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What is the best song ever recorded?

TonkkaTonkka Some one in the club tonightHas stolen my ideas.Registered User regular
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There are two choices. All other songs are not allowed.

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What is the best song ever recorded? 58 votes

Metallica: Orion
12%
SolventProlegomenaButtersA Dabble Of TheloniusTonkkaknitdanHerman McSlugball 7 votes
"Weird" Al Yankovic: Dare to Be Stupid
87%
WhippyandrewDarmakMysstMulysaSemproniusKevin CristHoukMegaMan001Lindsay LohanDelzhandSolyspSonelanKaboodles_The_AssassinGreenBahamutZEROPerrsunJr.ouzaruRanlinFeral 51 votes
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  • PoorochondriacPoorochondriac Ah, man Ah, jeezRegistered User regular
    What if Metallica wrote that song about an onion instead

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  • ChicoBlueChicoBlue Registered User regular
    "Weird" Al Yankovic: Dare to Be Stupid
    Wow, not even one Feeder song in the running, huh?

    Tough choices...

  • RanlinRanlin Oh gosh Registered User regular
    "Weird" Al Yankovic: Dare to Be Stupid
    Metallica suck as people so they're disqualified. Congrats Weird Al

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  • TonkkaTonkka Some one in the club tonight Has stolen my ideas.Registered User regular
    Metallica: Orion
    It's a dead heat! 1 to 1!

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  • RanlinRanlin Oh gosh Registered User regular
    "Weird" Al Yankovic: Dare to Be Stupid
    Call to a member function Result() on string is too strong.

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  • RanlinRanlin Oh gosh Registered User regular
    "Weird" Al Yankovic: Dare to Be Stupid
    Hey it eventually worked

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  • PinfeldorfPinfeldorf Yeah ZestRegistered User regular
    The best song ever recorded is HYCYBH, actually.

  • TonkkaTonkka Some one in the club tonight Has stolen my ideas.Registered User regular
    Metallica: Orion
    I may have posted too soon.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HCAf07Hhq6w

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  • TonkkaTonkka Some one in the club tonight Has stolen my ideas.Registered User regular
    Metallica: Orion
    Oh no I gave away the real answer.

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  • initiatefailureinitiatefailure Registered User regular
    "Weird" Al Yankovic: Dare to Be Stupid
    Which of these songs makes the cut on Rumors

  • HoukHouk Nipples The EchidnaRegistered User regular
    "Weird" Al Yankovic: Dare to Be Stupid
    Orion is extremely good but Dare to Be Stupid is perfect

  • TerrierTerrier Registered User regular
    But none of these songs are named Dragula

  • LucedesLucedes Registered User regular
    "Weird" Al Yankovic: Dare to Be Stupid
    maybe King of Carrot Flowers Pt. 1

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jsM7XS-2X50

  • RingoRingo He/Him a distinct lack of substanceRegistered User regular
    "Weird" Al Yankovic: Dare to Be Stupid
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=izGwDsrQ1eQ

    Kiss from a Rose just doesn't have the sax to reach #1

  • Endless_SerpentsEndless_Serpents Registered User regular
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mKrP9JvT4hg&list=PL3HzNviBURrioPOQUzqQpQwks-3fg7Yul&index=1

  • DepressperadoDepressperado I just wanted to see you laughing in the pizza rainRegistered User regular
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mTqTE7aNjZQ

  • SolarSolar Registered User regular
    Wagwan Delilah

  • FANTOMASFANTOMAS Flan ArgentavisRegistered User regular
    Two white dudes? No representation for the artists that basically built the modern musical landscape?

    And I cant chose a one best song, today I would say its "Rufus and Chaka Kahn, Aint nobody"

    Yes, with a quick verbal "boom." You take a man's peko, you deny him his dab, all that is left is to rise up and tear down the walls of Jericho with a ".....not!" -TexiKen
  • Raijin QuickfootRaijin Quickfoot I'm your Huckleberry YOU'RE NO DAISYRegistered User, ClubPA regular
    Maybe…Radar Love by Golden Earring

  • Rhesus PositiveRhesus Positive GNU Terry Pratchett Registered User regular
    Raijin Quickfoot wrote: »
    Maybe…Radar Love by Golden Earring

    Good shout

    I was thinking The Gambler

    [Muffled sounds of gorilla violence]
  • RMS OceanicRMS Oceanic Registered User regular
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ktx1jxllS00

  • Rhesus PositiveRhesus Positive GNU Terry Pratchett Registered User regular
    If I judge what a song is worth
    By how often I change the words
    For shitposts, then the answer's Hallelujah

