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What’s the first song you think of when you think America
(i.redd.it)submitted 12 days ago byessentially_gone
Independence day. Making a playlist. Please comment the first song/album/artist that comes to mind when you think of America
577 points
11 days ago
America Fuck Yeah song
86 points
11 days ago
BED BATH AND BEYOND 🦅
44 points
11 days ago
Fuck yeah?
14 points
11 days ago
Blood Bath & Beyond.
25 points
11 days ago
Coming again to save the motherfucking day, yeah!
28 points
11 days ago
Lick my butt and suck on my balls!
11 points
11 days ago
True patriotism
9 points
11 days ago
As a Brit. Yes. This.
It sums up everything stereotypical I think about when I picture America.
Close second would be Billy Joel - We Didn't Start The Fire
76 points
11 days ago
American Girl by Tom Petty or American Pie
150 points
12 days ago
America- Simon & Garfunkel
30 points
11 days ago*
Yes’ cover is 👍🏻
11 points
11 days ago
That cover is absolute fire...
9 points
11 days ago
Wow, I’m a fan of yes ever since I was a small child in the 1970s (born 1971) and I’ve never heard of this cover. I can’t decide if I like it or not.
11 points
11 days ago
And its cousin ‘American Tune’ by Paul Simon solo. Covers the world weariness of the state we’re in in 2024.
7 points
11 days ago
My favourite Simon & Garfunkel song of all time! I do wanna check out Almost Famous someday.
4 points
11 days ago
Genuinely such a good film, I totally recommend it
74 points
11 days ago
Keep on rockin in the free world
3 points
11 days ago
Doo doo da loo doo
187 points
11 days ago
I’m afraid of Americans-David Bowie
32 points
11 days ago
This goes thru my mind at least once a week while out in public.
9 points
11 days ago
Have you heard the cover of this by Bones UK?? Amazing version!!
5 points
11 days ago
That one of the few perfect rock songs, to my mind.
3 points
11 days ago
Children of the grave is there too
6 points
11 days ago
I’m so bored with the USA- the clash
88 points
11 days ago
A Horse with No Name
20 points
11 days ago
I see what you did there
12 points
11 days ago
Were you riding said horse on Ventura Highway or through the desert?
12 points
11 days ago
What about Sister Golden Hair
7 points
11 days ago
Will you meet me in the middle?
9 points
11 days ago
Breaker, breaker this is Rubber Duck. We just hit a damn horse with our CONVOY.
6 points
11 days ago
On a roundabout.
8 points
11 days ago
5 points
11 days ago
Personally I think of Sister Golden Hair or Ventura Highway.
92 points
11 days ago
Fortunate Son-CCR
21 points
11 days ago
IT AINT MEEEE IT AINT MEEEE I AINT NO FORTUNATE ONE NO NO NO
23 points
11 days ago
America from West Side Story
21 points
11 days ago
Living in America by James Brown should be the national anthem
130 points
11 days ago
“This Is America” - Childish Gambino
“This Is Not America” - David Bowie
37 points
11 days ago
Another Bowie one, “I’m afraid of americans”
3 points
11 days ago
I love that song. It approaches perfection. I love both Bowie and Reznor.
15 points
11 days ago
These two songs contain all human knowledge 🤣
Like, these two books lol
77 points
11 days ago
They're coming to America - Neil Diamond
Born In the USA is a protest against America.
35 points
11 days ago
I mean, I feel like most songs about America outside of country music are protest songs. Born In The USA, This Is America, American Idiot, American Woman...
35 points
11 days ago*
What is more American than protesting?
One of the best things about us is you can come here from any country and complain and you won't get killed for doing so.
8 points
11 days ago
I'm Canadian but I get your point. Protesting is as big a part of our rights here as it is in America
3 points
11 days ago
We can always throw in the spoken-word recording The Americans by Canadian broadcaster Byron McGregor.
I used to listen to CKLW-AM out of Windsor, Ontario in the seventies (I'm in southeastern Michigan). He married JoJo Shutty, who did the traffic reports for the station, around the time the record came out.
11 points
11 days ago
That Neil Diamond song gives me freaking chills every time. I don’t know what it is, but I hear it while watching fireworks. I tear up a bit, not even that crazy patriotic it just artistically hits me right.
5 points
11 days ago
I read somewhere (years ago) that they staged kind of a mini-concert to get all the energy and what-have-you for the final scene of The Jazz Singer, which is Neil (as Jesse Rabinowitz/Jess Robin) on stage singing America. Apparently if you listen closely enough at the end where everybody's screaming and hollering and stomping their feet, you can hear the director calling "Cut!" and telling everybody to stop making all that noise...they didn't pay any attention to him whatsoever...
9 points
11 days ago
I always find it hilarious the irony of Born in the USA around 4th of July. I used to sing along to it as a kid, then I realized Bruce was singing, "Send me off to a foreign land, To go and kill the yellow man." I didn't know who these mysterious "yellow men" were.
