So what are some of the very best songs (that you like) that are out there?
mines:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0e1UPfxTe0Ihttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=njPWBTIv9qw
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V833_R9LQDwhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FOspPv_B1Eohttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y80XM_k-0u4http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FmbCf88XxIMhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ifLOymfeIB4&feature=relatedhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nba3Tr_GLZUhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sykzo1QpSlEhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aPq5dd1SEzchttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gXd6zOw99hQhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gh5ogOH82Aw&feature=artisthttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uLifSFBs_Lk&feature=artisthttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AEYN5w4T_aM&feature=artisthttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mA5bvQP1bdw&feature=artisthttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LapknbGS7Oshttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F2ocXxLvCpIhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lO9a0ThbAGEhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3IyWBnkzhAg[/youtubehttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FX2xLuk1SlIhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V0UcQDUR-fUhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JwWRUVVadQg[/youtubehttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eSMeUPFjQHchttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tn0GD672OOQhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MrSqeS8Ya-E
The Misfits
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1fNu-_TP9Z8
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cJCfxi7IiqQ
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=feHSphlDDAI&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oP7wHOHYCdc&feature=related
Smoke From A Distant Fire- Sanford Townsend Band
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xy8ba2eL7cI
Hey Ya!- Outkast
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PWgvGjAhvIw&ob=av2e
Jackie Wilson Said- Van Morrison
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tGNtWVj8FKo&feature=related
December 1963 (Oh, What A Night)- Four Seasons
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wD7LNDLKfWY
Freeze-Frame- J. Geils Band
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eLhlDnapLr8
Lady- Little River Band
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PL358uz56KM
Stone In Love- Journey
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kFqXFE8OSG4&feature=related
Anytime- Journey
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T6Vl9eMVB8o
Never Been Any Reason- Head East
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=viovOqK9df4&feature=related
Killing Joke - Sanity
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k0LFHYaRyuM
Swans - In The Eyes Of Nature
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HiqiMPejJ9o
Talk Talk - New Grass
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LuYNidNgQic
Iron Maiden - Sea Of Madness
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AG3jIqlZmFM
Paradise Lost - Yearn For Change
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jnbkOMxcMqQ
Godflesh - I Wasn't Born To Follow
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jk4co0DDN5Y
Carcass - Reek Of Putrefaction
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=keTIqFKmYVc
There are many, many others that I can't think of off the top of my head right now.
random great OLD metal songs \m/
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dwqvpI3--_c&p=50308C52D3CDD006&playnext=1&index=35
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d3P1ZOyhxMs
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IM8qDhpViJQ
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0zNHFxZjBUk
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=baQDgcFr0Rc
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M8WFl4Mo1yM&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DJdOkuDfzfg
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9S80QyPYxs0
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0UbS7puncnk
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ZZVlFdk5UU
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f6Bg-F_Eidshttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s05jcrJw0as
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UPuXvpkOLmMhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GDeuiosLPIM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dtGKHNBsU7Ehttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UqtIQTR2A2o
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=joB2-baMCBghttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BaeNelsAOGo
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CySYwZNH65Ihttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OhvW8xyZd1c
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LRqUONe_aAIhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lTReiG-dlDk
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qxOVltjtOuk
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HmX0Avzv6RI
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rek8bbn3kJE
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YZRwZmzrLlc
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fTtoxsMdrfg
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ok5YX8B9FAQ
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EpvBCjYMOdk
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7DC4ndGb5Pk
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KkS2sOrgrKs
I listen to a lot of different types of music, and tend to gravitate to bands that are almost pure noise.
However, I think this following song is one of the best I've ever heard. Structurally, it is sound, and at the same time almost pop perfection. I can't fault this song at all.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z6vghSLxCyI
Get Back by The Beatles
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-6G7MkBMVxE
Big Girls Don't Cry by Frankie Valli and The Four Seasons
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W2s54WNBwiI
Bring the Noise by Public Enemy and Anthrax- I like the original too...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RBA-xi8WuCU
White and Nerdy by "Weird Al" Yankovic
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N9qYF9DZPdw
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cTgGYr-INqc
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1hYIlH4nOEo
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GZr3u69Xy7s
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oiomcuNlVjk
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mT914z1X2mw
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lXWq3f01e2U
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RDSx41ORH9w
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lq8i2i2ZRHA
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eUP33EAb9NI
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XBxlAATrd-E
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZojdZGkojas
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j2TADt0y5h8
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qhtgxS6z9yo
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wQmB4whesT0
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OTVANp6Psd4
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aTFG_E-l8og
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h-EaWRqikAg
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ClQcUyhoxTg
(Blue Oyster Cult is my all-time favorite band! I'm so excited because they're coming to a venue about 15 minutes away from my house in February 2011!)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3VPLOVJ0u94
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lh3JC4OWUaA
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xgcxd9wtXUE
I could probably think of at least 30 more within a few minutes.
More:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RDnlU6rPfwY
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uMVnEGcMsFs
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bHzIG_iZRWY
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p-W6k_jpcuk
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-LOgMWbDGPA
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ixqbc7X2NQY
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7UhagNHYx0k
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KgUw6t3b6oE
The Adicts - Viva la revolution
NoFX - its my job to keep punk rock elite
NoFX- Monosylabic girl
Dead Kennedys- Kepone Factory
Jello Biafra and the Quantanamo School of Medicine - New Feudalism
Bad Religion- The Resist Stance
The Reaganomics - Semi-Productive
The Exploited - USA
Bad Brains - Big Take Over
Youth Brigade - I hate My Life
Bad Brains - Pay to Cum
The Misfits- Vampira
Iron Maiden - Paschendale
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UkPhKjqnKIA
Megaherz - Gott Sein '04
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KMU0Ca-RP08
Eisbrecher - Eisbrecher (AMV, I dislike them but all I could find for the song).
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=smnxAm4D7qI
Eisbrecher - Wilkommen im Nichts
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w4mv7BuZ6Xs
In Extremo - Der Galgen
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HYQeai1fAm0
In Extremo - Horizont
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ugfDWvR4Bis
Garmarna - Varulven
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3qatvLZqUGg
Garmarna - Herr Holger
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pjmq6KI0D_o&feature=related
Aria - Shtil
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vSUKks6V0Ts
There isn't a lot of media out there in any form where I would be tempted to choose a favorite, but I genuinely love the song "Under Pressure" by Queen. It's plaintive cry for love and compassion in a world of cynicism and apathy means more to me every day. (Plus, the video has the rat-bat-spider in it!)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xtrEN-YKLBM
On the flip side of the coin, loneliness, I think the Statler Brothers' "Flowers on the Wall" is a phenomenal song. A song whose appeal crosses generations.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1s8nRL2bPCU