Greatest Songs of all Time

[SamTheMan]

What are the Greatest Songs Ever?

My views are


1. stairway to heaven
2. nothern sky
3. song to the siren
4. like a rolling stone

[YellowBook]

Struggling for five...how about 20:
Beach Boys - Good Vibrations, God Only Knows
Beatles - Hey Jude, Eleanor Rigby, A Day In The Life, Norwegian Wood, In My Life
James - Laid
Led Zeppelin - Stairway to Heaven
Simon and Garfunkel - Sound of Silence
T-Rex - Cosmic Dancer
Verve - Bittersweet Symphony, The Drugs Don't Work
Furniture - Brilliant Mind
Pink Floyd - Comfortably Numb, Wish You Were Here
Drifters - Stand By Me, Save The Last Dance For Me
Bob Dylan - Knockin' On Heaven's Door

....and a nice chilled track that I've been listening to lately-
Mazzy Star - Five String Serenade

tomorrow they will be different, that's what makes music so great.

[SamTheMan]

good call on the verve and floyd.

[YellowBook]

Floyd are one of those bands, their songs are like operas! Bit embarrassed that I only mentioned one Dylan song as there's so many others.

[The_111th_Beatle]

Here's a link to a list of best songs ever with results compiled from other polls, for your amusement:
http://www.everyhit.com/bestever.html
heres Rolling Stone magazine's list
http://www.rollingstone.com/news/coverstory/500songs

I disagree with those lists but how and ever.

Here's some of my favourites:
Led Zeppelin - Stairway to Heaven
Don McLean - American Pie
Bob Dylan - Like a Rolling Stone
Beach Boys - Good Vibrations, God Only Knows
Rolling Stones - Sympathy For The Devil, Gimme Shelter
Beatles - Hey Jude, A Day In The Life, Strawberry Fields Forever
Simon & Garfunkel - Bridge Over Troubled Water
Johnny Cash - Hurt
Probably lots I forgot.
I'll try to narrow it down to five later.
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"Its so easy to laugh, its so easy to hate. It takes guts to be gentle and kind"

[The_111th_Beatle]

My top five (and it'll probably constantly change):

1. Like a Rolling Stone - Bob Dylan
2. Stairway To Heaven - Led Zeppelin
3. American Pie - Don McLean
4. Sympathy For The Devil - The Rolling Stones
5. Hey Jude - The Beatles
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"Its so easy to laugh, its so easy to hate. It takes guts to be gentle and kind"

[empire22]

1. Cream - White Room
2. Pink Floyd - Another Brick in The Wall (Part 2) (This one also encompasses Happiest Days of our Lives to me, since they flow perfectly into one another)
3. The Beatles - You Never Give Me Your Money
4. Peter Gabriel - Red Rain
5. The Beatles - Good Day Sunshine

I could go on for a long time, but this gives a pretty good impression of what I spend my time listening to. I have to include a 6th though,

6. The Jimi Hendrix Experience - Hey Joe

[YellowBook]

Red Rain - good shout....

[bc1991]

Hi there goes mine, not in any particular order:
1. Hey - Pixies
2. Radiohead - Karma Police (live)
3. The Beatles - A day in a Life
4. The Beatles - Here comes the Sun
5. Led Zeppelin - Stairway to Heaven
6. The Rolling Stones - Gimme Shelter
7. The Rolling Stones - Angie
8. Cake - Friend is a Four Letter Word
9. U2 - Until the End of the World
10. U2 - Love is blindness (live)
11. New Order - Crystal
12. Patti Smith - Gloria
13. Jimi Hendrix - All Along The Watchtower
14. Massive Attack - Angel
15. Air - La femme D'argent
16. Semisonic - Secret Smile
17. Portishead - Only you
18. The Doors - Strange Days
19. Pink Floyd - Shine on you Crazy Diamond (part 1-5) (maybe my favorite one)
20. Lou Reed - Perfect Day

And I cant remember more right now

[DetroitRJR3rd]

Oasis-Live Forever
The Beatles-A Day In The Life
The Smashing Pumpkins-Thirty Three
Billy Joel-We Didn't Start The Fire
Bob Dylan-Hurricane
The Cure-Plain Song
John Lennon-Instant Karma
Pink Floyd-Us And Them
Dan Henley-Boys Of Summer '84'
The Doors-Light My Fire
Electric Light Orchretra-Mister Kingdom
Guns N' Roses-Sweet Child O' Mine
The Rolling Stones-Mothers Little Helper
The Mama's and The Papas-California Dreamin'
The Moody Blues-The Night (Nights In White Satin)
Neil Young-Heart Of Gold
Oasis-Don't Go Away
Oasis-Wonderwall
Oasis-Born On A Different Cloud
Oasis-Don't Look Back In Anger
The Rolling Stones-Gimme Shelter
The Rolling Stones-Paint It Black
Pink Floyd-Time
Pink Floyd-Comfortably Numb
Pink Floyd-Speak To Me Breathe
The Cure-Just Like Heaven
Simon And Garfunkel-The Boxer
Roger Trower-Bridge Of Sighs
Simon And Garfunkel-Silence
Eric Clapton-Sunshine Of Your Love

So Many More All I Can Think Of On This Drunk Night....Not In Any Order By The Way