The Best Deep House Songs of All Time
The Best Songs Ever: the Greatest Songs of All Time
Who wrote the best songs always written―the greatest songs of all time? If you're a lyric nut like me, you lot may want to check out my folio on The Greatest Rock Lyrics of All Fourth dimension because it considers songs strictly equally poems, on the merits of their words alone. This folio considers songs equally comprehensive works of art. When words and music are considered together, some songs rise in my rankings while others drop. Please keep in mind that both lists are the result of my personal taste in music, and my potent preference for killer lyrics. I realize that other fansouth' choices will exist different; the purpose of my list is simply to say, like Buffalo Springfield, "Here'due south what I call up, for what it's worth ..."
I have included snippets of trivia hither and in that location, answering questions such every bit:
(one) Which famous songwriter pledged to be faithful to his wife in his biggest hitting, only to record a song written past his mistress that became his other greatest striking?
(two) What vocal was investigated by the FBI for offensive/subversive lyrics only forced the investigators to give up because no one could empathize what the hell was being said?
(3) What vocal was a worldwide ecumenical motion, starting out equally a pagan folk tune, then becoming a Christian children's hymn, merely to cease up a hit for America's most famous Muslim singer?
(4) What song past the Rolling Stones was inspired by the surrealist French poet Charles Baudelaire?
(five) How did the great medieval poet Geoffrey Chaucer influence Procol Harum's eerie masterpiece "A Whiter Shade of Pale"?
(6) What line from a sermon past the poet John Donne spurred the biting refutation of a young monkish troubadour?
(7) Which American rock group took its name from a line of poetry by the mystical English poet William Blake?
(8) What does Led Zeppelin'southward "Stairway to Sky" have in common with Saint Peter'south 2nd sermon after Pentecost?
(nine) Which famously cheesy songwriter claimed to "write the songs that make the whole world sing" but didn't actually write the vocal in which he made the ultimate cheesy claim?
(x) How did thinking nearly his own death inspire eleven minutes of a famous pianist's fury? And perhaps brand his sunglasses fog up?
compiled by Michael R. Burch
I will at present count down my elevation 25 songs of all time, then reveal my "honorable mentions" while spilling the beans on my trivia questions ...
#25 — Sympathy for the Devil (necktie)
past Mick Jagger and Keith Richards; performed by the Rolling Stones
I shouted out,
"Who killed the Kennedys?"
When afterward all
It was you and me
"Sympathy for the Devil," according to Mick Jagger, was inspired by the work of a French symbolist poet, Charles Baudelaire. (This answers trivia question number 4.) The image above is past the English poet/artist William Blake. Other songs by the Rolling Stones include "Angie," "Beast of Burden," "Wild Horses," "Y'all Can't E'er Go What You Want," "Satisfaction," "Paint It Black," "Miss Y'all," "Fool to Weep," "Starting time Me Up," "Gimme Shelter," "As Tears Go By," "Dark-brown Sugar" and "I'm Just Waiting on a Friend."
#25 — Dear Reign O'er Me (tie)
past Pete Townsend; performed past The Who
Only love
can bring the rain
that makes you yearn to the sky ...
"Beloved Reign O'er Me" is the ultimate all-out rock anthem, belted out to stone god perfection past Roger Daltrey. The song was covered by Pearl Jam and furnished the title of the movie "Reign O'er Me." For the definitive cover, check out Bettye LaVette'southward version on YouTube. All the same, I imagine that the immature, brash Roger Daltrey owns this one for all time. Other songs by the Who include "Who Are You," "Eminence Front," "My Generation," "Baba O'Reilly," "Won't Get Fooled Again" "Pinball Wizard" "Behind Bluish Eyes," "Magic Bus," "The Seeker" and "You Better You Bet."
#24 — Funeral for a Friend/Dear Lies Haemorrhage (tie)
music by Elton John; lyrics by Bernie Taupin; performed past Elton John
This 11-minute track was too long to exist released as a single just it received quite a bit of radio air play (1 critic suggested that information technology allowed DJs fourth dimension for extended "potty breaks"). Elton John wrote the music while thinking furiously most what he wanted played at his own funeral. (This answers trivia question number ten.) The song is total of furious, bombastic chords, but they all seem to work remarkably well with the angry lyrics. Other songs by Elton John include "Tiny Dancer," "Levon," "Daniel," "Rocket Man," "Sacrifice," "Candle in the Wind," "Your Song," "Border Song," "Goodbye Yellow Brick Road," "Don't Let the Sun Get Down on Me," "Philadelphia Freedom," "Honky Cat," "Bennie and the Jets" and "Crocodile Rock."
#24 — Get Rest High on that Mountain (necktie)
past Vince Gill
I am non normally a country music fan, but this vocal, a mod hymn, is wonderfully moving and exquisitely sung by Vince Gill, a onetime pb vocaliser of Pure Prairie League. Gill wrote the song originally for Keith Whitley, a fellow country music singer who died in 1989, simply didn't finish it until after the decease of his brother Bob in 1993. Ricky Skaggs and Patty Loveless sang the background vocals on a song that is sure to be an enduring classic. Other songs by Vince Gill include "When I Phone call Your Name," "I Still Believe," "Pocket Full of Gold," "Never Knew Lonely" and "Whenever You Come up Around."
