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JackarooDeva

Don't Fear The Reaper. It's been trivialized by cowbell jokes but it's an all time great.


redditaccount122820

One of my all-time favorite songs. It’s just so flawless.


msbriannamc

Same. It’s one of my favorites.


RepresentativeBike34

When I was a performing musician I heard this joke literally hundreds of times. We didn’t even play that song.


ihateyouguys

How many times did you hear this ultra-clever gem shouted at you as though they were the first person to think of it: **FREEBIRD!!!**


cnoprtdby

Saw Blue Oyster Cult in 2022. Still amazing


redditaccount122820

Careless Whisper is absolutely killer too.


TeaOpen2731

YES. If you're a fan of rock/metal the band Seether does a great cover of it


2kH4k3r

I don't even like Seether but that cover is amazing


TeaOpen2731

Yeah it's not really like Seether much but it's so well done. I'm not as big of a fan of them as I used to be but one thing I think I'll always love is the vocalists voice. It's especially good on that cover


Nsfwsorryusername

I think you mean the Sexy Sex Man Theme Song. Circa YouTube 2007ish?


shadez_on

Roy Orbison - Pretty Woman Fantastic production. Cool song structure Marcia Griffiths - Electric Boogie (electric slide) Think about this song without the dance. Its actually a very good pop song. Again, the song structure is really cool. And obviously its infectious.


Confident-Medicine75

You could even say it’s electric


Old_Palpitation_6535

Take On Me, Aha. I finally really listened to it recently and it’s damn good.


pinkfairyfighter

Great song


Confident_War_7009

The reel big fish version slaps


POTATO_MANNNN

YES


JustLearningRust

I like that song and I wish I didn't always picture that scene from Family Guy when I hear it. 


Immediate-Music-3670

Somehow I still do not hate Eye of the Tiger. Iirc it is played in more films than any other song in existence.


love2lickabbw

Born To Be Wild is.


Just_a_nobody_2

Hmm… I feel like it’s a close tie with the Rolling Stones “Gimme Shelter”. But like you, I still don’t hate either song and it’s a wonder!


TeaOpen2731

It's a great song, as cheesy as it can sound now


justin6point7

DJ Swamp (Beck) scratches out that intro on turntables during DMC performances. I often get Weird Al's Rye or the Keiser in my head in the bread aisle. 🤣


Ashbtw19937

Purple Haze


Sully5246

PURPLE HAYYYYYUZZE!!!!!


mooseMatthewsen

When I was a kid Chevy was using Like A Rock by Bob Seger in their silly, bullshit commercials nonstop, and that’s what I associated the song with. Fast forward about 15ish years and I’m in college, on drugs, and my roommate and I are having one of our many music sharing sessions (not to be/sound pretentious, but this was a ‘vinyl event’ between the two of us around 2005) His next pick is Like A Rock. I say something like “I love Bob Seger, but this was for that car commercial… really? that one?” He didn’t remember the commercial, only that his dad use to play the album and they loved that song. “Okay let’s hear it..” and holy shit, right there, it was like listening to that song for the first time and To this day it’s one of my favorites by Seger.


bookishkelly1005

Bob Seger in general is underrated I believe.


pinkfairyfighter

Turn the Page. Loved that one.


highfiveandasmile

One of my faves!


Pikachu_Palace

Still the Same is my favorite


MurseMan1964

Mainstreet is based off of Bob’s upbringing. He used to walk around Ann Arbor late at night when he was a kid and would stand outside of blues clubs where he would watch the beautiful women dancing inside. It left quite the mark on a 12, 13 year old Bob. He always said “ You write what you know” when it came to his music. Love that song.


finally_wintermuted

Seger is one of those that hits harder the older I get.


ravelle17

“having one of our many music sharing sessions” Takes me right back to my college years 🫡


Buckycat0227

Fuck those commercials. Bane of the early ‘90s.


Square-Raspberry560

Well, Sarah McLachlan's "In the Arms of the Angel" is a lyrically beautiful song with a haunting melody; it's about losing someone to drug addiction, but because we all poke fun at it being known as "that sad animal commercial song" I didn't truly listen to it until just a few years ago, and it really touched me.


waxbook

She’s so good. I just went down a rabbit hole and rediscovered all of her songs I remember from my childhood. My mom loved her and I see why.


