12 songs about grammar

Some rare cuts that are 100% not puns

Thinking about Oxford commas reminded Highbrook that the (annoyingly chirpy) band Vampire Weekend once recorded a song called “Who Gives A F*** About An Oxford Comma”.

Well us, obviously, but it prompted Highbrook to devise an Edit top 12 of songs about punctuation and grammar. Well, why not?

Full Stop! In The Name of Love – Diana Ross And The Supremes

Comma Chameleon – Culture Club

London Colon – The Clash

Tears Of A Noun – Smokey Robinson

Up The Conjunction – Squeeze

Get Lucky – Daft Punctuation

Unfinished Sympathy – Passive Attack

Puppet On A String – Ampersandie Shaw

Total Ellipsis Of The Heart – Bonnie Tyler

American Idiom – Green Day

Suffix You – Coldplay

Venus In Furs – Velvet Gerunderground

(With thanks to Tim Rice, Richard Whitehead, Francis Jay, Claire Cohen and Claire Sharp)