Smokin Gator SASS #29736 Posted October 14, 2022 Share Posted October 14, 2022 One more. Frank Sinatra. "I've Got You Under My Skin". Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Creeker, SASS #43022 Posted October 14, 2022 Share Posted October 14, 2022 There are so many songs and feelings - impossible to say best. from WOT music (wide open throttle) because the volume knob and the speedometer seemed to be linked together... Sweet Home Alabama...Lynrd Sknyrd Hotel California...The Eagles Radar Love...Golden Earring Then there were the guilty pleasures of the songs you just had to sing along with at full volume... American Pie...Don McLean Keep your hands to yourself...Georgia Satellites Friends in low places...Garth Brooks And the songs that made you marvel at the voice as an instrument... Unchained Melody...The Righteous Brothers When a man loves a woman...Percy Sledge I would do anything for love.. Meat Loaf And the songs that never fail to bring a tear to my eye... In the Ghetto...Elvis Presley Go rest high on that mountain...Vince Gill He stopped loving her today...George Jones And I have a few thousand "runners up" to every one of these. Too many songs and too many genres to ever pick one single best. And I haven't even touched on... The Ride of the Valykries...Wagner Sitting on the dock of the bay...Otis Redding Beautiful World...Louis Armstrong Hello Darling...Conway Twitty Another Brick in the wall...Pink Floyd Streets of Bakersfield...Buck Owens Foggy Mountain Breakdown...Earl Scruggs People are Strange...The Doors Suspicious Minds...Dwight Yoakum Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rye Miles #13621 Posted October 14, 2022 Share Posted October 14, 2022 First of all you have all different genres of music, jazz, rock, country, classical, opera etc etc. How can you say the "Best song ever recorded'? Maybe the best song in your mind but necessarily in others! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chantry Posted October 14, 2022 Share Posted October 14, 2022 Too many artists and songs In no order and in some cases specific versions: Sinatra and the Count Basie Orchestra conducted by Quincy Jones "Fly Me to the Moon" John Lee Hooker "Boom Boom" from Best of Friends Buddy Guy and the Jools Holland Orchestra "She Suits Me to a Tee" Los Lobos "Mas Y Mas" Tom Jones's cover of John Lee Hooker's "Burning Hell" Linda Eder "Man of La Mancha" watch the video on Youtube Duke Ellington & Louis Armstrong "Duke's Place". The "Great Summit - The Master Takes" is the only studio album these two legends of jazz ever recorded together and pretty much a must own if you are a fan of either musician or that style of jazz. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Noah Mercy, SASS #29066 Posted October 14, 2022 Share Posted October 14, 2022 13 hours ago, DocWard said: Some people consider it heresy, but I like Stevie Ray Vaughan and Double Trouble's version better. Also an amazing version of Superstition. I love SRV's cover of Superstition, and his version of Voodoo Child is fantastic...I just find Jimi's vocal's hit my ear better for whatever reason. One of the things I find so fascinating about music is that the same song can sound pleasant to some, "meh" to others, and like fingers on a chalkboard to another group. And whatever someone likes is almost never "wrong"...unless it's mumble rap or country rap (which I just call "c.rap"). That stuff's for sycophants and products of incest. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MizPete Posted October 14, 2022 Share Posted October 14, 2022 OK, I try not to do this often, but sometimes you just gotta: J S Bach. Concerto for 3 violins & orchestra in D major. Go to UTube. If you don't think it's worth 20 minutes of your life, I don't want to know ya. Somewhere in there (probably during the ethereal adagio) you're going to realize you're not hearing motif & accompaniment. Everybody is playing a self-sustainable melody & they all blend so seamlessly you're barely aware. Douglas Adams wrote (I think in Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency) that Bach wasn't human. Bach was an alien computer that was keeping a spaceship alive eons after its alloted time. Listening to the concerto (which NEVER fails to stand every goose bump on my body on high alert) I can almost believe it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Buffalo Creek Law Dog Posted October 14, 2022 Share Posted October 14, 2022 I'm kind of partial to, What ever happened to Randolph Scott, by the Statler Brothers. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yellowhouse Sam # 25171 Posted October 14, 2022 Share Posted October 14, 2022 Okie, you know its gotta be a famous song by the Melvins aka Tie my P____ To a Tree. Its on Youtube. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michigan Slim Posted October 14, 2022 Share Posted October 14, 2022 One of my favorites! