re: Post a song you think is in the conversation for Best. Song. Ever.

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A Day in the Life was one of the most important pieces of music composed in the 20th century.

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Why?

I'll give it a shot,

Classical: Overture of 1812 (the ending is the song part in V for Vendetta but the entire thing is amazing)

For song ill have to name a few

The Band: The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down
Hendrix: Axis Bold As Love
The Who: Love Reign O'er Me (quadrophenia is one of the most underrated albums ever)

Honestly that question is too hard, different songs elicit different emotions and it makes I really hard to compare

Sunday Morning Coming Down - Kris Kristofferson
What a Wonderful World - Louis Armstrong

two, three, four

Bon Jovi - Born To Be My Baby

Rap genre

Bone thugs - the crossroads

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I don't think it's one of the best songs ever, but I do like it.

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I am attending a lecture solely on this song tomorrow at LSU.

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School of Music Sponsors Free Lecture on the Beatles Professor Walter Everett will deliver a lecture on "The Making of the Beatles' 'A Day in the Life'" on Friday, February 8, at 2:00 p.m. in the School of Music Recital Hall. This event is free and open to the public. This talk at LSU will mark the fiftieth anniversary of the week in which the Beatles recorded their first album. "A Day In the Life" is probably the most monumental five minutes of music recorded by the Beatles. It's the final track of their revolutionary psychedelic masterpiece, Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band, and in a way it's really the profound linchpin that kept the album from floating off its spindle. Introducing the track with a few notes from his two-volume book, The Beatles as Musicians, Walter Everett considers the ways in which John Lennon and Paul McCartney joined their independently written fragments to create an irregular, ambiguous and haunting illustration of what the imagination can draw out of the mundane. By following the recording process from the group's earliest attempts through some of the many separate recordings that would be layered together in the studio, by listening to guitar lines and drum parts that were drafted but later cast aside when inspiration brought more evocative ones, and by examining recording-session photographs of John, Paul, George, Ringo and full orchestra, we celebrate all of this song's rich colors, harmonies, rhythms, and underlying message. Professor Everett is probably the world's best informed scholar on the music of the Beatles. His two-volume study The Beatles as Musicians (Oxford University Press, 1999) has been called "the most important book on the Beatles yet to appear." In 2009, Oxford published his even more far-reaching study Foundations of Rock: from "Blue Suede Shoes" to "Suite: Judy Blue Eyes." This deeply musical and highly readable account of the genre from 1955 to 1969 demonstrates Everett's encyclopedic knowledge of and love for the music, the musicians, and the culture of rock music. He combines technical prowess as a theorist with practical knowledge of the instruments and techniques of rock performance, and the discipline of a dedicated researcher. His writings, while full of detail, remain accessible to all music lovers, non-professional and professional alike, and his wit and sense of humor prevail throughout. A professor of music at the University of Michigan, where he has taught since 1989, Everett has lectured and presented his work on both classical and popular music worldwide. He has been a fellow and served on the faculty of the prestigious Mannes Institute for Advanced Studies in Music Theory, has given a keynote lecture for the Society for Music Theory, and has been the recipient of the Kjell Meling Award for Distinction in the Arts and Humanities.

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The Band: The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down

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Sunday Morning Coming Down - Kris Kristofferson

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good calls

adding to my original selections:

dire straits - romeo & juliet; sultans of swing

I think this is a hard subject and there never will be a clear cut answer. There are a lot of "perfect" songs that would stack up against anything they are just different.

Talking Heads-This Must Be The Place
Band of Horses- Funeral
Arcade Fire- Wake Up
The Beatles- A Day in the Life(plus a lot others)
Beach Boys- God Only Knows

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Broken Amy Lee/Seether

This one has had me for years love AmyLee