August 28, 200619 yr The greatest song in the history of the world. Maybe By Anthony Barnes Published: 27 August 2006 It is sung with lager-fuelled gusto by thousands of fans at every Oasis gig. Now "Live Forever" looks set to live up to its title after being named the greatest song of all time. The 12-year-old single, the first to demonstrate that the Gallagher brothers could do tenderness as well as bravado and swagger, has beaten classic tracks by the Beatles, U2 and Queen in a magazine poll of music fans to identify the all-time greats. Oasis pulled off a double feat by taking second place with their song "Wonderwall" in the top 100 compiled by Q magazine from tens of thousands of votes, although the Fab Four landed the most number of entries with six. "Live Forever" peaked only at no 10 in the charts when it was released but has gone on to become one of the band's most enduring songs. When the magazine last held its poll three years ago the track finished in ninth position and the list was topped by U2's "One", a song reduced to fifth place this time around. The magazine, which publishes the poll in its October edition on Tuesday, said of the track: "'Live Forever' doesn't date, satisfying a timeless need for communal joy that only the rock anthem at its best can truly deliver." Noel Gallagher, who wrote the winning song, said: "People said to me after 'Live Forever', where are you gonna go after that. And I was like 'I don't think it's that good'. I think it's a good song, but I think I can do better." The Q Top 10: Live Forever - Oasis; Wonderwall - Oasis; Smells like Teen Spirit - Nirvana; A Day in the Life - the Beatles; One - U2; Bohemian Rhapsody - Queen; Love Will Tear Us Apart - Joy Division; Stairway to Heaven - Led Zeppelin; Bittersweet Symphony - The Verve; Paranoid Android - Radiohead http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/this_britain/article1222079.ece
August 28, 200619 yr Author 100 greatest songs of all time 1 Live Forever – Oasis 2 Wonderwall – Oasis 3 Smells Like Teen Spirit – Nirvana 4 A Day In The Life – The Beatles 5 One – U2 6 Bohemian Rhapsody – Queen 7 Love Will Tear Us Apart – Joy Division 8 Stairway To Heaven – Led Zeppelin 9 Bitter Sweet Symphony – The Verve 10 Paranoid Android – Radiohead 11 Angels – Robbie Williams 12 Like A Rolling Stone – Bob Dylan 13 There Is A light That Never Goes Out – The Smiths 14 London Calling – The Clash 15 Hallelujah – Jeff Buckley 16 Billie Jean – Michael Jackson 17 With Or Without You – U2 18 God Save The Queen – Sex Pistols 19 Comfortably Numb – Pink Floyd 20 Don’t Look Back in Anger – Oasis 21 Good Vibrations – The Beach Boys 22 Sweet Child O’ Mine – Guns n’ Roses 23 Hey Jude – The Beatles 24 Kiss – Prince 25 Imagine – John Lennon 26 Wish You Were Here – Pink Floyd 27 Like A Prayer – Madonna 28 Everybody Hurts – REM 29 Hey Ya – Outkast 30 Creep – Radiohead 31 Strawberry Fields Forever – The Beatles 32 I Wanna Be Adored – The Stone Roses 33 Karma Police – Radiohead 34 Walk This Way – Run DMC featuring Aerosmith 35 Champagne Supernova – Oasis 36 God Only Knows – The Beach Boys 37 I Bet You Look Good On The Dancefloor – Arctic Monkeys 38 Waterloo Sunset – The Kinks 39 Hurt – Johnny Cash 40 Unfinished Sympathy – Massive Attack 41 All Along The Watchtower – Jimi Hendrix Experience 42 Street Spirit (Fade Away) – Radiohead 43 Where The Streets Have No Name – U2 44 Common People – Pulp 45 Life On Mars – David Bowie 46 Anarchy In The UK – The Sex Pistols 47 Mr Brightside – The Killers 48 What’s Going On – Marvin Gaye 49 Teenage Kicks – The Undertones 50 Take Your Mama – Scissor Sisters 51 Fight For Your Right To Party - Beastie Boys 52 Yesterday - The Beatles 53 Suspicious Minds - Elvis Presley 54 Fake Plastic Trees - Radiohead 55 Can’t Get You Out Of My Head - Kylie Minogue 56 How Soon Is Now - The Smiths 57 In My Life - The Beatles 58 Losing My Religion - REM 59 Stan - Eminem 60 Drugs Don’t Work - The Verve 61 Wuthering