Best song ever written

[triangleforge]

Pablo Picasso?  Had that on a Repo Man soundtrack that I pretty much played to death, well, a very long time ago. Good song. Best? Dunno.

Best is tough, but at the moment, I'm pretty stuck on a couple of songs that just do it for me lyrically & musically --

Joe Strummer & the Mescaleros, Bhindi Bhagee

Bhindi Bhagee

Crooked Still, Ain't no Grave

Crooked Still - Ain't No Grave (from 'True Blood')

But if I had to choose one, it'd be Richard Thompson, 1952 Vincent Black Lighting

Richard Thompson - 1952 Vincent Black Lightning

[spolic]

What A Wonderful World

Louis Armstrong


Or Stranglehold!!!

[Grampa]

my all time favorite





The man who sailed around his soul
From east to west, from pole to pole
With ego as his drunken captain
Greed, the mutineer, had trapped all reason in the hold

The man who walked across his heart
Who took no compass, guide or chart
To rope and tar his blood congealed
When he found his self revealed ugly and cold

And the sirens that sing
By your nose with its ring
Theyll drag you in
For your sins

Now he sits all alone
And its no place like home
Its empty skin
A bag to keep lifes souvenirs in
The man who sailed around his soul
The man who sailed around his soul

The man who sailed around his soul
Came back again to find a hole
Where once he thought compassion and the truth
Had laid to warm his freezing carcass on return

The man who walked across his heart
Was doomed to journey from the start
Of every love affair hed broken
All the lies hed ever spoken
Tattooed on his arm
And the jellyfish stings
Even angels with wings
Who look too deep
And dare to peep

Now he sits all alone
Knowing flesh blood and bone
Is everything
He found the treasure hed been seeking
The man who sailed around his soul

[GAAN]

Oh good point

Lyrics or music

I would have to second the headhunter

I do get all heady whenever the star spangled banner plays

it's a heavy song

but as far as purely entertainment without the addition of nationalism

I do like what a wonderful world, it is an outstanding feel good song that won't age

American Pie for some reason makes me want to cry like a little girl depending on who does it

It depresses the hell out of me which makes it a great song

[Major Slow]

Truckin

[spolic]

American Pie for some reason makes me want to cry like a little girl depending on who does it

It depresses the hell out of me which makes it a great song

Geez...well how about Cats in the Cradle by Harry Chapin.   Big fat downer right there.

[GAAN]

Geez...well how about Cats in the Cradle by Harry Chapin.   Big fat downer right there.

Love that song

but

Ugly Kid Joe ruined it for me

[acalles]

Oingo Boingo - Little Girls

[DoubleEagle]

No Stairway to Heaven?

The question wasn't most popular or most air play. If so then may be, or perhaps.... Free Bird.

Dolph   

[DoubleEagle]

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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

Can't argue with our Natioal Anthem .Here Here.

Dolph     

[DoubleEagle]

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

Take away the video and what do you have ?

Dolph   

[ducpainter]

Best?

Surely you jest.

[DoubleEagle]

Best?

Surely you jest.

To what are you referring Nate ?

Dolph   

[NAKID]

The question wasn't most popular or most air play. If so then may be, or perhaps.... Free Bird.

Dolph   

You're right, it's not about airplay. I just think it's a great song...

[DoubleEagle]

You're right, it's not about airplay. I just think it's a great song...

You're right , it's a great song , like Free Bird, Sunshine of your Love , Cross Roads, Kashmir, etc.

Dolph