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without picking a genre its very very difficult.

thats a tough question... Bohemian rhapsody I reckon is up there. Not my personal favourite though

rolling stone, american pie, hey jude, insomnia, what mood am i in? where am i listening to it? who am i with? all factors  - best song changes according to a thousand variables.

Its a very tough question, most people will have a different answer. Im not even sure i can narrow it down to 1. Im just intrigued to see what others come out with.

Mine is probably N-Trance - Set you free, only because when it comes on, on a night out everyone goes mental, its ace!

oh oh yeah, oh oh yeah!!

if thats what you're after - darude sandstorm, always kicks things off, well it did a few years ago.

I love that tune...

Love the Sandstorm! But then i can love a tune like Snow Patrol - Casing Cars just as much.

And the peculiar thing is this my friends, the song we sang on that fateful night it didn't actually sound anything like this song!

I have a limited edition, full version on vinyl of it with the rain drops lasting for ages at the start and a slow build up to it. I have heard that version twice on nights out and it sends tingles down my spine and makes all the hairs stand up. Im gonna play it now. Sorry neighbours!

i like snow patrol at home sitting in front of my hi-fi with no distractions, chasing cars is an awesome track in that situation. and my hi-fi is class cos i just got new speakers and amp. the detail in the quality of recording really shows up on some cds / lps, other sound rubbish because of piss poor recording quality, it makes all the difference.

cash sounds better on vinyl than cd. fact.

and i love the D.

ROCK!

Not the first person to tell me that. I still have to put it to test.

Has anyone seen snow patrol live? I think they are great, but i can imagine their gigs to be quite depressing?

i think its the style of music, maybe country is best heard in less detail but with greater atmospherics, i have the prison concerts on LP and they sound great, i also have on CD and its just not the same.

I can't get into them personally.

Snow Patrol's first couple of albums are a bit pants in my opinion. Their latest stuff isn't offensive, but I get bored of music like that quite quickly.

I know what you mean axs about the recording quality. Some of the cds I own I thought it was the hi fi going tits up, but it was just shit sound quality on the disc.

There is something different about listening to old stuff on vinyl though. Dylan, Zeppelin, The Who.. it justs sounds better

mono recordings especially, haven't got any who on LP, but i find bowie is the same, i got given a double LP and i'm not a fan, but enjoyed the recording nonetheless.

My vinyl collections a bit lame actually... a few dylan, the who, zeppelin... about it. I think we had this converstion before didn't we? Blonde on Blonde vinyl. My pride and joy.

mine's pretty random, some weird shit in there i'd never even heard of, you know what charity shops are like, if it's in mint condition i'll just get it, as long as its not cliff.

ended up with a load of d'n'd once, not really my thing.

d'n'd?

sorry, sangiovese kicking in, d'n'b!!

just remembered that club D and D, used to go there on a saturday sometimes on the top floor for the breakbeat tunes, got that seems like a long time ago!

I used to be well into drum n bass... go to all nighters, get your ears blown out... my how things have changed

i used to go to atomic jam in birmingham, great night out, haven't been in years though.

i'm looking forward to getting my new hi-fi rack:

http://i191.photobucket.com/albums/z84/axs0/rack/Priorybeech.jpg

old one doesn't fit my amp in, not that i realised that when i bought the amp  :oops:

is that what you listen to before you steal them?

no, it's before he licks the windows.

Saw them live over here last year, and they rocked!!

 :beers: <-----------------Is to blame

Drum n Bass is ace by the way. Desperate and divorced however  :?

i know, D&D was shocking, i went there when i was 21 and i'm pretty sure i was half the age of all the 'girls' in there.

D & D was probably Ralphy's sort of place  :|

Him and Ash love Lava Lounge these days. Grab a granny.

i hate lava lounge. i refuse to go there. it's a 5 year boycot so far.

I won't go to the bottom of town. It's against my very being. Rolleston, The Vic, The Beehive, Savoy, Furnace... thats my limit

i'm amazed i don't know you, i go to all of those, apart from the savoy, it's rubbish.  oh and the roaring donkey is nice for a quiet pint.

we've probably seen each other around. It's inevitable. I havent really been out much in the last year though, due to stopping drinking. Last time I was out was on promotion day. Merlin, Savoy, The Vic

i may have crossed your path in the merlin, but you know that already.

That was the first and only time i'd been in there though.I plan to change that though when the season starts again.

i've had good times in there this season, except the last 2 matches when it took 30 minutes to get served before the match.  :evil:

yeah thats never good. Thats what i hate at gigs... you fancy a pint but you're gonna miss half the set due to being stuck in a queue of sweaty drunk people

Back on topic... Grace by Jeff Buckley for me

i remember seeing stereophonics and james at the NIA in brum, we bought 4 cans of carlsberg each and they us take them inside, that pretty much did us for 2 hours. Tim booth was still irritating though.

good call, anything off O by damien rice for me, particularly on a sunday morning. wasn't huge fan of 9 though, just not as good an album.

