The greatest song in the history of the world. Maybe

Black Rose · 28-08-2006, 01:46 PM

The greatest song in the history of the world. Maybe
By Anthony Barnes
Published: 27 August 2006

It is sung with lager-fuelled gusto by thousands of fans at every Oasis gig. Now "Live Forever" looks set to live up to its title after being named the greatest song of all time.

The 12-year-old single, the first to demonstrate that the Gallagher brothers could do tenderness as well as bravado and swagger, has beaten classic tracks by the Beatles, U2 and Queen in a magazine poll of music fans to identify the all-time greats.

Oasis pulled off a double feat by taking second place with their song "Wonderwall" in the top 100 compiled by Q magazine from tens of thousands of votes, although the Fab Four landed the most number of entries with six.

"Live Forever" peaked only at no 10 in the charts when it was released but has gone on to become one of the band's most enduring songs. When the magazine last held its poll three years ago the track finished in ninth position and the list was topped by U2's "One", a song reduced to fifth place this time around.

The magazine, which publishes the poll in its October edition on Tuesday, said of the track: "'Live Forever' doesn't date, satisfying a timeless need for communal joy that only the rock anthem at its best can truly deliver."

Noel Gallagher, who wrote the winning song, said: "People said to me after 'Live Forever', where are you gonna go after that. And I was like 'I don't think it's that good'. I think it's a good song, but I think I can do better."

The Q Top 10: Live Forever - Oasis; Wonderwall - Oasis; Smells like Teen Spirit - Nirvana; A Day in the Life - the Beatles; One - U2; Bohemian Rhapsody - Queen; Love Will Tear Us Apart - Joy Division; Stairway to Heaven - Led Zeppelin; Bittersweet Symphony - The Verve; Paranoid Android - Radiohead