#24 — Considering The Night (tie)
past Bruce Springsteen and Patti Smith; performed by the Patti Smith Group
"Because the Nighttime" is one of the songs (if not the song) that made Patti Smith the "godmother of punk." The song was originally written by Bruce Springsteen, merely wasn't recorded considering he wasn't happy with it. Patti Smith altered the vocal, which became her biggest hitting and has been called one of the best songs of all fourth dimension by some critics. Springsteen continued to perform the song with his original lyrics, simply it is Patti Smith'southward version that became ane of the iconic songs of the punk era. Other songs by Patti Smith include "Gloria," "Hey Joe" and "People Take the Power."
#23 — Fever and Blue Moon (early Lord's day recordings)
performed by Elvis Presley
Elvis Presley was like the little girl who had a little curl right in the middle of her forehead: sometimes he was very, very good, and sometimes he was horrid (i.e., the ultimate cheesy/bombastic Vegas lounge singer, although his vocalism was always pure gold). If you haven't heard the immature Elvis Presley sing "Fever" and "Blue Moon," hie thee apace over to YouTube to check out the really, really good, hip, cool Elvis. Other songs by Elvis Presley include "That'southward Alright Mama," "Heartbreak Hotel," "Hound Dog," "Jailhouse Rock," "An American Trilogy," "If I Tin can Dream," "Suspicious Minds," "Peace in the Valley," "How Keen Thou Art," "Burning Love" and "In the Ghetto."
#22 — Mad Globe
by Roland Orzabal; every bit performed by Adam Lambert (originally performed past Tears for Fears)
If any contemporary male singer can rival the immature Elvis Presley, it may be Adam Lambert. His comprehend of "Mad World" by Tears for Fears is scary-good. Brian May of Queen said that Lambert is the only male person vocalizer who tin can hitting those crazy loftier notes that Freddy Mercury was famous for. But "Mad World" is more of a sad complaining, beautifully and tenderly sung by an astonishing vocalist.
#21 — Taxiby Harry Chapin
Oh, I've got something within me
To drive a princess bullheaded ...
There'southward a wild-man wizard
He's hiding in me, illuminating my listen
Harry Chapin's "Taxi" is a ghost story in which both ghosts are withal partially live. I in one case saw Chapin in concert, and he was a wonderful storyteller: both in his songs and in his interactions with the audition. Other songs by Harry Chapin include "True cat's in the Cradle," "The Trip the light fantastic toe Ring on the Titanic," "The Mayor of Artlessness Lied" and "W.O.Fifty.D."
#20 — Leah and Crying (tie)
by Roy Orbison; performed by Roy Orbison
I'll place the pearls
around the only girl
for me:
Leah
Some songs have haunting lyrics, but Roy Orbison has a haunting, almost otherworldly voice. I'm not sure if this is a bully song in its own correct (it'south nigh a pearl diver who drowns, only to wake upwards and realize he was having a nightmare), but Orbison's voice makes the operation utterly magical. "Crying" is another absolute masterpiece―covered ably by Yard. D. Lang and Don McLean, among others―merely no ane can duplicate Orbison's unique voice and delivery. Other songs by Roy Orbison include "Pretty Woman," "Only the Lone," "In Dreams," "It's Over," "Running Scared," "Blue Bayou," "You Got Information technology," "Sweetness Dreams Babe" and "I Drove All Night."
#twenty — Candle in the Wind (tie)
music by Elton John; lyrics by Bernie Taupin; performed past Elton John
Goodbye Norma Jean
Though I never knew you at all
You had the grace to hold yourself
While those around you crawled
Bernie Taupin's evocative lyrics to "Candle in the Wind" tell a haunting story virtually an enchanting artist: Marilyn Monroe (the former Norma Jean Baker). The music was written and the vocal was originally performed past Elton John. The song non only causes us to sympathize with Marilyn Monroe, but also with the immature male child who felt such empathy for her. Bernie Taupin afterward wrote new lyrics for the song, honoring England's fairest Rose, Princess Diana, after her tragic death in an automobile accident. Other songs by Elton John include "Tiny Dancer," "Levon," "Daniel," "Rocket Man," "Cede," "Your Song," "Border Song," "Good day Yellow Brick Road," "Don't Permit the Sunday Go Down on Me," "Philadelphia Freedom," "Honky True cat," "Bennie and the Jets" and "Crocodile Rock."
#nineteen — Imagine
by John Lennon
Imagine in that location's no Heaven
It'south easy if you try
No hell below us
Above us simply sky ...
