Phoenix in Popular Culture - in Music

In Music

• In Mozart's opera Cosi Fan Tutte, a faithful woman is said to be as hard to find as the mythological Phoenix.
• The second track of Pyramaze's Immortal album is named "Year Of The Phoenix".
• Phoenix was the intended title of The Byrds's 1970 album (Untitled).
• Transsylvania Phoenix is the name of a Romanian rock band with folkloric lyrics.
• The British band Queen's logo has a picture of a Phoenix on the top part. The logo was designed by their singer, Freddie Mercury.
• In the Elton John song "Grey Seal" a phoenix bird is mentioned: "If the phoenix bird can cry then so can I"
• Rock groups 30 Seconds to Mars and lostprophets both have a phoenix as their official logo.
• Phoenix is the name of a French indie pop–rock band.
• La Fenice ("The Phoenix") is a famous Opera house in Venice, Italy which burned down twice in 1836 and in 1996 only to be rebuilt, likening it more closely to its mythical namesake.
• The alternative rock band Live makes reference in the song The Dolphin's Cry saying "this phoenix rises up from the ground, and all these wars are over". The Phoenix is used in this context to help symbolize the cycles of love and sexual union being reborn over and over again.
• The American white power hard metal band Bound for Glory in the chorus of The Iron Eagle Flies Again sings " From the fire the winged one emerges/Into the endless night/The rubbles of old/Turns to streets of gold ..."
• The Band Senses Fail has at the end of their song (Bite To Break Skin) the Verse. "The phoenix will die inside the firestorm"
• One of progressive rock band Wishbone Ash's most famous songs is entitled Phoenix, which tells of a Phoenix being reborn from the ashes.
• The underground hip hop group the Unspoken Heard mentions the phoenix in the song "Dream Birth."
• The band AFI (band) has a song and EP titled The Days of the Phoenix.
• Christian rock band Kids in the Way has a song "Phoenix with a Heartache" on their Safe from the Losing Fight album.
• On the album I've Been Expecting You by Robbie Williams, a song called "Phoenix From The Flames" is the fourth track.
• Phoenix is the title song of a 1979 double-platinum album by American singer-songwriter Dan Fogelberg; the cover features a representation of a phoenix bird.
• The Dropper, an album by the experimental jazz-fusion trio Medeski, Martin & Wood, features a phoenix as part of the cover art.
• The metal band Trivium mention 'Phoenix' and 'ascending above the ashes of the world I once knew' in the song "Ascendancy" and a reference to Judas is also made in the same song.
• In the Girls Aloud song "Call the Shots", the phoenix and its powers of re-creation are mentioned: "Out of the fire that burns inside me / A phoenix is rising".
• French House Music Duo Daft Punk has a song called "Phoenix".
• Finnish power metal band Stratovarius has a song called "Phoenix" from their album Infinite.
• In "Right Between The Eyes", a song by alternative rock band Garbage on their album Bleed Like Me, lead vocalist Shirley Manson sings, "Stick it to them like a phoenix rise."
• In the Diamonds from Sierra Leone remix by Kanye West, Jay-Z raps "people lined up to see the Titanic sinkin' instead we rose from the ashes like a phoenix".
• In Thou Shalt Always Kill by Dan Le Sac vs Scroobius Pip, Scroobius Pip raps "Thou shalt spell the word 'phoenix' P-H-E-O-N-I-X not P-H-O-E-N-I-X, regardless of what the Oxford English Dictionary tells you.
• The Finnish singer Tarja Turunen has a song called "My little phoenix" from her album My winter storm.
• Cannibal Ox refers to themselves as phoenixes in the song "Scream Phoenix" on their debut album The Cold Vein.
• Ani DiFranco's song (covered by Alana Davis) "32 Flavors" contains the line "God help you if you are a phoenix and you dare to rise up from the ash; a thousand eyes will smolder with jealousy while you are just flying past"
• The Deb Talan song "Ashes On Your Eyes" has the chorus, "You are a phoenix with your feathers still a little wet/baby, the ashes just look pretty on your eyes."
• The song "Emancipate" by Kelis from her 2010 album "Flesh Tone" includes the lyric "Like the phoenix from the ashes / Or a sunrise off in the distance / I'll try again / I'll try again / I'll try again / we'll try again"
• The longest music video in history, "Runaway" by Kanye West, primarily focuses around a phoenix who has fallen to Earth and after being discriminated against, she bursts into flames to return to her original world.
• Additionally, the West album from which Runaway was taken, "My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy", features cover art that depicts West engaging in sexual intercourse with an armless human female represented as a phoenix.
• Phoenix symbolism is used heavily in the music video for Marry the Night by Lady Gaga, particularly in the final scene.
• The song "Rize of the Fenix" by Tenacious D features the lyrics "Just like the Phoenix, we'll f***ing rise again" the song comes from the album of the same name.