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What is your favorite song EVER??????????? Mine is Iris By Goo Goo Dolls but whats yours?

Iris is an excellent song. The Goo Goo Dolls wrote many of my favorites, though probably not my #1 at the moment.

My favorite changes too often... overall? My tastes are too eclectic to pinpoint. Here are a few of my favorites (in no particular order):

"Wounded" by Third Eye Blind.
"Best I Ever Had" by Vertical Horizon
"3 Libras" by A Perfect Circle
"Short Skirt, Long Jacket" by Cake
"Hurt" by Nine Inch Nails
"Parabol / Parabola" by Tool
"Somewhere Only We Know" by Keane

'I'm the Only Hell (Mama Ever Raised)-Johnny Paycheck

Well, I cant sell my momma short on loving me,
I guess that's why she let me go so far,
Momma always stopped me short of stealing,
I guess thats why I had to steal that car,
She told me not to smoke it, but I did and it took me far away,
And I turned out to be, THE ONLY HELL MY MOMMA EVER RAISED.

I pulled into Atlanta
stolen tags and almost out of gas,
I had to get some money, and lately I'd learned how to get it fast,
Those neon lights was calling me
and somehow I had to get downtown,
I reached into the glovebox, another liquor store went down.

CHORUS:
And I sing "Precious Memories," take me back to the good ol' days.
I can hear my momma singing, "Rock of Ages" clept(?) for me,
She tried to turn me on to Jesus, but I turned on to the devil's ways,
And I turned out to be...THE ONLY HELL MY MOMMA EVER RAISED.

When they put those handcuffs on me,
Lord how I fought to resist,
But that agent clamped'em tighter, 'til that metal bit into my wrist,
They took my boots and my billfold,
my fingerprints, and the profile of my face,
Then they locked away, THE ONLY HELL MY MOMMA EVER RAISED.

Chorus.

there's some good songs here already. i like iris, hurt, short skirt/long jacket, but my favorite song of all time has to be 'Getaway Car' by Audioslave. not a fast, angry song, as people might expect from audioslave, but on the contrary: it's slow, soothing, and kind of sad. it's on their first cd, which is amazing, and i highly recommend everyone get their new one, "out of exile,' it comes out wednesday.

getaway car:

the first time i saw you, you were
chasing down
a cyclone all alone in a field

with railyards and clovers i came
rolling on
never thought you'd wind up chasing
me

chorus:
settle down, i won't hesitate
to hit the highway
before you lay me to waste, no
saddle up and i'll
help you find
something to drive
before you drive me insane

you're tired, of walking and you
loathe the ground
the sidewalk barely touches your
feet

life moves too slowly to
hold you down
with ring in hand you take it out on
me

chorus

solo

chorus

get yourself a car, and drive it all alone
ooooo
get yourself a car, ride it on the wind, yeah
get yourself a car, and drive it all alone
ooooo
get yourself a car, ride it on the wind

My favorite is Orinoco Flow (aka Sail Away) by Enya

(In no particular order)
"Paint It Black"
"Wonderful World"
"I am the Walrus"
"Alabama Song"
"The Unknown Soldier"
"Smells Like Teenspirt"
"Every Sperm is Sacred"
"Strange Days"
"Electric Ladyland"
"Fire"

Ashokan Farewell (http://jaybuckeymusic.com/Ashokan%20Farewell%20-%20Jay%20Buckey.mp3)

Freude, schöner Götterfunken
Tochter aus Elysium

My favorite song ever is "Unchained Melody" by the Righteous Brothers; however, my current favorite song of the moment is "My Immortal" by Evanescence.

"Favourite song EVER??"

Unchained Melody

Lyrics:

Oh, my love, my darling,

I've hungered for your touch a long, lonely time,

Time goes by so slowly and time can do so much.

Are you still mine?

I need your love, I need your love, God speed your love to me.



Lonely rivers flow to the sea, to the sea

To the open arms of the sea

Lonely rivers sigh, "Wait for me, wait for me"

"I'll be coming home, wait for me!"



Oh, my love, my darling,

I've hungered for your touch a long, lonely time,

Time goes by so slowly and time can do so much.

Are you still mine?

I need your love, I need your love, God speed your love to me.

This song holds incredible memories for me. I was dancing with a girl I had met while I was in collge, a delightful young woman who asked me what I thought about her. I replied that, if I weren't careful, I would be falling in love with her. She was the first woman I ever truly "made love to," as opposed to "having sex with." SIGH! [ begins to cry ] ;)

My favorite song ever is "Unchained Melody" by the Righteous Brothers; however, my current favorite song of the moment is "My Immortal" by Evanescence.

