What do YOU think is the greatest song of all times?

Reply #1 April 23, 2005 3:21 PM from JoeUser Forums Top

I know it's old as granma's titty and twice as dusty, but I just gotta say Led Zep's Stairway to Heaven...

Reply #2 April 23, 2005 3:28 PM from JoeUser Forums Top

I'm partial to many songs...I don't think I can pick only one...I'll give you some: On Fire by Switchfoot, She Will Be Loved by Maroon 5, My Cherie Amour by Stevie Wonder, and there are definately more...but that's just a few.

~Zoo

Reply #3 April 23, 2005 3:40 PM from JoeUser Forums Top

What good would it do? by Barry McGuire. [seeing as no-one's probably heard or read the lyrics, I am placing the lyrics and a link to a site where one can get the Album from which it came, namely Cosmic Cowboy, a most wonderful Album. I got to put it on now. Do you still have vinyl?]

If I could be flown to the Highest Heaven
Our beyond the edges of the night
If I could be shown the secret of your seven
And touch the living crystals of your light

Chorus:
What good would it do, to change my way of living
If everything inside me stayed me stayed the same
What good would it do, to give you what I'm giving
If giving doesn't take away the pain

Spending my days standin' right beside you
Bathin' in the beauty of Your name
How sad it would be if dyin' took my livin'
And I could never see your face again

Chorus....add....What good would it do?

The real rip is a sea-cruise where you can spend seven days listening to Barry and others, cool hey?

Reply #4 April 23, 2005 3:53 PM from JoeUser Forums Top

Reply By: ShovelheatPosted: Saturday, April 23, 2005I know it's old as granma's titty and twice as dusty, but I just gotta say Led Zep's Stairway to Heaven

love that song, maybe one day I will tell you about me standing at the top of the globe from the worlds fair listening to stairway. and toasted on 500 mikes of lsd-25

Reply #5 April 23, 2005 3:54 PM from JoeUser Forums Top

Reply By: Zoologist03Posted: Saturday, April 23, 2005I'm partial to many songs...I don't think I can pick only one...I'll give you some: On Fire by Switchfoot, She Will Be Loved by Maroon 5, My Cherie Amour by Stevie Wonder, and there are definately more...but that's just a few.

Oh God now I know I am old fart.. I never even heard of switchfoot.

Reply #6 April 23, 2005 3:55 PM from JoeUser Forums Top

Reply By: aeryckPosted: Saturday, April 23, 2005What good would it do? by Barry McGuire. [seeing as no-one's probably heard or read the lyrics, I am placing the lyrics and a link to a site where one can get the Album from which it came, namely Cosmic Cowboy, a most wonderful Album. I got to put it on now. Do you still have vinyl?]

sighhhhhhhhh nope, vinyl all gone.. replaced by cd's and mp3's Didnt barry do "green baret?

Reply #7 April 23, 2005 4:04 PM from JoeUser Forums Top

I don't schlink schlow but he did do "EVE OF DESTRUCTION".....his best work by far was, "Seeds" and "Cosmic Cowboy" the title track is a total trip...he did a hysterical song for kids, on his children album, called - BULLFROGS AND BUTTERFLIES, I hate it but sometime the kid in me just gets out and has a good day.....what up for the best song ever written, it can't be Stairway to Heaven....there are so many better songs by Hendrix and Cream and Jethro Tull......mmmmm and ofcourse Jim Morrisson....what about Clapton... 'The Circus left town....' I'm outta here the good doctors gone freeze me if I don't stop...I got the guitar out already.. peace. One last what about the four biggies.... Beatles, CSN&Y, America, Eagles ... and all the groups that created them... Grateful Dead...go Joeusers. Give us your greatest song of all time.

Reply #8 April 23, 2005 4:09 PM from JoeUser Forums Top

Guns and Roses; November Rain

Reply #9 April 23, 2005 4:14 PM from JoeUser Forums Top

Candle of Life, Moody Blues

Reply #10 April 23, 2005 4:34 PM from JoeUser Forums Top

Didnt barry do "green baret?

Sgt. Barry Sadler

Reply #11 April 23, 2005 4:55 PM from JoeUser Forums Top

Orion, by Metallica.
It's when a pure heavy metal band playing a four man classical concert and ended up sounds like a cool artistic trance music.

Reply #12 April 23, 2005 5:17 PM from JoeUser Forums Top

Oh God now I know I am old fart.. I never even heard of switchfoot.

You should check them out...I'm not usually into modern music...but they're pretty good.

~Zoo

Reply #13 April 23, 2005 5:24 PM from JoeUser Forums Top

ok lets give country its due, Live Like YOu were dying by tim Mcgraw, and NEon Moon by Brooks and Dunn, brings back memories of Illinois

Reply #14 April 23, 2005 5:49 PM from JoeUser Forums Top

Wow, some great greats mentioned here. Gotta agree with Stairway to Heaven, but there are far too many songs, in far too many formats to boil it all down to one.

