what is the greatest song ever??if u say anything by Greenday il personally kick ur a

Green Day were wearing eyeliner twelve years ago when I first saw them. They just also had flannel and jeans on. And frankly, they were on too many drugs to really think about their appearances. I'm sure now they're much closer to sober and that has more to do with their change. They still put on a great show and Billy Joe can fuckin' wail.

But I disagree with every comment thus far. There've been a lot of radio friendly songs mentioned, not necessarily the best of the bands listed.

I don't know what the best song is. My two favourite pieces of music are Liszt's second Hungarian Rhapsody and Shostakovich's Eigth Symphony.

As for rock songs? There are so many.

Fame by Bowie, Memory Remains by Metallica, Good Vibrations by the Beach Boys... As for real classics? Johnny B. Goode - no doubt.

But my favourite song of all time has to be David Bowie by Phish.

edit: Killer Queen is a great tune as well.

 

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Oh, and I hate the Eagles and despise Hotel California. They are the epitome of melodramatic, simple and inane. They have no interesting harmony, the tune isn't catchy except to be revolting and the aesthetic is just off.

 

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Seconded. And that goes for 'American Pie' as well.

 

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i dont really think so, i love the song yet i live in the uk

perhaps you just need some imagination

 

The lyrics are obvious and straight-forward. This alone doesn't damn a song, many great songs have obvious lyrics. But that is not a reason to love Hotel California. It's corny. Really, really, really corny. And very straightforward. Sorry but "mercedes bends" is not some brilliant poetic twist of words.

And I never insinuated a Zeppelin song was one of the best. But, what I will say for Zeppelin is that they came up with much, much better rifs and practically wrote the book on stadium rock.

The harmonics of the song are not complex. Not one bit. Listen to any of the music I listed and you'll find much more interest. Again, great songs can be simple (say, "Hard Day's Night" by the Beatles) - but this one just has no redeeming character. It's an annoying song.

edit: Oh, and yes I must just need more imagination. It's a very difficult and obtruse display of literature to try and conceptualize the meaning of Hotel California. The words are so deep, man, and, like, the message is so...profound. Well, I'll go listen to my Shostakovich again, cause I sure as hell can't open my mind enough to grasp Hotel California.

 

Im gonna say
Eric Clapton - Tears in Heaven
or
Luis Armstrong - What a Wonderfull World
Or I really Like
Hot Butter - Pop Corn

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eheh

 

My Girl- The Temptations

 

and thirded for Sweet Home Alabama as well.

 

Tough question, but my vote goes to Jorge Ben for Pais Tropical.

 

I completely forgot to mention one of my favourites ever - Paco de Lucia. Particularly his pieces played by the Guitar Trio on the Warfield album.

 

Heres the greatest and best song in the world..................tribute.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aytaDVMlTlE

 

Louis armstrong - "summer song"

Zeppelin - " going to california" , "thank you", "when the levee breaks, "ramble on"
Metallica "master of puppets" or maybe something else
Bowie "golden years", "fame", "china girl", "let's dance"
Red hot chilli peppers, "behind the sun"
throwing muses "bright yellow gun"
Smashing pumpkins, "glynis"
Beatles, any song they wrote that wasn't funny.
2pac - "california love"
nwa "fuck the police"
Beastie boys - "the in sound from way out " <--- the whole album.
Bjork - anything off "post"
elvis - "memphis tenessee"
dj shadow "mutual slump"
ella fitzgerald - anything off "live in rome"
flaming lips "spider bite" or "superman"
minor threat "minor threat"
Jane's addiction - couple of songs off "nothing's shocking"
jimi hendrix "castles made of sand"
Stevie wonder " you and I", "village ghetto land", "have a talk with god"
The sundays, covering "wild horses" by the stones
Leo brouwer "cuban landscape with rain"
johnny cash "i've been everywhere"
john coltrane "spiritual"
jeff buckley "lover you should have come over"
something from micheal jackson
the police anything off the "classics" album
Radiohead something off "the bends"
Rage against the machine "testify"
Rush "losing it"
the shins "chutes too narrow"
Death cab for cutie - "why you'd want to live here"
sade "by your side"


etc., etc., etc.

Edit - I couldn't help myself

 

Titties and Beer by Zappa.

A kiss to build a dream on.

 

I like Mozart, Beethoven, Hyden, Hendel, Tchaikovsky, Wagner, Vivaldi, Verdi, Rossini.

 

No surprise there.
Academia...

I'm surprised Bach didn't make your list.

Anyway. This thread isn't about composers.
It's about songs.
You've just listed a bunch of academia keywords to indicate you're all cultured and stuff, but failed to present an actual favorite song.

I'd have to go with The Goldberg Variations by Bach as one of my favorites by this composer in this genre.
Particularly the 21st variation although the opening aria is also quite nice.
And more particularly the 1981 rendition by Gould.
Divine.
Although the humming in the background is a touch eerie at first.

Joanna MacGreggor's Counterpoint rendition of Contrapunctus is also awesome. Even though she had to use studio trickery to splice together several of the fugues so as to present the illusion of being played by a single person (an impossible task).
Favorite fugue?
I'd have to go with VIII. The controlled chaos is something special.

 

the thing that should not be-metallica

the song is so fucking badass, i prefer it even to MoP

 

I don't like Bach, perhaps because of the harpsichord cornet, I prefer strings. I just find his style uninteresting, not much variation, too much redundancy? I can't really verbally describe my aversion.

 

secret love or tammy or ferry cross the mersey