:D

Freude, schöner Götterfunken
Tochter aus Elysium
Wir betreten feuertrunken,
Himmlische, dein Heiligtum;
Deine Zauber binden wieder,
Was die Mode streng geteilt;
Alle Menschen werden Brüder,
Wo dein sanfter Flügel weilt.


Wem der große Wurf gelungen,
Eines Freundes Freund zu sein,
Wer ein holdes Weib errungen,
Mische seinen Jubel ein!
Ja, wer auch nur eine Seele
Sein nennt auf dem Erdenrund!
Und wer's nie gekonnt, der stehle
Weinend sich aus diesem Bund.


Freude trinken alle wesen
An den Brüsten der Natur;
Alle Guten, alle Bösen
Folgen ihrer Rosenspur,
Küsse gab sie uns und Reben,
Einen Freund, geprüft im Tod;
Wollust ward dem Wurm gegeben,
Und der Cherub steht vor Gott!


Froh, wie seine Sonnen fliegen
Durch des Himmels Prächt'gen Plan,
Laufet, Brüder, eure Bahn,
Freudig, wie ein Held zum Siegen.


Seid umschlungen, Millionen,
Diesen Kuß der ganzen Welt!
Brüder! über'm Sternenzelt
Muß ein lieber Vater wohnen,
Ihr stürzt nieder, Millionen?
Ahnest du den Schöpfer, Welt?
Such' ihn über'm Sternenzelt!
über Sternen muß er wohnen.

I don't know about favorite EVER, but at the moment it's Going Under by Evanescence.

I don't know about favorite EVER, but at the moment it's Going Under by Evanescence.
I just visited the MTV Website and listened to their samples. Love the sound! Are they strictly instrumental???

:D

I've never quite had an experience like what you had with that song, but there's just something about it that's always tugged in my heart whenever I hear it.

hrm....at the moment my favourite song is "Sing for Absolution", by Muse. VERY good. I also really like Time is running out, and Hysteria, on the same album. My favourite song ever is "Build me up (Buttercup)" because that just rules. I want to listen to it now. "Hello Dolly" and "What a Wonderful World" are utterly fantastic as well.

my favorite song EVER is too hard to decide...but favorite lyrics I would say either Imagine by John Lennon or What's Going On by Marvin Gaye (Perfect Circle).

contendors in favorite song:
Minerva - Deftones
Run Like Hell - Pink Floyd
The Bends - Radiohead
Improv/Amazing Grace - Victor Wooten (Bela Fleck and the Flecktones)
Lawyers Guns and Money - Warren Zevon
Forty Six & 2 - Tool

I've never quite had an experience like what you had with that song, but there's just something about it that's always tugged in my heart whenever I hear it.
It's very heart-felt and soulful. It's still, after so many years, my favorite. :)

Rex Tremendae from Mozarts Requiem

Rex Tremendae from Mozarts Requiem

I cannot say how much I approve of that choice. Whilst personally I prefer Dies Irae from Mozarts Requiem, and I find that the completion of Lacrimosa and Amen by (damnit! I can never remember his name, but he works with Boston Baroque) , to be very enjoyable also.

I cannot say how much I approve of that choice. Whilst personally I prefer Dies Irae from Mozarts Requiem, and I find that the completion of Lacrimosa and Amen by (damnit! I can never remember his name, but he works with Boston Baroque) , to be very enjoyable also.

Lacrimosa is my second choice while Dies Irae is my third from the Requiem. Classical Vocal music is not my passion though. This particular song from this particular Requiem is an exception. The passion is so tremendous, it's almost unbearably beautiful.

Wir betreten feuertrunken,
Himmlische, dein Heiligtum;
Deine Zauber binden wieder,
Was die Mode streng geteilt;
Alle Menschen werden Brüder,
Wo dein sanfter Flügel weilt.


That's Beethoven's 9th Right? Lyrics by Schiller?

Cathenia

Terrapin Station by Grateful Dead or Ten Years Gone by Led Zepplin.
or maybe A Love Supreme by John Coltrane I don't know too many really good songs out there. :headbang:

Also no particular order...

Paul Revere - Beastie Boys
Perfect Drug - NIN
Closer to Me - Sister Machine Gun
Istanbul - They Might Be Giants
Wish You Were Here - Pink Floyd
Personal Jesus - Depeche Mode
Guilty - Gravity Kills
One Week - Bare Naked Ladies
Shine - Die Warzau
One More Minute - Weird Al
Diva Dance - Fifth Element ST
Bring Me To Life - Evanescence
Silence - Delerium
Short Skirt, Long Jacket - Cake
Back Porch - The Presisdents of the United States
Daydream Believer - Monkees
Its Been a While - Staind
What Do I Have To Do? - Stabbing Westward
Uncle F***er - South Park, BLU ST
Get Over It - OK Go
Harder to Breathe - Maroon 5
Flood - Jars of Clay
Disease - Matchbox 20

That's Beethoven's 9th Right? Lyrics by Schiller?

