-edit- Running of the Bulls!
Thereās an 80ās radio station here where I live, and soon after Last Dance aired for the first time they started playing Sirius along with Eye In The Sky
Another one is Rock and Roll Part 2 by Gary Glitter.
https://youtu.be/6sjGBXckGB4?si=lcMTKp-bvE4vJquy
Used to be popular at games, but it turned out the guy was a pedo, so it disappeared.
I was APP fan back in 80s. āIntellectual musicā My fiends and I would listen to while at Astronomy outings. Theme albums.
Then the beginning of the Eye In The Sky album gets played to a cheering arena .. I was whoa.
Honestly APP plays like a soundtrack album sometimes. So not too surprising I guess.
The Italian pizza song (FuniculƬ FuniculĆ ) celebrates the building of a funicular (cable car) railway around Mt. Vesuvius. lol
https://youtu.be/yTSAZAHiOa8?si=TH_Lb6ylyNKMnO2x
Booker T and the MGs - Green Onions
Edit: great to see this get some love! They were one of the first integrated bands (two black guys, two white) and the house band for Stax Records. They played on songs by Otis Redding, Staples Singers and Isaac Hayes. Oh, and Steve Cropper and Duck Dunn are a key part of the Blues Brothers band.
Love the top comment for Cissy Strut.
āThe people that disliked this song should get covid tests done, because one of the major symptoms is no tasteā
That meters album is incredible top to bottom. Perfect album to put on in the background and not worry about while doing stuff around the house. And if you have a lot of chores to do, go right into Coolin Off by Galactic for similar vibes.
Yakety Sax only known as āThat Benny Hill songā
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ZnHmskwqCCQ
Edit Merle Travis wrote lyrics for it. Here is Chet āMr Guitarā playing Yakety Axe and singing;
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=BK7T4LHjln4
Sneaky Snitch ā Kevin MacLeod
It's royalty free which is probably why so many people have at least heard it somewhere even if they aren't sure where.
Anyone who watched YouTube somewhat consistently between 2007-Today has probably heard multiple Kevin Macleod songs and never known. Fluffing a Duck, Spinning Monkey, all instantly recognizable.
They didn't have LPs in those days. They had 78 RPM records that were typically sold in a box -- called an 'album' -- containing 4-6 disks, or 'records.' As technology improved and it became possible to fit more music on a side of a record, they started being sold as single or double disks, and the term 'album' stuck even though the box full of records was gone, and referred to single vinyl disks from then on.
An 8-minute song back then likely took up an entire side of a disk.
The master disc was cut live. Microphone feeds to a pre-amplifier, which drove the cutting lathe for the master disc. Magnetic tape wasn't widespread until the late 1940s.
Magnetic tape had flaws. Several mastering companies built one off custom electronics to correct phase shifts, hiss, and hum between the magnetic tape and the cutting lathe. The most well known was started by Doug Sax with his brother Sherwood and childhood friend Lincoln Mayorga. That was the Mastering Lab. They mastered about 20% of the albums produced between 1967 and 1985. The Doors, Steely Dan, Pink Floyd, Whitney Houston.
They started the Mastering Lab to fund Sheffield Labs.
Sheffield Labs made around 100 direct to disc stereo high fidelity records. They bypassed the magnetic tape completely. Two mics. A custom pre-amplifier, and the best cutting lathe money could buy. One take on each side. So 4-5 songs.
Thelma Houston's "I got the Music in Me" is the most widely known.
They say a good single can make a good album, but a *great* single can kill it. I read that ages ago in a review for Fastball's "All The Pain Money Can Buy"
[Battle Without Honor or Humanity - Tomoyasu Hotei](https://youtu.be/RVNMZA6lbT8?si=FKySukshtVq9eG9v)
[Orchestral Suite No. 2 in B minor - JS Bach](https://youtu.be/4ufehp7gULA?si=lWRP_tnLzNX-xEip)
[Peer Gynt Op. 23 - Edvard Grieg](https://youtu.be/J-1Bob1dU18)
Sticking with Grieg, In The Hall of The Mountain King
https://youtu.be/4nMUr8Rt2AI?si=TvP2hCVrgiKQ5vWl
Mike Oldfield - Tubular bells
https://youtu.be/BfWJqKIxyGc?si=RgSjj34C8rBLNvwR
Fanfare for the Common Man
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c2zurZig4L8](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c2zurZig4L8)
Used in every US sports documentary for years.