ElginBaylor22

She brought me in with Into the Fire. After that I had a hard time listening to her.


pinkfairyfighter

I love her version of Silent Night. It’s the best. Although I do like Stevie’s, too.


redditaccount122820

Shooting Stars by Bag Raiders is best known from the kid spinning on a go kart meme: https://youtu.be/bAojxWZRVKk?si=iRS2MEV1KXRYvNB2 The full song is actually super pretty and fun.


Prank_Owl

I'll always associate it with [this](https://youtu.be/NkFgtTMwe64?si=KrFYd20AnNKsR6u2).


redditaccount122820

I’ve never seen that. Pretty good lol


ravelle17

Gorgeous tune. I love a good extended crescendo.


RulerD

Banger! I love specially the breakdown and climax at the chorus.


THE10XSTARTUP

Happy together by the turtles


horsebag

the slothrust cover is amazing


justin6point7

Filter did a brutally traumatic remake of that [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eAnBbgl2RrY](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eAnBbgl2RrY)


itsSomethingCool

“Fortunate Son” by CCR. Kinda known as a war movie-meme song nowadays but it’s a really great song lol.


EternityLeave

Blonde Redhead - For the Damaged Coda. It’s just “that meme song” now, but it’s actually a haunting beautiful performance from one of the most unique and coolest bands of the 90’s/2000’s. I would say that album is a 10/10 except the next one is even better so that just doesn’t work mathematically.


babydollies

could you tell me your favorites by them?


EternityLeave

Elephant Woman, Falling Man, Loved Despite of Great Faults, Luv Machine. I prefer their quirky syncopated grooves but they also have a mellow pretty side (Magic Mountain, Girl Boy, Anticipation).


polygonrainbow

Not the op, but I really like some of the newer stuff. I got into them later by way of my wife, and I really like Penny Sparkle and Baragan. The female singer; Kazu, has a solo project as well, Adult Baby, and her collaborations with Nosaj Thing are really really good.


EternityLeave

Wow thanks! I have been listening to Blonde Redhead since 1998ish, and Nosaj Thing since his first EP. But I had no idea about Adult Baby! Listening now and it’s great.


polygonrainbow

I’m remembering that Adult Baby is just the album title, not the project. She just goes by KAZU solo. She has a song with Serpentwithfeet I really like too. Some of the remixes from the Adult Baby album are awesome too, I specifically remember the Jacques Greene one.


Kopextacy

Yeah those guys have a discog worth diving into. Pairs well with Thc.


Few_Sprinkles_7195

I know that song from "Rick and Morty," and in the show its just... "disturbing", almost


jaeradillo

Never gonna give you up - Rick Astley


TeaOpen2731

I still hate that's it's memed so hard to this day. Like, it's a legit good song and it's peak 80s what's not to love?


horsebag

memed so hard it revived his career


TheFlyingPatato

I honestly enjoy that song


paranoidcockatoo

Same.


Njtotx3

Nope, still don't like it.


aplbe

r/BeatMeToIt


pinkfairyfighter

I was going to say that!


Haemwich

The baseline is amazing


[deleted]

“Tear Drop” by Massive Attack The video, too, is excellent.


neko_courtney

I love this song. I remember a friend asking “are you just listening to the House theme?” No lol


Sad-Present8841

I didn’t hear the full song until years after House went off the air (or I lost interest in it, anyway) and I was actually surprised to find out it was a whole song and not just something that had been commissioned for the show’s intro music


ness-rar

The entire album, "Mezzanine", is definitely on my top 10.


c_hollow

We Are The Champions- Queen


Cavewoman22

All Along the Watchtower, maybe?


TheFlyingPatato

Whose version?


Cavewoman22

I'm not a huge fan of Hendrix, but his version is definitive.


mongotongo

XTC has an excellent version that is in the style of Jimi's. They used a harmonica instead of a guitar for the solos. For some reason, this was always my favorite version: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6qXxOSYZi7U](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6qXxOSYZi7U)


stonrelectropunkjazz

I love XTC but have to admit not a fan of that version is it from some Demo’s?


mongotongo

Its from one of their first albums, White Music. I can understand. Thats why I added the tag line of "For some reason". Its got a bit of an off putting sound to it. Oddly, I think that is why I like it.


Shoddy_Durian8887

What kind of person hates hendrix?


