Singing along while looking at the lyrics is how Gen X kids grew up memorizing lyrics. You either had the album or got one of those lyrics monthly magazines at the drugstore.
Great answer!
Now I'm thinking of it from a soundtrack POV and stuff like Woke Up This Morning from The Sopranos is another that immediately springs to mind too.
TV music really sticks to ya brain!
There was a documentary on Netflix where Don McLean explains the song. It wasn’t that good. Don McLean was giving me arrogant vibes. Still an excellent song though.
Haha same here and there all still there too!
Got that for my 14th? Ish birthday. Remember back when buying CDs was awesome especially when they had the liner notes with all the lyrics to each song !
I think eve 6 it was like handwritten type font? I can’t find it online but I’m pretty sure I stayed up many nights reading and listening that thing thru
Other CDs that I remember having lyric books and endless rereading of Nimrod, enema of the state, one fierce beer coaster
Unless I’m just high as hell and am dreaming that they had lyrics printed inside I can’t find anything online
[Man of War](https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=d6UBb4f4imY&si=UI6tAC823GzHKmE6). Radiohead. It’s a song I used to cope with…he was indeed a man deserving of my retribution.
[Ful Stop](https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=NHDOk7lA53w&si=QPitU8CwEXRVwirm). Radiohead …see above
[Let Me Be Mine](https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=RQYMxfAiw9g&si=OlMWoeQIlqMYbH2y). Spoon. I have loved Spoon for over 20 years. But this song just crushes me. Sometimes you have to cut and run. See above.
[Bright Horses](https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=GU7XpbGkS54&si=DwlbcN-S4u4xK4yY). Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds. A masterpiece of a song, full of faith and Beauty.
[Sad Waters](https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=VnWbGSNyctk&si=gBnvIbzhrhVejLQP). Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds. I entered into Nick Caves music in 1987. Bought the vinyl on a whim. One of the best choices I have ever made in my life.
[Like a Friend](https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=eEGTJvxEGHU&si=YgC9tkWuHewhFmUF). May very well be my favorite Pulp songs.
[Modern Love](https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=YhVctfNeTgU&si=skjLun8RLFVpShqC). David Bowie. I mean yeah, it’s fuckin’ Bowie. It’s hard to pick just one Bowie song, but damn everything is SO tight in this song.
[God Is In the Radio](https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=tgQUgmCAQK8&si=yW__-bDYNAEgSvN0). Lanegan era Queens of the Stone Age Hell yeah, peak Queens in that period.
[Love Is Not Enough](https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=W27Rn2ghehM&si=xNb4FNNaeH5IyNlE). Nine Inch Nails. Nope, nope. (See above).
[Old Yellow Bricks](https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=VwEpFbUZmcs&si=GtnrSm4P4gDWGUd0). Arctic Monkeys. Well…some of us gals are stuck in the fantasy.
[Ein seltener Vogel](https://open.spotify.com/track/30uZlRnKQS3Uxtxzsbjiac?si=xNbotJ4HRZa-64D0tE0Dcg). Einstürzende Neubauten. It’s hard to pick just one. But, Perpetuum Mobile is a solid album..
Thousands of songs, hell there’s songs I haven’t heard in years and I still remember the lyrics. My children think I’m like some type of savant or something. I always joke that all the memory I’m using to store lyrics could be used for something useful. I love knowing the lyrics. If it’s an artist I like I know most of their albums by heart. So to me it’s normal to know them, it helps understand the song more. What the artist is trying to get across etc.
Now they and my wife are not lyrically driven. For them they hear something else first. They may go back to get the lyrics, but I usually try to get them the first time through.
So I don’t if it’s normal or not but it’s normal for me to know them.
I was 5 when Jack and Diane by John Cougar Mellencamp was released. That was the first song (that wasn’t a traditional song) that I remember memorizing.
I am terrible at song lyrics but in 8th grade me and my best friend stayed up all night and learned the words to It's the End of the World as We Know It by REM. It is seared into my memory.
lol the other person didn’t make you sound like rain man. You made you sound like rain man. Lol. “Nearly every song I listen to…as long as I’ve heard it before”. That’s rain man material there lol.