http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/thi...cle1222079.ece

Black Rose · 28-08-2006, 01:48 PM

100 greatest songs of all time

1 Live Forever – Oasis

2 Wonderwall – Oasis

3 Smells Like Teen Spirit – Nirvana

4 A Day In The Life – The Beatles

5 One – U2

6 Bohemian Rhapsody – Queen

7 Love Will Tear Us Apart – Joy Division

8 Stairway To Heaven – Led Zeppelin

9 Bitter Sweet Symphony – The Verve

10 Paranoid Android – Radiohead

11 Angels – Robbie Williams

12 Like A Rolling Stone – Bob Dylan

13 There Is A light That Never Goes Out – The Smiths

14 London Calling – The Clash

15 Hallelujah – Jeff Buckley

16 Billie Jean – Michael Jackson

17 With Or Without You – U2

18 God Save The Queen – Sex Pistols

19 Comfortably Numb – Pink Floyd

20 Don’t Look Back in Anger – Oasis

21 Good Vibrations – The Beach Boys

22 Sweet Child O’ Mine – Guns n’ Roses

23 Hey Jude – The Beatles

24 Kiss – Prince

25 Imagine – John Lennon

26 Wish You Were Here – Pink Floyd

27 Like A Prayer – Madonna

28 Everybody Hurts – REM

29 Hey Ya – Outkast

30 Creep – Radiohead

31 Strawberry Fields Forever – The Beatles

32 I Wanna Be Adored – The Stone Roses

33 Karma Police – Radiohead

34 Walk This Way – Run DMC featuring Aerosmith

35 Champagne Supernova – Oasis

36 God Only Knows – The Beach Boys

37 I Bet You Look Good On The Dancefloor – Arctic Monkeys

38 Waterloo Sunset – The Kinks

39 Hurt – Johnny Cash

40 Unfinished Sympathy – Massive Attack

41 All Along The Watchtower – Jimi Hendrix Experience

42 Street Spirit (Fade Away) – Radiohead

43 Where The Streets Have No Name – U2

44 Common People – Pulp

45 Life On Mars – David Bowie

46 Anarchy In The UK – The Sex Pistols

47 Mr Brightside – The Killers

48 What’s Going On – Marvin Gaye

49 Teenage Kicks – The Undertones

50 Take Your Mama – Scissor Sisters

51 Fight For Your Right To Party - Beastie Boys

52 Yesterday - The Beatles

53 Suspicious Minds - Elvis Presley

54 Fake Plastic Trees - Radiohead

55 Can’t Get You Out Of My Head - Kylie Minogue

56 How Soon Is Now - The Smiths

57 In My Life - The Beatles

58 Losing My Religion - REM

59 Stan - Eminem

60 Drugs Don’t Work - The Verve

61 Wuthering Heights - Kate Bush

62 Gimme Shelter - The Rolling Stones

63 My Generation - The Who

64 Yellow - Coldplay

65 Monkey Wrench - Foo Fighters

66 I Can’t Get No Satisfacton - The Rolling Stones

67 Fools Gold - The Stone Roses

68 Heroes - David Bowie

69 Blue Monday - New Order

70 Hotel California - Eagles

71 Song 2 - Blur

72 Winner Takes It All - ABBA

73 Shine On You Crazy Diamond - Pink Floyd

74 Kashmir - Led Zepplin

75 Tomorrow Never Knows - The Beatles

76 Babylon - David Gray

77 Californication - Red Hot Chilli Peppers

78 Heart Shaped Box - Nirvana

79 Everybody’s Changing - Keane

80 A Town Called Malice - The Jam

81 The Scientist - Coldplay

82 Superstition - Stevie Wonder

83 Personal Jesus - Depeche Mode

84 7 Nation Army - The White Stripes

85 Voodoo Child - Jimi Hendrix

86 Born To Run - Bruce Springsteen

87 Golden Touch - Razorlight

88 Motor Cycle Emptiness - Manic Street Preachers

89 Sittin On The Dock Of The Bay - Otis Redding

90 There She Goes - The LA’s

91 No Woman, No Cry - Bob Marley

92 Crazy - Gnarls Barkley

93 I Am The Resurrection - The Stone Roses

94 Rocket Man - Elton John

95 Debaser - Pixies

96 Fairy Tale Of New York - The Pogues

97 Last Nite - The Strokes

98 Going Underground - The Jam

99 Killing In The Name - Rage Against The Machine

100 Paranoid - Black Sabbath

http://www.thesun.co.uk/article/0,,2-2006390728,00.html

The Mad Hatter · 28-08-2006, 01:50 PM

Woah. Most of the songs on that list are actually good! =oo

Sam · 29-08-2006, 08:40 AM

Dave, you constantly express your dislike for lists like this

RICK8 · 29-08-2006, 09:37 AM

Quote:
Originally Posted by Sam
Dave, you constantly express your dislike for lists like this

and then you go and make one yourself!!

Black Rose · 29-08-2006, 03:50 PM

Quote:
Originally Posted by RICK8
and then you go and make one yourself!!

Where did it say "created by dave"?

Gitta Rensolo · 29-08-2006, 03:53 PM

wonderwall on 2nd.......before stairway to heaven....and bohemian rhapsody....wish you were here?
No way...

Ondes Martenot · 29-08-2006, 04:14 PM

dreadful list. check Pitchfork if you want quality

Wonderwall is overrated, Smells Like Teen Spirit is overrated, One is overrated, Stairway To Heaven is overrated, Angels is overrated

3 Oasis songs in the top 20? and 2 in the top 3???

what an awful music taste

Ondes Martenot · 29-08-2006, 04:52 PM

Quote:
Originally Posted by Dave S

37 I Bet You Look Good On The Dancefloor – Arctic Monkeys
47 Mr Brightside – The Killers
50 Take Your Mama – Scissor Sisters
64 Yellow - Coldplay
65 Monkey Wrench - Foo Fighters
87 Golden Touch - Razorlight

especially LOL at Razorlight...Razorlight is like the worst band of our time

TracieMorgan · 29-08-2006, 04:59 PM

Quote:
Originally Posted by Ondes Martenot

especially LOL at Razorlight...Razorlight is like the worst band of our time

And WHat's up with Scissor Sisters?? THey're pretty cool, but are they really 'best song of all time' material yet?

General Smut · 29-08-2006, 07:57 PM

Why do people constantly vote for Teen Spirit? Its a good song, but not that good.

They've done way better

Lera · 29-08-2006, 08:09 PM

I'm laughing my ass of

Wonderwall on the second place? Are you kidding?... Are you? Too funny.

Oasis is so so far away from my list of the greatest songs that they look like a dot from here.

TracieMorgan · 29-08-2006, 08:14 PM

I like Oasis, but no way should they have been ahead of so much other amazing music.

Gitta Rensolo · 29-08-2006, 08:21 PM

Quote:
Originally Posted by Ondes Martenot
dreadful list. check Pitchfork if you want quality

Wonderwall is overrated, Smells Like Teen Spirit is overrated, One is overrated, Stairway To Heaven is overrated, Angels is overrated

3 Oasis songs in the top 20? and 2 in the top 3???

what an awful music taste

Stairway to heaven is not overrated..(imo)....just wanted to say that...

