The best song Ever recorded?

Post by **FartBlaster** » Thu Sep 26, 2019 12:39 pm

what do you think?

Post by **BallzDeep9** » Thu Sep 26, 2019 4:28 pm

Louie Louie

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pK7fxOw0Fu0

Post by **beathappening** » Thu Sep 26, 2019 5:03 pm

Hard to narrow it down to one song. For serious music, I go by albums because I feel like the artist intends it to be all one piece when they release it. Even going back to the classical period. You don't read just one chapter of a book right?
For me it's between Beatles- rubber soul and Beach boys - pet sounds

Of course there are songs that are meant to stand alone, most pop music is usually single oriented. And these days, it's all about the mp3 and Spotify sales

Post by **CatfatherB** » Thu Sep 26, 2019 6:14 pm

Won't get fooled again...by the Who

"Meet the new boss.....Same as the old boss"

Post by **Pete2000** » Thu Sep 26, 2019 7:24 pm

Any genre? I'll toss some Gershwin into the mix.

Rhapsody in Blue
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=0IsQ29EL6tA

Post by **FartBlaster** » Fri Sep 27, 2019 2:43 am

Any song any kind of music

Its https://youtu.be/QkF3oxziUI4
Best ever for me it's just plays like epic novel

Honorable mentione https://youtu.be/auLBLk4ibAk

Most songs don't do all the things you get with these tracks.

Post by **BurntEnds** » Sun Sep 29, 2019 2:46 am

Umm...

Tenacious D- The Greatest Song In The World

https://youtu.be/VSr7xLQ8H2A

Post by **CatfatherB** » Sun Sep 29, 2019 7:21 am

BurntEnds wrote:Umm...

Tenacious D- The Greatest Song In The World

https://youtu.be/VSr7xLQ8H2A

Although it's just a tribute?

Post by **FartBlaster** » Mon Sep 30, 2019 5:43 am

https://youtu.be/qR7U1HIhxfA
you cannot kill the Metal!

Post by **Oletimer** » Mon Sep 30, 2019 6:00 pm

Hotel California, ,,Dark side of the Moon,,can't pick Just 1,,,,

Post by **mivanqua** » Tue Oct 01, 2019 4:37 pm

BallzDeep9 wrote:Louie Louie

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pK7fxOw0Fu0

I'm not going to check, but this HAD BETTER be the Zappa cover!

Post by **CatfatherB** » Tue Oct 01, 2019 7:26 pm

mivanqua wrote:
BallzDeep9 wrote:Louie Louie

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pK7fxOw0Fu0
I'm not going to check, but this HAD BETTER be the Zappa cover!

I always liked Motorhead's version!!

Post by **FartBlaster** » Wed Oct 02, 2019 2:07 pm

https://youtu.be/8JqB2SMB2FE
This is the singer from Second Coming covering junkhead by Alice n Chains. He does it better than aic current singer and this has gotta be the most difficult aic song to cover vocally.

Post by **BallzDeep9** » Wed Oct 02, 2019 6:39 pm

CatfatherB wrote:I always liked Motorhead's version!!

yeah Louie Louie, clearly the greatest song ever recorded with 100's of bands cover the song and entire books written about it.....

Song was Banned on radio stations across the USA
Banned for dirty lyrics, but nobody could tell, exactly what the singer was saying...
Has elements of Rock, Blues, Jazz, Country, all in 1 song

Wikipedia has all the details.. The Kingsmen's recording was the subject of an FBI investigation about the supposed, but nonexistent, obscenity of the lyrics, ... The recording notably includes the drummer yelling "Fuck!" after dropping his drumstick at the 0:54 mark.

Growing up in Portland, I met Jack Ely (original vocals on The Kingsmen, Louie Louie) and I dated his ex-wife, we had all the Kingsmen records.

