Best song ever written?

Undertoad · 11-02-2006, 10:48 AM

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

Flint · 11-02-2006, 10:53 AM

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

Shawnee123 · 11-02-2006, 11:14 AM

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Originally Posted by Undertoad

The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face

What a beautiful song.

Spexxvet · 11-02-2006, 11:16 AM

Stairway to Heaven

Trilby · 11-02-2006, 11:18 AM

somewhere over the rainbow.

Shawnee123 · 11-02-2006, 11:18 AM

Freeeeeeeeeeeeeeebiiiiiiiiiiird (Kidding, I hate that song)

Moon River

glatt · 11-02-2006, 11:28 AM

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.

wolf · 11-02-2006, 11:40 AM

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

Does this need a field of 64?

Trilby · 11-02-2006, 12:04 PM

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Originally Posted by wolf

Does this need a field of 64?

My sources say yes

Undertoad · 11-02-2006, 12:25 PM

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

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

mrnoodle · 11-02-2006, 12:30 PM

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Originally Posted by Spexxvet

Stairway to Heaven

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.

mrnoodle · 11-02-2006, 12:38 PM

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.

lumberjim · 11-02-2006, 12:49 PM

Whole Lotta Love

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

Flint · 11-02-2006, 12:59 PM

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Originally Posted by lumberjim

Whole Lotta Love

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

lumberjim · 11-02-2006, 01:06 PM

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.

11-02-2006, 10:48 AM	#1
Undertoad Radical Centrist Join Date: Jan 2001 Location: Cottage of Prussia Posts: 31,423	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

11-02-2006, 10:53 AM	#2
Flint Snowflake Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: Dystopia Posts: 13,136	Totally off the top of my head... Maybe the "Moonlight" Sonata, or Peaches En Regalia... __________________ **************** There's a level of facility that everyone needs to accomplish, and from there it's a matter of deciding for yourself how important ultra-facility is to your expression. ... I found, like Joseph Campbell said, if you just follow whatever gives you a little joy or excitement or awe, then you're on the right track. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Terry Bozzio**

11-02-2006, 11:16 AM	#4
Spexxvet Makes some feel uncomfortable Join Date: Dec 2005 Posts: 10,346	Stairway to Heaven __________________ "I'm certainly free, nay compelled, to spread the gospel of Spex. " - xoxoxoBruce

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Trilby Slattern of the Swail Join Date: Jul 2004 Posts: 15,654	somewhere over the rainbow. __________________ In Barrie's play and novel, the roles of fairies are brief: they are allies to the Lost Boys, the source of fairy dust and ...They are portrayed as dangerous, whimsical and extremely clever but quite hedonistic. "Shall I give you a kiss?" Peter asked and, jerking an acorn button off his coat, solemnly presented it to her. —James Barrie Wimminfolk they be tricksy. - ZenGum

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Shawnee123 Why, you're a regular Alfred E Einstein, ain't ya? Join Date: Jun 2006 Posts: 21,206	Freeeeeeeeeeeeeeebiiiiiiiiiiird (Kidding, I hate that song) Moon River __________________ A word to the wise ain't necessary - it's the stupid ones who need the advice. --Bill Cosby

11-02-2006, 11:28 AM	#7
glatt ™ Join Date: Jul 2003 Location: Arlington, VA Posts: 27,717	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.

11-02-2006, 11:40 AM	#8
wolf lobber of scimitars Join Date: Jul 2001 Location: Phila Burbs Posts: 20,774	Stairway to Heaven Another Brick in the Wall Pt II Jesu Joy of Man's Desiring Does this need a field of 64? __________________ wolf eht htiw og "Conspiracies are the norm, not the exception." --G. Edward Griffin The Creature from Jekyll Island High Priestess of the Church of the Whale Penis

11-02-2006, 12:25 PM	#10
Undertoad Radical Centrist Join Date: Jan 2001 Location: Cottage of Prussia Posts: 31,423	If 64 nominees can be made, so it shall become a field. Put in your seconds so that a good seeding can be established.

11-02-2006, 12:38 PM	#12
mrnoodle bent Join Date: Feb 2004 Location: under the weather Posts: 2,656	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. __________________ Sìn a nall na cuaranan sin. -- Cha mhór is fheairrde thu iad, tha iad coltach ri cat air a dhathadh

11-02-2006, 12:49 PM	#13
lumberjim I can hear my ears Join Date: Oct 2003 Posts: 25,571	Whole Lotta Love ber newr ber nerw nant ni ni nant ni ni nant ber newr ber newr nant. gotta whole lotta loooooove! __________________ This body holding me reminds me of my own mortality Embrace this moment, remember We are eternal, all this pain is an illusion ~MJKeenan

11-02-2006, 01:06 PM	#15
lumberjim I can hear my ears Join Date: Oct 2003 Posts: 25,571	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. __________________ This body holding me reminds me of my own mortality Embrace this moment, remember We are eternal, all this pain is an illusion ~MJKeenan

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