It’s easy to write a strange song. Much harder to craft a song that musically captures the idea while still being beautiful. Here are the top 10 songs with “strange” in the title. In each case, the music has unusual elements that highlight the feeling of strangeness. They span the decades and represent different genres. I’ve listed additional songs after the top 10. Because the word “stranger” denotes something quite different from “strange,” I’ve omitted those songs from the list.
Top 10 Strange Songs
1. Strange Fruit – Billie Holiday (1939, by Abel Meeropol)
2. Beautiful Strange – Prince (1999)
3. Strange Boy, A – Joni Mitchell (1976)
4. People Are Strange – the Doors (1967, by Jim Morrison and Robby Krieger)
5. Strange Little Girl – 2012 cover by Tori Amos (original 1982 by The Stranglers, written in 1979 by Dave Greenfield, Hans Wärmling, Hugh Cornwell, J.J. Burnel, Jet Black)
6. Strangelove – Depeche Mode (1987 – by Martin L. Gore)
7. Strange – the Score (2017)
8. Stranger Things – Lloyd Banks (2021)
9. My Strange Addiction – Billie Eilish (2019)
10. Strange Effect – 2020 cover by Unloved, Raven Violet (original 1965 by The Kinks)
Additional Strange Songs
Actin Strange – Big B (2021)
Is It Really So Strange? – The Smiths (1986)
It’s Strange – Louis the Child and K. Flay (2015)
Lady Strange – Def Leppard (1981)
Life Is Strange – Marina (2019)
Little Miss Strange – Jimi Hendrix (1968, by Noel Redding)
Love Is Strange – Mickey & Sylvia (1957)
Love Is Strange – 1971 cover by Wings
Love Is Strange – 1990 cover by Kenny Rogers and Dolly Parton
People Are Strange – 1987 cover by Echo and the Bunnymen
Quark, Strangeness and Charm – Hawkwind (1977)
So Strange – Czarface, MF Doom (2021)
So Strange (feat. Cuco) – Polyphia (2018)
Some Strange Rain – Cotton Jones (2009)
Something Strange (feat. Haley Reinhart) – Vicetone (2018)
Strange – Adana Twins (2012)
Strange (feat. RM) – Agust D (2020)
Strange – Celeste (2019)
Strange – Galaxie 500 (1989)
Strange (feat. Hillary Smith) – Kris Bowers (2020)
Strange – LP (2016)
Strange – Reba McIntyre (2009)
Strange – Tori Amos (2002)
Strange American Dream – Rayland Baxter (2018)
Strange Beauty – First Aid Kit (2019)
Strange Behavior – Bleachers (2021)
Strange Birds – Birdy (2013)
Strange Brew – Cream (1967)
Strange (But I Like It) – Stacey (2021)
Strange Case of Mr. Doe, The – Jon O’Bergh (2015)
Strange Clouds – B.o.B., featuring Lil Wayne (2011)
Strange Clouds – ufo ufo (2020)
Strange Condition – Pete Yorn (2000)
Strange Conversations – Automatic (2019)
Strange Creatures – Black Tiger Sex Machine (2020)
Strange Darling – Miya Folick (2015)
Strange Days – Mad Caddies (2020)
Strange Days – Matthew Good Band (2000)
Strange Days – Tom Speight (2021)
Strange Days – The Doors (1967)
Strange Days – Three Days Grace (2018)
Strange Days (1999) – Health (2019)
Strange Days (w Robbie Williams) – The Struts (2020)
Strange Desire – The Black Keys (2006)
Strange Disease – Prozzak (2002)
Strange Encounter – Father John Misty (2015)
Strange Entity – Oscar and the Wolf (2014)
Strange Fascination – Chatham County Line (2020)
Strange Flower – Ellen Andrea Wang, Rob Luft, and Jon Fält (2020)
Strange Fruit (Remix) – 2009 cover by Jon O’Bergh
Strange Girl – Laura Marling (2020)
Strange Girl – The Zolas (2012)
Strange Habit – July Talk (2016)
Strange Happenings – Protoje (2020)
Strange Kind of Love, A – Peter Murphy (1989)
Strange Kind of Woman – Deep Purple (1971, by Ian Gillan, Ritchie Blackmore, Roger Glover, Jon Lord, and Ian Paice)
Strange Land – 88rising, NIKI, and Phum Viphurit (2019, by NIKI, Phum Viphurit, and Reske)
Strange Life – Texas King (2021)
Strange Light in Her Eyes – Ever So So Deep (2020)
Strange Little Girl – The Stranglers (1979, released 1982)
Strange Love – C-Dot 416 (2019)
Strange Love – Cautious Clay & Saba (2021)
Strange Love – Halsey (2015)
Strange Love – Koop (2006)
Strange Love – Simple Creatures (2019)
Strange Magic – Electric Light Orchestra (1975)
Strange Meadow Lark – the Dave Brubeck Quartet (1959)
Strange Overtones – David Byrne and Brian Eno (2008)
Strange Overtones – 2020 cover by Whitney
Strange Powers – the Magnetic Fields (1994)
Strange Powers of Prophecy – Atreyu (2021)
Strange Rain – Patrick Watson (2019)
Strange Relationship – Prince (1987)
Strange River – Tim Baker (2019)
Strange Sight – KT Tunstall (2014)
Strange Summer Sky – UV Fantom (2020)
Strange Thangs – Lilo Key (2017)
Strange Things – John Holt (1986)
Strange Things – Randy Newman (1995)
Strange Things – Zachary Nelson (2020)
Strange Things Will Happen – the Radio Dept. (2014)
Strange Time – Matt Maltese (2016)
Strange Times – Oscar Hollis (2020)
Strange Times – Riff Raff, Goody Grace, DJ Afterthought (2017)
Strange Times – The Black Keys (2008)
Strange Timez (feat. Robert Smith) – Gorillaz (2020)
Strange Town – Buzzy Lee (2020)
Strange Ways – Madvillain, Madlib, and MF Doom (2004)
Strange Weather – Anna Calvi and David Byrne (2013)
Strangeness and Charm – Florence and the Machine (2009)
Stranger in a Strange Land – Iron Maiden (1986)
Stranger Things – Bougenville (2020)
Stranger Things – Joyner Lucas and Chris Brown (2018)
Stranger Things – Periphery (2015)
Stranger Things (feat. Couchsurf) – Survival Kit (2017)
Strangest Desires – Collar (2020)
Strangest Thing – The War on Drugs (2017)
This Strange Effect – The Kinks (1965)
This Strange Isolation – Kaya Project (2020, by Seb Taylor)
3 Strange Days – School of Fish (1991)
2 Strange – Mtlord (2018)
Very Strange Time, A – G-Eazy (2019)
