Favorite song of all time?

[Badams]

What is your favorite song of all time? My absolute favorite of all time is This Time by Bryan Adams. My very very close second is Anna Begins by Counting Crows. But I'd love to listen to your favorite. Because it must be good, right???

 

[paskatefan]

Windy - The Association

As for Bryan Adams - Summer of '69 & Run to You (I love doing both in karaoke)

 

[Winnipeg]

Wow, I really have to think about this one. There are so many fantastic songs over the years!

I do like the 2 Bryan Adam's songs noted above.

 

[Cachoo]

I have favorities rather than a favorite. Lately I've needed the escape of Clarence Clemon's gorgeous sax solo and the passion of the song "Jungleland." I first heard it as a teenager and it moves me still. Or the hard driving guitars, drum and piano at the end of "She's The One" with a very young E Street Band. And the wonderful Chryssie Hynde and the Pretenders "Back on the Chain Gang." I suspect I might be alone in my choices but they move me so here they are:

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[my little pony]

I would never say it is my favorite song but per my iTunes, the song I have listened to the most is the theme from Chitty Chitty Bang Bang

 

[PeterG]

If I Can't Have You by Yvonne Elliman.

My sister bought the soundtrack to Saturday Night Fever and I remember playing this song and then lifting the needle up off of the record and moving it back to play the song over again. (And over again.) I know I did this more than a few different days!

 

[once_upon]

I guess it would depend on decades and bands

50's: Dean Martin - That's Amore (mostly because Dad would walk around the house singing it)

60's Beatles - Black Bird

70's: Chicago - 24-6-4, Does Anyone Know What Time it is, and Fleetwood Mac - Silver Springs, Chains, Dolly Parton - Jolene

80's: Tina Turner - What's Love Got to Do with It; Prince - Purple Rain; Bon Jovi - Living on a Prayer; and you can't do 80's without MJ

90's: Bonnie Rait - I Can't Make you Love me; Sheryl Crow - Strong Enough

00's; Amy Winehouse - Back to Black, Pink - Let's Get this Party Started

10's; Adelle - Rumours, Lady GaGa - Born This Way, Beyonce - Who Runs the World, Taylor Swift - You Need to Calm Down

20's; Billie Ellish - What was I made for, Miley Cyrus - Flowers

I just can't pick one overall

 

[emason]

I’ve got to go with my favorite counter-culture anthem of all time:

Grace Slick/Jefferson Airplane giving the world White Rabbit.

 

[kwanfan1818]

All the Things You Are when Ella Fitzgerald sings it.

Other favorites are I Will Survive, American Tune, and One in a Row.

 

[Vash01]

Dust in the wind - Kansas

Both sides now - Judy Collins

 

[Winnipeg]

I love both the tunes noted above: If I Can't have You And White Rabbit

Because the Night by the Patti Smith group is also a contender

 

[puglover]

Unchained Melody - Righteous Brothers. I have so many wonderful memories to that song as last dance.

 

[pollyanna]

Penny Lane - The Beatles
Thunder Road - Bruce Springsteen
Mack the Knife - Bobby Darin

Forgot one….
Lyin’ Eyes - The Eagles

 

[Simone411]

Has anyone ever written anything for you? - Stevie Nicks
As long as you follow - Fleetwood Mac
Seven Wonders of the World - Fleetwood Mac
Thousand Days - Stevie Nicks
Landslide - Stevie Nicks
Silver Springs - Fleetwood Mac
Nightbird - Stevie Nicks
Bella Donna - Stevie Nicks
Blue Denim - Stevie Nicks
Sara - Fleetwood Mac

And last but not least (and it isn't from Fleetwood Mac or Stevie Nicks)

Get Here - Oleta Adams

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[vgerdes]

It may not be the greatest song ever written, but Don't Stop Believin' will always be my favorite song. It brings a smile to my face whenever I hear those chords start playing. Every time. So many good memories are associated with it for me ... chief among them being dancing to it along with my friends, and the cast of Rock of Ages, during the show's finale. I had a group of friends who saw that show with me on Broadway so many times, we had the choreography memorized.

 

[kwanfan1818]

I can't believe I forgot my favorite performance of any song: Marvin Gaye's rendition of I Heard it Through the Grapevine.

A friend who is a music history nerd told me that it was originally written to be from a woman's point of view, but Gaye insisted on recording it and from the man's point of view.

Iconic beginning to The Big Chill soundtrack.

 

[Jenny]

Marvin Gaye's version has stood the test of time, but it was Gladys Knight and the Pips who recorded it first - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SFjJLMHRHFI

Also, I have way too many favourite songs to name one, but wanted to suggest for @once_upon - Beyonce has a lovely cover of Blackbird on her Cowboy Carter album, and if you love Flowers by Miley, I highly recommend my favourite of her songs, Malibu. It was written when things were still good with Liam, whereas Flowers represents her (maybe finally, not sure) getting over him - within the lyrics of Flowers are several callbacks to the lyrics of Malibu.

 

[Winnipeg]

Creep by Radiohead

Starman by Bowie

Forever in Blue jeans, Beautiful Noise, Sweet Caroline and Song Sung Blue by Diamond

 

[kwanfan1818]

Among my favorite covers are just about anything from the last acoustic recordings Johnny Cash made.

 

[Jenny]

Yes!! The American recording series by the great Rick Rubin - brought Johnny's voice and music back better than ever.