Search for the best songs ever

[joemegson94]

Alrite.

I'm doing a poll to try and find what, in peoples' opinions, are the best songs of all time.
Simply post your 10 favourite songs, in any order. They will be added to the list.
Once I have about 100 or so voters, including votes collected IRL, the top 50 songs will be put into a list.

I'll post the results so far in the next post.
May the best song win.

 

[joemegson94]

List so far:
Queen - Bohemian Rhapsody -3
Pink Floyd - Comfortably Numb - 2
Jimi Hendrix - All Along The Watchtower - 2
AC/DC - You Shook Me All Night Long - 1
AC/DC - Who Made Who - 1
Queensryche - Silent Lucidity - 1
The Cult - She Sells Sanctuary - 1
Johnny Cash - Highywayman - 1
Pink Floyd - Nobody Home - 1

 

[thejdcole]

Clearly this song is going to be based purely on opinion and your musical orientation, you obviously really like classical rock music (so do I! ) but the point is one persons heaven is anothers hell. However I will put one song down which I think is one of the best.

John Lennon - Imagine

 

[Laser Priest]

Spoiler: Lemon Demon - BRODYQUEST

Spoiler: Fastball - The Way

I take no responsibility for the video, though.

Spoiler: Jonathan Coulton - Code Monkey

Once again, the video sucks, not my fault.

Spoiler: Bond - Explosive

Starts nice, gets awesome about 40 seconds in. My Go-to Epic music.

Spoiler: Coheed and Cambria - Welcome Home

Spoiler: Red Hot Chili Peppers - Can't Stop

Spoiler: The Midnight Crew (Actually, Toby Radiation Fox, apparently) - Liquid Negrocity

Spoiler: The Beatles - Eleanor Rigby

Spoiler: Streetlight Manifesto - Keasbey Nights

And the obvious one

Spoiler: Queen - Bohemian Rhapsody

 

[sseh2661]

mine would have to be

1. Led Zeppelin - Stairway to Heaven
2. Pink Floyd - wish you were here
3. Metallica - nothing else matters
4. Pink Floyd - comfortably numb
5. Queen - Bohemian Rhapsody
6. Metallica - unforgiven III
7. Black Sabbath- Heaven and Hell
8. Pink Floyd - The wall
9. System of a down - Dreaming
10 System of a down - chop suey

 

[sseh2661]

mine would have to be

1. Led Zeppelin - Stairway to Heaven
2. Pink Floyd - wish you were here
3. Metallica - nothing else matters
4. Pink Floyd - comfortably numb
5. Queen - Bohemian Rhapsody
6. Metallica - unforgiven III
7. Black Sabbath- Heaven and Hell
8. Pink Floyd - The wall
9. System of a down - Dreaming
10 System of a down - chop suey

 

[sseh2661]

sorry, double post for some reason. my bad

 

[Tsaba]

Spoiler: Blue

Spoiler: Missing

Spoiler: Arise

Spoiler: Midnight Sonata

Spoiler: All around the Watchtower

Spoiler: Float On

Spoiler: Boulevard of Broken Dreams

Spoiler: Come Sail Away

Spoiler: Sweet Dreams

Spoiler: Technologic

EDIT: bloody hell, I can't believe I forgot to throw a Beatles song in there.....

Spoiler: there... fixed it

 

[Phlakes]

[sarcasm]GUH YOUR MUSIC IS SO MAINSTREAM YOU'RE ALL SHEEP FOR THE MEDIA[/sarcasm]

Anyway, I don't listen to traditional music (and I hate calling it that, at least I avoided saying "popular" or "mainstream"). Traditional being most of what plays on the radio or is sold in record stores. And that's because things like this exist-


And this-


I won't bother putting ten because you shouldn't count my votes, I'll be the only one. Unless someone wants to second Gusty Garden?

 

[OptimisticPessimist]

THERE CAN BE ONLY ONE!!!

actually, maybe two. Perhaps even three. Well, definitely less than five.

 

[joemegson94]

I've decided to only put the top 10 songs in the earlier post.

