When it comes to best song ever I don't know which one I should pick.
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Erm... something by Rob Dougan or, *cacklegrins for it is from now on their new title* the sesseh sexmongering sex bitches, RHCP. I don't know, really. Vague much?
metallica - fade to black
korn - anything from self titteld and life is peachy
inflames - the jesters dance
nightwish - feel for you
tupac - ambitons as a rider
tupac - i wounder if heaven got a gehtto
tupac - krazy
killswitch engage - my last serenade]
xzibit - best of things
ice cube - wicked
There he goes. One of God's own prototypes. Some kind of high powered mutant never even considered for mass production. Too weird to live, and too rare to die.
I'd say that in order for a song to achieve greatness, it would have to be seriously revolutionary - a definitive source for the advancement of music on the whole. Earlier works of Louis Armstrong's, utilizing not only swung 1/8ths but accents on 2 and 4 (in 4/4 time) for the first time would certainly be very close to the top, as they were the very foundation for western music as it is today.
Similarly, Charlie Parker's performance of Cherokee in the bars of Harlem, December 1939, was the very basis for bebop, whose influence can be found not only in all jazz today but quite a bit of rock, metal, etc. That's not to say that all rock and whatnot has such content, as many groups such as Green Day had/have absolutely no harmonic, melodic, or rhythmic understandings of their music whatsoever, but it's heard in more accomplished groups such as Van Halen and Tool.
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But, if you compare A Love Supreme to Joshua Redman's Passage of Time, which is better? I'm a huge fan of Joshua Redman's - not just his music, but everything about the man, and I often feel that I compare him unfairly to his predecessors. Undoubtedly, he's a giant of a saxophonist, but he's standing on the shoulders of other giants. It's rather unmeasurable... Regardless, I prefer listening to Joshua Redman's music.
Now then, just how well do either of those wonderful, beautiful long-form masterpieces compare to the tremendous scope of Keith Jarrett's Köln Concert? No composition, no chord progressions, no combo, no accompaniment of any kind... Hell, he didn't even have pain killers!
__________________ It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it. - Aristotle
Never eat more than you can lift. - Miss Piggy
You must be the change you wish to see in the world. - Mohandas Ghandi
Of what is great one must either be silent or speak with greatness. - Friedrich Nietzsche
Last edited by Complicated on Nov 23rd, 2003 at 02:32 AM
there isnt just one best song...but if i had to make a choice it would be from
Nirvana-Smells Like Teen Spirit
Metallica-Enter Sandman
Static X-Ostogelectric
Orgy-Stitches
Linkin Park-Hit the Floor
SOAD-Deer Dance
SOAD-Science
SOAD-F**k the System
KoRn-Freak on a Leash
Sepultura-Attitude
Spineshank-Smothered
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