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Favourite 1 Song of All Time

Spud

Spud

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Once Dead said:
I just want to hear this song live. I've got tickets to see AiC but even though it won't be as good without Layne, it will be a freakin' life defining moment. No exaggeration.

BTW-I rate Mad Season's - LONG GONE DAY as my favourite MS song.
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Have they reformed or just reunion tour?
 
Nuke

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'The Show Must Go On' - Queen.

Powerful, emotive anthemic song. Written by Brian May while Freddie Mercury was very sick. Freddie didn't want to sing it initially as it was basically a farewell kinda song, but he knew how much it meant to Brian for him to sing it. The power in Freddie's voice is incredible given he was so close to death and only had short bursts of energy in between long lay-downs.

Awesome song.
 
OVP

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Peace Frog - The Doors

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=8U9OHtZz36U

Theres blood in the streets, its up to my ankles
She came
Theres blood on the streets, its up to my knee
She came
Blood on the streets in the town of chicago
She came
Blood on the rise, its following me
Think about the break of day
She came and then she drove away
Sunlight in her hair
She came
Blood in the streets runs a river of sadness
She came
Blood in the streets its up to my thigh
She came
Yeah the river runs down the legs of the city
She came
The women are crying red rivers of weepin
She came into town and then she drove away
Sunlight in her hair
Indians scattered on dawns highway bleeding
Ghosts crowd the young childs fragile eggshell mind
Blood in the streets in the town of new haven
Blood stains the roofs and the palm trees of venice
Blood in my love in the terrible summer
Bloody red sun of phantastic l.a.
Blood streams her brain as they chop off her fingers
Blood will be born in the birth of a nation
Blood is the rose of mysterious union
Theres blood in the streets, its up to my ankles
Blood in the streets, its up to my knee
Blood in the streets in the town of chicago
Blood on the rise, its following me
 
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Generalzod

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I find it hard to choose between Where the Streets have no name U2 /Nothing else matters (Mettalica)
 
S

Sugar

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"Moon Over Marin"

The crowded future stings my eyes
I still find time to exercise
In uniform with two white stripes

Unlock my section of the sand
It's fenced off to the water's edge
I clamp a gasmask on my head

[Chorus]
On my beach at night
Bathe in my moonlight

Another tanker's hit the rocks
Abandoned to spill out its guts
The sand is laced with sticky glops

O' Shimmering moonlight sheen upon
The waves and water clogged with oil
White gases steam up from the soil

[Chorus]

I squash dead fish between my toes
Try not to step on any bones
I turn around and I go home

I slip back through my basement door
Switch off all that I own below
Dive in my scalding wooden tub

My own beach at night
Electric Moonlight

There will always be a moon
Over Marin

http://au.youtube.com/watch?v=A4SQqPSdJUU
 
Jono Russell

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so hard to choose just one.

I will have to go with

Hurt by NIN and later Johnny Cash both great versions in their own styles.


NIN
http://au.youtube.com/watch?v=iFx2TmQfM-o

Cash
http://au.youtube.com/watch?v=SmVAWKfJ4Go

Lyrics

I hurt myself today
To see if I still feel
I focus on the pain
The only thing that's real
The needle tears a hole
The old familiar sting
Try to kill it all away
But I remember everything

What have I become
My sweetest friend
Everyone I know
goes away
In the end
And you could have it all
My empire of dirt
I will let you down
I will make you hurt

I wear this crown of thorns
Upon my liar's chair
Full of broken thoughts
I cannot repair
Beneath the stains of time
The feelings disappear
You are someone else
I am still right here

What have I become
My sweetest friend
Everyone I know
goes away
In the end
And you could have it all
My empire of dirt
I will let you down
I will make you hurt

If I could start again
A million miles away
I would keep myself
I would find a way
 
Knightmare

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I have many faves, but seeing as we're talking acoustic covers, one such song would have to be the acoustic version of 'Baby Come On' by +44. The album version of this song is kind of sarcastic and almost light-hearted sounding, but the acoustic version is moody and has an almost morose feeling of helplessness to it:

She's a pretty girl
She's always falling down
And I think I just fell in love with her
But she won't ever remember

And I can always find her
At the bottom of a plastic cup
Drowning in drunk sincerity
A sad and lonely girl

Quit crying your eyes out
Quiet crying your eyes out
Baby come on
Isn't there something familiar about me?
The past is only the future with the lights on
Quiet crying your eyes out baby

She said I think we're running out of alcohol
Tonight I hate this f**king town
And all my best friends will be the death of me
But they won't ever remember

So please take me far away
Before I melt into the ground
And all my words get used against me
You sad and lonely girl

Quit crying your eyes out
Quiet crying your eyes out
Baby come on
Isn't there something familiar about me?
The past is only the future with the lights on
Quiet crying your eyes out baby


I got such vivid imagery from this one song that I ended up writing a short story based on the lyrics.
 
