Signature Songs.

Ok, I was listening to the radio (<3 @ Classic Rock) and they were doing something during lunch with the listeners calling to vote on what a band's signature song is, and played the signature song of a band. They did several bands, and some of them I could agree with.

Anyway, the point of this thread is to name a song that a band/singer is well known for, and that's basically would be their signature song. Here are several bands' signature songs as voted by the listeners of the radio station.

Eric Clapton, Layla
Police, Roxanne
Led Zepplin, Stairway To Heaven
John Mellencamp, Jack And Diane
Eagles, Hotel California
Queen, Bohemian Rhapsody
Rolling Stones, Satisfaction
The Who, Who Are You
U2, Pride In The Name Of Love
Aerosmith, Dream On
Elton John, Tiny Dancer
Tom Petty, Refugee
Van Halen, Runnin' With The Devil
Lynyrd Skynard, Freebird
Pink Floyd, Another Brick In The Wall
CCR, Fortunate Son
Bruce Springsteen, Born To Run
Beatles, Hey Jude

Seems pretty easy to do. You may want to give some of the bands listed with a different song which you would consider their signature song, or you can list a different band or singer with their signature song of your choice. Get going. *whips*

I've addedmy comments in brackets.

Eric Clapton - Layla (agreed - but admittedly he didn't even play the main riff - Duane Allman did)
Police - Roxanne (yup)
Led Zepplin - Stairway To Heaven (probably a grudging yes, but it really should be 'A Whole Lotta Love')
John Mellencamp - Jack And Diane (deffo)
Eagles - Hotel California (deffo)
Queen - Bohemian Rhapsody (deffo)
Rolling Stones - Satisfaction (toss-up between that and Jumpin' Jack Flash)
The Who - Who Are You (WRONG - My Generation, blatantly)
U2 - Pride In The Name Of Love (Yep)
Aerosmith - Dream On (nah, Sweet Emotion)
Elton John - Tiny Dancer (dunno, don't really care)
Tom Petty - Refugee (nah, Free Fallin')
Van Halen, Runnin' With The Devil (nah, Eruption or Jump)
Lynyrd Skynard - Freebird (that's a contentious one. The true rednecks would agree, but Sweet Home Alabama is the much more recognisable song)
Pink Floyd - Another Brick In The Wall (probably)
CCR - Fortunate Son (who?)
Bruce Springsteen - Born To Run (probably)
Beatles - Hey Jude (probably, but by no means their best song - but the Beatles were pretty average by my books)

I agree with a lot of them, but Clapton I think more people would associate with Cocaine before Layla, as it's solidly recognizable. It took me a couple of listens to catch on to the fact that it WAS Clapton. As for others I disagree with, definitely U2. I think of Mysterious Ways from Achtung, Baby when I think of U2, but I could be crazy. Or Sunday, Bloody Sunday. With the Eagles, I think Life in the Fast Lane is more their signature song. And for the Stones, when I think of them I think Brown Sugar, but I'm also weird.

Oh, and as much as I wish, Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers are more easily recognized by Free Fallin', though Refugee is a MUCH MUCH better song. However, I totally agree with the rest of them.

some of the songs are recent or old, I don't know. I'm just going by what I hear the most. Some of the songs listed in the beginning I've never heard or heard but don't know them, so...

Police~Every Breath You Take
U2~Vertigo
Breaking Benjamin~Co Cold
Shinedown~45
Chevelle~VitaminR
Green Day~ American Idiot/Holiday
Red Hot Chili Peppers~ *it's hard to say*

Red hot Chili Peppers - Give it Away. Obviously.
Green Day - When I Come Around
Guns and Roses - Welcome to the Jungle
Nirvana - Smells Like Teen Spirit
Oasis - Wonderwall
Ozzy Osbourne - Crazy Train
Pearl Jam - Alive
Radiohead - Creep (As much as they don't want it to be, it's true)
Stone Temple Pilots - Plush
Sublime - Santaria
ZZTop - La Grange
AC/DC - Back in Black

Im going to add one

Bob Dylan - Mr. Tamborine Man.