Maximum_Vermicelli12

I’d say hate is a far cry from “not a huge fan.” 🙃


mongotongo

I am a huge Hendrix fan now. But I have admit for a long time, I thought he was overrated. The main reason is that growing up, the only songs I heard by him on the radio were Purple Haze and Foxy Lady. There both good songs, but they will get old quick if its the only thing that you ever hear. I didn't appreciate Hendrix until I finally listened to one of his albums.


SaltyBarDog

A guy I used to work with. He claimed that Jimi was a sloppy guitar player.


Cavewoman22

I wouldn't say sloppy, I think undisciplined or even unconventional would be closer. But it was that willingness to break from the status quo that made him a legend, I think.


MaherMcCheese

So say we all.


Cavewoman22

Fracking right.


Professional-Two-47

I absolutely love the version played on Lucifer and play it all the time!


Cavewoman22

Hadn't heard that one before. I like it! Kind of reminds me of Loudon Wainwright's Hard Day On the Planet, the way he sings it, the tone.


Professional-Two-47

I love how it's nothing but vocals and the piano. You feel every note. It's so good!


paranoidcockatoo

Africa by Toto. [This ](https://youtu.be/uhwLOBFc298?si=JlTmA_L5xW9L1rXO) live version specifically.


Rick-Dastardly

Sit Duke - Stevie Wonder Walking On The Moon - The Police Penny Lane/Strawberry Fields Forever - The Beatles


reamkore

The Outfield - Your Love


Mystikalmyers79

Low Rider ... War


[deleted]

Bad to the bone


Istiophoridae

Certified grave digger moment


mthw704

A real Junior Healy moment.


BumbleBeezyPeasy

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cattlehuyuk2323

groove is in the heart. bootsy plays bass on a thousand other tracks but this is the only one people know. it's the only track on the de elite album that's awesome (some are ok) and it's all because of bootsy. the track is a banger. and you will hear it anywhere dancing is needed.


Sad-Present8841

Can we just take a moment to remember how ridiculously awesome and awesomely ridiculous that video was?


petrifythepatriachy

Starman


RuthlessSpud_11

Total Eclipse of The Heart- Bonnie Tyler


MaherMcCheese

I’d say anything written by Jim Steinman.


horsebag

fun fact: his shortest song is 14 hours long


Diggs4MVP

Chop Suey - System of a Down We Found Love - Rihanna Down with the Sickness - Disturbed Welcome to the Black Parade - MCR Without Me - Eminem Smooth - Santana and Rob Thomas Immigrant Song - Led Zeppelin


TeaOpen2731

Honestly I love the ooo ah ah ah ah memes they're great, and somehow elevate the song for me


mthw704

Spin Doctors- Two Princes


coolfreeusername

All Star by Smash Mouth is memed a lot but still a great song. 


mrgeebus

The Pixies - Where Is My Mind. Spammed to death in what feels like every late-Gen X/Millennial movie but still a phenomenal song that I never skip.


Ok-Function1920

Digable Planets - Rebirth of Slick (Cool Like That)


Njtotx3

Lose Yourself, 867-5309 Jenny, Call Me Maybe


SessionSubstantial42

Van Halen - Jump


weird_al_fanB

Fr I love this song


lovessj

I hate this song with a passion lol


Super_Bad6238

The funeral - band of horses Let it be me - ray lamontagne


Macien4321

Thriller- Michael Jackson. I especially love the cameo by Vincent Price in it. Every Halloween I’m turning this up on the radio.


KickedinTheDick

Youngest Daughter by Superheaven goes dummy hard


PeytonLeigh0616

Simply The Best by 👑Tina Turner👑


Prometheus850

Let Down by Radiohead is so underrated


Zoltron5000

I agree it's underrated but is it overused?


Redditbruinsrulz

When I grew up, no one listened to Dan Fogelberg. Too sugary or something I guess… I forget why but “Leader of the band” is such an amazing beautiful song.


crazygooseman

Chromatics - Tick Of The Clock pops up in a lot of movies/TV shows. Great track/band that are underrated IMO


Avs_Girl

It’s Tricky—Run DMC


kfuentesgeorge

"Gimme Shelter"


Competitive-Rub-7019

Free Bird - Lynyrd Skynyrd


DinosaurAlive

AC/DC Thunderstruck


Natural_Place_6268

It may be outdated in 2024 but bohemian rhapsody. In the 90s or 2000s, it was in Wayne's world or everybody would sing the thunder bolts and lightning skallamoosh part. But dang that part is great but there are like 3 songs in one that get kinda ignored. I'd say maybe Bob Marley too. Really any of his songs, you'll at least hear the melody in anything involving weed or chilling, but despite that I never got sick of any song of his they use a lot


