# Best Song Ever **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [February 12, 2012, 6:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-song-ever/612618 "2012-02-12T18:52:21Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Soylent\_Juicy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/82dd89/32.png) [@Soylent\_Juicy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Soylent_Juicy)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2012, 9:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-song-ever/612618/41 "2012-02-13T21:11:39Z")
My personal favourite song of all time is “Bizarre Love Triangle” by New Order. My current favourite songs are anything by The Gaslight Anthem. ---
**Author:** ![Moonchild](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d9b06d/32.png) [@Moonchild](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Moonchild)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2012, 12:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-song-ever/612618/42 "2012-02-14T00:56:09Z")
Didn’t we all settle on “Radar Love” by Golden Earring a while back? ---
**Author:** ![Sunshine\_and\_Smiles](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a5b964/32.png) [@Sunshine\_and\_Smiles](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunshine_and_Smiles)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2012, 1:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-song-ever/612618/43 "2012-02-14T01:34:51Z")
Burial’s [Archangel](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IlEkvbRmfrA) is the pinnacle all songs. ---
**Author:** ![Savannah](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b3f665/32.png) [@Savannah](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Savannah)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2012, 2:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-song-ever/612618/44 "2012-02-14T02:37:51Z")
Excuse me? The greatest song ever recorded is 3 minutes of vinyl ecstasy: RIVER DEEP, MOUNTAIN HIGH - Ike and Tina Turner, produced by Phil Spector. ---
**Author:** ![Savannah](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b3f665/32.png) [@Savannah](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Savannah)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2012, 2:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-song-ever/612618/45 "2012-02-14T02:43:09Z")
Okay, here’s a few more: Sheila Jordan - The Crossing Bruce Springsteen - Born to Run Loreena McKennitt - She Moved Through The Fair Leonard Cohen - Halleluja Stevie Wonder - Fingertips, Part 1 and 2 Tracy Nelson - Down So Low ---
**Author:** ![Isamu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/7c8e57/32.png) [@Isamu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Isamu)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2012, 4:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-song-ever/612618/46 "2012-02-14T04:36:25Z")
Rapper’s Delight - The Sugarhill Gang Symphony No. 9 - Beethoven The Power - Snap Smooth Operator - Sade ---
**Author:** ![Boyo\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/87869e/32.png) [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2012, 8:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-song-ever/612618/47 "2012-02-14T08:12:10Z")
I’ve listened to all but one or two songs listed in this thread, and I have to say there seems to be an over-representation of rather mawkish ballads among the selections. You kids and your teen angst!! Get off my lawn! ---
**Author:** ![don\_t\_ask](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e68b1a/32.png) [@don\_t\_ask](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/don_t_ask)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2012, 10:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-song-ever/612618/48 "2012-02-14T10:20:10Z")
_Mack the Knife_ and of all the great versions either one of these will do me: [Bobby Darin](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SEllHMWkXEU&feature=related) [Robbie Williams](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XpkCazstUhM&feature=related) or Burt Bacharach’s [Anyone Who Had a Heart by Dusty Springfield](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EhHfcLwEzp0). What an arrangement. ---
**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2012, 11:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-song-ever/612618/49 "2012-02-14T11:19:32Z")
An operetta aria: [Dein ist mein ganzes Herz](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f8yk09X8YQo), from “Das Land des Lachelns” by Franz Lehar. ---
**Author:** ![Jackknifed\_Juggernaut](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/9de053/32.png) [@Jackknifed\_Juggernaut](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jackknifed_Juggernaut)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2012, 12:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-song-ever/612618/50 "2012-02-14T12:05:46Z")
The Smiths - There Is a Light That Never Goes Out Honorable mentions: Depeche Mode - Question of Lust R.E.M. - Fall On Me New Order - True Faith Radiohead - Fake Plastic Trees MGMT - Time to Pretend ---
**Author:** ![Hal\_Briston](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/a9a28c/32.png) [@Hal\_Briston](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hal_Briston)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2012, 3:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-song-ever/612618/51 "2012-02-14T15:38:21Z")
The answer can easily change on a daily basis…but for today: Dropkick Murphys - _[World Full Of Hate](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hFqOlUEwuI0)_ ---
