I say welcome to the Jungle...

I say welcome to the Jungle...
But you will kick the ass of anyone who says a Green Day song?:D

Or Bohemian rhapsody!!

Love Buzz, by The Shocking Blue.

All Greenday songs! /grins

"Hotel California" by the Eagles. But you have to be a Californian to understand it and be moved by it.

On a dark desert highway, cool breeze in my hair... that's the way I arrived.

You can check out any time you like, but you can never leave... that's the way I feel after almost five years in this hellhole called "Anywhere east of the Rockies."

Pink Floyd - Great Gig in the Sky

eye of the tiger!!!

Some band...

No one's mention the Star Spangled banner? I'm surprised!!

The Jimi Hendrix version?

Anything by Green Day.

I also like stuff by the Doors, Coldplay, the Mars Volta, Metallica, Modest Mouse, Arctic Monkeys, Franz Ferdinand, Apocalyptica, the Cranberries, Rob Zombie, Santana, t.A.T.u., Tom Petty, Big & Rich...

So basically, I like all sorts of music.

Any music with actual meaning or passion behind it is great in my book... (assuming it takes talent to sing/play the song and isnt just some rap song...)

Green day was good before they decided that they're political ideas had to be shared and eyeliner was better then flanel and a t-shirt.

Glosoli By sigur ros is an amazing work of art.

Redefine by incubus is very well done as well.

"Banana Phone"--Raffi

Grood stuff. Mm. Good.. great.

Green day was good before they decided that they're political ideas had to be shared and eyeliner was better then flanel and a t-shirt.

How does political opinion and appearance determine how good a band's songs are? To each his own, I guess, but what the fuck? :confused:

Any way, I was, of course, joking about Green Day, I haven't heard any songs by them.
Imo, there can be no greatest song ever, because greatness is subjective and our perception is constantly changing.

I cannot decide which of several Ton Lehr songs to nominate.

well, I nominate "Moths" by Jethro Tull

Most of those songs are great but -- greatest ever?

I mean, Welcome to the Jungle is a great song and all, but you do realize those guys had perms? ;)

Hotel California is a legitimate contender for greatest ever.

Anyway, I dunno... Hard to choose.

Kashmir?

what about.....THE ACE OF SPADES!!!!!

Either Sweet Child o' Mine (Gn'R), or Reelin in the Years (Steely Dan).

Satisfaction- Rolling Stones

The song that Tenacious D wrote before subsequently forgetting it, then writing a 'Tribute' (http://youtube.com/watch?v=AFBcNomntQM) to it.

'Nederwiet'. Doe maar

How does political opinion and appearance determine how good a band's songs are? To each his own, I guess, but what the fuck? :confused:


Too many musicians are confused about what their contract says. They are not paid to give their opinion on politics, because for the most part they sound like fucking retards, (see dixie chicks, sinead o'connor, Kayne west, ect ect.)

I have no problem with people intelligently saying negative things about the president/administration/party in general. As long as it's backed by something. From the way Green Day expresses their disatisfaction, I'd say they don't know enough to make an intelligent statement.

They basically use the same thing's ignorant people use when making remakrs about the president. ( Redneck, Fag hater, blah blah blah )

As for the clothes, Green day got famous when they were rocking flanel shirts and an old pair of jeans and breaking televisions and having giant mudfights with an audience.

The fact they adopted the "emo look" is almost as anti-punk as you can be. Punk is about pure non-conformity. Green day either decided they were closet emo's for the past 15 years and just realized it or they saw bands like Hawthorne Heights getting plays on the Radio and decided the easiest way to sell records was just to slip on some tight jeans and eyeliner.

Maybe it's a coming of age thing. But usually it's a coming of age thing when you see how stupid that look is not the other way around.

Punk is: not pretending to be punk after the year 1979AD (at the latest). Anything else is just silly.

As for pop and politics: not a good mix, generally, I agree. However, you don't need a degree in political science to write a good polemic lyric. It doesn't have to be a water-tight, irrefutable argument in order to make waves. In fact generally speaking the more unreasonable it is, the better. We have politicians to debate the issues. The job of politically-inclined rock musicians is to cause maximum fuss and upset.