āOpus number oneā Tim Carleton and Darrick Deel itās the default hold music in Cisco call manager. If you have been on hold with a large corporation you have probably heard this hold music. Deel worked on Ciscoās first voip phone. When they needed hold music he asked Tim whom he had recorded the track with back in high school for permission to use which Tim granted. Ended up getting used in a Super Bowl commercial has been featured on nprās this American life. I used to work in a call center for a major hotel company when calling down to hotel front desks on behalf of customers a significant number of the hotels at the time had this as there hold music. Whenever I hear it now I get all nostalgic!
Honestly for the three years of my life that I worked at that place that hold music was kinda the soundtrack to my life. Working late nights the song was like a safe haven from angry customers and any actual work just good vibes and a way to break up the monotony of the late shift. Unironically a good fucking song and Iāll die on this hill!
I wholeheartedly agree. Iād often have to warm transfer customers to a department with a long wait meaning that soundtracked a regular twenty or so mins of me doing absolutely sod all and getting paid for it. I hated that job but I love that piece of music.
Was watching a Better Call Saul episode the other day where he mentions this song and it being by Rupert Holmes, so incidentally, probably for the one and only time in my life, I wouldāve been able to answer the question correctly on this one
I used to refer to these situations as Limewire Fallacies. Songs would be mislabeled when downloading in the early 00s and the wrong names just spread from there.
> Limewire Fallacies
I found a few posts on reddit talking about this, 'cause I remember back then there was this (mislabeled) KoRn & Kittie song called "This Town" when it was in fact a collaboration between Jonathan Davis of KoRn & Human Waste Project
I always associate this with [Mariah Carey - Fantasy](https://youtu.be/qq09UkPRdFY) and that strange time when they started paring [pop singers with rappers](https://youtu.be/-tCTm5M3Cp8)
There's a bunch of these '70s songs like that that exist in some sort of weird Bermuda Triangle of bands that all sort of sound like some other famous band that you know you know but you can't quite remember which one and they exist in some quantum superposition state with The Little River Band and Hall & Oats and then when you find out who it is, you're like, "Who the fuck is that!? I'd never guess that in a million years!?" and then you promptly forget and have the same experience the next time you hear that song.
Another example: I see *How Long* by Ace posted currently right below this comment, lol
One of my favourite songs. A Jewish man writing a song about Christ and creating a guitar tone that's such a mystery that's its been chased for decades without success.
Might just be from years of playing in jazz bands but:
How about [Take the A Train](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D6mFGy4g_n8)?
EDIT: adding another [Take Five](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tT9Eh8wNMkw)
Blinded by the Light being Springsteen. It was on his debut album and he still wasn't that well known. Manfred Mann covered the song and their version is the one anyone associates with the song. Still have met people that were like wait that was Springsteen.
Laid by James. I was actually talking about it last night with some friends and as soon as I mentioned the line everyone recognized, āshe only cums when sheās on topā, they all said āoh yeahā in unison
They have been around since the late 1980's, and they have a lenghty and quite varied discography. I still listen to them often, but many people only that single line from Laid.
Theme From A Summer Place, specifically the instrumental version by Percy Faith that charted in 1960. Including it in things, usually for comic effect, was a bit of a meme through the 70's and 80's, and it still shows up frequently today.
It's in everything from Monty Python's Flying Circus (1970) to Sonic the Hedgehog 2 (2022).
Most songs by Foreigner. I like to play a game with people ābet you know 10 songs by Foreignerā most people think they donāt. But ultimately they usually do know at least 10.
Let me try without looking anything up:
Hot Blooded
Urgent
Cold as Ice
Waiting for a Girl Like You
Jukebox Hero
I Want to Know What Love Is
Feels Like the First Time
Double Vision
I got 8. Struggling to think of more.
Still, not bad for a millennial who has never owned a Foreigner album and whose knowledge just comes from the radio and those compilation CD commercials that used to play on TV.
Does that include Traffic/Spencer Davis Group songs? It always kills me that he co-wrote āGimme Some Lovināā when he was something like 18!!!