    [Muffled sounds of gorilla violence]
  • WeaverWeaver Breakfast Witch Hashus BrowniusRegistered User regular
    I don't know, this was a pretty good banger on my drive yesterday.
    https://youtu.be/tBBC6czWb0E?si=rnbkrGUAGfwfrCnA

  • YellowhammerYellowhammer Registered User regular
    She said, "I don't know if I've ever been good enough
    I'm a little bit rusty
    And I think my head is cavin' in
    And I don't know if I've ever been really loved
    By a hand that's touched me
    And I feel like something's gonna give
    And I'm a little bit angry"

  • Mortal SkyMortal Sky queer punk hedge witchRegistered User regular
    edited June 2024
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MJ_fHm_i8C8

    It'd be easier for me to make a non-ordered top 10 or 25 or something but my gut feeling is, if I must pick one then this is my single favorite song ever recorded

    Mortal Sky on
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  • HeadCreepsHeadCreeps NOW IS THE TIME FOR DRINKING! Registered User regular
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_-ywSPWu3K8&ab_channel=NapalmDeath-Topic

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  • Raijin QuickfootRaijin Quickfoot I'm your Huckleberry YOU'RE NO DAISYRegistered User, ClubPA regular
    Jokerman wrote: »
    She said, "I don't know if I've ever been good enough
    I'm a little bit rusty
    And I think my head is cavin' in
    And I don't know if I've ever been really loved
    By a hand that's touched me
    And I feel like something's gonna give
    And I'm a little bit angry"

    Matchbox 20 is great but 100% Unwell is their best song in my opinion.

  • Raijin QuickfootRaijin Quickfoot I'm your Huckleberry YOU'RE NO DAISYRegistered User, ClubPA regular
    What about favorite lyric from a song?

    Example:

    Bright Eyes - Lua

    “Well we might die from medication but we sure killed all the pain…”

  • The Lovely BastardThe Lovely Bastard Registered User regular
    i'm sorry, but the best song is dog police by dog police

    https://youtu.be/78Y-1plYJuQ?si=Gb1TyICATW6YDAgV

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  • PerrsunPerrsun Registered User regular
    "Weird" Al Yankovic: Dare to Be Stupid
    Weaver wrote: »
    I don't know, this was a pretty good banger on my drive yesterday.
    https://youtu.be/tBBC6czWb0E?si=rnbkrGUAGfwfrCnA

    I respect the choice of song, but I’d up you a different band’s cover.
    https://youtu.be/cMd9tMBXa-U?si=vAu0ToXgWGe7H1ul

    (I’m also confused by the ET theming of the video when I associate the original version with The Wizard)

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  • Mortal SkyMortal Sky queer punk hedge witchRegistered User regular
    Mortal Sky's top twenty-five thirty-something songs ever recorded (one song per artist*), in amorphous order.
    • Bring It On Home To Me by Sam Cooke

    • A Change Is Gonna Come by Sam Cooke
    *(Sam Cooke gets two, fuck it)

    • Everything You Know Is Wrong by Weird Al Yankovic

    • Higher by Carly Rae Jepsen

    • Dry Hands by C418

    • Moya by Godspeed You! Black Emperor

    • Moth by Burial & Four Tet

    • Empire Ants by Gorillaz feat. Little Dragon

    • Maggot Brain by Funkadelic

    • When You Smile by The Flaming Lips

    • Giorgio By Moroder by Daft Punk

    • Accordion by Madvillain

    • War Pigs by Black Sabbath

    • Try Not to Breathe by R.E.M.

    • You Keep Me Hangin' On by The Supremes

    • A Horse Called Golgotha by Baroness

    • BIG BEAST by 2 Mello

    • Owner of a Lonely Heart by Yes

    • Hallelujah by Leonard Cohen, or the Buckley cover (but never ever the weird versions American Protestant Xtians have stolen and run with, that song has to be about emotionally messy Jewish lovin')

    • Fourth Chamber by GZA, Ghostface Killah, Killah Priest, & RZA

    • Man of Constant Sorrow

    • Wedding Song by Anaïs Mitchell & Justin Vernon (specifically the 2010 album version)

    • Papa Was a Rolling Stone by The Temptations

    • The Chain by Fleetwood Mac

    • Elvis Presley Blues by Gillian Welch

    • Roam by The B-52s

    • Ex-Factor by Lauryn Hill

    • Custom Concern by Modest Mouse

    • Day Of The Lords by Joy Division

    • Mastermind by Deltron 3030

    • Bari Arakil by Khatchadour and Serj Tankian

    • Total Eclipse Of The Heart by Bonnie Tyler w/ Jim Steinman

    • Return II Space by Mala

    • The Riddle Master by Manilla Road

    • What's Going On by Marvin Gaye

    • Famous Last Words by My Chemical Romance

    The number of times I started bawling, and especially to Motown music, making this list...

