Game: Name a Band's Best Song

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Number Cruncher said:
Springsteen - Born To Run
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Great song - Second best on the Album though - (IMO of course)

Jungleland for me.

I'd also rate Lost in the Flood; Darkness at the Edge of Town; Incident on 57th Street and Rosalita ahead of Born to run.

I just may be tired of Born to Run cause he never stops playing it, but so be it.

Cheers, BostonTim
 
Den-in-NH said:
Fleetwood Mac = Landslide

Led Zeppelin = Kashmir

Chicago = Saturday In the Park

My addition - Cream

Best Song: I Feel Free
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Cream had a lot of great songs, and you mentioned one of them, but they never did one that surpassed Sunshine Of Your Love. (IMHO, of course.)

Here's another nomination:

Band: Blood, Sweat, and Tears
Best Song: God Bless The Child
 
TipRoast said:
Cream had a lot of great songs, and you mentioned one of them, but they never did one that surpassed Sunshine Of Your Love. (IMHO, of course.)

Here's another nomination:

Band: Blood, Sweat, and Tears
Best Song: God Bless The Child
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I'm sure most would say SOYL or White Room and they are phenomonal, fantastic tunes, but there is something about I Feel Free which appeals to me, so I'm breaking my pattern of choosing a group's most well-known hit with that one.

However, I gotta revert to it when it comes to BS&T and say that "Spinning Wheel" is indeed their greatest song.
 
I don't think anyone mentioned 'Pride' from U2. Toss between that and 'New Years Day'. Songs define the band

Unforgettable Fire was all Classic.
 
I'm partial to 'Surrender', 'Pride' and 'Sunday, Bloody Sunday'.
 
A few of my picks on some groups we've neglected so far to stir up some further debate...

The Beach Boys = God Only Knows

Supertramp = Breakfast In America

Beastie Boys = Sabotage

The Doors = Break On Through

Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers = Free Fallin'

Radiohead = Karma Police

Guns N Roses = You Could Be Mine

Bob Marley & The Wailers = Get Up Stand Up

Johnny Cash = Hurt

Eminem = Criminal

Neil Young = Old Man

The Police = Roxanne

Neil Diamond = Solitary Man

K'naan = Somalia

Comments: The only ones that gave me pause here were Bob Marley & The Wailers in which it was really a toss-up between "Get Up Stand Up" and "Jamming", and The Doors in which "Break On Through" wins over "The End" just on the fact that it is more playable. In regards to Cash, I'm tempted to go with "Walk the Line" simply because it's a Cash original, but dammit if he didn't own "Hurt". "Criminal" is a much lesser known Em track, but I like it better than anything else he's done to date. And I include K'naan despite the fact he's only put out two studio albums and his "greatest" song could easily be yet to be written, just in the hopes of turning some people on to the guy who I think is currently the best musician out there :)
 
Den-in-NH said:
A few of my picks on some groups we've neglected so far to stir up some further debate...

The Beach Boys = God Only Knows agreed

Supertramp = Breakfast In America agreed although Logical Song is teh awesome, too

Beastie Boys = Sabotage no opinion

The Doors = Break On Through very cliche but The End is my fave

Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers = Free Fallin' big Petty fan. love King's Road and Last Dance with Mary Jane

Radiohead = Karma Police no opinion

Guns N Roses = You Could Be Mine Sweet Child o Mine

Bob Marley & The Wailers = Get Up Stand Up no opinion

Johnny Cash = Hurt don't know enough

Eminem = Criminal no opnion

Neil Young = Old Man My My Hey Hey

The Police = Roxanne Can't Stand Losing You

Neil Diamond = Solitary Man If You Go Away

K'naan = Somalia who?
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I've added mine to Den's
 
Neil Diamond

You'll be a woman soon

That is all.:harumph:
 
TipRoast said:
Cream had a lot of great songs, and you mentioned one of them, but they never did one that surpassed Sunshine Of Your Love. (IMHO, of course.)

Here's another nomination:

Band: Blood, Sweat, and Tears
Best Song: God Bless The Child
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Love DCT's pipes. And "You made me so very happy" was one of our wedding songs.

Cheers, BostonTim
 
Beaglebay said:
Strange Brew
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Certainly NOT their best. But a personal favorite.

Cheers, BostonTim

And I always think of it when our very own Skellington stops by.
 
I agree with many of Den's choices but have a few differences:
The Doors-People are Strange
Bob Marley and the Wailers-No Woman No Cry-just ahead of Trenchtown Rock
The Police-King of Pain
Neil Diamond-Love on the Rocks just ahead of America
Neil Young-Southern Man

and a couple of additions:
Rolling Stones-Lady Jane just ahead of Black Roses
Moody Blues-Question/The Balance-taken as a pair, were the first and last songs on the Question of Balance album. If I had to make a choice it would be The Balance.
Spinal Tap-Sex Farm
 
The fade out in 'Hey Jude' should have begun at minute 3 into the song. Paul McCartney is/was/will always be a hack, IMO.
 
Beaglebay said:
The fade out in 'Hey Jude' should have begun at minute 3 into the song. Paul McCartney is/was/will always be a hack, IMO.
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It does. The body of the song is 3 minutes long, the fadout is 4 minutes long the entire song clocks in a hair over seven minutes.

Tiproast, I did not mean literally, but a song in which the coda was longer than the the actual body of the song was unheard of and broke new ground. It also definately popularized long fadeouts with other musicians.
 
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