While I'm not a hard-core Beatles fan (preferring the Stones, Led Zeppelin, Queen and several other groups), I have long admired John Lennon'due south "Imagine" and its vision of a world where at that place is finally a true "brotherhood of man." His dreamy vision of a Utopian world has inspired the anti-war, pro-peace movement for decades and is one of the virtually influential pieces of anti-organized religion writing on tape, perhaps making Lennon the English equivalent of Marking Twain (a fierce American critic of Christianity with its ludicrous hell, bloody atonement and judgmental God). Other songs by John Lennon include "Requite Peace a Chance," "Happy Xmas (War is Over)," "Woman," "Mother," "Instant Karma," "Watching the Wheels," "Jealous Guy," and all his hits with the Beatles (beneath).
#18 — Eleanor Rigbyby John Lennon and Paul McCartney; performed by the Beatles
Eleanor Rigby
Died in the church and was buried forth with her name
Nobody came
Father McKenzie
Wiping the clay from his easily as he walks from the grave
No ane was saved
"Eleanor Rigby" is all the same another haunting ghost story. In this ghost story, the ghosts were both dead while they were withal alive, so ane of the ghosts (Father McKenzie) buried the other ghost (Eleanor Rigby). This song contains powerful, moving commentary on the inadequacy of honey and religion to make some people happy. Other songs by the Beatles include "A Day in the Life," "Hey Jude," "Yesterday," "Let Information technology Be," "Twist and Shout," "Penny Lane," "Come Together," "Something" and "Here Comes the Sun."
#17 — House of the Rising Sun
writer unknown; performed by the Animals
There is a house in New Orleans
They call the Rising Sun
And it's been the ruin of many a poor boy
And God I know I'm i ...
"House of the Rising Lord's day" is an American folk carol whose authorship remains unknown. The best-known version of the song was performed by a British "invasion" group, the Animals. (Hey, what were they doing, stealing our best songs?) Like many other songs on this page, information technology tells a haunting, compelling story. Other songs by the Animals include "Don't Let Me Exist Misunderstood," "We've Got to Go Out of this Place," "To Love Somebody," "It's My Life," "Don't Bring Me Down," "When I Was Young," "I Put a Spell on You" and "Boom Boom."
#16 — Born to Run
by Bruce Springsteen; performed by Bruce Springsteen and the East Street Band
Every twenty-four hour period we sweat information technology out in the streets of a runaway American dream
At dark nosotros ride through mansions of glory in suicide machines
Sprung from cages out on highway 9
Chrome wheeled, fuel injected and steppin' out over the line
Baby this town rips the bones from your back
It's a death trap, it'southward a suicide rap
We gotta become out while we're immature
`Cause tramps like u.s.a., baby nosotros were built-in to run
"Born to Run" is a rip-roaring anthem perhaps inspired to some degree by badass actors like James Dean, Marlon Brando and Dennis Hopper. What happens when adulthood-dripping young men straddle Harleys? A vocal like "Born to Run" seems almost inevitable. A central line may be: "And the boys attempt to expect so hard." At that place's quite a discrepancy between the lyrics of songwriters like John Lennon and Paul Simon, and those of "the Dominate" higher up. Other songs past Bruce Springsteen include "Thunder Road," "Jungleland," "Rosalita," "Tenth Avenue Freeze-Out," "Badlands," "Fire," "Born in the Us," "Glory Days" and "Dancing in the Night."
#fifteen — Blowin' in the Wind
by Bob Dylan
How many roads must a homo walk downward
Before you lot call him a man?
Yep, 'n' how many seas must a white pigeon canvas
Before she sleeps in the sand?
Yes 'due north' how many times must the cannonballs fly
Before they're forever banned?
The answer, my friend, is blowin' in the air current,
The answer is blowin' in the wind.
"Blowin' in the Wind," like John Lennon'southward "Imagine," is a highly influential song that may still be transforming human hearts and minds. How many other singers and songwriters take been influenced past these songs, and how many people take they influenced in turn? Bob Zimmerman took his last name from the first name of the neat Welsh poet Dylan Thomas, becoming Bob Dylan. His "Similar a Rolling Rock" was voted the number one vocal of all time by Rolling Rock magazine, an interesting synchronicity. Other songs past Bob Dylan include "Lay Lady Lay," "The Times They Are A-Changin'," "A Difficult Pelting'due south A-Gonna Fall," "It Ain't Me Baby," "All Along the Watchtower," "Tangled Up in Blueish," "Just Like a Adult female," "Mr. Tambourine Man" and "Knockin' on Sky's Door."
#fourteen — A Change Is Gonna Come up
by Sam Cooke
Information technology's been too hard living
but I'chiliad agape to die
'Crusade I don't know what's upward there
beyond the heaven ...
"A Change Is Gonna Come" was written afterward Sam Cooke heard and was moved by Bob Dylan's "Blowin' in the Wind." Cooke's song became an canticle for the American Civil Rights Motility. Other songs by Sam Cooke include "Chain Gang," "Cupid," "Y'all Send Me," "Wonderful Globe" and "Bring it on Home."
#13 — Comfortably Numb
by Roger Waters and David Gilmour; performed by Pinkish Floyd
When I was a child I had a fever;
my hand felt just similar 2 balloons ....
I have become
comfortably numb.
