Which 10 songs will stop your channel surfing?
 

Let's say you're in the car and you hit the SCAN button on the radio. Which 10 songs are guaranteed to make you stop the scan and listen to the whole song before you continue scanning?

Hey Jude - Beatles
Help! - Beatles
Never My Love - Association
Brick House - Commodores
Midnight at the Oasis - Maria Muldaur
Amie - Pure Prairie League
Bitch - Meredith Brooks
Layla - Derek and the Dominos
Radar Love - Golden Earring
Weakness in Me - Joan Armatrading

Don't tend to channel surf on the radio...
I dunno which 10 to pick, it's almost like list your 10 favourite songs, lol.
Sorry, maybe I'll come up with a list later...

Well first off probably anything by Pink Floyd, Queen, Yes, Bad Company and Rush will probably make me stop immediately...umm damn that would take me a lotta time to think of some shit right off the bat...and then narrowing it down to 10 would be hard too.

Asta!!

If I am listening to the radio I need to be distracted, so these songs would do the trick.

AC/DC - Money Talks
Goldfrap - Strict Machine
U2 - Hold Me, Thrill Me, Kiss Me, Kill Me
Franz Ferdinand - Take Me Out
Chemical Brothers - Block Rockin' Beats
Deee-Lite - Groove Is In The Heart
Elvis vs JXL - A Little Less Conversation
Fluke - Atom Bomb
Guns n' Roses - Paradise City
Pulp - Common People


Goldfrap and Fluke would be unlikelly on the radio...but the others might show up.

in no particular order

Super Freak-Rick James
Bitch-Meredith Brooks
Tainted Love-Soft Cell
Hotel California-Eagles
November Rain-Guns and Roses
Fat Bottom Girls-Queen
anything by Barry Manilow
anything by ABBA
In the year 2525-Zager and Evans
Ode to Billy Joe-Bobbie Gentry

November Rain is probably still my fave song of all time.

Asta!!

American Pie - -Don McLean
Wasted Time - The Eagles
Eternal Flame - The Bangles
With You -- Boston
4th of July Asbury Park/Sandy -- Bruce Springsteen
Bridge Over Troubled Water- Simon and Garfunkel
Thunder Road (the accoustic version) Bruce Springsteen
Dog and Butterfly - heart
I will take you home - the grateful dead
Sister Christian - Night Ranger

Mainly, anything that's fun to sing along with or thump on the steering wheel to accompany:

Satisfaction -- Rolling Stones
Centerfield -- John Fogarty
I Love L.A. -- Randy Newman
It's Money that Matters -- Randy Newman
Galileo -- Indigo Girls
Flyer -- Nanci Griffith
We are the Champions -- Queen
Touch of Grey -- the Dead
Is That All There Is? -- Peggy Lee
Shotgun -- Junior Walker and the All Stars

Lots of stuff, but recently...

Somebody Told Me - The Killers
Combat Baby - Metric
Please - U2
Who Made Who - AC/DC
Alert Status Red - Matt Good
Maps - The Yeah Yeah Yeahs
Number of the Beast - Iron Maiden
Walk Idiot Walk - The Hives
Put it in Your Heart - Bruce Cockburn
There There - Radiohead

Hmmm...

Boys of Summer - Don Henley
Take on Me - A-Ha
Blister in the Sun - Violent Femmes
Hey Jealousy - Gin Blossoms
Brian Wilson - Barenaked Ladies
In the Blood - Better Than Ezra
Seven Year Ache - Roseanne Cash
Open Road Song - Eve 6
Bloodletting - Concrete Blonde
Running Down a Dream - Tom Petty

There are other songs I might like more, but these are the ones that make me blast the radio and just be in that "the windows are down, the radio's up, life is good" driving mode.

Don't really have any, except for Desperado, by the Eagles, at which point I just stop whatever I'm doing and stare.


Nah, just kidding, here's the list, all for various reasons:
Life of Agony - Let's Pretend (haven't heard it on the radio in years though)
Clutch - SpaceGrass
Fugazi - Waiting Room
Counting Crows - Omaha
Jack Johnson - Flake
Queen - Killer Queen, Fat Bottomed Girls, or Under Pressure
Billy Joel - Piano Man
Eagles - Seven Bridges Road
Smashing Pumpkins - Cherub Rock
STP - Big Empty

Heh, anything AC/DC, Floyd, Zeppelin, Rush for sure.
Hmm, some of my favourites...
AC/DC - Money Talks
Led Zeppelin - Rock and Roll
Led Zeppelin - D'yer Mak'er
The Rolling Stones - Paint it Black

I'll edit this one later...

so this is amfm car radio crap right? maybe a college station. well, from what might come on.... chuck e´s in love - ricki lee jones
acdc - back in black
bob marley - 3 little birds
ray charles - georgia
elvis - suspicious minds
jim croce - leroy brown
boston - more than a feeling
norman greenbaum - spirit in the sky
whoever does the lion sleeps tonight
ronnie spector - be my baby

all fairly likely radio fare.

I have much more than 10 (too bad I have even more that make me CONTINUE channel surfing) but here are the first 10 I think of...

Number 1 Crush - Garbage
Stand By Me - Ben E. King
Paint It Black - Rolling Stones
Drive - R.E.M.
Papa Was A Rolling Stone - Temptations
Black - Pearl Jam
Wango Tango - Ted Nugent (I hate the song so much I love it)
Kick Start My Heart - Motley Crue
Tangerine - Led Zeppelin
The Letter - The Box Tops ("give me a ticket for an aeroplane, ain't got time to take a fast train")

You actually have a radio station that plays Bloodletting? I envy you. The only Concrete Blonde song I've ever heard on the radio was "joey" during some stations "90s flashback lunch."

Actually, it seems like lots of you must have cool stations. Their is no station within 100 miles of me that will play Fugazi's Waiting Room.

anythin G N R

Channel surf?

only on TV :) if I pass by MTV or Chan V with these on, I'll keep on watching :

Greenday - American Idiot
Kanye West - All Falls Down
Usher - Confessions pt. 2
Hoobastank - The Reason
Hoobastank - Same Direction
Ash - Starcrossed
Kings of Convenience - I'd Rather Dance with You
The Strokes - 12:51
The Strokes - Reptilia
Jamie Cullum - Wind Cries Mary

Yep, but only the college station.

I've actually been paying attention to when I stop scanning the past few days...Today I stopped on:

Suds in the Bucket - Sara Evans
Send Me An Angel - Real Life
1985 - Bowling for Soup
She Will Be Loved - Maroon 5
New Year's Day - U2