omfg at this list. How do you choose between the best songs ever.
― Tim F, Monday, 8 January 2018 02:47 (six years ago) link
...it's no accident that an ILXor prone to calling something "best" has a penchant for songs with titles that begin with absolutes like "every," "always," "never."lmao i didn't even think about this, thanks ymp― flamenco drop (BradNelson), Sunday, January 7, 2018 8:59 PM (forty-eight minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
lmao i didn't even think about this, thanks ymp
― flamenco drop (BradNelson), Sunday, January 7, 2018 8:59 PM (forty-eight minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
So where are:
Everyday is Like Sunday
Never Say Never Again
I'll Never Fall in Love Again
All Things Must Pass
All the Young Dudes
Nowhere Man
?
― and she could see an earmuff factory (Ye Mad Puffin), Monday, 8 January 2018 02:51 (six years ago) link
Never Surrender
All Through the Night
Never Gonna Give You Up
― and she could see an earmuff factory (Ye Mad Puffin), Monday, 8 January 2018 02:53 (six years ago) link
one of these, a murderer's row
patrice rushen: "haven't you heard"van halen: "panama"luther vandross: "never too much"evelyn "champagne" king: "love come down"machine: "there but for the grace of god go i"maxwell: "pretty wings"
― porg and bess (voodoo chili), Monday, 8 January 2018 04:21 (six years ago) link
Jesus, can't believe I've never heard "The Downtown Lights" before. amazing song
― Vinnie, Monday, 8 January 2018 04:52 (six years ago) link
Can't believe no one has said Tessio yet
― josh az (2011nostalgia), Monday, 8 January 2018 04:53 (six years ago) link
but yeah, so many amazing songs here. if anyone makes a spotify playlist out of them they will be a hero
― josh az (2011nostalgia), Monday, 8 January 2018 04:54 (six years ago) link
The Sound of Crying, best Prefab song
― J. Sam, Monday, 8 January 2018 06:45 (six years ago) link
These actually are most of the best songs ever.
― billstevejim, Monday, 8 January 2018 07:09 (six years ago) link
Probably would not choose "Jumbo" over about 10 of these but "Jumbo" is lit.
― billstevejim, Monday, 8 January 2018 07:11 (six years ago) link
This isn't difficult at all - voted Tears For Fears. Runners up: Soft Cell and Fleetwood Mac. Nothing else was remotely in contention.
― Gholdfish Killah (Turrican), Monday, 8 January 2018 07:17 (six years ago) link
What a list of tunes!
I went with "Always Be My Baby" just based on my mood
― bunny slopes, Monday, 8 January 2018 07:25 (six years ago) link
1. Machine 2. The Jets 3. Evelyn "Champagne" King
― Josefa, Monday, 8 January 2018 08:45 (six years ago) link
went for Jets
― FREEZE! FYI! (dog latin), Monday, 8 January 2018 08:55 (six years ago) link
TeardropsTessioEverywhereEscapadeThe downtown lightsMountainsCandySweet loveHaven't you heardJumboForever moreEverybody wants to rule the worldLove come downHalcyon + on + on
^^^all of these are god tier and it's nigh on impossible to pick one. Tho if we're talking the FKEK mix of Forever more then it's game overCrush
― i know kore-eda (or something), Monday, 8 January 2018 09:26 (six years ago) link
Crush should be among the list and not below the line there obv
― i know kore-eda (or something), Monday, 8 January 2018 09:27 (six years ago) link
"by your side" by sade is, at times, the best song in the world
"crush" comes close
― niels, Monday, 8 January 2018 10:30 (six years ago) link
Every Heartbeat 4EVA!!!!!
― kornrulez6969, Monday, 8 January 2018 15:27 (six years ago) link
v happy with myself for suggesting this poll, will vote later
― Simon H., Monday, 8 January 2018 15:35 (six years ago) link
There are enough songs here I'm in agreement about that this is an effectively impossible poll.
Just listened to 'Time After Time' the other day with 'fresh ears' (i.e. in isolation after having not heard it in some time and not as either a popular single whose prior ubiquity causes it to skirt past my attention or one of a collection of fantastic songs on a fantastic album) and, yes, it's certainly among the greatest.
