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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