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Frank the Tank · 10-07-2005, 12:55 PM

One and only one song. Don't say "well its a tie" or "my top five would be". Pick ONE and only ONE song that, if you had to, would be the only song you were allowed to listen to for the rest of your life. Simply state the song and artist, or elaborate if you want to. Or don't. It matters not, just make a choice of ONE song.

Mine: Baba O'Reilley by the Who.

Simple decision for me. The most kick ass song by the most kick ass group in the history of rock. In my opinion.

TheyCallMeBruce · 10-07-2005, 01:10 PM

Hunter X Hunter 2nd Season opener.

Flashpoint · 10-07-2005, 01:13 PM

My song choice.

StoneCole · 10-07-2005, 01:20 PM

gotta' be "The Setup" by Reel Big Fish

You Need This

Hanna Sniper · 10-07-2005, 01:42 PM

Echoes - The Pink Floyd

As great a recording Dark Side was, this will always be the Floyds greatest masterpiece. How i wish recordings could be like this again, a lost art

troutman · 10-07-2005, 01:49 PM

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Originally posted by Frank the Tank@Oct 7 2005, 06:55 PM
One and only one song. Don't say "well its a tie" or "my top five would be". Pick ONE and only ONE song that, if you had to, would be the only song you were allowed to listen to for the rest of your life. Simply state the song and artist, or elaborate if you want to. Or don't. It matters not, just make a choice of ONE song.

Mine: Baba O'Reilley by the Who.

Simple decision for me. The most kick ass song by the most kick ass group in the history of rock. In my opinion.

A great song for sure:

In "Baba O'Riley," for instance, he sets the stage for the band's dramatic entrance with a pre-recorded VCS3 part he obtained by programming certain of his vital statistics into a computer hooked up to the synthesizer, then treats the part as a drone while the song's two major chords are transposed over it, and later has the band playing against it (that is, piling a few gigantic chords on it while it keeps going "Meep-meep-meep-meep-meep...") to lead into a solo by guest fiddler Dave Arbus.

"Baba O'Riley," named after Townshend's spiritual mentor Meher Baba and the man who interested Pete in electronic music, Terry Riley

http://www.superseventies.com/who2.html

One of my favorite songs:

"I Apologize" is one of the catchiest tracks from Hüsker Dü's groundbreaking New Day Rising LP. In fact, if you were to strip away the band's ferocious attack and toned down Bob Mould's gut-busting vocal you would be left with well a written folk-rock tune. But it is the very product of this strange alchemy that sets the band apart. Can you imagine the Sex Pistols singing anything as sensitive as "I Apologize/Said I'm sorry/Now it's your turn/Can you look me in the eyes and apologize?" But Hüsker Dü manages to pull it off without sounding syrupy, cloaking sentimentality in a cathartic fury, swathed in distortion as the music tumbles forward at breakneck speeds, venting personal frustrations in the release of jubilant chord progressions while Mould gets emotional spilling his apoplectic diatribes in a husky rush of words. Mould's harangues are shaded with the plaintive hurt of the deeply wounded as he offers in the simmering opening lines, "All these crazy mixed-up lies/Floating all around/Making these assumptions brings me down/And you get tight-lipped/How do I know what you think?/Is it something I said when I lost my mind?/Temper too quick, makes me blind." Here the music is swept up in the rising chords of the chorus only to be choked by Hart's stuttering rhythms punctuating the end of each line. The band also shows a growing tightness, able to navigate the arrangement's many sharp corners at dizzying speeds. In "I Apologize" can be heard some of the very first signs of post-punk (born of the early-'80s hardcore scene) assimilating truly mainstream pop hooks with at least a gesture toward commercialism. This would be producer Spot's last project with the group and as he so keenly observed in Michael Azerrad's excellent chronicle of the era, Our Band Could Be Your Life, "They had tuneful material. They were kind of working from within a classic pop structure. And doing something else with it. Kind of like they broke into it with a coat hanger and got the keys out and went on a joy ride. And then ran out the tires." allmusic.com

Mango · 10-07-2005, 01:59 PM

Wicked Game - Chris Isaak

kdogg · 10-07-2005, 02:00 PM

Gotti - In Da Dome

KIIIIIPPPPRUSOFFFFFFFF, GEELLLINNNAAASS, IGIINNLLLLLAAAAAAAA
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Liane cam

Regulator75 · 10-07-2005, 02:03 PM

Blackened by Metallica.

Incogneto · 10-07-2005, 02:07 PM

'Konstantine' by Something Corporate

sketchyt · 10-07-2005, 02:15 PM

Flaming Lips - Fight Test

socalwingfan · 10-07-2005, 02:15 PM

Dire Straits - Telegraph Road

simmer2 · 10-07-2005, 02:20 PM

Where The Streets Have No Name - U2

shoestring · 10-07-2005, 02:22 PM

Moondance by Van Morrison probably heard it 5000 times already.
Pretty tough choice though considering how many other songs I play
that fit on so many occasions and that I force people to listen to again and again.
Remember I gave away my cd collection and only listen to records at my house.

FireFly · 10-07-2005, 02:32 PM

Walking in Memphis?

Anything but I Will Survive

VANFLAMESFAN · 10-07-2005, 02:38 PM

Killing in the Name.......Rage Against the Machine

troutman · 10-07-2005, 02:43 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by sketchyt@Oct 7 2005, 08:15 PM
Flaming Lips - Fight Test

I love that song too, even though Cat Stevens claimed they stole it:

http://www.rollingstone.com/news/story/_/i...ion=6.0.12.1040

Eastern Girl · 10-07-2005, 02:45 PM

I'll be your Lover too by Van Morrison.

nfotiu · 10-07-2005, 02:50 PM

Fish Heads

Inferno · 10-07-2005, 03:04 PM

Creeping Death - Metallica