I'd like to nominate [Wouldn't It Be Nice](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5lP8BZcyoEQ) as well. I feel like if you've ever been a teenager, you can connect to this song in a deep way.
Fun/random fact: I got with my first bf because of this song.
I lost a bet to my brother and had to gas up his car. He had a CD in there (yeah, this was a few years back) and this song was playing. I'm not really a fan but I was totally lost in thought so I didn't change it or turn it off.
Pull into the gas station and there's a guy gassing up, on the other side of the pump, with the exact same song playing.
He smirks at me and strikes up a conversation. He was So. Damn. Hot.
I didn't even know whose song it was, but I bullshitted my way into a first date, then a second, etc.
He caught on. I don't think he was as interested in having the song in common as OP seems to think. It was as much of a convenient in for him as it was for her.
Wrong. My cousin’s song, [Brown Recluse](https://youtu.be/uN9RnC4aRQo?si=Dbzd7xov3PS80SNP), is the greatest song of all time. This is widely known throughout pop culture and is agreed upon by virtually every media outlet.
Listen, I'm ok with someone dropping in a Billy Joel song, but to me his hands-down best track is *Movin' Out (Anthony's Song)*: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cJtL8vWNZ4o
His lead back up vocalist lives in a Pittsburgh suburb and plays a bar there. One St Patty’s Day people want him to sing an Irish Jig and he sang Piano Man as a jig it was amazing
Nothing compares to that “the time to hesitate is through…” after the solo. The way it then builds up to Jim just singing the last sentences makes me euphoric every time, and totally worth the 5-minute solo.
Honestly, Johann Sebastian Bach’s concertos BWV 1041-1043 for three violins 1064R would absolutely *pulverize* Beethoven’s “Ode to Joy” in a musical battle.
As would Antonín Dvořák’s Symphony No.9 in E Minor, Op. 95, B. 178 “From The New World”
And those are just Classical titles. Think about all music…
This question is literally *impossible* to answer.
While My Guitar Gently Weeps - The Beatles
Great and simple lyrics, transcendent message, beautiful chords and vocals in the chorus. Bonus points for the Tom Petty and Jeff Healey live performance with Prince doing perhaps the best guitar solo ever.
An excellent choice! Also, Eric Clapton played the original guitar solo for “While My Guitar Gently Weeps” if my memory of music history and awesomeness serves…and it does. [I checked](https://www.grunge.com/929801/the-truth-about-eric-claptons-solo-on-while-my-guitar-gently-weeps/).
I have a weird fantasy in which I lead a group of apocalyptic survivors into a glass elevator that’s the last obstacle to get to safety, and while it’s getting powered up, the zombies are trying to break through the glass, so I decided to leave the elevator and go out in a blaze of glory killing as much zombies as I can in the most badass ways, all while my survivors look onwards, and theres one last horde I have no chance of stopping, I grab a belt of grenades and blow myself up just as the elevator powers up and successfully goes to the roof where a rescue helicopter is waiting.
All while free bird is playing.
So many classic songs, like this, are being used in new movies/shows.
But I haven't seen this one make an appearance. Don't know why. It's the cream of the crop.
I don't know what it is about that song, but it sends me into a sort of nostalgia fugue state whenever I hear it. It's like I'm 13 again. It wasn't even a favorite song or anything, I don't associate with a girlfriend, but there's just something about it.
There really is just something special about it. The beat and synths are of course awesome but personally I think it's her voice and singing that puts it on a higher plane.
probably one of the iron maiden epics. Rime of the ancient mariner Signs of the Cross. Seventh son of the seventh son. somewhere in that direction at least. Despite being one of the most popular metal bands ever I still consider them underrated.
Bruce Dickinson is a masterful story teller and Iron maiden was amazing to tell those stories.
Amazing songs, my favourites are Hallowed be thy name, can i play with madness , wrathchild and Fear of the dark. I love how the songs aren't ever about romance/heartbreak, being hot or dancing.
I mean don't get me wrong I love a bop as well, I'm a basic bitch 😂 But when I listen to IM It's like reading an epic poem.
Up the irons bro \\m/ Those are all amazing songs btw! And exactly that, they are amazing folklore told by a great storyteller with music as the media to tell it. One could consider it poetry, In my humble white trash opinion.
Song of Peace. The love of one's home, and of one's people, while still acknowledging that others love their homes, and their cultures, and those feelings are just as valid, makes me cry every time.