Heights - Kate Bush 62 Gimme Shelter - The Rolling Stones 63 My Generation - The Who 64 Yellow - Coldplay 65 Monkey Wrench - Foo Fighters 66 I Can’t Get No Satisfacton - The Rolling Stones 67 Fools Gold - The Stone Roses 68 Heroes - David Bowie 69 Blue Monday - New Order 70 Hotel California - Eagles 71 Song 2 - Blur 72 Winner Takes It All - ABBA 73 Shine On You Crazy Diamond - Pink Floyd 74 Kashmir - Led Zepplin 75 Tomorrow Never Knows - The Beatles 76 Babylon - David Gray 77 Californication - Red Hot Chilli Peppers 78 Heart Shaped Box - Nirvana 79 Everybody’s Changing - Keane 80 A Town Called Malice - The Jam 81 The Scientist - Coldplay 82 Superstition - Stevie Wonder 83 Personal Jesus - Depeche Mode 84 7 Nation Army - The White Stripes 85 Voodoo Child - Jimi Hendrix 86 Born To Run - Bruce Springsteen 87 Golden Touch - Razorlight 88 Motor Cycle Emptiness - Manic Street Preachers 89 Sittin On The Dock Of The Bay - Otis Redding 90 There She Goes - The LA’s 91 No Woman, No Cry - Bob Marley 92 Crazy - Gnarls Barkley 93 I Am The Resurrection - The Stone Roses 94 Rocket Man - Elton John 95 Debaser - Pixies 96 Fairy Tale Of New York - The Pogues 97 Last Nite - The Strokes 98 Going Underground - The Jam 99 Killing In The Name - Rage Against The Machine 100 Paranoid - Black Sabbath http://www.thesun.co.uk/article/0,,2-2006390728,00.html
August 29, 200619 yr Dave' date=' you constantly express your dislike for lists like this :\[/quote'] and then you go and make one yourself!! :dozey:
August 29, 200619 yr Author and then you go and make one yourself!! :dozey: Where did it say "created by dave"?
August 29, 200619 yr :stunned: wonderwall on 2nd.......before stairway to heaven....and bohemian rhapsody....wish you were here? No way...
August 29, 200619 yr dreadful list. check Pitchfork if you want quality Wonderwall is overrated, Smells Like Teen Spirit is overrated, One is overrated, Stairway To Heaven is overrated, Angels is overrated 3 Oasis songs in the top 20? and 2 in the top 3??? what an awful music taste
August 29, 200619 yr 37 I Bet You Look Good On The Dancefloor – Arctic Monkeys 47 Mr Brightside – The Killers 50 Take Your Mama – Scissor Sisters 64 Yellow - Coldplay 65 Monkey Wrench - Foo Fighters 87 Golden Touch - Razorlight :lol: especially LOL at Razorlight...Razorlight is like the worst band of our time
August 29, 200619 yr :lol: especially LOL at Razorlight...Razorlight is like the worst band of our time And WHat's up with Scissor Sisters?? THey're pretty cool, but are they really 'best song of all time' material yet?
August 29, 200619 yr Why do people constantly vote for Teen Spirit? Its a good song, but not that good. They've done way better
August 29, 200619 yr I'm laughing my ass of :laugh1: Wonderwall on the second place? Are you kidding?... Are you? Too funny. Oasis is so so far away from my list of the greatest songs that they look like a dot from here.
August 29, 200619 yr I like Oasis, but no way should they have been ahead of so much other amazing music.
August 29, 200619 yr dreadful list. check Pitchfork if you want quality Wonderwall is overrated, Smells Like Teen Spirit is overrated, One is overrated, Stairway To Heaven is overrated, Angels is overrated 3 Oasis songs in the top 20? and 2 in the top 3??? what an awful music taste Stairway to heaven is not overrated..(imo)....just wanted to say that... What?Scissor sisters are also in the list? Damn.......now this is definitely an awful list......I own the scissor sisters album...and damn it sucks.
August 29, 200619 yr A Day In The Life is awesome, I admit. But all other songs in top-five are bullshit, I swear. I don't even like any of them, not talking about calling them the greatest. Creep is on the list but I think ther're many RH songs that deserve to be called the greatest much more, Creep is some kind of overrated too. Johnny Cash's Hurt would be in my top-ten probably, not in my top-fourty. Arctic Monkeys... No comments.
