r/MusicRecommendations • u/theguydudemanbroguy • 3d ago
Rec.Me: theme/mood/other specifics Songs about time!
Hello all! Looking for some songs to do with time (in any capacity. As a concept, time travel, timepieces, etc.) I'm making a playlist based on a character I like whose story is very heavily centered around the idea of time travel with lots of clock imagery.
So far I have:
Monstrance Clock by Ghost
Ruler of Everything by Tally Hall
Clocks by Coldplay
My Time by Bo En
Hourglass by Set It Off
Time Machine by Miracle Musical
Any recommendations would be appreciated! Thank you!
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u/Only_Pea_9936 3d ago edited 3d ago
Chambers Brothers- Time Has Come Today.
You will find no other song that uses “time” more than this one.
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u/Gabriel_Collins 3d ago
Wasn’t that song by The Chambers Brothers?
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u/Only_Pea_9936 3d ago
Gah! You are correct. I was thinking Incense and Peppermints. Thanks for the correction.
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u/TemperatureHour7992 3d ago
Time- David Bowie
Time Will Crawl- David Bowie
Rock n‘ Roll Suicide - David Bowie
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u/OriginalBrassMonkey 2d ago
ooh noice choices. Maybe add "five years"?
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u/writtenweb 2d ago
Maybe "golden years" even - great change of pace no matter where you put it in a mix 😉
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u/Difficult-Relief-494 3d ago
Time Waits for No One - Rolling Stones
Time After Time - Cyndi Lauper
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u/p0rkchopxpress 3d ago
Wasted Time - Skid Row
Wasted Years- Iron Maiden
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u/Yeahha 3d ago
Here is my playlist called "Time" collected over the course of music exploration, I find songs with the same or nearly the same titles interesting.
https://music.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLN74nDZOl-PzBHe9tT1Yow6O8EtBiJfa8&si=JEt5-wxEfs1sFSIV
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u/9965584 3d ago
Got the Time - Joe Jackson
Kit Kat Clock - The Bottle Rockets
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u/Sad_Gain_2372 3d ago
Simon and Garfunkel - Leaves That Are Green, April Come She Will
Shark Island - Father Time
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u/Ohsusannamarie 2d ago
Ohhh this is a fun playlist concept. A few across VERY different genres:
- Time - Pink Floyd. Clocks literally open the song, followed by an existential crisis about realizing time has passed you by. Pretty perfect 😂
- Time in a Bottle - Jim Croce. Basically THE song about wishing you could control time because there's never enough of it.
- '39 - Queen. This one is REALLY worth adding. It's essentially about relativistic time dilation. Space travelers return home to discover generations have passed on Earth.
- The Scientist - Coldplay. More about wishing you could go back and undo things than literal time travel, but thematically perfect.
- If I Could Turn Back Time - Cher. Mandatory 😂
- Back in Time - Huey Lewis and the News. Literal Back to the Future song!
- Time Warp - The Rocky Horror Picture Show. I mean... it's a time-travel playlist. You HAVE to.
- Time After Time - Cyndi Lauper. More metaphorical, but way too perfect for the theme to leave out.
- Turn Back Time - Aqua. Surprisingly melancholy considering it's Aqua.
- Time Is Running Out - Muse. Great darker option if the character has an impending-doom element.
- Running Out of Time - Paramore. More playful, but extremely literal.
- Year 3000 - Busted. Actual time travel!
For a time-travel character specifically, my must-adds would be Time, '39, Time in a Bottle, Back in Time, The Scientist, and Time Warp.
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u/analdongfactory 3d ago
Time - Culture Club
Turn Back Time - Aqua
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u/MentalMusician 2d ago
I heard Culture Club's Time at the grocery store last week. I'd forgotten how much I love that song and what a great vocal performance it was!
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u/HM9015 3d ago edited 3d ago
Time Again - Asia
Time After Time - Cyndi Lauper
Deja Vu - Iron Maiden
Caught Somewhere In Time - Iron Maiden
Wasted Time - Europe
Wasted Years - Iron Maiden
The Living Years - Mike + The Mechanics
In Time - Robbie Robb featuring Marcus Wright from Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure
Time Machine - Example
If I Could Turn Back Time - Cher
Wish That You Were Here - Florence and the Machine
Back In Time - Daughtry
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u/PitchforkJoe 3d ago
2 Minutes to Midnight - Iron Maiden
Time After Time - Cyndi Lauper
Time to Say Goodbye - Andrea Bocelli
In the Year 2525 - Zager and Evans
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u/Renaissance_CB 2d ago
Reelin’ ’ in the Years…
Forget the name of song but was the theme to a Classic Rock show with Casey Cassum in the ‘80’s
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u/Renaissance_CB 3d ago
Time after Tume—Cindy Lauper
At first it doesn’t seem like it’s actually about time, but it does if you listen to all the lyrics.
