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Favorite Song of All-Time
You heard me.
Everything I love about pop music...that Spector/Motown sound, but with girls instead of guys, great harmonies, and a positive song with innocent lyrics.
Curious to see what everyone else's is, BUT
Don't post more than one, and don't talk about how you're torn between the track you post and some other song or several other songs. Either think hard for a second or just go with your gut. If you can't follow those rules, please don't post.
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Pop music but with LOUD GUITARS. And the best guitar solo ever (IMO anyway). 3 minutes of pure excitement.
PS: the video you posted doesn't play for me.
Hm. Maybe this one then. How embarrassing!
I did enjoy the loud guitars. I've been coming back around to those after a few years out in synthville.
Yes that one works. I hadn't heard it before. Love it. Interesting how prevalent the tape saturation is throughout the track, especially on the harmonies. It's a great song as well.
Good times indeed. I was into all that stuff when it came out in the late eighties/early nineties. All my friends were listening to the Stone Roses and the Happy Mondays, and they would laugh at my Mudhoney and Nirvana records.
Radiohead - Paranoid Android
King Crimson/ Book of Saturday
I would not even know where to start to describe how powerful this song is for me.
« The Creator has a Master Plan », Pharoah Sanders:
In honor of dear Mom who loved Crystal Gayle....I love this song too
Not very original....but if the one perfect song was ever written, this is it....
So great. My Dinosaur Jr. is "In a Jar" or "The Lung," from "You're Living All Over Me," which are a lot messier than "Freak Scene" but the heroic guitar solo "In a Jar" is so exciting I'm actually getting goosebumps thinking about it! I swear to God, this record must have been responsible for every Sovtek Big Muff clones sold in the late '80s.
Life changing. And possibly the funnest song ever to figure out on guitar. But just when you're proud of yourself, you see a video of Thom doing it faster and cleaner. And singing.
21st Century Schizoid Man. No, Aja. No, Ironman. No, I Want You Back. No, Giant Steps. No, The Ikon. No, Sounds Of Silence... No, Ziggy Stardust..No. What’s Going On. No... Is this like gold-record-into-space decision? Can’t do it! Arrrghaahhhhhhh!!!
OK, backed into a corner, one quarter in the jukebox, gut reaction...
It's flat out impossible to pick only one. Sorry, I fail.
Thinking about it I realised it would have to be The Police so I started down the youtube rabbit hole. Six songs in it only took about four seconds into this track for the mega chills to hit and for me to be transported a thousand miles away. It really wrecked me.
‘Invisible Sun’
Mostly for the bass playing:
Confirm Reservation by Gregory Isaacs and The Roots Radics band.
This is an excellent version from the BBC Sessions, but all versions of this song are amazing:
Awesome songs in this thread!
I didn't know I liked Hawkwind! And that's a fantastic Police song, but how would you decide "Invisible Sun" is your favorite song of all time!? I mean, why not? But why not "The Bed's Too Big Without You"? This thread has me really stuck.
What makes a favorite song? Is it the fact that you're excited every time you hear it? Even though you know how the story in "Tangled Up in Blue" ends up, you're still blown away when she bends down to tie the laces on his shoes? I'd put an REM song from "Reckoning" on, but I'd never say put on "7 Chinese Brothers" at a party. I can't stand Bobby Gillespie but "Higher Than the Sun" is like nitrous oxide every time I hear it. "Tonight at Noon" by the Jam isn't the even the best Jam song but it resonates with me.
Some other questions before I decide:
Is your favorite song of all time the song you tell people is your favorite? Or is the song that you'd never tell anyone is your favorite?
Are you allowed to change your mind?
Is it what you think is the greatest song, or is it the song that you happened to hear when you first fell in love or first discovered the guitar or your beloved aunt played all the time?
I will say that every song here is great. And so illuminating about who posted them! (Max23 — wow. My brother from another continent.)
Ok fine- I can't resist picking something.
This tune is in the top 10 for sure, but since it has the ability to make me stop everything and listen EVERY time, I'll include it here:
There were many many nights spent drinking & smoking with old bandmates, listening to this song on repeat. It never got old, and still doesn't.
Television – Marquee Moon
Excellent song. I still remember the first time I heard "Grondlandic Edit" in a hipster coffeeshop in Brooklyn. My jaw fell totally open and the barista finally said, "Yeah, the band's called Of Montreal."
Judgement Day .... that was by far my favourite song off that whole album - Steve Vai on geetars!
No, I’ve changed my mind. It’s this, obviously:
David Bowie – Right