Best song ever written

[cyrus buelton]

LS has a couple songs better than curtis lowe, simple man and sweet home alabama being an example

Simple Man is a great tune.

Sweet Home is, but is way overplayed, but that doesn't take away from the music.

I like all of Skynyrd's music, seen them in concert a dozen times and am going again in a month.

My vote is for Comfortably Numb

I'll give that one to you.

Great song.

[sno_duc]

All great songs

Given this audience you gotta go with Allman Brothers  "Midnight Rider".

[NAKID]

No Stairway to Heaven?

[cyrus buelton]

or Hotel California

[Speeddog]

Are you talkin' music or lyrics?

[cyrus buelton]

Are you talkin' music or lyrics?

I think we are talking lyrics, at least that is how I interpreted the thread

[desmo_drum]

move it on over

Hank Williams

[redxblack]

+1 - and nearly all other Hank Williams songs

[teddy037.2]

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I'm a barbie girl....

[Triple J]

Impossible to pick a "best"

Not the greatest video...but this has Dave A. as the drummer, which is required for this song (as much as I like Matt Cameron).

Pearl Jam, Rats
Pearl Jam - Rats (Boston '94)

[Kopfjäger]

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The Star-Spangled Banner
O say can you see, by the dawn's early light,
What so proudly we hail'd at the twilight's last gleaming,
Whose broad stripes and bright stars through the perilous fight
O'er the ramparts we watch'd were so gallantly streaming?
And the rocket's red glare, the bombs bursting in air,
Gave proof through the night that our flag was still there,
O say does that star-spangled banner yet wave
O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave?

On the shore dimly seen through the mists of the deep
Where the foe's haughty host in dread silence reposes,
What is that which the breeze, o'er the towering steep,
As it fitfully blows, half conceals, half discloses?
Now it catches the gleam of the morning's first beam,
In full glory reflected now shines in the stream,
'Tis the star-spangled banner - O long may it wave
O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave!

And where is that band who so vauntingly swore,
That the havoc of war and the battle's confusion
A home and a Country should leave us no more?
Their blood has wash'd out their foul footstep's pollution.
No refuge could save the hireling and slave
From the terror of flight or the gloom of the grave,
And the star-spangled banner in triumph doth wave
O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave.

O thus be it ever when freemen shall stand
Between their lov'd home and the war's desolation!
Blest with vict'ry and peace may the heav'n rescued land
Praise the power that hath made and preserv'd us a nation!
Then conquer we must, when our cause it is just,
And this be our motto - “In God is our trust,”
And the star-spangled banner in triumph shall wave
O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave

[Pakhan]

Dare I say...... Michael Jackson Thriller 

[ducatiz]

Lyrics or music

If music, I might say "Thick as a Brick"

But at the end of the day, it's just an opinion and you're free to change it.

I love the Pablo Picasso song for a lot of reasons -- Jerry Harrison from Talking Heads was in Modern Lovers, very cool cross-genre music.

[ducatiz]

My vote is for Comfortably Numb

Only if you include the Bob Hoskins lyric additions.

[JEFF_H]

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