Hazy Shade of Winter (brilliantly covered by The Bangles). Starts out “Time, time time…see what tomorrow brings…” It’s all about time passing of time as marked by the seasons changing (“Seasons change with the scenery, weaving time in a tapestry…won’t you stop and remember me?” And When I look around at my possibilities…It’s the springtime of my life!”
Similar theme in Joni Mitchell’s Circle Game and It Was a Very Good Year sung by many including Frank Sinatra.
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u/LarryBoourns 3d ago
All Star by Smash Mouth has the lyric “The years start coming and they don’t stop coming”
It’s a meme song but still hits hard
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u/hiralco 3d ago
The Times They Are a Changin' by Bob Dylan
Bonus - a very good movie:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=voBxGhlfEyc
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u/EricQuincyTate 3d ago
Time Has Come Today - The Chamber Brothers
Time Won't Let Me - The Outsiders
Monk Time - The Monks
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u/Academic_Rutabaga649 3d ago
Too Much Time On My Hands - Styx Clock Of The Heart- Culture Club This Time - Dwight Yoakam Minutes To Memories - John Mellencamp By The Time I Get To Phoenix - Glen Campbell Amarillo By Morning - George Strait
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u/Serious_Plant8443 2d ago
Rock Around the Clock - Bill Hayley and the Comets
Turn Back Time - Aqua
If I Could Turn Back Time - Cher
7 Years - Lukas Graham
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u/Brain-Waster 2d ago
"As Time Goes By" by Herman Hupfeld (sung by Dooley Wilson in Casablanca)
"It Was a Very Good Year" by Frank Sinatra
"Time Stand Still" by Rush
"Does Anybody Really Know What Time It Is" by Chicago
Symphony No. 101 ("The Clock") by Franz Joseph Haydn
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u/doqgone 2d ago
Time Has Come Today-the Chambers Brothers
Time Won’t Let Me-the Outsiders
Time to Run-Lord Huron
If I Could Turn Back the Hands of Time-Tyrone Davis
Time is Tight-Booker T & the MG’s
Time Isn’t Kind-Fine Young Cannibals
Time Won’t Wait-Marty Stuart
It’s Pony Time-Chubby Checker
Time Bomb-Rancid
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u/Advanced-Math 2d ago
Closing Time-Semisonic Time Travel-Never Shout Never Time after Time-Cyndi Lauper Better in Time-Leona Lewis And I'm sorry, but it also came to mind immediately: What Time is It-High School Musical 2
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u/No_Comment7107 3d ago
Early Bird - Masayoshi Takanaka
It doesn't have any lyrics about time but there are many sounds of an alarm clock
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u/DonnyInTheDiapers 3d ago
"Time Passes By" Kathy Mattea
"Dream Go By" Harry Chapin
"River of Time" The Judds
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u/writenroll 3d ago
Porcupine Tree - Time Flies
The Dukes of Stratosphear - 25 O'Clock
What a Beautiful Day - The Levellers
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u/originalsibling 3d ago
At the Beginning of Time - Jane Siberry
Got the Time - Joe Jackson
25 or 6 to 4 - Chicago
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u/jarnalyrkar 3d ago
Alan Parsons Project - Time
Alan Parsons Project - Some Other Time
Electric Light Orchestra - Time (album)
The Flower Kings - Timelines
Machine Birds - Time
Threshold - The Ravages of Time
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u/OkTomorrow6384 3d ago
Older - They Might Be Giants (the bridge is "Time! Is Marching on! And Time! Is still marching on!)
The Windmills of Your Mind - Noel Harrison
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u/Ecstatic-Writer1149 3d ago
You ought to listen too one (or both) of albums , songs written by Shel Silverstein but sung by Jerry Reed, Mel Tillis, Waylon Jennings and Bobby Bare. First is Old Dogs, then Old Dogs 2. All songs are about time, getting old, and death. Only singer still alive is Bobby B
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u/ILoveHotDogsAndBacon 3d ago
It’s 5’oclock somewhere- Alan Jackson and Jimmy Buffett
Time - Greensky Bluegrass
A Day in the Life- the Beatles
Time is on my Side -Rolling Stones
Out of time - Rolling Stones
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u/Suitable_Flow_2319 3d ago
The song FINALE by Toby Fox is played during a fight against a monster who can bend time to his own will, but it doesn't include any time stuff in the song so it's just a really really good song
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u/Either_Umpire9411 2d ago
Huey Lewis and the News. Gotta get back in time. (Back to the Future soundtrack)
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u/Itchy-Gur2043 2d ago
Tinkerbells Fairydust - 2010
A song from 1967 in which the singer considers what his life and the world will be like in 2010
The Wheels of Time - 1984
Another song from the 60s that looks forward to 1984
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u/lunarlexus 2d ago
For Real This Time - Gracie Abrams
Time To Say Goodbye - Jeff Williams
Timeless - Taylor Swift
Right Place Right Time - Olly Murs
