Come on, THE answer is Simon and Garfunkel Bridge Over Troubled Water. A true masterpiece.
A friend of mine once theorized that everyone liked at least one section of Jethro Tull’s “Aqualung.” Is that true?
Personally, I’d submit “Yesterday” by the Beatles as a song that I can’t imagine anyone really disliking.
There are a couple of Dire Straits songs I could nominate, but this is the one I pick:
The Linus and Lucy song?
To the point of the thread, I’m positive there’s not a song that everyone likes because there’s not a song that everyone knows. Except for, perhaps, “Happy Birthday”, and even then there are billions of people in Africa and Asia who have never heard it.
I liked Bohemian Rhapsody, but I’ve heard it enough to last me several years until I hear it again. Good? Yes. Overplayed? Also yes.
A hard no on Build Me Up, Buttercup. Possibly the single most annoying earworm of the gawdawful bubble gum era.
Then you’ll love George Carlin’s take…
I feel like it would be hard to knock Sam Cooke’s A Change is Gonna Come.
I’ll have to check through for most songs but I can definitely say that I don’t care for any of these. The first two are overly saccharine and one-level, without enough variation. The latter is just overly repetitive.
I prefer Hendrix version of Like a Rolling Stone.
And, for my personal favorite, the first song on the greatest album of all times: The Real Me by The Who.
I don’t think “everyone” was meant to include the entire world but just the population of this message board.
Yeah, @Pardel-Lux wrote “we all”, so he most probably meant all Dopers.
I submit Child of Mine by Fleetwood Mac.
Everybody I know likes this song. They may not love it, or think it’s great, and it may not be in their personal Top 10 or 25 or even 50, but everybody likes it. And nobody hates it.
Dude, I’ve had that memorized since I was 12 years old!
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Typed from memory.
Obviously! By definition the non Dopers do not write here so their opinion is irrelevant.
I despise it.
Damn. I guess it won’t win the thread, then.
Your logic is impeccable. 