<p>YouTube</a> - Jethro Tull - Thick as a Brick - Madison Sq. Garden 1978</p>
<p>Oasis - Champagne Supernova</p>
<p>Well I've already posted but here are my honorable mentions:</p>
<p>YouTube</a> - Glassjaw - Ape Dos Mil</p>
<p>YouTube</a> - Paul Revere</p>
<p>Zeppelin-Stairway to Heaven
John Lennon-Imagine
Oasis-Wonderwall
RHCP-Otherside (I agree)</p>
<p>the arctic monkeys have plenty of great songs but I think only time would tell which ones are "the best." I'd say it's between From The Ritz to the Rubble, Bigger Boys and Stolen Sweethearts, Fluorescent Adolesecent, Mardy Bum, and When The Sun Goes Down. They're not my personal favorites, actually, but they're best of the popular ones, from what I know. They all have some clever little lines in them. I like'em all though, so I can't say, haha. </p>
<p>videos. I hope everyone knows the first four, lol, so:</p>
<p>"last night, these two bouncers/one of 'em is alright/the other one's the scary one/his way or no way/totalitarian"
YouTube</a> - Arctic monkeys - From the ritz to the rubble
"there's alway somebody taller/with more of a wit/and he's equipped to enthrall her/her friends think he's fit/and you just can't measure up/no, you don't have a prayer..."
YouTube</a> - Arctic Monkeys Bigger Boys And Stolen Sweethearts Live
"you used to get it in your fishnets/now you only get it in your night dress/discarded all the naughty nights for niceness/everything's in order in a black hole/nothing seems as pretty as the past, though/that bloody mary's lacking in tabasco/remember when he used to be a rascal?"
YouTube</a> - LETTERMAN - Arctic Monkeys "Fluorescent Adolescent"
"I'm sorry I was late/but I missed the train/and then the traffic was a state/and, I can't be arsed to carry on in this debate/that recoccurs, oh, when you say I don't care/but of course I do! yeah, I clearly do!"
YouTube</a> - Arctic Monkeys - Mardy Bum
"although you're trying not to listen/avert your eyes and starin' at the ground/she makes a subtle proposition/I'm sorry, love, I'll have to turn you down/...oh, look here comes a Ford Mondeo/isn't he Mr. Inconspicous?"
YouTube</a> - Arctic Monkeys - When The Sun Goes Down</p>
<p>Anyone who comes on here purporting that this thread is "full of garbage" would do well to replace it with something better than Free. Come on, folks.</p>
<p>Actual best song ever:
<a href="http://youtube.com/watch?v=hmTG9***rzk%5B/url%5D">http://youtube.com/watch?v=hmTG9***rzk</a></p>
<p>Honorable Mentions:
YouTube</a> - egg song
YouTube</a> - Jake Shimabukuro plays "While My Guitar Gently Weeps"
YouTube</a> - Hey Ya Cover
YouTube</a> - Jason Webley @ American University - Hey Ya</p>
<p>EDIT: The first link doesn't work because the censor filter automatically converted the "w T f" in the url into asterisks. Replace them with the letters and it should take you to J. S. Bach's Toccata and Fugue in D Minor.</p>
<p>50 Cent? Eminem? Chamillionaire? OMGOMGOMGOMGOMG AMAZING!</p>
<p>Okay, enough messing around. These are the last three best songs I'm going to post, because they're truly the best.</p>
<p>YouTube</a> - Carlos Kleiber - Brahms Symphony No.4 (1st mov./ first part)
YouTube</a> - Carlos Kleiber - Brahms Symphony No.4 (1st mov./second part)</p>
<p>YouTube</a> - Schubert: Death and the Maiden String Quartet 1st Mov. Part1
YouTube</a> - Schubert: Death and the Maiden String Quartet 1st Mov. Part2</p>
<p>YouTube</a> - Karajan - Beethoven Symphony No. 6 In F Major 'Pastoral'</p>
<p>50 cent's a joke. He's a disgrace to hip-hop. Best song ever?
