History Main / IconicSongRequest

* In [[http://safebooru.org/index.php?page=post&s=view&id=570854 this Touhou fan-comic]][[hottip:*:see [[http://danbooru.donmai.us/post/show/860085/4koma-6-girls-al_bhed_eyes-alcohol-bags_under_eyes here]] for a version with comments but also with '''NSFW''' ads]], the Prismriver Sisters don't appreciate one of these.

* Not quite music, but it's audio on tape, so: There's a recording of BillHicks being inexplicably harassed with this by a heckler. Bill owns him with a two-minute-long, borderline-psychotic rant about the inanity of this trope, then ''storms off stage'' and is later coaxed back on.

* ''TheSimpsons'' (variant): Barney wants to see the RedHotChiliPeppers play, and so starts a chant for "Chilly Willy".
* On ''TimeSquad'', someone in the audience asks LudwigVanBeethoven to play "Freebird". Beethoven wails on him, and subsequently quits music for a career in wrestling.

* In ''KnightsOfTheDinnerTable'', Bob's character gets in trouble for continually hassling the piano player in an Old West saloon to play "Freebird".

** The "No ''Stairway to Heaven''" sign is parodied in the {{Discworld}} novel Discworld/SoulMusic, where a music shop is rushed by people who want to try guitars after hearing the protagonist perform. At the end, the owner hires a troll whose only job is to harm anyone who tries to play the song.

** In Finland, the song requested is [[BlackSabbath Paranoid]]
* Comedian Sean Hughes used to shout "do Titanic Motives" at every Julian Cope gig he attended. He made the song title up, but allegedly Cope started to believe it was real and that he'd simply forgotten it.

* In ''StarTrekTheNextGeneration'', Riker is giving a trombone concert and Troi insists that he play a fictional tune "Nightbird". He reluctantly agrees, and then is saved by a summons to the bridge.

* In Brazil, the equivalent of "Freebird!" is "[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gPlUjSIjBiM#t=0m22s Toca]] [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raul_Seixas Raul]]!"

* Do not ask RyanAdams to play a Music/BryanAdams song. Especially "[[BerserkButton Summer Of 69]]".

* Do not ask RyanAdams to play a BryanAdams song. Especially "[[BerserkButton Summer Of 69]]".

-> ''"Life is '''too fucking short''' to play or hear Freebird."''

* On the Modest Mouse live album ''Baron Von Bullshit Rides Again'', when an audience member shouts for the band to play "Freebird," the lead singer Isaac Brock responds with [[http://blogcritics.org/music/article/modest-mouse-on-freebird/ this speech]].

* Do not ask RyanAdams to play a BryanAdams song. Especially "Summer Of 69".

* RyanAdams has been known to react... [[Understatement less than amicably]] when someone requests BryanAdams' "Summer Of 69".

There are songs so famous (or infamous) that they're universally adored (or reviled) in certain circles, constantly being requested (possibly to the point of annoyance) on the radio, at a concert or in a lounge. Of course, SmallReferencePools mean these tend to be the same songs across different genres. This is a CyclicTrope as time marches on and these songs go into and out of style.

* If watching LiveActionTV {{Sit Com}}s from TheSixties has taught me anything, it's that the drunk in the piano bar will always ask for "Melancholy Baby".

* ''GuitarHero'': The audience is occasionally heard trolling your band with requests for LynyrdSkynyrd's "Freebird", but you actually do get to play "Freebird" in one of the games.

* In ''StarTrekTheNextGeneration'', Riker is giving a trombone concert and Troi insists that he play "Nightbird" (apparently "Free Bird" doesn't sound futuristic enough for the ''Star Trek'' universe). He reluctantly agrees, and then is saved by a summons to the bridge.

Examples:

-> ''"I know I have said this before, but the odds of us actually playing Freebird? There are no odds. It is not going to happen. I will start off with the first reason. We have no idea how to play Freebird. ... Even if, pick your deity, came down from the heavens or wherever or the hills or wherever the deity lives and blessed us with this vast knowledge of Freebird. And we could play it backwards and sing it backwards. We still just wouldn't do it. If this were the Make A Wish Foundation and you were going to die in 20 minutes, just long enough to play Freebird, we still wouldn't play it. Here is the end reason: the end reason is that life is '''too fucking short''' to play or hear Freebird."''

-> ''"I know I have said this before, but the odds of us actually playing Freebird? There are no odds. It is not going to happen. I will start off with the first reason. We have no idea how to play Freebird. ... Thirdly, even if, pick your deity, came down from the heavens or wherever or the hills or wherever the deity lives and blessed us with this vast knowledge of Freebird. And we could play it backwards and sing it backwards. We still just wouldn't do it. If this were the Make A Wish Foundation and you were going to die in 20 minutes, just long enough to play Freebird, we still wouldn't play it. Here is the end reason: the end reason is that life is '''too fucking short''' to play or hear Freebird."''

-> ''"I know I have said this before, but the odds of us actually playing Freebird? There are no odds. It is not going to happen. I will start off with the first reason. We have no idea how to play Freebird. ... Thirdly, even if, pick your deity, came down from the heavens or wherever or the hills or wherever the deity lives and blessed us with this vast knowledge of Freebird. And we could play it backwards and sing it backwards. We still just wouldn't do it. If this were the Make A Wish Foundation and you were going to die in 20 minutes just long enough to play Freebird, we still wouldn't play it. Here is the end reason: the end reason is that life is '''too fucking short''' to play or hear Freebird."''

-> ''"Life is '''too fucking short''' to play or hear Freebird."''
->- [[ModestMouse Isaac Brock]] ([[http://blogcritics.org/music/article/modest-mouse-on-freebird/ Link]].)

There are songs so famous (or infamous) that they're universally adored (or reviled) in certain circles, constantly being requested (possibly to the point of annoyance) on the radio, at a concert, or in a lounge. Of course, SmallReferencePools mean these tend to be the same songs across different genres. A CyclicTrope as time marches on and these songs go in and out of style.

[[AC: Film]]
* {{Casablanca}} - "Play it, Sam. Play 'As Time Goes By'."

* WaynesWorld - The guitar store has a sign that says "No Stairway to Heaven".

[[AC: Live Action Television]]
* If watching LiveActionTV {{Sit Com}}s from TheSixties has taught me anything, it's that the drunk in the piano bar will always ask for "Melancholy Baby."

[[AC: Music]]
* On his album ''Too Close For Comfort'', comedian/folksinger Martin Pearson talks about drunks hassling him for requests (which he doesn't do). The funniest one is being asked to play 'Tubular Bells (Martin is a guitarist).
* BillyConnolly has a song about being hassled to play the song "Ten Guitars".

[[AC: VideoGames]]
* GuitarHero - the audience is occasionally heard trolling your band with requests for Lynyrd Skynyrd's Freebird, but you actually do get to play Freebird in one of the games.

[[AC: Webcomics]]
* In ''KnightsOfTheDinnerTable'', Bob's character gets in trouble for continually hassling the piano player in an old west saloon to play Freebird.

[[AC: Western Animation]]
* TheSimpsons (variant): Barney wants to see the RedHotChilliPeppers play, and so starts a chant for "Chilly Willy".
* On ''TimeSquad'', someone in the audience asks Beethoven to play Freebird. Beethoven wails on him, and subsequently quits music for a career in wrestling.