All-encompassing supersongs

[Utter Shit]

Was just discussing this with a mate, thought I'd make it here.

Can anyone think of any songs that 'everyone' likes? The type of song where you don't know anyone who dislikes it.

Tracy Chapman - Fast Car

No?

[Cheeky Monkey]

Unfinished Sympathy by Massive Attack

Anyone who doesn't like this song gets no muffins at my house.

and I reckon...

Smells Like Teen Spirit
Teenage Kicks

[Shoulders?-Stomach!]

A Town Called Malice

[LadyDay]

Blue Monday - New Order

[gazzyk1ns]

I'd look at someone a bit strangely if they asserted that Waterloo Sunset was a bad song.

[dan dirty ape]

(Your Love Keeps Lifting Me) Higher and Higher - Jackie Wilson
If you don't like that you're a git.

I think you could probably fit a fair few soul songs in this category. 'Superstition' by Stevie Wonder is surely a record that no-one can fail to like.

I have to say I'm not that bothered by anything Tracy Chapman's ever sung. I don't dislike it, it's just there.

[Darrell]

ELO - Mr Blue Sky
Queen - Don't Stop Me Now
Chris Jarvis - Glasses

[Utter Shit]

That Jackie Wilson song is bang on. Everyone likes that.

[mayer]

Including the Statue of Liberty and toasters.

[Pepotamo1985]

[obvious]

The Verve - Bittersweet Symphony

A song that everyone seems to have on their iPod, and chaps/chapettes from all walks of taste love. Even people who say they hate this dirge admit that it's a great song.

[/obvious]

[Cheeky Monkey]

I Heard It Through The Grapevine
Billie Jean
Louie Louie

They're all pretty untouchable.

[Claude the Racecar Driving Rockstar Super Sleuth]

Green Onions - not a song as such, but I don't know anyone who doesn't love it.

[TOCMFIC]

Was just discussing this with a mate, thought I'd make it here.

Can anyone think of any songs that 'everyone' likes? The type of song where you don't know anyone who dislikes it.

Tracy Chapman - Fast Car

No?

I FUCKING HATE THAT SONG! Not just saying that, I do loathe it. Will turn the station if it comes on the radio.

And my wife hates "Bittersweet Symphony".

I think probably the biggest one listed here is Blue Monday. I can honestly believe that everyone likes that.

[Utter Shit]

I Heard It Through The Grapevine
Billie Jean
Louie Louie

They're all pretty untouchable.

Billie Jean came up in my discussion, but personally I don't like. You know how you can really like a song that's just come out, but through overkill on the radio you end up not liking it until it goes away - then a few months later you can revisit it and like it again? With Billie Jean, that overkill has spanned a number of decades, and you can never escape it long enough to start liking it again. Which is a shame because it's clearly a great song. I'm the same with Thriller, just can't listen to it. My favourite Jacko songs are all slightly less well-known - Man In The Mirror, Will You Be There?, Remember The Time etc.

TOCMFIC, I am actually stunned. Gobsmacked. I was convinced that everyone ever liked that song. Even people who've never heard it are able to hum the "I-e-i, got a feeling that I belong..." bit!

[Utter Shit]

Also, I'm not really arsed with Bittersweet Symphony. The video's better than the song.

[lazyhour]

Bittersweet Symphony isn't even a song.  It's just a short orchestral riff from an old Rolling Stones track, repeated endlessly while some arrogant fool sneers tunelessly over it.  Very unpleasant listening to these ears.

[falafel]

You could have just said it was shite, lazyhour. That would have pretty much hit the spot. SHITE. UNBEARABLE SHITE.

[Hypnotoad.]

Don't you forget about me - Simple Minds

[fanny splendid]

Bittersweet Symphony isn't even a song.  It's just a short orchestral riff from an old Rolling Stones track, repeated endlessly while some arrogant fool sneers tunelessly over it.  Very unpleasant listening to these ears.

I completely agree, as I do with those who don't like Fast Car or Billie Jean.

Edit: Or indeed that Simple Minds song

[boki]

You know, when I saw the first post in the thread, I was all prepared to go into prickly bugger mode and wince at the choices that were to follow, 'cos I can be a miserable sod like that sometimes (it probably doesn't help that I just listened to a little bit of Henry Rollins stand-up, which often persuades me that pure, bile-spitting fury is a fine and positive thing), but I found myself agreeing with everything except 'Mr Blue Sky', which just lays it on way too thick to be truly likable for me (but this is Jeff I-chucked-two-kitchen-sinks-in-just-to-be-sure Lynne we're talking about here).

'Fast Car's alright, just overplayed.  I don't dislike it and won't switch over if it comes on the radio, but I don't particularly mind if I never hear it again either.

[hoverdonkey]

Blondie - Atomic?

[Leila]

Stardust - Music sounds better with you

Everyone likes this, right?

[Utter Shit]

I love it, but my girlfriend despises it.

[Al Tha Funkee Homosapien]

R.E.M. - Everybody Hurts. Surely everybodys done a bit of moping to that song. Well most young, white males anyway.

House of Pain - Jump Around. Dumb but fun.

[Utter Shit]

I was going to mention Everybody Hurts, but  there are times when I can't stomach how depressing it sounds, especially for what is lyrically an uplifting song.

Jump Around is a definite one, excellence.

In terms of specific genres, I don't know any clubbers who don't love Faithless' Insomnia, Prodigy's Outta Space and Baby D's Let Me Be Your Fantasy, but I don't know that that extends to people in general.

Half of Bob Marley's stuff is loved by all, surely?

[23 Daves]

Well I can start by saying that I loathe "Fast Car", "Don't Stop Me Now" and "Jump Around", which obviously makes me sound like a contrary git.  My wife hates "Fast Car" as well.  No idea why that one was the first example, it brings forth a great flurry of tuts in the Daves household if it comes on the radio.

I would however, nominate Junior Senior's "Move Your Feet" were it not for the fact that I have one friend who despises it.

Black Box's "Ride On Time" always seems to get people rather too excited at parties.

And you'd have to be a right miserable fuck to dislike The Beatles "All You Need Is Love".

This is actually proving harder than I thought.... erm... Pulp's "Common People"?

Oh, and I'd agree, Prodigy's "Outta Space" is a safe bet.  Always.  Then again, it's superb.

[Utter Shit]

Hate Common People. Hate Pulp, to be honest.

Is Ride On Time that dance song from the early 90s?

[23 Daves]

Hate Common People. Hate Pulp, to be honest.

Is Ride On Time that dance song from the early 90s?

Well, there's always one.

Ride On Time was a massive, massive club and chart hit from 1989.  It was the biggest selling single of that year, utterly inescapable at the time.  Two Italian blokes being fronted by a black supermodel, do you remember?

[Utter Shit]

That'll be the one I'm thinking of, backing singers singing "gotta get up gotta get up"?

[Al Tha Funkee Homosapien]

yup.