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Re: Best song(s) ever written/recorded by Human Beings...

Post by El Rhino » Sat Jul 12, 2008 5:13 pm

@nonymous wrote:in this thread you will nominate what you feel is the best song ever written and recorded--keeping in mind social/historical context, lyrical content, musicianship, and overall goodness for each artist/song(e.g. i don't care how many good songs Screwdriver has, their oppressive WP lyrics overshadow any musical ability the band may have).

If I can't pick Skrewdriver, I guess I'll have to go with "Coon Shootin' Boogie" by Rahowa.

But seriously, I'm going to have to go with "Amazing Grace". No one wants "Arsonist's Prayer" played at their funeral. This song is probably the most popular song in the English speaking world and has been for a long time now for good reason. This song played on bagpipes makes the hair on the back of my neck stand up and it has a similar effect on well, almost everybody. No other song that I know of evokes as much emotion out of as many people as "Amazing Grace". http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bkERrvhO ... re=related

On the subject of Beethoven, I'll throw in "Ode to Joy" from his 9th, especially when done by a solo female vocalist.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DAmwKJsu ... re=related

I'll also add "La Marseillaise", the French National Anthem http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4K1q9Ntcr5g
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Post by annie_fannie » Sat Jul 12, 2008 7:54 pm

robdigi wrote:people say jackfuck all over the place. hardly iowa slang. jackfuck.
i haven't heard anyone use it in idaho...of course i don't really hang out with hipster doofuses out here either.

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Post by Varg » Sat Jul 12, 2008 8:10 pm

epic return.
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Post by annie_fannie » Sat Jul 12, 2008 8:35 pm

Varg wrote:epic return.
kisses, vargie-poo.

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Post by @nonymous » Sat Jul 12, 2008 11:28 pm

varg wrote:It would have to have be done by not only a great composer, but also a master ORCHESTRATOR. You know, someone who actually knows something about music.
one does not need to jerk off daily to the circle of fifths, as you do varg, to be a good composer. furthermore, though the song(s) could be written by a solo artist, often great music is composed by collectives--not the work of some master orchestrator as you wrongly suggested.

of course, your response didn't even fit in context to the initial thread which stated to "keep in mind social/historical context, lyrical content, musicianship, and overall goodness for each artist". there are plenty of technically talented musicians out there, but certain artists are able to capture people's hearts and minds where other's fail(you, for example).
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Re: Best song(s) ever written/recorded by Human Beings...

Post by Thom » Sun Jul 13, 2008 2:13 am

annie_fannie wrote:i haven't heard anyone use it in idaho...of course i don't really hang out with hipster doofuses out here either.
I still REALLY want to play pokemon with you. let me know about the next time you will be in the area, and I'll do the same when I'm in idaho.

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Post by Hank Fist » Sun Jul 13, 2008 11:40 am

annie_fannie wrote:
robdigi wrote:people say jackfuck all over the place. hardly iowa slang. jackfuck.
i haven't heard anyone use it in idaho...of course i don't really hang out with hipster doofuses out here either.
I've called two beings in my lifetime jackfuck. 1.My dog 2. Varg
Now name a fucking song, bitches.

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Post by Hank Fist » Sun Jul 13, 2008 11:44 am

storkus wrote:
Varg wrote:"I Thought You Were My Boyfriend"-The Magnetic Fields
You're the smallest little person I know of.
Oh, i guess Varg already did.
Not that into the i album, do like the Highway Strip one though.

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Post by annie_fannie » Sun Jul 13, 2008 3:17 pm

Thom wrote:
annie_fannie wrote:i haven't heard anyone use it in idaho...of course i don't really hang out with hipster doofuses out here either.
I still REALLY want to play pokemon with you. let me know about the next time you will be in the area, and I'll do the same when I'm in idaho.
and i think i told you, i'm strictly a D&D girl.

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Post by Thom » Sun Jul 13, 2008 5:58 pm

annie_fannie wrote:
Thom wrote:
annie_fannie wrote:i haven't heard anyone use it in idaho...of course i don't really hang out with hipster doofuses out here either.
I still REALLY want to play pokemon with you. let me know about the next time you will be in the area, and I'll do the same when I'm in idaho.
and i think i told you, i'm strictly a D&D girl.

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Re: Best song(s) ever written/recorded by Human Beings...

Post by Joey Chaos » Sun Jul 13, 2008 6:21 pm

Soulja Boy - Tell 'Em.


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Post by Joe » Sun Oct 12, 2008 2:14 am

So it's been decided that Arsonist's Prayer is the best hardcore song ever?

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Re: Best song(s) ever written/recorded by Human Beings...

Post by JoePreppy » Sun Oct 12, 2008 9:47 am

annie_fannie wrote: i haven't heard anyone use it in idaho...of course i don't really hang out with hipster doofuses out here either.
I imagine it's hard to find the time to hear new words when you're busy suckin off random dudes for spare change...in Idaho?

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Re: Best song(s) ever written/recorded by Human Beings...

