20 Songs Everyone Can Name in Just a Few Seconds
‘Take on Me’
Remember Name That Tune? The game you played as a child and one of the most strangely persistent game shows in television history? (Seriously, it’s been a thing in most decades since the advent of the medium. Jane Krakowski currently hosts. It’s a whole thing.) It was hard for a reason. Most of us who didn’t train at Juilliard just don’t recognize a song until the words kick in.
Not all songs, though. Some have become so ingrained in the public consciousness that your average person knows what they’re hearing within the first few seconds. In some cases, everyone can pick it up from the first note. To find out which ones, user Jonboy326 asked r/AskReddit, “What song are people able to instantly recognize just by its intro?”