 

[Galdrack]

Not in any order

1 Linkin Park - In the End http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eVTXPUF4Oz4

2 Arch Enemy - Beast of Man http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qnqCOARl6ko

3 Simon and Garfunkel - Sound of Silence http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j-yuQdPr7uQ

4 Metallica - Creeping Death http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UO_84C3fpuI

5 The Cranberries - Zombie http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Ejga4kJUts

6 Feeder - Just a Day http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NGrUVHqt2mE

7 Verve - Bitter Sweet Symphony http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1lyu1KKwC74

8 Judas Priest - Painkiller http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WS6-vI70oc0

9 Nightwish - End of all Hope http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=84aIX8UPklI

and of course my Favourite song and the best song ever made (fact)

10 Aha - Take on me http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=djV11Xbc914

 

[Sronpop]

Kind of a wasted effort considering how many metalheads as on here, as great as the tastes of some people may be on here, it will always be skewed towards rock and probably a lot of bad metal.

Now it being skewed towards rock in general is no bad thing, a shit load of the bets songs of all time are rock songs.

But people should focus on what everyone likes and are universally considered good songs. If they don't have true universal appeal are they really good songs. I know everyone has their own tastes and a lot of music is catered towards certain people.

Hell if I were to put down my favorite songs, I would just put down Vacuity by Gojira 10 times.

Its my favorite song, its an awesome song, its one of the best metal songs ever written, but on a genuine list of best songs ever do I think it belongs on the list? Probably not.

Taking what I have just said into account, here are the 10 best songs ever

Billie Jean - Micheal Jackson
Bittersweet Symphony - The Verve
All Along The Watchtower - Jimi Hendrix
Tainted Love - Soft Cell
Jamming - Bob Marley(or any Bob Marley song really)
Let It Be - The Beatles
Stairway To Heaven - Led Zeppelin
Every Breath You Take - The Police
Sunday Bloody Sunday - U2
Bohemian Rhapsody - Queen

 

[StellarViking]

Here's my list!

Rush- Red Barchetta
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Rush- Closer to the Heart
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Toto- Africa
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Anthrax- Got the Time?
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KMFDM- Free Your Hate
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Katzenjammer- A Bar in Amsterdam
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Iron Maiden- The Trooper
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Cake- I Will Survive
<youtube=596qaxm-u4o>
Gorillaz- Dare
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The Aquabats- Super Rad!
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Sorry, This post turned out to be a lot longer than I intended it to.

 

[Yokai]

I bet none of these will appear on the final list.
10. Infected Mushroom--Becoming Insane [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z6hL6fkJ1_k]
9. Korpiklaani--Nuolet Nomalan [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-pBonO9J5-o]
8. Pendulum--Propane Nightmares [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y2KC1P9s6-Q]
7. Massive Attack--Teardrop [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7jzn92Qmbqg]
6. Cage the Elephant--Ain't No Rest For The Wicked [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HKtsdZs9LJo]
5. Flogging Molly--Devil's Dance Floor [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TSwaVvF7rdU]
4. Black Rebel Motorcycle Club--Beat The Devil's Tattoo [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mYkhNWIdra0]
3. Clutch--Rising Son [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nvlPtUGFy_Q]
2. The Prodigy--Invaders Must Die [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gTw2YvutJRA]
1. Clutch--Electric Worry [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kx6FV2qR2TY]

All utterly amazing.

 

[Trivun]

Here's mine, in no particular order:

1. Linkin Park - The Catalyst
2. Damien Rice - 9 Crimes
3. Esben and the Witch - Argyria
4. Robbie Williams - Me and My Monkey
5. Florence and the Machine - Cosmic Love
6. Coldplay - The Scientist
7. Metric - Gimme Sympathy
8. Blood Red Shoes - Boring By The Sea
9. Warpaint - Undertow
10. Queen - Who Wants To Live Forever

And here are the videos:

Spoiler: Awesome Music

And yes, that is my favourite Queen song at the moment. Blame the awesome We Will Rock You OST (from the musical) .

 

[jaoblia]

In no order.
-The Beatles- A Day In The Life(Highest if this were in order)
-King Crimson- In The Court Of The Crimson King
-Yes- Southside Of The Sky
-Dire Straits- Walk Of Life
-Led Zeppelin- Achilles Last Stand
-Supertramp- From Now On
-The Beatles- Strawberry Fields Forever(Love Version)
-Bob Dylan- Mr.Tambourine Man
-Bob Dylan- Hurricane
-The Beatles- You Won't See Me

It was surprisingly hard to narrow them down.