# Your Greatest Songs Ever! **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [December 7, 2016, 3:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-greatest-songs-ever/774088 "2016-12-07T03:01:00Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Princess\_Amy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/58956e/32.png) [@Princess\_Amy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Princess_Amy)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2016, 8:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-greatest-songs-ever/774088/41 "2016-12-13T08:42:50Z")
[![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/OMOGaugKpzs/maxresdefault.jpg "The Police - Every Breath You Take (Official Video)") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OMOGaugKpzs) ---
**Author:** ![Princess\_Amy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/58956e/32.png) [@Princess\_Amy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Princess_Amy)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2016, 8:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-greatest-songs-ever/774088/42 "2016-12-13T08:45:44Z")
[![](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/n4RjJKxsamQ/hqdefault.jpg "Scorpions - Wind Of Change (Official Music Video)") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n4RjJKxsamQ) ---
**Author:** ![Princess\_Amy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/58956e/32.png) [@Princess\_Amy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Princess_Amy)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2016, 8:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-greatest-songs-ever/774088/43 "2016-12-13T08:50:01Z")
[![]( " - YouTube") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XmSdTa9kaiQ) ---
**Author:** ![Princess\_Amy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/58956e/32.png) [@Princess\_Amy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Princess_Amy)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2016, 8:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-greatest-songs-ever/774088/44 "2016-12-13T08:51:54Z")
[![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/e3-5YC_oHjE/maxresdefault.jpg "U2 - I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For (Official Music Video)") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e3-5YC_oHjE) ---
**Author:** ![Princess\_Amy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/58956e/32.png) [@Princess\_Amy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Princess_Amy)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2016, 8:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-greatest-songs-ever/774088/45 "2016-12-13T08:56:13Z")
[![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/YR5ApYxkU-U/hqdefault.jpg "Pink Floyd - Another Brick In The Wall (HQ)") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YR5ApYxkU-U) ---
**Author:** ![Princess\_Amy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/58956e/32.png) [@Princess\_Amy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Princess_Amy)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2016, 9:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-greatest-songs-ever/774088/46 "2016-12-13T09:00:39Z")
[![](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/xwtdhWltSIg/hqdefault.jpg "R.E.M. - Losing My Religion (Official Music Video)") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xwtdhWltSIg) ---
**Author:** ![Princess\_Amy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/58956e/32.png) [@Princess\_Amy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Princess_Amy)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2016, 9:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-greatest-songs-ever/774088/47 "2016-12-13T09:03:14Z")
[![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/Qq4j1LtCdww/maxresdefault.jpg "Alice Cooper - Poison") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qq4j1LtCdww) ---
**Author:** ![octopus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/octopus/32/3716_2.png) [@octopus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/octopus)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2016, 9:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-greatest-songs-ever/774088/48 "2016-12-13T09:17:27Z")
Not the best video in the world but a pretty good song nonetheless. From Listen Without Prejudice CD. George Michael’s Waiting for That Day [![](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/TH_mhWVadEA/hqdefault.jpg "George Michael " The Video Mix Waiting For That Day " By SANDRO LAMPIS.MP4") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TH_mhWVadEA) ---
**Author:** ![Icarus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/icarus/32/72_2.png) [@Icarus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Icarus)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2016, 1:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-greatest-songs-ever/774088/49 "2016-12-13T13:46:45Z")
David Bowie - Young Americans This is the song that will play as my casket is being lowered into the earth. ---