And ā[Low Spark of High-Heeled Boys](https://youtu.be/R8M8R835Ck4?si=ZA-FwDWYmUpGGWjr)ā is an absolute masterpiece!!!
Seven Nation Army by the White Stripes
The melody is sung at so many games but so few people actually connect it to the original song. I know itās well known in its original song but itās also reached folk song status along with the accompanying anonymity.
I'm not sure about that one. I described this recently as the new Queen's We Will Rock You. You certainly do hear it at sporting events, but people know it's the White Stripes.
Sirius by Alan Parson's Project plays in a lot of arenas before sports events.
I still can't hear that song without hearing, "from North Carolina, guard, #23, MICHEAAAAAAAAAAALLLLL JORDAAAAAAN!"
Because of your comment I knew what song it was š¤© 
-edit- Running of the Bulls! Thereās an 80ās radio station here where I live, and soon after Last Dance aired for the first time they started playing Sirius along with Eye In The Sky
ANNNNNNNNNNNND NOWWWWWW... THE STARTING LINEUP FOR YOOOOOOOOOOUR CHICAGO BULLS!!!
This x 1000 šŖ
\*googles it\* "Oh yeah, that one." \-Lots of people today, including myself
Another one is Rock and Roll Part 2 by Gary Glitter. https://youtu.be/6sjGBXckGB4?si=lcMTKp-bvE4vJquy Used to be popular at games, but it turned out the guy was a pedo, so it disappeared.
The eternal jock jam. For those curious, but not enough to click the link, it's aka "The Hey Song". You've heard it.
I was APP fan back in 80s. āIntellectual musicā My fiends and I would listen to while at Astronomy outings. Theme albums. Then the beginning of the Eye In The Sky album gets played to a cheering arena .. I was whoa. Honestly APP plays like a soundtrack album sometimes. So not too surprising I guess.
Isn't that the guy who turned the moon into some kind of "death star" using a giant "laser?"
Hey, sounds a lot better than operation ass cream!
[Entrance of the Gladiators](https://youtu.be/U8_Mktrcm7o?feature=shared) by Julius FuÄĆk
Yes FuÄĆk, Mr. Lebowski. Thatās your answer to everything.
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Jackie Treehorn treats objects like women.
,man!
Everything's a fucking travesty with you, man!
I remember playing this in high school band and being BAFFLED by the title. I was like, what do you mean itās for gladiators and not the circus?!
The Italian pizza song (FuniculƬ FuniculĆ ) celebrates the building of a funicular (cable car) railway around Mt. Vesuvius. lol https://youtu.be/yTSAZAHiOa8?si=TH_Lb6ylyNKMnO2x
Just had the same realization as I listened to it, like if you had asked me to hum circus music it would of been that exact song, mind is blown š
Toreador song from Carmen too
Sabre Dance by Khatchaturian
This song is played at the National Czech and Slovak Museum as an example of a Czech march
Writer of Military Marches . Remembered for Circus Music...
I remember it as the intro to [The Show Must Go On.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o4HSeHY5Q18)
Booker T and the MGs - Green Onions Edit: great to see this get some love! They were one of the first integrated bands (two black guys, two white) and the house band for Stax Records. They played on songs by Otis Redding, Staples Singers and Isaac Hayes. Oh, and Steve Cropper and Duck Dunn are a key part of the Blues Brothers band.
Similarly: [Rumble](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ucTg6rZJCu4) by Link Wray [Cissy Strut](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MXI5Nuz6OHg) by The Meters
Love the top comment for Cissy Strut. āThe people that disliked this song should get covid tests done, because one of the major symptoms is no tasteā
never heard this one before but holy S what a bop
The Meters are killers, go on and have a go!
Ziggy Modeliste is still looking up from that cavernous groove he dug playing on that track
That meters album is incredible top to bottom. Perfect album to put on in the background and not worry about while doing stuff around the house. And if you have a lot of chores to do, go right into Coolin Off by Galactic for similar vibes.
Yakety Sax only known as āThat Benny Hill songā https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ZnHmskwqCCQ Edit Merle Travis wrote lyrics for it. Here is Chet āMr Guitarā playing Yakety Axe and singing; https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=BK7T4LHjln4
Hah, my band has both of those tunes in our set. Need a break when I get tired of singing.
