Pointed Straight Up
  • The Rocking Horse Won the Derby
  • The Sagebrush Whispered a Riff
  • The Santoor Scatters Starlight
  • The Sarangi Weeps Politely
  • The Sarod Dreams of Rivers
  • The Satellite Fell in Love with the Tide
  • The Scarecrow Wore My Sunday Best
  • The Schoolmaster Chalked a Door
  • The Scythe Swings Slow in August
  • The Second Hand Is Swimming
  • The Secret Stair in Larkspur Mews
  • The Sequencer Knows the Way Home
  • The Shadows Have Swapped Places

T, continued

  • The Shepherd Counted Clouds Instead
  • The Sidewalk Rolled Out Like a Tongue
  • The Signal Repeats Every Eleven Minutes
  • The Singer Holds the Sa Forever
  • The Sitar Player Tunes the Dusk
  • The Sky Turned Copper and Stayed
  • The Snow Fell Up This Morning
  • The Snow Globe Shook Us
  • The Sofa Sailed at Dawn
  • The Space Station Has a Garden
  • The Spoon Came Home with a Tan
  • The Staircase Is Humming in Thirds
  • The Staircase Suite, Parts I-III
  • The Stairs Have One Step Too Many
  • The Standing Stones Lean Closer

T, continued

  • The Station Clock Struck Seventeen
  • The Stream Is Talking in Its Sleep
  • The Sun Sat Down on the Highway
  • The Swans Wrote Back
  • The Sweetshop Lady Has Seen It All
  • The Tabla Speaks in Raindrops
  • The Tailor Who Stitched the Dusk
  • The Tambura Keeps On Turning
  • The Teacher Smiled and Played It Slower
  • The Thunder Lives in That Cabinet
  • The Tide Wrote Your Name and Took It Back
  • The Tin Drum Played Itself
  • The Toaster Dreams of Sunrise
  • The Towpath Loops Through Yesterday
  • The Toymaker Winds Up the Dawn

T, continued

  • The Tram Lines End in Clover
  • The Tunnel Under Lilac Hill
  • The Twins Who Speak in Echoes
  • The Upholsterer Stuffs a Thundercloud
  • The Vicar Painted the Steeple Blue
  • The Village Under the Reservoir
  • The Wallpaper Is Running Late
  • The Wardrobe Leads to Last Summer
  • The Weather Suite: i. Drizzle
  • The Weather Suite: ii. Sun Through Net Curtains
  • The Weather Suite: iii. Hail on the Bandstand
  • The Weathervane Pointed at Me
  • The Week Has Eight Afternoons
  • The Weir Hums an Older Tune
  • The Well Was Full of Stars

T, continued

  • The Wheat Leans In to Listen
  • The Whole Town Hummed in D
  • The Widow Larkspur Talks to Kettles
  • The Willow Taught Me How to Bow
  • The Wind Carved a Face in the Butte
  • The Wind Was Wearing Bells
  • The Window Cleaner Saw Tomorrow
  • The Window Has Forgotten the View
  • The Zoetrope Turned Without Us
  • There Was a Crooked Rainbow
  • There's a Carnival Behind Your Eyes
  • They Met Inside a Photograph
  • Third Movement of the Spinning Room
  • Thistle Down, Thistle Up
  • Three Ragas for a Paper Kite

T, continued

  • Through the Hedge and into Thursday
  • Through the Keyhole of the Toy Shop
  • Thunder in the Cutlery Drawer
  • Thunderhead Over the Salt Flats
  • Thursday Arrived a Day Early
  • Time Went Out for Milk
  • Tin Whistle for a Wooden Giraffe
  • Tintal for Two Guitars
  • Tiptoe Past the Sleeping Organ
  • To Whom It May Float
  • Tobias Turned into a Tune
  • Tom the Piper's Son Plays Backward
  • Too Late, the Walls Have Eyes
  • Top Hats Drifting Down the Thames
  • Tree Song for Three Voices

T, continued

  • Tremble
  • Tribute to a Very Small Cloud
  • Try Not to Touch the Rainbow
  • Tuesday Fell Upwards (Part Two)
  • Tumbleweed Came to the Show
  • Tuppence to Ride the Carousel Home
  • Turn Around, the View Has Changed
  • Turn Off That Buzzing Light
  • Twelve Minutes of Weightlessness
  • Twelve Noon in the Dolls' Hospital
  • Twelve Strings Bowing to the East
  • Twenty-Minute Sunrise (Edit)
  • Twilight Raga, Western Tuning
  • Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Lighthouse
  • Two Stops Beyond the Terminus

U: 13 names

  • Uncle Ambrose and the Folding Sea
  • Under the Oak That Remembers Us
  • Under the Weight of the Noon
  • Underglow
  • Underground to the Daisy Line
  • Undertone
  • Unfinished Song About a Staircase
  • Unfocus
  • Unmoored Again
  • Unspooling
  • Untitled Wobble in E
  • Up the River Without a Map of the Sky
  • Upstairs to the Beach

V: 4 names

  • Vapor Days
  • Variation on a Milkman's Whistle
  • Violetta Vanished on the Roundabout
  • Vultures Circle the Amplifier

W: 45 names

  • Wake Me When the Room Lands
  • Wake Up, the Carpet Is Leaving
  • Walk Until the Road Turns Liquid
  • Walking to Nettlebridge on My Hands
  • Wallpaper Roses Opening at Noon
  • Waltz of the Out-of-Tune Piano
  • Warm Blur
  • Warning: Hypnotic Wallpaper
  • Watch Out for the Purple Door
  • Wave to the Man on the Flying Sofa
  • Wavering
  • We All Live Inside the Echo Now
  • We Are All Weather Now
  • We Are Receiving You, Voyager
  • We Built the Rocket Out of Organ Pipes

W, continued

  • We Danced Until the Walls Agreed
  • We Left the Atmosphere Humming
  • We Never Did Find the Ceiling
  • We Rode the Feedback to the Sea
  • We Sang the Orchard into Bloom
  • We Slept in the Arms of the Fog
  • Wednesday's Child Is Full of Echoes
  • Wee Willie Winkie Checks the Clocks
  • Weightless Hours
  • What Color Is Your Wednesday
  • What Have You Done with Tuesday
  • Whatever That Was (Live at the Scout Hut)
  • Wheels Sinking into Yesterday
  • Where Did You Leave the Daylight
  • Who Put the Buzz in My Ear

W, continued

  • Who Will Buy My Jar of Thunder
  • Whoever You Were Yesterday
  • Whole Valley Tuned to C
  • Whose Balloon Is This Anyway
  • Why Don't We Swap Shadows
  • Why Is the Ceiling Laughing
  • Wild Garlic and a Wooden Flute
  • Wilhelmina's Window Box
  • Winifred's Weather Balloon
  • Wizard of the Gravel Road
  • Won't You Step Inside My Kite
  • Words for the Wallflower Parade
  • Would You Like to Borrow My Eyes
  • Would You Mind If I Turned into Light
  • Wouldn't It Be Strange to Be Ordinary

Y: 7 names

  • Yesterday Came by Steam Train
  • Yesterday Is Stuck to My Shoe
  • You Better Run from the Wallpaper
  • You Can't Unsee the Spiral
  • You Lied About the Colors
  • You Should Have Seen My Hands
  • Your Laugh Came Back as Rain