I like the way Alice Cooper put it:
If you're listening to a rock star in order to get your information on who to vote for, you're a bigger moron than they are. Why are we rock stars? Because we're morons. We sleep all day, we play music at night and very rarely do we sit around reading the Washington Journal."This goes for all political decisions, not just voting per se.

That's one reason I don't like System of a Down. Actually, I really like their music, but some days I just can't get through all the ignorance they put in, regarding their political beliefs. It was the same when I saw them in concert. In between songs, they tried to act as our political advisors.

Anyway, to answer the original question, I have no idea. Maybe something by R.E.M. But my favorite song changes almost on a weekly basis, so next week I might like something way different.

I'm surprised no one has suggested "Stairway to Heaven." Fifteen years ago, maybe even ten years ago, it would have been on the short list. If you're in a cover band today that doesn't play exclusively current music, you still had better know "Stairway to Heaven," "Free Bird" and "Give Me Shelter."

I'd like to stab System of a Down with a rusty shiv. I don't need some stupid Reds telling me to vote for the proles.

And 'Smoke on the Water'.

"Motorcycle Emptiness" Manic street Preachers.

And 'Smoke on the Water'.There are so many songs from the "classic rock" era that rightfully deserve the name "classic" and that's one of them. My friends' band has been learning it and the keyboardist and I keep saying, "That doesn't sound quite right." The singer put the CD on and sure enough they had it down note-perfect, but even the CD didn't sound right. He had the studio album, whereas the version that was played on the radio and which everyone remembers is the live one from "Deep Purple: Made in Japan."

The Beastie Boys' "Fight for Your Right to Party" uses more or less the same riff and they do both songs. I'm trying to convince them to use "Fight" as a rap interlude in the middle of the classic. Sort of like Queen Latifah's rap in the middle of Meredith Brooks's cover of Melanie's "Candles in the Rain." That was a really nice update.

Queen - Who Wants to Live Forever.

Was that the theme song on "Highlander"? I though it was just a little eerie to hear Freddy Mercury's voice singing, "I am immortal."

Well, he is still singing through that song. ;)

p.s. The song you are thinking about is called "Princes of the Universe".

"Motorcycle Emptiness" Manic street Preachers.
As good a candidate as any mentioned so far. I love the Manics. They truly were 4 Real (http://www.guardian.co.uk/friday_review/story/0,3605,374432,00.html). And, even though the punk generation's Brian Jones has gone walkabout, they still mean more to those who grew up with their music than most bands can even dream about. Most bands make music because they want to be famous, or because they can't think of anything else to do. The Manics are one of those bands who made music because they had to.

http://www.ops.dti.ne.jp/~manics/4real.gif

Sigur Ros - Untited #8 (http://sigur-ros.mistur.org/sigur_ros_untitled8.mp3)

Packs an emotional punch that strikes me on a very primal level. A truly riveting and terrifying track.

The song that Tenacious D wrote before subsequently forgetting it, then writing a 'Tribute' (http://youtube.com/watch?v=AFBcNomntQM) to it.

EXACTLY.

It's a no brainer.

And I really like the tribute too.

Nah I think their Sonnet of wonderboy edges out the tribute. Slim margin.




Say otherwise and I'll kill you with my mind bullets.


that's telekinesis.

Fraggle Rocker:

As was pointed out, the song you're thinking of is "Princes of the Universe". However, "Who Wants to Live Forever" was also in Highlander.

My favourite Queen songs are all in Highlander, although I am a huge Queen fan outside of Highlander, too. Killer Queen, Seven Seas of Rhye, Show Must Go On...

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.

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.

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

The lyrics of "Hotel California" are very literate. The parallel between the history of the state itself and the life story of someone who finds himself there is tightly drawn--starting with the mission and ending with the dissolute lifestyles. The wordplay like "Mercedes bends" is clever and puts Robert Plant to shame with his sophomoric line about "to be a rock and not to roll." The reggae beat gives it an appropriate "Margaritaville"-like tropical feel. (I don't understand why they changed it to an anonymous rock beat on the reunion album but they should have stuck to their guns and not reunited.) The harmonic structure of the music is damnably complex, thirty years later I still have trouble playing through the whole song without screwing up a chord.

But as I said, perhaps you have to be a Californian to appreciate it. Everything about the song is just dead on.

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 :D eheh

My Girl- The Temptations

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

and thirded for Sweet Home Alabama as well.