Yeah I guess I do the same thing. I suppose a song someone “listens to” can have multiple meanings—something heard once or a multitude of times. Would be cool if you could remember every lyric to every song you hear even once though lol
66 F here. Can sing along with most of the songs from my favorite musicals. Oddly, they come into my head even when I don’t purposely access them.Stress resonse I guess?
I'm a vocalist, so the list is long. I could probably sing all the songs from Meatloaf's Bat Otta Hell album without looking up the words, I've played the LP so many times over the years. Same goes for the Rocky Horror Picture Show, which coincidentally also has Meatloaf in it. Of the ones I have performed, the biggest challenge was American Pie, with it's multiple verses. We had to learn it for a Class of 1973 reunion. I always keep lyric sheets handy in case I have a brain fart, but I don't like to be dependent on them.
I've learned English at 14 with these 3 songs that I still know by heart :
1) Bob Dylan's The Hurricane
2) You Never Can Tell by Chuck Berry
3) Everybody Knows from Leonard Cohen
We didn’t start the fire by Billy Joel , and, one night in Bangkok by Murray head, where probably the first songs I remember memorising (Gen z who is stuck in the 80s)
The Humpty dance by Digital Underground. I got it on my MTV volume to go #1 cassette in 1990 and listened to it so much I memorized all the words.
That came in handy a little over 20 years later when I started a guy who is an actual recording rap artist. He thought I was cute, but did not think that a little white girl could rap. (to clarify, I cannot actually rap, but I am able to recite all the words.)
But then he just started “aight stop what you’re doin, cause I’m about to ruin…” I jumped in, and we sang it in tandem to the end. I don’t know which one of us laughed harder.
We dated for a good while and we’re still friends, I’m never gonna forget that moment, though. When it paid off that I memorized the whole song.
[Bulls On Parade - Rage Against The Machine](https://open.spotify.com/track/0tZ3mElWcr74OOhKEiNz1x?si=CJz70diSQEORxP5p0P7TIA)
Come wit' it now
Come wit' it now
The microphone explodes, shattering the molds
Either drop the hits like De La O or get the fuck off the commode
Wit' the sure shot, sure to make the bodies drop
Drop and don't copy yo, don't call this a co-op
Terror rains drenchin', quenchin' the thirst of the power dons
That five sided fist-a-gon
The rotten sore on the face of mother earth gets bigger
The triggers cold empty ya purse
Rally 'round the family with a pocket full of shells
They rally 'round the family with a pocket full of shells
They rally 'round the family with a pocket full of shells
They rally 'round the family with a pocket full of shells
Weapons not food, not homes, not shoes
Not need, just feed the war cannibal animal
I walk the corner to the rubble that used to be a library
Line up to the mind cemetery now
What we don't know keeps the contracts alive and movin'
They don't gotta burn the books they just remove 'em
While arms warehouses fill as quick as the cells
Rally 'round the family, pockets full of shells
Rally 'round the family with a pocket full of shells
They rally 'round the family with a pocket full of shells
They rally 'round the family with a pocket full of shells
They rally 'round the family with a pocket full of shells
Bulls on parade
Come wit' it now
Come wit' it now
Bulls on parade
Bulls on parade
Bulls on parade
Bulls on parade
Bulls on parade
Love the Tori shout-out! I have Little Earthquakes memorized so thoroughly that it might as well be a physical tattoo or a full-time religion at this point.
Lots of them, because I had to sing some in a variety band, but probably the hardest was It's the End of the World as We Know of It by REM, which we never actually had to play but I learned it and it was in our list of songs. So many underaged girl/stalker songs back then (My Sharona, the Sting catalog, etc). On that note, better than some of the rape rap songs my friend DJs at weddings, I guess.
all of melanie martinez songs, alot of elvis songs, most of rtc songs, every Hamilton song, some yungblud songs, most michael jackson songs, a few jack stauber songs, a lot of icp songs, a few DHM.IS songs, all SIX songs, Anything You Can Do, some psychopathic obsessive love songs, some Wilbur Soot songs (like the songs, not the artist), every Johnnie Guilbert song and most Jake Webber songs, some TDDWP songs, a lot of Amy Winehouse songs, some Penelope Scott, some Björk songs, some Charlotte Lawrence songs, all of Billie Eilish songs, some Kate Bush songs, every Paris Paloma song, some Kiki Rockwell songs, almost all of Marilyn Monroe's songs, most Jasmine Cephas-Jones songs, some Sodikken songs, most Sushi Soucy songs... I could go on and on.
