songs

[Renton]

Just a random thought:


I was listening to Tool on the way to school today as I often am, and I realized that Third Eye is the most beautiful song ever written by a human. I also realized that its not really close, either.

It's the last song on the Ænima album fwiw.

Please post other candidates for best modern song, so I may refute them and shoot you like dog.

[thenonsequitur]

rilo kiley - my slumbering heart

[kevster]

rilo kiley - my slumbering heart

Have not heard but am a huge fan - saw them at Glastonbury 2005. Is this new track or pre "More Adventurous"?

Anyhoo, I vote "Surf" by Roddy Frame. The track isn't new (2002 I think) but it's currently on MySpace and I heartily prod all to give it a listen. I honestly think it's one of the best songs ever written.

Don't know if it counts as 'modern'... but its 90s.

Virtual Insanity - Jamiroquai

[kevster]

Just a random thought:


I was listening to Tool on the way to school today as I often am, and I realized that Third Eye is the most beautiful song ever written by a human. I also realized that its not really close, either.

It's the last song on the Ænima album fwiw.

Please post other candidates for best modern song, so I may refute them and shoot you like dog.

Re-reading this, best modern song is a bit of a loose description. I mentioned Roddy Frame after reading your "most beautiful song" bit.

[Renton]

Don't know if it counts as 'modern'... but its 90s.

Virtual Insanity - Jamiroquai

meh third eye was like in 96. By "modern" i mean the last two centuries.

[lolzzz_321]

The Scientist-Coldplay

[bode]

Im a barbie girl - Aqua

not even close

[Jimmy Mac]

Where is my Mind - The Pixies

[Renton]

you guys need to go out, buy Ænima, get in a car with a decent sound system, or get a good pair of headphones, and turn the volume up to the threshold of pain, then prepare to transcend your physical bodies.

Let me know how it goes.

[thenonsequitur]

rilo kiley - my slumbering heart

Have not heard but am a huge fan - saw them at Glastonbury 2005. Is this new track or pre "More Adventurous"?

It's not a new track, it's on "Execution of All Things", a really good album overall. I think it was the album that came out right before "More Adventurous".

[ChrisTheFish]

RATM- Bullet in the head, ZOMG not even close..

[donkbee]

Haven't listened to "Third Eye" in a while, putting it on right now.

"Three Libras" by APC is one of my favorite songs ever. It gets my vote.

[Renton]

"Three Libras" by APC is one of my favorite songs ever. It gets my vote.

"Orestes" is actually my favorite song on that album.

[donkbee]

That's a good song, probably my second favorite by them. Or maybe "Blue" is, I was so addicted to that song for a long time. My itunes says I've played it over 120 times

[bigred]

you guys need to go out, buy Ænima, get in a car with a decent sound system, or get a good pair of headphones, and turn the volume up to the threshold of pain, then prepare to transcend your physical bodies.

Let me know how it goes.

I like Eulogy a lot on that album.

[takesix]

Pearl Jam - Release

[bigred]

"Three Libras" by APC is one of my favorite songs ever. It gets my vote.

"Orestes" is actually my favorite song on that album.

No way, The Hollow FTW

[mrhappy333]

Not too flame, but isn't TOOL a bunch of gay guys?

And PEARL JAM release is great

[bigred]

pearl jam, most overrated band of the 90;s, amirite?

[mrhappy333]

pearl jam, most awesome band of the 90;s, amirite?

fyp.

[Setzy]

Hah. Orestes and Third Eye are my favorite two songs by the Maynard bands.

But Dredg is my favorite band, and I can point you to any number of songs by them that are just amazing...The Canyon Behind Her, Whoa is Me, Sanzen are three to get you started.

[donkbee]

pearl jam, most overrated band of the 90;s, amirite?

YES OMG I FINALLY FOUND SOMEONE WHO AGREES

"Black" is their only good song.

[takesix]

pearl jam, most overrated band of the 90;s, amirite?

After around 1996 everyone said they sucked, couldn't change musically, lost their drive, etc. soyerwrong. Half a decade of indifference and all.

