One song.

[ummmm]

Could you pick one song as the best ever?

A song that doesn't have an emotional connection to...

Mine...Pink Floyd - Wall.

Because it was the song that introduced me to music. Before then I'd only listened to the Fureys and Dolly Parton.

[237SJ]

Without a doubt, Sex Machine by James Brown.

[dotty.]

I don't understand the question :(

[Arksided]

Pink Floyd the wall album is one of my favourites, to choose one song from it for me would be impossible.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cFevDtxbBHM

[ummmm]

237 did :-)

C'mon Dot...your best Garth song. You have one choice.

[mk1975]

celine dion's my life will go on, Titanic's song. i love it.

[erin-x]

I have hundreds of 'favourite' songs but this is always the first one to pop into my head :-)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mzy_BEzlHWI

[rockyracoon]

God, this is a toughie, as soon as I suggest one and hit submit I'll think of another, here goes

Saturday Night Fever - The Bee Gees.

It introduced me to disco better than most of the earlier stuff. I never get fed up of hearing it.

[tonyav]

Tainted Love, Gloria Jones. First record I heard played on my first visit to Wigan Casino 1974.

[andy-hughes]

I think the most perfect pop song ever written, arranged, and sung is 'Walk On By' by Dionne Warwick.

[tonyav]

Great song, andy.

[sherminator]

This is too tough to name one. But one of my favourite ever pieces of music is An Ending by brian Eno.

if you turn it up it is very demanding on speakers so you'll want to hear it on a good stereo but there really is something magical about it.

Love piece of my heart but I prefer the Franklin version.

[Backdrifter]

You mean, NOT one we'd pick because of an emotional attachment, but one on its own merits outside of that? I suppose quite a few people would have trouble with that as their 'best ever' song might be BECAUSE it has an emotional dimension.

Penny Lane is for me in many ways a perfect pop song. It does a thing I love in music - musically it's going along very bright and catchy in the verse then makes that slight unexpected turn (e.g. just after "...pleasure to have known..."), and the song as a whole creates an entire picture in my head. McCartney seemed to brim with this stuff, it was as natural as breathing, and though the word has long been over-used to death I'd suggest it's a kind of genius. It's partly why I've always resisted the "Lennon was the cool one" lobby, and why I'm not quick to join in condemning Macca for his most recent under-par performances. I'm always inhibited by thinking "Yeah, but he was in the Beatles and wrote Penny Lane, and that".

The Carpet Crawlers by Genesis could be my favourite rock song, really atmospheric and with a hint of tension. And was apparently knocked off by Peter Gabriel in a hurry because he was late and there was a gap in the album. It shows they weren't the noodling prog band they're sometimes painted as and could quickly come up with a 5-minute gem. Planet Telex by Radiohead comes close too, I'm a huge fan of theirs and that one was what made me a fan, a bit like The Wall making ummmm a Floyd fan. It has pretty much every dynamic and texture I love in rock music. (Possible other thread: what song made you a fan of that band?).

I'd have to put in a mention for Glen Campbell's version of Witchita Lineman as well. The music on its own makes me well up - such a haunting quality and beautifully crafted.

[sp1814]

ummm

I've thought about this and recompiled my favourites list in my head over and over again, but the top five always remain the same ('Walk On By' by Dionne Warwick, as andy-hughes has mentioned is in there because I think on all levels - vocals, writing, arrangement, production - it's a masterpiece).

However, the song I would choose as the 'best ever' (and by that I mean my favourite song which I also think is a masterpiece) is 'Being Boring by Pet Shop Boys.

There was an article forwarded to me by a mate which accurately sums up the song for me:

http://www.guardian.c...hop-boys-being-boring

[Mick-Talbot]

PSB's = coma

I am watching them now on sky arts1 ....the wife has fell to sleep ;0)

[craft1948]

Not usually a favourite of mine but I loved the Boomtown Rat's album The Fine Art of Surfacing...............

[gness]

Joan Baez.....Wildwood Flower. The first song I heard by JB and started my fifty year love affair with her and her voice.

[Mick-Talbot]

All down hill from there though Crafty

[BRIGHT SPARK]

Squonk by Genesis