Okay, "song that you know all the words to" may be one of the easiest challenges on the list, so I'm going to pick the song that is surprising for me to know all the words to. I like challenges:
"Albuquerque" by "Weird Al" Yankovic.
I'm not ashamed.
I am a huge "Weird Al" fan and his album "Running With Scissors" was one of the first CDs I ever owned. While his parodies tore apart some of the world's most-beloved songs, they also turned me on to some of my now-favorite bands. He's been making parody songs for over 30 years now and is still as relevant today (possibly more relevant?) than he was when he began.
The last track on "Running With Scissors" was the 11-minute "Albuquerque," a mad-libs-esque story song that follows some unnamed narrator to finding true happiness in the titled city. The absurd narrative lasts for the entire 11 minutes and after memorizing the words to all the songs before it, one day I found out that I had listened to the song enough times that I had magically began to retain the whole story. Even though I didn't understand what a "Flock of Seagulls haircut" was or why it was ironic to bite a man in the jugular, I could recite everything.
I still do it on occasion as a party trick, but that's only when the party is really desperate for entertainment.
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