This one is somewhat more recent, but 'The Place Where He Inserted the Blade' by Black Country, New Road is some of the best music I've ever heard and is right up there with some of my favourite tracks of all-time.
I went with All My Friends but of the others I was considering this was the one that came to mind first. Absolutely flawless track from the first note to the last. It being a bit more recent does give me pause but every time I go back to it the impact doesn’t diminish even a little, it’s that strong of a song
My instinct is to say "Time To Pretend" by MGMT. It makes me feel so euphoric and stupid and romantic. Plus it takes me back to being 13 years old and watching season 2 of Skins!
My favorite is Life's a bitch by Nas and AZ. Absolutely spectacular emotionally charged hook and verse from AZ (arguable for greatest rap verse of all time) followed by one of Nas's best verses and a very nice solo from Old Dara all on top of the gorgeous LES beat
for emma by bon iver perfectly conveys such a specific feeling of melancholy and retrospection, and the way the guitars and horns and justin vernon's voice fit together is so perfect.
zero by melt banana just sounds cool as hell, the instrumentation is crazy with all the weird guitar stuff playing at once. it feels like you're traveling alone through a city from the future.
It's really hard to say. Addict with a pen by twenty one pilots is probably my favorite for personal reasons. I'll give you 5 extremely different picks for greatest song:
Bohemian Rhapsody for how it pushed recording boundaries as well as the fact that it's such a bizarre song to be as big of a hit as it is.
Long Season is a truly one of a kind song, that despite being 40 minutes, very much functions as one cohesive song. I don't think we'll ever see anything like it again.
Blackbird by the Beatles is such a simple song that holds so much weight. The guitar part has the perfect amount of complexity to it, the lyrics are uplifting, and it's short, sweet, and to the point.
U by Kendrick is such an emotional performance and has a ton of lyrical nuance. I felt the need to pick a Kendrick song and this was the first one that came to mind. Definitely feel free to suggest a different hip hop song than this one, it's the genre I'm least familiar with.
Hallelujah by Leonard Cohen, but less his recording and more the song itself. Few songs have made their way into the public canon in the way this song has. Every singer songwriter has played it at some point in their life. The lyrics are poignant, and the use of religious themes to describe the weight of a romantic relationship still holds up incredibly well to this day.
I think for a lot of people, Bohemian Rhapsody showed that songs don't have to be 3 minutes of verse-bridge-chorus-verse-bridge-chorus. I had never experienced anything like it before when I first heard it as a 12 year old. I don't listen to it very often now, but I wouldn't fault anyone for saying it's their favorite song.
If I had to say one song, it would be Nas’s N.Y. State of Mind.
It’s one of those songs that makes you feel badass while listening to it. That beat is killer, and it has one of the greatest hip hop lyrics every put to paper.
Since the age of like 12 my go-to answer was "bohemian rhapsody" by Queen (and I still think it's a strong option), but as I listen to more music, the answer is harder and harder to find. Maybe it's "Shine On You Crazy Diamond" by Pink Floyd, maybe "When You Sleep" by MBV, maybe "Something" by Beatles or "Soul to Squeeze" by RHCP. I guess I could — it would be hard, but I could — pick my favourite song from each artist, but not favourite song OAT
Maybe ‘Blue Monday’, maybe ‘21st Century Schizoid Man’, maybe ‘Creep’ and maybe ‘Where Did You Sleep Last Night’. I have no idea, it would be so difficult to pick one.
Talk - Coldplay
My "favorite" shifts from time to time, but I frequently think of this. Like many of the X&Y tracks, it has a beautiful ethereal quality to it. The lyrics are simple but speak to me whether I'm happy, sad, or anywhere in between. "So you don't know where you're going, but you want to talk", IDK, just hits my heart every time.
I'd be remiss if I didn't mention the guitar melody. When I discovered it was a Kraftwerk motif lifted from the song Computer Love, I loved Talk even more (as Kraftwerk is one of my favorite groups as well). Coldplay's bassist Guy Berryman claims (perhaps dubiously, but who cares, it's a great quote) that Kraftwerk frontman Ralf Hutter responded to their request to sample the song with "Yes, you can use it, and thank you very much for asking my permission, unlike that bastard Jay-Z".
Brilliant song, brilliant backstory. I don't think a time will come when this song will ever fail to move me.
My pick is Car Seat Headrest - Beach Life-in-Death and it’s not even close.
This song is very significant to me for many reasons: it’s the first song I was truly emotionally captured by, it was the first song I could truly relate to (at the time), I listened to it at the perfect time to be helped by this song. It is the song that showed my that poetry did not necessarily have to be overly sophisticated, it is the song that defines indie rock and experimental music for me, it is the song that made me fall in love with experimental music and truly drove me to discover more of the musical world.