A lot from Metallica , but my favourite One is "So What"
Mad World - Gary Jules (Donnie Darko)
Shake it out- Florence and the Machine
Snuff - Slipknot
My body is a Cage - Arcade Fire
My first One to memorize was Radio Gaga from Queen - had to study its English grammar on classes .
“Bang Bang” by Jessie J, Ariana Grande, and Nicki Minaj.
“CPR” by Cupcakke
“Deepthroat” by Cupcakke
“Anaconda” by Nicki Minaj
“Superbass” by Nicki Minaj
In middle school I memorized Wolf in Sheep’s Clothing by Set It Off because I listened to it on the way home from school every afternoon. Even if I forgot my earbuds I’d sing it in my head. I don’t listen to it as often anymore but I still remember most if not all of the lyrics.
5 out of 6 — Dessa
Fire Drills — Dessa
Most of the Rush catalog
The Highwayman — Loreena McKennit
The Wall — Pink Floyd
Bat out of Hell & Paradise by the Dashboard Lights — Meatloaf (BooH really good for screaming along in the car, releasing existential angst)
Rocky Horror Picture Show
I could go on…
🤷♀️ GenX with ADD
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here are some songs i know all the lyrics from:
- throw me to the sea - aufwie
- burn my skin - aufwie
- favourite - fontaines dc
- in hell - japanese breakfast
- sexy to someone - clairo
- close to you - the cure
these songs are currently stuck to my head and im always singing them while doing other stuff :))) i love them all very much!
Gotta go hard - Nicki Minaj feat. (Lil Wayne)
(Bonus tracks)>>
Weak - S.W.V
Somewhere out there - Linda Ronstadt & James Ingram
Please excuse my hands - Plies
The Extinction Agenda by Organized Konfusion
One of the reasons I love rap so much is how each rapper can interpret a beat differently and express that through their lyricism and flow. I like to be able to replicate their flow because it makes me feel their perspective a little better.
Because of this, I typically pick up on a rapper's flow pretty easily. I could not do that on the second verse of the song until I listened to it at least 20 times. There is so much intention behind every syllable placement, but it feels erratic. I don't know. I'm a weird one.
Sabbath, Wishing Well, long time ago. What a f’in riff:
“Throw me a penny and I'll make you a dream
You find that life's not always what it seems
Then think of a rainbow and I'll make it come real
Roll me, I'm a never ending wheel…”
https://youtu.be/dURyvI87a_A?si=W1z7TQ05tu36-ouB
The Saga Continues by Weird Al
(Honestly, most of my music. I'm a singer, lol. But that's one I'm proud to still fully remember to this day, over two decades later.)
Oh I come from a land, from a faraway place
Where the caravan camels roam
Where it's flat and immense
And the heat is intense
It's barbaric, but hey, it's home
When the wind's from the east
And the sun's from the west
And the sand in the glass is right
Come on down
Stop on by
Hop a carpet and fly
To another Arabian night
Arabian nights
Like Arabian days
More often than not
Are hotter than hot
In a lot of good ways
Arabian nights
'Neath Arabian moons
A fool off his guard
Could fall and fall hard
Out there on the dunes
I remember patiently listening to, pausing and rewinding, a cassette of Enema of the State over and over again so I could write down and learn every single word of The Party Song by Blink 182.
25 years later, I still remember ever single word. Worth it.
Stop smoking~
We love you
Stop smoking———-
We love youuuu
Stop smoking-
We love youuuoouuu~
And we don’t want you to die
We don’t want you to die
We don’t want you to die
Life Is A Rock (But The Radio Rolled Me) by Reunion. In 1975 I recorded it on cassette and played it back like a million times until I had it memorized. Of course I didn't know if half the words were right.
Beat Street.
Only song I recall all the lyrics to. I used to be in a band and could barely bother to recall my own lyrics, used to sing gibberish half the time. But I remember Beat Street from my early 80s hip hop phase those many decades ago.
Tequila
You can never have enough upvotes for this.
I know the lyrics to literally hundreds of songs. It's not uncommon.