The greatness of the song, is that nobody knows the exact WORDS, so every singer is free to improvise lyrics... I'd say Iggy Pop is known for maybe the dirtiest lyric version, back in the 70's, but he always performs and changes the song lol

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louie_Louie

Post by **mivanqua** » Wed Oct 02, 2019 7:10 pm

Ballz that's pretty interesting.
As far as the obscene lyrics, that's a joke! It's almost as though they were inviting people to write their own obscene lyrics, huh?
I knew the part about it being banned from the radio, but what, exactly, did.the banners THINK the singer was saying to ban it outright like that? I mean, those were CERTAINLY different times and obscene then is soft rock today so who knows. Thanks for sharing.this.

Post by **fusedflora** » Sat Oct 05, 2019 6:05 pm

Somewhere over the rainbow

Post by **mivanqua** » Sun Oct 06, 2019 7:38 pm

There are about 5 000,000 songs I would call "best song in the world" on any given day. Today? "Radio Free Europe" by REM. Fall is coming on, and that means its REM time of year (all of their albums up to Document, that is.) In the summertime, I could take or leave them, but in the fall it takes me right back to being a kid and moving to an apartment in the city. In those days, smoking pot equated to a game to play when walking. Good times!

Post by **beathappening** » Sun Oct 06, 2019 7:46 pm

I always have to listen to Unwound's Leaves Turn Inside You at the beginning of fall. It's like I'm back in 2003.

The best song on the album, "October All Over". Really good for dark, rainy fall days
https://youtu.be/PrmTfb7IAZ4

Post by **Kirkland** » Tue Oct 08, 2019 8:10 am

I don’t know why but with your name and the title I read the post as “best fart ever recorded” and now I’m disappointed.

Post by **daydreamerinwords** » Sun Oct 20, 2019 10:34 am

There’s so many songs that I love dearly, but I believe that the best song ever made has to be Summer’s Cauldron/Grass by XTC. Although technically two songs, they were supposed to be one. It’s so seamless and psychedelic.

Post by **beathappening** » Sun Oct 20, 2019 2:14 pm

daydreamerinwords wrote:There’s so many songs that I love dearly, but I believe that the best song ever made has to be Summer’s Cauldron/Grass by XTC. Although technically two songs, they were supposed to be one. It’s so seamless and psychedelic.

The only XTC album I've heard is their mid 80s side project Dukes of Stratosphear, but I really like it. They did a great job recreating the 1967 psychedelic rock sound...and one hell of a bass player.

Post by **Mustardhog** » Thu Oct 31, 2019 12:40 pm

Music being such a question of personal taste, it's hard to find something universally loved except maybe from a group like the Beatles' "Let it Be" or something like that. I concur with the rest of you about Louie Louie, which is such an easy song to sing the chorus to with a bunch of eniebriated friends. Me being a deadhead, I might be tempted to declare "Eyes of the World" or "Morning Dew" as the best songs, but I realize that my "best" song really depends on my mood and a bunch of other subjective and obective details. Do you know what I mean?

Post by **FartBlaster** » Fri Nov 01, 2019 9:35 am

one by Metallica could be on here as well

Post by **herbalhippie** » Fri Nov 01, 2019 11:36 am

mivanqua wrote:There are about 5 000,000 songs I would call "best song in the world" on any given day. Today? "Radio Free Europe" by REM. Fall is coming on, and that means its REM time of year (all of their albums up to Document, that is.) In the summertime, I could take or leave them, but in the fall it takes me right back to being a kid and moving to an apartment in the city. In those days, smoking pot equated to a game to play when walking. Good times!

I love REM and you're right. I never thought of this before. Fall always makes me melancholy and so do many REM songs. Fall is my favorite season and I love the feeling it gives me. My oldest daughter, same thing. We spend the fall finding and sending each other sad music. Here's one she sent me a few years ago and I still haven't topped it yet.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kNg7yNmIeJA

I may have gotten close this year though. Someone posted about this guy at another forum I go to one day. Found this on Youtube and oh my gosh, the music is so sad.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vKdo7RMjy88

There's no way I could pick out just one 'best song', there are too many.

