best song ever

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songs I love....

Well, the first song that popped into my head was "Stand Inside Your Love" by The Smashing Pumpkins... that song blows my mind every single time I hear it... and that e-bow solo makes my spine shiver.

NIN's "The Fragile" is a ~great~ song... deceptively simple.

"Revolution 9" is amazing....

Chris
 
Enrique Granados (1867-1916) "Danza Espanola No. 5"

I don't believe Carson Daley ever introduced that song on TRL.:rolleyes:
 
For commercial music my favortive is a 1938 recording of Cliff Bruener and the Texas Wanderers with Bob Dunn doing 'When You're Smileing'.

From a songwriting standpoint I feel the best song is the one YOU wrote that is in your head when you fall asleep, and wakes you up in the middle of the night, and is playing on your brain's radio when you wake up asking for a few changes here and there.
 
paranoid android - radiohead

goodbye sober day - mr. bungle

sabotage - beastie boys

4'33" - john cage

georgia lee - tom waites (i can't listen to that song without crying and boy does shit get hung on me for that)

these are the best songs in my universe
 
Having loved Smashing Pumpkins for several years I would have to go with one of their songs, 'Rhinoceros', with it's psychedelic feel and soothing melody, followed by the 'she knows' hook - sounds fantastic and Butch Vig did an excellent job with the production.
 
For Rock I have to say Smashing Pumpkins "Spaceboy" .. I love that slow vibe and the hook at the end..

Then, outside genres, I'd say Tom Waits "Just The Right Bullets" .. seriously :D I love the black rider album and that choon is way cool..

House : H-Bomb "Groove Attack" .. can't beat that beat, EVER!
 
Maybe not the greatest songs ever written (but I guess that depends on what 'great' is), but favorites of mine none-the-less are 'sleepyhouse', 'time' and 'mouthful of cavities' by Blind Melon - a great band that got too caught up in the whole early 90's MTV one hit wonder deal (not to mention way too many drugs) and somehow got skipped out as one of those 'great' bands. If you haven't yet, give a listen to some of the material from their first album. Shannon Hoon's vocals are so desperate and sad...
 
For me the best song ever written is a song called "Awaken the Centuries" from "Haggard". Unfortunately no one of you may know this song because Haggard is a german band.

From the songs you may know my favourites are:

Blind Willie McTell by Bob Dylan
Free Bird by Lynyrd Skynyrd (live from Steel Town!) - always gives me a kick in the morning
Magical World by Blackmore's night

and a song that seems to be a dream come true: "Walking in the air" by "Nightwhish" (they're from Sweden)
 
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ilovebeingabeta said:


"Revolution 9" is amazing....

Chris
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Are you serious? Cause if you are you are the first person I've met that agrees with me. There are so many bands that depend on that type of stuff(Radiohead, Bjork) and The Beatles were the first to even think of doing that kind of stuff. Pure genious if you ask me.
 
one of the best songs i've heard in a long time came out in 2001.
Robbie Fulks has an album,"Couples In Trouble", track 2 is called "Anything for love"
best song ever? probably not
but it's the best song i heard all year
 
I didnt wish to be the first to say Stairway to Heaven so Mine is Black Cow by Steely Dan. with Kid Charlamange a close second
 
How on earth could you ever pick just one?

Maybe one per band.....

Zep: Immigrant Song? Misty Mountain Hop?
Beatles: Elanor Rigby? Run for Your Life?
Van Halen: Panama? Ain't Talkin' 'Bout Love?
Police/Sting: Every Breath You Take? King of Pain?
Etc..Etc..

Showtunes:
Rogers and Hammerstein: Edelweiss

Ahh....forget it. It's just too hard a question.

Aaron
http://www.aaroncheney.com
 
THE ULTIMATE SONG OF ALL TIME

1ST PLACE:
"THEY'RE COMING TO TAKE ME AWAY" BY NAPOLEON THE 14TH.
(DOWNLOAD IT IF YOU'VE NEVER HEARD IT.)

RUNNER-UP: :OH YEAH" BY ART OF NOISE
(RENT FERRIS BEULLER VIDEO IF YOU'RE NOT SURE)
 
I think you made a mistake

RUNNER-UP: :OH YEAH" BY ART OF NOISE
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I think you mean Yello, not Art of Noise.


When the Ferris Beuller movie came out, my horrible girlfriend of the time made me watch it. I was so pissed off that this rich kid had an Emulator II as an unused toy in his room. But it did but Twist and Shout back on top 40 radio after a 20 year hiatus.
 
I have to go with "Unchained Melody". Just about anyones version, it's hard to do un-justice to that song; making that the mark of a truly great song.
Runner up for me would have to be "All I Ask Of You" theme song from "Phantom of the Opera".
 
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Eric J said:


I think you mean Yello, not Art of Noise.
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Hmmm...Since I really wasn't sure if "Oh Yeah" was the name of the song or not, when I downloaded it from Audiogalaxy, I found it by searching for anything by Art of Noise. Who was Yello?
 
impossible to picj just one, but here are a few.

I agree with Unchained Melody, that song just nails it.

In rock, I'd have to go with
Soma by Smashing Pumpkins, achingly beautiful.
"Torn and Frayed" by the Rolling Stones.
"Hey Jude" by the Beatles.
"Red Hill Mining Town" by U2.
"Exit Music (for a Film)" by Radiohead
"Moonshadow" by Cat Stevens
"Sounds of Silence" by Simon and Garfunkel
so many more

In jazz,
"Wild Flower" by Wayne Shorter always kills me.
Also, Bill Evans' live version of "Someday My Prince Will Come."
 
that reminds me

Since Simon & Garfunkel just came up, I can help but add:

El Condor Pasa

I'm not sure if that's the right title, and I'm not even sure if it's originally by them, but that song rules, and could be considered one of the best.
 
If I had to pick only one,Celluloid Heros
After 1990-She Talks to Angles or Black Hole Sun

I saw the Platters twice last year in a little club in the Poconos.
Their old and grey but they did Unchanged Melody better than any recording Iv'e ever heard anywhere!
Senior citizens,in a crap club,with crap equippment and man they were totally awsome.
I just hope I get to see them again before they all die,or I do.
 
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