What?Scissor sisters are also in the list?
Damn.......now this is definitely an awful list......I own the scissor sisters album...and damn it sucks.

Lera · 29-08-2006, 08:28 PM

A Day In The Life is awesome, I admit. But all other songs in top-five are bullshit, I swear. I don't even like any of them, not talking about calling them the greatest.

Creep is on the list but I think ther're many RH songs that deserve to be called the greatest much more, Creep is some kind of overrated too.

Johnny Cash's Hurt would be in my top-ten probably, not in my top-fourty.

Arctic Monkeys... No comments.

28-08-2006, 01:46 PM	#1
Black Rose Bear with me Join Date: Jun 2005 Posts: 47,542 My Mood: Location: A strangeland under the iron sea where hopes & fears can make the night train be in perfect symmetry Gender: Country: Chat posts: 0 Thanks given: 6 Thanked 107 Times in 85 Posts	The greatest song in the history of the world. Maybe The greatest song in the history of the world. Maybe By Anthony Barnes Published: 27 August 2006 It is sung with lager-fuelled gusto by thousands of fans at every Oasis gig. Now "Live Forever" looks set to live up to its title after being named the greatest song of all time. The 12-year-old single, the first to demonstrate that the Gallagher brothers could do tenderness as well as bravado and swagger, has beaten classic tracks by the Beatles, U2 and Queen in a magazine poll of music fans to identify the all-time greats. Oasis pulled off a double feat by taking second place with their song "Wonderwall" in the top 100 compiled by Q magazine from tens of thousands of votes, although the Fab Four landed the most number of entries with six. "Live Forever" peaked only at no 10 in the charts when it was released but has gone on to become one of the band's most enduring songs. When the magazine last held its poll three years ago the track finished in ninth position and the list was topped by U2's "One", a song reduced to fifth place this time around. The magazine, which publishes the poll in its October edition on Tuesday, said of the track: "'Live Forever' doesn't date, satisfying a timeless need for communal joy that only the rock anthem at its best can truly deliver." Noel Gallagher, who wrote the winning song, said: "People said to me after 'Live Forever', where are you gonna go after that. And I was like 'I don't think it's that good'. I think it's a good song, but I think I can do better." The Q Top 10: Live Forever - Oasis; Wonderwall - Oasis; Smells like Teen Spirit - Nirvana; A Day in the Life - the Beatles; One - U2; Bohemian Rhapsody - Queen; Love Will Tear Us Apart - Joy Division; Stairway to Heaven - Led Zeppelin; Bittersweet Symphony - The Verve; Paranoid Android - Radiohead http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/thi...cle1222079.ece __________________ You could take a picture of something you see In the future where will I be? You could climb a ladder up to the sun Or write a song nobody had sung Or do something that's never been done