If Pink Floyd has ever produced a bad vocal, I haven't heard it. This was the last song written by Roger Waters and David Gilmour, and peradventure remains their greatest, but they take had so many wonderful collaborations that information technology's difficult to say. Other songs by Pink Floyd include "Wishing Y'all Were Here," "Time," "Echoes," "Hey You," "The Keen Gig in the Sky," "Learning to Fly," "Shine On You lot Crazy Diamond," "The Wall," "Money" and "Night Side of the Moon."
#12 — A Whiter Shade of Stake
past Matthew Fisher, Gary Brooker and Keith Reid; performed past Procol Harum
And and then it was that later,
As the miller told his tale,
That her face, at beginning just ghostly,
Turned a whiter shade of stake.
"A Whiter Shade of Pale" has been the nigh-played vocal at venues in the United Kingdom over the last 75 years, and justly so. It's a song that tells a haunting if somewhat surrealistic tale. The song is based on a political party at which Keith Reid heard the phrase "a whiter shade of pale" ... the remainder, equally they say, is history. The phrase "as the miller told his tale" probably refers to the Miller's Tale of the poet Geoffrey Chaucer's "Canterbury Tales." The Miller's Tale was nigh a man's effort to seduce a young woman, so nosotros may perhaps deduce that the woman who blanched at the party turned "a whiter shade of pale" because she was being propositioned. (This answers trivia question number 5.) Other songs by Procol Harum include "Conqueror" and "A Salty Dog."
#11 — Piece of My Heart
by James Ragovoy and Bert Berns; performed by Janis Joplin and Big Blood brother and the Holding Company
Didn't I make you feel
like you were the only man?
An' didn't I requite you nearly everything
that a woman possibly can?
Rolling Stone nominated "Piece of My Heart" every bit the 344th greatest vocal of the modern era, which simply illustrates the dark, murky depths to which music "experts" are capable of sinking. This may be the greatest all-out rock/blues performance past a female vocalist, or by whatsoever rock/blues singer, male or female. Other songs by Janis Joplin include "Summertime," "Mercedes Benz," "Mayhap," "Kozmic Blues," "Ball and Concatenation," "Cry Babe" and "Me and Bobby McGee."
#10 — Knockin' on Heaven's Door (tie)
by Bob Dylan; performed by Dylan, Eric Clapton, Bob Marley, The Grateful Expressionless, Guns 'n' Roses, U2 and many other artists
A keen song became one of the greatest ever when Guns 'n' Roses covered it in 1987. The song was originally written and performed by Bob Dylan for the movie "Pat Garret & Baton the Kid." (There must exist something magical almost the song because fifty-fifty Dylan sounded remarkably good when he sang information technology.) "Knockin' on Sky'due south Door" was later on covered in reggae versions by Eric Clapton and Bob Marley. It must surely be the only song to have been recorded by the Boss, Boy George, The Grateful Dead, The Sisters of Mercy, Warren Zevon, Ladysmith Black Mambazo and Dolly Parton! Other songs by Bob Dylan include "Lay Lady Lay," "The Times They Are A-Changin'," "A Hard Pelting's A-Gonna Autumn," "Information technology Ain't Me Babe," "All Along the Watchtower," "Tangled Upwardly in Blue," "Just Like a Woman," "Mr. Tambourine Homo" and "Blowin' in the Wind."
#10 — Who Wants to Live Forever (tie)
by Brian May; performed past Queen
There's no time for us
There's no place for us ...
Who wants to live forever?
Ponce de Leon sought the legendary of fountain of youth; Brian May, Freddy Mercury and Queen plough the tables on would-be traffickers in immortality by request in one of stone'due south grandest anthems: "Who Wants to Live Forever"? Other songs by Queen include "The Show Must Go along," "Maverick Rhapsody," "Crazy Little Affair Called Beloved," "Somebody to Dearest," "Killer Queen," "We are the Champions" and "We Volition Rock You."
#ten — Angie (tie)
by Mick Jagger and Keith Richards; performed by the Rolling Stones
The Rolling Stones have a number of great songs that easily could accept made this list, including "Wild Horses," "Animate being of Burden," "Miss Yous," "(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction," "Gimme Shelter" and "Paint It, Black." But "Angie" is my favorite vocal of theirs, a haunting vocal of love and loss.
#9 — Bohemian Rhapsody
by Freddy Mercury; performed by Queen
Is this the existent life?
Is this just fantasy?
Caught in a landslide,
no escape from reality ...
Queen's "Bohemian Rhapsody" is a madcap romp through an operatic, bombastic just gloriously energetic and frenetic lollapalooza of Rock, fronted by i of the greatest showmen of all fourth dimension, Freddy Mercury. Other songs by Queen include "The Show Must Get On," "Who Wants to Live Forever," "Crazy Niggling Affair Called Dearest," "Somebody to Beloved," "Killer Queen," "We are the Champions" and "We Will Stone You."
#viii — Layla
by Eric Clapton; performed by Derek and the Dominoes
Layla, you got me on my knees;
Layla, you got me singing darlin' delight ...