Cathenia
Good eye.

So many great songs that I like so much... One does actually come out on top, though.

Anarchy In The U.K.

Yep.

...favourite song ever??? That is really, really difficult...

The Hardest Button to Button.

Maggie M'gill by The Doors, or Roadhouse Blues, or Peace Frog, by the same artists. Always one of those three.

"Smells Like Teen Spirit" by Nirvana.
"the Unforgiven" by Metallica comes in at a semi-close second.

I've always had a soft spot for Underworld's Two Months Off and anything by The Beatles

My favourite songs- Top Five

Iron Maiden - Infinite Dreams
Iron Maiden - Dance of Death
Hammerfall - Legacy of Kings
Nine Inch Nails - Closer
Rammstein - Reise Reise

Right now it's Crimson Curse - Funeral Empire and Mindless Self Indulgence - Hail Satan. :D

Mozart: Dies Irae or Greensleeves
(M:A:S:H): Suicide is Painless
The Doors: Spanish Caravan, The Rive Flows and their version of Albinonis Adiago
Carlos Santana: Black Magic Woman, Maria Maria
Kris Kristoffersen: Me and Bobby McGee (Janis Joplin version)
Pink Floyd: The trial
The Beatles: Blackbird
Kashmir: Lollypork Stomp, Star in my Movie

What is your favorite song EVER???????????
http://home.uchicago.edu/~hejacobs/me-wail.jpg
don't make me choose!! :(

Banana Phone by Raffi

Favourite Song Ever?? That's so so difficult!!

My particular favourites in no particular order are:
Don't Let The Sun Go Down On Me - Elton John and George Michael
Build Me Up Buttercup - The Foundations
Don't Stop Me Now - Queen
Wuthering Heights - Kate Bush
Careless Whisper - George Michael
Guess That's Why They Call It The Blues - Elton John
Like A Prayer - Madonna
Walk This Way - Run DMC & Aerosmith

At the moment, Meatloaf's Dead Ringer for Love. But really, it is impossible to say.

We Didn't Start The Fire - Billy Joel
Uptown Girl - Billy Joel
You Cant Hurry Love - Phil Collins
Another Day In Paradise - Phil Collins
Running Scared - Roy Orbison
Only The Lonely - Roy Orbison

Chariots of fire, by Vangelis.

My favorite songs, in order, would have to be...

1. Nine Inch Nails - "Hurt"
2. In Flames - "Coerced Coexistence"
3. Sevendust - "My Ruin"
4. Tool - "46 and 2"
5. Fear Factory - "Zero Signal"
6. Nine Inch Nails - "The Great Below"
7. Rammstein - "Los"
8. System of a Down - "P.L.U.C.K."
9. In Flames - "Evil in a Closet"
10. Sevendust - "Black"

...but I could essentially go on forever, so I'll stop. :)

Metro, FUCK THE SYSTEM and Innervision by System Of a Down, Metro beeing propably the first on the list.All of them incredible stuff. Then comes the I Shot The Sheriff and Get Up/Stand Up by Bob Marley.

But one should never forget the almighty Offspring, and their masterpiece
Why Don't You Get A Job? :D

EDIT: P.L.U.C.K by SOAD, how on earth could I forget that?!

My favorite songs, in order, would have to be...

1. Nine Inch Nails - "Hurt"
2. In Flames - "Coerced Coexistence"
3. Sevendust - "My Ruin"
4. Tool - "46 and 2"
5. Fear Factory - "Zero Signal"
6. Nine Inch Nails - "The Great Below"
7. Rammstein - "Los"
8. System of a Down - "P.L.U.C.K."
9. In Flames - "Evil in a Closet"
10. Sevendust - "Black"

...but I could essentially go on forever, so I'll stop. :)

GODDAMIT! I FORGOT THE P.L.U.CK.!!!1111ONE

AAAAAAARGH!

My favourite song has to be a Tenacious D song.

Perhaps Karate, FHG or Kielbasa.

Song 2 - Blur

Black Sabbath-Iron Man
Jethro Tull-Aqualung
The Steve Miller Band-Swingtown
Good Rats-The Juvenile Song

thats all that comes to mind at the moment

My favorite songs, in order, would have to be...

1. Nine Inch Nails - "Hurt"
2. In Flames - "Coerced Coexistence"
3. Sevendust - "My Ruin"
4. Tool - "46 and 2"
5. Fear Factory - "Zero Signal"
6. Nine Inch Nails - "The Great Below"
7. Rammstein - "Los"
8. System of a Down - "P.L.U.C.K."
9. In Flames - "Evil in a Closet"
10. Sevendust - "Black"

I wasn't a fan of Los until i saw Rammstein live and it is such a great song, its just got this beat and energy to it that i love.