Do not say that a few miles from here in Virginia or anywhere in the South or the Border States. Every bar band has to know that song. People of every political and demographic stripe--even kids who have no clue about the references to George Wallace or Neil Young's lyrics--sing along with every word.

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

Luis Armstrong - What a Wonderfull World


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.

Louis armstrong - "summer song"


A kiss to build a dream on.

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

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'm surprised Bach didn't make your list.

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

"Secret Love" by Doris Day? Hey, okay! There were some good non-rock songs coming out in parallel with the birth of rock and roll, that are less well-remembered. (Mandy Moore did the version on the soundtrack album but they used the original in the movie.)

So you guys want something "classical" that's a "song"? Okay, here are my top six:

#1 The Lark Ascending by Ralph Vaughan Williams
#2 Metamorphosen by Richard Strauss
#3 Scheherezade by Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov
#4 Bolero by Maurice Ravel
#5 Revolutionary Etude by Frédéric-François Chopin (I prefer a slow reading)
#6 Night on Bald Mountain by Modest Mussorgsky

Tammy Faye- Boo Boo's hurt till they go away

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.

WHAT?

Satisfaction- Rolling Stones

oh crap i was gona say that. were so much alike.

No seriously, i would say Midnight Rambler (particularly the beginning-da do da do da dooo doo or Gimme Shelter -mostly for the few seconds of Merry Clayton's vocal...gives me goose bumps) .

"#3 Scheherezade by Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov"

Beautiful. I've listened to it three times today.

Well I absolutely love...
One- U2
Gone Away- The Offspring
Just a Day- Feeder
Im' your Villan and You could have had so much better- Franz Ferdinand

I don't like many female artists they're always whining about love or talking about sex and being all half naked and sexual all the time. I'm sure thats good for men but it doesn't give much for me to look up to. The women don't give out good messages to follow, they seem to say be a dumb slut and everything will fall at your feet. Like Pink says "stupid girls", now she is 1 of the only women singers out there that speaks to me.

I don't like many female artists they're always whining about love or talking about sex and being all half naked and sexual all the time. I'm sure thats good for men but it doesn't give much for me to look up to. The women don't give out good messages to follow, they seem to say be a dumb slut and everything will fall at your feet. Like Pink says "stupid girls", now she is 1 of the only women singers out there that speaks to me.Then you should hear these albums:Toni Childs: House of Hope; "The Dead Are Dancing" is a typical lyric Shawn Colvin: A Few Small Repairs; "Sunny Came Home" with a box of tools and a mission Sheryl Crow: Sheryl Crow; she has no pity for weak women Garbage: Garbage; you must have heard Shirley Manson's tough stuff Sally Oldfield: Water Bearer; a tour through the world's religions and other mythologies Joan Osborne: Relish; the hit "(What If God Was) One Of Us" is the mellowest tune on this album Patti Smith: Radio Ethiopia; the only thing on it that vaguely qualifies as a "love song" is titled "Pissin' in a River"

"American Idiot" by Greenday....bring it punk

PS "welcome to the jungle" is teh gai

Then you should hear these albums:Toni Childs: House of Hope; "The Dead Are Dancing" is a typical lyric Shawn Colvin: A Few Small Repairs; "Sunny Came Home" with a box of tools and a mission Sheryl Crow: Sheryl Crow; she has no pity for weak women Garbage: Garbage; you must have heard Shirley Manson's tough stuff Sally Oldfield: Water Bearer; a tour through the world's religions and other mythologies Joan Osborne: Relish; the hit "(What If God Was) One Of Us" is the mellowest tune on this album Patti Smith: Radio Ethiopia; the only thing on it that vaguely qualifies as a "love song" is titled "Pissin' in a River"

Well thank you, I know there are women out there that don't flaunt themselves but they might be the 1s that moan all the time. I'll look into it.

lets stay together..al green

"American Idiot" by Green Day....bring it punkI agree. That is one hell of a song. It won't win any awards for technical complexity, but neither will any of the Beatles' early work or almost anything by the Stones. I continue to champion the whole "American Idiot" album. There are tracks on there that will never be heard on the radio that cement the whole thing together into an old-fashioned "concept album" that's greater than the sum of its parts. (And I was twenty years too old to be a "punk" when punk-rock first came out.)PS "Welcome to the Jungle" is teh gaiThat's either some hip slang that I haven't learned yet, or a foreign language, or just six typos in one line. But I hope it means "a good song." If GnR had died in a plane crash and left that one album it would be revered. Instead they toured on it a little too long and then came out with a double-CD loser and then they broke up with a bunch of petulant little-boy antics. It kind of destroyed their aura. Too bad.

hehe. the proper spelling is "teh ghey" as in omg, trt is teh ghey.

