History Main / IconicSongRequest

* ''Film/WaynesWorld'': The guitar store has a sign that says "No Stairway to Heaven".

* LynyrdSkynyrd's "Free Bird", of course. 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]].

-->There are a few songs that every piano player just knows, just as sure as your average guitar player needs to learn [[DeepPurple "Smoke on the Water"]]. [[Music/{{Journey}} "Don't Stop Believing"]] is one of them; [[JohnLennon "Imagine"]], that's a good one; [[NeverHeardThatOneBefore the really obvious one is]] [[BillyJoel "Piano Man"]]. So just for your own sanity, learn that one because you will hear a lot of requests for that one. I swear, one day I'm gonna put up a WaynesWorld-style sign that says [[BerserkButton "Absolutely No 'Piano Man']]".

* ''{{Casablanca}}'': "Play it, Sam. Play 'As Time Goes By'." Referenced all the time, usually mangled as "[[BeamMeUpScotty Play it again, Sam]]"
* ''WaynesWorld'': The guitar store has a sign that says "No Stairway to Heaven".

* One of BillHicks' most infamous rants (the "Hitler had the right idea, [[KillAllHumans he was just an underachiever!]]" one) was triggered by a heckler repeatedly shouting "Freebird".

** In one of Robin Williams' later comedy albums, someone shouts a request for him to do Mork from ''MorkAndMindy''. He declines, saying, "I don't 'nanoo' no more!"

* "PLAY SOME HIP!" Was a frequent cry in Canadian bars in the 1990s; some musicians covered The Tragically Hip and some didn't, though all were pretty annoyed by the request.

* HarkaVagrant: I said [[http://www.harkavagrant.com/index.php?id=212 play some god damn]] BillyJoel!

* Though it mostly applies to acoustic, in Poland you listen to [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eom6_ZZuHWE Dżem]]. There are two types of guitarists - these who are playing "Whisky" and these who aren't playing it yet.

->- [[http://blogcritics.org/music/article/modest-mouse-on-freebird/ Isaac Brock]].

** Although this is less this trope, and more Troi trolling Riker because "Nightbird" is implied to be an incredibly difficult song, as she comments to the person she's attending the performance with that heRiker has never been able to make it through the solo section.

** Also in ''Guitar Hero II'', one of the random loading screen messages says, "Remember, NO STAIRWAY!", possibly calling back to the Wayne's World example above. Or commenting on the fact that Harmonix had/has yet to license Led Zeppelin songs for Guitar Hero or Rock Band. Possibly even both.

** On the Bomb the Music Industry! album ''Album Minus Band'' is a song called ''FRRRREEEEEE BIIIIIIRRRRRD! FRRRREEEEEE BIIIIIIRD!!!!'', which is about playing oft requested cover songs to bad crowds.

** In Finland, the song requested is [[Music/BlackSabbath Paranoid]]

** TruthInTelevision. Lots of specialist guitar shops actually do have that sign.
** The "No ''Stairway to Heaven''" sign is parodied in the Literature/{{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.

* ''{{Casablanca}}'': "Play it, Sam. Play 'As Time Goes By'."
** Referenced all the time, usually mangled as "[[BeamMeUpScotty Play it again, Sam]]"

* Not quite music, but it's audio on tape, so: There's a recording of Creator/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.

* If you're at a Music/Marillion concert or a Fish solo concert, chances are that someone will ask for "[[EpicRocking Grendel]]".

* [[HarkaVagrant I said]] [[http://www.harkavagrant.com/index.php?id=212 play some god damn]] BillyJoel!

* One of BillHicks' most infamous rants (the "Hitler had the right idea, he was just an underachiever!" one) was triggered by a heckler repeatedly shouting "Freebird".

* On ''{{Cars}}'' someone shouts for "Freebird" during Lightning [=McQueen=]'s sponsors' appearance.