"Layla" was written by Eric Clapton as a song of unrequited love for his friend George Harrison's wife, Pattie Boyd ... talk about a lovers' triangle! At least this one was immortalized, equally Pattie Boyd has been chosen the inspiration for "Layla," "Something," "Wonderful This night" and other songs by Harrison and Clapton. Both the original and the unplugged versions of "Layla" are utterly stellar. Other songs by Eric Clapton include his hits with Cream―such every bit "White Room" and "Sunshine of Your Love"―and his solo work such as "Cocaine," "Change the World," "Wonderful Tonight," "I Shot the Sherriff" and the vocal he wrote to the son he lost, "Tears in Heaven."
#7 — Aught Compares 2 U
by Prince; performed by Sinead O'Connor
"Nothing Compares 2 U" is a wonderfully tender, poignant song, sung exquisitely by Sinead O'Connor. The tear she shed in her video was real, and unscripted. She had shaved her head when she started singing because she wanted to be known for her music, not her looks (but she looked better without pilus than almost women with flowing manes). When the head of her record label heard the song the first time, he cried. When O'Connor heard that he had cried, she asked: "Was information technology that bad?" No, giddy, it was that magnificent! Other songs written and performed by Prince include "When Doves Cry," "Royal Rain," "Raspberry Beret," "Buss" and "Little Red Corvette."
#6 — The Freshmen (necktie)by Brian Vander Ark; performed past The Verve Pipe
I tin't exist held responsible
'cause she was touching her face up
I won't be held responsible
she brutal in love in the first place ...
For the life of me, I cannot remember
what made united states think that we were wise and we'd never compromise
for the life of me, I cannot believe we'd always die for these sins
we were simply freshmen
When the Verve Pipe released "The Freshmen" at that place were debates on the Internet about what they meant past lines like "stop a baby'due south breath and a shoe full of rice." While "stop a baby'due south breath" might refer to an abortion, "shoe total of rice" might refer to a wedding, in which case "baby's breath" might be a sprig of flowers. Song lyrics, like all forms of poesy, are open up to estimation. What is certain nearly this song is that it volition rip your heart out, if you have one.
#half dozen — Without You (tie)by Harry Nilsson; performed by Harry Nilsson"Without You" is a wonderfully touching vocal performed magically past a great singer with an ethereal voice, Harry Nilsson. Paul McCartney, who knows a matter or 2 about songwriting, called information technology the greatest rock vocal ever written. When John Lennon and Paul McCartney held a press conference in 1968 to announce the formation of Apple Corps, John was asked to name his favorite American artist. He replied, "Nilsson." Paul was then asked to proper name his favorite American grouping. He also replied, "Nilsson."
#v — Hallelujah
by Leonard Cohen; performed by Cohen and many other artists (my favorite performers of the song include Alexandra Burke and K. D. Lang)
At present I've heard there was a hole-and-corner chord
That David played, and it pleased the Lord
Merely you lot don't really care for music, do ya?
It goes like this: the fourth, the fifth
The modest fall, the major elevator,
The baffled king composing Hallelujah
Hallelujah, Hallelujah
Hallelujah, Hallelujah
Leonard Cohen is a poet's poet, and a songwriter'due south songwriter. "Hallelujah" is his masterpiece. Other tour de strength performances by Cohen include "Tower of Song," "I'one thousand Your Man," "Everybody Knows" and "Suzanne."
#4 — Unchained Melody
music by Alex North; lyrics by Hy Zaret; performed by the Righteous Brothers (vocals by Bobby Hatfield)
Oh, my beloved, my darling
I've hungered for your touch
a long lonely time
and time goes by so slowly
and time tin can practise so much
are you withal mine?
I need your beloved
I need your dearest
God speed your love to me
"Unchained Melody" is 1 of the about popular songs of all time, having been recorded past many different artists in various languages. If yous haven't heard the version recorded past the Righteous Brothers, please be certain to browse over to YouTube and check out Bobby Hatfield's stunning, soaring vocals. His version remains the all-time all-time. Some other peachy song by the group is "You've Lost that Lovin' Feelin'."
#3 — Span Over Troubled Water
by Paul Simon; performed by Simon & Garfunkel (vocals by Art Garfunkel)
When y'all're down and out
When you're on the street
When evening falls so hard
I will condolement you ...
"Bridge Over Troubled Water" is an enduring archetype. Paul Simon wrote the song specifically for Art Garfunkel, shortly before the breakup of Simon & Garfunkel. Garfunkel's vocals make the original recording one of the all-time of all fourth dimension; the vocal has also been performed past many other singers, including Elvis Presley, Aretha Franklin, Roy Orbison, Johnny Cash, Josh Groban and Charlotte Church building. But no one to date has matched Garfunkel'due south angelic vocals. Other songs by Simon and Garfunkel include "The Sound of Silence," "The Boxer," "El Condor Pasa," "America," "Scarborough Fair/Canticle," "Homeward Spring," "I Am a Stone," "She Loves Me Like a Rock" and "Mrs. Robinson." (BTW, trivia question number half dozen is answered here and will be explained in the honorable mentions.)