I'll list some female singers:

# Sade - Smooth Operator
# Grace Jones - Pull Up to the Bumper
# Björk - Venus As a Boy
# Enya - Orinoco Flow
# Aretha Franklin - R.E.S.P.E.C.T
# Dionne Warwick - Heartbreaker
# Whitney Houston - I Will Always Love You
# Dolly Parton - Joleen
# Cyndi Lauper - Girls Just Want to Have Fun
# Barbra Streisand - The Way We Were
# Liza Minnelli - Cabaret
# Shirley Bassey - This is My Life

Beatles - help
robbie williams - angels
Red hot chilli peppers - californication
System of a down - sugar
Marilyn manson - beautiful people
REM - everybody hurts
Michael Jackson - Billie jean
placebo - taste in men
elton john - your song
the verve - bittersweet symphony
David Bowie - space oddity
Gary Numan - cars

some of them are my favs. sorry but i had to put them in!
your song :love: :love: :love:

I'd say Under The Bridge for RHCP.
Aerosmith... Walk This Way.
John Mellencamp. Pink Houses.
Tom Petty... hmm. Running Down a Dream.
Van Halen. Gotta be Jump.
I don't care about Green Day, and neither should you.
I'm tempted to say November Rain for Guns and Roses, but I'll agree with Spiff on this one.
Pearl Jam... even though it isn't their best song, it's gotta be Jeremy.
ZZ Top... she's got Legs, she knows how to use them.

Anyway, for some others...

Deep Purple - Smoke on the Water
Boston - More Than a Feeling
Soundgarden - Black Hole Sun
Collective Soul - Shine
Journey - Don't Stop Believin'
Blue Oyster Cult - (Don't Fear) the Reaper
Foreigner - Cold as Ice
Loverboy - Working for the Weekend
Bad Company - Bad Company
Ted Nugent - Cat Scratch Fever
Queensrÿche - Silent Lucidity
Styx - Renegade
Yes - Roundabout
Supertramp - Take the Long Way Home

With Clapton, I think it depends on the era the listener has focused in on. Alot of people would certainly deem "Wonderful Tonight" or "Tears in Heaven" as prime candidates for his signature song, but I'd agree with Layla.
I'd say U2 would be better fitted with "One" or "Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For".
For the Eagles, "Lyin' Eyes" wouldn't be scoffed at, but Hotel California is pretty much it. For Elton John I'd probably hazard "Sacrifice".

As for others...
RHCP's - Under the Bridge
Guns n Roses - Sweet Child
Jeff Buckley - Hallelujah
Radiohead - Paranoid Andrioid
Green Day - Basket Case
The Kinks - You Really Got Me
Michael Jackson - Thriller
Oasis - Wonderwall
Fleetwood Mac - Little Lies
David Bowie - Heroes
Dire Straits - Walk of Life
Duran Duran - Rio

Red Hot Chili Peppers: Under The Bride, Breaking The Girl
The Temptations: My Girl, Papa Was A Rolling Stone, Beauty's Only Skin Deep
Enya: Only Time
Blink 182: All The Small Things
Phantom Planet: California (Here We Come)
Sugarcult: *can't think of the name but it goes like, "I'm bouncing off the walls again,. o-oh. I'm looking like a fool again o-oh*
Weezer: Buddy Holly, the Sweater Song, Say It Ain't So

Man, some of those signature songs I've never heard X.x; mostly just Hey Jude and satisfaction though. (of course I don't listen to the radio much, so songs I hear over and over are ones I *play* over and over)