― Bobby Buttrock (Old Lunch), Monday, 8 January 2018 15:39 (six years ago) link
No point in my scrolling past Soft Cell... I have definitely had moments where I thought that was the best song in the world.
― enochroot, Monday, 8 January 2018 15:50 (six years ago) link
It ain't why it just is.
― The shard-borne beetle with his drowsy hums (Chinaski), Monday, 8 January 2018 16:02 (six years ago) link
This is a list of many artists I love singing songs I don't care so much for!
The only two songs on this list I've myself once called "the best ever" are "Escapade" and the Tears For Fears song
― flamboyant goon tie included, Monday, 8 January 2018 16:06 (six years ago) link
Voted "Escapade" fwiw
small hours seems out of place on this list but i voted for it, although halcyon + on + on prob the only one on here that has felt like mb the best song ever
― ogmor, Monday, 8 January 2018 16:15 (six years ago) link
brad pls add the missing trax to yr spotify playlist!
― Simon H., Monday, 8 January 2018 16:17 (six years ago) link
Lots of amazing stuff here but it's between this pair for me:
tears for fears: "everybody wants to rule the world"evelyn "champagne" king: "love come down"
― Gavin, Leeds, Monday, 8 January 2018 16:18 (six years ago) link
will consider other songs while temporarily pretending that "tessio" refers to the present lover version
― sophistipop 2 (stritram), Monday, 8 January 2018 16:21 (six years ago) link
Get back to me with MBeat's 'Sweet Love' and we'll talk.
― chap, Monday, 8 January 2018 16:30 (six years ago) link
hi Brad
― morning wood truancy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 8 January 2018 16:33 (six years ago) link
No point in my scrolling past Soft Cell... I have definitely had moments where I thought that was the best song in the world.― enochroot, Monday, January 8, 2018 3:50 PM (forty-eight minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― enochroot, Monday, January 8, 2018 3:50 PM (forty-eight minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
It's a classic, but it's not even the best Soft Cell song, IMO.
― Gholdfish Killah (Turrican), Monday, 8 January 2018 16:41 (six years ago) link
wrong
― Benson and the Jets (ENBB), Monday, 8 January 2018 16:42 (six years ago) link
― enochroot, Monday, January 8, 2018 10:50 AM (fifty-two minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
Same.
― Benson and the Jets (ENBB), Monday, 8 January 2018 16:43 (six years ago) link
https://imgur.com/rz6zN8o
― ... (Eazy), Monday, 8 January 2018 16:45 (six years ago) link
'Heat', 'Soul Inside', 'Fun City' > 'Say Hello, Wave Goodbye'
― Gholdfish Killah (Turrican), Monday, 8 January 2018 16:45 (six years ago) link
https://media.giphy.com/media/TO5NRhGT2XpKg/giphy.gif
Tessio v Small Hours v Forever More (but only if it's the 10:39 Francois K Mix)
― Heavy Messages (jed_), Monday, 8 January 2018 16:54 (six years ago) link
love come down is such a masterclass of anticipation--the way it starts on the' response' part of the groove, the build to the scat hook in the first verse, saving the chorus so you don't get tired of it when they repeat it approximately 1000 times at the end of the song.
but then i listen to haven't you heard and that groove hits...and then there's that piano at the beginning of there but for the grace of god go i...
good choices, brad, i am thinking way too hard about this
― porg and bess (voodoo chili), Monday, 8 January 2018 16:54 (six years ago) link
i love "forever more" in all its forms so the francois k mix is definitely implied
― flamenco drop (BradNelson), Monday, 8 January 2018 17:02 (six years ago) link
Teardrops every time
― raise my chicken finger (Willl), Monday, 8 January 2018 17:02 (six years ago) link
my first instinct is "forever more" but i think i need to think about it more
― ufo, Monday, 8 January 2018 17:11 (six years ago) link
it's kind of harrowing how alien Brad's listening history is to my own - I know maybe five of these. less. maybe this could work as a compleat gyde to soft-rocke. never too late to learn
― #TeamHailing (imago), Monday, 8 January 2018 17:16 (six years ago) link
I definitely thought Say Hello Wave Goodbye was the greatest song ever for several months in the 80s.
