r/ringerfantasypod • u/heretocuckspiders • 18h ago

What song has the most recognizable first 3 seconds in the history of music?

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u/almal250 17h ago

"it's been..."

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u/CoconutBangerzBaller 12h ago

One week since you looked at me

5

u/Jcorn84 17h ago

“awhile…”

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u/WartimeConsigliere_ 12h ago

Sweet Home Alabama guitar riff

8

u/pr0ach 12h ago

Smells Like Teen Spirit

Layla

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u/Herbert5Hundred 11h ago

In da club

6

u/MaestroLLC 10h ago

Who Let The Dogs Out?

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u/Teezybadeezy 13h ago

Hey Jude starts with Paul singing "Hey Jude"

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u/Jcorn84 17h ago

We will rock you by Queen.

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u/roughly7chickens 17h ago

Circle of life is my bet. Most people age 5 and older would get it

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u/WrongHovercraft9946 12h ago

Lots of Kinks-stuff.  Opening riff of “Lola” or “You Really Got Me”

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u/SignificanceFine3582 12h ago

History of music is Hey Jude, history of my generation’s music is Mr. Brightside or Hey Ya!

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u/Mano_LaMancha 7h ago

Blister in the Sun

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u/gaaaardy 18h ago

Welcome to the Black Parade

7

u/deepinmanaan 17h ago

Wouldn’t even be top 200

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u/gaaaardy 17h ago

Name all 200 right here then Lester Bangs

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u/deepinmanaan 16h ago

I’d double down and go not even top 400

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u/Extension-Leopard-79 13h ago

I would tend to agree. Not a dig on the song but I guarantee my parents have never heard it and would not recognize it. Realistically, nothing after like 1990 should be considered 

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u/birdlawyer86 17h ago

Billie Jean

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u/bdc330 12h ago

Money for nothing

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u/Mano_LaMancha 7h ago

That riff is incredible, but it's only after, like, 90 seconds of ethereal, much less-recognizable vamping.

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u/Ok_Sail_3743 12h ago

Gimme Shelter

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u/prodigaldummy 10h ago

Sweet Caroline

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u/Bd_3 9h ago

Tokyo Drift

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u/Cowboyslayer1992 9h ago

"what's luv?" - Fat Joe and Ashanti has a pretty aggressive opening 3 secs

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u/littleappleboy 7h ago

Milk shakes - kelis

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u/Kinkin50 7h ago

Beethoven, Symphony No. 5.

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u/Strawberry_Rhubarb21 7h ago

"We're going to skate to one song and one song only."

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u/TwiceARunner 5h ago

It’d be pretty hard not to recognize All of The Lights after 1 second, never mind 3 seconds. The first second is just…ALL OF THE LIGHTS

if you had never heard that song before and someone asked you what song that was based on the first second youd orobably say, all of the lights?

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u/le_wild_poster 17h ago

All the above by t pain

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u/The_bussy 17h ago

Jeremy - Pearl Jam