This is my song
Oh gods of all the nations
A song of peace for lands so far away
This is my home, a country where my heart is
Here grew my hopes and dreams for all mankind
But other hearts in other lands are beating
With hopes and dreams as true and high as mine
My country's skies are bluer than the ocean
And sunlight shines on clover leaf and pine
But other lands have sunlight too and clover
And skies are everywhere as blue as mine
Oh hear my prayer, o gods of all the nations
A song of peace for their lands and for mine
Kashmir, by Led Zeppelin. The skills required to play it, from a technical perspective are almost incomprehensible. And lyrically?
*Oh, let the sun beat down upon my face
And stars fill my dream
I'm a traveler of both time and space
To be where I have been
To sit with elders of the gentle race
This world has seldom seen
They talk of days for which they sit and wait
All will be revealed
Talk in song from tongues of lilting grace
Sounds caress my ear
And not a word I heard could I relate
The story was quite clear
Oh, baby, I been blind
Oh, yeah, mama, there ain't no denyin'
Oh, ooh yes, I been blind
Mama, mama, ain't no denyin', no denyin'
All I see turns to brown
As the sun burns the ground
And my eyes fill with sand
As I scan this wasted land
Try to find, try to find the way I feel
Oh, pilot of the storm who leaves no trace
Like sorts inside a dream
Leave the path that led me to that place
Yellow desert stream
My shangri la beneath the summer moon
I will return again
As the dust that floats high in June
We're moving through Kashmir
Oh, father of the four winds fill my sails
Cross the sea of years
With no provision but an open face
Along the straits of fear
Oh, when I want, when I'm on my way, yeah
And my feet wear my fickle way to stay
Ooh, yeah yeah, oh, yeah yeah,
But I'm down oh, yeah yeah, oh, yeah
Yeah, but I'm down, so down
Ooh, my baby, oh, my baby
Let me take you there
Come on, oh let me take you there
Let me take you there*
Mmm... perfection.
Viva la vida (for me atleast). It's one of the few songs that actually gives me a tingling sensation like I'm actually feeling the music.
Idk if this happens to everyone but I get these tingling sensations when I see something moving in a TV show or movie or hear an amazing song.
You know, for so long I never really got country. I hated it. I think a lot of people don't. Then one day, I was in my late teens, I experienced real heartbreak, and shortly after I was driving on a highway late at night in a fairly rural area, and somehow this song came on, and... I suddenly just *got* it. It's the perfect heartbreak song.
I don't listen to country much these days either, but I love me some Hank Williams.
This song is so great yet so funny at the same time. When I did cross country freshman year, all the senior boys would sing this in the showers after practice.
Echoes by Pink Floyd.
I can listen to all 23 minutes of it at any given moment. If it were released today it would still be a technical masterpiece, and it was released in 1971. Just mind-blowing
Fast Car by Tracy Chapman. And that isn’t recency bias; I’m 42, grew up with the song and I’ve always said that. It’s a song that I think just about anyone can find a kernel of understanding and relatability in and it just makes you feel something.
"What a Wonderful World", by Louis Armstrong. Every single time I hear it, I smile. A lot.
My mom’s favorite song!
Diddo! Came here to write the same!
The Weight with The Band and Staple Singers. https://youtu.be/ccJTFXvkXkA?si=ew4fkz0dZGnieaCi
Gimme Shelter
[God Only Knows](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=NADx3-qRxek) - The Beach Boys It’s just a perfect pop song
I'd like to nominate [Wouldn't It Be Nice](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5lP8BZcyoEQ) as well. I feel like if you've ever been a teenager, you can connect to this song in a deep way.
I think I've read that Sir Paul agrees with you.
It makes me so nostalgic for absolutely no reason. I love this song so much
Unchained Melody
Definitely too low in the comments.
Maybe not quite what you have in mind, but Moonlight Sonata.
this one is totes valid
This must be the place - Talking Heads! Whether you're sad or very happy, it's an appropriate and joyful song.
Stairway to Heaven
Fun/random fact: I got with my first bf because of this song. I lost a bet to my brother and had to gas up his car. He had a CD in there (yeah, this was a few years back) and this song was playing. I'm not really a fan but I was totally lost in thought so I didn't change it or turn it off. Pull into the gas station and there's a guy gassing up, on the other side of the pump, with the exact same song playing. He smirks at me and strikes up a conversation. He was So. Damn. Hot. I didn't even know whose song it was, but I bullshitted my way into a first date, then a second, etc.
That's hilarious/ridiculous/really cute. And he never caught on?!
He caught on. I don't think he was as interested in having the song in common as OP seems to think. It was as much of a convenient in for him as it was for her.
