the best songs ever

[Eric the Green]

(06-04-2016, 11:06 PM)taramarie Wrote: Believe it or not Eric you are not an authority to what is good and what isn't. Only individuals can say what is and is not good for them PERSONALLY. To say you know what the best songs are is pure arrogance. Which is why for my thread I phrased it so people knew for me my list was my own personal one "music that gives ME goosebumps." Before you say I am name calling by calling you arrogant, realize that is the truth. To think your taste in music rates it as the best of a certain year. It is arrogant. Everyone else will have a different list. So your list is invalid and purely opinion based.....

I do not care if they listen to it. If they think it is great i am not worried. Yes, we are different. You just come across as someone who cannot believe that people have different tastes. Live and let live, Eric. You really should just call this thread Your favourite songs over the years as that is what it is. The unicorn song is beautiful. I think so anyway.

This thread is about my picks for the best songs ever; taking off from the title of one of them. Well, about anyone else's picks too, since others can chime in and name THEIR picks for the best songs ever. It's a presumptuous game, but an obvious cue from the title of the 1D song. Of course it is my opinion, and I stick by it. I didn't expect you to agree with my picks Tara, any more than you expected me to agree with your picks in the thread in which you said in the title that I wouldn't agree. This thread is based around MY picks, so I won't dwell on knocking others' picks here, whether I agree or not. Live and let live. Rather than name-calling and preaching about me, and knocking my picks, I invite you to get into the music, enjoy it, let it sink in to you, and you might discover a beauty that you didn't hear before. It's just something else to learn. I have a lifetime of knowledge and experience to share, in which I have learned a lot, discovered so much beauty, shared it with others as a DJ, and sometimes even played and arranged it, and changed my opinions at times too. So that's what I am doing, and you can reap the benefit if you choose to. It's just for fun.

So, in the period from 1985 and before 2010, the year of the landmark, epic, passionate, expertly-arranged, spiritual pop song "Pray" by Justin Bieber, co-arranged by another musician who has since also become famous (Atweh, the writer of "Rude"), I let others make picks about their best pop and rock songs for those years. There are some pretty good ones, but my picks for the "best songs ever" for this period are all in the new age, ambient, electronic realm. Here is one I've mentioned before: my all-time #2 pick in this genre, from the 3T period (1988). 

Elaborate sound and poignant feeling highlight this piece. It also reminds me of the epic pop song from 1968 by Dion about Abraham, Martin and John. In the video I made around this "song," I included pictures of the "dreamers" Martin and Bobby, assassinated that year. So it's poignant because of that association, in the similarity of the sound and the feeling between these two musical pieces, but it also represents for me feeling of personal bliss as well as sorrow. The second half of the piece is when it really takes off and can grab you if you are fortunate enough to be carried away by the music; a 3-minute journey into incredible heart-felt dreams at the center of the soul of our times.