Instant Classics

[shemp]

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[...]Beggars Banquet, which is hands down the best Stones album.

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The hell you say, dawg! EoMS! GHS! LiB! SF! Then BB! BiB! Whatevah.

This thread is a great/favorite pop song mess, I think.

Here's how I'd try and focus it: Great Pop Song That Captures an Era, Zeitgeist, Mood/Time/Place in A Very Special and Transcendent Way and That Despite Almost Becoming a Cliche, I Still Love the Song Or At Least, Understand Why Others Do.

Alternatively: If You Were Making a Movie and Needed a Song to Establish Place/Mood/Time I would Choose This Song For This Place/Mood/Time.

Teen Spirit screams Pac NW early nineties, FM Rock, The Alternative Hoax, teenage alienation, MTV, rain, smoke, and idontknowwhatelse.

By this criteria, I see Stayin Alive, having lived through it (altho, personally, I'd leave this off because I've always hated the song, I still smell the OP).

And like Brown Eyed Girl rings up a nostalgic care free thing (but I'd leave this song off because the keyboards are so tedious that the song is worn).

Gimmie Shelter. If it is Tuesday, and this is Scorsese, Gimmie Shelter conveys a sort of desperate in the moment thing, so I think it qualifies by my New Criteria (even tho it is far from my fave stones)...

I could go on, but I've said too much here...

[wet work]

Time- Pink Floyd
Stairway to Heaven- Led Zeppelin
Your Cheatin Heart- Hank Williams
Crazy- Patsy Cline
Natural Woman- Aretha Franklin
Coal Miner's daughter- Loretta Lynn
Lola- The Kinks
Voodoo Chile- Hendrix


For the guys that mentioned Will the Circle Be Unbroken you absolutely, if you already haven't, have to check out the version on Clarence Ashley/Doc Watson's '61-'62 recordings. It's the most moving version I've ever heard.

[JuntMonkey]

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linus and lucy - vince guaraldi

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That's like the best answer in the whole thread.

The rest of the thread is beyond absurd at this point.

[TyFuji]

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Ok, so in efforts to clarify - here's my completely subjective opinion on the classics, and maybes, since my original three.

Classics:
Smells Like Teen Spirit
Hey Jude
Hey Ya
Friends in Low Places (I hate just about all young country except this song, there has to be some older country too, but I can't think of one right now)

Maybes:
Fake Plastic Trees (is it popular enough?)
Under the Bridge (I'm not totally nuts about it, but if everyone else is...)
Sir Duke, Tears of a Clown, Let's Get it On, and a bunch of motown songs (hmmm)
Billie Jean

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Hey ya?

[Osprey]

Pulp - Common People. Not big in the States as far as I know, but an absolutely anthemic song in the UK and probably the rest of Europe. The album it's off of, Different Class, is one of the best I've heard.

James - Laid- again, ridiculously anthemic. Probably the only thing they're know for in the States, the rest of this album is really good as well.

[Madd]

We are the champions - Queen
3 lions (football is coming home) - Lightning Seeds

Other songs that may fall in this category:
Superstitous - Stevie Wonder
Smoke on the water - Deep Purple
Dragostea - O-zone
Lose yourself - Eminem

Certainly some of tunes the ABBA (Dancing Queen) and Beatles (Let it be) qualify. Other tracks don't convince me completely because they have to be liked be nearly everybody. As much as I love GnR I'm not sure the guinean bushman would instantly feel the same.

[Mickey Brausch]

I get it now. El Diablo nominates a bunch of posters as Threat Starters so everyone of 'em promptly starts a thread. The forum gets action. The posters get recognition. Everybody is happy.

He is Tom Sawyer and we are painting his fence.

Mickey "Huckleberry" Brausch

[Aloysius]

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You know a song that I think might belong on here is the first couple minutes of Classical Gas.

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After the horns / marching band whatever kicks in, the song completely loses it for me. But the beginning is awesome.

-Al

[cero_z]

In no particular order,

Time (The Revelator) --Gillian Welch

Just --Radiohead

Why I Don't Believe In God --Everclear

Hummingbird --Wilco

[PhilipBass]

I'll second those who offered:

Space Oddity
Let's Stay Together
Classical Gas
Kids in America
Touch Me

For me recently, it's been:

Crazy - Gnarls Barkey
Save Room - John Legend