My cousin used to play this constantly when I was nine and I didn't find out until much later that it was by Kid Rock's DJ.
edited 11th Sep '11 2:07:06 PM by KitsuneInferno
"It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to open one’s mouth and remove all doubt." - Some guy with a snazzy hat.I must've heard this song a billion times on the radio without knowing what it was, until I heard in a Todd In The Shadows video.
edited 11th Sep '11 5:09:53 PM by Wicked223
You can't even write racist abuse in excrement on somebody's car without the politically correct brigade jumping down your throat!This wasn't too recent, but "Sullivan" by Caroline's Spine was a minor hit when I was a teenager. I barely remembered it until I saw it mentioned on the music section of Tear Jerker. I'm not terribly big on Post-Grunge these days, but it does kind of deserve it's place there, especially because it's a true story
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edited 11th Sep '11 5:42:43 PM by MikeK
"I Believe In A Thing Called love", by The Darkness. I found it with the assistance of (old) Frostwire and I now have their 1st album.
Also, "Electric Avenue". It's been stuck in my head since I was around 5, and I finally found out what it was called because of Pineapple Express.
This song didn’t trouble the charts nationally but it was ALL OVER local radio circa 1979 (even the country stations played it!):
I distinctly remember going on a shopping trip with a friend and her mom and this was playing and we were singing along. When we got to our destination, my friend sang, “R-A-D-I-O-I-O-I-O,” in rhythm to rolling up the car window, making me laugh.
This song might be too relatively new to fit in here, but hey, technically I was younger four years ago:
It was on the radio a lot in 2008 and I heard it in a bar yesterday. I was just about to hit ykts with the vague description of "Song from the mid-late 2000's that sort of sounds like The Strokes but isn't; there are lots of "ba ba ba" parts in the vocals and the riff sort of sounds like 'Rebel Rebel'. Then I remembered the lyric "Come on, come on, turn on your radio" and that was apparently enough to find it through google. I had no idea this would turn out to be the same band that did the Real Song Theme Tune for The OC.
edited 12th Sep '11 9:50:17 AM by MikeK

Ever have a song that you sort of half-remember from when you were younger, and then you find it again years later? That just happened to me now with this.
And has happened to me with a lot of late 90's, early 2000's songs.
anyone else?
go ahead and do every stupid thing you can imagine