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What Are The Best Songs Ever Written?
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Dev



Joined: 18 Apr 2006

PostPosted: Wed Aug 25, 2010 4:32 pm    Post subject: What Are The Best Songs Ever Written? Reply with quote

For some good listening, I'd like people to post YouTube videos of songs they believe are the best ever written. You know, the kind of timeless songs you like all through your life.

Here's one that needs to be in every karaoke machine in the world.

Love Hurts by Nazareth
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6pHNkOQCIzk
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RMNC



Joined: 21 Jul 2010

PostPosted: Wed Aug 25, 2010 4:43 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Probably my favorite:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ
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Samapi



Joined: 07 Jul 2010

PostPosted: Thu Aug 26, 2010 1:53 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Japanese to English - Red House Painters

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f_K4yp4rB6k
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cj1976



Joined: 26 Oct 2005

PostPosted: Thu Aug 26, 2010 1:58 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

I like big butts and I cannot lie
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ImZTwYwCug
It's funny because it's true.
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Kurtz



Joined: 05 Jan 2007
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PostPosted: Thu Aug 26, 2010 2:28 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Samapi wrote:
Japanese to English - Red House Painters

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f_K4yp4rB6k


You bleak bastard you.

I prefer this one though

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qpYne2su3XM

I was watching "Almost famous" the other night. I thought one actor seemed quite B grade but hell his voice was familiar, guess who? the man himself.
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Junior



Joined: 18 Nov 2005
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PostPosted: Thu Aug 26, 2010 2:34 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Quote:
What Are The Best Songs Ever Written?


... too many to mention.

Something from the 80's, obviously. Wink
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schwa



Joined: 18 Jan 2003
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PostPosted: Thu Aug 26, 2010 3:03 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

I nominate two songs of enduring genius by Joni Mitchell:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pTVjCWekS1Q&feature=related
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Kurtz



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PostPosted: Thu Aug 26, 2010 3:08 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F4s__QO9kG0
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AllIGotWasThisLousyTShirt



Joined: 29 Jun 2009

PostPosted: Thu Aug 26, 2010 7:14 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Colorblind by Counting Crows

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y0s7ycdUcHk
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Globutron



Joined: 13 Feb 2010
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PostPosted: Thu Aug 26, 2010 7:23 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

cj1976 wrote:
I like big butts and I cannot lie
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ImZTwYwCug
It's funny because it's true.


Pfft, I much prefer this

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fbGkxcY7YFU

It's funny because it's true.
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DeMayonnaise



Joined: 02 Nov 2008

PostPosted: Thu Aug 26, 2010 3:51 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Gunther - Suntrip

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YhTfYaYL01Q
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oldtactics



Joined: 18 Oct 2008

PostPosted: Thu Aug 26, 2010 4:20 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Into the Mystic

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gVAnlke_xUY
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Missihippi



Joined: 22 Oct 2007
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PostPosted: Thu Aug 26, 2010 4:22 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

From the beginning - Emerson, Lake, and Palmer

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gm1OJ0LAgt4
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hogwonguy1979



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PostPosted: Thu Aug 26, 2010 5:33 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

talk about no taste and no sense of history here:

dylans "like a rolling stone" and

the beatles "a day in the life"

nothing else comes close
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Missihippi



Joined: 22 Oct 2007
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PostPosted: Thu Aug 26, 2010 5:39 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

hogwonguy1979 wrote:
talk about no taste and no sense of history here:

dylans "like a rolling stone" and

the beatles "a day in the life"

nothing else comes close


well that's your opinion and you are entitled to it. But, just because it's old doesn't make it well written.
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