**Author:** ![glee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/b5a626/32.png) [@glee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/glee)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2016, 2:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-greatest-songs-ever/774088/50 "2016-12-13T14:03:54Z")
> [@Annie-Xmas](#): > > Leonard Cohen’s Hallelujah and Don McLean’s American Pie are two songs that make me wonder how any one person could write such a masterpiece. I consider them beyond the scope of human ability. These are truly great songs. The reason I go for Adele singing ‘Someone like you’ is that it’s just her and a simple piano accompaniment - yet such a moving song. A close runner-up for me is Hurt - one of the last songs Johnny Cash recorded. It was a cover of a song by Trent Reznor who said “I pop the video in, and wow… Tears welling, silence, goose-bumps… Wow. [I felt like] I just lost my girlfriend, because that song isn’t mine anymore… It really made me think about how powerful music is as a medium and art form. I wrote some words and music in my bedroom as a way of staying sane, about a bleak and desperate place I was in, totally isolated and alone. [Somehow] that winds up reinterpreted by a music legend from a radically different era/genre and still retains sincerity and meaning — different, but every bit as pure.” ---
**Author:** ![Princess\_Amy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/58956e/32.png) [@Princess\_Amy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Princess_Amy)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2016, 4:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-greatest-songs-ever/774088/51 "2016-12-14T16:58:03Z")
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**Author:** ![Princess\_Amy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/58956e/32.png) [@Princess\_Amy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Princess_Amy)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2016, 5:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-greatest-songs-ever/774088/52 "2016-12-14T17:01:13Z")
[![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/Tg-Q-Acv4qs/maxresdefault.jpg "Elton John - Nikita") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tg-Q-Acv4qs) ---
**Author:** ![Princess\_Amy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/58956e/32.png) [@Princess\_Amy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Princess_Amy)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2016, 5:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-greatest-songs-ever/774088/53 "2016-12-14T17:06:23Z")
[![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/Bx51eegLTY8/maxresdefault.jpg "Berlin - Take My Breath Away (Official Video - Top Gun)") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bx51eegLTY8) ---
**Author:** ![Princess\_Amy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/58956e/32.png) [@Princess\_Amy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Princess_Amy)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2016, 5:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-greatest-songs-ever/774088/54 "2016-12-14T17:24:01Z")
[![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/k2C5TjS2sh4/maxresdefault.jpg "Roxette - It Must Have Been Love (Official Music Video)") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k2C5TjS2sh4) ---
**Author:** ![Princess\_Amy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/58956e/32.png) [@Princess\_Amy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Princess_Amy)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2016, 5:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-greatest-songs-ever/774088/55 "2016-12-14T17:29:20Z")
[![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/4bv_ALKkTjQ/maxresdefault.jpg "Led Zeppelin - Rock and Roll HQ") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4bv_ALKkTjQ) ---
**Author:** ![Princess\_Amy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/58956e/32.png) [@Princess\_Amy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Princess_Amy)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2016, 5:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-greatest-songs-ever/774088/56 "2016-12-14T17:33:04Z")
[![](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/5WVvizpjJK4/hqdefault.jpg "Led Zeppelin - When the Levee Breaks") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5WVvizpjJK4) ---
**Author:** ![Princess\_Amy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/58956e/32.png) [@Princess\_Amy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Princess_Amy)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2016, 5:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-greatest-songs-ever/774088/57 "2016-12-14T17:36:01Z")
[![]( " - YouTube") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GCkkcfru6SA) ---
**Author:** ![JpnDude](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/838e76/32.png) [@JpnDude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JpnDude)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2016, 2:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-greatest-songs-ever/774088/58 "2016-12-15T02:10:11Z")
[The Reflex - Duran Duran](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oDnNF5cHCdo) very closely followed by: [How Soon Is Now? - The Smiths](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hnpILIIo9ek) ---
**Author:** ![Princess\_Amy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/58956e/32.png) [@Princess\_Amy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Princess_Amy)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2016, 5:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-greatest-songs-ever/774088/59 "2016-12-15T17:14:35Z")
[![]( " - YouTube") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j4-Jz9Mb0Zg) ---
**Author:** ![Princess\_Amy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/58956e/32.png) [@Princess\_Amy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Princess_Amy)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2016, 5:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-greatest-songs-ever/774088/60 "2016-12-15T17:16:41Z")
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