# Relatively well-known songs you were absolutely gobsmacked to discover so recently

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**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Tags:** music\
**Created:** [April 14, 2021, 3:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/relatively-well-known-songs-you-were-absolutely-gobsmacked-to-discover-so-recently/939942 "2021-04-14T03:03:31Z")\
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**Author:** ![needscoffee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/needscoffee/32/1076_2.png) [@needscoffee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/needscoffee)\
**Post date:** [April 15, 2021, 3:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/relatively-well-known-songs-you-were-absolutely-gobsmacked-to-discover-so-recently/939942/21 "2021-04-15T03:28:07Z")

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Somehow I never heard the song _Under Pressure_ before the movie _Bohemian Rhapsody_.

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**Author:** ![SCAdian](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/scadian/32/3292_2.png) [@SCAdian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SCAdian)\
**Post date:** [April 15, 2021, 3:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/relatively-well-known-songs-you-were-absolutely-gobsmacked-to-discover-so-recently/939942/22 "2021-04-15T03:37:32Z")

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Out of all the songs mentioned so far, “Bohemian Rhapsody” is the only one I’ve ever heard of.

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**Post date:** [April 15, 2021, 3:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/relatively-well-known-songs-you-were-absolutely-gobsmacked-to-discover-so-recently/939942/23 "2021-04-15T03:45:27Z")

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Yeah, unaware of it pre-kerfuffle, too.

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**Author:** ![nightshadea](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/7ba0ec/32.png) [@nightshadea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nightshadea)\
**Post date:** [April 15, 2021, 4:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/relatively-well-known-songs-you-were-absolutely-gobsmacked-to-discover-so-recently/939942/24 "2021-04-15T04:18:26Z")

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I had heard a cool song that sounded like new order in the early 90s only once on the radio and spent 15 years remembering the chorus even though I had seen the title 50 times on things like Napster I never actually played the song…

Until I was watching someone’s new order playlist about a few years ago on youtube … that song was “regret”

Another one is weird al Yankovic did the main theme/opening credits for the mike Keaton movie johnny dangerously called “this is the life” …Well, I never knew that because when it was my favorite movie for a while on VHS because they changed it to a cole porter song due to a rights issue and it didn’t get restored to DVD until the 2000s … I happened to see it mentioned under trivia on the IMDB website and thought I knew something no one else did and found out it was a sort of popular song for a bit …

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