Author Topic: Masterpiece songs (Read 3695 times)

Derzyjudek · « **on:** September 28, 2009, 08:33:57 PM »

What are the songs that will stand out for ever,that are so good,so original,so perfect that they could be described as a musical masterpiece,a work of genius.

Here is my nomination...

Kate Bush-Wuthering Heights

Written by Bush when she was 18, the song is based on the novel of the same name. Kate Bush was inspired to write the song by the last ten minutes of the 1970 film version of Wuthering Heights. She then read the book and discovered that she shares her birthday (July 30) with Emily Bronte. Bush reportedly wrote the song, for her album The Kick Inside, within the space of just a few hours late at night.

I just think it is one of the greatest songs of all time and still sounds just as fresh today,many have tried to cover it but none come close to the original,it reached number one in many countries but amazingly peaked at number 108 in the U.S.

Incidentally,she was discovered by another of my musical heroes,Dave Gilmour.

Phil M · « **Reply #1 on:** September 28, 2009, 08:43:35 PM »

Pink Floyd - Wish You Were Here
Neil Young - Heart Of Gold
Bob Dylan - Blowin' in the wind
Marvin Gaye - What's going on?
The Beach Boys - Wouldn't It be Nice?
The Beatles - Strawberry Fields

djibril · « **Reply #2 on:** September 28, 2009, 08:49:45 PM »

For me,

Masterplan - Oasis
Looking Glass - The La's

Phil M · « **Reply #3 on:** September 28, 2009, 08:51:19 PM »

You'll Never Walk Alone - Gerry & The Pacemakers

Agger · « **Reply #4 on:** September 28, 2009, 08:53:19 PM »

to be honest

Fix You - Coldplay. Best song ever IMO and a timeless master-piece.
Hallelujah is another obvious song and YNWA

The G in Gerrard · « **Reply #5 on:** September 28, 2009, 08:53:33 PM »

Talk tonight - Oasis

Ciara (with a capital "C") · « **Reply #6 on:** September 28, 2009, 08:55:03 PM »

Songs that really scream masterpieces to me are:

Zepllin - Stairway to Heaven
Bowie - Space Oddity
Eagles - Hotel California

Not necessarily my favourite songs by those bands/artists, but always find myself going "Wow..." when listening to them.

Damo58 · « **Reply #7 on:** September 28, 2009, 09:01:28 PM »

Quote from: Agger on September 28, 2009, 08:53:19 PM

to be honest

Fix You - Coldplay.

Really can't stand that song. Bland, silly lyrics and silly falsetto.

Party Phil · « **Reply #8 on:** September 28, 2009, 09:02:01 PM »

Quote from: Agger on September 28, 2009, 08:53:19 PM

Fix You - Coldplay. Best song ever IMO and a timeless master-piece.

Captain-Carra · « **Reply #9 on:** September 28, 2009, 09:10:12 PM »

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XhN-iQQhSaA&feature=related

Bruce Springsteen - The Promise

This song is almost perfect for me. Sounds so full of "promise" but sung with a deep sense of sadness. Sums up how we all grow up with dreams and ambitions, yet somewhere life never turns out the way we want

"I won big once and I hit the coast
But somehow I paid the big cost
Inside I felt like I was carryin' the broken spirits
Of all the other ones who lost
When the promise is broken you go on living
But it steals something from down in your soul
Like when the truth is spoken and it don't make no difference
Something in your heart goes cold"

Derzyjudek · « **Reply #10 on:** September 28, 2009, 09:13:13 PM »

Quote from: djibril on September 28, 2009, 08:49:45 PM

Looking Glass - The La's

I can honestly say ive never heard that before,just listened to it on youtube.....amazing song...cheers for that.

Paul JH · « **Reply #11 on:** September 28, 2009, 09:13:47 PM »

Sharpen Up The Knives - Puressence

"... be sincere, whether you mean it or not, It's alright."

Criminally underated.

Phil M · « **Reply #12 on:** September 28, 2009, 09:14:07 PM »

Quote from: The G in Gerrard on September 28, 2009, 08:53:33 PM

Talk tonight - Oasis

Right that's it I'm off.

Filler. · « **Reply #13 on:** September 28, 2009, 09:17:07 PM »

Nigh on 100 years of recorded music and we have Oasis and Coldplay nominated already for a 'masterpiece' going on here.

OK, so it's difficult to file down and chisel the meaning of what exactly is a masterpiece, but come on.

