the best songs ever

[Eric the Green]

My number two pick from 1968 (Classical Gas was #3), is widely held to be one of the best songs ever, and a huge hit. It came out posthumously after Otis Redding died in a plane crash late in 1967, with the song eerily-indicative of what was about to happen, much like Martin Luther King was to say a few months later, before he died. But this song is magnificent even if sad.