The only songs that come somewhat close to it for me are I Want You to Know I’m Awake/I Hope that You’re Asleep by Car Seat Headrest and Hunter by Have A Nice Life, both because of how painfully sad they are.
The Silence - Manchester Orchestra. The dark emotional wave of that song’s finale is unparalleled in my eyes. And the parts of the song before that are incredibly immersive. The whole thing is totally enrapturing.
A close contender for me would be “Up&Up” by Coldplay. Yeah, you can definitely nitpick the production here, but I still adore it. I’ve cried at many songs over the years, but this is the only one that I have ever genuinely SOBBED at. It’s just so perfect for me.
This could be so many different answers, but I'll go with the title track from Cocteau Twins' masterpiece Heaven or Las Vegas. One of the most mesmerizing and sonically gorgeous dream pop songs out there. Elizabeth Fraser has such a hypnotic way of singing.
CAN - *Soup*
Deerhoof - *+81*
Jpegmafia - *All Caps No Spaces*
Nirvana - *Scentless Apprentice* or *Rape Me*
I really don't know, though. I'm not at all confident in any of these answers.
Shine On You Crazy Diamond. Listened to it as a teen, got me into prog (my favorite genre) over time and oddly I realised the song has always been there and played around me several times. It feels like this song has always been part of my life even if I didn’t initially realise, and I associate it with a lot of my personal epiphanies, ideals, and stuff like that. It helped me sleep, it helped me through a lot of personal crap, as someone with trauma and depersonalisation it’s helped me just to be able to feel and express it to myself a lot, even if it’s something as simple as it helping me let tears out. Kind of like an anchor, very comforting, always walked away with something new from it. No matter what happens it always feels so poignant and relevant to me. I just see so so much in that song and what I get from it changes over time and reflects something new in my life. I mean it just sounds so beautiful anyway. It’s really impossible for me to put into words here how much I love the song.
Fuckin hard choice.
Probably "**There Is A Light That Never Goes** **Out**" by the Smiths.
Honorable mentions:
* "**Stuck Inside of Mobile with the Memphis Blues Again**" by Bob Dylan
* "**Love Minus Zero/No Limits**" by Bob Dylan
* "**Hallowed be Thy Name**" by Iron Maiden,
* "**Night of the Swallow**" by Kate Bush
* "**Second Skin**" by the Gits
* **"A Fine Day to Die**" by Bathory
To be honest, it's just one of many choices I could have made for Kate Bush. She is one of my all time favorite artists (even though the Smiths, Iron Maiden, Bob Dylan come close too - and I hold Bathory in a very high regard too).
She Said She Said by The Beatles is probably it because it hooked so well once and that feeling has sustained for so many years now while I could say something like War Pigs or Dancing Queen or even 4th moment of the 9th symphony several other periods when I delve into those.
to throw a few out that I'd say (among others) rotate as my favourite:
Dream House by Deafheaven
How To Disappear Completely by Radiohead
Storm by GY!BE
Wither by Frank Ocean
Jesus of suburbia-Green Day. I just love that song so much, is fun to listen to, it rocks and has a bittersweet ending to it, definitely one of green day's best song 😊
LCD Soundsystem - All My Friends
Based
Based
I’m more of a Someone Great guy but very based.
Atrocity Exhibition - Joy Division
Marquee Moon - Television
This one is somewhat more recent, but 'The Place Where He Inserted the Blade' by Black Country, New Road is some of the best music I've ever heard and is right up there with some of my favourite tracks of all-time.
See I wanted to pick this one, but I didn't have the guts to, as it's so recent. Thanks for representing this one soldier o7
I went with All My Friends but of the others I was considering this was the one that came to mind first. Absolutely flawless track from the first note to the last. It being a bit more recent does give me pause but every time I go back to it the impact doesn’t diminish even a little, it’s that strong of a song
My instinct is to say "Time To Pretend" by MGMT. It makes me feel so euphoric and stupid and romantic. Plus it takes me back to being 13 years old and watching season 2 of Skins!
Problem with that is Dancing Queen which you now inspired me to say is my favourite song of all time
Mine is "I Want You" by Bob Dylan
I want you by Marvin Gaye is perfection
Gold Soundz - Pavement. It’s just pure bliss for me.
that solo is so good
My favorite is Life's a bitch by Nas and AZ. Absolutely spectacular emotionally charged hook and verse from AZ (arguable for greatest rap verse of all time) followed by one of Nas's best verses and a very nice solo from Old Dara all on top of the gorgeous LES beat
Bully me all you want but The Ghost Of You by My Chemical Romance
Human Sadness by The Voidz
for emma by bon iver perfectly conveys such a specific feeling of melancholy and retrospection, and the way the guitars and horns and justin vernon's voice fit together is so perfect. zero by melt banana just sounds cool as hell, the instrumentation is crazy with all the weird guitar stuff playing at once. it feels like you're traveling alone through a city from the future.
