New field of 64: best song
 

I'm ready, let's do this; let's start from scratch or you can review the previous thread. If you don't understand field of 64, you will once I publish the link for the tournament. Or you could browse through the previous field of 64 links to get an idea of how the tournament works.

First, though, we are just trying to find 64 songs which will compete for the title of best song, and then we're trying to "seed" them into a tournament setting where they will compete songo-a-songo.

Put forth your nominations: which songs do you think should compete? And anyone may "second" nominations that are put forth. Seconding will count towards seeding.

My nominations come from the earlier thread.

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

I'm adding Beatles:

A Day in the Life
Hey Jude

From the earlier thread:

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 may add more in a bit.

Moon River--Henry Mancini

Black Cow--Steely Dan

The Story in Your Eyes--Moody Blues

Beach Boys, anything off of Pet Sounds. Pick one.

Just suggestions...don't use if they suck and I just don't know it. ;)

If you're putting up Black Cow, I'm putting up Aja.

For Pet Sounds, we'll go with "God Only Knows", and I'm seconding.

I was thinking God Only Knows, too. In fact it's stuck in my head.

I can never pick a Steely Dan song. I'm a huge fan. I'll second Aja if you want to leave off Black Cow? Same album anyway!

We'll wait for Flint for his opinion here.

I just saw youtubers of Fagan explaining the chords for "Josie" and "Peg" and he might as well have been speaking conversational French.

Good idea, Flint knows from Steely Dan!

Just my two cents, and it's kind of already shaping up this way, but I think that each band should only get one song entry. That way it doesn't come down to 15 Beatles songs going head-to-head.

Makes sense to me.

UT, I just watched a little bit of Fagen talking about Peg. You think YOU don't understand it! My ex, the piano player, will love it though. I'll have to send the link.

Whole Lotta Love
Since I've Been Loving You
Sober
Fade to Black
Two Step
The Hook
Little Wing
3 Days
Comfortably Numb
I'm Finding it Harder

It is very hard to choose since there are so many that can be called 'best songs'



A Whiter Shade Of Pale - Procol Harum

Time Of The Season - Zombies

The Tracks Of My Tears - The Miracles

Kashmir - Led zeppelin

Aqualung - Jethro Tull

Kashmir - Led Zeppelin
Sailing to Philadelphia - Mark Knopfler
Me and Bobby McGee - Janis Joplin
One Nation Under a Groove - Parliament Funkadelic
Woke Up Laughing - Robert Palmer
Athena - The Who
Blue Sky - The Allman Brothers
Wasted on the Way - CSNY
Tangled Up in Blue - Dylan

Death letter
Bang bang
Rocket queen
Outshined
7 Nation army
Crazy fingers
Little wing
Pigs (3 different ones)
Three days


This is too hard...

Little Wing! Of course! Personally, I prefer the SRV version.
Seconding Aqualung, too.

ha we both chose Kashmir. I'm not sure why because I love all Zeppelin. I agree it's hard. I second Pigs too.

Black
I Alone
That Smell
Never Gonna Give You Up

Brass in Pocket--Pretenders

this is too hard.

But imma second Sailing to Philadelphia by Knopfler

I Want to be Seduced - Leon Redbone

Is this too hard?

Is that a song or a question?

Here I Go Again - Whitesnake

November Rain - Guns N' Roses

Lean on Me Or Ain't No Sunshine
-Bill Withers

Iron Butterfly - In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida ( In the Garden of Eden )

The Man Who Sold The World- David Bowie

Unchained Melody _ The Righteous Brothers

Under The Boardwalk- The Drifters

creep - but only this version

ok.. i'll stop. i could list 64 songs... you have a process for selecting the 64...like taking everyone's first song first, and so on?...so that a spaz like me doesn't tilt the whole thing?

ooh nice version :)

Ripple

Der Kommisar - Falco
Blinded by Science - Thomas Dolby
Sweet Dreams - The Eurythmics
Eat It - Weird Al Yankovick
Shock the Monkey - Peter Gabriel



(Stuck in the 80s much? yeah, I know. But many of my nominations are already up)

Ants Marching - Dave Matthews Band
Mystic's Dream - Loreena McKennitt



LJ should be shot for daring to suggest Rick Astley.

I'll second Eat It. And Sweet Dreams.

you can 2nd, and you know you like Rick.

You've some confusion about the first letter of that word.

If a song really sucks, can we un-vote it? I mean...we can second songs, can we detract them based on thumbs down? If we can, please please please don't include Unchained Melody. *shudders* It's seriously the most overrated wedding dance tripe ever to cross the pike. ;)

seconding the unseconding.

(I need to get out more.)

Seconding 'Ain't no Sunshine'.

Putting forth
'Us and Them' - Pink Floyd
'Tupelo' - John Lee Hooker (This version.)