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Black Rose Bear with me Join Date: Jun 2005 Posts: 47,542 My Mood: Location: A strangeland under the iron sea where hopes & fears can make the night train be in perfect symmetry Gender: Country: Chat posts: 0 Thanks given: 6 Thanked 107 Times in 85 Posts	100 greatest songs of all time 1 Live Forever – Oasis 2 Wonderwall – Oasis 3 Smells Like Teen Spirit – Nirvana 4 A Day In The Life – The Beatles 5 One – U2 6 Bohemian Rhapsody – Queen 7 Love Will Tear Us Apart – Joy Division 8 Stairway To Heaven – Led Zeppelin 9 Bitter Sweet Symphony – The Verve 10 Paranoid Android – Radiohead 11 Angels – Robbie Williams 12 Like A Rolling Stone – Bob Dylan 13 There Is A light That Never Goes Out – The Smiths 14 London Calling – The Clash 15 Hallelujah – Jeff Buckley 16 Billie Jean – Michael Jackson 17 With Or Without You – U2 18 God Save The Queen – Sex Pistols 19 Comfortably Numb – Pink Floyd 20 Don’t Look Back in Anger – Oasis 21 Good Vibrations – The Beach Boys 22 Sweet Child O’ Mine – Guns n’ Roses 23 Hey Jude – The Beatles 24 Kiss – Prince 25 Imagine – John Lennon 26 Wish You Were Here – Pink Floyd 27 Like A Prayer – Madonna 28 Everybody Hurts – REM 29 Hey Ya – Outkast 30 Creep – Radiohead 31 Strawberry Fields Forever – The Beatles 32 I Wanna Be Adored – The Stone Roses 33 Karma Police – Radiohead 34 Walk This Way – Run DMC featuring Aerosmith 35 Champagne Supernova – Oasis 36 God Only Knows – The Beach Boys 37 I Bet You Look Good On The Dancefloor – Arctic Monkeys 38 Waterloo Sunset – The Kinks 39 Hurt – Johnny Cash 40 Unfinished Sympathy – Massive Attack 41 All Along The Watchtower – Jimi Hendrix Experience 42 Street Spirit (Fade Away) – Radiohead 43 Where The Streets Have No Name – U2 44 Common People – Pulp 45 Life On Mars – David Bowie 46 Anarchy In The UK – The Sex Pistols 47 Mr Brightside – The Killers 48 What’s Going On – Marvin Gaye 49 Teenage Kicks – The Undertones 50 Take Your Mama – Scissor Sisters 51 Fight For Your Right To Party - Beastie Boys 52 Yesterday - The Beatles 53 Suspicious Minds - Elvis Presley 54 Fake Plastic Trees - Radiohead 55 Can’t Get You Out Of My Head - Kylie Minogue 56 How Soon Is Now - The Smiths 57 In My Life - The Beatles 58 Losing My Religion - REM 59 Stan - Eminem 60 Drugs Don’t Work - The Verve 61 Wuthering Heights - Kate Bush 62 Gimme Shelter - The Rolling Stones 63 My Generation - The Who 64 Yellow - Coldplay 65 Monkey Wrench - Foo Fighters 66 I Can’t Get No Satisfacton - The Rolling Stones 67 Fools Gold - The Stone Roses 68 Heroes - David Bowie 69 Blue Monday - New Order 70 Hotel California - Eagles 71 Song 2 - Blur 72 Winner Takes It All - ABBA 73 Shine On You Crazy Diamond - Pink Floyd 74 Kashmir - Led Zepplin 75 Tomorrow Never Knows - The Beatles 76 Babylon - David Gray 77 Californication - Red Hot Chilli Peppers 78 Heart Shaped Box - Nirvana 79 Everybody’s Changing - Keane 80 A Town Called Malice - The Jam 81 The Scientist - Coldplay 82 Superstition - Stevie Wonder 83 Personal Jesus - Depeche Mode 84 7 Nation Army - The White Stripes 85 Voodoo Child - Jimi Hendrix 86 Born To Run - Bruce Springsteen 87 Golden Touch - Razorlight 88 Motor Cycle Emptiness - Manic Street Preachers 89 Sittin On The Dock Of The Bay - Otis Redding 90 There She Goes - The LA’s 91 No Woman, No Cry - Bob Marley 92 Crazy - Gnarls Barkley 93 I Am The Resurrection - The Stone Roses 94 Rocket Man - Elton John 95 Debaser - Pixies 96 Fairy Tale Of New York - The Pogues 97 Last Nite - The Strokes 98 Going Underground - The Jam 99 Killing In The Name - Rage Against The Machine 100 Paranoid - Black Sabbath http://www.thesun.co.uk/article/0,,2-2006390728,00.html __________________ You could take a picture of something you see In the future where will I be? You could climb a ladder up to the sun Or write a song nobody had sung Or do something that's never been done

28-08-2006, 01:50 PM	#3
The Mad Hatter make believe Join Date: Feb 2006 Posts: 13,370 My Mood: Location: waging war on Christmas Gender: Country: Chat posts: 0 Thanks given: 216 Thanked 52 Times in 33 Posts	Woah. Most of the songs on that list are actually good! =oo __________________ tumblr \| deviantart i have been crucified with christ. it is no longer i who live, but christ who lives in me. and the life i now live in the flesh i live by faith in the son of god, who loved me and gave himself for me.

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Sam Coldplayer Join Date: Jun 2005 Posts: 3,369 Location: Gold Coast Gender: Country: Chat posts: 0 Thanks given: 0 Thanked 0 Times in 0 Posts	Dave, you constantly express your dislike for lists like this __________________ Spoiler spoiled last.fm

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RICK8 Ætti Mørkna. \oo/ Join Date: Sep 2005 Posts: 73,434 My Mood: Location: New Zealand. Gender: Country: Chat posts: 0 Thanks given: 0 Thanked 0 Times in 0 Posts	Quote: Originally Posted by Sam Dave, you constantly express your dislike for lists like this and then you go and make one yourself!! __________________ You might be a big fish,in a little pond,doesn't mean you have won,cause along may come a bigger one.

