# The Absolute, Positive, Best Song Ever!! For Now. **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [July 29, 2001, 9:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-absolute-positive-best-song-ever-for-now/74152 "2001-07-29T09:31:10Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![El\_Zagna](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/d2c977/32.png) [@El\_Zagna](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/El_Zagna)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2001, 4:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-absolute-positive-best-song-ever-for-now/74152/21 "2001-07-30T16:36:13Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Phil DePhrieweigh \* > > * * * I heard a remake of that just this weekend by - of all people - Willie Nelson and Joni Mitchell!! Good song. ---
**Author:** ![El\_Zagna](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/d2c977/32.png) [@El\_Zagna](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/El_Zagna)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2001, 4:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-absolute-positive-best-song-ever-for-now/74152/22 "2001-07-30T16:40:36Z")
Hmmm… This was supposed to be about Walter Brennan’s “Cool Water”. ---
**Author:** ![plnnr](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/7ea924/32.png) [@plnnr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/plnnr)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2001, 4:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-absolute-positive-best-song-ever-for-now/74152/23 "2001-07-30T16:48:54Z")
This is an easy one - My Funny Valentine, by Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart, as sung by Ella Fitzgerald. All other pop music will fade into obscurity, but this song will always be perfect. ---
**Author:** ![Mahaloth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mahaloth/32/1079_2.png) [@Mahaloth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mahaloth)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2001, 2:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-absolute-positive-best-song-ever-for-now/74152/24 "2001-07-31T02:45:33Z")
Susan by Aimee Mann. Megalomaniac by KMFDM. Yes, I have varied tastes. ---
**Author:** ![Dragon\_Phoenix](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/bcef8e/32.png) [@Dragon\_Phoenix](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dragon_Phoenix)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2001, 5:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-absolute-positive-best-song-ever-for-now/74152/25 "2001-07-31T05:43:07Z")
Mad Man Moon by Genesis (from A trick of the tail). See also http:/www.geocities.com/hennieschaper. ---
**Author:** ![flickerwolf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/13edae/32.png) [@flickerwolf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/flickerwolf)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2001, 7:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-absolute-positive-best-song-ever-for-now/74152/26 "2001-07-31T07:16:15Z")
I agree that My Funny Valentine is the only perfect song, but Mono’s Life in Mono comes pretty darn close. ---
**Author:** ![Pessor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/439d5e/32.png) [@Pessor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pessor)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2001, 8:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-absolute-positive-best-song-ever-for-now/74152/27 "2001-07-31T08:51:59Z")
I spy a MARILLION fan! I liked side one of Misplaced Childhood, which was let go as several tracks, but all together some 22 minutes long. Great ‘song’. Never mind that I watched them open for RUSH circa 1988. ---
**Author:** ![Superdude](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/superdude/32/13450_2.png) [@Superdude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Superdude)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2001, 5:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-absolute-positive-best-song-ever-for-now/74152/28 "2001-07-31T17:31:28Z")
I think it would have to be _Julianne_ by Ben Folds Five. But that’s subject to change any time. ---
**Author:** ![Kittie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/f07891/32.png) [@Kittie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kittie)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2001, 6:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-absolute-positive-best-song-ever-for-now/74152/29 "2001-07-31T18:09:30Z")
“Freedom” by Melissa Ferrick or maybe “Dilate” by Ani Difranco. What can i say? I just like to girls who play guitars 😃 ~Kittie ---