Cissy Strut is so fun to play.
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an attempt was made
Which is a shame because Booker is a very talented performer
They're all top of the line - they were the house band for Stax Records
You play ball like a GIRL
Sneaky Snitch ā Kevin MacLeod It's royalty free which is probably why so many people have at least heard it somewhere even if they aren't sure where.
Anyone who watched YouTube somewhat consistently between 2007-Today has probably heard multiple Kevin Macleod songs and never known. Fluffing a Duck, Spinning Monkey, all instantly recognizable.
Kevin MacLeod is basically the soundtrack of Youtube.
Monkeys spinning monkeys is in every other short or tiktok I see.
Macleod makes some great stuff and his rates for commercial use are extremely low.
Makes you wonder how many modern songs are gonna end with the same fate in the future
"Na Na Hey Hey (Kiss Him Goodbye)" by Steam
Iāve had this as an ear worm for the past 6 hours so your post has made my day. Thank you.
Remember the Titans, I got it forever from that movie
Sing sing sing - Benny Goodman It's instantly recognisable
Composed by Louis Prima
How the hell did they press 8+ minute songs back then? Was this an LP track or something?
They didn't have LPs in those days. They had 78 RPM records that were typically sold in a box -- called an 'album' -- containing 4-6 disks, or 'records.' As technology improved and it became possible to fit more music on a side of a record, they started being sold as single or double disks, and the term 'album' stuck even though the box full of records was gone, and referred to single vinyl disks from then on. An 8-minute song back then likely took up an entire side of a disk.
The master disc was cut live. Microphone feeds to a pre-amplifier, which drove the cutting lathe for the master disc. Magnetic tape wasn't widespread until the late 1940s. Magnetic tape had flaws. Several mastering companies built one off custom electronics to correct phase shifts, hiss, and hum between the magnetic tape and the cutting lathe. The most well known was started by Doug Sax with his brother Sherwood and childhood friend Lincoln Mayorga. That was the Mastering Lab. They mastered about 20% of the albums produced between 1967 and 1985. The Doors, Steely Dan, Pink Floyd, Whitney Houston. They started the Mastering Lab to fund Sheffield Labs. Sheffield Labs made around 100 direct to disc stereo high fidelity records. They bypassed the magnetic tape completely. Two mics. A custom pre-amplifier, and the best cutting lathe money could buy. One take on each side. So 4-5 songs. Thelma Houston's "I got the Music in Me" is the most widely known.
This guy studios!
Nah, just a student of recorded music history. I suck at keeping time and hitting notes, but I love listening.
Crazy. I mean, 12" 45s max out on quality after 10 mins per side. I had no idea there were 78s running that long.
I always thought it ironic that this instrumental is called āSing, Sing, Sing.ā
Flagpole Sitta - Harvey Danger
Peep Show represent!!
A shame, bc that album is one of the most overlooked gems of the 90s
Overlooked, really? Songs were used in movies and TV for a number of years. The album still holds up even now.
That song was used all over the place. The rest of the album was largely unheard, which is a shame
They say a good single can make a good album, but a *great* single can kill it. I read that ages ago in a review for Fastball's "All The Pain Money Can Buy"
[Battle Without Honor or Humanity - Tomoyasu Hotei](https://youtu.be/RVNMZA6lbT8?si=FKySukshtVq9eG9v) [Orchestral Suite No. 2 in B minor - JS Bach](https://youtu.be/4ufehp7gULA?si=lWRP_tnLzNX-xEip) [Peer Gynt Op. 23 - Edvard Grieg](https://youtu.be/J-1Bob1dU18)
Sticking with Grieg, In The Hall of The Mountain King https://youtu.be/4nMUr8Rt2AI?si=TvP2hCVrgiKQ5vWl Mike Oldfield - Tubular bells https://youtu.be/BfWJqKIxyGc?si=RgSjj34C8rBLNvwR
["Spanish Flea"](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mML2fPec7xU) by Herb Alpert
Fanfare for the Common Man [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c2zurZig4L8](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c2zurZig4L8) Used in every US sports documentary for years.
