A Bit of a Random Topic
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As much as I'm a baseball fan I'm also a big music fan, so I compiled this list of, in my opinion, the 100 most recognizable songs of all-time plus 10 honorable mentions. The order is from 1-100 and then the honorable mentions at the bottom:
Bohemian Rhapsody - Queen
Billie Jean - Michael Jackson
Hey Jude - The Beatles
Theme From New York, New York - Frank Sinatra
Stayin’ Alive - Bee Gees
Don’t Stop Believin’ - Journey
Smells Like Teen Spirit - Nirvana
Never Gonna Give You Up - Rick Astley
We Will Rock You - Queen
Seven Nation Army - The White Stripes
Beat It - Michael Jackson
All I Want For Christmas Is You - Mariah Carey
Dancing Queen - ABBA
Lose Yourself - Eminem
Stairway to Heaven - Led Zeppelin
Eye of the Tiger - Survivor
Celebration - Kool & The Gang
Livin’ On A Prayer - Bon Jovi
I Will Always Love You - Whitney Houston
I Want It That Way - Backstreet Boys
Careless Whisper - George Michael
What A Wonderful World - Louis Armstrong
Y.M.C.A. - Village People
Smooth Criminal - Michael Jackson
Somebody That I Used to Know - Gotye, Kimbra
Sweet Home Alabama - Lynyrd Skynyrd
… Baby One More Time - Britney Spears
Girls Just Wanna Have Fun - Cyndi Lauper
Another One Bites The Dust - Queen
Thriller - Michael Jackson
Back In Black - AC/DC
The Final Countdown - Europe
I Wanna Dance With Somebody (Who Loves Me) - Whitney Houston
Wannabe - Spice Girls
We Are The Champions - Queen
Sweet Caroline - Neil Diamond
Take On Me - a-ha
Sweet Child O’ Mine - Guns N’ Roses
Piano Man - Billy Joel
In Da Club - 50 Cent
My Heart Will Go On - Celine Dion
Don’t Stop Me Now - Queen
The Real Slim Shady - Eminem
U Can’t Touch This - MC Hammer
Gangnam Style - PSY
Thunderstruck - AC/DC
Here Comes the Sun - The Beatles
Macarena - Los Del Rio
I Gotta Feeling - Black Eyed Peas
Bad Romance - Lady Gaga
Hotel California - Eagles
Every Breath You Take - The Police
Happy - Pharell Williams
Hey Ya! - Outkast
Dream On - Aerosmith
Another Brick in the Wall, Pt. 2 - Pink Floyd
Jailhouse Rock - Elvis Presley
Crazy In Love - Beyonce, JAY-Z
The Sound of Silence - Simon & Garfunkel
Let It Be - The Beatles
Under Pressure - Queen, David Bowie
Three Little Birds - Bob Marley and the Wailers
I’m Still Standing - Elton John
Rolling in the Deep - Adele
Umbrella - Rihanna, JAY-Z
September - Earth, Wind & Fire
Everybody Wants To Rule The World - Tears for Fears
Take Me Home, Country Roads - John Denver
Despacito - Luis Fonsi, Daddy Yankee
Shake It Off - Taylor Swift
Sweet Dreams (Are Made Of This) - Eurythmics
Wonderwall - Oasis
Viva La Vida - Coldplay
Still D.R.E. - Dr. Dre, Snoop Dogg
All Star - Smash Mouth
Poker Face - Lady Gaga
Hips Don’t Lie - Shakira, Wyclef Jean
Livin’ la Vida Loca - Ricky Martin
Africa - TOTO
Respect - Aretha Franklin
Welcome to the Jungle - Guns N’ Roses
House Of The Rising Sun - The Animals
Like a Virgin - Madonna
In the End - Linkin Park
The Way You Make Me Feel - Michael Jackson
Uptown Funk - Mark Ronson, Bruno Mars
Gold Digger - Kanye West, Jamie Foxx
Hound Dog - Elvis Presley
Mr. Brightside - The Killers
Wake Me Up Before You Go-Go - Wham!
Uptown Girl - Billy Joel
Paint It, Black - The Rolling Stones
Enter Sandman - Metallica
Purple Rain - Prince
Blinding Lights - The Weeknd
Zombie - The Cranberries
Good Vibrations - The Beach Boys
What’s Up - 4 Non Blondes
I Will Survive - Gloria Gaynor
I’m A Believer - The MonkeesHonorable Mentions
Imagine - John Lennon
Toxic - Britney Spears
Highway to Hell - AC/DC
Yeah! - Usher, Lil Jon, Ludacris
Californication - Red Hot Chili Peppers
Shape Of You - Ed Sheeran
Gangsta’s Paradise - Coolio, L.V.
Paradise City - Guns N’ Roses
Tainted Love - Soft Cell
(I Can’t Get No) Satisfaction - The Rolling Stones -
There are some great songs on that list! I would think Kernkraft 400 by Zombie Nation would be on that list as it is played just about every sporting event and so many other places as well. I also think Centerfield by John Fogerty should get some love as well!
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I'll take "Songs that will never be in The Show because they cost too much to license" for 800, Alex.
PS: There are about 7 other MJ songs I'd put before Smooth Criminal. I'd postulate the only reason you have it that high is for the video game and the Alien Ant Farm cover.
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@SaveFarris_PSN said in A Bit of a Random Topic:
Alien Ant Farm cover.
Hey that AAF cover was absolute
to be fair@TheBigPapa55_PSN said in A Bit of a Random Topic:
Shake It Off - Taylor Swift
If there were ever an option to "pre-mute" a song, I'd use it on that.
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Zombie, IMO, is ranked WAY TO LOW
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@Sarge1387_PSN
Don’t get me wrong, it is a really popular song, but someone had to be at the bottom, again IMO -
List is somewhat relative to your age. I was a club DJ in the 80's but you've got some songs I don't recognize
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@rageincage007_XBL
Obviously. I mean, if I were to do this list in 1980, we’d have 30 Beatles songs and 50 other rock songs and the rest would be from the fifties. -
@rageincage007_XBL
Opinion on my rock list? You seem like one to know all of the songs on that list. -
@dap1234567890_PSN said in A Bit of a Random Topic:
There are some great songs on that list! I would think Kernkraft 400 by Zombie Nation would be on that list
Disagree, and here’s why: it doesn’t have any lyrics to speak of, making it a theme, not a song.
If we’re going by most recognizable pieces of music, then the list is Beethoven’s 5th, Ode to Joy, and the collected works of John Williams (Jaws, Star Wars, Superman, ET, Raiders, Jurassic, etc)
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@SaveFarris_PSN
I specifically made this list to exclude all classical pieces including those from the Renaissance and Baroque era, otherwise they’d clutter the list. I agree with the first statement you made as well about Kernkraft 400 -
@SaveFarris_PSN That makes sense.
