The song that kicks your arse every time

[Buck Birdseed]

Jesus, what do you want us to say? ****ing Beethoven's ****ing ninth?

Ah, wait, you're a Prog Rock fan. They're all failed Classical Music fans anyway, that explains it.

I don't do epics. If I do long songs at all it's relatively unassuming stuff like Kraftwerk's 27-minute album version of Autobahn, nothing pompous. I'm sure people a thousand years ago liked to flow with the rhythm too...

[Caligastia]

@snapcase

Youre too obsessed with size, why is that?

[SpencerH]

What a thought. You pop out of mid-air 1000 AD with a blaster playing Kraftwerk

Fun Fun Fun on the autobahn....

(you've gotta have the music in your head for the full effect)

As the arrows are whizzing past your head you cry out "Lets all mellow out"

[Boris Godunov]

Originally posted by Snapcase
Jesus, what do you want us to say? ****ing Beethoven's ****ing ninth?

Ah, wait, you're a Prog Rock fan. They're all failed Classical Music fans anyway, that explains it.

I don't do epics. If I do long songs at all it's relatively unassuming stuff like Kraftwerk's 27-minute album version of Autobahn, nothing pompous. I'm sure people a thousand years ago liked to flow with the rhythm too...

There is nothing pompous about most classical music. There is something ironically elitist, however, about people who say such things...

[Hobbes]

"Summer Romance" by Incubus

or

"She is Beautiful" by Andrew W.K. (gotta listen to it LOUD)

[Sava]

"Chop Suey" by System of a Down... I really like the piano at the end.

[monolith94]

The Western Lands and Seven Souls, both by material.
Also La Noyee from the Amelie soundtrack.

"I don't care what snobs like you think anyway."

[MBD]

Layla - Derek and the Dominos (Eric Clapton)

[Rufus T. Firefly]

My choice would probably be jazz, not pop, and probably something from Sonny Rollins' Saxophone Colossus -- either "St. Thomas" or "Moritat" (a/k/a "Mack the Knife").

But if we're talking pop, the only song I can think of that stops and makes me listen, in any mood and any situation, is the Beatles' "For No One."

And if I have to pick some piece of soaring, classical-music-wannabe rock, I must say I have a soft spot for Dire Straits' "Telegraph Road."

[finbar]

No question. "River Deep, Mountain High". Ike and Tina Turner (minus Ike, plus Phil Spector).

[JohnIII]

Well, if we're talking long songs, Mogwai Fear Satan is a ****ing good one. But, for the best opening I have heard to a song, Sugarcube by Yo La Tengo.

[Paul Hanson]

Probably "Club Paris" from Metropolis Street Racer on the Dreamcast.

Yes, sad as it sounds, I'm quite into game music.

[Space05us]

Originally posted by frankychan
"Imperial March"-orchestra by John Williams.

Its one of the only songs that improves my mood every time that I listen to it.

When I'm sad it usually makes me happy.

is that the : duh.. duh.. duh..... duh.. duh duh, duh duh

if so I like it too!!

p.s. Darth Vaders, Im going to squish you theme song right?

[Dauphin]

For Tomorrow (extended version) - Blur


Although Destiny Calling - James runs a close second.

[drake]

1 song?

I could think of a couple hundred that kick my arse every time.

Since it's on my mind I'll say

Ooh Child by the Five Stairsteps. Always a mood lifter.

Snappy you're obsessed with that damn freak song