For fun: What song can you sing every word to?

[livinitup]

Lots & lots. Especially artists I grew up with, high school (Guns & Roses) and college.(I can say with certainty that I can sing 90% of the Billy Joel catalogue.)

This is fun - I know the Copacabana song by heart & used to sing it all the time in college. —> So, did my TEENAGER think she found this song & randomly add it to one of her playlists? Yes. Did she play it and was she shocked that I knew all the words? Yes, again.

[InBetweenDays]

LOTS prior to 2000. My biggest flex may be It's The End of the World As We Know It (and i feel fine).

[sunshineandpinot]

Fancy by Reba McEntire is what popped in my head, but probably many 90s country favs.

[litebright]

Every word of every song of Counting Crows' August & Everything After, every Indigo Girls album up until Come On Now Social, a bunch of songs by Huey Lewis & The News, Journey, Bon Jovi, Madonna, Michael Jackson, Christina Aguilera, Britney Spears, Peter Cetera and other random pop, rock and alt artists. Church hymns and folk songs, including all seven verses of America the Beautiful. I have a LOT of music taking up space in my brain and sometimes I don't even realize I still remember it, until I hear the song again. 

It really is a very distinctive period of my life. I remember as a kid/young teen when some (but not all) artists would put the lyrics in the little paper covers inside the tape case or the CD case and I would pour over them, and how frustrating it was when lyrics were unintelligible and the only way to figure out what they were, was to rewind and listen to the line over and over again to see if you could puzzle it out. 

One of the things I loved when the internet first arrived was discovering that people put song lyrics online and being able to search for them. I still do that, I was just looking at some Chappell Roan lyrics the other day. 

[abs]

litebright yes! I always felt ripped off if there were no words in the inserts. It was a sad day when those stopped.

I am here for the August and Everything After love, too. One of my favorite albums ever.

[sent]

Sept 14, 2024 20:27:56 GMT -5 laurack said:

The other day how to save a life came on the radio and I started singing it and my 10 year old son was like MOM you know this song???(is it trendy again for some reason?) so I was like uhhh do I know THIS SONG??!! And so I sang every word to show him. And he was like oh. Well I guess you did know it how come? And I said well… there was this TV show called Scrubs..

So I guess my answer is how to save a life by the fray.

No, I think this song was in Grey’s Anatomy circa 2007.

Eta - I see it was on both shows!

[sent]

Material Girl

And many others but of course I can’t remember what.

[rubytue]

Sept 15, 2024 0:19:15 GMT -5 gummy said:

Sept 14, 2024 19:08:28 GMT -5 abs said:

Basically all songs from 1985-2005?

Plus random things like my high school fight song and the theme song to Growing Pains and Animaniacs. I have infinite brain supply for lyrics. Zero for important things.

This plus commercial jingles. So many commercial jingles.

Two all beef Pattie’s special sauce lettuce cheese pickles onions on a sesame seed bun 

Monchichi monchichi oh so soft and cuddly, put a thumb in his mouth he’s oh so sweet, love to wiggle his little feet. 

[Gato]

So many. I grew up listening to my mom’s Beatles, Rolling Stones, and Aretha Franklin albums, and developed my own ABBA obsession in the 70s. Kate Bush and Peter Gabriel in the 80s. Tupac and the Cranberries in the 90s (a weird mix). Then I spent the early 2000s listening to my husband’s music but not really learning the words. I think maybe “Hey Ya!” and “Halo” and “Chinese Translation” are the only ones I could sing without lyrics.

Since then it’s all what my kids have loved. So Katy Perry sequeing to Olivia Rodrigo to Melanie Martinez and Chappell Roan now.

[1confused1]

Sept 14, 2024 19:03:05 GMT -5 TR said:

Too many to name lol I have a weird talent for song lyrics

Same. I have an uncanny ability to memorize song lyrics.

[lostrn]

Sept 14, 2024 20:19:27 GMT -5 leahcar said:

Way too many songs from the late 80s thru 2004ish.

I saw the remaining members of Alice In Chains last week as an opening act and wasn’t the biggest fan even in the 90s. And knew every damn word to those songs.

I often wonder what I could do if half my brain were not 90s lyrics.

I didn't think Alice in Chains was touring this summer. Who'd you see them with?

[mysteriouswife]

Sept 14, 2024 19:07:37 GMT -5 sweetchix said:

Sk8erboi

I am convinced my vocal cords were bruised after the Avril concert the other night.

[Jalapeñomel]

Sept 15, 2024 18:14:40 GMT -5 lostrn said:

Sept 14, 2024 20:19:27 GMT -5 leahcar said:

Way too many songs from the late 80s thru 2004ish.

I saw the remaining members of Alice In Chains last week as an opening act and wasn’t the biggest fan even in the 90s. And knew every damn word to those songs.

I often wonder what I could do if half my brain were not 90s lyrics.

I didn't think Alice in Chains was touring this summer. Who'd you see them with?