I've got an original Plum & Orange Atlantic label pressing of Aretha Franklin's 'Aretha Now' LP... mid 50's, so it's getting on, but I doubt there's a song in my vinyl collection that lights up as bright as 'I Say A Little Prayer' when I drop my duff needle on top of my duff 20 year old turntable. They just sing. The song comes 2nd on side A after her classic 'Respect' tune, but Say a Prayer just dwarfes it.

Now Youtube ain't gonna do my orange and plums justice, but still..

<a href="http://www.youtube-nocookie.com/v/STKkWj2WpWM&hl=en&fs=1&" target="_blank" class="new_win">http://www.youtube-nocookie.com/v/STKkWj2WpWM&hl=en&fs=1&</a>

AndoNagasaki · « **Reply #14 on:** September 28, 2009, 09:25:11 PM »

The Who - Baba O'Riley
The Small Faces - Odgens Nut Gone Flake
The Beatles - A Day In The Life
The Jam - In The City
Joy Division - Atmosphere
The Stone Roses - I Am the Resurrection (or Fools Gold)

Eluamous · « **Reply #15 on:** September 28, 2009, 09:28:54 PM »

Quote from: Captain-Carra on September 28, 2009, 09:10:12 PM

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XhN-iQQhSaA&feature=related

Bruce Springsteen - The Promise

This song is almost perfect for me. Sounds so full of "promise" but sung with a deep sense of sadness. Sums up how we all grow up with dreams and ambitions, yet somewhere life never turns out the way we want

"I won big once and I hit the coast
But somehow I paid the big cost
Inside I felt like I was carryin' the broken spirits
Of all the other ones who lost
When the promise is broken you go on living
But it steals something from down in your soul
Like when the truth is spoken and it don't make no difference
Something in your heart goes cold"

Amazing song, especially when you contrast it to the optimism of Thunder Road.

Derzyjudek · « **Reply #16 on:** September 28, 2009, 09:35:07 PM »

Quote from: Paul JH on September 28, 2009, 09:13:47 PM

Sharpen Up The Knives - Puressence

Another first for me...stunning stuff....fuck me people on here have good taste!

djibril · « **Reply #17 on:** September 28, 2009, 09:41:34 PM »

Quote from: Derzyjudek on September 28, 2009, 09:13:13 PM

I can honestly say ive never heard that before,just listened to it on youtube.....amazing song...cheers for that.

Just stuck it on again myself, hadn't heard it in a while, love it. Think I'll dig the album back out for work tomorrow!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wjo9CwDKRls

The G in Gerrard · « **Reply #18 on:** September 28, 2009, 09:57:55 PM »

Quote from: Phil M on September 28, 2009, 09:14:07 PM

Right that's it I'm off.

Cochise · « **Reply #19 on:** September 28, 2009, 10:20:50 PM »

Queen - Bohemian Rhapsody
Supertramp - Soapbox Opera

Paul JH · « **Reply #20 on:** September 28, 2009, 10:29:28 PM »

Quote from: Derzyjudek on September 28, 2009, 09:35:07 PM

Another first for me...stunning stuff....fuck me people on here have good taste!

Check out their album, Only Forever. It's a cracker.

OR, check out the tracks -
India, from their debut album, Puressence http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gyIpfctAikw and...
Make Time from their album Planet Helpless or, in future -
Our Number Is Oracle off their best of album (out October 21st), its the song of the year for me!

All classic songs, and shit all over the media darling bands that have made it big.

So criminal they aren't more well known.

Degs · « **Reply #21 on:** September 28, 2009, 10:38:09 PM »

In my life by the beatles would be my nomination but my favourite song is:

<a href="http://www.dailymotion.com/swf/x414hy" target="_blank" class="new_win">http://www.dailymotion.com/swf/x414hy</a>

Brentie · « **Reply #22 on:** September 28, 2009, 10:40:57 PM »

Archive- Again
Archive- Lights
Bob Dylan- The Ballad of a thin man
The Doors- The End
Pink Floyd- Echoes + The final cut

Party Phil · « **Reply #23 on:** September 28, 2009, 10:45:26 PM »

Quote from: Degs on September 28, 2009, 10:38:09 PM

In my life by the beatles would be my nomination but my favourite song is:

both excellent choices

Billy The Kid. · « **Reply #24 on:** September 28, 2009, 11:00:57 PM »

Stairway to Heaven
Hotel California
Goodnight Saigon
Little Wing
Tiny Dancer
Comfortably Numb
Life On Mars
Romeo & Juliet
My Way
Nothing Else Matters
Times are a changin'

