I’ve already heard All Star by Smash Mouth.
Rip Mr mouth
Well the greatest song in the world was famously performed by Jack Black and Kyle Gass, and they can’t remember how it went
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Luckily they wrote a tribute
It might not even be written yet.
I don’t know why, but it just seems so weird that you can go back 30 years and no one would have any awareness of a lot of songs that everyone knows today. They were only up to like Mambo Number 2 or Hey I’ll Think About It! Nickelback didn’t yet exist but if they did, they’d be singing to look at this thing they are doing right now, maybe take a photograph.
Go back 100 years and no one has any awareness of entire genres of music loved by billions today. It was almost an entirely different culture with popular hits like classical music, Take Me Out To The Ballgame, or You Are My Sunshine and other songs that are considered children’s music today.
In fact, the odds are you will never hear the song you’d like best.
There’s sort of an observer effect at play too though.
The more you hear it, the less interesting it is to you. The song doesn’t change, but your perception does, and you develop an acquired taste in music that way.
While true for some songs, others grow on you or stay good for eternity. My favourite all-time song hasn’t changed in 30 years: Black (Colin Vearncombe) - Wonderful Life
That song had a revival recently. I don’t remember hearing it when it came out, but it has been on my coworkers radio every day for the last couple of months. Maybe it has been on a TV show or something. Great song.
In the past two decades there’s been a bunch covers that I know of (or just learned of):
- Ace of Base
- Seeed
- Zucchero (didn’t even know about this one until now)
- Katie Melua
- Smith & Burrows (the one you heard on your coworker’s radio?)
- Imany (or did you hear this one?)
and then a bunch of electronic music mixes.
I love that song since the 80s; and for a long time - until the early 2000s I knew no covers - so I am very happy that there’s a lot of tributes to Black with lots of different styles :)
I just heard it again my radio on my way home. I still don’t know why it’s so suddenly popular again right now and it’s puzzling me.
Anyway, it has stood the test of time, and I think that’s about the only way to actually find the greatest songs.
I just heard it again my radio on my way home. I still don’t know why it’s so suddenly popular again right now and it’s puzzling me.
Which version, though? :) That sounds like you mean the original?
Anyway, it has stood the test of time, and I think that’s about the only way to actually find the greatest songs.
I suppose it’s one way to judge them :) But yes, that’s why my favourite has not changed for over 30 years - I don’t get tired of it. Much like this one.
PS
I know, without autoplay it’s not the same, but I didn’t want to use a youtube-link - f*ck google ;)
Yes, the original keeps playing on radio stations near me for some reason.
(Even the piped link gave away the “WqXcQ” in the url)
I have NewPipe installed, so YouTube links automatically open in that instead.(YouTube must be disabled as default app).That’s the best fix that I know for that issue.
Also, NewPipe works great because it keeps playing when the screen is off and so, so I highly recommend it if you have issues with Google.
(Even the piped link gave away the “WqXcQ” in the url)
well I was serious, I was basically saying “I never mind if someone rickrolls me, because I’ve been enjoying that song since I first heard it on Vinyl in the 80s” :) so it was a kind of “reverse rickroll” - in that I actually meant to link the song for being good :)
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I know exactly what genres to listen for and make an effort to explore new artists and smaller labels
Recently found this: https://youtu.be/y5rYNIE10bw
Now my favourite song of the year at least
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But there are also many that are “among the greatest I will ever hear”.
Doubtful. I already own Echolyn’s “Mei”. Hard to believe there’s any song I’d like more.
That being said, I’m always on the lookout for new music. I’d love to find a song better than “Mei”, despite how impossible that seems to me.
Reminds me of a saying, “that some of the best days of our lives haven’t happened yet”.
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Well, share one with us.
I mean, it’s a remix but here you go:
https://open.spotify.com/track/6XD36xYffz7s98FhxidvOI?si=Qyj9Xc5yQ3m5BKfacs6ARQ
And ik also diggin this:
https://open.spotify.com/track/0DsFdhimhkfSGEuBqY5kwE?si=gkyl_ZEZTgC5NiogUkXxHw
Well anyway, here’s wonderwall
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Sorry I disagree. Barbie girl - Aqua has already been written, and most people know it.
I was gonna go with Macarena, it has a dance!
Oh good one. I think I agree.
Nope. I’m pretty sure everyone has heard that chumbawumba song.
Pissing the night awayyy…
I just heard of reverend beat-man from watching righteous gemstones. That song black metal is sick
This is true, I’m 43 and just discovered Gang if Four Entertainment! and its like my favorite album now, and that album is at least as old as I am.