In a vague continuum of genres, some of my favourite songs/tracks probably include:

Burzum - "Det Som En Gang Var"; "Erblicket die Töchter des Firmaments"
Finntroll - "Trollhammaren"; "Vargtimmen"
Moonsorrow - "Kivenkantaja"; "Pakanajuhla"
Haggard - "Of a Might Divine"
Ulver - "Vowels"
Laibach - "B Mashina"; "Tanz Mit Laibach"
Einstürzende Neubauten - "Stella Maris"; "Die Interimsliebenden"
Tristania - "Crushed Dreams"
Nightwish - "Wishmaster"
Collide - "Crushed"
Inkubus Sukkubus - "Io Pan"
Cocteau Twins - "Ivo"
Tori Amos - "Little Earthquakes", "Yes, Anastasia"

:confused: probably loads I'm missing there....

Couldn't possibly isolate one song as a favourite, so here's a small selection:

Angeles - Elliott Smith
Lucky - Radiohead
Newborn - Elbow
Roads - Portishead
Saturn - Gustav Holst (does that count as a song?)
Blue Valentines - Tom Waits

Er, hmm. My favourite song ever would have to be Ghost Love Score by Nightwish... ten minutes of symphonic metal!

Lots of Hammerfall are good, and Manowar... hmm, maybe Glory to the Brave (Hammerfall) or Progenies of the Great Apocalypse (Dimmu Borgir)? Not sure what the second place would go to.

favorite song ever is definitely metallica's "fade to black", or "sanitarium. I can't really decide they're all great.

Iris is an excellent song. The Goo Goo Dolls wrote many of my favorites, though probably not my #1 at the moment.

My favorite changes too often... overall? My tastes are too eclectic to pinpoint. Here are a few of my favorites (in no particular order):

"Wounded" by Third Eye Blind.
"Best I Ever Had" by Vertical Horizon
"3 Libras" by A Perfect Circle
"Short Skirt, Long Jacket" by Cake
"Hurt" by Nine Inch Nails
"Parabol / Parabola" by Tool
"Somewhere Only We Know" by Keane

w00t! Thats my probably my favourite song ever! And for some reason no-one i know has even heard of Cake let alone heard of that song.

others i really like:
"empty at the end" by electric soft parade
"infinite chinese box" by miss black america
"newborn" by muse
"growing on me" by the darkness
"legal high" by the mooney suzuki
"just a girl" by no doubt

bit of a mixed taste in music:
David Gray - Please Forgive Me (always reminds me of sum great times wit my mates)
Nirvana - In Bloom (loved Nirvana so much when i was younger and this was my fav song)
Paul van Dyk - For an Angel (always loved this dance track, gets me in the mood before i go out clubbing)
Smashin Pumpkins - 1979 (class song)
ATB - Don't Stop (another dance track that gets me in a great mood)
10CC - I'm Not in Love (me and my girlfriends song)

favorite song ever is definitely metallica's "fade to black", or "sanitarium. I can't really decide they're all great.

I completely agree. Those are two of my favourite Metallica songs. But there are just too many to pick out just one favourite.

"Love you to death" Type O Negative
"Wolfshade" Moonspell

favorite song ever is definitely metallica's "fade to black", or "sanitarium. I can't really decide they're all great.


they're both great.
How about "Of Wolf and Man" ?

Have to say
Detox by Strapping Young Lad

but close runners up are
Everlong By Foo Fighters
Securitron/Ressurection by Fear Factory
and too much other stuff to name

w00t! Thats my probably my favourite song ever! And for some reason no-one i know has even heard of Cake let alone heard of that song.

others i really like:
"empty at the end" by electric soft parade
"infinite chinese box" by miss black america
"newborn" by muse
"growing on me" by the darkness
"legal high" by the mooney suzuki
"just a girl" by no doubt

Nah
'Sheep go to heaven, Goats go to hell' or 'Never there' are a crap-load better than 'Short skirt, Long Jacket

"Favourite song EVER??" Unchained Melody. This song holds incredible memories for me.
Aw, me too. That song was playing in the taxi the very last time I saw my best friend. I get twinges of despair every time I hear it. Hence it not being my favourite.

My favourite song would have to be Paranoid Android (or maybe Polyethylene) by Radiohead... Although OK Computer is, IMO, the greatest album of all time.

I love most of Crowded House's stuff - Four Seasons in One Day is one of my favourites.

At the moment I love "This Old Love" by Lior, and "The Drop" by Regurgitator. I still ove Stockholm Syndrome by Muse - I can't seem to get tired of any of their stuff. "Unintended" is a really good song.