The Best Tunes in the World........ EVER!!

fusionlad · Mon 05 Jul, 2004 21.35

I'm sure we've had a thread like this sometime before, but just came across a classic tune that I remember loving even as a kid.

OMD - Joan of Arc, I remember rewinding my tape cassette (what were they called again!!) to hear that tune again and again.

Maid of Orleans is also one that makes my hair stand up on the back of my neck.

I think my music tastes are constantly evolving, but I'm going through a phase of digging out those old tunes. Driving around South Wales the other week, I was amazed at all the old classic tunes that are played on the radio stations over there. I thought they were great.

Perhaps I'm getting old.... but then again I do like a hell of a lot of new stuff out there.

What are your all time favourite songs?

johnnyboy · Mon 05 Jul, 2004 21.50

I'll chip in here, fusionlad.

Innuendo by Queen - a fantastic tour de force with Freddie straining vocals and Brian's wailing guitar about the mess we are in.
Two Tribes by FGTH - the perfect pop song?
Estranged by Guns n' Roses - hard to believe these American charvas wrote something of such beauty and emotional resonance
Nevermore by Queen - only 1m20s long, but the most fantastic love (or lost love) song I have ever heard, the emotion seeping in Freddie's voice.
The Universal by Blur - weird song, weirder video, but it just works.

fusionlad · Mon 05 Jul, 2004 22.03

Trouble with me is I always forget about the songs I love until I hear them again.

I heard November Rain by Guns n Roses in a pub in Swansea the other day. I LOVE that tune! But I'd never remember to name it as a favourite tune if I was asked.

I've always liked Wonderwall by Oasis, just brings back good memories. Freddie Mercury, Living on My Own is another.

Then there's the classic songs I used to listen to at my local Ritzy, N-Trance, Set you Free, Borny Slippy, Bellisima and suchlike.

Rolled around on the floor to Music Was my First Love the other week too!

Adders · Mon 05 Jul, 2004 22.10

My top 5
Thriller - Michael Jackson
Heart of Glass - Blondie
Call me - Blondie
Cliff Richard - Wired for Sound
Beatles - Ticket to ride

Katherine · Tue 06 Jul, 2004 00.23

Generally, all trance, hard house, hard dance and a dash of techno is FAB! It's too difficult to say what my faves are as I'd be here all flipping millennium!

rob · Tue 06 Jul, 2004 10.08

Just a few...

Wet Wet Wet - Sweet Surrender
Wet Wet Wet - Morning
Elton John - Can you feel the love tonight*
Sting - Every Breath you Take*
Crowded House - Don't Dream it's over*
Crowded House - Fall at your Feet
Crowded House - Four Seasons in one day*

* - forming part of my second demo tape which is in progress.

Still · Tue 06 Jul, 2004 17.33

Put me on the radio for an hour and you'd hear....

Haircut 100 - Fantastic day
The Stranglers - Long black Veil
Pet shop boys - Love comes quickly
New order - True Faith
The Beloved - Sweet Harmony
Gene - Olymipian
Phife Dawg - miscellaneous remix
Chaka Khan - Fate
amongst others.
The the new songs from the Charlatans and Feist are also doing it for me right now.

Cheese Head · Tue 06 Jul, 2004 22.00

I got no idea.

InMe - Faster the Chase... that is the best song in the world
Goo Goo Dolls - Iris
The Killers - Mr Brightside
Disturbed - Voices
Cradle of Filth - Her ghost in the fog

Arg, I cant list them - theres just too many damnit!

DJGM · Tue 06 Jul, 2004 22.17

Cheese Head wrote: I got no idea.

InMe - Faster the Chase... that is the best song in the world
Goo Goo Dolls - Iris
The Killers - Mr Brightside
Disturbed - Voices
Cradle of Filth - Her ghost in the fog

Arg, I cant list them - theres just too many damnit!

And there's me thinking this thread was about the best "tunes". :roll: How wrong was I . . . ?

Cheese Head · Tue 06 Jul, 2004 22.30

Download the Goo Goo Dolls song, I dare you...

I forgot to mention, ABBA Dancing Queen. that song also rules.

DJGM · Tue 06 Jul, 2004 22.45

Cheese Head wrote: Download the Goo Goo Dolls song, I dare you...

I've listened to a brief sample of that on the iTMS. It's . . . bearable . . . but only just! I'm sure that
the Goo Goo Dolls (daft name for a rock band IMO!) aren't exactly reknowned for doing rock ballads.

Cheese Head wrote: I forgot to mention, ABBA Dancing Queen. that song also rules.

Although "not my cup of tea" I would class that as actual music, unlike most of the stuff you're into!