Top 10 Answer (Response) Songs
An answer song aka response song or answer record, is a song made in answer to a previous song usually by another artist.The Top Ten
1 American Idiot - Green Day
A response to Lynyrd Skynyrd's That's How I Like It
2 The Rain Song - Led Zeppelin
It is a response to The Beatles' Something
3 Killing Me Softly - Roberta Flack
A response to Don McLean's Empty Chairs
4 Love Will Tear Us Apart - Joy Division
It is a response to Captain & Tennille's Love Will Keep Us Together
5 How Do You Sleep? - John Lennon
A response to Too Many People by Paul & Linda McCartney
6 Bloody Well Right - Supertramp
7 This Land is Your Land - Woody Guthrie
A response to Irving Berlin's God Bless America
8 Me In Honey - R.E.M.
9 California Gurls - Katy Perry
10 Paper Doll - John Mayer
A response to Taylor Swift's Dear John
The Contenders
11 Oh Neil - Carole King
12 I’ve Got Nothing Working - Ann Cole
A response to I've Got My Mojo Working by Muddy Waters
13 Hold On - En Vogue
14 Back in the U.S.S.R. - The Beatles
Response to the Beach Boys' "Surfin USA".
15 Perfect - One Direction
An answer to Taylor Swift's Style.
16 I Talked Too Much - Valerie Carr
A response to You Talk Too Much by Joe Jones
17 I Know Your Heart's Not Made of Wood - Marie Ann
A response to Wooden Heart by Elvis Presley
18 Tell Tommy, I Need Him - Marilyn Michaels
A response to Tell Laura, I Love Her by Ray Peterson
19 Goodies - Ciara
20 Satisfied - Tom Waits
21 The Wallflower - Etta James
22 F.U.R.B. (F**k U Right Back) - Frankee
23 The Warning - Eminem
24 The Dawn of Correction - The Spokesmen
A relatively obscure 1960s song meant to be a response to Eve of Destruction by Barry McGuire, an anti-war protest song that hit number one.
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