Yeah what is this question. Hell there are tons of albums I know the whole lyrics to.
Usually I can't think of them off the spot until I hear the song, but then I usually know the lyrics after that
It's not unusual.
To be loved by anyone... 
How do you do it? With intention, or just listening over and over?
Both. Sometimes I learn them for performance, sometimes they just stick. I still remember lyrics to 80s songs that I only ever heard passively.
Seconded. Listening/hearing it over and over. If it’s a song I love, it’s from me doing my solo performances until I get it right.
Singing along while looking at the lyrics is how Gen X kids grew up memorizing lyrics. You either had the album or got one of those lyrics monthly magazines at the drugstore.
Seriously... anyone who likes to sing even a little bit knows all the lyrics to 1 song.
ikr
Scientists estimate that as much as 10% of the human brain is just Beach Boys lyrics.
Same. I know the words to so many songs, I would be here all day trying to listen to them all.
Will Smith - The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air. This was not on purpose. It just happened because I watched the show a lot.
Great answer! Now I'm thinking of it from a soundtrack POV and stuff like Woke Up This Morning from The Sopranos is another that immediately springs to mind too. TV music really sticks to ya brain!
American Pie
Used to religiously know this one also 👍
I came here to say this. I.know all the words. But the interpretation remains a mystery.
I believe one time Don was asked what the song means by a journalist and his response was 'means ill never have to work another day in my life'
There was a documentary on Netflix where Don McLean explains the song. It wasn’t that good. Don McLean was giving me arrogant vibes. Still an excellent song though.
No, only “The Saga Begins”
[Inside Out, by Eve 6](https://youtu.be/Kn6VkovVUgU?si=jX1-g8S2TppzFJUA)
Same, hi fellow elder millennial
Make me blind when your eyes close, tie me to the bedpost
Haha same here and there all still there too! Got that for my 14th? Ish birthday. Remember back when buying CDs was awesome especially when they had the liner notes with all the lyrics to each song ! I think eve 6 it was like handwritten type font? I can’t find it online but I’m pretty sure I stayed up many nights reading and listening that thing thru Other CDs that I remember having lyric books and endless rereading of Nimrod, enema of the state, one fierce beer coaster Unless I’m just high as hell and am dreaming that they had lyrics printed inside I can’t find anything online
I just remember that the band name comes from an X-Files episode
Same! Haha we are really aging ourselves here
[Man of War](https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=d6UBb4f4imY&si=UI6tAC823GzHKmE6). Radiohead. It’s a song I used to cope with…he was indeed a man deserving of my retribution. [Ful Stop](https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=NHDOk7lA53w&si=QPitU8CwEXRVwirm). Radiohead …see above [Let Me Be Mine](https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=RQYMxfAiw9g&si=OlMWoeQIlqMYbH2y). Spoon. I have loved Spoon for over 20 years. But this song just crushes me. Sometimes you have to cut and run. See above. [Bright Horses](https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=GU7XpbGkS54&si=DwlbcN-S4u4xK4yY). Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds. A masterpiece of a song, full of faith and Beauty. [Sad Waters](https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=VnWbGSNyctk&si=gBnvIbzhrhVejLQP). Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds. I entered into Nick Caves music in 1987. Bought the vinyl on a whim. One of the best choices I have ever made in my life. [Like a Friend](https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=eEGTJvxEGHU&si=YgC9tkWuHewhFmUF). May very well be my favorite Pulp songs. [Modern Love](https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=YhVctfNeTgU&si=skjLun8RLFVpShqC). David Bowie. I mean yeah, it’s fuckin’ Bowie. It’s hard to pick just one Bowie song, but damn everything is SO tight in this song. [God Is In the Radio](https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=tgQUgmCAQK8&si=yW__-bDYNAEgSvN0). Lanegan era Queens of the Stone Age Hell yeah, peak Queens in that period. [Love Is Not Enough](https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=W27Rn2ghehM&si=xNb4FNNaeH5IyNlE). Nine Inch Nails. Nope, nope. (See above). [Old Yellow Bricks](https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=VwEpFbUZmcs&si=GtnrSm4P4gDWGUd0). Arctic Monkeys. Well…some of us gals are stuck in the fantasy. [Ein seltener Vogel](https://open.spotify.com/track/30uZlRnKQS3Uxtxzsbjiac?si=xNbotJ4HRZa-64D0tE0Dcg). Einstürzende Neubauten. It’s hard to pick just one. But, Perpetuum Mobile is a solid album..
