Assim como boa parte dos incontestáveis ícones da cultura pop, o Super-Homem também ganhou uma série de homenagens no mundo da música. Logo abaixo, nós selecionamos algumas destas canções que falam sobre o Homem de Aço – e que você pode baixar por conta própria para ouvir no seu iPod a caminho do cinema para ver o filme! 🙂

Sugestões, é claro, serão muito bem-vindas na sempre presente Voz dos Nerds.

Música: Jimmy Olsen Blues
Artista: Spin Doctors
Do álbum: Pocket Full of Kryptonite (1991)
Trecho da letra: “Lois Lane please put me in your plan / Yeah, Lois Lane you don’t need no Superman / Come on downtown and stay with me tonight / I got a pocket full of kryptonite”

Música: Superman’s Song
Artista: Crash Test Dummies
Do álbum: The Ghosts That Haunt Me (1991)
Trecho da letra: “Superman never made any money / For saving the world from Solomon Grundy / And sometimes I despair the world will never see / Another man like him”

Música: O Superman
Artista: Laurie Anderson
Do álbum: Big Science (1990)
Trecho da letra: “O Superman / O Judge / O Mom and Dad / Mom and Dad / O Superman / O Judge / O Mom and Dad / Mom and Dad”

Música: Superman
Artista: Five for Fighting
Do álbum: America Town (2000)
Trecho da letra: “I’m only a man in a silly red sheet / Digging for kryptonite on this one way street / Only a man in a funny red sheet / Looking for special things inside of me”

Música: (Wish I Could Fly Like) Superman
Artista: The Kinks
Do álbum: Low Budget (1985)
Trecho da letra: “I want to be a better man / Superman Superman wish I could fly like Superman / Superman Superman I want to be like Superman / I want to be like Superman”

Música: Waiting for a Superman
Artista: The Flaming Lips
Do álbum: The Soft Bulletin (1999)
Trecho da letra: “Tell everyone waiting for Superman / That they should hold on as best they can / He hasn’t dropped them, forgot them, or anything / It’s just too heavy for Superman to lift”

Música: Don’t Mess Around With Jim
Artista: Jim Croce
Do álbum: You Don’t Mess Around With Jim (1972)
Trecho da letra: “And they say, ‘You don’t tug on Superman’s cape / You don’t spit into the wind / You don’t pull the mask off that ol’ Lone Ranger / And you don’t mess around with Jim'”

Música: Hang In There Superman
Artista: Hal Ketchum
Do álbum: The Hits (1996)
Trecho da letra: “Hang in there, Superman / You always came out fighting at the bell / Hang in there, Superman / One billion grown up children wish you well”

Música: Superman
Artista: Stereophonics
Do álbum: Language, Sex, Violence, Other? (2005)
Trecho da letra: “Superman on a aeroplane / Sitting next to Lois Lane / You gotta that woman but you want her gone / So you can sleep with a teenage blonde / You wear a mask wear an armoured suit / Can’t get to you with the gun I shoot / You play your cards close to your chest because ya / Poker face is a dreadry mess”

Música: Superman’s Ghost
Artista: Don McLean
Do álbum: Starry Starry Night (2001)
Trecho da letra: “I don’t want to be like old George Reeves, stuck in a Superman role / I have a long way to go in my career / And some day my fame will make it clear / That I had to be a superman”

Música: Kryptonite
Artista: Three Doors Down
Do álbum: The Better Life (2000)
Trecho da letra: “If I go crazy then will you still call me Superman? / If I am alive and well will you be there holding my hand? / I’ll keep you by my side with my super human might / kryptonite”

Música: Superman Inside
Artista: Eric Clapton
Do álbum: Reptile (2001)
Trecho da letra: “Look in the mirror, even with a broken heart I’m fine / Keep on pushing, getting closer to peace of mind / Look in the mirror, even with a broken heart I’m fine / Living is so sweet now with Superman inside”

Música: Rain Man
Artista: Eminem
Do álbum: Encore (2004)
Trecho da letra: “I stuck him off in between him and Lex Luthor / I killed Superman, I killed Super…Man / And how ironic that I’d be the bad guy / Kryptonite: The Green Chronic”