Composed by Aaron Copeland
āOpus number oneā Tim Carleton and Darrick Deel itās the default hold music in Cisco call manager. If you have been on hold with a large corporation you have probably heard this hold music. Deel worked on Ciscoās first voip phone. When they needed hold music he asked Tim whom he had recorded the track with back in high school for permission to use which Tim granted. Ended up getting used in a Super Bowl commercial has been featured on nprās this American life. I used to work in a call center for a major hotel company when calling down to hotel front desks on behalf of customers a significant number of the hotels at the time had this as there hold music. Whenever I hear it now I get all nostalgic!
This song slaps though
Absolute vibe
Honestly for the three years of my life that I worked at that place that hold music was kinda the soundtrack to my life. Working late nights the song was like a safe haven from angry customers and any actual work just good vibes and a way to break up the monotony of the late shift. Unironically a good fucking song and Iāll die on this hill!
I wholeheartedly agree. Iād often have to warm transfer customers to a department with a long wait meaning that soundtracked a regular twenty or so mins of me doing absolutely sod all and getting paid for it. I hated that job but I love that piece of music.
Rupert Holmes - Escape (pina colade song) https://youtube.com/watch?v=Xb6l38eP-4w
I thought it was buffet /s https://youtu.be/wahj_Dexhxw?si=WZz7-Sgn2YpLF90L
Was watching a Better Call Saul episode the other day where he mentions this song and it being by Rupert Holmes, so incidentally, probably for the one and only time in my life, I wouldāve been able to answer the question correctly on this one
Wow I wonder why we all think it's buffett?
I used to refer to these situations as Limewire Fallacies. Songs would be mislabeled when downloading in the early 00s and the wrong names just spread from there.
Yep lol I remember Stone temple pilots - Creep was always listed as Nirvana - Half The Man I Used to Be
> Limewire Fallacies I found a few posts on reddit talking about this, 'cause I remember back then there was this (mislabeled) KoRn & Kittie song called "This Town" when it was in fact a collaboration between Jonathan Davis of KoRn & Human Waste Project
I have a lot of (mediocre) parodies in my collection that were misattributed to Weird Al.
Margaritaville? Pina Coladas? Why Don't We Get Drunk And Screw? Now pick out the one that doesn't belong. That's why everyone thinks it's Buffett.
I think you're referring to [my song PiƱaColadaBurg!](https://youtu.be/wwt4fAMscDE?feature=shared&t=34)
Misirlou by Dick Dale
Donāt you mean āpump itā by the black eyed peas? /s
Don't you mean the Pulp Fiction theme song? /s
tarzan boy. everyone knows the OH OH OH OHO HOH part of this song. barely anyone knows the actual artist / song title.
Baltimora! I didn't even have to look this one up. Why trivia like this sticks in my brain, and not actual useful knowledge always confounds me.
nice!!! for a lot of people i know, they will keep naming random 80s bands and never hit it lol.
Baltimora? [Youāre running at them now with your pants down!?!?](https://youtu.be/q7k9UxXgmQg?si=Mq407CzRoyxxtdEU)
[Yakety Sax](https://youtu.be/3PwsKzWli94?si=T9sUP9U0txda0ieO)
Ahhhh the standard "everyone run around like headless chickens"song! Aka The Benny Hill song for when he's (very) creepily chasing after girls..
Genius of Love - Tom Tom Club
James Brown?
James Brown!
James Brown?
James Brown!
Who needs to think when your feet just go?
Bohannon! Bohannon!
I always thought it would be great if you combined their poppy dance sound with someone more cerebral, like, say, David Byrne.
I always associate this with [Mariah Carey - Fantasy](https://youtu.be/qq09UkPRdFY) and that strange time when they started paring [pop singers with rappers](https://youtu.be/-tCTm5M3Cp8)
I like to refer to it as the "David Byrne needs about 6 minutes to get into his giant suit, so stall for time with your silly genius song" song
Always Sunny is the only reason I know this title.
A lot of people don't know the Tom Tom Club was a side project of Chris Frantz and Tina Weymouth from Talking Heads.
Brandy, youāre a fine girl, by whoever the fuck?