Eurythmics - Sweet Dreams
AC*DC - Back in Black
Aerosmith - Don't Wanna Miss a Thing
AFI - Silver and Cold
Alice Cooper - School's Out
Aqua - Barbie Girl (;D)
Big City Groove - This Love
Blink 182 - All the Small Things
Blue Oyster Cult - Don't Fear the Reaper
Styx - Come Sail Away *or* Mr. Roboto. not sure which.
Boston - Taking My Time
Deep Purple - Smoke on the Water
CCR - Proud Mary
Cher - Believe
Coldplay - Amsterdam
Creed - Six Feet from the Edge
ELO - Blinded by the Light
David Bowie - Ziggy Stardust
DC Talk - Jesus Freak
Depeche Mode - Free Love
Dir en Grey - Child prey
the Eagles - Hotel California (but wasted time is so much prettier. . .)
Eiffel 65 - Blue
Eric Clapton - Layla. (makes me sad how Yahoo was overusing it for the longest)
Evanescence - My Immortal
Eve 6 - Inside Out
Fleetwood Mac - Don't Stop
Foreigner - Hot Blooded
Golden Earring - Twilight Zone
Goldfrappe - Train
Goo Goo Dolls - Black Balloons
Group X - Mario Twins (XD)
GusGus - Why
Heart - Baracuda
HIM - Resurrection
Hootie and the Blowfish - Time
Hooverphonic - Eden
Icon & the Black Roses - Black Rose
Iron Butterfly - In a Gadda Da Vita (sometimes I think I'm the only one that knows their other songs:/)
Jefferson Airplane - White Rabbit
Jethro Tull - Aqua Lung
Jewel - Pieces of You
Jimmy Eat World - The Middle
Kansas - Carry On My Wayward Son (Dust in the Wind is a very close second.)
Led Zepplin - Stairway to Heaven.
Linkin Park - In the End
Lionel Ritchie - Running with the Night
Lonestar - Not a Day Goes By
Lynard Skynard - Freebird
Malice Mizer - Beast of Blood
Mercy Me - I Can Only Imagine
Merry - Tokyo Telephone
Metallica - Enter Sandman
Nena - 99 Luft Ballons :D
NOFX - The Decline
Neil Young - After the Goldrush
Simon and Garfunkle - Mrs. Robinson
Pink Floyd - Another Brick in the Wall (pt 2 especially)
Queen - Bohemian Rapsody
Rammstein - Asche zu Asche
Rancid - Radio
Relient K - Sadie Hawkins Dance
Rod Stewart - Reason to Believe
Rolling Stones - Paint it Black
Rush - Manhattan Project
SADS - Masquerade
the Scorpions - No One Like You
Simple Plan - Perfect
Sloppy Meat Eaters - Escape
Smashing Pumpkins - Disarm
Sum 41 - Motivation
System of a Down - Chop Suey
Tatu - All the Things She Said
Ted Nugent - Cat Scratch Fever
the Alfee - Cinderella wa Nemurenai
the All-American Rejects - Swing Swing
the Black Mages - The Skies Above
the Cure - I Will Always Love You
the Postal Service - The District Sleeps Tonight
the Verve - Bittersweet Symphony
Verve Pipe - The Freshman
the Zombies - Time of the Seasonnn
They Might Be Giants - Birdhouse in Your Soul
Three Doors Down - Kryptonite
Tom Petty - Freefalling (is this because I won't let myself say refugee?)
Train - Drops of Jupiter
Weezer - Island in the Sun
X Japan - The Last Song
Zdob si Zdub - Mamaliga Malia

(two things of note-- so many of those songs *Aren't* their best songs. and so many of those bands are only noteworthy because of the one song^_^)

Alien Ant Farm - Smooth Criminal (Ironically, not their own song)
American Hi-Fi - Flavor of the Week
Blink 182 - Dammit
Bowling For Soup - Girl All The Bad Guys Want
Dashboard Confessional - Screaming Infidelities
Foo Fighters - Times Like These
Goldfinger - Open Your Eyes
Green Day - Basket Case or Good Riddance. Can't decide.
Hoobastank - The Reason
Incubus - Pardon Me
Jimmy Eat World - The Middle
MC Chris - Fett's Vette :D
Mest - Cadillac
New Found Glory - Hit or Miss
Phantom Planet - California
Relient K - Marylin Manson Ate My Girlfriend (OK, not actually their signature song :p I don't know what is)
Riddlin' Kids - I Feel Fine
Simple Plan - I'm Just A Kid
SR-71 - Right Now
Sugar Cult - Bouncing Off The Walls
Sum 41 - Fat Lip
Tenacious D - **** Her Gently
The Used - The Taste of Ink
Yellowcard - Ocean Avenue
Weezer - Hash Pipe

(In case you're wondering, no, I don't listen to only pop-punk x.X It's just what I like the most at the moment.)