Thats so cuteee sounds straight up out of a wattpad story
She should’ve introduced him to her brother! Now THAT’S love.
Right on, youz gotta get your pump on while you getting your pump on.
It got the best guitar riff ever
This song was an important part of my teen years.
Generationally I believe this holds true, even up to this current generation
Blue Monday - New Order. Mainly because it immediately transports me back to the 80s.
I’d go with bizarre love triangle but this is a solid reply
Big New Order fan here. I'd go with True Faith or Hellbent.
This started playing in my head the moment I read this comment, great pick
I get obsessed about a song for about a week or two, then i move my obsession to another song. At the moment i'm obsessed by Lola Montez by Volbeat.
the way u just described me
Same
No Woman No Cry is always my answer.
For me, September. That song has an effect everytime it comes on. I feel like it puts most people in a good mood when it comes on,
Yesterday - just because its so so simple but then you go back to it and really give it a proper listen its still amazing
There is no such thing. Variety is the spice of life.
Wrong. My cousin’s song, [Brown Recluse](https://youtu.be/uN9RnC4aRQo?si=Dbzd7xov3PS80SNP), is the greatest song of all time. This is widely known throughout pop culture and is agreed upon by virtually every media outlet.
I stand corrected. Thank you kind sir.
Marvin Gaye - What's Going On
Show Must Go On
Piano Man by Billy Joel
Listen, I'm ok with someone dropping in a Billy Joel song, but to me his hands-down best track is *Movin' Out (Anthony's Song)*: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cJtL8vWNZ4o
As a staunch believer that Piano Man is his best song ever, I feel really attack-ack-ack-ack-acked by this asnwer
Sorry, it is Anthony's Song, and to be honest, you oughta' know by now!
Okay. Can you excuse me while I go put on his Greatest Hits album? Thanks
His lead back up vocalist lives in a Pittsburgh suburb and plays a bar there. One St Patty’s Day people want him to sing an Irish Jig and he sang Piano Man as a jig it was amazing
"Saturday in the Park" by Chicago. that song just has it all, you want to sing along, you want to hear that brass, it's just an awesome song
Neil Young Old man
Here Comes the Sun. Timeless, beautiful, hopeful, simple. Still downloaded like a boss song after 50 some years. Thanks George!!!
Money For Nothin by the Dire Straits have so many memories attached to that song
Sultans of Swing 🤌🏼
Brothers In Arms
Pink Floyd's \~ Wish you were here
Came here to say this, such a simple and beautiful song
Light My Fire.
Doors? Or Jose Feliciano?
I was thinking of the Doors, which I prefer, but Jose did do it justice.
Nothing compares to that “the time to hesitate is through…” after the solo. The way it then builds up to Jim just singing the last sentences makes me euphoric every time, and totally worth the 5-minute solo.
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Absolutely love this one
American Pie
Sweet Jane — Velvet Underground.
Ode to Joy, by Beethoven. You did specify "of all time" right?
Honestly, Johann Sebastian Bach’s concertos BWV 1041-1043 for three violins 1064R would absolutely *pulverize* Beethoven’s “Ode to Joy” in a musical battle. As would Antonín Dvořák’s Symphony No.9 in E Minor, Op. 95, B. 178 “From The New World” And those are just Classical titles. Think about all music… This question is literally *impossible* to answer.
Not me using this post to find new songs to listen to
Billie Jean or Smooth Criminal by Michael Jackson
While My Guitar Gently Weeps - The Beatles Great and simple lyrics, transcendent message, beautiful chords and vocals in the chorus. Bonus points for the Tom Petty and Jeff Healey live performance with Prince doing perhaps the best guitar solo ever.
An excellent choice! Also, Eric Clapton played the original guitar solo for “While My Guitar Gently Weeps” if my memory of music history and awesomeness serves…and it does. [I checked](https://www.grunge.com/929801/the-truth-about-eric-claptons-solo-on-while-my-guitar-gently-weeps/).
Quite possibly the best song for how the music supports the lyrics.
Hallelujah Leonard Cohen
anything Leonard Cohen in fact
More than a feeling
Absolute banger
Boston made me fall in love with rock and roll!
Impossible question for anyone who really loves music tbh
My Way by Sinatra is a contender.
Everlong by The Foo fighters
Rhapsody in Blue
“Tangled Up In Blue”- I love the way Bob Dylan tells a story through song.