[donkbee]

But Dredg is my favorite band, and I can point you to any number of songs by them that are just amazing...The Canyon Behind Her, Whoa is Me, Sanzen are three to get you started.

"Bug Eyes" is my favorite song.

"Brushstroke: Walk In The Park" is my phone's ringtone

[takesix]

pearl jam, most overrated band of the 90;s, amirite?

YES OMG I FINALLY FOUND SOMEONE WHO AGREES

"Black" is their only good RADIO SINGLE.

fyp

[Renton]

Not too flame, but isn't TOOL a bunch of gay guys?

im pretty sure maynard likes girls, but he's still down for some anal fisting on occasion. the rest of the band is str8

[Robert]

A lot of Tool songs fit into this category.

Eulogy is one of my favorites along with The Pot and Ticks & Leeches. 10,000 days (Wing Pt 2) is awesome as well.

[bigred]

But Dredg is my favorite band, and I can point you to any number of songs by them that are just amazing...The Canyon Behind Her, Whoa is Me, Sanzen are three to get you started.

"Bug Eyes" is my favorite song.

"Brushstroke: Walk In The Park" is my phone's ringtone

i looked them up because i recognize the name and now recognize this song, Movement II: Crosswind Minuet

gotta find the song now

edit: after further investigation, I've also heard the symbol stong, good stuff

[bigred]

I still think the best listen you will ever have is The Fragile album by NIN. It's like one flowing song over 20+ tracks. Lateralus by Tool is right behind.

I really can't choose a best song though, depending on my mood it's Lithium by Nirvana, The Frail live version from AATCHB transition into the Wretched, and the Parabol/Parabola combo by Tool is really awesome. Those are my tops. Childhood bests are definately When I come Around by Green Day and Bullet with Butterfly Wings by the Pumpkins.

[takesix]

The Sneaker Pimps album is quite good for one of those "flow into another song" cds. Over before you know it, in a good way.

The Metallica S&M album is phenomenal as well. Listen to it, with headphones, and you don't listen to the guitars or vocals but let your mind relax and concentrate on the orchestra. Some of it is really quite amazing and on the 15th listen you'll still be picking out little nuances you never noticed on listens 1-14.

[givememyleg]

I love music and live for it everyday... I will make a list of the top 20 or so most amazing songs I've heard by various bands, and maybe even more than that. Gotta go right now though. I figure I owe you anyway for your awesome contribution to my movie addiction.

[bigred]

givememysong

[Pelion]

White and Nerdy by Weird Al Yankovic

and its not even close.

[Setzy]

But Dredg is my favorite band, and I can point you to any number of songs by them that are just amazing...The Canyon Behind Her, Whoa is Me, Sanzen are three to get you started.

"Bug Eyes" is my favorite song.

"Brushstroke: Walk In The Park" is my phone's ringtone

We just became really good friends.

[dsmrolla06]

<------ Favortie band. Tell All Your Friends is the best cd ever, all songs are good and i dont care what any0ne says. Favorite song is probly Timberwolves at New Jersey.

I dont listen to much that i used to listen to a few years ago, Smashing Pumpkins was my favorite band when they were still around. Some bands i like:

The Format (Great stuff check em out on www.purevolume.com
Number One Fan
Deathcab for Cutie
The Postal Service
Brand New
Dashboard Confessional (Chris Carraba is an amazing singer)
The Early November (Again, Ace Enders is an amazing singer)
old Foo Fighters

[bigred]

<------ Favortie band. Tell All Your Friends is the best cd ever, all songs are good and i dont care what any0ne says. Favorite song is probly Timberwolves at New Jersey.

I dont listen to much that i used to listen to a few years ago, Smashing Pumpkins was my favorite band when they were still around. Some bands i like:

The Format (Great stuff check em out on www.purevolume.com
Number One Fan
Deathcab for Cutie
The Postal Service
Brand New
Dashboard Confessional (Chris Carraba is an amazing singer)
The Early November (Again, Ace Enders is an amazing singer)
old Foo Fighters

How often do I have to slit my wrists to be able to listen to this music?

[dsmrolla06]

<------ Favortie band. Tell All Your Friends is the best cd ever, all songs are good and i dont care what any0ne says. Favorite song is probly Timberwolves at New Jersey.