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Hoobastank - The Reason

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I would think that Crawling In The Dark would be it and Running Away

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Sugar Cult - Bouncing Off The Walls

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that's what I couldn't remember

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Incubus - Pardon Me

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Incubus: Drive, Megalomaniac

Crawling In The Dark is a much better song, but The Reason is much more well known. The Reason is what made Hoobastank popular and known to all, so that's why I think that's their signature song.

Before that, Crawling In The Dark was about as well known as The Reason is now, and Running Away was in a popular game, that's why I named them, but yeah, The Reason would be it...

Oh, yes, can't forget about INXS. Their signature song is Need You Tonight.

I don't think Radiohead has a definable song, since they vary so much. If you look at only their early alternative stuff, then Creep does it if you're American, Street Spirit does it if you're English.

Led Zeppelin couldn't go by Stairway to Heaven - I think it's their best song, but it's so markedly different from the other things they've done. I'd have to go with Dazed and Confused, or Whole Lotta Love.

I'm not sure about Coldplay being defined or having Amsterdam as a signature - In My Place and Yellow are far more recognizable than those.

Queen is tough - I'd agree with Bohemian Rhapsody, but what about We Will Rock You? Is Bohemian really more known? I have no idea. Bohemian is more similar to their other stuff, I guess.

Agree that Pearl Jam's signature is Jeremy.
Agree that the Stones' signature is I Can't Get No Satisfaction.
Agree that the Beatles' signature is Hey Jude.
Agree that Eric Clapton's signature is Layla.
Agree that Oasis's signature is Wonderwall.

No one's done Third Eye Blind, so I'll have to go with Semi-Charmed Life. Not my favorite, but this isn't about favorites, now is it.

No one's done Jet either, so I'll point out the obvious: Are You Gonna Be My Girl.

Too much more stuff to talk about, even though I'm bored and I probably have the time.

edit: Of course; Afro Man - Cuz I Got High.

Devo - Jocko Homo

Some people think it's "Whip It." These people are jerks.

aphex twin - windowlicker

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# Björk - Venus As a Boy

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Hmmm, what about Oh So Quiet? As mcuh as she doesn't like it, everybody knows she did it.

Pearl Jam- Jeremy
The Smashing Pumpkins- Today
Pixies- Where Is My Mind?

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Green Day - Basket Case or Good Riddance. Can't decide

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Sadly it would probably be Bouelvard Of Broken Dreams simply cause thats all people know them for right now.

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Originally Posted by Jack

Sadly it would probably be Bouelvard Of Broken Dreams simply cause thats all people know them for right now.

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Nah, Green Day will always be remembered for Good Riddance. BoBD is just a fad now.

For Greenday I'd say Good Riddance (The time of your life). Blink 182 - All the Small Things. (I still love that song though <3). I'd agree Red Hot Chili Peppers probably Under the Bridge whoever said that. I'm too lazy to make a list.

Um, I've never heard any of Green Day's old songs *MUST LISTEN!!!*, and I'm obsessed with BoBD now. BoBD!!!!

EDIT: I prove your point. :p

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Originally Posted by rubah

Cher - Believe

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I disagree. I'd pick "If I Could Turn Back Time" as her signature song.

It's not as overplayed as Believe was/is, though.

And that's more or less the basis of a lot of the ones I picked.

Adam Sandler - The Chanuka Song

It's Another Brick in the Wall Pt.2. Someone who isn't interested in Pink Floyd wouldn't have heard Parts 1 and 3. You might also want to add The Happiest Days Of Our Lives since it accompanies Part 2.

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Originally Posted by Resha

Um, I've never heard any of Green Day's old songs *MUST LISTEN!!!*, and I'm obsessed with BoBD now. BoBD!!!!

EDIT: I prove your point. :p

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Once you hear it so often, and you see so many other people here it and like it, the song loses a lot of luster.

Plus, I don't think it'll ever have the luster than Good Riddance had/has.

I still like the other songs on the American Idiot album more like Wake Me Up When September Ends and Jesus of Suburbia. BoBD is played WAY too much. And it's still the #1 song on iTunes for like, 4 straight months.

