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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...
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Stairway to Heaven
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somewhere over the rainbow.
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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.
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Stairway to Heaven
Another Brick in the Wall Pt II Jesu Joy of Man's Desiring Does this need a field of 64? |
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If 64 nominees can be made, so it shall become a field.
Put in your seconds so that a good seeding can be established. |
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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! |
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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.
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The punchline is that music has progressed over the centuries by a series of "rip-offs" - which weren't approachable as a legal issue until recording technology allowed music to be treated as an object.
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Tear the Roof Off the Sucker--Parliament
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Amazing Grace
Good Vibrations (Beach Boys) |
Take Me to the River many, many artists...
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Help - The Beatles
I Want to Hold Your Hand -The Beatles (it's actually quite hard when you have their entire catalog to select from) |
Wow...favorite Beatles song? I'd have a different top-ten every day.
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ooh ooh...
Mas Que Nada-- Brasil 66 (Sergio, baby!) |
Yesterday - Beatles
The Wind Cries Mary - Hendrix |
How many am I allowed to vote for?
Optimistic Thought, Blues Traveler Me and Bobby McGee, Janis Joplin Down Under, Men at Work Wild World, Cat Stevens Tangled Up in Blue, Bob Dylan One Nation Under a Groove, Parliament Funkadelic Kashmir, Led Zeppelin Woke Up Laughing, Robert Palmer Wish You Were Here, Pink Floyd Heartbeats, Jose Gonzalez Eminence Front, The Who Little Wing, Stevie Ray Vaughn Strange Fire, Indigo Girls [edit] Penny to My Name, Eva Cassidy |
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have you heard hendrix do it? |
Watchtower
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Rhinestone Cowboy
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Dock of the Bay
Jesu 2nd |
Imagine
While my Guitar Gently Weeps Comfortably numb |
No Way, Wish You Were Here > Comfortably Numb
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OK,First.
Willie Dixon is so fucking roots he's like a giant bag of mushrooms. LedZepp, while totally soul sacrifice is pretty much refined to the point of pharmecutical grade psilocybin. Willie Dixon's version has like bits of bark and berries and strange random effluvia. Zepp's is like 20 coats of paint, sanded to 320 between each coat and then given three clear coats. Willie dixon's is earthy and raw like leaping from a tree branch onto the back of a gazelle and slitting its throat with a bonehandled flint knife, while Led zepp's version is like zeroing in on the gazelle from 600 yards with a 10x Unertl telescopic sight mounted on your M40A3. Willie Dixon's version is like being so horny you just pull over on the jersey turnpike in rush hour and do it right there by the side of the road Led Zepp's version has intertwining candles and is such a freaky scene. Some one stop me. All right and B) is this is a fucked up thread. How twisted to try to make me think of a best song ever written. I'm freaking out about that one. And 3) i'm feeling a bit tardish but I don't really grok the whole field of 64 paradigm. I mean I get teh I ching and the 64 hexagrams and all that, but I'm kind of lost with the whole tennis analogy. Help? |
The Prophet's Song - Queen.
2 kotos, 3 acoustics, 6 electrics, 1 bass, 1 drums, 3 voices, and 3 choruses. And that's just the bare bones. Beautiful but hauntingly creepy lyrics, wonderful instrumentation, and AMAZING stereo... |
I could also nominate a LOT of bowie, but i'll just go with Queen Bitch, Rock and Roll Suicide, and Oh! You Pretty Things.
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mmm..... for real stereo effect, listen to 'Helter-Skelter' (the white album) through a decent set of headphones.
wish you were here? yeah, right...... (PS did I ever tell you about the time I saw them live in '74? Hippodrome Theatre in Birmingham, first set was 'Dark Side', second half was 'our soon to be released album, 'wish you were here'..' - we sat right behind the mixing desk.) |
This Land is Your Land - Woody Guthrie
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Can't find my way home- Blind Faith
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That is one of my top ten Griff.
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The Rainbow Connection, Kermit the Frog
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Death on Two Legs is pure pwnage, I can't think of a single song that destroys a target so utterly.
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Traveling Riverside Blues - LZ
Stella Blue - GD Terrapin Suite - GD Little Wing - Jimi It's all over now, baby blue - Dylan Subterranean Homesick Blues - Dylan Down by the river - Neil Young Southern Cross - csny Three Days - JA |
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Things You Do To Me--Robert Cray
You Move Me--Aretha Franklin Burden In My Hand--Soundgarden Torn and Frayed--Rolling Stones |
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But no way does it belong in this thread. :) |
Tom Thumb Blues
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Some 2nds if we go 64
Ring of Fire
Bohemian Rhapsody Jesu Joy of Man's Desiring Amazing Grace While my Guitar Gently Weeps Traveling Riverside Blues |
Hallelujah Chorus - Handel
Carolina In My Mind - James Taylor Wishing You Were Here - Chicago I am the Mercury - Jimmy Spheeris One for Daddy-O - Nat Adderly Tuxedo Junction - Glenn Miller I could sit here all day as I recollect wonderful songs/performances. I don't think it could ever be narrowed down to 100 much less just one. |
Ventura Highway--America
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And You And I - Yes
Tainted love - soft cell Big Brother - Bowie Even in the quietest moments - supertramp Icarus, born on wings of steel - Kansas Epitaph - King Crimson Karn Evil 9, first impression, part 1 - ELP Closer to the Heart - Rush Free Hand - Gentle Giant Green Shirt - Elvis Costello Breakdown - Tom Petty Invisible Sun - The Police I Wanna Be Sedated - The Ramones ...and many more... |
Suite Judy Blue Eyes-
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As I cross...a cracked and broken path. If we make it, we can all sit back and laugh But I fear tomorrow, I'll be crying." Hell, yes. Another big 2nd! |
I really can't believe that we missed
(the glorious) Ninth Symphony - Beethoven And, also the Fifth. |
Hi ho, Silver, away! Thank you Mr Rossini. :D
Tchaikovsky's 1812 Overature was always cool, when driving a 4-speed. |
Don't You (Forget About Me) - Simple Minds [from The Breakfast Club]
Total Eclipse of the Heart - Nicki French version Unchained Melody - The Righteous Brothers Close My Eyes Forever - Lita Ford/Ozzy Osbourne Hazy Shade of Winter - Bangles version |
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Best song ever written? Dunno, but Lennon's 'In My Life' should be up there somewhere. |
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