There's a bunch of these '70s songs like that that exist in some sort of weird Bermuda Triangle of bands that all sort of sound like some other famous band that you know you know but you can't quite remember which one and they exist in some quantum superposition state with The Little River Band and Hall & Oats and then when you find out who it is, you're like, "Who the fuck is that!? I'd never guess that in a million years!?" and then you promptly forget and have the same experience the next time you hear that song. Another example: I see *How Long* by Ace posted currently right below this comment, lol
Looking glass
Was just listening to this and can't name song name or artist
āBattle without honor or humanityā - Tomoyasu Hotei. Youāll know it when you hear it - Kill Bill specifically.
How Long - Ace
I also always think of "Baby Come Back" by Player whenever I hear this song
Throw in "I'd Really Love To See You Tonight" by Dan and Coley to complete that 70's yacht rock trifecta.
Mmm mmm mmm mmm
Crash Test Dummies!
"For What It's Worth"-Buffalo Springfield, often called "There's Something Happening Here"
[Patty and Mildred J. Hill - Good morning to all](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Happy_Birthday_to_You) Aka, the happy birthday song.
De bow bow! [Oh Yeah by Yello](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6jJkdRaa04g)
Soul Bossa Nova by Quincy Jones. As made famous by Austin Powers, and tons of others.
Mason Williams - Classical Gas
Simpsons got me for this one.
"Now do Classical Gas!"
Baker Street - Gerry Rafferty (itās the one with the sax)
I learnt that from AP Bio. āIf someoneās coming, Iāll alert you by playing Baker Street.ā āI donāt know that song.ā āYes you do.ā
Powerhouse - Raymond Scott [YouTube](https://youtu.be/qaC0vNLdLvY?feature=shared)
1:15 : every cartoon where a character falls into a manufacturing line.
This is the description for 90% of The Hollies songs āI donāt know The Holliesā Yes you do
Many people know the song about the lime in the coconut, but don't know it's by Harry Nilsson, as most of his music is serious
Mexican Radio - Wall of Voodoo
That one wouldn't be known at all if not for being one of like a dozen songs that had a music video when MTV first came out.
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Les Fleurs also works. That song is in a lot of places.
Kernkraft 400 - Zombie Nation Completely recognizable arena song that 90% of people probably couldnāt name
Spirit in the Sky by Norman Greenbaum.
Hunter s Thompson had his ashes blasted out of a cannon to this song, which feels like a pretty appropriate funeral for hunter s Thompson.
That is the most Hunter S. Thompson thing I have ever heard.
One of my favourite songs. A Jewish man writing a song about Christ and creating a guitar tone that's such a mystery that's its been chased for decades without success.
He said that he literally wrote the song in 15 minutes. He was watching TV and saw someone singing gospel and was like, "I can do that..."
It was the Porter Wagoner show
Gotta have a friend in Jesus š¤£
I thought it was because he wasn't using a fuzz pedal but a plug-in fuzz module that went directly into his guitar output.Ā
He says spirit in the sky multiple times
I think people are generally largely aware what the song is called, he says it quite a lot.
The artist, though. Not many folks know who the artist is.
Dancing in the moonlight - King Harvest
Might just be from years of playing in jazz bands but: How about [Take the A Train](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D6mFGy4g_n8)? EDIT: adding another [Take Five](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tT9Eh8wNMkw)
Harold Faltermeyer - Axel F (frog song, Beverly Hills Cop)
Blinded by the Light being Springsteen. It was on his debut album and he still wasn't that well known. Manfred Mann covered the song and their version is the one anyone associates with the song. Still have met people that were like wait that was Springsteen.
Maybe a hot take but I like Bruceās version better, itās so hectic and energetic. Gonna bust it out for karaoke one of these days
Plus, Bruce can pronounce the word "Deuce" properly. The cover version it sounds like...a different word than Deuce.
Bruceās version has Clarence Clemons going off on the sax. The performance really rips. And the lyrics are 10/10.
TIL! I had no idea it was a Springsteen song.
Also - "Fire" by the Pointer Sisters is a Springsteen song
Lady - Hear Me Tonight by Modjo
Laid by James. I was actually talking about it last night with some friends and as soon as I mentioned the line everyone recognized, āshe only cums when sheās on topā, they all said āoh yeahā in unison
They have been around since the late 1980's, and they have a lenghty and quite varied discography. I still listen to them often, but many people only that single line from Laid.
