What’s your “best song ever”?
I know most of us could pick 10, but it would have to be something you can never get sick of hearing. Most likely pretty old, and possibly puts you in a certain mood when you hear it.
I’d have to go with:
Phil Collins - In The Air Tonight
I don’t think I can ever get tired of hearing that song, it’s perfect from start to finish. I always wished Phil did more “edgy” stuff like this instead of all those sappy ballad type songs he did in the later 80s and early 90s.
Always liked “Tangled Up in Blue” by Bob Dylan.
I just read he wrote it while immersing himself in Joni Mitchell’s Blue album, which is a masterpiece.
Good choice by DrPhil. Bowie, Heroes, Belin 2002: youtube.com
My choice? "Fragile" by Sting. Haunting melody, acoustic instrument, anti-violence, anti-war, theme.
Also, an appropriate choice given the misery caused by a virus that measures about 100 nanometers. How fragile we are...
This is almost impossible; I guess I can frame it as a song I like sung by my favorite vocalist.
For a long time in my younger years it was "Bohemian Rhapsody", Freddie Mercury.
Now it is "Blackbird" by Alter Bridge sung by Miles Kennedy.
"Subdivisions" by Rush. It's been my favorite song for over 25 years now, so at this point I figure that's not going to change.
Hard to pin it down at one but if I could only pick one song to hear over it would be a real old one “The Girl From Ipenama” the version in Portuguese and English arrangement by Stan Getz sung by Gilberto Astrud Second might be the Rolling Sones “Thru and Thru” ballad sung by Keith Richards
Brother in Arms by dire straits 1988 live version with Clapton. Listened to it like a million times in Kabul.
Floyd's Comfortably Numb is a close second
Zevon's Lawyers, Guns, and Money also medals
The Roots - The Seed 2.0
Paradise By The Dashboard Light!!!
There’s a lot of candidates but I gotta go with Every Little thing she does is magic by the The Police
Love the Way You Lie by Eminem feat. Rihanna
I don’t know if it’s my favorite song ever. It’s barely over a decade old, but if I define “best” as making me feel the feels, this may be it. It kinda starts like a catchy pop song and talks about how strong their love is for each other ... but there’s just something about that chorus that doesn’t fit “just gonna stand there and watch me burn...” which RiRi sings so lightly like she’s happily in love.
I’ve listened to this song hundreds of times and even though I know the twist at the end [spoiler alert - the love is abuse and he’s literally tying her to the bed and setting the house on fire because she tried to leave him] it still captures me every time how brilliant the structure of the song is. He’s leaving clues throughout the early parts of the song and it ends on a total dark note. Throw in the combination of Eminem’s and Rihanna’s real life love and abuse stories and it just strikes me as brilliant.
just about anything from Rhiannon Giddens
one of the purest voices
The National Anthem when no one kneels.
Paul McCartney: Maybe I'm Amazed, Led Zeppelin: Stairway to Heaven, Paul Simon: Still Crazy After All These Years
Throw in Leonard Cohen's Hallelujah sung by just about anyone
This is a challenge.
London Calling by The Clash (or several other songs from that album)
Pretty Persuasion by REM (there are several other songs from Reckoning, Murmur, and Fables of the Reconstruction too).
Yeah, the Clash, lost In the Supermarket and especially the Guns Of Brixton!
I clicked on last reply without regarding the topic. I honestly can't say a best song ever because there are about 20 or more that can fit that criteria for me.
And how about rummydummy proping his dr alias above, Lol!
Don’t Tell Me by Madonna
Dock of The Bay - Otis Redding
This is hard
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you can keep your hat on. joe cocker.
trying to pick ONE is impossible however.
Bullet the Blue Sky by U2 (live version from Rattle and Hum)
TxVegas - that is one of top favorites too. That version is excellent!
Orion by Metallica - The song fit's its name. I can close my eyes and think I am on a spaceship going through space
"We Don't Need No Education" by Pink Floyd
Badlands - Bruce Springsteen
For Springsteen I gotta go with “Meeting Across the River”. It’s like a Sopranos episode before there was the Sopranos.
Possibly greatest vocal performance by Springsteen is from Backstreets - I practiced it a lot and can passably belt it out:
Endless juke joints and Valentino drag Where dancers scraped the tears Up off the street dressed down in rags Running into the darkness Some hurt bad some really dying At night sometimes it seemed You could hear the whole damn city crying Blame it on the lies that killed us Blame it on the truth that ran us down You can blame it all on me Terry It don't matter to me now When the breakdown hit at midnight There was nothing left to say But I hated him And I hated you when you went away Wa oh, wa oh
This is a hard call but using the criteria of the one song I'll never (ever) get tired of hearing, it's 'Heaven or Las Vegas' by the Cocteau Twins.
Into the Mystic - Van Morrison
Saigon Nights - Billy Joel
Great Choice Wolf
Heroes by Bowie
Venus in Furs by the Velvets and Search and Destroy by the Stooges are a close second and third