Oh, Pretty Woman - Van Halen (1982 )

Did anybody else think back in 1982 that this song was a Van Halen original, because I did ? Then again I was only 12 years old. This Roy Orbison classic was covered by Van Halen for their 1982 album Diver Down. But the parallels in design to both songs are few.

The music video had the band costumed as various warriors trying to rescue a captive woman who turns out to be a tranny. Michael Anthony (Samurai), Alex Van Halen (Tarzan), Eddie Van Halen (Western Gunslinger), and David Lee Roth (Napoleon) starred in the very first banned video by MTV due to it's opening sequence, where the bounded woman is fondled against her will by a pair of midgets.

Sheena is a Punk Rocker - Ramones (1977)

Man, doesn't Joey Ramone look like Howard Stern?

The Ramones were an American rock band often regarded as the first punk rock group.
Formed in Forest Hills, Queens, New York, in 1974, all members of the band used stage names with their surnames as "Ramone", though none of them are actually related

"Sheena Is a Punk Rocker" first appeared on their third LP, Rocket to Russia, in 1977, and was also included on later pressings of the group's second album, Leave Home.

The song was written by lead singer Joey Ramone (Jeffry Ross Hyman), and is one of their more popular and enduring songs, showing the band's surf rock influences, and was one of the first songs to use the word "punk" in the title.

The song is ranked #457 on Rolling Stone's list of the 500 Greatest Songs of All Time.

What Am I Gonna Do With You - Barry White (1975)

For the life of me I can't make out what the singer is saying in the first :20 seconds...but it's sure damn catchy.

Many remember Barrence Eugene Carter's (Barry White) 1974 classic "Can't Get Enough Of Your Love, Babe" from his titled LP "Can Get Enough" but few recall this featured song as also being a major chart climber off the same album; peaking at #8 on Billboards Top 200 and #1 on their R&B charts was "What Am I Gonna Do With You".

White's recordings featured a distinctive sound that combined orchestral instrumentation with a steady drumbeat and as many as five electric guitars. His arrangements were influential on the emerging sound of disco music in the early 1970s.

God Only Knows - The Beach Boys (1966)

Note the irony that this, one of the all-time great love songs, opens with the line 'I may not always love you' (although the line is turned on its head by the subsequent lines).

From the Beach Boys' masterpiece lp "Pet Sounds", this song broke new ground in many ways. It was one of the first pop songs to use the word 'God' in its title. The song was also far more technically sophisticated than anything the Beach Boys, or arguably any pop group, had ever attempted before - particularly the complicated melodic structure and vocal harmonies. As producer Brian Wilson also used many unusual instruments, including the harpsichord and French horns that are heard in the song's famous introduction.

Brian Wilson described that the song "was a vision of being blind but in being blind, you can see more. You close your eyes; you're able to see a place or something that's happening." According to Brian, "the idea summarized everything I was trying to express in a single song."

The song appears on several movie releases, most notably the 1997 film "Boogie Nights.

The song is 25th on Rolling Stone's list of the 500 greatest songs of all time.