― Doran, Monday, 8 January 2018 18:04 (six years ago) link
― Vinnie, Sunday, January 7, 2018 11:52 PM (yesterday)
I will not turn this into a blue nile threadI will not turn this into a blue nile thread I will not turn this into a blue nile thread
― k3vin k., Monday, 8 January 2018 18:04 (six years ago) link
brad this is longer than your spotify playlist!
leaning toward sade but going to put this playlist on to see if I change my mind
― k3vin k., Monday, 8 January 2018 18:06 (six years ago) link
Yes, please don't turn this into a Blue Nile thread - if only because I don't require an insomnia cure.
― Gholdfish Killah (Turrican), Monday, 8 January 2018 18:24 (six years ago) link
Voted Tears For Fears because all of these songs rule and no vote is a bad vote so I went with the one I most recently enjoyed myself.
― Johnny Fever, Monday, 8 January 2018 18:36 (six years ago) link
Some of these songs are great, some of them are perfect, but only one of them is The Downtown Lights.
― calumerio, Monday, 8 January 2018 19:00 (six years ago) link
where can this playlist be found?
― niels, Monday, 8 January 2018 19:27 (six years ago) link
that jennifer lara cover of i'm in love is gorgeous
― ogmor, Monday, 8 January 2018 23:06 (six years ago) link
sarah mclachlan "sweet surrender" but ONLY THE TIËSTO REMIX (jk altho it's actually really good)
i actually voted for "pretty wings"
― dyl, Monday, 8 January 2018 23:12 (six years ago) link
but who are youjust a-no-ther scur-vy bro-ther
― porg and bess (voodoo chili), Monday, 8 January 2018 23:26 (six years ago) link
scrolled down thinking "well where's the ACTUAL best song in the world, 'he's on the phone' " and boom there it is, good work
― kinder, Monday, 8 January 2018 23:34 (six years ago) link
Lots of my faves here. The ones that get my pulse going just reading the titles would be Everywhere, Escapade, Sweet Love, Take A Bow, at first glance. Even allowing for the songs I don't know or don't care about, the list captures a certain overcome-by-music *wow* feeling that I'm very familiar with (and that makes me go quiet and ignore people when I hear them in company). Hope no one mistakes the poll name for hyperbole.
― geoffreyess, Tuesday, 9 January 2018 00:42 (six years ago) link
Voted “Escapade,” because “MINNEAPOLIS!”
― Fred Klinkenberg (Eric H.), Tuesday, 9 January 2018 23:39 (six years ago) link
Womack & Womack
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Tuesday, 9 January 2018 23:49 (six years ago) link
RLJ's debut and Pirates have mysteriously been off (US, at least) Spotify for a handful of weeks.
― Johnny Fever, Wednesday, 10 January 2018 00:34 (six years ago) link
Jumbo.
You know..
― Mark G, Wednesday, 10 January 2018 00:45 (six years ago) link
i say this a lot though imo i'm always correct in the moment. not exhaustive, obv, and in no particular order, basically listed them as they came to mind and stopped when i got to 50the blue nile: "the downtown lights"annie lennox: "why"Vote ― flamenco drop (BradNelson), Sunday, January 7, 2018 8:29 PM (two days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
the blue nile: "the downtown lights"annie lennox: "why"
Vote ― flamenco drop (BradNelson), Sunday, January 7, 2018 8:29 PM (two days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
Funny enough I checked out The Blue Nile after really liking the Annie Lennox cover song of "The Downtown Lights" back in the day.
― Rod Steel (musicfanatic), Wednesday, 10 January 2018 01:28 (six years ago) link
brad yr love of spacy country and Sarah MacLachlan makes me wonder if you've listned to Blue Rodeo's Five Days in July which features some of both and an incredibly distended last couple tracks
― Simon H., Wednesday, 10 January 2018 01:50 (six years ago) link
This is the book I never readThese are the words I never saidThis is the path I'll never treadThese are the dreams I'll dream insteadThis is the joy that's seldom spreadThese are the tearsThe tears we shedThis is the fearThis is the dreadThese are the contents of my headAnd these are the years that we have spentAnd this is what they representAnd this is how I feelDo you know how I feel?
