# Topic Playlist (Part 3) **URL:** \ **Category:** Thread Games\ **Created:** [January 26, 2024, 3:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/topic-playlist-part-3/996687 "2024-01-26T15:37:03Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 452
**Author:** ![Mean\_Mr.Mustard](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mean_mr.mustard/32/3865_2.png) [@Mean\_Mr.Mustard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mean_Mr.Mustard)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2026, 6:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/topic-playlist-part-3/996687/9023 "2026-11-11T18:25:08Z")
**Songs That Make You Think Of Squares** 1. God Bless the USA - Lee Greenwood 2. That Lucky Old Sun - Lawrence Welk 3. Your Mama Don’t Dance - Loggins and Messina 4. Okie From Muskogee - Merle Haggard 5. A Well-Respected Man - The Kinks 6. Hip to be Square - Huey Lewis and the News 7. Hey Good Lookin’ - Hank Williams _“There’s soda pop and the dancin’s free…”_ ---
**Author:** ![bordelond](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bordelond/32/150_2.png) [@bordelond](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bordelond)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2026, 6:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/topic-playlist-part-3/996687/9024 "2026-11-11T18:30:32Z")
**Songs That Make You Think Of Squares** 1. God Bless the USA - Lee Greenwood 2. That Lucky Old Sun - Lawrence Welk 3. Your Mama Don’t Dance - Loggins and Messina 4. Okie From Muskogee - Merle Haggard 5. A Well-Respected Man - The Kinks 6. Hip to be Square - Huey Lewis and the News 7. Hey Good Lookin’ - Hank Williams 8. Tie a Yellow Ribbon Round the Ole Oak Tree - Tony Orlando and Dawn Five words … _Amazon Women on the Moon_ 😁 ---
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**Songs That Make You Think Of Squares** 1. God Bless the USA - Lee Greenwood 2. That Lucky Old Sun - Lawrence Welk 3. Your Mama Don’t Dance - Loggins and Messina 4. Okie From Muskogee - Merle Haggard 5. A Well-Respected Man - The Kinks 6. Hip to be Square - Huey Lewis and the News 7. Hey Good Lookin’ - Hank Williams 8. Tie a Yellow Ribbon Round the Ole Oak Tree - Tony Orlando and Dawn 9. We Built this City - Starship ---
**Author:** ![Buck\_Godot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/buck_godot/32/6573_2.png) [@Buck\_Godot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Buck_Godot)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2026, 9:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/topic-playlist-part-3/996687/9026 "2026-11-11T21:44:34Z")
**Songs That Make You Think Of Squares** 1. God Bless the USA - Lee Greenwood 2. That Lucky Old Sun - Lawrence Welk 3. Your Mama Don’t Dance - Loggins and Messina 4. Okie From Muskogee - Merle Haggard 5. A Well-Respected Man - The Kinks 6. Hip to be Square - Huey Lewis and the News 7. Hey Good Lookin’ - Hank Williams 8. Tie a Yellow Ribbon Round the Ole Oak Tree - Tony Orlando and Dawn 9. We Built this City - Starship 10. 9 to 5 morning train - Sheena Easton **Instrumental Riffs that may be more famous than the song they came from** 1. [Saxophone Riff](https://youtu.be/Fo6aKnRnBxM?t=109) from Baker Street - Gerry Rafferty ---
**Author:** ![bordelond](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bordelond/32/150_2.png) [@bordelond](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bordelond)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2026, 10:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/topic-playlist-part-3/996687/9027 "2026-11-11T22:32:53Z")
**Instrumental Riffs that may be more famous than the song they came from** 1. [Saxophone Riff](https://youtu.be/Fo6aKnRnBxM?t=109) from Baker Street - Gerry Rafferty 2. [Saxophone Riff](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f77PLFRP3Ok&87634) from El Bimbo - Jean-Marc Dompierre and His Orchestra Best known to Gen X audiences as the “Blue Oyster Bar theme” from the _Police Academy_ film franchise. Dompierre’s 1982 version of “El Bimbo” was a cover of Claude Morgan’s 1974 original. ---
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**Instrumental Riffs that may be more famous than the song they came from** 1. [Saxophone Riff](https://youtu.be/Fo6aKnRnBxM?t=109) from Baker Street - Gerry Rafferty 2. [Saxophone Riff](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f77PLFRP3Ok&87634) from El Bimbo - Jean-Marc Dompierre and His Orchestra 3. [Opening Organ/Guitar Riff](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gu9HhYv0C7E) from Baba O’Riley (Teenage Wasteland) – The Who Yes – that’s a Lowrey organ, not a synth. _ **-“BB”-** _ ---
**Author:** ![HeyHomie](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/heyhomie/32/207_2.png) [@HeyHomie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HeyHomie)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2026, 12:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/topic-playlist-part-3/996687/9029 "2026-11-12T00:38:11Z")
**Instrumental Riffs that may be more famous than the song they came from** 1. [Saxophone Riff](https://youtu.be/Fo6aKnRnBxM?t=109) from Baker Street - Gerry Rafferty 2. [Saxophone Riff](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f77PLFRP3Ok&87634) from El Bimbo - Jean-Marc Dompierre and His Orchestra 3. [Opening Organ/Guitar Riff](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gu9HhYv0C7E) from Baba O’Riley (Teenage Wasteland) – The Who 4. [Opening Guitar Riff from Bad to the Bone](https://youtu.be/IyhJ69mD7xI?si=yvCpoVi_-UqvHlWa) - George Thorogood and the Destroyers By now it’s a sort-of audio shorthand to indicate that trouble is afoot. ---
**Author:** ![kenobi\_65](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kenobi_65/32/13178_2.png) [@kenobi\_65](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kenobi_65)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2026, 12:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/topic-playlist-part-3/996687/9030 "2026-11-12T00:51:04Z")
**Instrumental Riffs that may be more famous than the song they came from** 1. [Saxophone Riff](https://youtu.be/Fo6aKnRnBxM?t=109) from Baker Street - Gerry Rafferty 2. [Saxophone Riff](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f77PLFRP3Ok&87634) from El Bimbo - Jean-Marc Dompierre and His Orchestra 3. [Opening Organ/Guitar Riff](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gu9HhYv0C7E) from Baba O’Riley (Teenage Wasteland) – The Who 4. [Opening Guitar Riff from Bad to the Bone](https://youtu.be/IyhJ69mD7xI?si=yvCpoVi_-UqvHlWa) - George Thorogood and the Destroyers 5. [Opening Organ & Drum Riff](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gO17hN-YvBc) from Bang the Drum All Day - Todd Rundgren Frequently played as a touchdown/goal celebration song in sports, particularly by the Green Bay Packers. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/topic-playlist-part-3/996687.md?page=451)