**Author:** ![Coldfire](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a587f6/32.png) [@Coldfire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Coldfire)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2001, 11:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-absolute-positive-best-song-ever-for-now/74152/30 "2001-07-31T23:42:23Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Pessor \* > \*\*I spy a MARILLION fan! > > I liked side one of Misplaced Childhood, which was let go as several tracks, but all together some 22 minutes long. Great ‘song’. Never mind that I watched them open for RUSH circa 1988. \*\* You may now spy a fan of BOTH these bands. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2001, 12:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-absolute-positive-best-song-ever-for-now/74152/31 "2001-08-01T00:45:12Z")
The missus says “California Dreaming” by the Mommas And The Poppas, and her sister, Edie, says “Here, There, and Everywhere” by the Beatles. ---
**Author:** ![KarlGauss](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/karlgauss/32/3713_2.png) [@KarlGauss](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KarlGauss)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2001, 12:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-absolute-positive-best-song-ever-for-now/74152/32 "2001-08-01T00:50:02Z")
_Getting Away With It (All messed up)_ by **James**. I like it now, but twenty-five years ago I would have been obsessed. ---
**Author:** ![Phlip](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ed8c4c/32.png) [@Phlip](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Phlip)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2001, 12:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-absolute-positive-best-song-ever-for-now/74152/33 "2001-08-01T12:48:45Z")
Before Dishonor by Hatebreed. ---
**Author:** ![Gundy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/b782af/32.png) [@Gundy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gundy)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2001, 3:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-absolute-positive-best-song-ever-for-now/74152/34 "2001-08-01T15:51:37Z")
Well, I’ve gotta second the OP on “Interstate Love Song”. That whole album was un-fargling-believable. Currently, I’m constantly singing couple of songs - Semisonic’s “She’s Got My Number” and Doyle Bramhall II & Smokestack’s “Green Light Girl”, a real rocker. And I really like, as GuanoLad mentioned, “Clint Eastwood”…that damn song sticks in your head like a burr. ---
**Author:** ![jsc1953](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/5daacb/32.png) [@jsc1953](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jsc1953)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2001, 11:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-absolute-positive-best-song-ever-for-now/74152/35 "2001-08-01T23:06:29Z")
“Knock on Wood” by Eddie Floyd. The ultimate all-time Memphis soul. If I get to pick 2 or more, I’d throw in The Who “Pinball Wizard”, The Beatles “Dear Prudence”, Mitch Ryder & the Detroit Wheels “Devil With a Blue Dress”, and Led Zep “Fool in the Rain” (and Stairway…gotta have Stairway…and maybe Kashmir…) ---
**Author:** ![ruadh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/d2c977/32.png) [@ruadh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ruadh)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2001, 9:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-absolute-positive-best-song-ever-for-now/74152/36 "2001-08-02T21:17:14Z")
“Kangaroo” by Big Star. Though lately “Kinky Boots” by the Irish Brigade is giving it a run for its money … ---
**Author:** ![Ascha](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/f9ae1b/32.png) [@Ascha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ascha)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2001, 10:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-absolute-positive-best-song-ever-for-now/74152/37 "2001-08-02T22:45:11Z")
“Path of Thorns” by Sarah MacLachlan Runners up… “One” by U2, “Nautical Disaster” by The Tragically Hip, “Stand by Me” by Ben E. King, “Lightning Crashes” by Live, “Fast Car” by Tracy Chapman All songs that affect me emotionally. ---
**Author:** ![Mythos45](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/848f3c/32.png) [@Mythos45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mythos45)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2001, 11:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-absolute-positive-best-song-ever-for-now/74152/38 "2001-08-02T23:11:19Z")
“One”, by Metallica, on the “…And Justice For All” album. Positively epic. Hetfield is God. ---
**Author:** ![Odieman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/a87d85/32.png) [@Odieman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Odieman)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2001, 11:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-absolute-positive-best-song-ever-for-now/74152/39 "2001-08-02T23:23:18Z")
it’s a tossup between “Land of Hope and Dreams” by Bruce Sprinsteen, and for some reason “September Gurls” by Big Star has some resonance for me. 😃 Keith ---
**Author:** ![Tyklfe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/3e96dc/32.png) [@Tyklfe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tyklfe)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2001, 11:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-absolute-positive-best-song-ever-for-now/74152/40 "2001-08-02T23:30:03Z")
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