Greatest Song ever

[Anto McC]

What in your opinion is the greatest song ever,not your favorite song ever just what you think may be the greatest song ever.You don't evenv have to like the song.I'm sure this thread has been done before but not while i've been around so i'm bringing it back up.

No if,ands or buts,Or honourable mentions or 3/4 song titles Just 1 song and the name of the artist/s who sang it.

It's harder than people think to single out 1 song.

[TheOwl]

Shine on You Crazy Diamond - Pink Floyd

May as well get something meaty for your dollar

[Tony Montana]

The Eagles - Hotel California

[ali2005]

Nirvana-Smells like teen spirit

[Gerrit]

My favourite song is Burger Queen Francais by Placebo.


Best song ?? More difficult to say, it's a matter of personal opinion really so it doesn't feel nice to mention just one. Let's say I nominate these songs per genre:

POP: No milk today-Herman's Hermits
ROCK: Paint it black-Rolling Stones
ALTERNATIVE ROCK/INDIE: Pure morning-Placebo
HARDROCK: Ace of spades-Motorhead
METAL: Sabbath bloody sabbath-Black Sabbath
HIPHOP: Rapper's delight-Sugarhill gang
GOTHIC: Bela Lugosi's dead-Bauhaus
NEW-WAVE/DARK-WAVE: Crocodiles-Echo & The Bunnymen
PUNK: New rose-The Damned
INDUSTRIAL: Closer-Nine Inch Nails
SINGER-SONGWRITER: Walk this world-Heather Nova // Song of Joy-Nick Cave
AVANT-GARDE: Theme for thought-Virgin Prunes
GRUNGE: Lithium-Nirvana


Those are the ones for which I have an ideal example in my head. I let out styles that I dislike or have no interest in.

If I'd pick just one song it would be like putting one genre above the others in importance, which doesn't feel right to me. Even though we all know that gothic is the best style ;)

[Anto McC]

Gerrit,i clearly stated in the first post that you could only pick 1,with none of the other boll*cks to go with it.How did i know it would be you to break the mould :rolleyes:

[ThatGuy]

A Day In The Life

[CollegeTillIDie]

Having heard it again on Live 8
I would have to plump for Pink Floyd's Comfortably Numb from The Wall.
I really like it even if it is not my favourite song of all time, but it is an excellently constructed song.

[jorge]

Puff Daddy-I'll Be Missing You.

[sarah]

beautiful day - U2

[Closed Account 2]

Well its tough one to decide, so many choices - I'll go for Brothers in Arms by Dire Straits

[Anto McC]

Well its tough one to decide, so many choices - I'll go for Brothers in Arms by Dire Straits

great song.

[TonyD]

Not my personal favourite, but for universal appeal, and pure singability, Hey Jude, by the Beatles. Tomorrow I'll probably pick something different. That's the great thing about Music. My personal favourite, if forced to choose, is probably "Town Cryer" by Elvis Costello. It's got a great tune, superb lyrics, a great emotional vocal delivery and an absolutely belting string section at the end. A beautiful and sadly neglected classic, anybody else heard it ?

[Anto McC]

Never heard it Tony D but i am going to set about downloading it and will have a listen.

[Iorfa]

Unfinished Sympathy - Massive Attack

[superfrank]

Has to be the live version of Maggot Brain on the One Nation Under A Groove special edition by Funkadelic. It's just an eight minute long guitar solo.

[Metrostars]

Bohemian Rhapsody by Queen
also Freebird by Lynard Skynard

[Dublin12]

Life on Mars - Mr.David Bowie

[Gerrit]

Life on Mars - Mr.David Bowie

Excellent choice ! Brilliant song...



"Hey Jude" ?? :eek: Overrated, just like The Beatles themselves.

[ThatGuy]

Overrated, just like The Beatles themselves.
:rolleyes:

[TonyD]

Excellent choice ! Brilliant song...



"Hey Jude" ?? :eek: Overrated, just like The Beatles themselves.

Oh, Gerrit, that's just wrong on so many levels. Tut tut tut. :p

[tiktok]

Paint it Black is my favourite Stones tune, but

Sympathy for the Devil is the Greatest Song ever. :cool:

[strangeirish]

The Times They Are A-Changin' by Bob Dylan

[Gerrit]

Never got into the Beatles, sorry ! My dad is a huge fan and jammed their discography through my throat during my youth... I never got the excitement about their music.

