Best song ever written?
 

Talk about your subjective, culture-based questions. Googling suggests these nominees:

Rhapsody in Blue
Wichita Lineman
Ring of Fire
Pride (In the Name of Love)
Careless Whisper
The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face
Greensleeves
I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry
Bohemian Rhapsody

Totally off the top of my head...
 

Maybe the "Moonlight" Sonata, or Peaches En Regalia...

What a beautiful song.

Stairway to Heaven

somewhere over the rainbow.

Freeeeeeeeeeeeeeebiiiiiiiiiiird (Kidding, I hate that song)

Moon River

I was listening to "Don't Stop Me Now" by Queen on my train ride home last night. Really listening to it and I had to remark to myself that those guys were seriously talented. All the parts of the music really worked together. It's a kind of silly song, lyrics wise, as most songs are, but to be fair, it did capture a feeling I used to have in my youth. I'm not going to say it's the best song ever but it's very good.

Stairway to Heaven
Another Brick in the Wall Pt II
Jesu Joy of Man's Desiring

Does this need a field of 64?

My sources say yes

If 64 nominees can be made, so it shall become a field.

Put in your seconds so that a good seeding can be established.

seconded. also Jesu.

White Christmas and Amazing Grace are up there for me. So is Allison Krauss' version of "When You Say Nothing At All". "Fire and Rain" is amazing. "Under a Glass Moon" by Dream Theater is my favorite proggy guitar noodly thing of the moment.

Ugh.

I can't do it. Music is too personal. Technical perfection matters to some, composition and originality to others, lyrics to others. Certain chord changes move me that don't move you. What one person considers genius is complete garbage to someone else.

lol. people are going to fight in this thread.

Whole Lotta Love

ber newr ber nerw nant ni ni nant ni ni nant ber newr ber newr nant. gotta whole lotta loooooove!

That's a great song, and I much prefer it to "You Need Love" by Willie Dixon, the song they got sued for ripping off.

From Copyright and Music: A History Told in MP3's

wow. thanks, flint. i never heard that. boy, they DID rip him off. a little bit. the main feel of the song is vastly different, but it is at least as bad as what the beastie boys did to them in the late 80's. turnabout.