best written song ever

Kaltagesta · 2003-08-21, 10:38 AM

what do you think is the best song ever written?

obviously, it depends on what mood your in, but two of the best, IMHO [and this is based on the words and how they interact with the music more thna anything] is:

Counting Crows - Mr Jones
i heard this song first when i was getting a lift to our games field with about 3 other kids in our PE teachers car and he played it [well, it was on the radio] and he was saying about how that song was the theme for one of his years at university and how much he loved it - i downlaoded it and agree.

Boys are back in Town - Thin Lizzy
yes, yes, i know, its that tacky song that adverts have the chorus for. But lsiten to it, and the verses and you will find out its a great song with a story behind it - and it goes well with the music.

[oh, and im listening to my winamp playlist now, and i'm only really liastening to the actualy words of Apple Shampoo by Blink182 and before you all go 'Ugh, pop punk suxx!' ill quote some of the lyrics [they arent all in order]:

She didn't mean to deceive you, believe me
But sometimes the hardest part is conceiving
The good intentions that you had
Now only came to this
And although she saw the mark
The arrow missed
I know / just where / I stand / a boy
Trapped in the body of a man and

I'll take what you're willing to give
And I'll teach myself to live
With a walk-on part of a background shot
From a movie I'm not in

i love that last few lines]

Doobz · 2003-08-21, 04:06 PM

The best written song ever?

Layla

Unregistered · 2003-08-21, 04:39 PM

For those bleak depressing Moods

Black Sabath: Solitude

I really love music, and lyrics so it's hard for me to pick an all time great, but as over played and tired as it is I have always loved the Lyrics to......

Stairway to Heaven.

especially this last verse:

And as we wind on down the road
Our shadows taller then our soul
There walks a lady we all know
Who shines white light and wants to show
How everything thisll turns to gold
And if you listen very hard
The tune will come to you at last.
When all are one, and one is all
To be a rock and not to roll

This one has always struck a cord too:

Iron Maiden: Revelations

Oh God, of earth and alter
Bow down and hear our crys
our earthly rulers faulter
Our people drift and die
The walls of gold entomb us
The swords of scorn devide
Take not thy thunder from us...
but Take away our pride.

Lonehunter · 2003-08-21, 05:48 PM

Originally posted by Doobz
The best written song ever?

Layla

I have the accoustic version on Kazaa

Originally posted by Unregistered
Stairway to Heaven

Another classic.

My favorite, Watchtower - Jimmi Hendrix. He speaks through his guitar.

"Knowledge talks, wisdom listens" - Jimmi Hendrix

ObnoxiousFrog · 2003-08-21, 06:07 PM

Short Stories with Tragic Endings by From Autumn to Ashes.

OK, it's tough to understand what the lead guy is saying, but the girl from Saves the Day adds a haunting quality to the song.

Well-written and worth a listen.

Kaltagesta · 2003-08-21, 06:14 PM

Originally posted by ObnoxiousFrog
OK, it's tough to understand what the lead guy is saying, but the girl from Saves the Day adds a haunting quality to the song.

dude, i thought it was a guy...

//edit: unless ur like joking

BUGGER�GHO�T · 2003-08-21, 06:58 PM

Linkin Park's songs, mainly cuase their songs best describe what i think.

Points of Athority

You like to think you're never wrong
You want to act like you're someone
You want someone to hurt like you
You want to share what you've been through
(You live what you learn)

In the End

I tried so hard
And got so far
But in the end
It doesn't even matter
I had to fall
And lose it all
But in the end
It doesn't even matter

Easier to Run

its easier to run
replacing this pain with something numb
its so much easier to go
than face all this pain here all alone

Breaking the Habit

i don't know what's worth fighting for
or why i have to scream
i don't know why i instigate
and say what i don't mean
i don't know how i got this way
i know it's not alright
so i'm
breaking the habit
tonight

and the song that always come to my mind when io'm posting on PSU,

Nobody's Listening

try to give you warning
but everyone ignores me
[told you everything loud and clear]
but nobody's listening
call to you so clearly
but you don't want to hear me
[told you everything loud and clear]
but nobody's listening

like my long list with all the chorus'?

diluted · 2003-08-21, 07:03 PM

diluted and gently by slipknot.

gently is about taking one taking drugs/narcotics to forget about life and to drift away into one's own mind, only to realize nothing has happened.

diluted is all-in-all about hate displayed by humans, and also depression.