My fav band is from the same city though: the magical ECHO & THE BUNNYMEN

[Lionel Ritchie]

Puff Daddy-I'll Be Missing You.

:D :D Oh Mmmmmmmmmmmmercy.

I can never get over the irony of writing a song called 'I'll be missing you' about a guy who was multiply plugged with a gun. He wasn't being missed that day :eek:

[Macy]

Fools Gold - The Stone Roses.... Just perfect - captured the moment of it's release like no other song imo.

[noby]

Fools Gold - The Stone Roses.... Just perfect - captured the moment of it's release like no other song imo.

Impossible question
Ordinarily I'd agree with you, but I'm having a Nick Cave week, so I'm gonna say The Mercy Seat.

[noby]

:D :D Oh Mmmmmmmmmmmmercy.

I can never get over the irony of writing a song called 'I'll be missing you' about a guy who was multiply plugged with a gun. He wasn't being missed that day :eek:


He was rather large. It'd be hard to miss him.

[sligoman]

R.E.M.'s Everybody Hurts, brilliant song :cool:

[gustavo]

cliche but

smells like teen spirit
has it all really
great intro great verse great chorus great guitar solo great outro

closely followed by bohemian rhapsody .

[Kingdom]

:D :D Oh Mmmmmmmmmmmmercy.

I can never get over the irony of writing a song called 'I'll be missing you' about a guy who was multiply plugged with a gun. He wasn't being missed that day :eek:


I'm laughing so hard now I think I'm gonna p!ss my pantys

[EnDai]

She's Lost Control - Joy Division.

Though sligoman's choice of "Everybody Hurts" runs very close!

:)

[Thomo]

the hurricane - bob dylan

[CollegeTillIDie]

She's Lost Control - Joy Division.

Though sligoman's choice of "Everybody Hurts" runs very close!

:)

Atmosphere by Joy Division is sadly overlooked in these instances....

[fosterdollar]

In My Life - The Beatles.
Changes with the weather though in fairness.

[Anto McC]

You gotta be kidding. You mean, some fellow takes the worst Police song ever, doesn't do anything to it except carve it up a little, releases it after a friend's death to cash in on a wave of sympathy, with a voiceover from the dead guy's wife, and that's supposed to be a great moment in music? I would have thought that it would rank amongst the lowest moments ever.

I mean, rap has some (few) songs to offer this thread, The Message, White Lines, Don't Believe the Hype etc., but that Puff Diddy song is an embarrassment.

Hear Hear

[hamish]

(I'll be over) Tonight - The Move :D

[Closed Account 2]

I mean, rap has some (few) songs to offer this thread, The Message, White Lines, Don't Believe the Hype etc., but that Puff Diddy song is an embarrassment.

The Message by Nas ? Yeah that was a great song, that time (mid 1990s) was the high water mark of Rap IMO, since then its been a long way downhill.

[noby]

The Message by Nas ? Yeah that was a great song, that time (mid 1990s) was the high water mark of Rap IMO, since then its been a long way downhill.

I think/hope he was reffering to Grandmaster Flash. A long tme before mid '90's

[BrendyH]

Live Forever- Oasis

[shedite]

Billy Joel - Pianoman

[jorge]

Always-Bon Jovi

[Neish]

Atmosphere by Joy Division is sadly overlooked in these instances....

One of my favs too

[Lionel Ritchie]

Always-Bon Jovi :eek:



Live Forever- Oasis ...um ......no. ;)

[the 12 th man]

ocean rain : echo & t b'men

(already mentioned twice "atmosphere" superb)

[jebus]

Pink Floyd - Wish You Were Here

or that country song called 'Get Off My Mama So I can Kick Your Ass' or something like that...pure genius

[speedking]

Pantera - Floods.

Best outro and solo I think I've ever heard. :(

[Pat O' Banton]

Unfinished Sympathy - Massive Attack


ocean rain : echo & t b'men

the two best shouts so far.

I'd put 'Hurt' by Johnny Cash in as mine.

[beautifulrock]

Blind Willie McTell- Dylan