# A List of "Answer" Songs **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [May 20, 2010, 12:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-list-of-answer-songs/540116 "2010-05-20T12:30:23Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![davidw](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/c4cdca/32.png) [@davidw](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/davidw)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2010, 5:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-list-of-answer-songs/540116/61 "2010-05-21T17:53:21Z")
Man, there are probably hundreds of hip hop songs that fit the description. A few off the top of my head: Doug E. Fresh – “The Show” Salt n Pepa – “The Show-stopper” MC Shan – “The Bridge” Boogie Down Productions – “South Bronx” MC Shan – “Kill That Noise” BDP – “The Bridge Is Over” Kool Moe Dee – “How Ya Like Me Now?” LL Cool J – “Jack The Ripper” Kool Moe Dee – “Let’s Go” LL Cool J – “To Tha Break of Dawn” LL Cool J – “4,3,2,1” Canibus – “Second Round Knockout” Eminem – “I Remember” Everlast – “Whitey’s Revenge” ---
**Author:** ![Nzinga\_Seated](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/b5ac83/32.png) [@Nzinga\_Seated](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nzinga_Seated)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2010, 6:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-list-of-answer-songs/540116/62 "2010-05-21T18:07:31Z")
davidw, if we are going to count battle rhymes, we gotta count Jay Z – “Takeover” Nas – “Ether” Not since BDP’s ‘The Bridge is Over’ has a battle rhyme been so devastating. Ether burned the eyebrows off of Jay Z. Also, Canibus busted LL’s _ass_ on Second Round Knockout. ---
**Author:** ![BubbaDog](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bubbadog/32/333_2.png) [@BubbaDog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BubbaDog)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2010, 6:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-list-of-answer-songs/540116/63 "2010-05-21T18:24:05Z")
Bobby Vinton - **[Roses are Red](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PjD_DpPP8FU)** Florraine Darlin - **[Long as the Rose is Red](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mzVmeYw9Hww)** ---
**Author:** ![DrDeth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b487fb/32.png) [@DrDeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrDeth)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2010, 6:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-list-of-answer-songs/540116/64 "2010-05-21T18:56:13Z")
Jayne Mansfield sung the “answer song” to _Chantilly Lace:_:eek: [http://www.amazon.com/Too-Hot-Handle-Jayne-Mansfield/dp/B0000X7PQO/ref=cm\_cr-mr-title](http://www.amazon.com/Too-Hot-Handle-Jayne-Mansfield/dp/B0000X7PQO/ref=cm_cr-mr-title) The second customer review for the CD actually talks about it. ---
**Author:** ![Meltdown](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Meltdown](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Meltdown)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2010, 7:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-list-of-answer-songs/540116/65 "2010-05-21T19:02:30Z")
I don’t think this has been mentioned yet. Not strictly an answer, more like a disagreement: “Love Will Keep Us Together” – Captain and Tennille “Love Will Tear Us Apart” – Joy Division ---
**Author:** ![tumbleddown](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e9bcb4/32.png) [@tumbleddown](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tumbleddown)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2010, 10:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-list-of-answer-songs/540116/66 "2010-05-22T10:41:44Z")
I’m not sure if it’s an answer as much as a diss, but 3rd Bass had “Pop Goes the Weasel” in response to Vanilla Ice’s “Ice Ice Baby.” The obnoxious Shaggy song “It Wasn’t Me” was responded to by Lady Saw in the equally obnoxious “Son of a Bitch.” Duran Duran answered their own “The Chauffeur” in a fashion, in “Drive-By.” ---
**Author:** ![Thudlow\_Boink](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thudlow_boink/32/320_2.png) [@Thudlow\_Boink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thudlow_Boink)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2010, 12:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-list-of-answer-songs/540116/67 "2010-05-22T12:33:29Z")
> [@spoke-](#): > > [Imagine](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=okd3hLlvvLw) - John Lennon “Was it a millionaire who said ‘imagine no possessions’?” -Elvis Costello, in “The Other Side of Summer” (though the song as a whole isn’t an answer song) The Kinks’ “Waterloo Sunset” has had several [answers or sequels](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waterloo_Sunset#References_in_other_works). ---
**Author:** ![Spoke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a88e57/32.png) [@Spoke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoke)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2010, 1:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-list-of-answer-songs/540116/68 "2010-05-22T13:35:31Z")
> [@DrDeth](#): > > Jayne Mansfield sung the “answer song” to _Chantilly Lace:_:eek: Here’s the song: [That Makes It](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0CRj_MIT_EM) - Jayne Mansfield ---
**Author:** ![jjimm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba8739/32.png) [@jjimm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jjimm)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2010, 4:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-list-of-answer-songs/540116/69 "2010-05-22T16:10:54Z")
> [@Finagle](#): > > Who’ll Stop the Rain? by Creedence Clearwater Revival > > Rain King by Counting Crows I’m interested - what’s the connection? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-list-of-answer-songs/540116.md?page=3)