Tough one...there are a few.
In my opinion, if I had to choose 5, in no particular order...</p>
<p>Kanye West--Jesus Walks
The Eagles--Hotel California
NaS--N.Y. State of Mind
Blue Oyster Cult--Don't Fear the Reaper
Kansas--Dust in the Wind</p>
<p>Jesus Walks (Remix) is awesome.</p>
<p>Daniel Powter - Bad Day
Akon ft. Young Jeezy - soul survivor
the all american rejects - it ends tonight
Dre ft Snoop Dog - **** with Dre Day
Stand- The Rascal Flatts
50 cent - blood hound
The Red Jumpsuit Apparatus - Face down
Augustana - Boston
Chingy - Holiday Inn
50 cent - the hit
50 cent- how to rob</p>
<p>50 cent may be garbage now (The Massacre and Curtis) but his first album on Interscope as well as his first unreleased album were amazing. Go listen to songs from the unreleased Power of the Dollar album and come back and tell me its ****.</p>
<p>Also, one of the greatest covers of one of the greatest songs:
YouTube</a> - Pearl Jam--Baba O'Riley--1993</p>
<p>I'm pretty sure no one can make Baba O'Riley into a bad song, it's just that good already. The Dropkick Murphys also do an excellent cover of it.</p>
<p>Baba O'Riley's voice sounds like glass scratching a friggin chalkboard. Bad song? His music is effin terrible!</p>
<p>Baba O'Riley is a song by The Who... is it a singer's name too, Sheed30?</p>
<p>Baba O'Riley is an awesome song...</p>
<p>I second The Shins, The Hush Sound, and the Chili Peppers...great bands with great songs...</p>
<p>Why aren't the Hush sound more well known?</p>
<p>and Don't forget 2Pac and biggie!</p>
<p>
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50 cent may be garbage now (The Massacre and Curtis) but his first album on Interscope as well as his first unreleased album were amazing. Go listen to songs from the unreleased Power of the Dollar album and come back and tell me its ****.
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In my opinion...at the top of his game he was average at best...and that's being very, very generous.
He makes (er, made) music that sells though, no wonder how crappy it may be, so props to him there...I guess?</p>
<p>I have no idea why the hush sound isn't more well-known, most of the bands on their record label are pretty famous (fall out boy, paramore, gym class heroes, the academy is...)</p>
<p>Sheed30:
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Baba O'Riley's voice sounds like glass scratching a friggin chalkboard. Bad song? His music is effin terrible!
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<p>First, Baba O'Riley is not a person, it's a song. The first link I posted on the first page was The Who, the band who wrote the song. Roger Daltrey is the best live singer of all time, so if you're referring to him, you're dead wrong. The second link I posted was Pearl Jam's cover. Eddie Vedder considered to actually have one of the best and most unique voices of all time. </p>
<p>I'm assuming you're referring to Eddie Vedder when you're talking about "glass on a chalkboard," but I don't understand why. I think that if you knew what you were talking about, you'd realize that Pearl Jam's music is not "effing terrible." In fact, in a 2005 USA Today poll, readers chose Pearl Jam as the greatest American rock band of all time. (USATODAY.com</a> - And the greatest American rock band ever is ...) I don't think an "effin terrible" band would receive that honor. </p>
<p>Anyways, now that I'm done defending two of the best bands ever, here's a few more great songs:
YouTube</a> - Foo Fighters - Everlong
YouTube</a> - Daft Punk - HARDER BETTER FASTER STRONGER (Alive 2007)
YouTube</a> - Buffalo Springfield</p>
<p>Popularity =/= greatness, Handyandy. Or talent. </p>
<p>I personally wish Pearl Jam would quit covering Who songs. This Baba O'Riley wasn't too bad, it sounded like a lackluster Who performance, but their Love Reign O'er Me was positively awful. It almost broke my heart, hearing Eddie Vedder stumble through Roger Daltrey's vocal line.</p>
<p>And this isn't about "interpretation," either. I just think Pearl Jam is one of the most overrated bands around today.</p>