Do you have one single favourite song?

[jimmillen]

My 7 year old* asked me what my favourite song was this afternoon and I was totally stumped 😂

Favourite song to suit a particular mood? Maybe. 

Favourite song of a genre? Perhaps. 

But favourite song overall? Just can’t do it! Even coming up with a top 20 would be bloody challenging. 

Given the forum is the biggest collection of music geeks I know just curious what y’all think - could you name a single track that is your absolute favourite?

(*Hers is dance monkey FFS 🙄 to be fair though she likes most stuff I play her, and she’s only 7 - plenty of time yet!)

[PDAD]

 

[CaledonianGonzo]

 

[Homer]

 

[jimmillen]

I was not meaning to start a recommendations thread but I’m here for it! 😂

Maybe will start a Spotify playlist depending on how many more turn up 🙂

[priest17]

[Hugh Jass]

Wouldn’t even know where to begin answering that question. Could give you ten now and a completely different ten in five minutes…

However I do know that the three songs I’d like played at my funeral are Wake Up by Arcade Fire, Pink Rabbits by The National and The Univeral by Blur, so they must be pretty near the top.

[Gnomicide]

I can tell you my favourite album without hesitation but I couldn't name a favourite song.

I'm not even sure it would be one from that album.

[priest17]

I always figure with shit like this it's such a common question just have an answer ready then you can discuss and bring more up or move on. I always say reservoir dogs is my favourite film for instance.

I went for Boys Are Back In Town here though coz it's the best song that exists which makes my life a lot easier.

[Steveb72]

 

[Hugh Jass]

15 minutes ago, Gnomicide said:

I can tell you my favourite album without hesitation but I couldn't name a favourite song.

I'm not even sure it would be one from that album.

Not sure I could do album either… there’s a few I always return to (Funeral, Good Kid Maad City, Ziggy Stardust, Different Class, In Rainbows….)

[SheffJeff]

19 minutes ago, Hugh Jass said:

Wouldn’t even know where to begin answering that question. Could give you ten now and a completely different ten in five minutes…

However I do know that the three songs I’d like played at my funeral are Wake Up by Arcade Fire, Pink Rabbits by The National and The Univeral by Blur, so they must be pretty near the top.

I was at a friend's funeral about 15 years ago and as we were carrying the coffin down the aisle I realised they had Celine fucking Dion belting out. Sad state of affairs when all you can think of during a mates funeral is what a shit choice of music. Been pretty obsessed with the music choice at my funeral since though I've probably told 20 friends 20 different songs over the years so not sure which will win. Won't be an issue for me by then anyway I suppose.

[lessthanwill1]

My favourite song of all time is Rocket to Your Heart by Lisa and has been for about 4-5 years.  I could see it changing one day maybe… 

It’s like Donna Summer’s I Feel Love on steroids.

 

[Punksnotdead]

Atmosphere by Joy Division. Has been for 40 years, so I can't see it changing now.

[dingbat2]

It will always be this for me, for me (personally) the most important song of the last 50 years. Started being obsessed listening to it on a tape recorder in 1977ish, have been playing it ever since, still play it loads 40 years later. Still sounds fresh and brilliant now in my opinion, these boys moved electronic music to the masses and inspired so many electronic artists from the 80s to now Superb song, absolute legends, 20 minutes of bliss

.. Comfortably Numb by Pink Floyd comes second

 

[fred quimby]

I do not have one

[fred quimby]

16 minutes ago, SheffJeff said:

I was at a friend's funeral about 15 years ago and as we were carrying the coffin down the aisle I realised they had Celine fucking Dion belting out. Sad state of affairs when all you can think of during a mates funeral is what a shit choice of music. Been pretty obsessed with the music choice at my funeral since though I've probably told 20 friends 20 different songs over the years so not sure which will win. Won't be an issue for me by then anyway I suppose.

Think I will end up with one of the songs being the cliché Return to Sender when I go to be burnt to a crisp

[CaledonianGonzo]

Funeral song is a different question though.

In which case Sunshine On Leith is the champion's choice and one to beat.

[oneeye]

Funeral song, blasting out. 

[Ayrshire Chris]

Always been asked that question and almost impossible to answer as over the decades so many songs have entered my life.  One song however has been with me since the 70s and I’ve never tired of it. Don’t know why, not regarded as a classic, maybe it evokes memories, who knows.

It’s a strange choice but I go for Come up and see me, make me smile, Cockney Rebel 😁

[PDAD]

Funeral song - gotta be this...

 

[Simsy]

26 minutes ago, fred quimby said:

Think I will end up with one of the songs being the cliché Return to Sender when I go to be burnt to a crisp

I'm going for Crazy World of Arthur Brown - Fire for my cremation.

Favourite song very much depends on mood.

[spg]

37 minutes ago, Punksnotdead said:

Atmosphere by Joy Division. Has been for 40 years, so I can't see it changing now.

I struggle between this and isolation 

[kalifire]

If I had to choose, it would probably be “Pump Up The Volume” by MARRS. 

I was ten years old when this came out in 1987. Until that point my entire musical journey had been Christian music in the church I’d been indoctrinated into. But for my tenth birthday, my parents caved and allowed me to experience the wider world of secular music.

I hold many songs dear that are widely considered cheesy, owing to the context of that point in my life, but this tune manages to be both nostalgic and genuinely brilliant. I didn’t even know what sampling or scratching was back then, I just knew I loved what I was hearing and I still do. 

 

Edited July 9, 2021 by kalifire

[Ayrshire Chris]

16 minutes ago, oneeye said:

Funeral song, blasting out. 

That’s a good un, I’ve always thought Eulogy by Frank Turner would be a great tune to blast out as the curtains finally close on me.