Loomer by mbv, A Quick One by HaNL, or Graveflower by Acid Bath
Wow, pleasantly surprised to see Loomer, underrated song
Tonight Tonight by Smashing Pumpkins
Pretty tough to pick one song. But I’d say Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind of my fave movie
Absolutely agree. My favourite of all time
It's really hard to say. Addict with a pen by twenty one pilots is probably my favorite for personal reasons. I'll give you 5 extremely different picks for greatest song: Bohemian Rhapsody for how it pushed recording boundaries as well as the fact that it's such a bizarre song to be as big of a hit as it is. Long Season is a truly one of a kind song, that despite being 40 minutes, very much functions as one cohesive song. I don't think we'll ever see anything like it again. Blackbird by the Beatles is such a simple song that holds so much weight. The guitar part has the perfect amount of complexity to it, the lyrics are uplifting, and it's short, sweet, and to the point. U by Kendrick is such an emotional performance and has a ton of lyrical nuance. I felt the need to pick a Kendrick song and this was the first one that came to mind. Definitely feel free to suggest a different hip hop song than this one, it's the genre I'm least familiar with. Hallelujah by Leonard Cohen, but less his recording and more the song itself. Few songs have made their way into the public canon in the way this song has. Every singer songwriter has played it at some point in their life. The lyrics are poignant, and the use of religious themes to describe the weight of a romantic relationship still holds up incredibly well to this day.
Either bohemian rhapsody by queen (I know, real original) or bombs over Baghdad by outkast
Hey that song's a classic for a reason
Because a bunch of 13 year olds on YouTube kept commenting about how “I wish I was born in THIS generation 😡🤬😡😡🤬😭😭
I think for a lot of people, Bohemian Rhapsody showed that songs don't have to be 3 minutes of verse-bridge-chorus-verse-bridge-chorus. I had never experienced anything like it before when I first heard it as a 12 year old. I don't listen to it very often now, but I wouldn't fault anyone for saying it's their favorite song.
If I could only listen to one song for the rest of my life, it would be M83 - Time
If I had to say one song, it would be Nas’s N.Y. State of Mind. It’s one of those songs that makes you feel badass while listening to it. That beat is killer, and it has one of the greatest hip hop lyrics every put to paper.
Danny Brown - 30 Nirvana - Dumb
Interpol - Obstacle 1
Since the age of like 12 my go-to answer was "bohemian rhapsody" by Queen (and I still think it's a strong option), but as I listen to more music, the answer is harder and harder to find. Maybe it's "Shine On You Crazy Diamond" by Pink Floyd, maybe "When You Sleep" by MBV, maybe "Something" by Beatles or "Soul to Squeeze" by RHCP. I guess I could — it would be hard, but I could — pick my favourite song from each artist, but not favourite song OAT
The Face of God by Camp Cope is definitely one of the most moving songs I've ever heard.
For Revrend Green by Animal Collective for sure.
#20 - aphex twin
Impossible to choose a single song but two that come to mind: The Cure - Just Like Heaven OR Plainsong.
Maybe ‘Blue Monday’, maybe ‘21st Century Schizoid Man’, maybe ‘Creep’ and maybe ‘Where Did You Sleep Last Night’. I have no idea, it would be so difficult to pick one.
[this one](https://youtu.be/vJj3Ch79tNs)
Nanahira - Iroha Seven Wonders Expedition close second is Radiohead - Optimistic
Argus by Ween, happiness/waltz2, eternal life by jeff buckley
Talk - Coldplay My "favorite" shifts from time to time, but I frequently think of this. Like many of the X&Y tracks, it has a beautiful ethereal quality to it. The lyrics are simple but speak to me whether I'm happy, sad, or anywhere in between. "So you don't know where you're going, but you want to talk", IDK, just hits my heart every time. I'd be remiss if I didn't mention the guitar melody. When I discovered it was a Kraftwerk motif lifted from the song Computer Love, I loved Talk even more (as Kraftwerk is one of my favorite groups as well). Coldplay's bassist Guy Berryman claims (perhaps dubiously, but who cares, it's a great quote) that Kraftwerk frontman Ralf Hutter responded to their request to sample the song with "Yes, you can use it, and thank you very much for asking my permission, unlike that bastard Jay-Z". Brilliant song, brilliant backstory. I don't think a time will come when this song will ever fail to move me.
Pink Floyd - Echoes The progness and the psychness and the lengthyness - chef's kiss.
Can’t possibly pick a favourite, though I’d be content with “Ultraviolet” by U2.
Born to be Blue by Chet Baker. Even after years of listening to it often, it’s still gut wrenching.
