question for bounty c**ter

[robbie]

Bounty, what do you think is the greatest song ever written and why?

Anyone else feel free to answer this question.

[loulou]

robbie i feel you are up to your old mischief again.

[wjp666]

OK, I ADMIT IT! I AM BOUNTY HUNTER! TIZ TRUE! in that case, my fave song is 'YMCA', by those lovely, strapping lads in the nifty uniforms.

Don't listen to him, he doesn't have my finesse.

I think the greatest song ever written is 'What a wonderful World' when sung by Louis Armstrong.

[goldencup]

Not bad, and here's an opportunity to say 'gosh!' again Bounty - my string quartet play this a lot at weddings!

[oldspice]

The greatest song ever written is very difficult to answer for me because I would have to ask several questions. Am I going for lyrics?melody? originality? Are we talking pop songs? Classics? Blues? Rock?

Ideally, I would have to have a song for each category but all in all, if asked to choose a final song - I would have to say that the combination of blues, originality, orchestration and melody would point, for me, to House of the Rising Sun by The Animals.

 

[smurfboy]

'Saturday Night' by Whigfield. It captures so perfectly the youthful exuberance only the promise a weekend of freedom can create. And Sandi Carlson's performance is a triumph of understated emotion.

[loulou]

I agree smurfy

[oldspice]

Here is a list of my favourite songs for all sorts of reasons:

Tears of a Clown - Smokey Robinson

Seven Seas of Rye - Queen

I Got you Babe - Sonny and Cher

Ever Fallen in Love (with someone you shouldn't have fallen in love with) - Buzzcocks

I Don't Like Mondays - Boomtown Rats

Love Will Tear Us Apart - Joy Division

Freebird - Lynard Skynard

Yesterday - Beatles

The Last Time - Rolling Stones

Lay Lady Lay - Bob Dylan

Knocking On Heaven's Door - Bob Dylan

Day Dream Believer - Monkees

Giving It All Away - Rger Daltry

Benny and the Jets - Elton John

 

Loads more but can't think of them all right now

 

[robbie]

Some good songs there Oldspice.

House of the Rising Sun is a traditional song, and Bob Dylan gave it the melody that The Animals adopted.

I think 'Like a Rolling Stone' is the greatest song ever written.  It is incomprehensive that a human mind could come up with the lyrics in that song, it is so good.

I suggest you read them Hunter, before spouting any moye nonsense.  Louis Armstrong, what a joke! 

[robbie]

I like your Boomtown Rats, Buzzcocks and Joy Division picks Oldspice, however I'm surprised you picked Bennie and the Jets over some of the other songs from Goodbye Yellow Road.

[oldspice]

Tnaks Robbie. Goodbuye Yellow Brick Road is indeed a good album and the title track is especially good.

I thought of some more:

Whisky In The Jar - Thin Lizzy

Children of The Revolution - T Rex

Concrete and Clay - Unit 4+2

Handbags and Gladrags - Chris Farlow (the best version ever - played really loud)

Going Underground - The Jam

London Calling - The Clash

Time in a Bottle - Jim Croce

Dock of the Bay - Otis Redding

You'll Never Walk Alone - Gerry & Pacemakers

AND - anything by Janis Ian, Dusty Springfield, Rod Stewart

 

[robbie]

Wow, you have good taste in music.  Shall we sleep together?

[loulou]

Better than bounty's chat up line .