I dont listen to much that i used to listen to a few years ago, Smashing Pumpkins was my favorite band when they were still around. Some bands i like:

The Format (Great stuff check em out on www.purevolume.com
Number One Fan
Deathcab for Cutie
The Postal Service
Brand New
Dashboard Confessional (Chris Carraba is an amazing singer)
The Early November (Again, Ace Enders is an amazing singer)
old Foo Fighters

How often do I have to slit my wrists to be able to listen to this music?

obv havent listened to any of it?

[Setzy]

But Dredg is my favorite band, and I can point you to any number of songs by them that are just amazing...The Canyon Behind Her, Whoa is Me, Sanzen are three to get you started.

"Bug Eyes" is my favorite song.

"Brushstroke: Walk In The Park" is my phone's ringtone

i looked them up because i recognize the name and now recognize this song, Movement II: Crosswind Minuet

gotta find the song now

edit: after further investigation, I've also heard the symbol stong, good stuff

If you, or anyone, wants any Dredg songs I can send them to you through AIM. Some can be kinda hard to get..

[ChrisTheFish]

The Metallica S&M album is phenomenal as well. Listen to it, with headphones, and you don't listen to the guitars or vocals but let your mind relax and concentrate on the orchestra. Some of it is really quite amazing and on the 15th listen you'll still be picking out little nuances you never noticed on listens 1-14.

NH

[pgil]

most beautiful song ever written would have to go to Pink Floyd with either Wish you were here, or what is probably my personal favourite The great gig in the sky. no lyrics in that one really, but still great.

[Renton]

my favorite pink floyd song is Any Colour You Like, also an instrumental

their best album is animals by far though

[thenonsequitur]

If we're talking Pink Floyd, that's a really difficult choice, but I might have to go with Comfortably Numb, but a lot of the reason I choose that is for the lyrics. Talking on a purely instrumental level, I'd choose something different, but I can't decide.

[Halv]

Did anyone mention Bohemian Rhapsody yet?

[jyms]

Did anybody save the tuff fish MP3, best song I've heard in years.

[donkbee]

I love music and live for it everyday...

Me too. It's pretty much the only truely great thing in the world.

But Dredg is my favorite band, and I can point you to any number of songs by them that are just amazing...The Canyon Behind Her, Whoa is Me, Sanzen are three to get you started.

"Bug Eyes" is my favorite song.

"Brushstroke: Walk In The Park" is my phone's ringtone

We just became really good friends.

Yay!

I've always wondered what "Walk in the Park" is about. Has anyone ever asked them? Do you find it sad or happy? It sounds sad-ish at first, but it kind of ends with happy or hopeful sounds.

Another song I really love is "Everlong", but it has to be acoustic. I've never really liked the Foo Fighters, but I think that song is just really beautiful. It has to be an acoustic version though.

[Lukie]

Did anybody save the tuff fish MP3, best song I've heard in years.

agreed, followed not so closely by pretty much anything by linkin' park.

[jyms]

with or without Jay Z......the real Jay Z

[jyms]

http://www.purevolume.com/tufffish

http://tuffish.ytmnd.com/

In case you missed them.

[Renton]

Another song I really love is "Everlong", but it has to be acoustic. I've never really liked the Foo Fighters, but I think that song is just really beautiful. It has to be an acoustic version though.

lol i just learned that song on guitar last week

[takesix]

with or without Jay Z......the real Jay Z

What you think, I'm gonna be, what?
Rehabilitated? man I still feel hatred
I'm young black and rich so they wanna strip me naked, but
You never had me like Christina Aguiler-y
But catch me down the Westside, drivin like Halle Berry
Or the FDR, in the seat of my car
Screamin out the sunroof death to y'all
You can't kill me, I live forever through these bars

[Lukie]

pure linkin park baby

[Renton]

Im trying to figure out what i like the sound of better:

linkin park, or the death rattle of my only child.

I'll let you know when I figure out this enigma.