Coastbloke

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Yeh, too hard to choose 1....c'mon..

Umm..Someone mentioned Itchycoo Park from Small Faces and I gotta admit 'Tin Soldier' from Small Faces might be up there for me...

New Race's version of 'Crying Sun' from Radio Birdman, also is it 'Hard Sun' from Eddie Vedder from the Into the Wild soundtrack...

'14 years' from Guns n Roses and 'Sympathy for the Devil' from the Stones, although again I prefer Gunners version....

Sorry, too hard...
 
SpaceMonkey

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Jono Russell said:
so hard to choose just one.

I will have to go with

Hurt by NIN and later Johnny Cash both great versions in their own styles.
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I think being covered by Johnny Cash is a fairly good indicator of greatness, as I'm going to nominate Nick Cave's "The Mercy Seat", which was also later covered by Cash, and Bob Marley's "Redemption Song" (covered by Cash in a duet with Joe Strummer) would also make my top ten.

Lyrics to "The Mercy Seat"(although they change a little every time Cave sings them)

It began when they come took me from my home
And put me in Dead Row,
Of which I am nearly wholly innocent, you know.
And I'll say it again
I..am..not..afraid..to..die.


I began to warm and chill
To objects and their fields,
A ragged cup, a twisted mop
The face of Jesus in my soup
Those sinister dinner meals
The meal trolley's wicked wheels
A hooked bone rising from my food
All things either good or ungood.
And the mercy seat is waiting
And I think my head is burning
And in a way I'm yearning
To be done with all this measuring of truth.
An eye for an eye
A tooth for a tooth
And anyway I told the truth
And I'm not afraid to die.
Interpret signs and catalogue
A blackened tooth, a scarlet fog.
The walls are bad. Black. Bottom kind.
They are sick breath at my hind
They are sick breath at my hind
They are sick breath at my hind
They are sick breath gathering at my hind
I hear stories from the chamber
How Christ was born into a manger
And like some ragged stranger
Died upon the cross
And might I say it seems so fitting in its way
He was a carpenter by trade
Or at least that's what I'm told
Like my good hand I
tatooed E.V.I.L. across it's brother's fist
That filthy five! They did nothing to challenge or resist.
In Heaven His throne is made of gold
The ark of his Testament is stowed
A throne from which I'm told
All history does unfold.
Down here it's made of wood and wire
And my body is on fire
And God is never far away.
Into the mercy seat I climb
My head is shaved, my head is wired
And like a moth that tries
To enter the bright eye
I go shuffling out of life
Just to hide in death awhile
And anyway I never lied.
My kill-hand is called E.V.I.L.
Wears a wedding band that's G.O.O.D.
`Tis a long-suffering shackle
Collaring all that rebel blood.
And the mercy seat is waiting
And I think my head is burning
And in a way I'm yearning
To be done with all this measuring of truth.
An eye for an eye
And a tooth for a tooth
And anyway I told the truth
And I'm not afraid to die.
And the mercy seat is burning
And I think my head is glowing
And in a way I'm hoping
To be done with all this weighing up of truth.
An eye for an eye
And a tooth for a tooth
And I've got nothing left to lose
And I'm not afraid to die.
And the mercy seat is glowing
And I think my head is smoking
And in a way I'm hoping
To be done with all this looks of disbelief.
An eye for an eye
And a tooth for a tooth
And anyway there was no proof
Nor a motive why.
And the mercy seat is smoking
And I think my head is melting
And in a way I'm helping
To be done with all this twisted of the truth.
A lie for a lie
And a truth for a truth
And I've got nothing left to lose
And I'm not afraid to die.
And the mercy seat is melting
And I think my blood is boiling
And in a way I'm spoiling
All the fun with all this truth and consequence.
An eye for an eye
And a truth for a truth
And anyway I told the truth
And I'm not afraid to die.
And the mercy seat is waiting
And I think my head is burning
And in a way I'm yearning
To be done with all this measuring of proof.
A life for a life
And a truth for a truth
And anyway there was no proof
But I'm not afraid to tell a lie.
And the mercy seat is waiting
And I think my head is burning
And in a way I'm yearning
To be done with all this measuring of truth.
An eye for an eye
And a truth for a truth
And anyway I told the truth
But I'm afraid I told a lie.
 
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