Top Ten Songs That Are Instantly Recognizable

The songs that you can identify as soon as you hear the first note.
The Top Ten
1 Smoke On the Water - Deep Purple

Maybe the most Famous Riff of all time

Who hasn't heard it?

2 (I Can't Get No) Satisfaction - The Rolling Stones
3 A Hard Day's Night - The Beatles

Surely the most instantly recognizable song in history. Two seconds, perhaps?

4 God Only Knows - The Beach Boys

As soon as that famous French horn hook begins, you know you're in for a wonderful three minutes.

My heart skips a beat the in the first nanosecond. Beautiful.

5 Angels - Robbie Williams
6 Bohemian Rhapsody - Queen
7 Mrs. Robinson - Simon & Garfunkel
8 Skyfall - Adele

Skyfall hits an interesting piano chord right in the beginning, making it easy to recognize.

9 Hotel California - The Eagles
10 Let It Be - The Beatles
The Contenders
11 Sweet Child O'Mine - Guns N' Roses
12 Scenes From an Italian Restaurant - Billy Joel

The whole song is a masterpiece. Billy at his finest!

13 Thunderstruck - AC/DC
14 Hey There Delilah - Plain White T'S
15 Back In Black - AC/DC
16 Friday - Rebecca Black

It is because it's SO HORRIBLE!

17 Piano Man - Billy Joel
18 Light My Fire - The Doors
19 Nothing Else Matters - Metallica
20 Autobahn - Kraftwerk
21 Hey Jude - The Beatles

Very good song, but quite repetitive. And since everyone has heard it somewhere, it's very recognizable.

22 Karma Killer - Robbie Williams
23 Through the Fire and Flames - Dragonforce
24 Smells Like Teen Spirit - Nirvana
25 Darude - Sandstorm
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