    Basically any artist on that list, I fuck with at least a little heavy in general but had to just pick one of their songs at the pinnacle. Well, except Sam Cooke. He gets two.

    Also, Dare To Be Stupid is like the second or third best Weird Al original -- Everything You Know Is Wrong is my favorite honestly

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  • Raijin QuickfootRaijin Quickfoot I'm your Huckleberry YOU'RE NO DAISYRegistered User, ClubPA regular
    Ooooh a list of songs! Let’s see

    1. Radar Love - Golden Earring
    2. Love Jones - RZA as Bobby Digital
    3. Evaporated - Ben Folds Five
    4. Meet Me By the Water - Rachael Yamagata
    5. Satan is my Motor - Cake
    6. Uni-4-Orm - Ras Kass, Canibus, and Health Skeltah
    7. Luchini - Camp Lo
    8. Thank You - Live Cover by Chris Cornell
    9. Silent Lucidity - Queensryche
    10. Time - Tom Waits
    11. Runaway - Kanye West
    12. Good Feeling - Violent Femmes
    13. Old 45’s - Chromeo
    14. Regarding Steven - Blues Traveler
    15. Brass in Pocket - The Pretenders
    16. Down in a Hole - Alice In Chains
    17. Scenario - Tribe Called Quest
    18. (Nothing but) Flowers - Talking Heads
    19. Whiter Shade of Pale - Procul Harem
    20. Toxic - Britney Spears
    21. Unwritten - Natasha Bedingfield
    22. Everlong - Foo Fighters
    23. The Gunner’s Dream - Pink Floyd
    24. Finest Girl (The Bin Laden Song - Lonely Island
    25. Helplessly Hoping - Crosby, Stills, and Nash

    Ask me tomorrow and that list is probably very different.

  • BlackDragon480BlackDragon480 Bluster Kerfuffle Master of Windy ImportRegistered User regular
    Behold, musical perfection:

    https://youtu.be/-pr-WUa8eEs?si=NJtc9re8cVd9sehg

    No matter where you go...there you are.
    ~ Buckaroo Banzai
  • Raijin QuickfootRaijin Quickfoot I'm your Huckleberry YOU'RE NO DAISYRegistered User, ClubPA regular
    That’s not Gangnam Style

  • Mortal SkyMortal Sky queer punk hedge witchRegistered User regular
    Here's some more all-timers of mine to make it an even fifty
    • Hang On To Each Other by A Silver Mt. Zion

    • Main Menu by Andrew Prahlow [Outer Wilds soundtrack]

    • Harborcoat by R.E.M.
    *(Breaking the one song per artist rule again, but then this is an IRS era REM track so almost an entirely different sound from even a few years later)

    • Thunder Road by Bruce Springsteen

    • The Ecstasy of Gold by Ennio Morricone

    • Hunger Strike by Temple of the Dog

    • Release by Blackalicious feat Saul Williams & Lyrics Born

    • It's The Same Old Song by Four Tops

    • Crazy On You by Heart

    • Pipo Password by TeddyLoid

    • None Shall Pass by Aesop Rock

    • Hadrian & His Son by Jack de Quidt

    • Haruka Kanata by Asian Kung Fu Generatian

    • Stand By Me by Ben E King

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  • Raijin QuickfootRaijin Quickfoot I'm your Huckleberry YOU'RE NO DAISYRegistered User, ClubPA regular
    Thunder Road and Hunger Strike would absolutely be on my list if I kept going.

  • discriderdiscrider Registered User regular
    Bananaphone has got to be up there somewhere.

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  • DepressperadoDepressperado I just wanted to see you laughing in the pizza rainRegistered User regular
    Raijin Quickfoot wrote: »
    What about favorite lyric from a song?

    Example:

    Bright Eyes - Lua

    “Well we might die from medication but we sure killed all the pain…”

    I am this great, unstable mass of blood and foam and no one in her right mind would make my home her home, my heart's an autoclave.

  • DepressperadoDepressperado I just wanted to see you laughing in the pizza rainRegistered User regular
    Sorrow found me when I was young. Sorrow waited, sorrow won.

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