#2 — Stairway to Heavenmusic by Jimmy Page; lyrics by Robert Institute; performed by Led Zeppelin 
And every bit we wind on downwards the route
Our shadows taller than our soul
There walks a lady we all know
Who shines white light and wants to show
How everything still turns to gold
And if y'all mind very hard
The truth volition come to y'all at concluding
When all are one and one is all
To be a rock and non to whorl ...
And she'south buying a stairway to heaven
Led Zeppelin's "Stairway to Heaven" is an unusual vocal, to say the least. Information technology was originally written as an acoustic folk song, but soon became 1 of the best-known rock songs of all time. Information technology was an eight-minute-long album rail that was never released equally a unmarried, and yet it became one of the near-played songs on radio stations around the world, thanks largely to listener requests. Comments by ring members make it seem the lyrics were written rather mystically, apparently via some form of "automatic writing." (Poets like William Butler Yeats have too claimed that poems came to them from "out of bluish zippo," as if conveyed by extraterrestrial spirits. The aboriginal Greeks even created goddesses, the Muses, to explain the otherworldly inspiration of poets.) Wherever the lyrics of "Stairway to Heaven" originated, they certainly tell a compelling story almost a very mysterious woman. While the vocal was written in Wales and has a decidedly Celtic "experience," it besides alludes the Bible. Jacob, who became the patriarch and namesake of Israel, saw angels descending from and ascending into heaven on some sort of stairway. Also, in that location are a number of verses in the Bible which speak of God condign "all in all" at the end of time: that idea seems to exist echoed in the song's closing lines: "And if yous mind very hard / The truth will come to you lot at final / When all are one and one is all." In Saint Peter's second sermon afterwards Pentecost he spoke of "the restitution of all things to God" which had been spoken of "by all the holy prophets since the world began." (This answers trivia question number eight.) The prototype to a higher place is William Blake'due south "Jacob's Ladder." Other songs by Led Zeppelin include "Black Dog," "Whole Lotta Love," "Kashmir," "The Immigrant Vocal" and "Mazed and Dislocated."
Now here, without further ado, is my number i vocal of all fourth dimension ... named, in an interesting synchronicity, "One."
#1 — One
by Bono (Paul Hewson), The Border (David Evans), Adam Clayton and Larry Mullen Jr.; performed by U2
Accept yous come here for forgiveness?
Have you come to raise the expressionless?
Accept you come hither to play Jesus
To the lepers in your head?
"One" was written and recorded in Berlin, on the eve of the reunification of Germany. At the time U2 was experiencing internal disharmony: the song has been credited with helping go on the band together. The Border came upward with the music get-go; Bono said his lyrics "only brutal out of the sky, a gift." The entire song was composed in well-nigh 15 minutes. Other songs past U2 include "Sunday Bloody Sunday," "Where the Streets Accept No Name," "Pride (In the Name of Love)," "With or Without You" and "I Nonetheless Haven't Found What I'm Looking For."
At present here are my "high honorable mentions" ...
Riders on the Storm
by Robbie Krieger, John Densmore, Jim Morrison and Ray Manzarek; performed by the Doors
There's a killer on the road
His brain is squirmin' like a toad
... Riders on the storm
"Riders on the Tempest" is one of the darkest songs of all fourth dimension. Information technology was the final song recorded by the Doors before Jim Morrison died. The band took its name from William Blake's "Doors of Perception" [run into the second image above]. (This answers trivia question number seven.)
Vincentby Don McLean
Starry, starry dark
Paint your palette blue and gray
Look out on a summer'due south mean solar day
With eyes that know the darkness in my soul
Don McLean'due south "Vincent" got my vote as the best rock poem of all time, based strictly on lyrics, because it tells a moving story and also carries us somewhere "across" by making us feel a potent kinship with the troubled Dutch painter, Vincent Van Gogh. The best poems and songs create a sort of spiritual "communion" between writer, subject and audience ...
Morning Has Cleaved
Gaelic folk tune; lyrics past Eleanor Farjeon; performed by Cat Stevens
Morn has broken,
like the first forenoon
Blackbird has spoken,
like the first bird
"Morning Has Broken" has a most interesting genesis. It was originally a Gaelic folk melody. The lyrics of a Christian children'southward hymn were penned for it in 1931, by Eleanor Farjeon. The Christian hymn then became a hit for Cat Stevens, America'due south near famous Muslim singer/songwriter! (This answers trivia question number three.)
I Am a Rock
by Paul Simon; performed by Simon & Garfunkel 
A winter's day
In a deep and dark December;
I am alone,
Gazing from my window to the streets below
On a freshly fallen silent shroud of snow.
I am a stone,
I am an isle.
"I Am a Rock" seems to exist the refutation of a sermon preached past John Donne, who happened to be 1 of England's greatest poets. In his sermon Donne proclaimed that "no homo is an island." The young, introspective singer/songwriter Paul Simon begged to differ. (This answers trivia question number half-dozen.) The photograph higher up is of the world's virtually famous stone island, Gibraltar, at night ...