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Originally Posted by Agent Proto

Adam Sandler - The Chanuka Song

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Funny I remember my cousins playing that song over and over again the first Christmas when it was out :tongue:

ABBA - Dancing Queen
Celine Dion - My Heart Will Go On
Sonny & Cher - I've got you babe
Frank Sinatra - New York, New York
Britney Spears - Baby one more time :lol:
Utada Hikaru - First Love ;)

To make this list short I'll just hand everyone my parent's Kareoke mic :rolleyes2 .. pshh the kareoke playlist has a lot of the songs listed here. :lol:

Jay-Z: Hard Knock Life
Outkast: Ms Jackson
Bone Thugs n' Harmony: Crossroads
Tupac: Califnornia Love
Eminem: Lose Yourself
U2: Where The Streets Have No Name
Bonnie McKee: Somebody
Toby Lightman: Devils And Angels
Five For Fighting: Superman
Puff Daddy: I'll Be Missing You
Wayne Wonder: Bounce Along
Mariah Carey: Butterfly/All I Want For Christmas Is You
50 Cent: In Da Club
Alicia Keys: Fallin'
Evanescence: Bring Me To Life
K-Ci and Jojo: All My Life
Usher: You Make Me Wanna
Akon: Locked Up/Lonely
Maroon 5: She Will Be Loved
Alanis Morissette: You Oughta Know
Santana: Smooth/Maria Maria
Destiny's Child: Survivor
Sisqo: Thong Song
Christina Aguilera: Geanie In A Bottle
Will Smith: Gettin' Jiggy Wit It
Next: Too Close
Nelly Furtado: Turn Off The Light
Nelly: Hot In Herre
Vanessa Carlton: A Thousand Miles
Michelle Branch: Breathe
Kylie Minogue: The Loco-Motion
Notorious B.I.G.: Mo Money, Mo Problems

I was tempted to say No Letting Go for Wayne Wonder, but eh. I don't think This Love is M5's signature song, because SWBL was played on the radio long before that gave them the recognition. A few of the songs are covers of older popular songs, but the songs the artists sung made them who they were IMO.

That's all I can think of for R&B/Hip-Hop/Rap artists along with a few other bands.

John Denver's is probably Leaving on a Jet Plane, but his biggest hit was by far Rocky Mountain High.

Dunno about Smashing Pumpkins - wouldn't it be 1979? Again, uncertain.

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Originally Posted by Dingo Jellybean

Once you hear it so often, and you see so many other people here it and like it, the song loses a lot of luster.

Plus, I don't think it'll ever have the luster than Good Riddance had/has.

I still like the other songs on the American Idiot album more like Wake Me Up When September Ends and Jesus of Suburbia. BoBD is played WAY too much. And it's still the #1 song on iTunes for like, 4 straight months.

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Oh. They hardly ever play it here/I hardly ever watch TV, and the radio stations all kinda stink. So I'm under-BoBD-nourished. :(

Europe- Final Countdown

Greenday- American idiot (well here its there best known song)
Eminem- the real Slim shady (or just lose it)
Queen- we will rock you
Evanescence- bring me to life
Nakatomi- Children of the night
whitney Houstan- always love you
Vannesa Mae- storm (not really a song though)
Busted- year 3000
Abba- (hard to decide ill have to guess) super trooper

HIM- definitly Join Me in Death
Sublime- What I Got
Metallica- Enter Sandman
ICP-? I was trying to think but remembered they are not played on the radio
Lil' John- That song about stuff on the windows and thewalls
Korn- Freak on A Leash
NIN- Head like A hole
AFI- Girls Not Grey
Godsmack- I stand Alone
Disturbed- Stupify
Marilyn Manson- Beatiful People
Sex Pistols- Anarchy in The UK
Ramones- Blitzkerg Bop
im out of ideas i'll shut up now

ICP-Chicken Huntin' (Slaughterhouse Remix.)
Twiztid-We Don't Die
ABK-Gang Related
Illegal Substance-Step to the Floor
Drowning Pool-Step Up
ICP-Hokus Pokus (Great Milenko-the best.)
Bloodhound Gang-Mope. (The Pacman comments made me laugh.)
Blaze-S--ttalkaz.