(oh my god, that right there is the gay)

It's sort of a bastardization of a bastardization I think. l33tspeekishness.

Visit "fark.com" and read the threads to soak up the developing culture. It's a great site.

i don't think there is a single best song ever. it's a context thing, with mood varies appeal.

here is one hell of a rock and roll song though:

Oh mirror mirror, you're coming in clear,
I'm finally somewhere in between.
I'm impressed, what a beautiful chest,
I never meant to make a big scene.
Will you resign to the latest design,
You look so messy when you dress up in dreams.
One more for hire, a wonderful liar,
I think it's time that I should come clean.


Stack dead actors, stacked to the rafters,
Line up the bastards all I want is the truth.

Hey, hey now, can you fake it,
Can you make it look like we won.
Hey, hey now, can you take it,
And we cry when they all die blonde.

God bless, what a sensitive mess,
Yeah, but things aren't always what they seem.
Your teary eyes, your famous disguise,
Never knowing who to believe.
See through, yeah but what do you do,
When you're just another aging drag queen.

Stack dead actors, stacked to the rafters,
Line up the bastards all I want is the truth.

Hey, hey now, can you fake it,
Can you make it look like we won.
Hey, hey now, can you take it,
And we cry when they all die blonde.

Stack dead actors, stacked to the rafters,
Line up all the bastards all I want is the truth.

Stack dead actors, stacked to the rafters,
Line up all the bastards and we cry when they all die blonde.

Hey, hey now, can you fake it,
Can you make it look like we won.
Hey, hey now, can you take it,
And we cry when they all die blonde.

Stack dead actors, stacked to the rafters,
Line up all the bastards all I want is the truth.
Stack dead actors, stacked to the rafters,
Line up the bastards.

Cry when they all die blonde.

here's a little leetspeak stuff:

a translator for you..

http://ryanross.net/leet/

wiki...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leet

urban dictionary entry...

http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=teh+ghey

so i suppose it's only vaguely akin to leetspeak rather than a bastardization thereof, my apologies.

ghey skeletor

http://media.urbandictionary.com/image/page/ghey-33917.jpg

About 15 - 20 years ago , when I was very young - there was actually a contest in UK about the very best song ever .....
Believe it or not : David Bowie : " Life on Mars " .. WON this contest ...

Perhaps not my first choice - and since then, many other good songs have appeared ......

It is so difficult to choose a single song .... my favourite group is however Beatles .... God, I must be old ........ :m:

Hi,
I'm with you Fraggle. Hotel California gets my vote.
And yes, Bolero. I saw a live orchestration of it at Ontario
Place, years ago. It was very moviing. Believe it or not though,
some folks got up and left before the end.
Oh, and White Rabbit by the Jefferson Airplane.
"Tell 'em a hookah smoking caterpillar has given you the call."
And Sundown by Gordon Lightfoot has a great opening line -
"I can see her lying back in her satin dress, in a room where you do what you don't confess..."
Great stuff!
John

This morning's paper covered the lawsuit in the U.K. over who gets the royalties for having written Procol Harum's "Whiter Shade of Pale." I'd forgotten about that one. It was #1 in England for several weeks and it was really big here.

"Nights in White Satin" by the Moody Blues is from the same era and falls in that same vein.

(Details of the lawsuit: The organist was hired for the recording session, after the song was composed. He invented that organ riff that starts it off. They did the plaintiff and defendants the courtesy of assigning a judge to the case who is a rock fan and is familiar with the song. He ruled that the organist gets 40% and the two guys who wrote the other 95% of the song get to split 60% between them, so they owe him a fortune. The defendants predicted that no one will dare hire a studio musician any more for fear that he'll pop up forty years later and demand half of their income for writing eight bars of intro to their song.)

