r/BeAmazed • u/Individual_Book9133 • Jan 23 '25

Miscellaneous / Others Two dudes in 2003, unaware they were making a legendary song

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u/ROSCOEMAN Jan 23 '25

I swear I’ve read the same thing a couple of times for different artists

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u/somesthetic Jan 23 '25

Kiss said they wrote “I was made for loving you” to prove how easy it was to make disco hits.

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u/SmegmaSupplier Jan 23 '25

Another big self own because IMO it’s their best song.

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u/Iblockne1whodisagree Jan 23 '25

I couldn't name a KISS song and I owned a kiss CD a long time ago in a galaxy far away.

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u/[deleted] Jan 23 '25

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u/boatson25 Jan 23 '25

This is their best song. And their best known song in Europe at least

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u/TheTzarOfDeath Jan 23 '25

Is Detroit Rock City a song? Or is it just a film?

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u/Iblockne1whodisagree Jan 23 '25

I had to Google it and there is a Detroit Rock City movie and kiss song.

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u/superdupercereal2 Jan 23 '25

The movie is about trying to get into a Kiss concert, hence the name.

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u/Old-Ostrich5181 Jan 23 '25

And it’s making a comeback on some music charts because it was on a new tv show called Fallout (I believe thats the show)

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u/Senior-Lobster-9405 Jan 23 '25

it was in the movie "The Fall Guy," not Fallout

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u/ademayor Jan 23 '25

Kiss is garbage corporate rock, so makes sense

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u/jonboyz31 Jan 23 '25

Talkin about sellouts

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u/candylandmine Jan 23 '25

Blur, Song 2
Radiohead, Creep

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u/Consideredresponse Jan 23 '25

Damon Albarn from Blur has a history of these. Him taking the piss as Gorillaz resulted in at least two more hits.

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u/Constant-Estate3065 Jan 23 '25

A better example for Blur would be Country House.

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u/Patches_Mcgee Jan 23 '25

Kurt said it about Teen Spirit

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u/badashel Jan 23 '25 edited Feb 15 '25

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u/Sensitive-Bar-6278 Jan 23 '25

As they are starting out and partying and doing drugs etc Kurt was always using his girls deodorant “teen spirit “ so someone wrote on the wall of their band trap house -“Kurt smells like teen spirit!” And bam a generational anthem got its title! A song that would ultimately have a music video which would hold a position among the top five greatest most played rock videos of all time ! Despite being a song that didn’t make sense because it was all just contradictions that he wrote in like five min! Yet some how the drugged out genius that he was managed to capture the feelings of his apathetic generation X peers who still felt like irresponsible partying teens despite becoming adults according to their age ! And the video debuted on my birthday in 1991!

I feel stupid and contagious. Here we are now entertain us!…. ………. ……..Mulatto, an albino! A mosquito, my libido!

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u/Soft_Chipmunk_8051 Jan 23 '25

You bastard 🤣

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u/evilbrent Jan 23 '25

Fight for your right to party.

Beastie boys were so disappointed that everyone thought that song was about fighting for your right to party. It was satire from start to finish.

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u/maple_crowtoast Jan 23 '25

😂 omg! I love the beastie boys-but I did in fact think that song was seriously about ffyrtp...I'm sorry BBs!

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u/Big_Spence Jan 23 '25

Radiohead had this for Creep

Slade had this for Cum on Feel the Noize

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u/mikareno Jan 23 '25

Not Slade, but Quiet Riot

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u/[deleted] Jan 23 '25

Quiet Riot's song is a cover of Slade's.

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u/mikareno Jan 23 '25

Well today I learned. Wow, can't believe I'm just now learning this. Thanks!

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u/[deleted] Jan 23 '25

No problem. There's an absurd number of songs that people don't realize are covers of other bands/artists.

Here's a list of 30 such songs from avclub.com

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u/Longjumping-Map-6995 Jan 23 '25

Took me forever before I found out Just Dropped In was not, in fact, a Kenny Rogers original. Lol

Not sure why I was so surprised, it's so different from his usual sound. Lol

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u/[deleted] Jan 23 '25

I'm still trying to reconcile with the fact that When the Levee Breaks isn't a Led Zepplin original, Bowling For Soup didn't write 1985, and I'm a Believer predates the formation of Smash Mouth by 28 years.

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u/Longjumping-Map-6995 Jan 23 '25

Okay, I knew the first two, the Smash Mouth one kind of blew me away. Lmao That's wild.

Another personal favorite that blew me away is that All Along the Watchtower is originally by Bob Dylan, not Hendrix.

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u/[deleted] Jan 23 '25

And the shoe is on the other foot; I heard the Bob Dylan version before Hendrix. My uncle was a Bob Dylan fan.

I'm actually kind of amused by learning about "1985" because previously the only song I knew from SR-71 was "She Was Dead" which I randomly stumbled upon over a decade ago & I still sing along every time it comes on Spotify. Never bothered to look up any of their other music.

Other fun fact about Bowling for Soup; in response to everyone mistakenly attributing Stacy's Mom to the band, they went ahead and covered it... and the cover for the single hilariously says "Everyone thought they did it anyway... so they freakin did it! Finally you can say this is your favorite song by BFS and not look like an idiot!"

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u/[deleted] Jan 23 '25

Quiet Riot covered it. Slade released it 10 years before them in 1973. Both versions are great.

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u/emilyyancey Jan 23 '25

Love a Slade Cum on Feel the Noise shout-out!!

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u/Grandma-Earl Jan 23 '25

So did MGMT about Electric Feel

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u/Master-Pattern9466 Jan 23 '25

Creep by radio head

Teen spirit by nirvana

Song 2 by blur

This song (kids) by mgmt

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u/Swiss_James Jan 23 '25

"Young Folks" Peter, Bjorn and John

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u/mslayboi Jan 23 '25

Love this song so much! I heard it the other day and wanted to be in college again.

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u/cynrtst Jan 23 '25

I love that song

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u/Pixel_Garbage Jan 23 '25

Yes - Owner of A Lonely Heart. But for them it is almost certainly true, because they were already a famous band and then never made anything like it before or since.

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u/DeltaJesus Jan 23 '25

"a couple times for different artists" is very different to "every artist"

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u/tgerz Jan 23 '25

Every and some are different words with different meanings

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u/canadian_webdev Jan 23 '25

Blink said their label wanted a pop song if I recall. They wrote The Rock Show in ten minutes apparently and that blew up.

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u/TheHumanoidTyphoon69 Jan 23 '25

Turquoise Jeep said they wanted to make an R&B/Pop group that had ridiculous songs to prove that people would buy anything, and we were singing sex syrup for a while

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u/BiscuitsUndGravy Jan 23 '25

How you like yo eggs?

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u/TheHumanoidTyphoon69 Jan 23 '25

Fried or fertilized?

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u/fountainofdeath Jan 23 '25

Suicide is painless from MASH

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u/suckontittie Jan 23 '25

Outkast hey ya

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u/worotan Jan 23 '25

So not every artist, then.

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u/thisisntmineIfoundit Jan 23 '25

Feel like I heard it about Vampire Weekend