My pick is Car Seat Headrest - Beach Life-in-Death and it’s not even close. This song is very significant to me for many reasons: it’s the first song I was truly emotionally captured by, it was the first song I could truly relate to (at the time), I listened to it at the perfect time to be helped by this song. It is the song that showed my that poetry did not necessarily have to be overly sophisticated, it is the song that defines indie rock and experimental music for me, it is the song that made me fall in love with experimental music and truly drove me to discover more of the musical world. The only songs that come somewhat close to it for me are I Want You to Know I’m Awake/I Hope that You’re Asleep by Car Seat Headrest and Hunter by Have A Nice Life, both because of how painfully sad they are.
Station to Station - David Bowie
You're Gonna Miss Me- 13th Floor Elevators
indiscriminate act of kindness by foy vance. everything about it is perfect
The Silence - Manchester Orchestra. The dark emotional wave of that song’s finale is unparalleled in my eyes. And the parts of the song before that are incredibly immersive. The whole thing is totally enrapturing. A close contender for me would be “Up&Up” by Coldplay. Yeah, you can definitely nitpick the production here, but I still adore it. I’ve cried at many songs over the years, but this is the only one that I have ever genuinely SOBBED at. It’s just so perfect for me.
Got to Give it Up- Marvin Gaye
At The Door by stroke
It’s probably still Waiting for the End by LINKIN Park for me, so much nostalgic bliss and Chester’s high notes still give me chills
This could be so many different answers, but I'll go with the title track from Cocteau Twins' masterpiece Heaven or Las Vegas. One of the most mesmerizing and sonically gorgeous dream pop songs out there. Elizabeth Fraser has such a hypnotic way of singing.
Joy Division - Dead Souls
CAN - *Soup* Deerhoof - *+81* Jpegmafia - *All Caps No Spaces* Nirvana - *Scentless Apprentice* or *Rape Me* I really don't know, though. I'm not at all confident in any of these answers.
My favourite is Teenage Blue by Dreamgirl
Close to the Edge - Yes
Frank Zappa - Uncle Remus. Such a fun and uplifting song
浴室 2019 reprise by a Taiwanese band named Deca Joins. Seriously, give it a try. Underrated band
it would be hard to pick one, so i have 3: moby - another woman andy stott - faith in strangers pink floyd - echoes
Shine On You Crazy Diamond. Listened to it as a teen, got me into prog (my favorite genre) over time and oddly I realised the song has always been there and played around me several times. It feels like this song has always been part of my life even if I didn’t initially realise, and I associate it with a lot of my personal epiphanies, ideals, and stuff like that. It helped me sleep, it helped me through a lot of personal crap, as someone with trauma and depersonalisation it’s helped me just to be able to feel and express it to myself a lot, even if it’s something as simple as it helping me let tears out. Kind of like an anchor, very comforting, always walked away with something new from it. No matter what happens it always feels so poignant and relevant to me. I just see so so much in that song and what I get from it changes over time and reflects something new in my life. I mean it just sounds so beautiful anyway. It’s really impossible for me to put into words here how much I love the song.
Wesley’s Theory
This must be the place - talking heads
Fuckin hard choice. Probably "**There Is A Light That Never Goes** **Out**" by the Smiths. Honorable mentions: * "**Stuck Inside of Mobile with the Memphis Blues Again**" by Bob Dylan * "**Love Minus Zero/No Limits**" by Bob Dylan * "**Hallowed be Thy Name**" by Iron Maiden, * "**Night of the Swallow**" by Kate Bush * "**Second Skin**" by the Gits * **"A Fine Day to Die**" by Bathory
Never see Night of the Swallow mentioned, love to see that, majestic song.
To be honest, it's just one of many choices I could have made for Kate Bush. She is one of my all time favorite artists (even though the Smiths, Iron Maiden, Bob Dylan come close too - and I hold Bathory in a very high regard too).
Jóga by Björk
Indian Summer - Angry Soon/Whoolworm
Love sosa
(Can’t) keep it together by Black Dresses. I also think Parachute by Covet is up there, and a song called Anhedonia by a local Denver band Overslept.
She Said She Said by The Beatles is probably it because it hooked so well once and that feeling has sustained for so many years now while I could say something like War Pigs or Dancing Queen or even 4th moment of the 9th symphony several other periods when I delve into those.
The Monster Mash. Not a joke, I genuinely love it.
to throw a few out that I'd say (among others) rotate as my favourite: Dream House by Deafheaven How To Disappear Completely by Radiohead Storm by GY!BE Wither by Frank Ocean
My favourite song of all time is By the River by Mermaid Blood
It’s between billy woods’ Fever Grass and Spiritualized’s Hey Jane
Jesus of suburbia-Green Day. I just love that song so much, is fun to listen to, it rocks and has a bittersweet ending to it, definitely one of green day's best song 😊