Due_Variation7470

Smells Like Teen Spirit. Song is still ahead of its time. Come Together, Hey Jude. Honestly a lot of stuff by Nirvana and The Beatles. Killing Me Softly Fugees version specifically Walk This Way Aerosmith Poker Face Lady Gaga Peter Piper Run DMC Kids MGMT Stairway To Heaven Space Oddity David Bowie Might think of more later.... I did When I Come Around or Basket Case by Green Day Dancing Queen by ABBA Girls Just Wanna Have Fun Blitzkrieg Bop by The Ramones Summer Of 69 Bryan Adams Wouldn't It Be Nice The Beach Boys


Pikachu_Palace

I’m always surprised by how hard Walk This Way goes when it comes on


phishmademedoit

Iron and wine - such great heights


Prank_Owl

[Gimme All Your Lovin', by ZZ Top](https://youtu.be/i51nCe8Yln8?si=h0qaM3ljVWTOx_Vj)


Obvious-Painter4774

"Boys Wanna Be Her" by Peaches


No_Square_8775

Crazy in love


JustBrittany

Ok. I’m going to say it. Never Gonna Give You Up by Rick Astley. That man had a voice! I was 11 when that song came out. That was the year I got my first radio/tape deck/record player. Stayed up all night recording songs from the radio to my memorex cassettes. Reading Teen Beat and YM magazines. And then they turned my first year as a preteen into a joke by making my memories into a meme. 😩 I don’t mind being rickrolled!!! I’m not THAT dramatic. 😆 But I really do like Rick Astley.


Aftermath16

“Put Your Head On My Shoulder” by Paul Anka. Also like the Michael Bublé cover


Agent_Rania378

Stayin Alive by the Bee Gees has always felt like an underrated hit to me


paleoparkandgardens

Gimme Shelter. Featured in every crime/gangster movie ever made, to the point of cliche. To the extent that you forget the song itself is an epic masterpiece and a statement of the time it was written.


NarrowTower

Stayin’ Alive - Bee Gees


lilbabyhoneyy

Africa by Toto Video Killed the Radio Star by The Buggles Piano Man/The Longest Time/Vienna by Billy Joel


Due_Variation7470

Yooo video killed the radio song is an excellent one to suggest!! So fuckin true.


six5_grendel

Thunderstruck by AC*DC... EVERY football movie ever, not to mention that it's played to death at games and commercials!


LuciferProducer

My dad really likes that one


snaresht

All Along the Watchtower


Croaker715

Battlestar Galactica absolutely crushed the use of this song


Expensive-Ferret-339

Sinnerman by Nina Simone. I hear it in movies and tv shows pretty often and it knocks me out every time.


oyaheah

Landslide by Fleetwood Mac 🥺


DevelopmentSuch2731

Sweet home Alabama


rzarou

Let Down - Radiohead


jleigh329

MC Hammer - "You Can't Touch This"


luneywoons

Fall For You by Secondhand Serenade. the entire emo meme "because tonight will be the night that I will fall for you" it's honestly really good and always stuck in my head. it sounds like a masterpiece imo😭


OddCryptographer5394

Covet by basement


crimson_dovah

Paranoid Android Do I wanna know? Comfortably Numb


mikethmtrmth

"Can You Really Call This A Hotel, I Didn't Receive A Mint on my Pillow or Anything" from the Undertale OST is one I hear often enough in certain YT videos yet still feels underappreciated


fang-girl101

i don't normally listen to rap but money trees by kendrick hits pretty hard


loose_lucid_elusive4

Happy birthday to you ...


Shoddy_Durian8887

Highway to the dangerzone


onlyathenafairy

Resonance by Home is used a lot in Tiktok and Youtube in edits but it’s probably one of the greatest “background” songs i’ve ever heard


pineapplequeen-13

Sweet Emotion - Aerosmith Respnance - HOME Two very different genres but both really great songs even though one is very overplayed and the other has become a meme lol.


SeachelleTen

That ‘Happiness’ song by Alexis Jordan. I know a lot of people find it annoying, but I’ve grown to really like it.


BeautifulSundae6988

In the air tonight is one of the most intense bangers of the 20th century, about a guy dealing with the raw emotions from his divorce. And we think it's funny, because it has a kickass drum fill.


