Iconic Song Request: Difference between revisions

 

There are songs so famous (or infamous) that they're universally adored (or reviled) in certain circles, constantly being requested (possibly to the point of annoyance) on the radio, at a concert or in a lounge. Of course, [[Small Reference Pools]] mean these tend to be the same songs across different genres. This is a [[Cyclic Trope]], as time marches on and these songs go into and out of style.

 

== [[Film]] ==

* ''[[Casablanca]]'': "Play it, Sam. Play 'As Time Goes By'."

* ''[[Wayne's World]]'': The guitar store has a sign that says "No Stairway to Heaven".

** [[Truth in Television]]. Lots of specialist guitar shops actually do have that sign.

* On ''[[Cars]]'' someone shouts for "Freebird" during Lightning McQueen's sponsors' appearance.

 

* If watching [[Live Action TV]] [[Sitcom|Sit Coms]] from [[The Sixties]] has taught anyone anything, it's that the drunk in the piano bar will always ask for "Melancholy Baby".

* In ''[[Star Trek: The Next Generation]]'', Riker is giving a trombone concert and Troi insists that he play a fictional tune "Nightbird". He reluctantly agrees, and then is saved by a summons to the bridge.

 

== [[Music]] ==

** On the Bomb the Music Industry! album ''Album Minus Band'' is a song called ''FRRRREEEEEE BIIIIIIRRRRRD! FRRRREEEEEE BIIIIIIRD!!!!'', which is about playing oft requested cover songs to bad crowds.

* On his album ''Too Close For Comfort'', comedian/folksinger Martin Pearson talks about drunks hassling him for requests (which he doesn't do). The funniest one is being asked to play "Tubular Bells" (Martin is a guitarist).

** In Finland, the song requested is [[Black Sabbath|Paranoid]]

* Comedian Sean Hughes used to shout "do Titanic Motives" at every Julian Cope gig he attended. He made the song title up, but allegedly Cope started to believe it was real and that he'd simply forgotten it.

 

== [[Video Games]] ==

 

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