Songs everyone knows

**JackFr** · Joined: 22 Dec 2008 Posts: 335

I was challenged by a friend to make as long a list of songs everyone just instinctively knows as possible. Here's what I got:

The Beatles - Yellow Submarine
The Beatles – Good Morning Good Morning
Katrina and the Waves - Walking On Sunshine
Green Day - Good Riddance
Green Day - When I Come Around
The Beatles - Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds
The Guess Who - No Time
The Rolling Stones - Start Me Up
The Who - Can't Explain
The Who - Baba O'Reilly
AC/DC - Highway to Hell
AC/DC - Back in Black
Pink Floyd - Wish You Were Here
Pink Floyd - Another Brick In The Wall
Bob Dylan - Blowin In The Wind
Queen - We Will Rock You
Queen - We Are The Champions
Queen - Fat Bottomed Girls
Queen – Another One Bites The Dust
blink-182 - Dammit
Scorpions – Rock You Like a Hurricane
Nena - Neunundneunzig Luftballons
Cyndi Lauper - Girls Just Wanna Have Fun
Boston - More Than A Feeling
Eagles - Hotel California
Joan Jett - I Love Rock And Roll
Elvis Presley - Hound Dog
Micheal Jackson - Beat It
Jackson 5 - ABC
Foo Fighters – The Pretender
Foreigner – Hot Blooded
Bob Seger – Old Time Rock n Roll
Jimmy Eat World - The Middle
Guns n' Roses - Welcome To The Jungle
Guns n' Roses - Paradise City
Journey - Don't Stop Believing
Van Halen - Jump
John Lennon - Imagine
Village People - YMCA
Tom Petty - Free Fallin'
KISS - Rock 'N Roll All Nite
Red Hot Chilli Peppers – Dani California
Red Hot Chilli Peppers – Under The Bridge
Black Sabbath – Iron Man
Smash Mouth – All Star
Warrant – Cherry Pie
Carl Douglas – Kung Fu Fighting
Ozzy Osbourne – Crazy Train
Bon Jovi – Livin On a Prayer
Lynyrd Skynyrd – Sweet Home Alabama
Coldplay – Clocks
Coldplay – The Scientist
The Kinks – You Really Got Me
Beach Boys – Surfin USA
Led Zeppelin – Black Dog
Led Zeppelin – Rock and Roll
Led Zeppelin – Stairway to Heaven
The Monkees – I'm a Believer
Survivor – Eye of the Tiger
Aretha Franklin – Respect
Deep Purple – Smoke On The Water
Europe – The Final Countdown

Anyone have any to add?
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Queen - Bicycle Race
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Metallica - Enter Sandman
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**MetalheadNorm** · Joined: 21 May 2008 Posts: 1041 Location: Michigan

*Only knows about 1/2 OP's list.
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**SAW4135** · Joined: 17 May 2008 Posts: 750 Location: Moline, IL

Journey- Don't Stop Believin'

IMO this is a hard list to make.

All of the Beatles is good, but it is hard to pick some that everyone must know. I can't say I've ever heard Good Morning, Good Morning.

I like Green Day "When I Come Around", but I don't really consider that one of their tops hits.

Honestly, I would really only consider one hit wonders stuff "everyone" should know.

I'm just saying, looking at the list, I haven't even heard some of these specific songs. I wouldn't expect anyone over 25 to have ever heard of Franz Ferdinand. And I wouldn't expect many high schoolers to be able to identify Start Me Up. Just saying, this list is hard to make.

Also, the Happy Birthday song

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**JackFr** · Joined: 22 Dec 2008 Posts: 335

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**ganondorf901** · Joined: 28 Jul 2008 Posts: 846 Location: VA all the way

I have a question, is this a list that SHers would would know? Because most of my friends wouldnt know half those songs.
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**GuitarHailz** · Joined: 11 Jun 2007 Posts: 4910 Location: Austin, Texas

Some of these seem like strange choices... I'd think songs like Hey Jude or I Wanna Hold Your Hand would be more widely known than Lucy and Good Morning.

I'd agree with a majority of your picks, but I definitely haven't heard some of these, or at least I don't know them by name. But then again I probably haven't listened to the radio in the past 5 years. I'd vote for several of these to be removed, but I don't want to look like an idiot for not knowing them.

Some fairly obvious (I hope) additions:
Village People - YMCA
John Lennon - Imagine
Bon Jovi - Livin' on a Prayer
KISS - Rock 'N Roll All Nite
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**GenericName** · Joined: 21 Feb 2009 Posts: 1630 Location: ¯\(°_o)/¯

I didn't know 6 of those - the green day ones, start me up, blowin in the wind, and two others.

Otherwise I know them. Although about another 5 or 6 I only know from guitar hero or rock band.
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**Xtresso** · Joined: 06 Jun 2007 Posts: 1575 Location: Toronto, Canada

I don't know either Green Day song, and Good Morning Good Morning is not a Beatles song I immediately recognize, they have MANY more songs I would recognize before that.
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**MrOmyA** · Joined: 21 Mar 2008 Posts: 2751

Good Morning Good Morning oughta be replaced with Hey Jude. EVERYONE knows Hey Jude.

Also, Mr. Roboto - Styx

EDIT:
I Want You Back - Jackson 5
Smells Like Teen Spirit - Nirvana
Everlong - Foo Fighters
Under the Bridge - Red Hot Chili Peppers
Every Morning - Sugar Ray
Space Oddity - David Bowie
In the Air Tonight - Phil Collins
Born in the USA - Bruce Springsteen

I'm sure there's a lot more out there.

**GenericName** · Joined: 21 Feb 2009 Posts: 1630 Location: ¯\(°_o)/¯

Also, I think everyone knows Iron Man... Right?
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**Vampyromaniac** · Joined: 08 Feb 2008 Posts: 1216

Kansas - Carry on Wayward son
Animals - House of the rising run

not gonna list some ones I really don't like such as you gotta fight for your right to party.
A good deal of oldies songs also...

EDIT: House of the rising SUN
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