This was my high school graduation song in 2000, and I hadn’t heard of it before then.
I believe you mean “My Heart Will Go On” from the Titanic soundtrack by Celine Dion. 
If you’ve not had to suffer through hearing that song relentlessly being force-fed to you by radio in the last decade consider yourself lucky.
Are you sure you weren’t watching THE DEVIL’S REJECTS?
I do think the first remake TCM movie did have “Sweet Home Alabama”.
What? By who?
Baal Houtham, I love you and I want to have your babies. Now, if possible!
Yes you’re right! I’m conflating to hotel incidents.
75-80% of the songs post 1990 I still wouldn’t know. Half of those listed in this thread I don’t recognize. However, Pop Muzik by M is one I have on several different compilations. I am perpetually stuck in the '80s.
Apparently then, I don’t even know the title.
Now, I’m trying to think how I’ve missed the song. I only watched about 40 minutes of the movie at a friend’s house, and skipped the Oscar show the year Titanic came out. There’s no MOR music at work, there’s no MOR music on my radio buttons, my supermarket usually features up tempo catchy rock.
Presumably I’ve heard the song in restaurants or offices, but it never registered.
Don’t know how big it was (#1? I guess?), but I never heard “My Humps” until very recently. I also, like the poster upthread, never heard “Hey Ya” until my wife made me sit down and listen to it. Boy, that song fuckin’ SUCKS, and it was #1?
Joe
Who has the heart to tell Joe that it won a Grammy, too?
Me neither.
What’s this National Anthem thing everyone keeps talking about?
I’d never heard of Chris Brown or Rhianna until last week…:rolleyes:
I had managed to hear Bad Day but did not know (nor care to find out) the artist’s name. Ditto Single Ladies, although I really only know the first three seconds - I hear that clicking and the girl starts saying the words “ALL THE SINGLE LADIES” over and over and I change the station. How many more minutes does the song last before she sings something different? I have heard of My Humps but would be unlikely to identify it until the word “humps” shows up in the lyrics. I suspect this is another one that I aggressively interdict using my lightning-fast channel-switching finger.
Having never watched a single contiguous minute of American Idol I am fairly confident that I could be stuck in an elevator with each of the winners from the last eight seasons, while the elevator played songs that they made famous, and I would neither recognize them nor realize that the songs I was hearing had been forcefully placed in the “Play This CD Six Times An Hour” bin by record execs hungry for marketing tie-ins. Actually, I might recognize Clay Aiken, because I know his name and I’ve heard he’s handsome-but-goofy-looking, and I know he’s got red hair… but I wouldn’t catch on that the music was his song. Oh, and I know that Simon and Paula are judges. Isn’t there a third one, though?
ETA: Quercus alba, I don’t know who either of those people is, but I know Rhianna sings a song about an Umbrella.
I heard that that song held the record for most consecutive weeks at #2 (maybe it was also "… without ever making it to #1). Don’t know if that’s true or not.
I was in highschool in the early 90’s when I got a hold of a Led Zeppelin tape to check out this “Stairway to Heaven” song that I kept hearing about.
That’s why I can’t enjoy any of Weird Al Yankovic’s recent albums. I’ve never heard most of the songs he does parodies of any more. And I’ve been a fan of his since the 80’s.
I think I’ve heard that song, but it seems to have gone missing from my memory.
In your defense, they are a metal band, and only had one pop song that ever got played anywhere outside hard rock stations.
The song that I quite literally never heard, despite having read about it at least 100 times, is “Suzanne” by Leonard Cohen. Boy, does this song get mentioned a LOT in music literature and magazines! Yet, I never heard it even once until a satellite radio station played it about 3 years ago. It’s not quite the same as a “hit”, but the gap between reference and airplay is huge.
I have no idea at all what this song is.
I tuned out of pop music many years ago, but still listen to non-pop, non-country, non-rap radio. I heard this crazy, over the top vocal singing a roller coaster melody… fortunately they mentioned the band and here it is: 4 Non Blondes - What’s Up
Not a huge hit in North America, but big success elsewhere. Oddly enough, often mentioned in the the “Worst of” lists. Oh well, I liked it. It’s nice to hear something different.
There are a lot of songs that music critics seem to adore, but which most people who are not music critics haven’t even heard of, 'cause they don’t get played on the radio, or at clothing stores, or in elevators. Hell, I bet most Americans never even heard Leonard Cohen’s “Hallelujah” till John Cale’s version was played on the “Shrek” soundtrack, or when it was played on that episode of “The OC” when some girl died.
On the other hand, there are a lot of songs that people over a certain age don’t hear much, or at all, mostly 'cause they tend to get played mainly on people’s MySpace pages or at places where young people gather. I hadn’t heard “That’s Not My Name” by the Ting Tings till they played it at the gym where I exercise, for example.