there is always a song that you love the most. What song is it and why?

"Purple Haze". If you have to ask, you'll never know:)

This is an impossible question. But if you put a gun to my head and force me to pick one, it would be Pink Floyd's Time. I've listened to this song and this album a thousand times and it's still as fresh as ever.(for those who don't know I'm refering to Dark Side of the Moon)

Purple Haze is an awesome song, and I dont know the song Time but Pink Floyd is good. Theirs a million good songs. Is it ok if i say good bands that sing good songs? ACDC, Led Zeppelin, Rolling Stones, Ted Nugent, Aerosmith, Cars, Cream, to name a few all sing good songs.

Excuse my stupidity but i don't know who sing purple haze.

Can someone please tell me?

I don't think you're stupid, probably just too young. Jimi Hendrix did it. It's from the late 1960's.

Comfortably Numb by Pink Floyd

I would have to say Queen's "Bohemian Rhapsody".

Here is a little round-about anecdote about that song:
I was singing 2 lead roles in a summer festival 4 summers ago, and about 15 minutes before curtain, the assistant conductor would always come backstage and warm up the chorus. In the beginning of the season, it is usually something from the opera to be performed. Eventually, it became a TRL of sorts, and chorus and principal singers alike would gather together to sing the request. Well, one night, I requested "Bohemian Rhapsody". I was ready to be greeted with boos and incredulous looks. Instead, the conductor said "great" and every single person sang along as he played it on the piano without the music Some of us had tears in our eyes, and we probably had the best performance of the entire summer that evening! I was amazed because we were all in our early to mid-twenties!

Thanks, you are probably right but i'm not that young to not know who Jimi Hendrix is.

Im young but i stil love all the classic rock stuff. Youre never to young to like JImi Hendrix!

I'm counting on the best song ever to be either elusive to my ears or not written and recorded yet. That will make the search and the cd/lp collecting all that more fun.

The most recent song I love the best is just about any song off the just released Black Keys cd. Though "He Had You" by Bevis Frond & Neko Case's cover of "Bowling Green" are hard to beat for perfection in the last five years.

Longest lasting most loved song- it has to be a tie between BTO's "Let It Ride"
and Derek & the Dominoes "Layla".

Either:

Freebird-Lynyrd Skynyrd
La Grange-ZZ Top
Stairway to Heaven-Led Zeppelin
Master of Puppets-Metallica
Crazy Train-Ozzie Osbourne
Bohemian Rhapsody-Queen
or
Back in Black-AC/DC

Achilles Last Stand by Led Zeppelin is Great but i also like Bold As Love By Hendrix

Layla - the live version off One More Car, One More Rider - Eric Clapton
Day in a Life - The Beatles
One I found on a compilation album - Bird of Paradise - Snowy White.

It's not a classic, and it's probably not the best song ever. It's not even been released but Blaine Larsen's "Off To Join The World (The Circus Song)" is THE cutest thing I ever did hear, and I never get tired of it.

'Mayonaise' by Smashing Pumpkins.

"Waltzing with Bears"

"He goes wa wa wa waltzing, waltzing with bears
Raggy bears, shaggy bears, baggy bears too
There's nothing on earth Uncle Walter won't do
So he can go waltzing, wa wa wa waltzing
He can go waltzing, waltzing with bears"

It's a hard one. As far as songs I like, ti's a toss up between REM's "Losing my Religion", and Natalie Imbruglia's "Torn"

If we're talking about the most technically brilliant song ever, then there are a few. Either "Common People" by Pulp, "Election Night", by Bic Runga, and then either "Tear in your Hand" or "Spark" by the one and only Tori Amos.

All time favourite song and it'll never change is "the fields of athenry" -paddy reilly.

I also love the songs:
"Wind beneath my wings" - bette midler, That song FLYNN mentioned ("common people" by pulp)is a brilliant song.
Bittersweet smyphony -the verve
"We are the champions" - queen
Nothing compares to you - Sinead O'Connor
"Orinoco Flow","Paint The Sky With Stars","Na Laetha Geal M'oige" - all enya

They are all great and catchy. (don't think i left any out lol)

absolutly

there's something going on by frida

dont know why but i love this song the singer voice,and everytime i listen i feel i've been cheated i dont know why?
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Any song off "Black Ticket Day" by Ed Kuepper but if it came down to one it would have to be "Blind Girl stripper" off that cd. 9 minutes 2 seconds of pure music perfection.

I totally agree with DiaDuit one the Sinaed O'Connor and the Enya choices, I love both of those songs, but "Nothing Compares To You" just hits you there. A really beautiful song.

Right now, I have Björk battling in my brain with two of her epics, "Isobel" and "All is full of love". Hmm...

for me the best song would be either of two sets of songs: the first song set is that of bach's cantata no. 106 (gottes zeit)--especially the two songs "in deine hande" and the bass-baritone response "heute, heute du wir mit mir im paradies sein." love the whole cantata and especially those two sections.
the other main song cycle i love is mahler's kindertotenlieder all 5 songs. i used to have marian anderson singing them and they were most emotionally moving. almost anybody singing these gets me to tear up.
ok, i realize that both of these are very definitely in the classical mode but that is where i am.
i am almost 74, and i have been thinking about what i might like to be sung at my funeral whenever that is and these two songs figure prominently in that contemplation--either that or just have the b minor mass be heard everywhere the whole evening.
other ideas. i am not being morbid, i am just being realistic and trying to think ahead.
this is not to say i hate the kind of music that you have been describing, but this sort of thing is what i personally love and my candidates for the best song(s) ever. thanks for reading this.

hi all
sorry about the mispelling of the german word "wir"above-- should be "wirst" i hope trivia soprano can you help me out here?

'What you would like played at your funeral'; would make a new thread I think. I will go and do that very thing.