Best CLASSIC Songs
 

Based upon the success of my "Best Movies of all time" thread, I'm opening a similiar thread.

This time though, I want your TOP THREE votes for the best Classic Songs of the past 50 years or so.

3 votes
2 votes
1 vote

So, pick 3 songs and score them in a sliding scale.

I want your choise of genre setting, or breaking, songs. Utter classics that everyone would recognize (no Sk8r Boi shit etc).

These are trending setting or simply songs that you LOVE...

My votes are as follows:

3 Piano Man (Billy Joel)
2 I don't like Mondays (Boomtown Rats)
1 Smells like Teen Spirit (Nirvana)



Have fun

Mr Mephisto

SCORES


Last updated: Saturday 9 August, 10:31am (Sydney time)

PS - someone please vote for Unchained Melody by the Everly Brothers!

3 Light my Fire -The Doors
2 Ball and Chain -Sublime
1 Closer -NIN

3 The Doors' "The End"
2 The Beatles' "Happiness is a Warm Gun"
1 The Jimi Hendrix Experience's "All Along the Watchtower"

3. Ziggy Stardust (David Bowie)
2. Bohemian Rhaspody (Queen)
1. Material Girl (Madonna)

3. Marvin Gaye-What's Going On
2. The Upsetters-Super Ape
1. Slayer-Angel of Death

1. Queen - Fat bottomed girls
2. Beaatles- Hey Jude
3. Steve Miller Band - Keed on Rocking me Baby

Would Iris by the Goo Goo Dolls count? I think it is an awesome song. I love it.

3. L-O-V-E (Nat King Cole)
2. There She Goes (The La's)
1. Iris (Goo Goo Dolls)

3. 2112 (Rush)
2. Achilles Last Stand (Led Zepplin)
1. Subdivisions (Rush)

3 - Guns'n'Roses - Welcome to the Jungle
2 - Red Hot Chili Peppers - Under the Bridge
1 - Nirvana - Smells Like Teen Spirit

Wow, that really shows my age. ;)

3 - Hey Jude, The Beatles
2 - Imagine, John Lennon
1 - Layla, Derek & the Dominos

3) under the bridge - red hot chili peppers
2)riders on the storm - the doors
1)what is and what never should be - led zeppelin

3) Stairway to Heaven
2) Let it Be
1) Light My Fire


Honorable Mention - Watchtower



Notice how i didn't put the bands...If I gotta list the artist, it ain't a classic.

3 Wish You Were Here
2 Unchained Melody..... it really is one of the best songs ever
1 Light My Fire

3) Sweet Caroline
2) Mr. Tambourine Man
1) Goodbye Yellow Brick Road

3) Plush
2) Over The Hills and Far Away
1) Comfortably Numb

3. Us and Them - Floyd
2. Texas Flood - SRV
1. Muffin Man - Zappa

3. Strauss - Also Sprach Zarathustra
2. Rachmaninoff - Rhapsody on a theme of Paganini
1. Verdi - Caro nome [of Rigoletto]

o wait...this isn't classicAL...:p it should be. ^_______^

3. the Rainmaker (Kansas)
2. the call of Ktulu (Metallica)
1. Motopsycho (Megadeth)

hmm. that was more random than anything else, its hard to nail down a fav song....

How's about, for progressive, pseudo-progressive, nonsensical, whatever tunes...

1. Zappa...Don't eat the yellow snow
2. King Crimson- 21st Century Schizoid Man
3. Yes- Starship Trooper


...Am I missing the point?

1. Stairway To Heaven - Led Zeppelin
2. Comfortably Numb - Pink Floyd
3. Dream On - Aerosmith

1. Let's Get it On - Marvin Gaye
2. Hotel California - Eagles
3. Imagine -John Lennon

"goin mobile" -the who

"i wanna be your dog" -the stooges

theme from banana splits - unknown

3. Stairway to Heavan - Led Zepplin
2. Tangled Up in Blue - Bob Dylan
1. Like a Rolling Stone - Bob Dylan

3 - Mannish Boy - Muddy Waters
2 - Bo Diddley - Bo Diddley
1 - Brown Sugar - The Rolling Stones

3-Thank You -Zep
2-Radar Love-Golden Earring
3-Dinah Moe Hum-Zappa

aCK can't choose three... aaaah!

3. Pink Floyd - Shine on You crazy Diamond (parts 1 - 9(I know it was broken in half, but it still qualifies as one song))
2. Johann Strauss - Blue Danube Waltz
1. Beverley Hills Cop theme

1 - Metallica - Enter Sandman
2 - 311 - Come Original
3 - Van Halen - Hot for Teacher

1. Led Zepp stairway to heaven
2. The Eagles hotel california
3. Dire Straits brothers in arms

this is tough, but here goes:

3-while my guitar gently weeps (Beatles)
2-won't get fooled again (the Who)
1-all along the watchtower (Hendrix)

3-Everlong (Foo Fighters)
2-Smells Like Teen Spirit (Nirvana)
1-Comfortably Numb (Pink Floyd)

Wish we were allowed 5 - I'd add Under the Bridge (RHCP) and Lightning Crashes (Live) or maybe Bullet with Butterfly Wings (Smashing Pumpkins)