(Sittin' on) The Dock of the Bay
by Otis Redding and Steve Cropper; performed by Otis Redding
I left my home in Georgia
Headed for the 'Frisco bay
'Crusade I've had naught to live for
And expect like nothin's gonna come up my way ...
"(Sittin' on) The Dock of the Bay" was recorded by Otis Redding on Dec 7, 1967, merely 3 days before he died in a plane crash outside Madison, Wisconsin. Redding as well wrote "Respect," which was immortalized by Aretha Franklin.
I Walk the Line
by Johnny Cash
I find it very, very like shooting fish in a barrel to be truthful
I find myself solitary when each day is through
Aye, I'll admit that I'm a fool for yous
Because you're mine, I walk the line
Johnny Greenbacks wrote "I Walk the Line" in 1956, when he was newly married, and presumably true-blue. Years later he recorded "Ring of Fire," a song about the torrid love thing that acquired him to leave his wife for June Carter. June Carter wrote "Ring of Fire" with Merle Kilgore. Johnny Cash had a dream in which he was singing the song with mariachi horns in the background, which was how it was recorded. (This answers trivia question number i.)
For What Information technology's Worth
by Stephen Stills; performed by Buffalo Springfield
What a field-day for the rut
A thousand people in the street
Singing songs and carrying signs
Mostly say, "Hooray for our side!"
It'due south fourth dimension we stop, hey, what'southward that sound
Everybody look what's going downwardly
"For What It's Worth" is ane of the best-known protestation songs of all fourth dimension. Ironically, it'south non almost state of war, but violence betwixt club-goers and police on the Sunset Strip, where Stephen Stills used to perform.
Beds Are Burning
by Robert Hirst, Peter Garrett and James Moginie; performed by Midnight Oil
The time has come
A fact'southward a fact
Information technology belongs to them
Let's requite information technology back
"Beds Are Burning" is a protestation song of some other sort: a rousing weep for the land stolen from Australian aborigines to be returned to its rightful owners.
After the Golden Rush
by Neil Young
I was lying in a burned-out basement
With the total moon in my eyes.
I was hoping for replacement
When the sun outburst through the heaven.
"Later the Gold Rush" seems to be a vocal based on a dream-vision. From what I understand, Neil Immature claims non to sympathize the song himself, and so I won't endeavor to translate information technology, other than to say I hope we don't have to depend on UFOs to rescue united states of america from an ecological ending or nuclear war.
The Logical Vocal
by Roger Hodgson; performed by Supertramp
When I was young,
information technology seemed that life was and then wonderful,
a miracle;
it was beautiful,
magical ...
"The Logical Song" is a song full of mad rhymes about life's lack of reason. It's an almost-perfect vocal of one human's alienation from the rules of lodge and peradventure the "natural globe" as well.
Paint It, Black
past Mick Jagger and Keith Richards; performed by Rolling Stones
I come across the girls walk by
dressed in their summer clothes;
I have to turn my head
until my darkness goes ...
"Paint It, Black" was the offset number one vocal in the US and UK charts to feature a sitar. The song has been said to accept been written from the perspective of man mourning a lover who died.
Walking on Broken Glass
by Annie Lennox
This is a great song by i of the greatest female singer-songwriters. Lennox has been named "The Greatest White Soul Singer Alive" by VH1 and ane of The 100 Greatest Singers of All Time past Rolling Stone. She has also earned the distinction of beingness the "most successful female British creative person in Great britain music history." Including her work inside Eurythmics, Lennox is one of the world's best-selling music artists, having sold over 80 1000000 records worldwide.
She'due south Gone
by Daryl Hall and John Oates; performed by Hall and Oates
Upwards in the morning, look in the mirror ...
I'yard as worn as the toothbrush hanging in her stand ...
My face own't lookin' any younger ...
Now I can run across honey's taken her toll on me ...
She'southward gone ...
This is one of the best songs nearly beloved, loss, thwarting and aging alone. The song was written after Hall had divorced his wife and Oates had been stood upward past a New year's day'south date.
Lay Down (Candles in the Rain)
by Melanie
"Lay Down (Candles in the Pelting)" by Melanie Safka (of "Brand New Central" fame) is ane of the peachy stone/blues/folk anthems. She wrote information technology later performing at Woodstock and seeing people low-cal candles equally songs they liked were performed.
Honey And Affection
by Joan Armatrading
This is an absolutely wonderful song that deserves far more attention than it gets today. If y'all haven't heard information technology, delight exist sure to check it out on YouTube.
White Flag, Thanks and Here with Me
past Dido
Well I will go downward with this ship
and I won't put my easily upwardly and surrender;
in that location volition be no white flag above me door
I'thousand in honey, and always will be.
It hardly seems off-white that a singer like Dido is immune to have ii immaculate songs similar "White Flag" and "Thank You" in a single career. And "Here with Me" completes a smashing chapeau trick. The 3 songs are so skilful (and Dido'southward atmospheric vocalism is so wonderfully skilful singing them) that I've decided to settle for a 3-style necktie.