Ziltoid · « **Reply #25 on:** September 28, 2009, 11:01:41 PM »

Subdivisions - Rush

Dam · « **Reply #26 on:** September 28, 2009, 11:01:49 PM »

Agree with loads of the comments in here so far, and I'd like to ad:

Led Zep: Kashmir
Swervedriver: Last Train To Satansville
Queen: Innuendo

Phil M · « **Reply #27 on:** September 28, 2009, 11:08:50 PM »

<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch/v/DRtW1MAZ32M" target="_blank" class="new_win">http://www.youtube.com/watch/v/DRtW1MAZ32M</a>

<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch/v/-cme2q0N7nM" target="_blank" class="new_win">http://www.youtube.com/watch/v/-cme2q0N7nM</a>

<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch/v/eB3VTX0pxoE" target="_blank" class="new_win">http://www.youtube.com/watch/v/eB3VTX0pxoE</a>

<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch/v/aGSKrC7dGcY" target="_blank" class="new_win">http://www.youtube.com/watch/v/aGSKrC7dGcY</a>

<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch/v/LJMnES7WoT4" target="_blank" class="new_win">http://www.youtube.com/watch/v/LJMnES7WoT4</a>

Seebab · « **Reply #28 on:** September 28, 2009, 11:09:08 PM »

Not all my favourites, but what I think are some of the most influential songs of our time.

Chuck Berry- Johnny B Goode
Elvis Presley- Heartbreak Hotel & Hound Dog
Roy Orbison- Pretty Woman, Only The Lonely
Beatles- Strawberry Fields, Yesterday, A Day In The Life, Hey Jude, Eleanor Rigby etc
Rolling Stones- Gimme Shelter, Satisfaction
The Who- My Generation, Won't Get Fooled Again
Pink Floyd- Wish You Were Here
Led Zep- Stairway To Heaven
Beach Boys- California Girls
Marving Gaye- Ain't No Mountain High Enough, What's Going On & Let's Get It On
The Eagles- Hotel California
Aretha Franklin- Respect and the one mentioned above
Bob Marley- Redemption Song, Three Little Birds, One Love, No Woman No Cry, etc
Bob Dylan- Like A Rolling Stone, The Times Are A-Changing, etc
The Clash- London Calling
CCR- Have You Ever Seen The Rain, Fortunate Son
Stevie Wonder- For Once In My Life, Superstition, Higher Ground
Smokey Robinson- Tracks Of My Tears
Temptations- Papa Was A Rolling Stone, My Girl
Bruce Springsteen- Born To Run, Thunder Road
John Lennon- Imagine
David Bowie- Space Oddity

and many more

CaptainBeefheart · « **Reply #29 on:** September 28, 2009, 11:48:15 PM »

Dont think i've seen em mentioned so i'll throw a few in -

A Change Is Gonna Come - Sam Cooke (The Voice! one of the best songs ever in my opinion)

Wild Horses - The Stones (One of the Stones best slow moments)

All Day And All Of The Night - The Kinks (Toughest thing ever when it came out, better than You Really Got Me!)

Visions Of Johanna - Dylan (Epic, Magic)

Tomorrow Never Knows - The Beatles (Lennon and the Fabs at their weird, revolutionary best)

Green Onions - Booker T And The MG's (if you can get the image of Sting dancing like a twat out of your head)

Angi - Davy Graham (groundbreaking folk instrumental, sounds like 3 guitars when its one, wrote it when he was 19!)

Terry De Niro · « **Reply #30 on:** September 29, 2009, 01:56:55 AM »

Too many to chose from, but "Tracks of my tears" by Smokey Robinson is and always will be right up there with the best..

macca888 · « **Reply #31 on:** September 29, 2009, 02:54:40 AM »

Well fuck me! If you're allowed to put Coldplay and Oasis on here, I'm having this one

<a href="http://www.youtube.com/v/BZ-CSwjuQ1s&hl=en&fs=1&" target="_blank" class="new_win">http://www.youtube.com/v/BZ-CSwjuQ1s&hl=en&fs=1&</a>

Unfortunately, Aretha's Say A Little Prayer was spoiled for me by an ex girlfriend years ago who sang the fucking thing all the time badly, and had it on repeat on the record player, and then made me a tape of it repeated over again for 90 minutes.

