best songs that mention jesus

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What? No Jesus Shooting Herion? The Flaming Lips were also robbed.

― Mr Noodles, Saturday, 8 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

It's already been mentioned, but the VU's "Jesus" is the best one for me. Doug Yule's bassline floats my mind away.

― electric sound of jim, Saturday, 8 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

jesus don't like killin / no matter what the reason's for

- - "Your Flag Decal Won't Get You Into Heaven Anymore", John Prine

― Tracer Hand, Sunday, 9 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

What about all the "they got me like Jesus" references in rap songs?

― Tim, Sunday, 9 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

I find the devil a lot funnier than jesus, as too many bleed all of the fun outa him, but aside from the obvious Tom Waits and Nick Cave fixations, there's a songwriter i know that has a fixation with writing songs about Jesus like "Hermaphrodite Jesus", "Test Tube Jesus", and "Two Big Ass Boxes of Bar-B-Q Beef Baloney" (about a tent revival) which all stem from the fact that he resented being groomed through his youth to be a Seventh Day Adventist minister. Serious jesus songs too often become syrupy and sanctimonious over a character that feels largely, although not entirely, bad fiction.

― badger, Sunday, 9 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

DAF (Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft) of the German new wave in the early eighties had the song "Mussolini" which goes: geh in die knie. wackle mit den hueften. klatsch in die haende. und tanz den mussolini. tanz den adolf hitler. beweg deinen hintern. und tanz den jesus christus.
translation: get up. shake your hips. clap your hands. and dance the mussolini. dance the adolf hitler. move your ass. and dance the jesus christ

― alex in mainhattan, Monday, 10 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

"Jesus Thinks You're a Jerk," Frank Zappa.

― Tadeusz Suchodolski, Monday, 10 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

How could I (we) forget...Part 79:

"I Just Want To See His Face" - Rolling Stones
"Turn Blue" - Iggy Pop

― Jeff W, Monday, 10 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

Jesus Chrysler drives a Dodge - Screaming Blue Messiahs

― Dave225, Monday, 10 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

Low's "If You Were Born Today" deserves mention even though it nevers mentions the name. The best song that does is Game Theory's "Like A Girl Jesus".

― dan, Monday, 10 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

three months pass...

Sympathy for the devil - Rolling Stones

― alex in mainhattan, Wednesday, 27 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

Velvet Underground - Heroin ("when I'm rushing on my run...")
Wilco - Jesus, etc.

― o. nate, Wednesday, 27 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

You got to serve somebody- Bob Dylan

This doesn't mention Jesus - just "the Lord".

― o. nate, Wednesday, 27 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

three months pass...

King Missile - jesus is way cool

― Billy, Monday, 8 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link

seven months pass...

Pink Floyd - Take Up Thy Stethoscope and Walk

― alex in mainhattan (alex63), Thursday, 6 March 2003 23:06 (twenty-one years ago) link

Lifter Puller, "Let's Get Incredible"
"Dude looks like jesus but sleeveless, says he's into Rush and reckless chemistry"

― Adam A. (Keiko), Thursday, 6 March 2003 23:37 (twenty-one years ago) link

Jandek - "Only Lover"

"Jesus stares at me from the wall.."

― Curt1s St3ph3ns, Thursday, 6 March 2003 23:47 (twenty-one years ago) link

Big Star - "Daisy Glaze"

"And I'm thinkin' 'Christ,
nullify my life.'"

― Aaron A., Thursday, 6 March 2003 23:59 (twenty-one years ago) link

al green's 'jesus is waiting'

the strings on that tune are just the best thing ever.

patti smith's 'gloria'

"jesus died for somebody's sins but not mine"

― drystereo (drystereo), Friday, 7 March 2003 00:02 (twenty-one years ago) link

Queen, "Bicycle Race"

― dave q, Friday, 7 March 2003 11:06 (twenty-one years ago) link

I know it has been mantioned but: the Velvet Underground - "Heroin"

― rex jr., Friday, 7 March 2003 13:01 (twenty-one years ago) link

"Straight and Narrow". Spiritualised

― Lynskey (Lynskey), Friday, 7 March 2003 14:56 (twenty-one years ago) link

Marc Ribot--"Yo, I Killed Your God."

(I can't remember if the song is good, but with a title like that...)

― Matt B. (Matt B.), Friday, 7 March 2003 15:08 (twenty-one years ago) link

System of a Down's "Suite-Pee":

"I had an out-of-body experience the other day her name was Jesus,
and for her everyone cried, everyone cried, everyone cri-ee-ied..."

And this...

Pop songs should not use that word. Bad idea.

...I do and do not agree with. It's way too often improperly overused (ironically moreso by Xtian musos than secular ones), as a word that has a great deal of power and weight to it. When used creatively and with some sort of restraint (this means YOU Xtian "rock"!), it can be a very useful and heavy lyric.

And that Ribot song is fuckin' AWESOME.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Friday, 7 March 2003 15:11 (twenty-one years ago) link

Best song title that fits the request is 'Jesus just left Chicago' by ZZ Top.

