Random top tens: Songs about baths

The lyric "I love to wash in your old bathwater" refers to accepting a lover's faults, to the point where you're prepared to sit in them naked and slosh around.

2 - In The Bath by Lemon Jelly: Motorola pinched this for their peskily catchy "Hello Moto" adverts. In typical surreal style, a frightfully polite lady repeats that time-honoured refrain, "Oh, what do you do, in the bath?"

3 - Bath by Bjork: We've cheated a little with this serene track from abstract art film Drawing Restraint 9. Bjork's in a bath with lemons in the video, but as it's in Icelandic and no translation is at hand, we can't be entirely sure it's about baths. But we'd like to think so.

4 - Bath by Divine Comedy: A classical take on wash time from lyrical master Neil Hannon, describing Aphrodite "so pale pink and white" in a mythical tub. It's the opener to the critically acclaimed concept album Promenade, depicting a man and woman's day spent at the seaside. Bath is about the female character taking a bath, presumably to get rid of sand.

5 - Floating Away (in the bath tub) by Toploader: Committed TL fans (the band have just reformed) know this flamboyant serenade to getting wet demonstrates their feelgood factor at its best. "It's more fun in here than the zoo," Dan Hipgrave jams invitingly, accompanied by bubble effects and giggling. Hopefully those "slippery salamanders on my tail" are only metaphors.

6 - Bath-water Blues by The Reverend Horton Heat: The three piece 'psychobilly' band from Dallas urge a lover not to throw out the proverbial baby on their relationship: "Bath-water may be murky brown, just pull the plug and it'll all go down."

7 - Splish Splash by Bobby Darin: Radio DJ Murray Kaufman bet that 1950s teen idol Darin couldn't write a song starting with the words "Splish Splash, I was takin' a bath." A foolish bet, it turned out. Darin jumps out of the bath, finds that all of his close friends are having a party in his living room on a Saturday night and promptly jumps back in again.

8 - Rubber Duckie Song by The Muppets: Ernie's lovesong to everyone's favourite bathtime friend was first broadcast in 1970 with Duckie's 'famous' squeaking solo performed by Jim Henson, grandaddy of Muppets.

9 - In the Bath by Flanders and Swann: This little ditty charts the trajectory of the bathing ritual, from the enlightenment that could bring about world peace if we popped all the world leaders in the tub together, to that dreadful moment when the water runs cold and "the towel is in the cupboard, and the cupboard is next door".

10 - The Man Who Rode Across Lake Windermere In An Indiarubber Bath by Noel Coward: Coward wrote more than 300 witty songs, but in this epic tale of a fellow who decided the bathroom just wasn't good enough, he gave us the most creative use of a tub in musical history.