What is your SINGLE favourite piece of music of all time?

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#270348 5-May-2020 15:25

So we've argued single favourite movie to hell and back. Let's widen it. Name your single favourite piece of music of all time?

Difficulty: if it's an album, name the track; if it's something like a symphony, name the movement.

Nine Inch Nails, Just Like You Imagined from The Fragile.

Album version (relatively low quality - you can get 96/24 FLAC from the NiN store). A live version with a super-amazing guest pianist Mike Garson.

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#2477077 5-May-2020 15:34

Wow...this is not going to be easy and I am going to have to take quite a long time thinking about this.

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#2477079 5-May-2020 15:35

Hard to nail it down to one track, depends on mood etc. But I would have to say it is also Nine Inch Nails "And All That Could Have Been", off disc 2 of the deluxe version of the album of the same name.

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#2477083 5-May-2020 15:44

really hard, depends what mood i am in. i would pick Tool "Reflection" with headphones on and lying in the dark .

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#2477088 5-May-2020 15:49

Varkk:

Hard to nail it down to one track, depends on mood etc. But I would have to say it is also Nine Inch Nails "And All That Could Have Been", off disc 2 of the deluxe version of the album of the same name.

I think I have the DVD of that - I ripped one live concert from DVD (2 discs) and the 1st disc of another one I have just before we packed everything up into a container for house renovations. I think the one disc I ripped was the first half the And All That Could Have Been concert. That ends with Head Like A Hole. Now I need to finish ripping it!

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#2477094 5-May-2020 15:58

Back to the Future was the clear choice for best movie, but music is hard.

Somewhat arbitrarily, I picked Billy Joel as my favourite artist, and my favourite song is And So It Goes. Caronavirus has kind of screwed up my plan to see him at Madison Square Garden, but I still hope to be there in the front row one day.

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#2477095 5-May-2020 16:00

vexxxboy:

really hard, depends what mood i am in.

Absolutely.

I'll volunteer this for now, because for now I kind of like it now : Kokoroko - Abusey Junction

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#2477100 5-May-2020 16:09

Pink Floyd - Learning to fly, as the song.

Not sure which album would be the favourite.

Favourites change all the time. My music taste is pretty eclectic.

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#2477106 5-May-2020 16:27

Pablo and Andrea - Yo La Tengo

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#2477155 5-May-2020 16:37

Since you're forcing us to choose just one of all time (bloody hard as others have said!) I'm going with:

Nirvana - Very Ape

I think it just epitomised that period in my life when I really discovered "music", and the angsty teen I was at the time lol:

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EDIT: Hmm, on further reflection I regret not going with Sigur Ros - Glósóli

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#2477156 5-May-2020 16:38

Fred99:

Absolutely.

I'll volunteer this for now, because for now I kind of like it now : Kokoroko - Abusey Junction

You might enjoy Khruangbin & Hiatus Kaiyote as well. The video you posted came up on my Youtube Music personalized playlist a few weeks back, through listening to those two groups.

My choice could change week to week, day to day in terms of favorite.

For now; Jay Electronica - Exhibit A

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#2477159 5-May-2020 16:43

Iron Butterfly IN A GADDA DA VIDA

folllowed by colourful music from

Pink Floyd

Moody Blues

Deep Purple

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#2477161 5-May-2020 16:46

Jim Croce - Time in a bottle (Actually the muppets rendition of it)

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#2477164 5-May-2020 16:49

Actually, I can answer this. I am surprised. I have very broad musical taste, from classical and opera to country and rock, but my all-time favourite is Gimmie Shelter by the Rolling Stones. The most exciting piece of music I have ever heard.

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#2477170 5-May-2020 17:10

Heh, not sure I could possibly choose one, though I could narrow it down by saying it's almost certainly something by perhaps 3-4 artists :) There are Songs I would have listened to hundreds or more times.

Having said that, I have been compiling this list and listening though other peoples favourites, an interesting way to discover new music.

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#2477198 5-May-2020 17:49

Brothers in Arms - Dire Straits

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