I feel like I’m gonna get flack for this one, but imo it’s the clear best in the catalogue.
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Land of Confusion was a Genesis song (off Invisible Touch).
I’d go with Another Day in Paradise myself, but no arguments with anyone who goes the other way.
Queen is the odd band in that they pretty much never wrote great albums, just great songs. And that’s not a dig. It’s hard to write a great album, but for songs? Practically every song on their greatest hits could be considered their greatest song of all time, and that’s because each one edges the other out by such tiny hairs that it changes by the day and the person. “Under Pressure” is my pick for their greatest song right now, but it could also easily be “Radio Ga Ga” or “Fat Bottomed Girls.” The one song that is objective NOT their greatest song is “Bohemian Rhapsody,” but don’t let this man distract you from the fact that in 1998, The Undertaker threw Mankind off Hell In A Cell, and plummeted 16 ft through an announcer’s table.
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That’s a home run, wp
Honestly, for sheer quality and gorgeousness I’m going with “Somebody to Love” for Queen. I mean, there is literally no other song that Freddie sings that can compare, at least for me. It’s like a religious experience.
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You’ve changed the game from “band with one song that’s way better than the others” to “bands and their best/most iconic songs.”
Like, Longview could be Green Day’s most iconic song, but it’s not head and shoulders above the rest of their catalog.
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Laura Branigan - Gloria
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This is fine, but Bon Jovi is the rare 80s band that continued making great music all the way through the 2010s. One could even say they wrote their greatest songs (and thus their greatest song of all time) during the Crush era, when they wrote hits such as “It’s My Life,” “Who Says You Can’t Go Home,” and “Have a Nice Day.”
[quote=“skydiver8, post:158, topic:368, full:true”]The Cure - A Forest (best) Love Song (iconic, though the same could be said for Just Like Heaven)
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ima let you finish but. PLAINSONG IS THE GREATEST CURE SONG OF ALL TIME
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ABBA: Dancing Queen.
This post is Smacc’s Waterloo
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Mamma Mia, that is quite a take.
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Now you’re starting to get the concept.
That’s easy to agree with. I love Somebody to Love. It was easily the best song of the Queen musical I saw many years ago in London, though I think that musical’s greatest accomplishment was making “Innuendo” a compelling song by using it as the background music for a trippy intro.
“Innuendo” is maybe my pick for worst Queen song LOL.
You can see just how unappealing the song is when Chris Daughtry of American Idol and so-much-more fame sang it in the competition and rightfully got slammed for wasting a golden opportunity to sing an actually GOOD Queen song that would make the fans crazy, such as “Under Pressure” or “Somebody to Love.”
Now I don’t hate the song, and it has a special place in my heart because it was one of the last songs Freddie recorded before his death, but my opinion remains that Daughtry not performing UP or StL was the decision that sent him home in third place.
As for “Somebody to Love,” nothing beats Marc Martel’s cover, who sounds so much like Freddie Mercury that they used his voice to fill in the “live” vocal gaps in the movie Bohemian Rhapsody.
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Couldn’t agree more. Instant classic.
Diana Ross - Aint No Mountain High Enough
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Yes but I made it clear one-hit wonders didn’t count. A-ha is clearly a one-hit wonder.
See what you started?
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The Sun always Shines on TV!
I know one Phish song - Bounce Around the Room. Which I’m guessing annoys Phish fans as much as saying Casey Jones or Touch of Grey is your favorite Dead song - annoys Dead fans.