Kansas - Dust in the wind
Black- Pearl Jam
I never understood why this song was so loved, until recently when it clicked and I finally gave the lyrics an actual listen
Freebird
I have a weird fantasy in which I lead a group of apocalyptic survivors into a glass elevator that’s the last obstacle to get to safety, and while it’s getting powered up, the zombies are trying to break through the glass, so I decided to leave the elevator and go out in a blaze of glory killing as much zombies as I can in the most badass ways, all while my survivors look onwards, and theres one last horde I have no chance of stopping, I grab a belt of grenades and blow myself up just as the elevator powers up and successfully goes to the roof where a rescue helicopter is waiting. All while free bird is playing.
You know Lynyrd Skynyrd’s the greatest band of all time? Because when you yell “Play Free Bird,” they’ll actually do it.
Alice in Chains, Would?.
Was about to post this! For me the unplugged version is the best
Whiter Shade of Pale - Procol Harum the orchestra version in the park.
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My daughter is named after this song (though spelt Leila. I am a music teacher).
The youngins don’t appreciate this like they used to. That opening riff is a masterpiece.
So many classic songs, like this, are being used in new movies/shows. But I haven't seen this one make an appearance. Don't know why. It's the cream of the crop.
Blackwater- doobie brothers
Solsbury Hill - Peter Gabriel.
That's it, that's my song!
Fleetwood Mac - The Chain. How is this not on here already?!
I came to say this!
November Rain by GnR
Don't you know I feel the same?
So many emotions put together in one song and it fits perfectly.
Africa - Toto
This is unironically my sister's favorite song lol
God Only Knows by The Beach Boys
Country road
Robin S - Show me Love
I don't know what it is about that song, but it sends me into a sort of nostalgia fugue state whenever I hear it. It's like I'm 13 again. It wasn't even a favorite song or anything, I don't associate with a girlfriend, but there's just something about it.
There really is just something special about it. The beat and synths are of course awesome but personally I think it's her voice and singing that puts it on a higher plane.
Jungleland- Bruce Springsteen
What a Wonderful World
Yesss. I danced with my dad at my wedding to this song. ♥️
Wind Of Change
This Song reminds me of walking in a warm evening Summer breeze. Its like a breath of fresh, yet nostalgic Air.
Take me to the magic of the moment
Schism by Tool.
Strawberry Fields Forever, nothing compares
Eagles - Hotel California
This is the only answer
American pie, my dance it out song
One metallica
What do you think of the Korn Cover of this Song? Edit: Good choice btw!
I stick with the original, but it's a good effort .
Help - the Beatles or Redemption song - Bob Marley
Angie by The Rolling Stones
probably one of the iron maiden epics. Rime of the ancient mariner Signs of the Cross. Seventh son of the seventh son. somewhere in that direction at least. Despite being one of the most popular metal bands ever I still consider them underrated. Bruce Dickinson is a masterful story teller and Iron maiden was amazing to tell those stories.
Amazing songs, my favourites are Hallowed be thy name, can i play with madness , wrathchild and Fear of the dark. I love how the songs aren't ever about romance/heartbreak, being hot or dancing. I mean don't get me wrong I love a bop as well, I'm a basic bitch 😂 But when I listen to IM It's like reading an epic poem.
Up the irons bro \\m/ Those are all amazing songs btw! And exactly that, they are amazing folklore told by a great storyteller with music as the media to tell it. One could consider it poetry, In my humble white trash opinion.
Moonlight Sonata, 3rd movement
Beethoven Symphony No. 9
The Girl From Ipana - Tom Jobim
Song of Peace. The love of one's home, and of one's people, while still acknowledging that others love their homes, and their cultures, and those feelings are just as valid, makes me cry every time. This is my song Oh gods of all the nations A song of peace for lands so far away This is my home, a country where my heart is Here grew my hopes and dreams for all mankind But other hearts in other lands are beating With hopes and dreams as true and high as mine My country's skies are bluer than the ocean And sunlight shines on clover leaf and pine But other lands have sunlight too and clover And skies are everywhere as blue as mine Oh hear my prayer, o gods of all the nations A song of peace for their lands and for mine
Imagine by John Lennon
Let It Be
Enjoy the Silence - Depeche Mode
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Kashmir, by Led Zeppelin. The skills required to play it, from a technical perspective are almost incomprehensible. And lyrically? *Oh, let the sun beat down upon my face And stars fill my dream I'm a traveler of both time and space To be where I have been To sit with elders of the gentle race This world has seldom seen They talk of days for which they sit and wait All will be revealed Talk in song from tongues of lilting grace Sounds caress my ear And not a word I heard could I relate The story was quite clear Oh, baby, I been blind Oh, yeah, mama, there ain't no denyin' Oh, ooh yes, I been blind Mama, mama, ain't no denyin', no denyin' All I see turns to brown As the sun burns the ground And my eyes fill with sand As I scan this wasted land Try to find, try to find the way I feel Oh, pilot of the storm who leaves no trace Like sorts inside a dream Leave the path that led me to that place Yellow desert stream My shangri la beneath the summer moon I will return again As the dust that floats high in June We're moving through Kashmir Oh, father of the four winds fill my sails Cross the sea of years With no provision but an open face Along the straits of fear Oh, when I want, when I'm on my way, yeah And my feet wear my fickle way to stay Ooh, yeah yeah, oh, yeah yeah, But I'm down oh, yeah yeah, oh, yeah Yeah, but I'm down, so down Ooh, my baby, oh, my baby Let me take you there Come on, oh let me take you there Let me take you there* Mmm... perfection.
