Greatest Songs in the World
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sophie
Break My Heart
Eww christ. If you're going to play that godawful novelty song, the least you could do is post the original and not make it worse by having what passes for singing in that song be replaced by Seth MacFarlane's shrieking.
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Mango Elephant
Deity
sophie
Break My Heart
rugbyLEAGUEfan
Deity
Very very nice. Just gets you right in the gut with that dirty, funky shuffle thang. 10/10
JohnRM
Don't make me destroy you
sophie
Break My Heart
It also helps that Elmo had one of the top 5 sexiest voices in modern music. Like seriously.
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NedimNapoleon
Weird Little Human
Thats not the greatest song in the world, thats just a tribute.
rugbyLEAGUEfan
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IMHO the hallmark of a truly great, as opposed to clever, confronting or poignant (which the world of songwriting is definitely the better off for) lyric is the ability to convey emotion. To listen to the song and say "Yeah man, that's exactly how I felt". The risk for the writer is if the listener simply hasn't felt that way, it falls flat
Well I'm pretty sure my mates south of the Mason Dixon line know exactly what the great man is feeling here. I almost get homesick remembering the greatest 2 weeks of my life in the spiritual home of (my) music.
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Well I'm pretty sure my mates south of the Mason Dixon line know exactly what the great man is feeling here. I almost get homesick remembering the greatest 2 weeks of my life in the spiritual home of (my) music.
Link to video.
NedimNapoleon
Weird Little Human
rugbyLEAGUEfan
Deity
It's blocked for me and I just gotta know what my favorite Bosnian considers the greatest punk song.
NedimNapoleon
Weird Little Human
Dead Kennedys - Holiday in Cambodia!!!! [any Dead Kennedys song is the greatest punk song ever]
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Link to video.
rugbyLEAGUEfan
Deity
I absolutely grant you that selection man. Forget exclusively punk, it's possibly the greatest example of black comedy in a pop song ever.
NedimNapoleon
Weird Little Human
even though Holiday in Cambodia is considered the best, I still think Kill the Poor is the most sarcastic and black comedicLink to video.
rugbyLEAGUEfan
Deity
Kill the Poor lacks the subtlety that makes HIC great. First few listens and it's like "Wow, he sure is sticking it to that Khmer Rouge"
Then you listen a few more times and it's "WTH! He's sticking it at me! And he's right! Bastard!"
Then you listen a few more times and it's "WTH! He's sticking it at me! And he's right! Bastard!"
What is the song called in the start-up, in Gods and Kings?
It makes me not to start a game, just listen to it. It's not opera, it's something else.
Otherwise, Kate bush and Climbing up that hill is fantastic. Or whatever it's called.
Overall, Close to the Edge by Yes is the best piece ever made, with some runners up of Pink Floyd ( Shine on your crazy diamond) and the band Sky High.
It makes me not to start a game, just listen to it. It's not opera, it's something else.
Otherwise, Kate bush and Climbing up that hill is fantastic. Or whatever it's called.
Overall, Close to the Edge by Yes is the best piece ever made, with some runners up of Pink Floyd ( Shine on your crazy diamond) and the band Sky High.
holy king
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subtlety?
it starts with "so you've been to school for a year or two and you know you've seen it all".
and in the chorus it tells you to go freck off to cambodia.
MajKira
King
NedimNapoleon
Weird Little Human
Notice the Pol Pot line at the end, apart from referring to the leader of the Khmer Rouge (Pol Pot aka Saloth Sar aka Brother Number 1), hes also referring to the rampant use of drugs (pot in this case) among the US troops in Indochina.
And I think by subtlety rugbyLEAGUEfan means he doesn't just sing war is bad mkay, they're killing eachother mkay and so on, like almost everyone 'till then. He puts it in a completely sarcastic storyline. It doesn't attack the Khmer Rouge regime as much as it attacks you. Its subtle because when you listen to it at first, you think its just about some 'Merican dude leaving for a "holiday" in Cambodia, but on closer inspection its about all of us in the "1st world", how we are completely ignorant to suffering of Cambodia yet we're worrying about being snazzy and getting a stereo. The song is probably linked to their other song "When Ya Get Drafted".
But by subtlenes I still stick with "Kill the poor" because its completely from a rich guys perspective, who thinks if we kill the poor we will solve all of our problems.
holy king
Deity
which is, you know, clear right from the very first line.