**Author:** ![Isamu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/7c8e57/32.png) [@Isamu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Isamu)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2012, 3:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-song-ever/612618/52 "2012-02-14T15:57:32Z")
> [@Isamu](#): > > The Power - Snap Whoah, after listening to it now, 20 years later, I take that back. (We’re allowed one take-back, right?) ---
**Author:** ![Gagundathar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a183cd/32.png) [@Gagundathar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gagundathar)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2012, 4:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-song-ever/612618/53 "2012-02-14T16:21:11Z")
[Uncertain Smile](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dz50N2_tCCg) – The The (which is actually a name used by the genius Matt Johnson) This always makes me feel like I am in grad school again. Pure early 1980s vibe. ---
**Author:** ![Gangster\_Octopus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a8b319/32.png) [@Gangster\_Octopus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gangster_Octopus)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2012, 4:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-song-ever/612618/54 "2012-02-14T16:48:48Z")
This is not the best song in the world, it is just a [Tribute](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_lK4cX5xGiQ). ---
**Author:** ![pulykamell](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pulykamell/32/3166_2.png) [@pulykamell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pulykamell)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2012, 5:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-song-ever/612618/55 "2012-02-14T17:21:22Z")
> [@Gagundathar](#): > > [Uncertain Smile](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dz50N2_tCCg) – The The (which is actually a name used by the genius Matt Johnson) > > This always makes me feel like I am in grad school again. Pure early 1980s vibe. Thanks for that one. I had never heard that song before. Beautiful songwriting, and a wicked piano solo. I may just have to pick up that album. ---
**Author:** ![Boyo\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/87869e/32.png) [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2012, 5:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-song-ever/612618/56 "2012-02-14T17:29:31Z")
The funniest song ever is [The Most Unwanted Music](http://www.wired.com/listening_post/2008/04/a-scientific-at/), a “scientific attempt” to combine all the least popular elements of music together into one 25-minute trainwreck of a song. It even incorporates Wallmart jingles -\* several\* of them. I actually like it quite a bit. ---
**Author:** ![Timchik](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c0e974/32.png) [@Timchik](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Timchik)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2012, 5:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-song-ever/612618/57 "2012-02-14T17:34:10Z")
Either [Holland 1945](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sCjpbjCH5L0) by Neutral Milk Hotel or [All the Things You Are](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=97p6gQnlO5Y) as performed by Ella Fitzgerald or [Skyway](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lliXx5a6Sd0) by the Replacements or maybe [I Wish I Was the Moon](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gCV-YMD6oXA) by Neko Case or maybe… Damn. Too hard. Can’t pick just one. But those four are up there. ---
**Author:** ![handsomeharry](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e9c0ed/32.png) [@handsomeharry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/handsomeharry)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2012, 8:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-song-ever/612618/58 "2012-02-14T20:07:44Z")
> [@Tangent](#): > > [The Mummers’ Dance](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qxTpvA-pUG0&feature=related) by Loreena McKennitt. This here. Plus: Alegria, from the Cirque de Soleil album Rhythm is a Dancer, by Snap Avalon, by Roxy Music Take on Me, by A-ha Caribbean Blue, by Enya ---
**Author:** ![dinahmoe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/8797f3/32.png) [@dinahmoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dinahmoe)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2012, 11:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-song-ever/612618/59 "2012-02-14T23:48:57Z")
_Joining A Fan Club_-Jellyfish. Early 90s power pop with excellent harmonies. ---
**Author:** ![Angel\_of\_the\_Lord](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/angel_of_the_lord/32/2949_2.png) [@Angel\_of\_the\_Lord](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Angel_of_the_Lord)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2012, 12:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-song-ever/612618/60 "2012-02-15T00:05:44Z")
For me, it’s Silversun Pickups with “The Royal We.” It’s newer, and I’m sure people’ll laugh at me for picking it, but it’s just. Freaking. Amazing. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-song-ever/612618.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-song-ever/612618.md?page=4)