I saw a Nine Inch Nails song mentioned, and it was Head Like A Hole. While I agree that has massive airplay, I still think their signature song is...

"Closer", which everyone stupidly calls "**** you like an animal."

EDIT: Yet, I missed the post right before me! Well, I still want to point out how annoying it is that people don't know Closer by its name, so my post stays!

"U2: Where The Streets Have No Name"

I definitely agree with this one because this was the song that was played when U2 performed at the Super Bowl in 2002, which if my memory is correct, was the most watched Super Bowl to date and thus, almost by default, was the song most people were exposed to.

Take care all.

I've only heard people call it "I wanna ***k you like an animal" because they didn't know the REAL name. That's what stands out though in that song when people hear it.

I'm not saying it's okay or whatever...i'm just pointing that out.

I would never disagree with my sephexy! :love:

Tony Christie- the way to Amarillo

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'The Gravity of Love' - Enigma

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Darn straight.

Seven Mary Three - "Cumbersome"
Pulse Ultra - "Build Your Cages"
311 - "Misdirected Hostility" (Not a hit, but the lyrics summarize what the band is about, so I think it fits rather well in this "signature" theme here.)
Morrissey - "Everyday Is Like Sunday"
Boston - "More than a Feeling"
Metallica - "Enter Sandman"
SoaD - "Chop Suey"
Hot Action Cop - "Fever For The Flava"

The Rasmus In the Shadows, nobody will forget that song will they?

No one shuold forget The Rasmus or feel my squirrley wrath.

Someone else apart from me actually likes the Rasmus!? :eek: i have competition :shifty:

Ha fear my competition

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Originally Posted by Dking'squeen

Red Hot Chili Peppers~ *it's hard to say*

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Probably either 'Give It Away' or 'Under The Bridge'. :love:

Green Day - for the fans it's 'Good Riddance (Time of your life), but for most, it's 'American Idiot'.

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Originally Posted by Female Ryuichi

Probably either 'Give It Away' or 'Under The Bridge'. :love:

Green Day - for the fans it's 'Good Riddance (Time of your life), but for most, it's 'American Idiot'.

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Green Day's is definitely Basket Case. It got them discovered! Your right about the Chili Peppers though.

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Originally Posted by Crazy the Clown

ICP-Chicken Huntin' (Slaughterhouse Remix.)
Twiztid-We Don't Die
ABK-Gang Related
Illegal Substance-Step to the Floor
Drowning Pool-Step Up
ICP-Hokus Pokus (Great Milenko-the best.)
Bloodhound Gang-Mope. (The Pacman comments made me laugh.)
Blaze-S--ttalkaz.

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Drowning Pool's has gotta be "Bodies"

And Bloodhound Gang - I'd go with with The Bad Touch or Fire Water Burn

How about Tool - Sober

Edit by Kishi: Or you could NOT double-post.

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Originally Posted by Iri Valentine

I KNOW WHAT YOU MEAN!
I'm a major Nine Inch Nails fan, er, Trent Reznor fan. And no one seems to get the point that it isn't called 'I wanna ***k you like an animal!'
That depresses me.
But unfortuneately, in other countries, NIN's signature song is still 'Head Like a Hole'. 'Closer' has been screened. :skull4:

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Oh yeah, I remember hearing about that. I think the UK knows NIN for "Head Like A Hole" more than Closer. I would prefer it if people were into Head Like A Hole because everyone doesn't get what Closer is really about, anyway.

Yeah, whenever I talk about NIN, and no one knows who I am talking about, I say that they have probably heard their biggest hit on the radio, "Closer". They always say, "Well, I never heard of that," and I sigh while saying the **** you like an animal lyrics. "OHHHH I KNOW THAT SONG!!!!11111ONE"

Very annoying.

Closer is a great song but head like a holehad a lot more play therefore being the public signature song

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Originally Posted by The Captain

"U2: Where The Streets Have No Name"

I definitely agree with this one because this was the song that was played when U2 performed at the Super Bowl in 2002, which if my memory is correct, was the most watched Super Bowl to date and thus, almost by default, was the song most people were exposed to.

