Here we are, the new 2010 update of all-time-favourite Top Chemical Songs - all contributions gratefully received ...
1 Anything by "The Chemical Brothers" or "My Chemical Romance"
2 Anything by "The Vaselines"
3 "The Plastic Ono Band"
4 Ethylene - John Hiatt
5 Slow Chemical - Spongebob cover version of Finger Eleven original
6 Plastic Beach - Gorillaz
7 Stuck inside of
8 I am xylene, I am xylene (parody on Sailing by Rod Stewart)
9 Fake Plastic Trees - Radiohead
10 Polyethylene - Radiohead
11 Polythene Pam - Beatles
12 Plastic Fantastic Lover -
13 Rumours - Fleetwood Mac
14 It's Now or Never - Elvis Presley (last chance for a price hike)
15 The Carnival is Over - The Seekers ($100/barrel crude oil)
16 N E C A (to the tune of YMCA - Village People)
17 Toxic - Britney Spears (MTBE)
18 Wipeout - The Ventures (US economy)
19 Thanks for the Memories - Fall Out Boy (cheap crude)
20 A Little Less Conversation, a little more action - Elvis Presley (for Olefins...)
Anything by X-Ray Spex (singer named Polly Styrene)
what no Dexy's Midnight Runners? "Come On Xylene"
"Rotterdam" by The Beautiful South, of course! Chemically speaking, it's where it's at...
"Punk icon Poly Styrene dies." Thought of your comment, Sandro, when I saw this. Sad and so young: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-13193968