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Black Rose Bear with me Join Date: Jun 2005 Posts: 47,542 My Mood: Location: A strangeland under the iron sea where hopes & fears can make the night train be in perfect symmetry Gender: Country: Chat posts: 0 Thanks given: 6 Thanked 107 Times in 85 Posts	Quote: Originally Posted by RICK8 and then you go and make one yourself!! Where did it say "created by dave"? __________________ You could take a picture of something you see In the future where will I be? You could climb a ladder up to the sun Or write a song nobody had sung Or do something that's never been done

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Gitta Rensolo -1 Join Date: Jul 2005 Posts: 44,317 My Mood: Location: sleeping in a sidewalk with a Burger King crown Gender: Country: Chat posts: 0 Thanks given: 0 Thanked 4 Times in 4 Posts	wonderwall on 2nd.......before stairway to heaven....and bohemian rhapsody....wish you were here? No way... __________________ keine Zeit, in Echtzeit Die Musik ist aus und ist immernoch da

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Ondes Martenot Coldplayer Join Date: Sep 2005 Posts: 16,686 Chat posts: 0 Thanks given: 0 Thanked 1 Time in 1 Post	dreadful list. check Pitchfork if you want quality Wonderwall is overrated, Smells Like Teen Spirit is overrated, One is overrated, Stairway To Heaven is overrated, Angels is overrated 3 Oasis songs in the top 20? and 2 in the top 3??? what an awful music taste

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Ondes Martenot Coldplayer Join Date: Sep 2005 Posts: 16,686 Chat posts: 0 Thanks given: 0 Thanked 1 Time in 1 Post	Quote: Originally Posted by Dave S 37 I Bet You Look Good On The Dancefloor – Arctic Monkeys 47 Mr Brightside – The Killers 50 Take Your Mama – Scissor Sisters 64 Yellow - Coldplay 65 Monkey Wrench - Foo Fighters 87 Golden Touch - Razorlight especially LOL at Razorlight...Razorlight is like the worst band of our time

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General Smut Love Is Hell Join Date: Oct 2005 Posts: 2,092 Location: London Gender: Country: Chat posts: 0 Thanks given: 0 Thanked 0 Times in 0 Posts	Why do people constantly vote for Teen Spirit? Its a good song, but not that good. They've done way better __________________ I am in the twilight of my youth, not that I'm going to remember...

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Lera Dancing on the highway Join Date: Jan 2006 Posts: 6,786 Location: Shytown Gender: Country: Chat posts: 0 Thanks given: 0 Thanked 0 Times in 0 Posts	I'm laughing my ass of Wonderwall on the second place? Are you kidding?... Are you? Too funny. Oasis is so so far away from my list of the greatest songs that they look like a dot from here.

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Gitta Rensolo -1 Join Date: Jul 2005 Posts: 44,317 My Mood: Location: sleeping in a sidewalk with a Burger King crown Gender: Country: Chat posts: 0 Thanks given: 0 Thanked 4 Times in 4 Posts	Quote: Originally Posted by Ondes Martenot dreadful list. check Pitchfork if you want quality Wonderwall is overrated, Smells Like Teen Spirit is overrated, One is overrated, Stairway To Heaven is overrated, Angels is overrated 3 Oasis songs in the top 20? and 2 in the top 3??? what an awful music taste Stairway to heaven is not overrated..(imo)....just wanted to say that... What?Scissor sisters are also in the list? Damn.......now this is definitely an awful list......I own the scissor sisters album...and damn it sucks. __________________ keine Zeit, in Echtzeit Die Musik ist aus und ist immernoch da

29-08-2006, 08:28 PM	#15
Lera Dancing on the highway Join Date: Jan 2006 Posts: 6,786 Location: Shytown Gender: Country: Chat posts: 0 Thanks given: 0 Thanked 0 Times in 0 Posts	A Day In The Life is awesome, I admit. But all other songs in top-five are bullshit, I swear. I don't even like any of them, not talking about calling them the greatest. Creep is on the list but I think ther're many RH songs that deserve to be called the greatest much more, Creep is some kind of overrated too. Johnny Cash's Hurt would be in my top-ten probably, not in my top-fourty. Arctic Monkeys... No comments.

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