What song IS the greatest song ever?
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As a Professional Musician/Composer/Music Major (tm), I think it would be impossible to narrow the best song of all time down to one. But here are a few classical contenders:
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tl;dl, get a better attention span. kthxbai
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tl;dl, get a better attention span. kthxbai
Does the term "Song" mean also music with no lyrics, in English? In Greek there is a distinction between the terms.
Anyway if instrumental music applies to, here is one of my favourite pieces:
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Anyway if instrumental music applies to, here is one of my favourite pieces:
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In the strictest sense of the word, a song would have lyrics and be pretty short form. But I took a looser interpretation and posted pieces instead.
ParadigmShifter
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Oh in that case I like the music from Dynamite Dan then
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Which is actually Mozart's piano sonata no 11.
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Which is actually Mozart's piano sonata no 11.
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SUCH a great song. King Crimson doesn't get enough love these days.
The 5-8 minutes of odd tension buildup are necessary to get the full effect of its glorious ending.
sophie
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There are many great songs I like, but I don't think I could ever pick out just one as the greatest ever.
Chukchi Husky
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Any song that could be great isn't any that I have heard.
Indeed. I find that to be so true in regards to a lot of music I enjoy.
If you throw out that which does provide immediate gratification, you're really limiting yourself to a lot of puerile music. Plus, I find that the music that takes me a while to grasp or fully enjoy is the music that I'm still listening to years and years later. The stuff that's cute and catchy right away tends not to last long at all.
Cynovolans
Not in my dimension.
Needs more voodoo.
Annex
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vbraun
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Currently I'd say:
Aaron Copland's Appalachian Spring
Aaron Copland's Appalachian Spring
Hygro
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I too compose, have made money related to music, and did study some music in college. I can say that classical music often suffers from being WAY too ADHD. It can't stick with a mood or motif the way modern music can. One minute it's dark and delicious, a moment later it's flippant and cheerful. It's like they spent hours laboring over their sheet music, and got bored and decided to keep switching it up to keep themselves interested, not realize their audience would hear those hours of work in a matter of under-a-minutes.
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That's what we call in the business "bad music". 
Unless of course it's for an artistic reason. See, especially, Mahler.
Unless of course it's for an artistic reason. See, especially, Mahler.
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I listened to a lot of classical music 6-12 months ago when driving and one composer after the next could not keep the mood. I'm sure they claimed artistic reasons, but I think they were responding to the short attention spans of the times 
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That's why IMHO many classical pieces, however great, don't meet the criteria given in the OP. Some do, however. In the OP I used Bach's Air as an example - to me perhaps the greatest song in the world ever. Here are two other greats
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