# Relatively well-known songs you were absolutely gobsmacked to discover so recently **URL:** \ **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")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 13
**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:** [April 14, 2021, 6:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/relatively-well-known-songs-you-were-absolutely-gobsmacked-to-discover-so-recently/939942/13 "2021-04-14T18:06:01Z")
> [@bordelond](#): > > How familiar one is with that song might track closely to (a) where you lived when the single was released Indeed; “well-known” can depend on where one lives. > [@Songs that hit #1 in some areas, and sank without a trace in others](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-hit-1-in-some-areas-and-sank-without-a-trace-in-others/851673): > > These threads about #1 songs made me think of this, and in particular of Wings’ “Mull of Kintyre”, which in the late 1970s was a monster hit pretty much everywhere in the world that kept a chart, except the United States, where it seemed nobody heard it. When I finally did hear it, I knew why: It just wasn’t American. That’s all. Anyone else have anything similar? --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/relatively-well-known-songs-you-were-absolutely-gobsmacked-to-discover-so-recently/939942)._