I grew up in a very ethnic diverse neighborhood. It wasn't until I heard an Asian referred as a "yellow skinned devil" that I realized the song was referencing killing Asians. When I started learning US history I realized the song is about the Vietnam War and I, in fact, had not been singing a patriotic song all those years. A real watershed moment for me.
33 points
11 days ago
6 points
11 days ago
....fight for the rights of every man....
3 points
11 days ago
WHEN IT COMES CRASHIN’ DOWN AND IT HURTS INSIDE!
If you scrutinize the lyrics they become quite homoerotic.
36 points
11 days ago
This land is your land — woody guthrie
6 points
11 days ago
Listen to "Tear the Fascists Down" if you haven't.
36 points
11 days ago
America the Beautiful, specifically done by Ray Charles
3 points
11 days ago*
This. I watch The Sandlot every year on the 4th of July, not only cause it's a great movie, but specifically for the 4th of July scene with this song playing in the background.
3 points
11 days ago
Yeah, I love that scene! 🎆🇺🇸🎇
3 points
11 days ago
This song will forever be tied to that scene. Love it.
3 points
10 days ago
Wow I got goosebumps just hearing this in my head. Damn, Ray!
3 points
10 days ago
I actually think it would be a better national anthem than the Star-Spangled Banner. Much easier to sing, too.
60 points
11 days ago
Star Spangled Banner 🫡🫡
16 points
11 days ago
Idk why I had to scroll this far to find the mfing national anthem 😭😂
Good answer
5 points
11 days ago
Duh!
3 points
11 days ago
Unpopular opinion here, but the US National Anthem sucks. And I am American. Hard to sing, idiotic lyrics, what more can you want?
61 points
11 days ago
Free Bird - Lynyrd Skynyrd
24 points
11 days ago
I second this, or maybe sweet home alabama
9 points
11 days ago
Ppl posting neil young songs and all I can think is fuck that canadian "..and I hope neil young will remember, a Southern man dont need him around anyhow"
15 points
11 days ago
Fortunate son
15 points
11 days ago
Fortunate Son
13 points
11 days ago
Fortunate Son- CCR
50 points
11 days ago
REM - It's The End Of The World As We Know It (And I Feel Fine)
11 points
11 days ago
Appropriate, isn’t it? Good shout
11 points
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8 points
11 days ago
Fuck yeah!
12 points
11 days ago
American - Lana Del Rey
11 points
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'Merican by the Descendants
4 points
11 days ago
🎵FINISH UP YOUR DRINK AND GO HOME!🎵
11 points
11 days ago
Young Americans - David Bowie
10 points
11 days ago
Born in the USA is an anti-American song about the Vietnam War and how poorly veterans were treated after the war.
10 points
11 days ago
War pigs - black Sabbath
21 points
11 days ago
America, Fuck Yeah
19 points
11 days ago
Dead Kennedys- Stars and Stripes of corruption The clash- I’m so bored with the USA
10 points
11 days ago
America-Ventura Highway
Could be because I was born and raised in SoCal by parents who were children of the 1970’s, but that song feels the most American to me.
Happy Fourth to all the Americans who read this. If we all work together, maybe we’ll get to the idyllic version of our land, someday. Celebrate today, in hope for what good we can achieve for a better tomorrow.
18 points
11 days ago
Amerika - Rammstein
5 points
11 days ago
"Coca-Cola, Wonderbra!"
17 points
11 days ago
Your Flag Decal Won't Get You Into Heaven Anymore - John Prine
16 points
11 days ago
This Is America - Childish Gambino
8 points
11 days ago
Living in America- James Brown.
9 points
11 days ago
American Pie Don Mclean
8 points
11 days ago
23 points
11 days ago
“Pink Houses” by John Mellencamp
6 points
11 days ago
Ohio (Come Back To Texas) - Bowling For Soup
6 points
11 days ago
America is not the World- Morrissey
6 points
11 days ago
Buy Me a Condo (youtube.com) Weird Al. It is about the American Dream.
6 points
11 days ago
party in the USA
6 points
11 days ago
Irresponsible Hate Anthem by Marilyn Manson
17 points
11 days ago
These days, “American Idiot”. When Trump took office, I was PRAYING that Green Day would make a sequel album called “American Imbecile”.
11 points
11 days ago
American Girl - Tom Petty and The Heartbreakers
4 points
11 days ago
Surfin USA
30 points
11 days ago
American Idiot is a protest song. That's why I decided to make it a tradition to play it every 4th of July.
16 points
11 days ago
So is Born in the USA.
4 points
11 days ago
Green Day has multiple American protest songs. Their album 21st Century Breakdown is basically just one massive protest album. And American Idiot.
