What is your favorite song?

TheOSINTguy@sh.itjust.works to Asklemmy@lemmy.ml – 61 points –

I'll start off, my favorite song is all along the watch tower by Jimi Hendrix. That guitar at the start just sounds so beautiful.

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Gotta be pink Floyd wish you were here....

But there are so many good ones.

I am a very mood based listener so I rotate things a lot and enjoy a wide diversity of music... but I honestly think there have been few songs to approach the level of Around The World/Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger

Probably a-ha's "Take On Me" if I'm being honest.

Nice.. I enjoy "Everybody Wants to Rule the World" by Tears for Fears

Blind Guardian, Wheel Of Time

Place in Line, Chris Smither

https://youtu.be/MztnxPiiDbI

Loosen your shoes
Don't listen to news
That keeps you up at night

Don't try to explain
Try not to complain
No one really cares

And don't try to find
Your place in line
'Cause it's everywhere

You don't need to find your place in line
'Cause it's everywhere

Two favorites from different genres:

Puddle of Mud - Blurry

Alexi Murdoch - Wait

My fav is that one song. By, that guyโ€ฆ

You know.

Like Doo doo doo doo doo doo doo doo doo doo doo doo doo! But like better than that.

I mean I can't pick one really. Parabol/Parabola by Tool ranks pretty high

(I told you I can't really pick one)

Nearly impossible to narrow down to one song. Basically a tie between these five:

  • Ten Years After - I'd Love to Change the World
  • Pink Floyd - Time
  • AFI - God Called in Sick Today
  • Avenged Sevenfold - Dear God
  • Brad Paisley - Water

Old Man Thunder by Ween

I'm actually surprised no one has mentioned it yet.

Currently it's definitely a tie between Bound For The Floor by Local H and My Own Worst Enemy from Lit because I'm hear for a good time in life.

Can't pick a single favorite but yours made me think of one of my favorites that's a guitar piece: Cliffs of Dover by Eric Johnson.

Nothing else matters - Metallica

This Song opened my mind for the World of Metal and guitars. I started to learn how to play guitar shortly after hearing it the first time

Funny: so many Metallica fans hated this song with a passion that is holy. They called it a sellout to popular music just to make the charts and a complete deviation from their previous work.

So for this song to be the gateway to metal for you, is a real counter point to those angry fans.

Sir Elton John called it "the best fucking piece of music i ever Heard"

That counts as something :D

I'm almost hesitant to say as it feels pretentious, but Debussy's Clair de lune from the Suite bergamasque. I listen to most genres in some capacity. I could probably narrow down to a top five or ten, including Clair de lune, but the other tracks I would struggle to place relative to each other. Cdl is the only one that stands above the others, which I can listen to literally at any time. Lang Lang did a performance in 2022 which is the closest I've found to a perfect recording of the piece.

There are days where I might go for a walk, stop by the river close to my house, sit on a bench on the bank, pop this on my phone and just look out on the water. I'll watch the birds swooping around, and butterflies on the flowers nearby, the wind blowing the water's surface, and the clouds over the trees, and just listen. It makes me think of the beauty and impermanence of life and living. Of the complexity and insignificance of our being. Of the individual and the mass. Of my own place in the world, and in spite of my resolutely nihilistic worldview, my own life's value. Of death and its inevitability, but also its necessity.

It's one of very few things which can inspire in me that child-like wonder we were all once so acquainted with. I once listened to it sitting alone on an outcropping overlooking Lake Tahoe. My friends were alarmed when I returned to the group wiping my eyes and waxing poetic about the concept of beauty.

I will also say the Rammstein's Du Hast is a fucking banger.

The Mind Electric by Miracle Musical.

It starts off going backwards then it plays forwards and I find it absolutely mesmerizing

So many old and new ones. But if I had to pick one: American Pie by Don McLean.

OkameP - Why am I still alive
Genre: progressive rock metal
https://youtube.com/watch?v=oe0ExC_FJl4

OkameP - I'm so sick
Genre: progressive metal
https://youtube.com/watch?v=j4eMi2gC8LM

OkameP - Die For You
Genre: metal balad
https://youtube.com/watch?v=nGV164VEaZo

Assemblage 23 - Factory
Genre: EBM
https://youtube.com/watch?v=0h7YaQSNwbc

Assemblage 23 - Divide
Genre: EBM
https://youtube.com/watch?v=EA7bWTxoQVA

Clean Tears - SAKURA
Genre: uplifting trance
https://youtube.com/watch?v=UDjeGjcFolA

Clean Tears - Ruby
Genre: progressive trance
https://youtube.com/watch?v=aJKY_EeAeYc

Taishi - bluefieldcreator
Genre: trance
https://youtube.com/watch?v=keF7n1eVKzE

Taishi - Phant Solo III
Genre: artcore
https://youtube.com/watch?v=tMvGGQZHMjc

Ya Boy Rick Astley
Genre: eurobeat
https://youtube.com/watch?v=xT6o-GNI6Ck

T. Stebbins - Savior of the Sky
Genre: eurobeat
https://youtube.com/watch?v=ZhNl_8xvgeE

Perfume - Laser Beam
Genre: electro pop
https://youtube.com/watch?v=qQjoZy1PByw

And so many more.

Not my only favorite, but Since Iโ€™ve Been Loving You by Led Zeppelin is worth a listen

This song didn't click with me until I caught it on the radio driving late at night. I dunno what it is, but for some reason those slow bluesy led Zeppelin songs just hit different when night driving.

"Happy Up Here" by a Norwegian duo called Rรถyksopp (idk if I spelled that properly)

Yeah, it's pretty repetitive, but I still love it.