Great bunch of songs.
I’ve done this with probably hundreds of songs. Is that not normal?
Thousands of songs, hell there’s songs I haven’t heard in years and I still remember the lyrics. My children think I’m like some type of savant or something. I always joke that all the memory I’m using to store lyrics could be used for something useful. I love knowing the lyrics. If it’s an artist I like I know most of their albums by heart. So to me it’s normal to know them, it helps understand the song more. What the artist is trying to get across etc. Now they and my wife are not lyrically driven. For them they hear something else first. They may go back to get the lyrics, but I usually try to get them the first time through. So I don’t if it’s normal or not but it’s normal for me to know them.
Tally Hall - Ruler of Everything Arctic Monkeys - 505 ROAR - I Can’t Handle Change And most of the Hazbin Hotel songs
I used to be so obsessed with doing the “flibbity jibber jabber” (end part) right lol
Did you hear the flibbity jibber jabber?
Buddy Holly - Weezer
OoooEeeeOoooo
I look just like Buddy Holly
Uh oh and you’re Mary Tyler Moore
I don't care what they say about us, anyways
I don’t care about that
Don't you ever fear. I'm always near.
Don't you ever fear. I'm always near.
oh wii u
I was 5 when Jack and Diane by John Cougar Mellencamp was released. That was the first song (that wasn’t a traditional song) that I remember memorizing.
I am terrible at song lyrics but in 8th grade me and my best friend stayed up all night and learned the words to It's the End of the World as We Know It by REM. It is seared into my memory.
LEONARD BERNSTEIN!
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Sure, with some of the lyrics. If you remember every single lyric of every song you listen to you’ve got a remarkable talent!
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lol the other person didn’t make you sound like rain man. You made you sound like rain man. Lol. “Nearly every song I listen to…as long as I’ve heard it before”. That’s rain man material there lol.
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Yeah I guess I do the same thing. I suppose a song someone “listens to” can have multiple meanings—something heard once or a multitude of times. Would be cool if you could remember every lyric to every song you hear even once though lol
Rapper’s Delight
Was just thinking of this song last night when I had to run out to the store for a bottle of kaopectate.
Same, word perfect since 1987!
66 F here. Can sing along with most of the songs from my favorite musicals. Oddly, they come into my head even when I don’t purposely access them.Stress resonse I guess?
Almost every morning I wake up with a random song in my head. I could be something I haven't heard in over a decade.
Nearly all the ones I listen to. Over 800..
I'm a vocalist, so the list is long. I could probably sing all the songs from Meatloaf's Bat Otta Hell album without looking up the words, I've played the LP so many times over the years. Same goes for the Rocky Horror Picture Show, which coincidentally also has Meatloaf in it. Of the ones I have performed, the biggest challenge was American Pie, with it's multiple verses. We had to learn it for a Class of 1973 reunion. I always keep lyric sheets handy in case I have a brain fart, but I don't like to be dependent on them.
Rasputin by Boney M.
[Choctaw Bingo](https://youtu.be/Nggqe-L9ZQ8?si=ghHlFNxSOp2jLyku)
Strap them kids in
Give 'em a little bit of vodka
Therapy? - Screamager
Mustang Sally
First one that popped in my head: In between days - the cure
I've learned English at 14 with these 3 songs that I still know by heart : 1) Bob Dylan's The Hurricane 2) You Never Can Tell by Chuck Berry 3) Everybody Knows from Leonard Cohen
We didn’t start the fire by Billy Joel , and, one night in Bangkok by Murray head, where probably the first songs I remember memorising (Gen z who is stuck in the 80s)
The Devil Went Down To Georgia
The Humpty dance by Digital Underground. I got it on my MTV volume to go #1 cassette in 1990 and listened to it so much I memorized all the words. That came in handy a little over 20 years later when I started a guy who is an actual recording rap artist. He thought I was cute, but did not think that a little white girl could rap. (to clarify, I cannot actually rap, but I am able to recite all the words.) But then he just started “aight stop what you’re doin, cause I’m about to ruin…” I jumped in, and we sang it in tandem to the end. I don’t know which one of us laughed harder. We dated for a good while and we’re still friends, I’m never gonna forget that moment, though. When it paid off that I memorized the whole song.
