Best Songs Ever!

[Tank_Guy#3]

What do you think are the best songs ever? They can be from any genre of music. I'd have to say my favorites are as follows:

Paradise City, Welcome to the Jungle, Civil War, You Could Be Mine, & Knockin' on Heavens Door: Guns'N'Roses

The Devil Went Down To Georgia, Long Haired Country Boy, & Still in Saigon: Charlie Daniels

Cocaine: Eric Clapton

1 Bourbon, 1 Scotch, and 1 Beer & I Drink Alone: George Thorogood

All Along the Watch Towers: Jimi Hendrix

Girls, Girls, Girls & Dr. Feelgood: Motley Crue

Sweet Home Alabama, Gimme 3 Steps & Red, White, and Blue: Lynyrd Skynyrd

Immigrant Song: Led Zeppelin

Sorry if the list was a little long. But this is an extremely condensed version.

 

[nonconformist]

No particular order:

1.Layla-Eric Claprton.
2. The End-the doors.
3. Bohemian Rhapsody-Queen.
4. Fairytale of New York-Pogues & Kirsty McColl
5. Whiskey in the Jar-Thin Lizzy.
6. The Last Time-Rollin Stones.
7. Wish You Were Here-Pink Floyd.
8. Sound of Silence-Simon and Garfunkel
9. Brothers In Arms/Sultans of Swing-Dire Straits.
10. Stairway to Heaven-Led Zep.

 

[Tank_Guy#3]

How on Earth could I forget Queen, they rock!

 

[Chukchi Husky]

Hmm... I don't know, I have probably listened to too many songs to choose a "best song" list...

 

[The Last Conformist]

Hmm... I don't know, I have probably listened to too many songs to choose a "best song" list...

Same here.

I'd take the top ten from my "most played" list in WinAmp, but up turns the curse of albums - the top ten is entirely occupied by tracks from Radiohead's OK Computer.

 

[JohnRM]

We've been through this before, recently.

1. Layla - Eric Clapton
2. Gimme Shelter - Rolling Stones
3. Soul to Squeeze - Red Hot Chili Peppers
4. Dance - Van Halen
More...but no time to think about it

 

[Syterion]

Hmm... my fave songs.

Stairway
Bohemian Rhapsody
Comfortably Numb
Paranoid Android

I guess I like the long epics.

 

[Yom]

Tupac - Unconditional Love, Late Night, Me Against the World, Keep Your Head Up, To Live and Die in L.A.
Led Zeppelin - Black Dog, Stairway to Heaven, Immigrant Song
Beatles - Back in the U.S.S.R., Hey Jude, Penny Lane, Yesterday, Eleanor Rigby, Come Together, Imagine
Rick James - Mary Jane, Give It to Me
Prince - When Doves Cry, The Most Beautiful Girl in the World
Earth, Wind & Fire - September, Shining Star, Let's Groove
Marvin Gaye - Mercy, Mercy Me, Sexual Healing, Let's Get It On
Bob Marley - I Shot the Sheriff; Get Up, Stand Up; Iron, Lion, Zion


Those are some good ones that I like a lot. There are too many for me to list, though. I probably have 100 songs that I really like. I wouldn't want to choose just one.

 

[phoenix_night]

Beatles - Back in the U.S.S.R., Hey Jude, Penny Lane, Yesterday, Eleanor Rigby, Come Together, Imagine

I must've missed that one...

 

[Warman17]

I wonder, considering all the songs run into each other I could consider the entire album Scenes from a Memory by Dream Theater to be one song, and as such it would be the greatest song of all time.

 

[Communisto]

here come da punk


London Calling- the clash
Anarchy in the U.K- The sex pistols
Rock and Roll High School- The Ramones

there go the father bands of punk

 

[ummmm........]

I have a troubling affinity for "Midnight Train to Georgia" by Gladys Knight and the Pips (I think), other than that, there're far too many to list.

 

[kmad]

Top 5 favorite songs:

1. Pearl Jam - Alive
2. AFI - This Celluloid Dream
3. Guns n' Roses - Sweet Child o' Mine
4. Iron Maiden - The Wicker Man
5. Pink Floyd - Learning to Fly

I'd say the greatest songs all-time..

1. Led Zeppelin - Stairway to Heaven
2. Bob Dylan - Like a Rolling Stone
3. Pink Floyd - Comfortably Numb
4. Derek & The Dominoes - Layla
5. Eagles - Hotel California

 

[wilbill]

Roll Over, Beethoven - Chuck Berry
Walk On The Wild Side - Lou Reed
I Wanna Be Sedated - The Ramones
Soft Parade - The Doors
Won't Get Fooled Again - The Who

 

[Taliesin]

Wachet auf, ruft uns die stimme-- J.S. Bach
Symphony #40 in g minor-- W.A. Mozart
The entire score of Die Zauberfloete-- Mozart
William Byrd's Mass for Five Voices
The entire Requiem-- Mozart
Violin Concerti: Mozart's #5, Mendelssohn's e minor
Free Will-- Rush
Bell Bottom Blues-- Derek and the Dominoes (Eric Clapton)
Starman-- David Bowie (and a couple of others by him)
Enigma Variations-- Edward Elgar
Concerto Grosso for strings-- Ralph Vaughan Williams
Brandenburg Concerti (all of them, but especially 3-6)-- J.S. Bach
Crossroads-- Eric Clapton

Just a few examples.
Oh, and Hubert Parry's Jerusalem, just because it's so fun to bellow at the top of one's lungs.

 

[Fifty]

One Night in Bangkok by Head Murray (or is it Murray Head)


That would be the best song ever, but I have many others that could spend a really really long time thinking about and writing down, so I'll just leave it at that.

 

[sourboy]

In no particular order:

She's So Cold - Rolling Stones
Dead or Alive - Bon Jovi
Sweet Child O'Mine - Guns 'n Roses
Hey Jealousy - Gin Blossoms
One - Metallica
Mr Jones - Counting Crows
Sweet Emotion - Aerosmith
Everlong - Foo Fighters
Free Fallin' - Tom Petty
Girlfriend - Matthew Sweet

 

[ComradeDavo]

My choices -

Tool - Stinkfist
Placebo - Taste In Men
Marilyn Manson - Great Big White World
Nine Inch Nails - Head Like A Hole
Rammstein - Du Hast
The Undertones - Teenage Kicks
Rage Against The Machine - Killing In The Name
Smashing Pumpkins - Zero
The Pixies - Where is my mind?
A Perfect Circle - Judith

(kept it to just 1 per band, all these bands have many great other songs )

 

[polymath]

Blues Brother's soundtrack contains many all time greats.

Oh, and hello again y'all!

 

[Grisu]

oh quite a few:

Civil War - Guns 'n Roses
Nothing Else Matters - Metallica
Painkiller - Judas Priest
Fear of the Dark - Iron Maiden
Schrei nach Liebe - Die Ärzte
Zombie - The Cranberries
Paradies - Die Toten Hosen
D' W. Nuss vo Bümplitz - Patent Ochsner

hmm, i'm sure that i missed many...