Nirvana - About A Girl
Faith No More - Ashes To Ashes
Pearl Jam - Alive
Led Zeppelin - Rock And Roll
Elvis - If I Can Dream
Marvin Gaye - What's Going On
Beatles - A Day In The Life or possibly Hey Jude
Beach Boys - God Only Knows
Depeche Mode - Personal Jesus
Foo Fighters - February Stars or Everlong
Pixies - Where Is My Mind
Muse - Knights Of Cydonia
Dinah Washington - What A Difference A Day Makes
Bowie - Life On Mars
Queen - Bohemian Rapsody

Fuck, this is too hard, but I've got to pick one of these, because most of the other ones are shite.

And the winner for me is.... Foo Fighters - Everlong

**EDITED** because I realised I'd wrote a lot of shite last night, that while some of my personal favourites, and some of the band's personal opus, could no way be thought of as masterpieces.

nutmeg94 · « **Reply #32 on:** September 29, 2009, 03:07:42 AM »

The Velvet Underground - Heroin

CHOPPER · « **Reply #33 on:** September 29, 2009, 03:16:34 AM »

Quote from: Terry De Niro on September 29, 2009, 01:56:55 AM

Too many to chose from, but "Tracks of my tears" by Smokey Robinson is and always will be right up there with the best..

Wise words Tex.

one of many.........http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f5M_Ttstbgs

gritsvanilla · « **Reply #34 on:** September 29, 2009, 04:49:45 AM »

The Flying Burrito Bros - Sin City
10cc - I'm Not In Love
Miles Davis - So What
Kraftwerk - Autobahn
The Velvet Underground - Heroin
Captain Beefheart And The Magic Band - Ella Guru
Joni Mitchell - A Case Of You
The Beatles - A Day In The Life
Bob Dylan - Like A Rolling Stone
Kate Bush - Wuthering Heights
Smokey Robinson And The Miracles - Tracks Of My Tears
Procol Harum - A Whiter Shade Of Pale
Sparks - This Town Ain't Big Enough For Both Of Us
Marvin Gaye - What's Goin On

Just off the top of me head like....

Black and White Paul · « **Reply #35 on:** September 29, 2009, 05:55:06 AM »

Coming back to life - Pink Floyd
Gimme some truth - John Lennon
Metal Guru - T Rex
Belfast Child - Simple Minds
Crying - Roy Orbison
Purple Rain - PRINCE
The Locomotion - Little Eva
Rebel Rebel - David Bowie
Honky Tonk Woman - The Stones

RedmeisterOZ · « **Reply #36 on:** September 29, 2009, 12:33:06 PM »

Quote from: Filler. on September 28, 2009, 09:17:07 PM

Nigh on 100 years of recorded music and we have Oasis and Coldplay nominated already for a 'masterpiece' going on here.

Thanks Filler.

Masterpiece. MMMmm. Too many to mention, but these will do right now.

Ghetto woman - B.B.King
Oh, Sister - Bob Dylan
Dust my broom - Elmore James
El capitalismo foraneo - Gotan Project
Sittin' on top of the world - Howlin' Wolf
TV Eye (Live) - Iggy Pop
Soulin' - J.J.Cale
Hoodoo Man Blues - Junior Wells
Since I've been loving you - Led Zeppelin
Caroline says - Lou Reed
Blues in orbit - Duke Ellington
The light pours out of me - Magazine
So what - Miles Davis
The ship song - Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds
Deep down in Floria#2 - Muddy Waters
I see a darkness - Bonnie "Prince" Billy
Out on the weekend - Neil Young
Love will tear us apart - Joy Division
In my secret life - Leonard Cohen
Sitting of the dock of the Bay - Otis Redding
This perfect day - The Saints
Samba Pa Ti - Santana
Hoppipolla - Sigur Ros
Tupelo Honey - Van Morrison
Shore leave - Tom Waits

Mook · « **Reply #37 on:** September 29, 2009, 12:59:35 PM »

Very difficult question to answer.

I mean you could mention Day in the Life & Stairway to Heaven etc etc which people might be pushed to argue with, but then you've got your own feelings on the matter. I think Since I've been Loving You by Zeppelin is the greatest song ever written but my Mum will leave the room if it comes on. I don't know how anyone could argue with Tracks of My Tears though, I reckon Smokey wrote a good few masterpieces in his time.

Djibriliant · « **Reply #38 on:** September 29, 2009, 01:00:40 PM »

Absolutely Amazing. Not sure how to embed a video, so heres the link.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c5IIXeR5OUI

Ciara (with a capital "C") · « **Reply #39 on:** September 29, 2009, 01:12:33 PM »

Don McLean - American Pie
Extreme - More Than Words
Bobby Darin - Mack the Knife
MJ - Thriller