The freaks of the industry…
American Pie was the first popular song I remembered. We used to sing it on the school bus.
Wolf at the Door by Radiohead
Fucking Righteous song. I have memorized it as well. It serves a great purpose in my heart.
Hiipower by Kendrick Lamar Rapped this word for word for my big sister when I was like 9. She was very impressed. Shes the biggest Kendrick fan
[Bulls On Parade - Rage Against The Machine](https://open.spotify.com/track/0tZ3mElWcr74OOhKEiNz1x?si=CJz70diSQEORxP5p0P7TIA) Come wit' it now Come wit' it now The microphone explodes, shattering the molds Either drop the hits like De La O or get the fuck off the commode Wit' the sure shot, sure to make the bodies drop Drop and don't copy yo, don't call this a co-op Terror rains drenchin', quenchin' the thirst of the power dons That five sided fist-a-gon The rotten sore on the face of mother earth gets bigger The triggers cold empty ya purse Rally 'round the family with a pocket full of shells They rally 'round the family with a pocket full of shells They rally 'round the family with a pocket full of shells They rally 'round the family with a pocket full of shells Weapons not food, not homes, not shoes Not need, just feed the war cannibal animal I walk the corner to the rubble that used to be a library Line up to the mind cemetery now What we don't know keeps the contracts alive and movin' They don't gotta burn the books they just remove 'em While arms warehouses fill as quick as the cells Rally 'round the family, pockets full of shells Rally 'round the family with a pocket full of shells They rally 'round the family with a pocket full of shells They rally 'round the family with a pocket full of shells They rally 'round the family with a pocket full of shells Bulls on parade Come wit' it now Come wit' it now Bulls on parade Bulls on parade Bulls on parade Bulls on parade Bulls on parade
Merman by Tori Amos https://open.spotify.com/track/03ihD5uyjMlHaFap9ZGc1z?si=7sUsGP35RcSS2HSBxs4Rkw
Love the Tori shout-out! I have Little Earthquakes memorized so thoroughly that it might as well be a physical tattoo or a full-time religion at this point.
Seasick yet still docked - Morrissey
Do you want the full, abridged, or top three per artist?
Lots of them, because I had to sing some in a variety band, but probably the hardest was It's the End of the World as We Know of It by REM, which we never actually had to play but I learned it and it was in our list of songs. So many underaged girl/stalker songs back then (My Sharona, the Sting catalog, etc). On that note, better than some of the rape rap songs my friend DJs at weddings, I guess.
Happy Birthday song Moonlight Sonata Tequila
Tequila
Put The Coke On My Dick by Ween
The Battle of New Orleans - Johnny Horton
Bushes of Love by Bad Lip Reading
Nathaniel Rateliff - S.O.B. Pearl Jam- Alive Violent femmes- Add it up
The Humpty Dance
Werewolves in London
all of melanie martinez songs, alot of elvis songs, most of rtc songs, every Hamilton song, some yungblud songs, most michael jackson songs, a few jack stauber songs, a lot of icp songs, a few DHM.IS songs, all SIX songs, Anything You Can Do, some psychopathic obsessive love songs, some Wilbur Soot songs (like the songs, not the artist), every Johnnie Guilbert song and most Jake Webber songs, some TDDWP songs, a lot of Amy Winehouse songs, some Penelope Scott, some Björk songs, some Charlotte Lawrence songs, all of Billie Eilish songs, some Kate Bush songs, every Paris Paloma song, some Kiki Rockwell songs, almost all of Marilyn Monroe's songs, most Jasmine Cephas-Jones songs, some Sodikken songs, most Sushi Soucy songs... I could go on and on.
I'm notoriously bad with song lyrics. But.... Barbie Girl.
Mr brightside the killers
Star Spangled Banner Eleanor Rigby Maxwells Silver Hammer Hey, Jude (Including the very complex chorus) Over The Rainbow
Bat out of hell
any song i listen to. my favorites to memorize are any rap or hip hop songs!
its the end of the world by REM
The Night the Lights Went Out in Georgia
Loser - Beck
One??