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dirty Dan Dawkins Posted October 14, 2022 Share Posted October 14, 2022 6 hours ago, MizPete said: OK, I try not to do this often, but sometimes you just gotta: J S Bach. Concerto for 3 violins & orchestra in D major. Go to UTube. If you don't think it's worth 20 minutes of your life, I don't want to know ya. Somewhere in there (probably during the ethereal adagio) you're going to realize you're not hearing motif & accompaniment. Everybody is playing a self-sustainable melody & they all blend so seamlessly you're barely aware. Douglas Adams wrote (I think in Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency) that Bach wasn't human. Bach was an alien computer that was keeping a spaceship alive eons after its alloted time. Listening to the concerto (which NEVER fails to stand every goose bump on my body on high alert) I can almost believe it. Bach is my favorite composer. The sheer number of compositions he created is staggering. After seeing St Matthew Passion online, I’d love to go to see it performed live Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dirty Dan Dawkins Posted October 14, 2022 Share Posted October 14, 2022 Johnny Rivers I also enjoy a great deal. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Red Gauntlet , SASS 60619 Posted October 14, 2022 Share Posted October 14, 2022 Annudda contenda: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MizPete Posted October 15, 2022 Share Posted October 15, 2022 21 hours ago, Dirty Dan Dawkins said: The sheer number of compositions he created is staggering. And you know what else is totally cool? Anything he ever wrote can be played on any instrument man can devise. I once heard Little Fugue in G Minor played on kazoos & it still sounded like music. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DocWard Posted October 15, 2022 Share Posted October 15, 2022 On 10/14/2022 at 12:47 PM, MizPete said: OK, I try not to do this often, but sometimes you just gotta: J S Bach. Concerto for 3 violins & orchestra in D major. Go to UTube. If you don't think it's worth 20 minutes of your life, I don't want to know ya. Somewhere in there (probably during the ethereal adagio) you're going to realize you're not hearing motif & accompaniment. Everybody is playing a self-sustainable melody & they all blend so seamlessly you're barely aware. Douglas Adams wrote (I think in Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency) that Bach wasn't human. Bach was an alien computer that was keeping a spaceship alive eons after its alloted time. Listening to the concerto (which NEVER fails to stand every goose bump on my body on high alert) I can almost believe it. I am definitely a fan of Bach, no question about his genius. I’ve also performed in a choir performing Hansel’s The Messiah, and been utterly awed by his genius as well. For me, though, Beethoven stands apart. The First Movement of the Ninth never fails to give me chills, and the Ode to Joy simply causes my spirit to soar. There is no other singular piece of music that effects me the way it does. Edit: I should add I’ve been next to a horn section performing Copeland’s Fanfare For The Common Man, and it is truly inspiring. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MizPete Posted October 16, 2022 Share Posted October 16, 2022 10 hours ago, DocWard said: , Beethoven stands apart I also enjoy Beethoven, largely because I can play some of his piano concerti, and because Grandson #2 plays 2nd mmt of Pathetique on his cello to my much less competant accompaniment - such a treasured experience! Beethoven's melodies are not necessarily spectacular or innovative but every note is perfect. I agree on Ode to Joy - it truly is. When I worked for a SOB boss & my family came home to hear me playing Beethoven, they knew I'd had a bad day & Ludwig was helping me work it out. And you want to hear something totally cool: I shared a wall with Grandson #2 at BabyGirl's house & once woke to hear him playing the violin part of Napoleon's Retreat (from Rodeo) which he'd just heard somewhere & just had to do on his cello. Nothing better on this planet! Re choir: I spent most of my life promising God something BIG if he'd just let me be able to sing. At my age, he's run out of time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Utah Bob #35998 Posted October 16, 2022 Share Posted October 16, 2022 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chickasaw Bill SASS #70001 Posted October 16, 2022 Share Posted October 16, 2022 well after some thought on this matter He stopped lovin' her today . Geroge Jones , the possum tied with Big City , Merle Haggard , the comman mans poet Chickasaw Bill Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lone Spur Jake SASS #7728 Posted October 17, 2022 Share Posted October 17, 2022 For country music I think it has to be two songs by folks who used to be married to each other. Tammy Wynette's "Stand By Your Man" and George Jones "He Stopped Loving Her Today". For Rock N' Roll, has to be Jerry Lee Lewis and "GREAT BALLS OF FIRE!!!!" For pop music, Frank Sinatra's "I'll Do It My Way". Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Doc Moses Posted October 17, 2022 Share Posted October 17, 2022 On 10/13/2022 at 5:11 PM, DocWard said: I'm not sure it qualifies as a "song" but the greatest musical piece ever written, hands down, is Symphony No. 9 in D minor, Op. 125 by Ludwig Von Beethoven. Obviously not recorded until long after it was written and performed. I'm partial to the version below, because I was there for the performance, which was amazing, and my oldest daughter was in the choir. The Ninth starts at about the 27:35 mark: I prefer sym #3 but to each his own. Can't go wrong with Beethoven! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Warden Callaway Posted October 17, 2022 Share Posted October 17, 2022 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dirty Dan Dawkins Posted October 17, 2022 Share Posted October 17, 2022 On 10/15/2022 at 4:51 PM, DocWard said: I am definitely a fan of Bach, no question about his genius. I’ve also performed in a choir performing Hansel’s The Messiah, and been utterly awed by his genius as well. For me, though, Beethoven stands apart. The First Movement of the Ninth never fails to give me chills, and the Ode to Joy simply causes my spirit to soar. There is no other singular piece of music that effects me the way it does. How about Chuck Berry? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DocWard Posted October 17, 2022 Share Posted October 17, 2022 2 hours ago, Dirty Dan Dawkins said: How about Chuck Berry? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dirty Dan Dawkins Posted October 17, 2022 Share Posted October 17, 2022 I think Chuck smoked something before that performance Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blackwater 53393 Posted October 17, 2022 Share Posted October 17, 2022 44 minutes ago, Dirty Dan Dawkins said: I think Chuck smoked something before that performance No more and probably not any less than before any other performance! Chuck was as high energy a performer as ever was!! Elvis learned a move or two from ol’ Chuck. I saw him a time or two and he ALWAYS put on a show!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marshal Dan Troop 70448 Posted October 17, 2022 Share Posted October 17, 2022 On 10/13/2022 at 4:18 PM, Okie Sawbones, SASS #77381 said: That one song that gets your foot tapping and your hand slapping. Artist and song. Your opinion, no link needed. One we all sang. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Okie Sawbones, SASS #77381 Posted October 17, 2022 Author Share Posted October 17, 2022 1 hour ago, Marshal Dan Troop 70448 said: One we all sang. Great song. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Raylan Posted October 18, 2022 Share Posted October 18, 2022 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BBZ7AfZR9xs Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tex Wilson Posted October 18, 2022 Share Posted October 18, 2022 Just too many great songs for me to give the title of "best song ever written", so I'll just pass on this topic. Tex Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MizPete Posted October 18, 2022 Share Posted October 18, 2022 4 hours ago, Tex Wilson said: 4 hours ago, Tex Wilson said: Just too many great songs for me to give the title of "best song ever written", Absolutely right, but I just love seeing what everybody has to throw on the pile. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Warden Callaway Posted October 19, 2022 Share Posted October 19, 2022 In Dreams by Roy Orbison. Note how it starts out very quiet and simple guitar accomplishment to get more forcefully and more orchestration joins in until he singing full voice at the end. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sixgun Sheridan Posted October 19, 2022 Share Posted October 19, 2022 Okay I'm mean... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
punxsutawneypete Posted October 23, 2022 Share Posted October 23, 2022 On 10/17/2022 at 4:56 PM, Blackwater 53393 said: Chuck was as high energy a performer as ever was!! Elvis learned a move or two from ol’ Chuck. I saw him a time or two and he ALWAYS put on a show!! I was an oldies disk jockey back in my misspent youth in the early 1970s. I went to a lot of concerts once I was getting a paycheck. I saw Chuck Berry at the Specturm in Philadephia and at a club somewhere in NJ. But I really like this cover by Linda Ronstadt Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Linn Keller, SASS 27332, BOLD 103 Posted October 23, 2022 Share Posted October 23, 2022 On 10/14/2022 at 12:11 AM, Forty Rod SASS 3935 said: So many. So many. I have hundreds of favorites THIS!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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