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Greatest song ever

I have two nominations, and Hambil, you can listen to both and choose between them -- "The Nurse Who Loved Me" by A Perfect Circle, (from the album The Thirteenth Step) or "No Leaf Clover" by Metallica (from the album S & M.)
 
curiousa2z said:
Hallelujah's by LEONARD COHEN
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He wrote it, but the Jeff Buckley version is the one most people have heard, and is better than the original IMHO.
 
ah, so you meant Jeff Buckley's cover of Leonard Cohen's "Hallelujah".

regardless of which version you prefer, I heartily agree it's a GREAT song. We sing in it my bi-weekly jamming group acapella and it's incredible.
 
curiousa2z said:
ah, so you meant Jeff Buckley's cover of Leonard Cohen's "Hallelujah".

regardless of which version you prefer, I heartily agree it's a GREAT song. We sing in it my bi-weekly jamming group acapella and it's incredible.
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I believe Buckley added his own genius to the song, and deserves recognition even though the original was penned by Cohen. Especially given Buckley's tragic death at only 30.
 
Hey. The answer is Fucking Radar Fucking Love! Damn, you guys are all over the place. Best Song Ever.
 
Sorry, but "Town Called Malice" is the perfect pop song. Catchy bass, tight arrangement, excellent lyrics, particularly for those of you who are of the left persuasion, like Weller himself is.
 
Kerb Crawler said:
^ Good song, Henoch. I like "Wish", myself.
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Wish was fucking phenomenal live dawg!

Esp. the part, where Trent and co. paused, and raised a fist in the air and the crowd all exclaimed at the same time, FIST FUCK!

Yea, there was fistings, there were.
 
How about "Alone Again Natrually" by Gilbert O'Sullivan (1972)


Oh in a little while from now
if I'm not feeling anyless sour
I promise myself to treat myself
and visit a nearby tower
and climbing to the top
will throw myself off
in an effort to make it clear
to whoever what it's like when you're shattered
left standing in the lurch at a church
where people saying 'my god
that's tough she's stood him up
no point in us remainig
we may as well go home'
as I did on my own
alone again naturally.

To think that only yesterday
I was cheerrful
bright and gay
looking forward to well who wouldn't do
the role I was about to play
but as if to knock me down
reality came around
and without so much
as a mere touch
cut me into little pieces
leaving me to doubt talk about
god in his mercy who if
he really does exist
why did he desert me in my hour of need
I truly am indeed
alone again naturally.

It seems to me that there are more hearts
broken in the world that can't be mended
left unattended what do we do what do we do
alone again naturally.

Now looking back over the years
and whatever else that appears
I remember I cried when my father died
never wishing to hide the tears
and at sixty-five years old
my mother
God rest her soul
couldn't understand why
the only man she had ever loved had been taken
so badly broken despite
encouragemant from me no words were ever spoken
and when she passed away
I cried and cried all day
alone again naturally.
 
"Escape (The Pina Colada Song)" by Rupert Holmes

I was tired of my lady
We'd been togehter too long
Like a worn-out recording
of a favorite song.
So while she lay there sleeping
I read the paper in bed
And in the personal columns
There was this letter I read:

"If you like Pina Coladas
And getting caught in the rain,
If you're not into yoga
If you have half a brain,
If you'd like making love at midnight
In the dunes of the Cape,
Then I'm the love you've looked for:
Write to me and escape."

I didn't think about my lady
I know I sound kind of mean
But me and my old lady
Have fallen into the same old dull routine.
So I wrote to the paper
Took out a personal ad
And though I'm nobody's poet
I thought it wasn't half-bad:

"Yes I like Pina Coladas
And getting caught in the rain,
I'm not much into health food,
I am into champagne.
I've got to meet you by tomorrow noon
And cut through all this red-tape
At a bar called O'Malley's
Where we'll plan out escape."

So I waited with high hopes
And she walked into the place
I knew her smile in an instant
I knew the curve of her face
It was my own lovely lady
And she said, "Oh, it's you"
Then we laughed for a moment
And I said, "I never knew."

That you like Pina Coladas
Getting caught in the rain
And the feel of the ocean
And the taste of champagne
If you'd like making love at midnight
In the dunes of the Cape
You're the lady I've looked for
Come with me and escape.

I dare you to find a better song. Fucking brilliant.
 
Margaritaville - Jimmy Buffett

Nibblin' on sponge cake
Watchin' the sun bake
All of those tourists covered with oil
Strummin' my six-string
On my front porch swing
Smell those shrimp they're beginnin' to boil

Chorus:
Wastin' away again in Margaritaville
Searching for my lost shaker of salt
Some people claim that there's a woman to blame
But I know it's nobody's fault

I don't know the reason
I stayed here all season
Nothin' to show but this brand new tattoo
But it's a real beauty
A Mexican cutie
How it got here I haven't a clue

Chorus:
Wastin' away again in Margaritaville
Searchin' for my lost shaker of salt
Some people claim that there's a woman to blame
Now I think
Hell, it could be my fault

I blew out my flip-flop
Stepped on a pop-top
Cut my heel had to cruise on back home
But there's booze in the blender
And soon it will render
That frozen concoction that helps me hang on

Wastin' away again in Margaritaville
Searching for my lost shaker of salt
Some people claim that there's a woman to blame
But I know it's my own damn fault
Yes and some people claim that there's a woman to blame
And I know it's my own damn fault
 
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