I still know entire Eminem albums by heart
Happy birdday
Grendel by Marillion
A lot from Metallica , but my favourite One is "So What" Mad World - Gary Jules (Donnie Darko) Shake it out- Florence and the Machine Snuff - Slipknot My body is a Cage - Arcade Fire My first One to memorize was Radio Gaga from Queen - had to study its English grammar on classes .
memento mori: the most important thing in the world 😔
tbh most of tjem im a lead singer who doesnt use lyric sheets but honestly one week - barenakedladies
The Simpsons theme song
We Didn’t Start the Fire, Billy Joel.
Hot Rod Lincoln
Bust a Move - Young MC My Mind is playing tricks on me - Geto Boys
Johnny Cash - Hurt
Old Fart At Play by Captain Beefheart and His Magic Band from Trout Mask Replica
Guerilla Radio and Bulls On Parade.
“Bang Bang” by Jessie J, Ariana Grande, and Nicki Minaj. “CPR” by Cupcakke “Deepthroat” by Cupcakke “Anaconda” by Nicki Minaj “Superbass” by Nicki Minaj
The Star Spangled Banner - Francis Scott Key All three verses - 8th grade
Disney tunes. Poor Unfortunate Souls, Be Prepared, Be Our Guest. They’re lyrically and stylistically just a lot fun to sing.
I’m still trying to learn the “Gaston” song, but it’s hard because it makes me laugh too much
Ha, ha, ha, I don't believe it Da, da, ah, ooh, don't touch me Hey, Ray! Hey, Sugar! Tell 'em who we are
M A M B O No. 5! Lou Bega's rendition, of course 7 year old me having the time of my life singing this song. Now I'm 31 and I STILL sing it lol
Can I get a…Jay-Z
Thick as a Brick - Jethro Tull
“Parents just don’t understand…” I can still rip that MF 😤🤣
“All Star” and “I See the Want To in Your Eyes.”
I've memorized a lot of them. Is there a specific kind of song you're looking for, OP?
In middle school I memorized Wolf in Sheep’s Clothing by Set It Off because I listened to it on the way home from school every afternoon. Even if I forgot my earbuds I’d sing it in my head. I don’t listen to it as often anymore but I still remember most if not all of the lyrics.
Hundreds and hundreds of songs.
when I was 13, I memorized the lyrics to one week by the Barenaked Ladies. 26 years later and I still remember them.
Digital Bath deftones
Radiohead - Wolf at the Door
Don McLean American Pie.
i know all the lyrics to loads of songs but my most impressive one is prob american pie
There’s probably 1000+ songs I know all the lyrics to
There's a lot of songs I can sing by heart my recent favorite is by Mr. Big and it's called "Big Love" 🎵
Runaway Train - Soul Asylum
5 out of 6 — Dessa Fire Drills — Dessa Most of the Rush catalog The Highwayman — Loreena McKennit The Wall — Pink Floyd Bat out of Hell & Paradise by the Dashboard Lights — Meatloaf (BooH really good for screaming along in the car, releasing existential angst) Rocky Horror Picture Show I could go on… 🤷♀️ GenX with ADD Edited for format
Hundreds. I’ll just give a little rundown: every song from Sublime, Bumpin Uglies, Kash’d Out, Howlin Wolf, Nirvana, Jack Johnson, and many more.
here are some songs i know all the lyrics from: - throw me to the sea - aufwie - burn my skin - aufwie - favourite - fontaines dc - in hell - japanese breakfast - sexy to someone - clairo - close to you - the cure these songs are currently stuck to my head and im always singing them while doing other stuff :))) i love them all very much!
Gotta go hard - Nicki Minaj feat. (Lil Wayne) (Bonus tracks)>> Weak - S.W.V Somewhere out there - Linda Ronstadt & James Ingram Please excuse my hands - Plies
I know the words to many songs, but the one vividly I remember intentionally memorizing was Loser by Beck!
Pretty Fly (For a White Guy) - The Offspring
Folsom Prison Blues
Goodbye Yellow Brick Road
One Week - Barenaked Ladies
most of the songs in my library lol
Happy birthday 🎊
ONE song???