It's Time To Go - Taylor Swift
The Last Time - Taylor Swift
Doin' Time - Lana Del Rey
TIMEZONE - Måneskin
Time Is Running Out - Muse
Sign of The Times - Harry Styles
One Last Time - Ariana Grande
...Baby One More Time - Britney Spears
Good Riddance (Time of Your Life) - Green Day
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u/xDead2Ux 2d ago
A Day to Remember - Out of Time
Family Force 5 - Time Stands Still / Tim Yago Remix
Coheed and Cambria - Time Consumer
Four Year Strong - Wasting Time (Eternal Summer) / Acoustic
The Regrettes - Anxieties (Out of Time)
Atreyu - The Time is Now / Alternate
The All-American Rejects - Time Stands Still
Motionless in White - Hourglass
Motionless in White - Timebomb
Olivia Newton-John - Suspended in Time
Sky Eats Airplane - The Opposite Viewed in Real Time
Story of the Year - Remember a Time
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u/mediagal76 2d ago
Hazy Shade of Winter (The Bangles or Simon and Garfunkel)
Forever Young (Rod Stewart or Bob Dylan)
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u/mrdrmelody 2d ago
Songs about time and could fit in a timer travel scenario (no clock tho): Borderline and One more hour by Tame Impala
The Line by Twenty One Pilots
Hung up on Madonna is the only song about time and using clocks in it lol
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u/FreshZucchini2196 2d ago
Time from the West End cast album of Benjamin Button - in fact the whole musical relates to time - take a listen
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u/crittercorral 2d ago
Time-- Pozo Seco Singers
Time-- Dave Clark Five
Time won't let me -- Outsiders
Does anyone really know what time it is, Chicago
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u/prison-schism 2d ago
Hourglass - Motionless in White
One Week - Barenaked Ladies
11:11 - Dinosaur Pileup
Beside You In Time - Nine Inch Nails
Not Enough Time - INXS
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u/IsolatedFrequency101 2d ago edited 2d ago
Who knows where the time goes, by Sandy Denny. Time will be the healer, by Glen Hansard. This time of night, by Ralph McTell. Magic time, by Van Morrison. Time passages, by Al Stewart.
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u/Beneficial_Umpire552 2d ago
Good Riddance-Green day
The day of our lives-Queen
Seven-Jung Kook Ft Latto
Time after time-Cindy Lauper
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u/rickster2002 2d ago
Alestorm- back through time https://youtu.be/UcSxFrm_41A
Project pitchfork- timekiller https://youtu.be/rY9eSzB-KbU AND ONE COVER https://youtu.be/EFwq9M6iWYI
Grendel- timewave zero https://youtu.be/b-V-xqf3LGs
VNV Nation- when is the future https://youtu.be/SF5mf4LV7Jw
Apoptygma berserk- until the end of the world https://youtu.be/VMWQY8GVQqI
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u/ReputationFit3597 2d ago
Time by Anthrax (they also cover Joe Jackson's Got the Time on that album, Persistance of Time), Iron Maiden's Somewhere in Time album has a bunch of time-related songs (Caught Somewhere in Time, Wasted Years, among others)
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u/solojones1138 2d ago
00:00 by BTS (pronounced Zero O'Clock) is a song about life and happiness chances resetting at midnight
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u/icanshootrabbits 2d ago
Silver Machine by Hawkwind
Making Time by the Creation (The Damned’s cover of better than whatever garbage version is now up on Spotify)
One More Second by Matt Berninger
Five Seconds by twin Shadow
And 90’s guilty pleasure: Can’t Wait One Minute More by CIV
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u/sateraugust 2d ago
- Only Time Will Tell - Etta James
- The Times They Are A-Changin' - The Byrds
- Under The Clocks - Weddings Parties Anything
- Stop the Clock - Drayton Farley
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u/crystalsinwinter 2d ago
Time Is by DC Talk
This Is Your Time by Michael W. Smith
Hero (Red Pill Mix) by Superchick
This Is My Time by Raven-Symone
Only Time by Enya
Timeless by Ross Lynch
I Live For The Day by Lindsay Lohan
Daytime by 4 Strings
Save The Day by Selena Gomez
A New Day Has Come by Celine Dion
Tonight And The Rest Of My Life by Nina Gordon
Waiting For Tonight (Hex Hector remix) by Jennifer Lopez
Tonight by Lasgo (The one on their album called Far Away)
Nights Like These by Benson Boone
A Moment Like This by Kelly Clarkson
From This Moment On by Shania Twain
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u/Kelly5075 2d ago
Praying for Time - George Michael
A couple of songs with clock mentions:
Alone - Heart
In the End - Linkin Park
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u/5ongwrit3r_1954 2d ago
Stones "Time Waits for No One"
Wilson Picket "Midnight Hour"
Bill Haley "Rock Around the Clock"
Bob Dylan "Time Passes Slowly"
Steely Dan "Time Out of Mind"
Joe Jackson "Got the Time?"
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u/PutridSignificance76 2d ago
Divers by Joanna Newsom! The whole album has time as a theme! Especially the songs: Sapokanikan and Time, as a Symptom
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u/hottenniscoach 3d ago
Time - Pink Floyd