What's the best song ever?

[shortgame85]

OK, boys: here's my official holiday gift to all of you who think great music began in 1970. If you listen to these tunes, you'll be smarter, better looking and more suave than you ever thought possible. If you listen to these songs with a glass of good scotch, or any scotch, you'll feel even better, if that's possible. If you listen to these tunes with a glass of scotch and a companion of your choice, you'll get lucky! Now, go forth and listen, learn and prosper. Happy Holidays to you all!

Johnny Mercer: Come Rain or Come Shine
Summer Wind
Moon River ( with Henry Mancini )

Arthur Herzog, Jr. : God Bless the Child ( with Billy Holiday )

Lewis Allen : Strange Fruit

Jimmy McHugh and Dorothy Fields : On the Sunny Side of the Street

The Great Harold Arlen: Get Happy
It's Only a Paper Moon
One For My Baby ( and One More For the Road )
[ with Johnny Mercer ]
Over the Rainbow
That Old Black Magic

Cole Porter : Anything Goes
At long Last Love
Let's Misbehave
Miss Otis Regrets
Mr. and Mrs. Fitch
Night and Day
So Near and Yet So Far
Your the Top

George and Ira Gershwin: Strike Up the Band
Summertime
Bess, You Is My Woman
Embraceable You
I Got Rhythm
Nice Work If You Can Get It
Lady Be Good
My One and Only

of course, anything from Porgy and Bess

Lennon and McCartney: Blackbird
Lady Madonna

Of course, this is just a partial list; time, your patience and mine, not to mention money preclude me from including every song that should be considered when one asks the question, " What's your favorite song?" A question almost as difficult to answer as "What's your favorite wine?" or " What's your favorite piece of prose?" or " What's your favorite movie?" etc., etc., etc.

[Jeepthrills]

I'm more of a White Wedding guy myself. I used to love that video. As for the Who, yeah, Baba O'Riley is pretty great. Beastie Boys would have to be Pass the Mic or The Maestro (both from Check Your Head album), again, sentimental value.

The first time I saw the White Wedding video I made my mom take me to get my hair spiked. For me, the Beasties best album was License to Ill. Same reason, it is sentimental. It was High School and the sound was just so different from anything out there. It is the only album that I actually owned on record, cassette and CD.

Of the newer stuff, there are some good party songs, but overall it's just not stuff I can listen to. Ludacris had some great songs on Chicken and Beer.

[Alex B]

Bob Dylan - Anything he writes - Try forever Young

Forever Young is an amazing song; I like the version from "The Last Waltz" even better than the original.

In terms of Dylan, I think his best stuff came early in his career, on albums such as "The Freewheelin'," "Highway 61 Revisited," and "Blonde on Blonde." His later stuff just doesn't compare (although the first four songs on "Blood on the Tracks" are sick, and "Desire" is another solid album).

[shortgame85]

Forever Young is an amazing song; I like the version from "The Last Waltz" even better than the original.

I thought "Lily, Rosemary and the Jack of Hearts" is one of the best songs Dylan ever wrote. It is in the tradition of the great 19th and 20th Century American narrative poems. Great story about love and the American west. I think the later "The Story of the Hurricane" is in a similar vein. Though not about the west and not as well realized a song, it is nonetheless a powerful, brutal song in the best tradition of the social commentary type song/poems Dylan wrote.

[g-funk13]

Beatles: All You Need is Love

Led Zeppelin: Black Dog

Bobby Darin's cover of "Mack the Knife"

Jimi Hendrix: Red House

Beatles: Hey Jude

[shortgame85]

Bobby Darin's cover of "Mack the Knife"

So very true. So very fine.

[g-funk13]

OK, boys: here's my official holiday gift to all of you who think great music began in 1970. If you listen to these tunes, you'll be smarter, better looking and more suave than you ever thought possible. If you listen to these songs with a glass of good scotch, or any scotch, you'll feel even better, if that's possible. If you listen to these tunes with a glass of scotch and a companion of your choice, you'll get lucky! Now, go forth and listen, learn and prosper. Happy Holidays to you all!