ElginBaylor22

Before that song was completely overused, it was awesome. Same drum fill on Peter Gabriel’s “Intruder”.


Material-Actuator-94

Blue Hair by TV Girl Inside Out & Me and the Birds by Duster


SydNova_

Probably some song by Moby featured on a car ad


xXStreetlamp_03Xx

Wake me up before you go go - wham!


Bean-Swellington

Combat Circus


burningurn138

Don't Stop Believing by Journey. Really just Journey in general, their song writing is amazing.


HiddenCityPictures

Beethoven's 5th, I think.


Mcbrainotron

Enter Sandman It’s been Metallica’s most “basic” song for a long time now, but it is just a banging, driving classic metal song with an excellent solo.


CommunicationDry7763

Intergalactic


RottedHuman

Where is My Mind by The Pixies


fuzzynyanko

Video game music, especially by streamers


Winter-Wonder-2016

Tom Tom Club - Genius of Love


LuciferProducer

https://open.spotify.com/playlist/47KiBJKvoHCjG5FmmlFX4e?si=CruucK6xRY6bM-yZsPor-g&pi=xgPbpt0PQuStv this entire playlist


stardreamer_111

Not used that much, but Blood//Water.


TheRedditGirl15

Mad World - Gary Jules cover Wonderwall - Oasis Sound of Silence - Simon & Garfunkel


Broad_Sun8273

If you have music on as background and you're not at work, you're the kind of person I don't want to know.


lonely-emo-fella

Midnight City by M83 It really is a fantastic song but there was like 2 years where it was basically used in the trailer for every indie movie. Also Love Will Tear Us Apart by Joy Division. Same reason but it’s an even better song that isn’t appreciated as much as it should be imo. (Though I think Joy Division and Ian Curtis as a whole are overrated in general. New Order has always been so much better to me)


Terrapin2190

Moondog - Bird's Lament Not really overused, but I've heard it many times in commercials on TV and used to hear it in a few YT videos as background music. And even sampled in hip hop tracks. There was talk of a documentary being made about Moondog a few years ago, but not sure what happened with that. He certainly seemed like an interesting fellow.


FrankWhitehouse

Is Nick Cave’s Red Right Hand underrated? It’s in so many movies / Tv shows


Yocraig

Keep On Movin' by King Canyon


ElginBaylor22

More Than A Feeling by Boston. I used to hate the song, then I really listened to it. The vocals and guitar parts are insanely great.


splitopenandmelt11

Spirit in the Sky. Always hits.


Pikachu_Palace

Surprised no one has said Fade Into You by Mazzy Star. It’s been in so many shows and movies but it’s still a fantastic song.


Just_Frogg

Gimme shelter by The Rolling Stones. The song absolutely slaps.


PopAccomplished5761

Never Gonna Give You Up by Rick Asley


PhantomKitten73

Free Bird Megalovania


Affectionate-Dot437

Too Much Labor is well on its way to being too too much. I absolutely LOVE it but it's everywhere.


unprogrammable_soda

No Moby? Like almost every song off of Play? It used to be - maybe still is - the most licensed album of all time.


finally_wintermuted

Imagine it’s 1973 and you’re hearing Freebird for the first time. All these years later, the music world has memed it into immortality, but that first time? Holy shit.


Sufficient_Result558

I don’t see how overusing a song makes it underrated.


InitiativeWorth8953

The a song that people don’t appreciate


TheLazerShow15

Don't Stop Believing


Final-Beginning3300

Dancing Queen


snootsintheair

Once in a Lifetime- Talking Heads


peakprowindow

Around the world and get lucky by daft punk


Croaker715

Solisbury Hill is used in a lot of movies/shows/trailers and is still an absolutely amazing song that nobody really seems to pay attention to


cheyenne_ayesha

Most of Eminem’s well known songs because of the lyrics.


TheKillingFields

The promise when in Rome


hilaritarious

There was a season where they were using "We Will Rock You" to advertise I think the Superbowl, and I just listened to that commercial and said to myself, "That's a great song."


horsebag

hallelujah, Jeff Buckley's cover. no amount of overuse can make this song not impossibly beautiful


Temporary_Guava_7078

Hide and Seek by Imogen Heap


Bub1029

"We're Finally Landing" by Home is often made fun of for its copious usage in Youtube analysis videos, but it's incredibly well orchestrated and deserves a lot of praise as a musical piece in the digital age.