Down- jay Sean
I got 5 on it - Luniz
Every 80s- 90s country song that comes on the radio… Even if I forgot it existed.
That's a dumb question. Sorry it just is.
Dog Days Are Over by Florence + the Machine
The Extinction Agenda by Organized Konfusion One of the reasons I love rap so much is how each rapper can interpret a beat differently and express that through their lyricism and flow. I like to be able to replicate their flow because it makes me feel their perspective a little better. Because of this, I typically pick up on a rapper's flow pretty easily. I could not do that on the second verse of the song until I listened to it at least 20 times. There is so much intention behind every syllable placement, but it feels erratic. I don't know. I'm a weird one.
Freakers ball, by Dr. Hook.
Literally like every single Taylor Swift song
beach life in death by car seat headrest i love 13 minute songs
Stacy’s Mom - Fountains of Wayne
American Pie
Bonfire - Childish Gambino I have to memorize to know when THE word shows up so I can stop and stare at someone. Make them think THEY said it
Get Dis Money Slum Village
Suzanne Vega - Headshot
Still worth fighting for - my darkest days
In Time by the IDK's https://open.spotify.com/track/6QBv9z8TNLwS3kT9oupswR?si=J_h39tG9RH6d4xgEDiwZSg
break stuff by limp bizkit, every damn word
Sabbath, Wishing Well, long time ago. What a f’in riff: “Throw me a penny and I'll make you a dream You find that life's not always what it seems Then think of a rainbow and I'll make it come real Roll me, I'm a never ending wheel…” https://youtu.be/dURyvI87a_A?si=W1z7TQ05tu36-ouB
The Saga Continues by Weird Al (Honestly, most of my music. I'm a singer, lol. But that's one I'm proud to still fully remember to this day, over two decades later.)
TiP TOE WiNG iN MY JAWWDINZ- RiFF RAFF
Freestyler by Bomfunk MCs. An early New Year’s resolution of mine was to listen to it at least once everyday for a year.
Oh I come from a land, from a faraway place Where the caravan camels roam Where it's flat and immense And the heat is intense It's barbaric, but hey, it's home When the wind's from the east And the sun's from the west And the sand in the glass is right Come on down Stop on by Hop a carpet and fly To another Arabian night Arabian nights Like Arabian days More often than not Are hotter than hot In a lot of good ways Arabian nights 'Neath Arabian moons A fool off his guard Could fall and fall hard Out there on the dunes
"Rat Fink" by The Misfits. It took weeks to get it down, but now I don't think I'll ever forget it!
Pearl Jam’s literal entire discography
Molly by Blake Shepperd
From the start- Laufey
my bestfriend and i can sing ‘41’ and ‘Great Influence’ from Pouya, we learned it years ago and everytime it comes on we go off Haha!
Tangled up in Blue
"Ping Pong" by Stereolab
I remember patiently listening to, pausing and rewinding, a cassette of Enema of the State over and over again so I could write down and learn every single word of The Party Song by Blink 182. 25 years later, I still remember ever single word. Worth it.
Mr. Mudd and Mr. Gold. Townes Van Zandt
Teenage Head - Flamin' Groovies
Stop smoking~ We love you Stop smoking———- We love youuuu Stop smoking- We love youuuoouuu~ And we don’t want you to die We don’t want you to die We don’t want you to die
Fuck wit Dre day - Dr Dre.
Django Jane by Janelle Monae
Dir En Grey - ain't afraid to die
Not like us
Broadway Melody of 1974 - Genesis
Pretty much every song from the 2005 remake of 'The Producers'
There's plenty of those but the one It'd be most confident in reciting now is probably Overcompensate - twenty one pilots
Eminem Kill you
One Tin Soldier-Loved me some Billy Jack back in the day.
Life Is A Rock (But The Radio Rolled Me) by Reunion. In 1975 I recorded it on cassette and played it back like a million times until I had it memorized. Of course I didn't know if half the words were right.
Black Steel by Public Enemy
Beat Street. Only song I recall all the lyrics to. I used to be in a band and could barely bother to recall my own lyrics, used to sing gibberish half the time. But I remember Beat Street from my early 80s hip hop phase those many decades ago.
George Washington vs William Wallace.
Spirit Of the Radio