Take care all.

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I wanted to say "I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For" but I felt that Where The Streets Had No Name was their signature song since it was a hit early in their careers that put Joshua Tree on the map.

Green Day - Time of your life
Red Hot Chili Peppers - Under The Bridge
Faith No More - Epic
Bob Marley - Jammin'
Metallica - Enter Sandman or Nothing Else Matters
KoRn - Freak On A Leash
System of a Down - Chop Suey
Nirvana - Smells Like Teen Spirit
Muse - Time is Running Out
Slipknot - Wait and Bleed
Jimi Hendrix - Voodoo Child
NWA - Express yourself
Cypress Hill - Insane in the Membrain
Rage Against The Machine - Bullet in the Head or Wake Up

The Beatles - Blackbird
Rolling Stones - Sympathy for the Devil (c'mon people :o)
Greenday - Good riddance or Basket Case (American Idiot?? Blasphemy!)
Guns and Roses - Sweet Child of Mine (easily)
System of a down - Chop Suey (Sugar? no way! I mean, good song, but hardly signature)
Placebo - Pure Morning
Supertramp - Dreamer
Neil Young - horse with no name or My My Hey Hey
Smashing Pumpkins - bullet with butterfly wings
NIN - Probably Closer.... Maybe "We're in this together now"?
Tool - Schism, maybe Lateralus, although that's less known.
Muse - New Born
ACDC - Shook Me All Night Long
A Perfect Circle - 3 Libras
Beck - Loser (ironically)
Blink 182 - All the small things, or Adam's Song
Blur - Song 2 (maybe Girls and Boys)
Bob Dylan - ... this one's hard! Everybody must get stoned?
Bush - Glycerine
Coheed and Cambria - Delirium Trigger
Coldplay - Yellow
Three Dog Night - Jeremiah was a bullfrog
Dandy Warhols - Bohemian like you
The Doors - Hello, I love you
Disturbed - Down with the sickness
Doobie Brothers - Oh what a night
Foo Fighters - Everlong
Lou Reed - Walk on the wild side
Manic Street Preachers - If you tolerate this (maybe? I can't decide)
Marylin Manson - Disposible Teens (this is hard)
Massive Attack - Tear drop
Prozzak - Sucks to be you
Radiohead - The Bends (yes, creep is better know, but it's just SO not like them I can't call it their "signature" song. My brain won't let me say creep.)
Silverchair - Abuse me

Arrrrggghhh, a band's latest overplayed to death singles are NOT their best known songs x 100 million.

Also your favourite songs are not signature songs. Which is probably hypocritical of me to say.

I would disagree with you, Emerald, about the Doors. I know I've heard Break on Through way more often in film, television and on the radio. And when I think of the Doors, that's the song I think of (and while it's almost my favorite, I can safely say it's not, which erases bias; my favorite is Riders on the Storm :D)

And I think Bob Dylan's signature song would be Like a Rolling Stone. But that's just me.

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the Verve - Bittersweet Symphony
Verve Pipe - The Freshman

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<3

Ah! Very true about Dylan. I dunno how the hell I forgot Like a Rolling Stone.

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The Smashing Pumpkins

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1979?
Disarm?
Today?
Bullet With Butterfly Wings?

Well, it could be any of them, but I'd go with Today.

The Verve - Bittersweet Symphony
Ash - Girl From Mars
Blur - Song 2, although I'm tempted by Parklife
Coldplay - Yellow, unless you have LJ, in which case it's The Scientist
Gomez - Machismo
James - She's A Star
Oasis - Wonderwall
Pulp - Common People
Massive Attack - Teardrop (Oh. Hi Elyse!)
The Chemical Brothers - Electrobank
Catatonia - Road Rage
Elastica - The Connection
Supergrass - Pumping On Your Stereo
Muse - Plug In Baby
Suede - She's In Fashion
Dandy Warhols - Not If You Were The Last Junkie On Earth

System of a Down- Toxicity

Suede- Filmstar
System Of A Down- Chop Suey!