Pop Culture Christ

I’m putting together a list of modern songs that mention Jesus, God or Biblical themes. They have to be by artists who release their work in the secular music world (ie not songs that you can only buy at your local Christian bookshop). The aim is to have one big list that people can go to when looking for secular songs about Jesus etc. It’s also one big list of article ideas for me. The song doesn’t have to revolve around Jesus – a single mention will do.

Jesus

• Tori Amos – Mrs Jesus
• Black Grape – Kelly’s Heroes
• Cake – Jesus Wrote A Blank Check
• Choir Boys – Run To Paradise
• Leonard Cohen – Suzanne
• Crocodiles – I Wanna Kill
• Crocodiles – Neon Jesus
• Depeche Mode – Personal Jesus
• Eve 6 – Jesus Nitelite
• Everlast – Black Jesus
• Ben Folds – Jesusland
• Ben Folds – Not the Same
• Frenzal Rhomb – Jesus
• Fuel – Jesus or a Gun
• Greenday – Jesus of Suburbia
• Incubus – Megalomaniac
• Kanye West – Jesus Walks
• The Killers – When You Were Young
• King Missile – Jesus Was Way Cool
• MGF – Summer
• Ministry – Jesus Built My Hot Rod
• Powderfinger – JC
• Queen – Bicycle Race
• Smashing Pumpkins – Bullet With Butterfly Wings
• Soundgarden – Jesus Christ Pose
• Spiderbait – Jesus
• Ray Stevens – Would Jesus Wear a Rolex
• System of a Down – Chop Suey
• TISM – Honk If You Love Fred Durst
• Tool – Muhammad My Friend
• Tool – Sober
• U2 – Tomorrow
• Velvet Underground – Jesus

God

• Lily Allen – Him
• Tori Amos – God
• Bon Jovi – God
• David Bowie – Modern Love
• Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds – Into My Arms
• Alice Cooper – Disgrace Land
• Alice Cooper – I Just Wanna Be God
• Alice Cooper – It’s Much Too Late
• Cowboy Mouth – God Makes The Rain
• Crash Test Dummies – God Shuffled His Feet
• Depeche Mode – Blasphemous Rumours
• The Fray – You Found Me
• INXS – God’s Top Ten
• Janis Joplin – Mercedes Benz
• KISS – God Gave Rock and Roll To You
• Pete Murray – Better Days
• Randy Newman – God’s Song (That’s Why I Love Mankind)
• Nine Inch Nails – Capital G
• Joan Osborne – What If God Was One Of Us?
• Pink – God is a DJ
• Prince – My Name Is Prince
• Queen – Innuendo
• Smashing Pumpkins – Zero
• Regina Spektor – Laughing With
• TISM – Honk If You Love Fred Durst
• U2 – 40
• XTC – Dear God

Biblical Themes

• ACDC – Hells Bells
• Bryan Adams – Heaven
• Alanis Morrissette – Forgiven
• Bad Religion – Better Off Dead
• Belinda Carlisle – Heaven is a Place on Earth
• Leonard Cohen – Hallelujah
• Alice Cooper – Brutal Planet
• Alice Cooper – Cleansed by Fire
• Alice Cooper – Gimme
• Alice Cooper – Nothing’s Free
• Alice Cooper – Vengeance Is Mine
• Alice Cooper – You’re My Temptation
• The Beatles – Let It Be
• Blue Beats – In Heaven There Is No Beer
• Cake – Sheep Go To Heaven
• Crash Test Dummies – MMM MMM MMM MMM
• Dandy Warhols – Godless
• Green Day – Church on Sunday
• Hooters – All You Zombies
• INXS – Devil Inside
• INXS – Original Sin
• Billy Joel – Only The Good Die Young
• Elton John – Tiny Dancer
• K’s Choice – Something’s Wrong
• John Lennon – Imagine
• Living End – Raise The Alarm
• Madonna – Like A Prayer
• Mamas & The Papas – California Dreamin’
• Matisyahu – Refuge
• MC Lars – The Roommate From Hell
• Meatloaf – Original Sin
• Mighty Mighty Bosstones – Holy Smoke
• My Chemical Romance – Welcome To The Black Parade
• NOFX – Happy Guy
• NOFX – Leaving Jesusland
• NOFX – No Fun in Fundamentalism
• Heather Nova & Graeme Revell – Believe In Angels
• The Offspring – Mission From God
• OPM – Heaven Is A Half Pipe
• Queen – One Vision
• Pixies – Monkeys Gone To Heaven
• Regurgitator – Black Bugs
• Rolling Stones – Sympathy For The Devil
• Skunk Anansie – Weak
• Smashing Pumpkins – Cherub Rock
• Smashing Pumpkins – Today
• Stabbing Westward – Save Yourself
• Stone Temple Pilots – Church on Tuesday
• TISM – !UOY SEVOL NATAS
• U2 – Hold Me, Thrill Me, Kiss Me, Kill Me
• U2 – Peace on Earth
• U2 – The Wanderer
• Ugly Kid Joe – Goddamn Devil
• Urthboy – Hellsong
• Vandals – People That Are Going To Hell
• Kanye West – Stronger
• Wilco – Theologians