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Very subjective. What's your vote?

Mine is American Pie by Don McLean. Awesome.
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Huhhhh, GOD. A Zeppelin fan??

Just kidding.
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Honestly, I'm really not that much of a Zeppelin fan, but I do recognize a damn good song when I hear it.

Some of my other favorites are "Search and Destroy" by The Stooges and "Willie the Pimp" by Frank Zappa. Not exactly classics (well, maybe "Willie" is), but I enjoy them anyway.

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Originally posted by: Nanner Split
Stairway to Heaven by Led Zeppelin.

Case closed.


Too long.

"Mass Romantic" by The New Pornographers.
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Hotel California and The Wall
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Originally posted by: JediSage
Hotel California and The Wall

The Wall is an album, not a song. Pink Floyd's best are:
- Echoes (too long for crazyrabbits)
- Have A Cigar (especially the gritty live performances on the '75 tour where they sandwiched it between two halves of Shine On
- Dogs (also too long for crazyrabbits)

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Tenacious D - Tribute (the greatest and best song in the world)

...but seriously....I can't just pick one single thing like this. Stairway is up there tho.

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The aforementioned Echoes by Pink Floyd is my absolute favorite song. And at 23 and a half minutes, it most definitely is too long for crazyrabbits if the measley 8-minute Stairway is too long.

Also among my tops are The Beatles' I'm Only Sleeping, Led Zeppelin's No Quarter, Rush's 2112, The Who's Baba O'Riley, and The Doors' Spanish Caravan.

But I'm more of an album person, not really individual songs. As such, my top albums (after 5, there are too many to list them in an order, but these are in order from the greatest album of all time on down):

1. Revolver - The Beatles
2. Tommy - The Who
3. The Dark Side of the Moon - Pink Floyd
4. Who's Next - The Who
5. Led Zeppelin IV
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My top 5, not including classical music and local bands:

1- Pink Floyd - Echoes
2- Eric Clapton - Layla
3- Neutral Milk Hotel - Oh Comely
4- Queen - Bohemian Rhapsody
5- Beatles - Hey Jude

Top 10 best albums, not including local bands:

1- Pink Floyd - Dark Side of the Moon
2- Beatles - Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band
3- Pink Floyd - Animals
4- Radiohead - OK Computer
5- Neutral Milk Hotel - Airplane Over the Sea
6- Pink Floyd - Wish You Were Here
7- Pink Floyd - The Wall
8- Beatles - Revolver
9- Daft Punk - Discovery
10- Beatles - Let it Be (naked)

Top 5 local bands albums

1- Mutantes - O A E O Z
2- Tim Maia - Racional
3- O Terço - Criaturas da Noite
4- Los Hermanos - Bloco do Eu Sozinho
5- João Gilberto and Stan Getz
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Favorite albums, in no particular order:

Beatles: Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band, The White Album, Magical Mystery Tour
Pink Floyd: The Piper at the Gates of Dawn
The Clash: London Calling
Frank Zappa: Hot Rats
Frank Zappa: Apostrophe
Elvis Costello: This Year's Model
The Stooges: Raw Power
Elton John: The Tumbleweed Connection
Alice Cooper: Love It To Death
Alice Cooper: Billion Dollar Babies
Jet: Shine On (One of the few recent bands I like)
Joel McNeely: Shadows of the Empire Soundtrack
Johnny Cash: At Folsom Prison
Judas Priest: British Steel
Kiss: Destroyer
Mr. Bungle: Mr. Bungle
New York Dolls: New York Dolls
Queen: Night at the Opera, Day at the Races (both of which are also names of Marx Brothers movies), News of the World
Richard Hell and the Voivoids: Blank Generation
Rolling Stones: Let It Bleed
Rush: 2112 and Moving Pictures
Thin Lizzy: Jailbreak
Velvet Underground: White Light/White Heat
Van Halen: Van Halen and 1984
The Who: My Generation, Who's Next?, Who are You?, Tommy
White Zombie: all of them

As you can see, my taste in music is a good bit different from most people my age (seventeen).

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Originally posted by: ChainsawAsh
The aforementioned Echoes by Pink Floyd is my absolute favorite song. And at 23 and a half minutes, it most definitely is too long for crazyrabbits if the measley 8-minute Stairway is too long.


I surely hope you understand the meaning of sarcasm. If not, there is no hope for this world.
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I apologize - sarcasm's a difficult thing to get across in typed conversation. And if the song you mentioned was part of the sarcasm, I don't know of the song, so I missed that.

And I forgot to mention Layla by Eric Clapton but it seems I was beaten to it.
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Originally posted by: ChainsawAsh
I apologize - sarcasm's a difficult thing to get across in typed conversation. And if the song you mentioned was part of the sarcasm, I don't know of the song, so I missed that.

And I forgot to mention Layla by Eric Clapton but it seems I was beaten to it.


No, that's an actual song, a peppy pop song that's the complete opposite of STH.

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Hey, Nanner. Did you get the email I sent you to your "dirk dragon" address?

Pink Floyd -- First in Space

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Five of the songs I think are best:

Folsom Prison Blues - Johnny Cash

Golden Hair - James Joyce (poem), arr. Syd Barrett

Broken Heart - Spiritualized

Guide Me, O Thou Great Jehovah - William Williams (lyric) & John Hughes (music - 'Cwm Rhondda')

Only A Pawn In Their Game - Bob Dylan
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