August 29, 200619 yr Stairway to heaven is not overrated..(imo)....just wanted to say that... What?Scissor sisters are also in the list? Damn.......now this is definitely an awful list......I own the scissor sisters album...and damn it sucks. sorry but for me classic rock is so damn boring...Stairway To Heaven does nothing to me back to that list: whoever made this list has taken the most popular artists and their most popular songs...pretty lame if you ask me i'm not even talking about listed covers as "Hallelujah" and "Hurt"...at least they should have mentioned Leonard Cohen and Nine Inch Nails, because after all it's their songs and not Buckley's and Cash's although, i agree that both of these covers are better than the original ones, but still... a fucking mention...
August 29, 200619 yr sorry but for me classic rock is so damn boring...Stairway To Heaven does nothing to me back to that list: whoever made this list has taken the most popular artists and their most popular songs...pretty lame if you ask me i'm not even talking about listed covers as "Hallelujah" and "Hurt"...at least they should have mentioned Leonard Cohen and Nine Inch Nails, because after all it's their songs and not Buckley's and Cash's although, i agree that both of these covers are better than the original ones, but still... a fucking mention... Yess! Thank you! Cohen may not be the best singer...or even a good singer,lol...but he's a damned fine writer deserving of proper credit. Same goes for Trent Rezner. And Buckley and Cash both wrote brilliant songs that should have been on the list instead of half the crap that made it on.
August 30, 200619 yr Live Forever is most certainly not the best song of all time, and Wonderwall in 2nd? Smells Like Teen Spirit in 3rd? Give me a break..... The list is nothing but singles, and that's kind of an insult to these bands, considering the best tracks by any band are usually the ones not on the radio. Is Hurt really Johnny Cash's best song, not even his own? What about Folsom Prison Blues? Smells Like Teen Spirit is definitely not Nirvana's finest moment. Any Nirvana fan would sigh and shake their head at that idea. Stairway To Heaven is a good song, but most certainly not a top ten. And as a massive fan of the Verve, I'd say that Bittersweet Symphony is my least favorite song of theirs, it's such a shame to see the Verve's incredible and innovative music distilled to their most accesible song, when they were never about accesibility at all.
August 30, 200619 yr So nobody was excited that some of the songs weren't complete crap? =O I guess I don't get out much.
August 30, 200619 yr Where did it say "created by dave"? It does no matter..you posted it!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :dozey:
August 30, 200619 yr I can' t believe something like Hey Yeah by Outcast is high on the list. A lot of these artists really shouldn't be that high, or even on there for the matter. :thinking:
August 30, 200619 yr :stunned: wonderwall on 2nd.......before stairway to heaven....and bohemian rhapsody....wish you were here? No way... Yeah it seems unfair, and the amount of Oasis songs in the list makes me think the author is nothing but an Oasis fan... But what pisses me off is Smells Like Teen Spirit 3rd : what's beautiful in this song ? The lyrics are just like others, the music's particularly boring, and long. And just if I listen to it, then Bohemian Rhapsody, Stairway To Heaven, Comfortably Numb, Hallelujah and Wish you Were Here, then I can't imagine how I can agree with this ! The list is nothing but singles' date=' and that's kind of an insult to these bands, considering the best tracks by any band are usually the ones not on the radio.[/quote'] That's right, but there are exceptions : I doubt Shine On You Crazy Diamond was ever on air, 'cause 25 minutes don't really fit in with the radio standards... i'm not even talking about listed covers as "Hallelujah" [...]...at least they should have mentioned Leonard Cohen [...]' date=' because after all it's [his'] song and not Buckley's I can't agree with you on that point. A song means two things : -The music, which is something orchestrated in the way Jeff Buckley chose, and I think it's much more beautiful with one only guitar than with the old orchestra and gospell-sounding backing vocals -The lyrics : Leonhard Cohen only wrote the two first verses of the Hallelujah we all know, Jeff Buckley wrote the rest, changing fundamentally the meaning of the song (Cohen's message is like "I love God, I'll love Him forever", whereas Buckley tells about someone whose life and love made him lose his faith, which is much more tragic) In conclusion I think the author's right to include Jeff Buckley's version of Hallelujah in his (or her) list, because there's not much in common in Cohen's and Buckley's versions. Howerver, this list sucks sooow much ! I can't imagine a journalist or anywone could be proud of writing that.
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