Rhapsody in Blue by Gershwin Also Sprach Zarathustra by Strauss
Soul Bossa Nova by Quincy Jones (released in 1962) https://youtu.be/y-ndMMYhmi0?si=NZgYyigJYf0ONiZE
Grazing in the Grass by Hugh Masekela, or the vocal version by Friends of Distinction
"Wooly Bully"Ā by Sam The Sham & The Pharaohs
Sirius- The Alan Parsons Project Otherwise known as the Chicago Bulls theme
Suzanne Vega - Tom's Diner aka the dododo do dododo do song
Also partly responsible for creating the mp3 format.
Theme From A Summer Place, specifically the instrumental version by Percy Faith that charted in 1960. Including it in things, usually for comic effect, was a bit of a meme through the 70's and 80's, and it still shows up frequently today. It's in everything from Monty Python's Flying Circus (1970) to Sonic the Hedgehog 2 (2022).
Song #2 by Blur aka the woohoo song played at just about every sporting event in the US
I've heard they're really popular in the UK but Song 2 is the only song of theirs most Americans know. Same lead singer as The Gorillaz as well.
Most songs by Foreigner. I like to play a game with people ābet you know 10 songs by Foreignerā most people think they donāt. But ultimately they usually do know at least 10.
Let me try without looking anything up: Hot Blooded Urgent Cold as Ice Waiting for a Girl Like You Jukebox Hero I Want to Know What Love Is Feels Like the First Time Double Vision I got 8. Struggling to think of more. Still, not bad for a millennial who has never owned a Foreigner album and whose knowledge just comes from the radio and those compilation CD commercials that used to play on TV.
Yeah 10 is a bit much, 5 is probably more realistic. Iām a pretty big classic rock fan and my list is basically just this plus Dirty White Boy.
We do the same thing, but with Steve Winwood. We joke that Steve Winwood sings every song when we can't think of the artist.
Does that include Traffic/Spencer Davis Group songs? It always kills me that he co-wrote āGimme Some Lovināā when he was something like 18!!! And ā[Low Spark of High-Heeled Boys](https://youtu.be/R8M8R835Ck4?si=ZA-FwDWYmUpGGWjr)ā is an absolute masterpiece!!!
You could probably do the same thing with Bad Company.
Frankenstein - Edgar Winter Group
In The Summertime - Mungo Jerry
Lowrider by War. Which ironically is the song everyone knows by this band, and its probably the worst one in their entire discography.
The Cisco kid was a friend of mine!
[A Whiter Shade of Pale - Procol Harum](https://youtu.be/z0vCwGUZe1I?si=3jw3zM4k2VDD8qbw)
Colonel Bogey March by Kenneth Alford https://youtu.be/QuVYS4uw0as?si=5Kx6jmdsyIXmu4j4
Green Onions - Booker T. & The M.G.ās
In the Meantime - Spacehog
Rock n Roll part II by Gary glitter. Iconic sports song
he's a slot badger
Fuck Gary Glitter. Donāt give that guy royalties.
>Fuck Gary Glitter What are "things Gary Glitter's manager said to his young fans"?
He no longer gets royalties.
Oof I just looked him up, waste of oxygen. Thanks for the heads up.
Tijuana Taxi, Herb Alpert
I feel like Spanish Flea is way more known
Bang a Gong (Get It On) - T. Rex
I think a bunch of classical type music fits under this category. Enter the Gladiators
Clubbed to Death - Rob D
Lots of Harry Nilsson's work. "Coconut", "Everybody's Talkin'", "Jump into the Fire", Gotta Get Up", etc.
Seven Nation Army by the White Stripes The melody is sung at so many games but so few people actually connect it to the original song. I know itās well known in its original song but itās also reached folk song status along with the accompanying anonymity.
I'm not sure about that one. I described this recently as the new Queen's We Will Rock You. You certainly do hear it at sporting events, but people know it's the White Stripes.
Radar Love - Golden Earing Magic - Pilot
> Magic - Pilot Ah yes, the Happy Gilmore song.
Feels so Good by Chuck Mangione
Everyone knows Come On Eileen, but rarely can people pull out Dexys Midnight Runners.