Coincidentally, a friend of mine saw them in Phoenix yesterday with Bush.

[mysteriouswife]

Way too many to list. I am married to a huge music nerd. We go to 20+ concerts a year. There is always music in my house.

Jolene, Hard Candy Christmas, and 9 to 5 are three that I can sing on command without music.

[mysteriouswife]

Sept 15, 2024 19:02:55 GMT -5 Jalapeñomel said:

Sept 15, 2024 18:14:40 GMT -5 lostrn said:

I didn't think Alice in Chains was touring this summer. Who'd you see them with?

Coincidentally, a friend of mine saw them in Phoenix yesterday with Bush.

I think it’s just Jerry and not the whole band. I’m so damn sad I missed the Bush tour a few weeks ago.

[lostrn]

Sept 15, 2024 19:08:34 GMT -5 mysteriouswife said:

Sept 15, 2024 19:02:55 GMT -5 Jalapeñomel said:

Coincidentally, a friend of mine saw them in Phoenix yesterday with Bush.

I think it’s just Jerry and not the whole band. I’m so damn sad I missed the Bush tour a few weeks ago.

The last concert I went to (sadly 2 summers ago) was Bush and Alice in Chains. So good. I had no idea what to expect from Bush and was blown away.

[beerlover]

Too many to count, but Stairway to Heaven is one to note in particular since it's like 8 minutes long lol. November Rain too.

[shauni27]

Sept 14, 2024 19:15:11 GMT -5 momin2013 said:

The first one that came to mind was American Pie.

this was the first song I ever sang karaoke to, and while it is a GREAT song (and I know all the words, still), it is a terrible karaoke choice. It is so long! lol.

Sept 14, 2024 19:42:02 GMT -5 campermom said:

Fresh Prince of Bel Air

sproctopus that’s very impressive

100% 

Also, Shoop by Salt n' Peppa, any song from Rent or Chicago, a few Nina Simone songs, many others.

[protozoa]

Sept 15, 2024 10:13:25 GMT -5 rubytue said:

Sept 15, 2024 0:19:15 GMT -5 gummy said:

This plus commercial jingles. So many commercial jingles.

Two all beef Pattie’s special sauce lettuce cheese pickles onions on a sesame seed bun 

Monchichi monchichi oh so soft and cuddly, put a thumb in his mouth he’s oh so sweet, love to wiggle his little feet. 

OMG I'm constantly singing random jingles from the 80s and 90s

Lots of songs but Shoop comes to mind 

[lavenderblue]

Sept 14, 2024 19:28:50 GMT -5 verycontrary247 said:

Sept 14, 2024 19:03:05 GMT -5 TR said:

Too many to name lol I have a weird talent for song lyrics

Same.

I like to joke that all of my brain space that would otherwise be dedicated to simple mathematics was overrun early on with song lyrics and never recovered.

I say something similar. Like "imagine all of the important information I've forgotten and replaced with song lyrics" LOL

[lightbulbsun]

So many! I recently heard "Mutt" by Blink 182 for the first time in probably 20 years, and I sang along and was shocked that I remembered all the words.

[midwestmama]

I know quite a few from my teenage years (including Beatles songs, because I was obsessed), when I had time to just listen to music. Probably the most unusual is "Remedy" by Jason Mraz.

[ksun]

Definitely Friends in Low Places, All too Well (10 minute version), Bye Bye Bye, a million songs from the 80's

[MDmomof2]

Sept 14, 2024 19:15:11 GMT -5 momin2013 said:

The first one that came to mind was American Pie.

My entire family of origin can sing all the words to American Pie and we missed our exit during a long drive on a family vacation one year because we were all howling along.

[bittybomb]

Sept 14, 2024 19:04:27 GMT -5 sproctopus said:

We Didn't Start the Fire (a most impressive feat)

and

2 of Amerikaz Most Wanted

I credit We Didn't Start the Fire for the 100% I earned on my 8th grade social studies final.

[fiddles]

Tequila

[Susie]

it's the end of the world as we know it (and I feel fine)

[intheden]

Sept 15, 2024 13:21:41 GMT -5 1confused1 said:

Sept 14, 2024 19:03:05 GMT -5 TR said:

Too many to name lol I have a weird talent for song lyrics

Same. I have an uncanny ability to memorize song lyrics.

Same Same... 1950's till early 2000's, I'm pretty damn good (and old)
Music is always on in my house or I am always singing. My parents were/are the same way. We just saw ELO on Saturday..it was incredible...lol

[shauni27]

My son (7) still likes me to sing to him at night (which makes me so happy) so I regularly get asked to learn songs that he wants me to sing. I know all of the words to 5 or 6 songs by the chicks. A few Zack Bryan, Noah Kahan, Brandi Carlile, Noah Cyrus songs, etc.

[osulori]

Fresh Prince of Bel Air, Area Codes, and You're Welcome from Moana.