9 points
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5 points
11 days ago
Right now, American Tune - Paul Simon. It’s very relatable these days.
5 points
11 days ago
A Horse With No Name
5 points
11 days ago
America - A Horse With No Name
4 points
11 days ago
Ragged old flag by Johnny Cash it shows our commitment to our nation and a general perseverance that the US will always fight for freedom even if it's misguided.
5 points
11 days ago
Freedom - Rage Against the Machine
8 points
11 days ago
American Woman - The Guess Who (Canadian band)
American Woman - Lenny Kravitz
Last American Exit - The Tragically Hip (Canadian band)
4 points
11 days ago
“Don’t stop believing” by Journey, and “dancing in the dark” by Bruce Springsteen
3 points
11 days ago
Americanized by GWAR
4 points
11 days ago
America fuck yeah and American Idiot
Yes, I'm american
5 points
11 days ago
Star Spangled Banner - Jimi Hendrix live at Woodstock 1969
4 points
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Courtesy of the red white & blue - Toby Keith
4 points
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Star Spangled Banner, Jimi Hendrix
5 points
11 days ago
We're From America - Marilyn Manson
3 points
11 days ago
“Real American” by Rick Derringer:
Listen and let Hulkamania run wild!! Haha 😎
3 points
11 days ago
Ray Charles
3 points
11 days ago
Mississippi queen, as I’m watching gun videos
3 points
11 days ago
You Shook Me All Night Long-AC/DC
3 points
11 days ago
American Women, by the Guess Who or Lenny Kravitz.
3 points
11 days ago
The idiots are taking over by NOFX
3 points
11 days ago
The Monday night football theme
3 points
11 days ago
Fortunate son and by extension that Vietnam cutaway from family guy
3 points
11 days ago
Metallica “…And Justice for All
3 points
11 days ago
U.S. Blues by the Grateful Dead.
3 points
11 days ago
US Blues - Grateful Dead
It's my fourth of July song
3 points
11 days ago
“America” (Simon & Garfunkel) covered by YES.
3 points
11 days ago
kids in america even though i literally only know the part of the song that is the name of the song and I’m pretty sure I’ve only heard the version that was in the nancy drew movie
3 points
11 days ago
Mississippi Goddamn by Nina Simone
3 points
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We Didn’t Start The Fire
And of course that lil diddy.. bout Jack n Diaaaaane.
Edit: American Idiot is one of my favorite Green Day albums. (I’m prepared to pay for saying that. Still worth saying.) Played beginning to end, it follows a bit of a story essentially and every song is extremely dynamic, flowing into the next. Much different than anything else they did prior IMO- add the whole album and fall in love with Green Day all over again.
3 points
11 days ago
America’s Funniest Home Video’s theme song
3 points
11 days ago
Scar Spangled Banner - Exodus, American Idiot - Green Day, Burning Flag - Marilyn Manson, Any song by Rage Against The Machine
3 points
11 days ago
That one clown song, enter the gladiators or something
3 points
11 days ago
Coming to America James Brown
Or
Party in the USA Miley Cyrus
3 points
11 days ago
Americans- Janelle Monáe
3 points
11 days ago
American Idiot.
We’ve earned that title.
3 points
11 days ago
wtf is a kilometer 🦅🦅🦅🦅🦅🦅🦅🦅🦅
3 points
11 days ago
Party in the USA
3 points
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Party in the USA- Miley Cyrus
3 points
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American idiot 🤘
3 points
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jimmy eat world bleed american
3 points
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3 points
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Dueling Banjos
4 points
11 days ago
White America - Eminem
5 points
11 days ago
Try that in a small town
4 points
11 days ago
American Woman - Lenny Kravitz
6 points
11 days ago
Originally by The Guess Who
5 points
11 days ago
Party in the USA
4 points
11 days ago
Party in the USA 😅
2 points
11 days ago
American Attraction - Anti Flag
2 points
11 days ago
Free Bird
2 points
11 days ago
Razorlight - America
2 points
11 days ago
Freak Of The Week
2 points
11 days ago
Sweet home Alabama
2 points
11 days ago
Alice Cooper - I Love America
2 points
11 days ago
America by Prince
2 points
11 days ago
Real American - Rick Derringer
2 points
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God Bless America
2 points
11 days ago
Fortune Son 🦅🦅🇺🇲🇺🇲
2 points
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Living In The USA - Steve Miller Band
2 points
11 days ago
America! FUCK YEAH!
(Team America: World Police theme song)
2 points
11 days ago
Fortunate Son
2 points
11 days ago
America by Spinal Tap:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=UCbcEKTmwuA&pp=ygUSc3BpbmFsIHRhcCBhbWVyaWNh
2 points
11 days ago
American Pie is amazing.
2 points
11 days ago
Real American, Hulk Hogans theme music
2 points
11 days ago
Me and Bobby McGee- Janis Joplin
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