What's the best song ever?

[x-forged]

i usually listen to rock and alternative, like incubus, seether, red hot chili peppers, weezer, tool, nirvana, 311 etc., but i have some classic favorites which include:

eagles- hotel california, life in the fast lane, and some others
U2- anything from joshua tree album
blues traveler- all of their songs are awesome

[immts007]

Bob Dylan "Shelter from the Storm" the Hard Rain tour version. Watch the video on you tube. Its awesome

Woah... you just reminded me... yeah Dylan... Visions of Johanna Best and most inscrutable song ever. WTF does it mean??? I don't care... all I know is that it moves me.

[bogeyhitter25]

I'd say "City On Down" by O.A.R.
don't know why, but I just love it.

[ShotCaLLa]

Lots of good ones posted, here are some I did not see, or did not look close enough:

Buffet: Pirate at 40
Cory Morrow: Nashville Blues
Nugent: Stranglehold
Allman Brothers: Whipping Post
The Band: The Weight
and for Rap - Big Mo, and old school Flip

[Wisco-Kid]

I could list a ton of songs like many of you have but that would take too long. One song that popped into my head that I never get sick of hearing is
Rolling Stones - "Can't you hear me knocking"

I was beside myself when they put that song on Guitar Hero II

It also sets the mood as the opening song on one of my favorite movies - BLOW

[immts007]

The Band: Take a load of Annie

LOL

The Weight.

[ShotCaLLa]

LOL

I always get that one wrong! Just thinking of how I sing it! Thanks

[Jimmy]

To many from which to choose.

Mozart - Requiem
Pink Floyd - Animals (I don't want to pick a single song from this album)
Traffic - Low Spark of High Heeled Boys
Chicago - 25 or 6 to 4

and a thousand others...

[bogeyhitter25]

Basically anything by the Red Hot Chili Peppers, O.A.R., Dispatch or Bob Marley. I don't like anything thats hard at all. I like mellow stuff.

[clew84]

Some of the ones I like best (not a list of "this is without a doubt the best song by any standard whatsoever"):

Message in a Bottle - The Police
King of Pain - The Police
Why Worry - Dire Straits
Everlong - Foo Fighters
Come as you Are - Nirvana
Tom Sawyer - Rush
Karma Police - Radiohead
Pride (In the Name of Love) - U2
Running to Stand Still - U2
Imagine - John Lennon

[Maverick]

"Why don't we get drunk." - Jimmy Buffett

[tree_under]

+1 on "more than a feeling" by Boston!

[Big_M]

I can't possibly pick one...

Crosby, Stills, Nash, Young - Sound of Silence
Led Zepplin - What is and What Should Never Be or Kashmir
Metallica - Battery or One
Pearl Jam - Jeremy
Alice in Chains - Junkhead or Head Creeps
The Doors - The End
Rage Against the Machine - Killing in the Name of
Jimmy Hendrix - Vodoo Child or Watchtower
Cream - In a White Room

I can't even pick 5 or 10... I could go on and on

[g-funk13]

Clair de Lune--Debussy

I expect to hear this going to Heaven, if there is one and I make it.

(nice as closer to Ocean's 11 by Bellagio Fountains)

[Sherpat]

"Glitter and Be Gay" from Candide (Bernstein)

Yeah, yeah. But it's IN ENGLISH, funny as hell, and if you're lucky enough to catch it sung by a coloratura soprano who has the chops to handle this monster it'll blow your socks off.

At the other end of the spectrum, I'm almost embarassed to admit how much I rock out to William Shatner's cover of Pulp's "Common People". Joe Jackson KILLS with backup vocals and chainsaw guitar work. Check out the studio recording (from the LP "Has Been"), not the live YouTube stuff.

Oh - and the "Danger Mouse" cartoon theme song. 20 seconds of rodentia genius.

[shortgame85]

"Glitter and Be Gay" from

OK. The above post qualifies as the most interesting ( and weird )combination of fired synapses that have been put into writing I've read on this site in some time. It certainly got my attention. I've got to admire a man who can appreciate Bernstein and Shatner, not to mention Danger Mouse, in the same post. The scope of it is curious and strange. Wow!

[Sherpat]

Thanks for that, Shortgame

I'm fortunate to have led a life unencumbered by things like dating, meaningful employment, or fastidious personal hygene practices. That's given me time to concentrate on my REAL love: meaningless drivel.

And you guys now reap the benefits!

[shortgame85]

Thanks for that, Shortgame

And there are those of us who appreciate the benefits of such a life!