[Lukie]

http://www.purevolume.com/tufffish

http://tuffish.ytmnd.com/

In case you missed them.

rofl, EASILY the winner

[pgil]

another possibility is Neil Youg - The needle and the damage done

[bigred]

<------ Favortie band. Tell All Your Friends is the best cd ever, all songs are good and i dont care what any0ne says. Favorite song is probly Timberwolves at New Jersey.

I dont listen to much that i used to listen to a few years ago, Smashing Pumpkins was my favorite band when they were still around. Some bands i like:

The Format (Great stuff check em out on www.purevolume.com
Number One Fan
Deathcab for Cutie
The Postal Service
Brand New
Dashboard Confessional (Chris Carraba is an amazing singer)
The Early November (Again, Ace Enders is an amazing singer)
old Foo Fighters

How often do I have to slit my wrists to be able to listen to this music?

obv havent listened to any of it?

Dashboard =

Where soul meets body by death cab is good though. Rest of album is kinda bleh.

[bigred]

Another song I really love is "Everlong", but it has to be acoustic. I've never really liked the Foo Fighters, but I think that song is just really beautiful. It has to be an acoustic version though.

It does not! It's a great song.

What about disarm by the pumpkins?

[gabe]

thug mansion acoustic version with nas

[Setzy]

The entire album El Cielo is based around Sleep Paralysis, which if you've never heard of is a condition where you become paralyzed in the midst of sleep or when you're just about to wake up, and you feel evil presences lingering around you or see really odd imagery...Walk in the Park is off El Cielo, but here's all I found off their main fansite's album analysis:

This track, "Walk in the Park" was written by Dino, it was written in an effort to capture one of his personal dreams, which fits with the concept of the album.

[dsmrolla06]

Dashboard =

Where soul meets body by death cab is good though. Rest of album is kinda bleh.

Dashboards older stuff in alot more down than their other stuff. Doesnt take away from the fact that hes still a great singer. I like alot of the deathcab/postal service stuff (same singer). Has lots of strange yet cool lyrics.

[thenonsequitur]

Dashboard =

Where soul meets body by death cab is good though. Rest of album is kinda bleh.

Dashboard is pretty emo, pretty , and pretty bad.

But I think you are heavily mis-judging everything else on dsmrolla's list just based on this.

Death Cab is an indie band and a very good one.

Postal Service is one of my favorite bands of all time, and there's not a thing emo about it.

[bigred]

Dashboard =

Where soul meets body by death cab is good though. Rest of album is kinda bleh.

Dashboards older stuff in alot more down than their other stuff. Doesnt take away from the fact that hes still a great singer. I like alot of the deathcab/postal service stuff (same singer). Has lots of strange yet cool lyrics.

Didn't realize high and whiny constituted for a great singer.

[Sprayed]

The greatest Tool Song of all time. Jerk-Off from album Opiate.

"Used to be a bunch of assholes that lived in this part of the building here.
But we systematically removed them like you would any kind of termite or
roach."

Someone told me once that there's a right and wrong.
Punishment was cure for those who dare to cross the line.
But it must not be true for jerk-offs just like you.
And maybe it takes longer to catch a total asshole.
But I'm tired of waiting.
Someone told me once that there's a right and wrong.
Punishment was cure for those who dare cross the line.
But it must not be true for jerk-offs just like you.
And maybe it's just bullshit. I should play god and shoot you myself.
Tired of waiting.
Consequences dictate course of action.
And it doesn't matter what's right.
It's only wrong if you get caught.
If consequences dictate my course of action I should,
I should play god and just shoot you myself.
Tired of waiting.
Die.
Shoot it.
Kick it.
Fuck it.
Shoot you in your fuckin' head

[euphoricism]

Heres the song, and here's the lyric that does it..

Pearl Jam - Black (I know some day you'll have a beautiful life, I know you'll be a star.. in somebody elses sky.. why, why why..)

Metallica - No Leaf Clover (And it comes to be that the soothing light at the end of your tunnel.. is just a freight train coming your way)

A Perfect Circle - Magdalena (no real lyric here, but the imagery he uses to describe giving a stripper a dollar is fucking awesome)

[Sprayed]

This is the greatest song in the world performed by the best damn band in the land.

http://fightmusic.com/mp3/big10/Ohio...Battle_Cry.mp3

[ChrisTheFish]

pure linkin park baby

Linkin park were awesome without jay z, can't stand them now tbh.

