Best song ever written? (in your own sweet opinion)

[Dave 123]

I give you this-


View: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xjUA3RU4B8E


Lyrically I don't think there is much better, and I love the way (as with all solo, single instrument artists) that you can get a song across with the minimum accompaniment.

Play nicely, remember it's just opinions!

 

[Sharky]

When I'm 64, by the Beatles - Played it on my last birthday.

 

[MikeG]

Other than everything in the Pink Floyd pantheon, you mean?

How about:


View: http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x1ilzw_joni-mitchell-big-yellow-taxi-1970_music

 

[threebikesmcginty]

I'm sticking with my answer from when we did this last Friday.

 

[Archie_tect]

Last Friday? I didn't see that.

..... but Billy Bragg's song is brilliant- thanks Dave!

 

[asterix]

Not the most cheerful..

When I was very young the conflict in Viet Nam dominated the news. It was an utterly senseless war as it turned out, although in 1965 I guess a lot of paitriotic Americans believed fervently that the Commie b*st*rds were out to get them! (They were right in a way, when you look at how 'Red' China is taking them on economically but they have only themselves to blame for that.)


View: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ntLsElbW9Xo

A couple of decades or so later I met a Viet Nam vet whose German parents had emigrated to the states, where he was born. He was a trained civilian helicopter engineer. They persuaded him to go to 'Nam on the humanitarian pretext of helping ship out the wounded, as could fly helicopters. Soon they had him flying a gunship in action in which role he was wounded and sent home. We met him on the Isle of Skye when he came to repair our boat engine, he'd left the USA as soon as he could!

 

[numbnuts]

Roberta Flack - The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face


View: http://youtu.be/Go9aks4aujM

 

[Archie_tect]

That's so last Friday TMN.... keep up.

 

[asterix]

Yeah, we're on a different vibe now, man.

 

[Richard A Thackeray]

I give you this-


View: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xjUA3RU4B8E

Lyrically I don't think there is much better, and I love the way (as with all solo, single instrument artists) that you can get a song across with the minimum accompaniment.

Roberta Flack - The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face

There is a link between Roberta & Billy

I guess some of you know, but;
Ewan Macoll wrote 'First Time Ever', His daughter, Kirsty, covered Braggs 'A New England' (with extra verses wrote for her, by Billy)

 

[Beebo]

Well if you want to talk anti-Vietnam songs, it's got to be Country Joe and the Fish.

No, it has to be CCR.


View: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ec0XKhAHR5I

 

[Richard A Thackeray]

Possibly this??

I'm not, in anyway religious, as some of the commentators aren't, but it's a good one




How about 'American Pie'?????? The proper version, not the appalling Madonna travesty

 

[MikeG]

No, it has to be CCR.

Huge CCR fan here...........but of all their stuff, that wouldn't be in my top 10.

 

[threebikesmcginty]

Huge CCR fan here...........but of all their stuff, that wouldn't be in my top 10.

Now if this was a best CCR thread that would be something, does this make it?



How can one man write so many fantastic songs, and sing, and play...

 

[MikeG]

Yep. Brilliant.