Except that it’s called Yakety Sax and predates The Benny Hill Show by almost a decade.
Blastphemy! 
I think #6 and #11 are the right bands but the wrong songs.
6. Sweet Child O’ Mine
11. Lithium
My guesses:
7. High and Dry - Radiohead
22. Come Fly With Me - Frank Sinatra
Correct answers so far:
- Stevie Wonder - I Wish (fishbicycle)
- The Bee Gees - Stayin’ Alive (fishbicycle)
- Guns ‘n’ Roses - Sweet Child O’ Mine (Cazzle)
- High and Dry - Radiohead (Cazzle, from just the opening drum + cymbal crash)
- Isaac Hayes - Theme From “Shaft” (fishbicycle)
- Nirvana - Lithium (Talon Karrde, Cazzle)
- Labelle - Lady Marmalade (fishbicycle)
- Sweet - Blockbuster (fishbicycle)
- Glenn Miller - Moonlight Serenade (fishbicycle)
- Come Fly With Me - Frank Sinatra (Cazzle)
So maybe note quite as easy as I thought. Of the remaining ones, 10 and 21 are probably the easiest. 19 is not the suggested Spencer Davis Group, but you’re warm. 12 is the tiniest part of a pretty well known song. Except for 20, the others might be easier for British/Irish dopers.
I could have sworn that fishbicycle got #19 right.
“The Liberty Bell March” (Sousa) doesn’t have a particularly distinctive first three notes. I’m sure I’d recognize it anywhere, though, even without the raspberry at the end.
like others, I think I can recognize Lola by the Kinks with just one chord. It’s played on a Dobro metal guitar and is quite distinctive. But I’m not sure how many people know Lola let alone recognize if from the first chord. I mean widely recognize Lola.
For a 5 chords or less you got stuff like
You Really Got Me
I Ain’t Got No (Satisfaction)
Purple Haze
and a lot more classics if one uses this yardstick
If you refresh your cache, I think you’ll see that I edited my post to correct the answer to 19 from what I originally typed to the right answer. The post should not still say Spencer Davis.
Oh yeah. Sorry, you got 19 too then.
“All the Young Girls Love Alice” — Elton John
Not the first, but the second O fortuna from Carmina Burana. The first just has low Ds, and while O fortuna would be my first guess, I wouldn’t be 100% confident. The second one, however, has a very distinctive gong stroke.
Anything you would hear on a Classic Rock station. When I’m in the car with my friends, a song will come on, and I can name the title, artist, year, most of the time the album, and sometimes even the chart position, while my friends are just sitting there confused at how I can do it.
Or Bob Dylan’s “Rainy Day Women #12 and 35” (everybody must get stoned…)
When I hear a heavy bell on the radio, I immediately know it’s either Hell’s Bells or For Whom the Bells Toll. I’ve never learned to distinguish the two though.
Here are my guesses. Some have already been confirmed as right or wrong, but I’m putting what I guessed anyway.
02 - Funky Cold Medina
04 - Staying Alive
06 - Sweet Child o’ Mine
07 - Shakin (?)
09 - My Woman from Tokyo (?)
11 - Lithium
12 - Sweet Home Alabama
Come on now. Don’t leave me hanging.
Would that be Zarathustra? The last time we did a thread like this it was voted as the minimalist sound that would “uniquely” identify a work: one note by one instrument.
You got four right:
[spoiler]04 - Staying Alive
06 - Sweet Child o’ Mine
11 - Lithium
12 - Sweet Home Alabama (from just the word “one” in the count-in - well done!)
These are not right:
02 - Funky Cold Medina
07 - Shakin (?) (already answered correctly by Cazzle)
09 - My Woman from Tokyo (?) (already answered correctly by fishbicycle)
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I’m anxious to know what #2 is now. I listened to the song I guessed just after that sample, and they sound identical. Sounds like somebody ripped somebody off.
Uhhh Teenage Wasteland anyone?
– IG
That is one of the ones I mentioned earlier that might be hard for non-British/Irish people to get. I doubt that that punk/pop band was very big in the US.
Answer:The Undertones - Teenage Kicks