Hybrid theory and meteora were 2 damn good albums tho.

[boost]

badmoon rising - ccr

riders on the storm - the doors

ether / one mic (cant pic one) - nas


joke reply:

o-zone - Dragostea din tei

[theDEEPdish]

I think that its way too difficult to pick out a best song of all time since as you grow older your taste in music really tends to change, like when I was in junior high-the begining of high school i really liked blink 182 and some other shit like that or also eminem, and now I listen to that sort of music very seldomly and have found better things such as maynord, though even when i was in highschool alot of my older friends had a real affinity for tool, and I haven't begun to really appreciate them until this year. funny how I could almost gurantee dsmoralla is in his teenage years and probably still in highschool



Music is also such an emotional thing that when your in one mood a song will be amazing and later when your felling better/worst the song might not be so good.

[thenonsequitur]

Music is also such an emotional thing that when your in one mood a song will be amazing and later when your felling better/worst the song might not be so good.

One of my friends in high school went through a short-lived but intense nietzsche/NIN phase. He bought every single NIN album (to add to his collection of every single Oasis album that he aquired during some other weird phase the year prior) and spent almost all of his time reading Nietzsche and listening to his NIN collection. That was interesting.

[boost]

I really have trouble understanding people who 'have a band.' Same thing for people who treat one rapper like a diety.. so much good music out there, its so sad when people miss out because they have to be fanboys..

[mrhappy333]

is third eye, track 15 on the CD?
I don't have my TOOL cover

[Renton]

yes

[mrhappy333]

Tool - Third Eye Lyrics
"See, I think drugs have done some good things for us, I really
do, and if you don't believe drugs have done good things for us,
do me a favor. Go home tonight and take all your albums, all
your tapes, and all your CDs and burn 'em. Cause you know what?
The musicians who made all that great music that's enhanced
your lives throughout the years? Rrrrreal fuckin' high on
drugs."

"Today a young man on acid realized that all matter is merely
energy condensed into a slow vibration, that we are all one
consciousness, experiencing itself subjectively, there's no such
thing as death, life is only a dream, in which is an imagination
of ourselves. Here's Tom with the weather."

"It's not a war on drugs, it's a war on personal freedom, is
what it is, okay? Keep that in mind at all times. Thank
you."


Dreaming of that face again.
It's bright and blue and shimmering.
Grinning wide
And comforting me with it's three warm and wild eyes.

On my back and tumbling
Down that hole and back again
Rising up
And wiping the webs and the dew from my withered eye.

In... Out... In... Out... In... Out...

A child's rhyme stuck in my head.
It said that life is but a dream.
I've spent so many years in question
to find I've known this all along.

"So good to see you.
I've missed you so much.
So glad it's over.
I've missed you so much
Came out to watch you play.
Why are you running?"

Shroud-ing all the ground around me
Is this holy crow above me.
Black as holes within a memory
And blue as our new second sun.
I stick my hand into his shadow
To pull the pieces from the sand.
Which I attempt to reassemble
To see just who I might have been.
I do not recognize the vessel,
But the eyes seem so familiar.
Like phosphorescent desert buttons
Singing one familiar song...

"So good to see you.
I've missed you so much.
So glad it's over.
I've missed you so much.
Came out to watch you play.
Why are you running away?"

Prying open my third eye.
So good to see you once again.
I thought that you were hiding.
And you thought that I had run away.
Chasing the tail of dogma.
I opened my eye and there we were.

So good to see you once again
I thought that you were hiding from me.
And you thought that I had run away.
Chasing a trail of smoke and reason.

Prying open my third eye.

************************************************** ************************************************** *************************

I wasn't moved, but I'll listen again??

[bigred]

His voice is so good in third eye. I love Maynard's voice. Someone described it as "ghastly and angelic at the same time", I'd have to agree.

[Renton]

mrhappy, remember that turning the volume up to threshold of pain is an important part.

That song is like a great movie. It has a first act, a build up, a climax, a crescendo, a denouement, and another climax. amazing