In Music
- "La Cucaracha" ("The Cockroach") is a traditional Spanish language folk song.
- The Shuffle Demons did a song in 1986, Get Out Of My House, Roach, on the album Streetniks.
- The song Common People by the English alternative rock band Pulp contains lyrics about watching "roaches climb the walls".
- The album Infest from the band Papa Roach features a large roach on the cover.
- Sleepytime Gorilla Museum's second studio album, Of Natural History features the song Cockroach, which describes cockroaches with disgust.
- In 2007, American group Ween released their 11th studio album entitled La Cucaracha.
- International pop superstar Madonna has famously quoted, "I am a survivor. I am like a cockroach, you just can't get rid of me."
- The song "Doin' the Cockroach" by the band Modest Mouse is featured on the studio album The Lonesome Crowded West and the live album Baron von Bullshit Rides Again.
- The song Yonkers by the rapper Tyler, the Creator shows a cockroaches head being eaten.
Read more about this topic: Cultural References To Cockroaches
Famous quotes containing the word music:
“Words move, music moves
Only in time; but that which is only living
Can only die. Words, after speech, reach
Into the silence.”
—T.S. (Thomas Stearns)
“The further jazz moves away from the stark blue continuum and the collective realities of Afro-American and American life, the more it moves into academic concert-hall lifelessness, which can be replicated by any middle class showing off its music lessons.”
—Imamu Amiri Baraka (b. 1934)