Pick Up the Pieces--Average White Band

Give Up the Funk (Tear the Roof off the Sucker)--Parliament

Maybe Unchained Melody belongs in a 'Most covered song of all time' thread right behind Eleanor Rigby.Neither are my favorite songs but they are/were very popular. This thread isn't your favorite rock songs of all time anyway.:p:

Most are though like this one.

Battle Of Evermore - The Love Mongers
(Cover by Ann Wilson of Heart )

That's true, what's popular isn't necessarily any good. So, the trick is to sift the good from the merely mainstream. That's what the final 4 will end up being, the good, if'n I know me some musicians!

Case in point: Old Time Rock n Roll can bite me...but EVERY band EVER covers it. ;)

That lick reminds me of voodoo chile

Personal Jesus - Depeche Mode
Fascination Street - The Cure
Losing My Religion - REM
Father and Son - Cat Stevens
Take Five - Dave Brubeck
My Immortal - Evanescence
Slowest Parade - 10,000 Maniacs
Into the Mystic - Van Morrison
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

Great list spexx

Keep going! And we have 99 songs, so seconding currently guarantees that an entry will make it...

I second

Into the Mystic - Van Morrison
Losing My Religion - REM
Closer To The Heart-Rush

seconding:
outshined
Kashmir
Brass in Pocket
tainted love
into the mystic
personal jesus
us and them

There are so many good ones.

I'd like to second Shock the Monkey.

And add:

Train in Vain--The Clash

Where It's At--Beck

Glycerine
I never cared for you
Shine on you crazy diamond
Nutshell
Helplessly hoping
Southern cross
Jimi thing
Sober

Enter sandman

seconded

I second:

Nutshell!
Helplessly Hoping
Sober
Black

It was hard not to second more of both your lists and spexx too.
great songs

My list really goes on forever, so hears a shortened version.

Dream On - Aerosmith
Bittersweet Symphony- The Verve
I'm A Believer - The Monkees
Desperado - Eagles
Aquarius/Let The Sunshine In / The 5th Dimension
You've Lost That Lovin' Feelin', The Righteous Brothers
Funeral for a Friend /Love Lies Bleeding - Elton John
House of the Rising Sun, The Animals
The Boxer, Simon and Garfunkel
Suspicious Minds, Elvis Presley

Tangled up in blue
Subterranean homesick blues
Knockin on heavens door
Don't think twice its alright
Terrapin suite

Sugar Magnolia
Scarlet Begonias
Feelin Good
Man of Constant Sorrow

I Want My Baby Back - Jimmy Cross
Lit Up - Buckcherry
Rockin' In The Parlour - AC/DC (Dave Evans)
Ride On - AC/DC (Bon Scott)
For Those About To Rock - AC/DC (Brian Johnson)
Archangel - Samhain
Crash Course In Brain Surgery - Budgie
Your House - Alanis Morissette
Black Velvet - Alannah Myles
Let It Burn - Ignite
Anti-Social - Anthrax
Cult Of Personality - Living Colour
Dig Up Her Bones - The Misfits (Michale Graves)
American Nightmare - The Misfits (Glenn Danzig)
Automatic - GG Allin
Fire Woman - The Cult
Pussy Liquor - Rob Zombie
More Human Than Human - White Zombie
Black No. 1 - Type O Negative
Demolition Boys - Girlschool
Orgasmatron - Motorhead
Simple Man - Lynyrd Skynyrd
Wasted Years - Iron Maiden
The Wild And The Young - Quiet Riot
A National Acrobat - Black Sabbath

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I'll list the rest of my 64 later.

I was gonna work out a list, but you people have got things pretty well covered.

Seconding is still appreciated

Smooth - Santana

All Along The Watchtower - J.Hendrix

Heart Of Gold - Neil Young

Possession- Sarah McLaughlin

Judith - A Perfect Circle

Tuonela - Amorphis

Catch The Rainbow -Richie Blackmore


Seconding:
Funeral for a Friend - Love Lies Bleeding - Elton John

Southern Cross -CSN

seconding:

Simple Man
Dream On
The Boxer
Glycerine
Shine on you crazy Diamond
Watchtower

I'll third this one, because I want to see it in the running.

SOMEONE SECOND 'WHOLE LOTTA LOVE', DAMMIT!




I can tell already that this thing is going to make me nuts.....

2nd :)

Seconding :
A Whiter Shade Of Pale - Procol Harum
Moon River--Henry Mancini
I Alone
Even in the quietest moments - supertramp
Black Velvet - Alannah Myles
Greensleeves
Bohemian Rhapsody


Adding: (Because Im a big Bacharach fan I couldnt pick just one)

One Less Bell to Answer
This Guy's in Love with You
Casino Royale" Herb Alpert & the Tijuana Brass
Raindrops Keep Fallin' on My Head
The Look of Love"