Post by Potter » Sun Oct 12, 2008 1:49 pm

"Sideways Machine" by Dead Low Tide (Spencer Moody's pre Murder City Devils post Hookers band)

I don't know about musically (I mean its GOOD, but I've heard better from the MCD boys) but lyrically this song is just killing me. The whole album is really good, a lot of Moody's nautical character themed songs, if you're into that. I know thats usually what gets me with his stuff.

I got a friend with deep, deep pockets
He reaches into his pockets and pulls out crazy
My friends spreads crazy, crazy, crazy

I'll show you privelage
I'll show you gray gardens


Its probably more of personal than cultural significance though. Although our generation, man. . .

Eh, I haven't slept in 36 hours, I really can't make constructive calls like that right now.

I can't think of my Best Ever selection right now. I'll get back to you.
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Post by @nonymous » Sun Oct 12, 2008 2:44 pm

joe wrote:So it's been decided that Arsonist's Prayer is the best hardcore song ever?

-Joe.
yes, best hardcore song at least. it wins for both musicianship and lyrical content.

see for yourself: http://rs291.rapidshare.com/files/13379 ... n-MCNO.rar

The horror--that we may not live.
We may not live
To see the walls fall from between us
Between us and the world for which these songs cry out.

That the desire--which still lives--to contest, a mark of shame upon certain foreheads.
Will remain an offering unto the dead: illegible, irrelevant.
And we will be shaped into priestly statues in poses of defiance before our own masters.
To softly, safely sing the praises of a disarmed war, a lukewarm love.
So lest we fall out of lust for life, let us risk all we have to risk.
For only a fool--only a fool--would cling to this world as it is.

If I could strike one blow to spite their force, though I might bear one hundred more, I would wear the welts like rubies, and the shackles for a crown. And if I had one hundred hearts I would throw them all before their bullets before I'd sell a single one to wield their power.
So lest we fall out of love with life, let us give all we have to give.
For only, a fool would cling to this world:

Autumn--the leaves fell.
Then the trees
Became Fences and factories
Now winter is coming
Let's put the heat on

...but no fire or ice, their absences suffice.
The nights now will be long and cold, with a silence like you've never known
And you'll shake in it. cry out at it, but it will wrap you in its spider's thread
Perhaps you'll stare into that blankness until it peers back into you
And both of you see nothing--and it will wrap you in its spider's thread:
That blessed are the wombs that are barren. Blessed are the branches that bear no fruit. Blessed are the rivers run dry. For we have come to the end of the world
To die

So die--die and become--perish, let go and be done with all the tangled threads that keep you tied to husks of false hopes, fossilized.
If these years still wait for those who will be more merciless than history to burn the chaff and make an end, to make the fields fertile once again
Then break--break the skin,
Open--open, and reach in
And draw the nerves out taught to play a song upon those tight strings
Such as this world has never heard
Let it be dirge, hymn, or dance, vomit or tears, absolving snowfall or acid rain
Summer that sets fire to the harvest, or ice age that, thawing, blossoms crimson pain pleasure or death, splendour or rust, flash flood or drought that turns jungles to crust
Those tender caresses for which the skin aches
Or tear gas to breathe and plate glass to break
The uproar of riot, the hush of nightfall, or sirens announcing the doom of us all
The triumph of failures who fought at all costs, or despair of derelict dreamers who lost
Silence and space--hungers to be--momentary eternities
The furrows of ash left by passion and wrath
The faithless fixed stars over our wandering paths
As the moon moves the sea we could move these mountains
As comets drop to earth, so might empires end
As old suns explode rather than fall to dust
Let us steal fire and pay with our lives if we must
For if all this world is God's, and man a mere plaything of laws and things
Then why not raze it all, and in destroying at least set sail on borrowed wing?
Anything other than what we have known
Strike the match, take a breath now--the hour has come
To dance the resistance, teach tied tongues to sing:
This is the end of the calendar, the Last Loosening!
Around and inside you, the violence you fear--for or against it, it's already here
It forged the cord that bound you to the ground--it built these walls
LET'S BURN THEM DOWN
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Re: Best song(s) ever written/recorded by Human Beings...

Post by baron.von.wasteland » Sun Oct 12, 2008 5:04 pm

ORION, by Cliff Burton.
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Post by Smoking Guns » Sun Oct 12, 2008 8:13 pm

Potter wrote:"Sideways Machine" by Dead Low Tide (Spencer Moody's pre Murder City Devils post Hookers band)
dead low tide was post murder city devils.

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Post by Potter » Sun Oct 12, 2008 10:31 pm

ah god damn. you're right. i'm so tired.
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Post by Hank Fist » Mon Oct 13, 2008 10:06 am

"In Your Eyes"

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Post by Zaphod Beeblebrox » Mon Oct 13, 2008 2:15 pm

Folsom Prison Blues - Cash

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Post by El Rhino » Mon Oct 13, 2008 2:38 pm

Zaphod Beeblebrox wrote:Folsom Prison Blues - Cash


Jetson, you're fired!

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Post by inx515xhell » Mon Oct 13, 2008 8:54 pm

JUDAS PRIEST - TYRANT

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Post by inx515xhell » Mon Oct 13, 2008 8:57 pm

actually i meant DUST - PULL AWAY

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