Post by **FartBlaster** » Sat Nov 02, 2019 10:57 pm

Definitely this one

https://youtu.be/TcY7SlVua8M

Post by **oohger** » Fri Nov 15, 2019 8:47 pm

Jeff Buckley covering Hallelejah at the Sin-E NYC

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BsyRq0WFOHY

Post by **Love_Redz** » Fri Feb 21, 2020 2:37 am

Canned heat on the Road again.... so many though, I like mostly metal but also like so many in the Rock genre from 50s to present day, very hard to choose just one for me

Post by **Love_Redz** » Fri Feb 21, 2020 2:40 am

Peter framton Do you feel like we do
One of my fav

Post by **beathappening** » Fri Feb 21, 2020 12:09 pm

I've been jamming some Miles Davis early 70s jazz Rock stuff. On the Corner, Jack Johnson, and that immortal Bitches Brew.

Don't get me wrong I love some blue note 50s Miles Davis but that mid-to-late sixties experimental stuff with John Coltrane and Ornette Coleman and all those guys just pure genius. (Lest us not forget Mingus and Monk.)

Come to think of it it's hard to figure out a best song ever recorded. I think of one band 1 jonra and then I think of a million different bands in a million different genres. I don't even translate these into the top 100,000s. My desert island discs better have a briefcase full of memory sticks.

Post by **Love_Redz** » Sun Feb 23, 2020 6:13 pm

S.M.B. Joker
Red Hot Chili Peppers Dani
NIN hurt
Dragon force- through the fire and flames
Pat Travers - snorting whiskey

Post by **FartBlaster** » Sun Feb 23, 2020 9:03 pm

A true masterpiece
B o B
https://youtu.be/KDl0LLH4q7I

Post by **Love_Redz** » Mon Feb 24, 2020 2:45 am

FartBlaster wrote:A true masterpiece
B o B
https://youtu.be/KDl0LLH4q7I

Nice one, trying to put one on here but haven’t figured it out yet lol

Post by **CatfatherB** » Mon Feb 24, 2020 12:14 pm

How about "Cowboy Song" by Thin Lizzy? Any Phil Lynott fans out there? True legendary rock band fronted by a black Irishman...gone too soon.

Post by **Love_Redz** » Tue Feb 25, 2020 3:57 pm

CatfatherB wrote:How about "Cowboy Song" by Thin Lizzy? Any Phil Lynott fans out there? True legendary rock band fronted by a black Irishman...gone too soon.

Yes Thin Lizzy was awesome good choice

Post by **kmu777** » Thu Feb 27, 2020 9:16 pm

Out of all the genres I’ve ever listened to...from classic rock, to fusion jazz all the way to hip hop, it’s almost impossible to narrow down to one. If I absolutely had to pick a perfect song, I might point to “God only knows” by The Beach Boys.

Post by **herbalhippie** » Fri May 01, 2020 12:49 pm

Sympathy For the Devil - Rolling Stones

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GgnClrx8N2k

Post by **BobDylanKratom** » Fri May 01, 2020 7:34 pm

Like a Rolling Stone

Post by **Babel-17** » Fri May 01, 2020 10:18 pm

The best song Ever recorded by a SF action movies icon?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1X1Z1xMWC-w

Post by **Babel-17** » Fri May 01, 2020 10:28 pm

South of the Sky by Yes, Live at Montreux. John McLaughlin is my only "must buy" artist. I've bought most everything by him on a variety of formats over the years. Let Us Go Into the House of the Lord, performed with Santana is amazing.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vLM-fwEFVcU

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rdm00nlJAEw

Post by **Love_Redz** » Fri Jun 05, 2020 12:54 pm

Can’t say it’s the best ever recorded but
Woman from Legs Diamond
Is a sweat song