Hi Fraggle,
Thanks for the background. Those are two more of my favourites, especially Knights in White Satin. And what about "Sweet Cream Ladies..."
"Sweet cream ladies do their part
Sweet cream men adore them"
Although I'm not sure if it's from the same time period.
Many of the songs from this period hit you on a subconscious, subliminal level... hard to explain. It's like the words are pregnant with so many meanings, images, and allusions.
John

Bah, you two, it's Nights in White Satin, or better yet, The Night: Nights in White Satin. Are you guys the Knights of Ni or somethin? ;)

- N

Anything by Queen.

Concrete Jungle - Bob Marley

White Shade of Pale - Procul Harlem

Canon - Pachabel

And too many more to name.. I'd be here all night typing..:p

Anything by Queen. :bugeye:

...

And too many more to name.. I'd be here all night typing..
And we can only count our blessings for that.

You guys must be old farts, if you can remember this stuff. Hell, I remember them and I'm no spring chicken.
John

You guys must be old farts, if you can remember this stuff. Hell, I remember them and I'm no spring chicken.I remember the Andrews Sisters and Vaughan Monroe. There was no rock and roll yet. I was born before Strauss wrote "Metamorphosen," one of my two or three favorite orchestral works.

Bah, you two, it's Nights in White Satin, or better yet, The Night: Nights in White Satin. Are you guys the Knights of Ni or somethin?Not me, I never spelled it that way. Just look at my post. :)

well considering this entire question is opinion based, youll never get an answer
thread should be titled 'what do you think is the greatest song ever?'

Bells:

I love you. You love Queen, too?

Hi Fraggle,
"I remember the Andrews Sisters and Vaughan Monroe. There was no rock and roll yet. I was born before Strauss wrote "Metamorphosen," one of my two or three favorite orchestral works." Jeeze, I didn't think anyone was older than me, on this forum.
John

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YYQrLAkDLR4

No contest.

The Internationale.

Jeeze, I didn't think anyone was older than me, on this forum.There weren't enough of us War Babies to constitute A Generation, so we had to decide whether to embrace the culture of the Depression Babies (Benny Goodman) or the Baby Boomers (Chuck Berry). I never exactly disliked the music of my first ten or twelve years (with notable exceptions like Sinatra) but still I found it an easy choice.

I don't know about individual songs, but my favourite albums are Miles Davis Kind of Blue 1950's, Hendrix Electric Ladyland 1960's, Weather Report Black Market 1970's, Pat Metheny (can't remenmber title) 1980's, and Future Sound of London Lifeforms 1990's.

ok...so random out of the blue for me i would say


1)how could an angel break my heqart by tony braxton
2)where'd u go by fort minor

yay! lol

Kansas: 'Carry On Wayward Son'.

Fraggle Rocker will now supply a suitable anecdote. Fraggle?

Opiate, by Tool

Kansas: 'Carry On Wayward Son'. Fraggle Rocker will now supply a suitable anecdote. Fraggle?I love that song. One of the few defining works of Progressive Rock made in the U.S. :)

Cannonball by Damien Rice - and this performance is his best one! Enjoy:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M07HRMktMt4

Kansas: 'Carry On Wayward Son'.

Fraggle Rocker will now supply a suitable anecdote. Fraggle?

are you being serious?

personally i love that song

are you being serious?
Yes I am. :confused:

OK, it's not the greatest song ever. I don't know what is. But it is brilliant, and a definite candidate.

A few songs from films spring to mind - Raindrops keep fallin' on my head, and New York, New York might be the best.

American Pie, from the same era, is perhaps the best rock song ever. (But not forgetting Welcome to Paradise, of course ;))

I'm haunted by Karen Matheson singing Ailein duinn in Rob Roy. Shivers down my spine.

I'm sure there's plenty of Broadway and opera candidates, but I've never found time to hear many of them, unfortunately. Perhaps They call the wind Maria, or Memory.

Also hymns. Ave Maria of course, and also Silent Night.

I actually have this song bookmarked.

http://www2.b3ta.com/sleepy-kittens/

Genji:

The Internationale.

Horst Wessel Lied.

Queen - Don't Stop Me Now :cool:

Tupac ft. Phil Collins & Kadafi- In the Air Tonight(remix) (http://youtube.com/watch?v=TPo0Nr5kK1U)