― morning wood truancy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 10 January 2018 01:57 (six years ago) link
Great list! I would have put lots of these on any "best ever" list, too. It's Love Come Down for me, but Sweet Love and tears for fears are close behind
― Dan I., Wednesday, 10 January 2018 02:54 (six years ago) link
regardless of how good it is i hope i don't have to endure Teardrops ever again. put Teardrops in a locked box with several of the most famous chic songs and bury them in an unknown location.
― Heavy Messages (jed_), Wednesday, 10 January 2018 03:00 (six years ago) link
Aaaallllll the way down
― porg and bess (voodoo chili), Wednesday, 10 January 2018 04:41 (six years ago) link
Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.
― System, Friday, 19 January 2018 00:01 (six years ago) link
voted for Tessio
― Heavy Messages (jed_), Friday, 19 January 2018 00:08 (six years ago) link
voted Mariah Carey. there was a time when i saw that music video every morning before school. to this day the wordless "do-do-do dum do-do-do-da-do-da-dum" bit randomly pops into my mind, especially around moments of wordless joy
― AdamVania (Adam Bruneau), Friday, 19 January 2018 00:16 (six years ago) link
Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.
― System, Saturday, 20 January 2018 00:01 (six years ago) link
great results
― flamenco drop (BradNelson), Saturday, 20 January 2018 00:05 (six years ago) link
Thank fuck this self-indulgent nonsense is over.
― Full of bile and Blue Nile denial (Turrican), Saturday, 20 January 2018 00:09 (six years ago) link
<3 love u boo
― flamenco drop (BradNelson), Saturday, 20 January 2018 00:09 (six years ago) link
I've always been in love with you
― trife's rich padgett (rip van wanko), Saturday, 20 January 2018 00:15 (six years ago) link
the blue nile: "the downtown lights" 10
Never heard of it.
― Tarr Yang Preminger Argento Carpenter (Eric H.), Saturday, 20 January 2018 00:27 (six years ago) link
Didn't vote for it (Tessio 4 lyfe <3) but glad to see the ilx blue nile fan club coming in full force here
― josh az (2011nostalgia), Saturday, 20 January 2018 01:16 (six years ago) link
Best poll ever.
I ended up voting for Patrice Rushen but could have easily gone for The Blue Nile, Fleetwood Mac, Saint Etienne, Evelyn King, Womack & Womack, Luomo, John Martyn, Underworld or about half a dozen others.
― Tim F, Saturday, 20 January 2018 01:20 (six years ago) link
I tried to change my vote to sade but it said I’d already voted
― k3vin k., Saturday, 20 January 2018 02:51 (six years ago) link
Brad, what did you vote for?
― hoooyaaargh it's me satan (voodoo chili), Saturday, 20 January 2018 03:18 (six years ago) link
the first four songs listed with zero votes were all robbed tbh
― boxedjoy, Saturday, 20 January 2018 10:06 (six years ago) link
In a way I’m glad I missed this poll because so much of it lines up with my tastes too closely to pick
― You're all losing so many points on your progress bars (Champiness), Saturday, 20 January 2018 10:19 (six years ago) link
Solitary vote for Summertime in England! Some people shouldn't be allowed to have ears.
― The shard-borne beetle with his drowsy hums (Chinaski), Saturday, 20 January 2018 10:55 (six years ago) link
"cloud city" is like... the best song i've ever heard― mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson), Wednesday, June 24, 2020 6:25 PM (one hour ago)
― mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson), Wednesday, June 24, 2020 6:25 PM (one hour ago)
― mookieproof, Thursday, 25 June 2020 05:16 (three years ago) link
stiff competition:
this is the best song everhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=2&v=KylJMl_ms54&feature=emb_logo― mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson), maandag 15 juni 2020 22:31 bookmarkflaglink
http://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=2&v=KylJMl_ms54&feature=emb_logo
― mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson), maandag 15 juni 2020 22:31 bookmarkflaglink
― No mean feat. DaBaby (breastcrawl), Thursday, 25 June 2020 06:53 (three years ago) link