I started to name them and why, but it grew into a whole new article.

Reply #15 April 23, 2005 5:56 PM from JoeUser Forums Top

Reply By: aeryckPosted: Saturday, April 23, 2005I don't schlink schlow but he did do "EVE OF DESTRUCTION".....his best work by far was, "Seeds" and "Cosmic Cowboy" the title track is a total trip...he did a hysterical song for kids, on his children album, called - BULLFROGS AND BUTTERFLIES, I hate it but sometime the kid in me just gets out and has a good day.....what up for the best song ever written, it can't be Stairway to Heaven....there are so many better songs by Hendrix and Cream and Jethro Tull......mmmmm and ofcourse Jim Morrisson....what about Clapton... 'The Circus left town....' I'm outta here the good doctors gone freeze me if I don't stop...I got the guitar out already.. peace. One last what about the four biggies.... Beatles, CSN&Y, America, Eagles ... and all the groups that created them... Grateful Dead...go Joeusers. Give us your greatest song of all time.

incredable music done by all the above..sighhhhhhhh

Reply #16 April 23, 2005 6:06 PM from JoeUser Forums Top

Reply By: alison watkinsPosted: Saturday, April 23, 2005Guns and Roses; November Rain

I think it was 1993 I saw G&R, metalica and body count in oakland california, I brought my 2 daughters and then I went into the mosh pit. man o man did I have fun

Reply #17 April 23, 2005 6:08 PM from JoeUser Forums Top

Those are all some impressive songs. If you are going by lyrics alone I would have to go with "Dust in the Wind" by Kansas. For me, it's just too perfect in it's phrasing. If you are going for the whole package, then I would have to go with "Time in a Bottle" by Jim Croce. The music perfectly manages to capture the slight sense of magic and whimsy that the words imply, with the same drop of longing infused throughout. A couple of newer songs that might end up being classified in the same vein "Bother" by Stonesour, "Only One" by Yellowcard and "45" by Shinedown. But then again, that's just me rambling over here. Those are all the songs that have my absolute claims to greatest songs of all time.

Reply #18 April 23, 2005 6:09 PM from JoeUser Forums Top

Reply By: Dr. GuyPosted: Saturday, April 23, 2005Candle of Life, Moody Blues

knights in white satin, by them is my bliss.

Reply #19 April 23, 2005 6:09 PM from JoeUser Forums Top

Reply By: Iconoclast™Posted: Saturday, April 23, 2005Didnt barry do "green baret?Sgt. Barry Sadler

thanx icon..

Reply #20 April 23, 2005 6:10 PM from JoeUser Forums Top

Reply By: mythgarrPosted: Saturday, April 23, 2005Orion, by Metallica.It's when a pure heavy metal band playing a four man classical concert and ended up sounds like a cool artistic trance music.

I saw them live about 12 years ago, love headbanger music.

Reply #21 April 23, 2005 6:11 PM from JoeUser Forums Top

Reply By: Zoologist03Posted: Saturday, April 23, 2005Oh God now I know I am old fart.. I never even heard of switchfoot.You should check them out...I'm not usually into modern music...but they're pretty good.~Zoo

I will check them out, I would like to think I will never be to old to try some new music

Reply #22 April 23, 2005 6:29 PM from JoeUser Forums Top

knights in white satin, by them is my bliss.

Their entire Seventh Sojourn album is great.

Reply #23 April 23, 2005 6:33 PM from JoeUser Forums Top

Nights in White Satin. That's such an amazing song! I so can't believe I forgot about that song.

Reply #24 April 23, 2005 6:36 PM from JoeUser Forums Top

My favorite song changes all the time...some of my favorites right now are Stinkfist by Tool (I love that song soooo much), The Scientist by Coldplay, Glycerine by Bush, Dumb by Nirvana, Happiness and the Fish by Our Lady Peace, The Zephyr Song by RHCP, Ava Adore by Smashing Pumpkins...ah, I could go on and on...

Best song ever, though? If I had to pick only one, I'd say John Lennon's Imagine. That is an incredible song. A Perfect Circle has a really great cover of it right now, but the lyrics are always beautiful, always relevant. Best song ever, IMO.

Reply #25 April 23, 2005 6:49 PM from JoeUser Forums Top

Ava Adore by Smashing Pumpkins

YES!!! - I love that song.

I like these kinds of articles because no matter how many people answer there will be no agreement on the greatest song od all time.
I took a poll of about 30 of my friends in 2002 of the greatest love song of all time and I had about 25 in the running.

I have absolutely no idea what the greatest song of all time - or which one I think it is - what makes it great? Is it influence? Is it lyrics? Melody? Harmony? Chords?

Personally I like songs that tell a story. In the Ghetto (Elvis Presley) Janie's got a Gun (Aerosmith) Where the wile roses are (Nick Cave & Kylie Minogue)
They're not particularly good songs but they tell a story.

I'd also put November Rain - G&R right up there.