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10th October 2018
09:32am BST
Ah, Irish people – famous worldwide for our hospitality, our Guinness and our inexplicable ability to memorise fairly crap pop songs (and some good ones too, to be fair).
Here's the definitive list of song lyrics you probably know inside out – while you can't remember what you had for luncy yesterday or your mum's birthday.
You're welcome.
A lot of Killers' song lyrics make zero sense to us, but that never affects our ability to memorise them.
You know what you need? A little bit of Monica, that's what.
For the end of the night, when you're all danced out and it's time for the magic to happen. Ahem.
And, in fact, the whole of 'White Ladder'. Every. Single. One of us.
This was particularly great for shocking your parents.
Bonus points for Irish dancing midway...
Ah, the start of our alt rock phase.
Ah, those rule-breaking Russian gals, releasing the gay anthem of a decade. Pity they, y'know, weren't gay at all.
This is a favourite of ours for office karaoke parties.
Can anyone ever listen to – or sing – this song without putting in a few verses of Kelis' 'Milkshake'? We didn't think so.
Has anyone ever successfully done the 'Saturday Night' dance, without scrapping with their mates over whether or not the wet-hands part comes before the swirly arms bit?
This was at the height of our Lauren Hill Sister Act 2 obsession.
Where is Mena Suvari, anyway?
The look of sadness in the newly-single Gwen Stefani's eyes... We still can't even.
We're frequently perplexed at how a song about a drug-addled loser spying a beautiful girl on a train and essentially stalking her did so well but, y'know, it is what it is. And why did he jump off that cliff in the end?
The SCARAMOUCHE bits are our faves, obvs.
If we had a euro for every time we saw some idiot try to recreate the flying part from Titanic when this song came out... Well, we wouldn't be here writing listicles about it, now would we.
Just nobody mention the sexism.
What better reason could there be than for love itself?! DEEP.
Once you listen to this reality TV classic, you won't get it out of your head for days. DAYS, we tell you.
We even have the intro laugh down! DOWN.
It's mostly the intro, we won't lie, but we do find ourselves singing along to the rest, too.
This is when we learned life's singlemost undeniable truth: white people can rap.
It doesn't matter that this is the singlemost irritating song of the last century, we still sing along. Every. Single. Time.
It doesn't really matter that no one knows what they're singing; we still sing along, and that's what counts.
Yeah, we can blame The Sopranos for the revival of Journey's rock anthem, but we've always had a soft spot.
At a wedding, in a country nightclub – the classic air guitar tune.
Do you think Train spend their time laughing, rolling around on their money and thinking about all the shit-but-catchy pop songs they've unleashed on the world?
We know, we know – this is hardly an appropriate autumnal tune, but we couldn't leave it out.
Ah, the reconciliation fantasy song everyone listens to at least twice, post-breakup. (Okay, fine, it was 15 times.)
Things you probably didn't know: Dustin has 17 songs in his 'Greatest Hits' and one of them is called, Never Been to Meath. #funfact
We're sorry. We had to.
Looking at Chris Martin in this video is suddenly making us feel very old.
This song is the reason why you should never, EVER let someone in Ireland bring a guitar to a house party.
*sniff*
We love to hate it, but we'll admit: every time we hear it on X Factor, we feel a little bit proud.
Tuuuuuuuuuuune!
Another one that we like to improvise on, singing the 'Sweet Dreams' remix like we fecking invented it. Proud.
At the end of the teenage disco, when you were just dying for the shift... You could always count on Savage Garden.
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