Listening again the other night to Cortez The Killer by Neil Young,  I decided it was the greatest song of all time.

"Heard it on the grapevine", followed closely by "Son of a preacher man"

Going to see them at the 02 arena thingy end of June.

Massive Attack - Unfinished Sympathy.

Probably. Bloody impossible question to answer!

What Sussex said.

Jonny cash- Hurt...Its my greatest anyway if i had to choose another it would be queen bohemian rhapsody

Hurt is a fucking great song though

I'm not saying for fear of being mocked.

I love you by the bees.

Depends on genre.

Paul Van Dyk - For An Angel

Thats one of my all time favourites.

Ben E King - Stand by me  :oops:

Al green- Lets stay together. Aceness song. Bit gay, but still ace.

As for D(esperate and) D(ivorced), kaos and route 66 was much better!! 66p a pint (diesel mostly drank) then onto Kaos to pull a slag.  :mrgreen:

Bonnie Tyler - Total Eclipse of the Heart. 8)

Thats my "getting fired up to go out" song. I fucking loves it I do!

Not Kenny Loggins - footloose?

Beat me to it! The Massive Attack tune is without a shadow of a doubt the best imao.

So i'll now state another which i consider great as well.

God Within - Raincry (http://www.htfr.com/playlist/?catno=MR6771)

As a vinyl collector, purist and lover i have to say all music is better on vinyl.

It's purely because the vinyl sound is bigger. With a CD your limited to only 16bit recording limited to a sound range between 20hz and 20khz. Yes that's our hearing range, but that's not the point.

On vinyl it's what's recorded, CDs are essentially slightly compressed versions of the original, similar to an mp3. When i record records into the PC i use 24bit or 32bit, although a CD then won't take it.  :cry:

underworld - born slippy is a mega tune.

massive attack is a great shout.i cannot single out just one track as the best of all time,but boheimian rhapsody is right up there.
hey jude,you cant always get what you want,always,something inside so strong. all deserve a mention imo

I don't consider Born Slippy 'great', it was too commercial. Cowgirl, Dark and Long (also from Train Spotting) and Pearls Girl are far better. You should listen to them.

Eddie Van Halen - Eruption

This amazes me every time I listen to it and simply for that fact it has to be the greatest.

hmmmmmmm nope.  still think born slippys better than them.

on another note, rolling stone by bob dylan has to be up there aswell.

I like Born Slippy. It has a good cross section of genres of dance music.

but greatest song of all time?have a word fella

Yeah agreed, not greatest of all time.

What about Take that - want you back for good?  :soapy tit wank:

Prodigy - Out Of Space

China in your hands - T'pau :nod:

I have that on my iPod.

good call :thumbs:

 :Ride On Fatbury's Lovestick:

I love bron slippy - on the live album that into Rez is amazing.  Best song ever is so subjective though, personally I love the whole of Simple things by zero7, it's my favouite album but I expect very few people like it let alone rate it as the 'best'.  At the river by groove armada, and gouryella by gouryella are two of my other al time favourite tunes.

I also like Step On by the happy mondays, and Groovy train by The Farm.  :\/

dylan's rolling stone is a classic and a great piece of writing - but i think hendrix did a much better version of it, so the song itself is excellent, but still depends on performance.  

i might provisionally go for little fluffy clouds by the Orb - since i can't imagine anyone covering it better, but then the old nostalgia factor of it reminding me of the outback in Oz may cloud the judgement.  Bohemian Rhapsody must also be up there in the 'can't possibly be improved' status.

actually, i don't know

The theme to Rocky :wink:

Perhaps we need a couple of categories, as Underworld and Prodigy that people mention are class tracks, but not "songs"?

Therefore, imo

Best song - Massive Attack, Unfinished Sympathy
Best track - Grace, Not over yet (the proper original 12" version!)

good shout with rocky - any man that can run up a set of steps whilst humming that without punching the air at the top has likely jumped over a puddle on his way there methinks !

Whigfield - Saturday night has always been close to my heart.

Im also suprised no Oasis tunes have been mentioned.

Just another one i love and i doubt will be mentioned.

Steppenwolf - Magic Carpet Ride. Reminds me of summer and BMX.

You've Lost That Loving Feeling - The Rigtheous Brothers

Rolling Stones - Satisfaction

Elvis Presley - Suspicious Minds

for an all time club classic it has to be,back to life by soul 2 soul.

