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:
“People today are still living off the table scraps of the sixties. They are still being passed around—the music and the ideas.”
—Bob Dylan [Robert Allen Zimmerman] (b. 1941)
“And this shall be for music when no one else is near,
The fine song for singing, the rare song to hear!
That only I remember, that only you admire,
Of the broad road that stretches and the roadside fire.”
—Robert Louis Stevenson (1850–1894)