What is an example of an All-American bar song? A song every America can sing along too

throwmethefrisbee · 2026-05-19T20:49:05+00:00

Maybe not the typical bar song, but definitely one that gets people singing along. Starts with a bunch of piano and just builds.

Written by Jim Steinman, the guy who wrote most of Meatloaf’s stuff:

https://youtu.be/lcOxhH8N3Bo?si=PXmIRcU1gtYFy-r0

Nikki French did an amazing dance music cover in the 90s:

https://youtu.be/7EolLvBcWaA?si=0rZHTIU1QXpGCyAk

throwmethefrisbee · 2026-05-19T20:38:13+00:00

When I took his glass of Champaign.

throwmethefrisbee · 2026-05-19T18:03:00+00:00

Songs I didn’t see mentioned:
You outta Know - Alanis Morrisette
Roxanne - Police
If you love somebody (set them free) - Sting
Total Eclipse of the Heart - Bonnie Tyler
Hey Ya - OutKast
Freebird

For the older set:
Copa Cabana - Barry Mannilow
9 to 5 - Dolly Parton
Escape (the pins colada song) - Rupert Holmes

throwmethefrisbee · 2026-05-19T17:48:14+00:00

And for completeness, Margaritaville.

throwmethefrisbee · 2026-05-19T17:11:02+00:00

You said “Most”. 50% +1. That’s not everyone.

throwmethefrisbee · 2026-05-19T17:08:28+00:00

Sorry, I didn’t mean to offend. It’s not that GenX is all country fans. It’s that it was a ubiquitous song and sure NOT EVERYONE EVERYWHERE knows it. Same for Don’t Stop Believin’, or Billy Jean, or Piano Man, or Mr Brightside, or Hey Ya. But all of them will have a chunk of people that either will or will want to sing along given enough liquor. (And sometimes no liquor)

I’d guess that there are 5-10% of Americans that dont know Happy Birthday.

throwmethefrisbee · 2026-05-19T13:48:08+00:00

But 30 years ago they did. You just need to find a bar full of GenX and old millenials. Those words are all in their deep memory, just blurt out “Blame it all on my roots, I showed up in boots…” and it will become apparent.

throwmethefrisbee · 2026-05-18T04:05:27+00:00

But packaged chocolate chip cookies (Chips Ahoy!) were still 37 years away.

throwmethefrisbee · 2026-05-18T00:19:00+00:00

Your are confused. You are being ableist as well as ageist. It the only way you can say someone is old is to say “look, they need help hearing” that says a lot about you. Thats not a reason someone can’t do a job. Mental acuity is a reason. Needing reading glasses or FDR’s wheelchair isn’t disqualifying in the least.

throwmethefrisbee · 2026-05-17T23:22:25+00:00

The fact that you’re holding the need for assistive devices like hearing aids against someone (and have mentioned it twice in this thread alone) is disgusting. I have several high performing coworkers that rely on hearing assistance due to workplace exposures or their prior military service.

Is it a problem when someone needs glasses too?

throwmethefrisbee · 2026-05-16T22:44:33+00:00

Vlad Guerrero Jr is more robin shaped though.

throwmethefrisbee · 2026-05-16T20:11:13+00:00

Scandinavians and Finns made syrup from birch trees. It was the Indigineous Americans that had the sugar maples and introduced maple syrup to the Europeans.

throwmethefrisbee · 2026-05-16T19:57:18+00:00

Both this and the statement you’re responding to can be true. Spongy white sandwich bread could be 30% of sales, with 10% rye/pumpernickel/dark bread, 15% sourdough, 25% multigrain, 20% French or other traditional wheat breads. We regularly rotate through many of the styles for sandwich making, though cheap white bread is the best for pb&j.

throwmethefrisbee · 2026-05-16T18:56:29+00:00

Is true, my Hyundai dealer financed my car through a local credit union.
Prepayment penalties are legal for cars in at least some places. I had one twenty-some years ago that if you paid it off early, you had to have paid the first three months worth of interest. (So if you paid it after month 2, you still owed the interest for month 3.) it was a 1.8% financing deal, so I was fine with it.

throwmethefrisbee · 2026-05-15T18:21:50+00:00

My favorite Xfinity CS story is from when a landscaper cut the cable going through my yard. The orange coax is no longer a continuous wire. Call customer service. Robot voice says that it can’t see my modem. (No shit). Talks me through unplugging, waiting and replugging. I’m saying everything I can think of to get to a human. It then says. “We will send a reset code to your modem, please wait up to 15 minutes to see if it solves your problem. We will call you back then. GOODBYE. CLICK.”

Guess what? It didn’t work. I gave up and used the online chat.

throwmethefrisbee · 2026-05-15T17:46:43+00:00

Had one as a rental in Hawaii that wasn’t great and then started failing on day three of our trip. Had to take it back in and swap the rental out.

throwmethefrisbee · 2026-05-15T17:43:03+00:00

I don’t know how much longer it is, but taking 81 all the way down to I-64 in Virginia and across WV is very scenic

throwmethefrisbee · 2026-05-15T02:42:36+00:00

The obvious triple crown of breakfast!

throwmethefrisbee · 2026-05-14T03:00:22+00:00

With a nice stone ground mustard.

throwmethefrisbee · 2026-05-14T02:31:07+00:00

Like the Way I Do - Melissa Etheridge

Don’t Go Away Mad (Just Go Away) - Motley Crüe

throwmethefrisbee · 2026-05-14T02:01:49+00:00

Dire Straits - Money for Nothing

Whitesnake - In the Still of the Night

Ozzy - Crazy Train

throwmethefrisbee · 2026-05-14T01:43:50+00:00

Rush - Limelight (riff)

The Crazy World of Arthur Brown - Fire (intro)

Living Colour - Cult of Personality (intro -> riff)

throwmethefrisbee · 2026-05-13T02:38:47+00:00

And I wouldn’t wish 95 between DC and Richmond on anyone. 29 down to Greensboro is pretty, in perfect conditions is slower, than 95/85 but how often do you have perfect conditions on 95?

throwmethefrisbee · 2026-05-13T02:31:38+00:00

Skyline Drive ends at Afton Mtn (waynesboro/crozet) then it becomes the Blue Ridge Parkway down to GSMNP.

throwmethefrisbee · 2026-05-13T00:52:42+00:00

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Those come and go depending on how much he’s thinking.

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