White Room and Sunshine of Your Honey by Cream
Kashmir, Black Canis familiaris and a number of other corking songs by Led Zeppelin
Tutti Frutti, Long Tall Sally, Lucille, Rip Information technology Up and Good Golly Miss Molly by Little Richard
What'd I Say, Georgia on My Mind, Scarlet, Unchain My Heart and Striking the Road Jack by Ray Charles
Like a Rolling Stone, Don't Call up Twice (It'southward All Right) and The Times They Are A-Changin' past Bob Dylan
All Along the Watchtower and Purple Haze past The Jimi Hendrix Experience
Johnny B. Goode, Maybellene, My Ding-a-Ling and Coil Over Beethoven by Chuck Berry
Mercy, Mercy Me and What's Going On by Marvin Gaye
Lately, Overjoyed and Superstition by Stevie Wonder
The End and Light My Fire by Jim Morrison and the Doors
Sweet Child O' Mine and Patience past Guns 'northward Roses
Thunder Route and Jungleland by Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Ring
Fortunate Son, Have Y'all Ever Seen the Rain, Who'll Cease the Rain and Someday Never Comes past Creedence Clearwater Revival
The Weight and The Night They Collection Ole Dixie Down by The Band
Heart of Drinking glass and Call Me by Blondie
Smells Like Teen Spirit by Nirvana
Respect and Castilian Harlem by Aretha Franklin
God Just Knows and Good Vibrations by the Embankment Boys
A Day in the Life, Yesterday, Hey Jude, I Want to Hold Your Hand, In My Life, Help! and Permit it Be past the Beatles
Like a Virgin, Fabric Girl, Faddy, Papa Don't Preach and Like a Prayer by Madonna
Man in the Mirror, Smooth Criminal, Crush It and Billie Jean by Michael Jackson
Loose Yourself and Stan by Eminem
London Calling past The Clash
Dream On past Aerosmith
Tired of Being Alone and Let's Stay Together by Al Light-green
Nights in White Satin by the Moody Blues
Beloved Hurts past Nazareth
River Deep, Mountain High past Ike and Tina Turner
Private Dancer by Tina Turner
Roxanne by Sting and the Police
The First Time E'er I Saw Your Face by Roberta Flack, especially as performed by Josh Krajcik
Jailhouse Stone, Hound Dog, Heartbreak Hotel, Information technology's Now or Never and Are You Lonesome Tonight past Elvis Presley
How Tin can Y'all Mend a Cleaved Heart , Words, Tragedy and Nighttime Fever past the Bee Gees
Shadow Dancing by Andy Gibb
I Want To Know What Love Is by Foreigner
In Your Eyes and Solsbury Colina past Peter Gabriel
Somebody to Love , The Show Must Go on and Crazy Lilliputian Thing Called Love by Queen
Your Song, Don't Let the Sun Go Down on Me, Sacrifice, Levon and Tiny Dancer by Elton John
Piano Human being, Only the Adept Dice Young, Helm Jack, Shameless and Until the Night by Billy Joel
All by Myself by Eric Carmen, likewise as performed by Celine Dion
Everybody Hurts and Losing My Religion past R.E.M.
Come on Eileen past Dexy's Midnight Runners
Tainted Honey by Soft Jail cell
I'm Not in Love by 10CC
Pride (In the Name of Love) and I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For by U2
Rave On and That'll Exist the Day past Buddy Holly
No Woman, No Cry and Redemption Song by Bob Marley and the Wailers
Bat out of Hell by Meatloaf
Holding Back the Years and If You Don't Know Me by Now by Simply Red
Heroes and Infinite Oddity by David Bowie
Hotel California and Desperado by The Eagles
Tracks of My Tears by Smokey Robinson and the Miracles
Whole Lotta Shakin' Goin' On and All Shook Upward past Jerry Lee Lewis
True by Spandau Ballet
Livin' on a Prayer and Runaway by Bon Jovi
Take on Me past A-ha
When a Human Loves a Adult female by Percy Sledge
The Air that I Breathe by the Hollies
Maggie May by Rod Stewart
Faith by George Michael
American Pie and Vincent past Don McLean
Red Ruddy Wine by Neal Diamond, especially as performed by UB40
Stand up By Me past Ben E. King
Apologize past Timbaland
Somebody that I Used to Know by Goyte
Someone Like Y'all and Rolling in the Deep by Adele
Unbreak My Center by Toni Braxton
Bette Davis Eyes past Kim Carnes
Smoothen Operator by Sade
Full Eclipse of the Center by Bonnie Tyler
Dust in the Air current by Kansas
More than a Feeling past Boston
Kathy's Song and America by Simon and Garfunkel
Bo Diddley by Bo Diddley
Louie, Louie by The Kingsmen was investigated past the FBI for offensive lyrics, but they had to give up because no one could understand the words! (This answers trivia question number 2.)
Mandy by Barry Manilow is a good song, but please give us a suspension because Manilow did not write his biggest hitting, the cheesy I Write the Songs! (This answers trivia question number nine.)
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