Best song I've heard recently in this category is 'Jesus gave me water' by Sam Cooke and the Soul Stirrers.

― James Ball (James Ball), Friday, 7 March 2003 22:26 (twenty-one years ago) link

One more vote for "Jesus Children of America."

― Eric H. (Eric H.), Friday, 7 March 2003 22:27 (twenty-one years ago) link

"Jesus Entering from the Rear" by the Feederz

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Saturday, 8 March 2003 03:59 (twenty-one years ago) link

Biggie, "Kick in the Door"

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Saturday, 8 March 2003 05:00 (twenty-one years ago) link

"Foi Na Cruz" by Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Saturday, 8 March 2003 05:01 (twenty-one years ago) link

two months pass...

"Thank You Jack White (For the Fiber Optic Jesus You Gave Me)" by the Flaming Lips.

― John Bullabaugh (John Bullabaugh), Monday, 12 May 2003 00:43 (twenty-one years ago) link

one year passes...

"I Have Forgiven Jesus" by Morrissey

"I have forgiven Jesus for all of the love He placed in me when there's no one I can turn to with this love."

― Dave in the UK, Monday, 27 September 2004 12:52 (nineteen years ago) link

Stephen Jones may have written a dozen of these.

― Diego Valladolid (dvalladt), Monday, 27 September 2004 13:17 (nineteen years ago) link

my Cathy mp3 archive software says:

Public Enemy - What You Need Is Jesus
Wilco - Jesus, etc.
Kanye West - Jesus Walks
Depeche Mode - Personal Jesus
Gus Gus - Jesus Is Your Pal
John Oswald - Kissing Jesus in the Dark
Ben Harper - Picture Of Jesus
2Pac - Black Jesus
Nick Cave - Jesus Met The Woman
+ whole album by Acid Jesus

― karl76 (karl76), Monday, 27 September 2004 17:44 (nineteen years ago) link

PE - "Welcome to the Terrordome"

― Symplistic (shmuel), Monday, 27 September 2004 17:45 (nineteen years ago) link

"jesus stole my girlfriend" by Saturn V.

― gerardo francisco, Monday, 27 September 2004 17:54 (nineteen years ago) link

"In My Time of Dying" - trad.
"Jesus Christ" - Big Star
"Jesus: The Missing Years" - John Prne

― Will (will), Monday, 27 September 2004 19:46 (nineteen years ago) link

Jesus Songs - The Broken Family Band

― noodle vague (noodle vague), Monday, 27 September 2004 21:58 (nineteen years ago) link

Phoenix - If I Ever Feel Better (todd edwards remix)

― Jedmond (Jedmond), Monday, 27 September 2004 22:15 (nineteen years ago) link

Melvins - "Koolegged"
"Picture of Jesus/As an Indian/Over my bed"

― sexyDancer, Monday, 27 September 2004 22:39 (nineteen years ago) link

"Judas or Jesus? Which one was smarter? Judas or Jesus? The Traitor or the Martyr?"

- COP $HOOT COP

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Monday, 27 September 2004 22:57 (nineteen years ago) link

The Jesus & Mary Chain - "Jesus F*ck"

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Monday, 27 September 2004 22:59 (nineteen years ago) link

robyn hitchcok - jesus and me

― Symplistic (shmuel), Tuesday, 28 September 2004 00:14 (nineteen years ago) link

Alice In Chains- We Die Young "Jesus Christ- deny your maker now"

― trashmaster (Queen Electric Butt Prober BZZ), Tuesday, 28 September 2004 00:59 (nineteen years ago) link

I always dug the Toadies' "Possum Kingdom."

― erv (Abe Froman), Tuesday, 28 September 2004 01:40 (nineteen years ago) link

The Extra Glenns' "Going to Marakesh":

"Our love is like Jesus, but worse."

― Salmon Pink (Salmon Pink), Tuesday, 28 September 2004 01:45 (nineteen years ago) link

Can - Thief

― Jedermann sein eigener Fussball (Dada), Tuesday, 28 September 2004 11:34 (nineteen years ago) link

While I'm not entirely certain, I would like to note that the answer is most certainly not "Jesus Walks."

― Atnevon (Atnevon), Wednesday, 29 September 2004 01:10 (nineteen years ago) link

keys to the kingdom by gun club:
"When Pilate was after Jesus
they could not get to him
they made a pact with Judas
so that they could turn him in"

― alex in mainhattan (alex63), Saturday, 9 October 2004 19:12 (nineteen years ago) link

ONE TOKE OVER THE LINE.

― m0stly clean (m0stly clean), Saturday, 9 October 2004 19:57 (nineteen years ago) link

Yes, Flaming Lips probably owns this thread. The one that first came to mind is "Shine On Sweet Jesus" but I guess there's a lot more.

― strom (strom), Saturday, 9 October 2004 20:29 (nineteen years ago) link

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U2 - One
"Have you come here for forgiveness
Have you come to raise the dead
Have you come here to play Jesus
To the lepers in your head.

In this version https://youtu.be/ZjDEys8AtIM

― it's the distortion, stupid! (alex in mainhattan), Friday, 8 January 2016 22:43 (eight years ago) link

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