Best dance song ever released was Cafe Del Mar 98.

No arguments. It's the best.

I get immense nostalgia when i hear it. Reminds me of sunny holidays with mates and boozy summers.

incidentally, just heard the new happy mondays tune on 6 music - pretty good, mr ryder still in good form  (but not the best song ever...)

You have to go a long way to beat the original release of Insomnia from Faithless, the one with the Pompey Chimes on - not the sped garage remix that was out late 90's.

Cafe Del Mar is better in my opinion.

More uplifting and euphoric.

You're not wrong.

For something a little more Old School I love Orbital - Chime is just a pure classic, and Belfast is the most awesome chilled out epic.

I also love this tune. It was also in the film Vanilla sky. So many great dance tunes have been mentioned actually.

Someone mentioned it already but Gouryella is another amazing tune, i love it when the DJ drops that gem.

There is also a great bootleg mix of Mauro Picotto - Lizard Vs Camisra - Let me show you which is just pure genius. First heard it in BCM and went and got it on vinyl and love it!

Does anyone have the pompey chimes version of Insomnia, i cant find it anywhere and love it!

If you get Reverence by Faithless and find the irreverence remix album they include two fantastic versions of Insomnia - both 10 minute epics.

I think Underworlds best three songs are non-album tracks and all off film OSTs Born Slippy (trainspotting), Rez (vanilla sky - although i didn't know that) and 8Ball (the beach).

if we are going down the electronic route then you can't go too far wrong with Radio Babylon, or Original Control by Meat Beat Manifesto - and the chap behind them, called something or other Dangers, is from Swindon I believe..

Can't narrow it down to just one, but here's a few of mine -

Energy 52 - cafe del mar
Massive attack - teardrop
Portishead - roads

Not the green green grass of home?

tempted, by squeeze is another top song

STFCBird,

Not a fan of my own stuff to be honest.

You have good taste my friend.

But then again, you do have a Vestax avatar

I have a Vestax mixer with my SL1200'S. 8)

I have 1210's  :soapy tit wank:

What sort of mixer have you got?

I've got a pcv 275. Quality mixer I got off ebay for 100 quid and some old vestax pdt 5000 decks to go with this.

Play trance mainly and a bit of house although don't get to use them as much as I want as I didn't brink them to uni.

My garage is full of vinyl...hardcore, techno, d'n'b, house - from about 93 onwards. Haven't got my decks anymore though :-(

"YOUR TWISTIN MY MELON MAN!!"  8)

I never have an answer for these sort of questions! He aint haeavy hes my brother by the Hollies has got to be up there!

Just thought of a few more:-

There she goes- The Las
She's s Star- James
Drugs dont work- The Verve
Design for Life- Manic Street Preachers
Dont look back in Anger- Oasis
Everlong- Foo Fighters
Going Underground- The Jam
Get in on- T rex
Bohemian Rhapsody- Queen
My Way- Frank Sinatra

You have gone from "never having a answer for these types of things" to having fucking 10 answers  :D

 :Ride On Fatbury's Lovestick:

not a question that can really be answered in my book

You're not wrong, he used to live down the road from my mate (Dixon Street). Orbital bought their studio round his house and made a load of the brown album in Swindon. Fact.

i refuse to answer this question

thats my point you bastard! i cant answer it! :D

OK. I can answer this question.

The very best song of all time is...

Daydream Believer by The Monkees.


FACT!


End of thread 8)

This is the one - Stone Roses

She bangs the drums, and let's me bang her face, and her bum - Stone Roses, Mega flammableRemix

hercules - aaron nevile

Ace of Spades  8)

I'm struggling with this. I'd change my tune every day to be honest. However, in the spirit of participation...

Comfortably Numb - Pink Floyd

i think the scissor sisters version is much better.infact i find pink floyd massively overrated

I don't really get that whole genre (Pink Floyd) so I would agree.

Scissor Sisters are fucking awful too mind.

 :shock:

I'm appalled by that statement!

i find the pink floyd version boring as fuck,like most of their music.the friutbags version was decent imo

Can i add Jeff Buckley - Hallellujah. Made me cry at my mates grandad funeral last year. My mate played the song, and i cryed like a baby. Also heard the song on R1.

Damn, thats so good it should have been mine.

Stone Roses - I Wanna Be Adored.

Well, that's my choice today, anyway.

 :nod:

Adagio for strings.

either dance or classical and by whoever, a classic everyone knows and I think it strikes a chord with most people.

Either that or Rollin' by Limp Bizkit.

And the band played Waltzing Matilda by the pogues..makes me cry everytime i hear it .

today it is tightrope by the Stone Roseseses.

good man