NICE SHORTGAME!

Gershwin list is awesome, I would add "but not for me" Cole Porter: also awesome--I would add "love for sale" and "cheek to cheek" the latter as sung by Fred Astaire, who is 10X more talented than any other individual that lived in the 20th century. Wanna Dancer? Get Fred. Wanna Singer? Get Fred. Want someone to sing, while playing the piano EXTREMELY WELL-- Then get up from the piano and dance like a friggin genius? Get Fred freaking Astaire. By the way, he will also write the music and choreograph the dances for your shows, or his own shows since he was rich enough to bankroll a movie with his own cash. . . and kick your butt on the golf course--He was a scratch golfer. The 1920-40's were as great for American music as they were for American Golf!

[shortgame85]

NICE SHORTGAME!

I left off "Cheek to Cheek." Such a great song. So many of the songs of that era on first glance seem so shallow, but really are so very poetic and clever and use language so brilliantly.

As for Brecht's "Mack the Knife," who would have guessed that Bobby Darrin would have such a great hit with a song about an assasin? As for Mr. Astair, one cannot add a thing to what you said, except to say, "How very true." However, I didn't know he was a scratch golfer. Come to think about, you did leave one thing out about him, understandably because there is almost too much to include, and that is he was an impeccable dresser. No male ever wore clothes as well as he did.

[arbitrage]

The first tape I ever bought was Beastie Boys - License to Ill. I was in 6th grade, and the bus driver popped in the tape on our senior class trip to Lancaster, PA. The whole bus was singing along to every song. Ah, the memories.

Anyways, to my best of:

Hip - Hop:
Beastie Boys - Paul Revere (Can still recite the lyrics word for word to this day)
Tribe Called Quest - Check the Rhime (Low End Theory is one of my favorite albums
De La Soul - Buddy (the best ensemble rap of all time next too.....)
Marley Marl - The Symphony
Gangstarr- Dwyck
BDP - Material Love

Rock:

Pantera: Cowboys from Hell
Metallica: For Whom the Bell Tolls
Tesla: Love Song
Queen: Bohemian Rhapsody
The Doors: People Are Strange
Steve Miller Band: The Joker
Motley Crue: Same Ol' Situation

Pop/Other:

Depeche Mode: Shake the Disease
New Order: Regret
Louis Prima: Just a Gigalo
Frank Sinatra: The Way You Look Tonight
Frank Sinatra: Fly Me to the Moon

[T.J.K.]

It's rare to find an ATCQ fan these days... people only know this new pseudo-rap they play on the radio.

A Tribe Called Quest is by far the best rap group ever. :)

[teal]

Devil's Dance Floor - Flogging Molly

[sboardz006]

its cool to see some other fans of good hip hop, because i thought i was gonna be the only one lol.

My list... (it always changes)
Atmosphere- F*ck You Lucy
Jedi Mind Tricks- Rage of Angels
Cunninlynguists- Nothing to Give

[Jeepthrills]

I was listening to Hair Nation on Sirius on my way to work. It's the hair metal station that plays all the stuff I listened to in high school and college. Anyway, they had a blurb on where they said "Hair Nation is not responsible for any damage to your speakers or hearing when we play this next track." Then Crazy Train from Ozzy comes on. The first thing I did was turn up the volume and laugh at how right they were.

[Jeepthrills]

Devil's Dance Floor - Flogging Molly

I just Googled it and listened to it on YouTube. Great song.

[neudi]

A Tribe Called Quest is by far the best rap group ever. :)

Nothing to do with songs, but your little bug on your signature is just too creepy hahahha.

dead or alive Bon Jovi

[Eore]

Do you want to-Franz Ferdinand

[Eore]

any drum and bass fans here as well??

[roverT7]

Metallica - Orion