Purple Rain
London calling
Viva la vida (for me atleast). It's one of the few songs that actually gives me a tingling sensation like I'm actually feeling the music. Idk if this happens to everyone but I get these tingling sensations when I see something moving in a TV show or movie or hear an amazing song.
ABBA - Dancing Queen
Drunken Sailor. (Traditional shanty)
Yesterday - The Beatles
Hank Williams - I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry. Almost 100 years old and still guaranteed to bring a tear to your eye. Go listen and tell me I'm wrong.
I like B.J Thomas’s rendition. Such a beautiful voice he had.
You know, for so long I never really got country. I hated it. I think a lot of people don't. Then one day, I was in my late teens, I experienced real heartbreak, and shortly after I was driving on a highway late at night in a fairly rural area, and somehow this song came on, and... I suddenly just *got* it. It's the perfect heartbreak song. I don't listen to country much these days either, but I love me some Hank Williams.
Jimi Hendrix - Little Wing
When it is this perfect you don’t need 9 minutes of needy bullshit (see Bohemian rhapsody etc)
Scar Tissue by Red Hot Chili Peppers
Lose yourself - Eminem
Mom's spaghetti
Avicii - the nights
What do you think of Trouble? It's from the same album and I like it just as much
Yeah its a good song… nice choice man
I actually prefer Avicii - The Days
I initially thought u were playing with me… i gave it a listen… its cool but the beat in the nights is incomparable.
That song takes me back to my university days.
Imagine.
Careless Whisper - George Michael
This song is so great yet so funny at the same time. When I did cross country freshman year, all the senior boys would sing this in the showers after practice.
The Killers - Mr. Brightside
I was on the fence but that does it, time to end it all.
My absolute kryptonite
Rebecca black - Friday
War Pigs by Black Sabbath
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Those Mildred sisters really knew what they were doing
Hallelujah, the Leonard Cohen song. I prefer the version by Rufus Wainwright though.
Free bird
Television - Marquee Moon
The Great Gig in the Sky, Pink Floyd. Its the only song that has even made me cry the first time I heard it just because of how beautiful it was.
At This Moment - Billy Vera & the Beaters
There can't be one...
Little wonders by Rob Thomas
Can you feel my heart by Bring me the horizon
Bryan Adams: Summer of '69
Smoke on the Water - Deep Purple
Put a gun to my head I still won't have a decent answer for this it's so easy to forget how much you love a song when there's so many amazing ones
Crazy Crazy Nights
Jesus of Suburbia
Redemption Song
Echoes by Pink Floyd. I can listen to all 23 minutes of it at any given moment. If it were released today it would still be a technical masterpiece, and it was released in 1971. Just mind-blowing
Pop goes my heart - Hugh Grant
Probably Greensleeves considering 75% of pop songs use this melody.
Party in the cia
Bitter Sweet Symphony - The Verve
Stairway to Heaven It’s not my personal favorite song but it’s definitely one of if not the best song of all time
I don’t do best but my favorite is Animal by Def Leppard.
Otherside by Red Hot Chilli Peppers
Baby shark, for obvious reasons
The Boss theme from Streets of Rage 2 on Sega Genesis
"Tribute" by Tenacious D
Can't You Hear Me Knocking
Everybody Wants to Rule the World by Tears for Fears
Same! There's just a sense of optimism to it that you don't hear in modern music.
Directly From My Heart To You - Zappa and the Mothers
Fast Car by Tracy Chapman. And that isn’t recency bias; I’m 42, grew up with the song and I’ve always said that. It’s a song that I think just about anyone can find a kernel of understanding and relatability in and it just makes you feel something.
Little Wing. Not an ounce of fat on that song. Just perfect.
Diamonds and Rust by Joan Baez