Method: post ONE song (not necessarily your "favorite" or "popular" or "famous") that fits whatever your definition is of a world-class song.
SONG: With Arms Wide Open
ARTIST: Creed
EXPLANATION: + Show Spoiler +
To be honest, I'm not even a Creed fan (not even Christian, I should point out). But if you listen to the lyrics, I think this song hits on, as cliche as it sounds, the intrinsic thought process of what it means to be human. Combined with some very nice guitar chords, I believe you find a song that can last the ages.
Edit 2: if you'd be so kind, post youtube links in a spoiler with the name/artist in text above.
Edit 3: "Guys, please explain why you are posting what you are. Like, what voices or concepts or stories we should be listening for.
We don't all listen to music the same way. Music is about what you relate to. What resonates with you. It's intrinsically meaningless (it's really just a bunch of vibrations), but we give it meaning with the analogies we create in our heads." - Dude.
Current list:
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With Arms Wide Open - Creed
Pop Culture - Madeon
Flaming June - BT
River Flows in You - Yiruma
1Up - Spor
Throw Down the Sword - Wishbone Ash
Heartworn Highway - Townes Van Zandt
Hurt - Johnny Cash
Nightfall - Ludique
Paranoid - Dansette Junior
The Wall - Pink Floyd
All Along the Watchtower - Jimi Hendrix
All in White - The Vaccines
In the Air Tonight - Phil Collins
SC Terran Theme Live - ???
Seventh Son of a Seventh Son - Iron Maiden
Hallelujah - Jeff Buckley
Come Back - Pearl Jam
Ratatat - Glock Nines
Dreamline - Rush
Tubthumping - Chumbawumba
Dead Can Dance - The Host of Seraphim
Sister Ray - The Velvet Underground
Gee - Girls Generation
Behind Closed Doors - Little People
One Man Disney Movie - Nick Pitera Disney Medley Music Video
You Needed Me - Tommy Emmanuel
Curse of Monkey Island Theme Song -???
Never Gonna Give You Up - Rick Astley
Lux Aeterna - Clint Mansell
Under the Bridge - Red Hot Chili Peppers
Bohemian Rhapsody - Queen
Solitary - VNV Nation
Do You Realize - The Flaming Lips
The Blizzard - Kalopsia
American Pie - Don McLean
Attack - 30 Seconds to Mars
Self Esteem - The Offspring
Let the Drummer Kick - Citizen Cope
Sail - Awolnation
Drive - Incubus
Love Someone - Dub Fx
A Fuoco - Ludovico Einaudi
Imagine - John Lennon
Comptine d'un autre été: l'après midi - Yann Teirsen
Somnambulist - BT
The Stroke - Billy Squier
Long Tall Sally - Little Richard
La Camisa Negra - Juanes
Come Clarity - In Flames
Hip Hop - Dead Prez
Strawberry Kisses - Nikki Webster
Comfortably Numb - Pink Floyd
Kiss the Rain - Yiruma
August Burns Red - Empire
What's Goin' On - Marvin Gaye
Sigur Ros - Svefn-g-englar
The Diary of Jane - Breaking Benjamin
Don't Stop - ATB
Soundtrack to Battlestar Galactica - Bear McCreary
Citizen Erased - Muse
Motherland Ostenvegr - Walknut
The River - Bruce Springsteen
They Reminisce Over You - Pete Rock and C.L. Smooth
Now I'm Here - Queen
Save Me - Queen
Simple Boy - Karnivool
Don't Stop Me Now - Queen
Booty Butt Cheeks - Thugnifcent
Fly Me to the Moon - Olivia Ong (orig. artist: F. Sinatra)
Fool's Garden - Lemon Tree
Giggle at the ghostly - Pinkiepieswear
Younha - Houki Boshi
Little Big Adventure 2 Theme Song - ???
Wilhelm Kempff plays Beethoven's Moonlight Sonata
Don't Worry, Be Happy - Bobby McFerrin
Range Life - Pavement
Summer Babe - Pavement
Supermassive Black Hole - Muse
Lonely - The Middle East
Midnight in a Perfect World - DJ Shadow
Desolation Row - Bob Dylan
Afterglow - Phaeleh
Teardrop - Massive Attack
Virtual Insanity - Jamiroquai
Bomber - NiT GriT
Stella - Kashiwa Daisuke
Karma Police - Radiohead
Hellhole Ratrace - Girls
Stand By Me - Ben E. King
Black Dog/Discography/Rock'n'Roll/When the Levee Breaks/Stairway to Heaven/Ramble On - Led Zeppelin [then basically every Zep song imaginable was suggested in reply comments]
Child in Time - Deep Purple
99luft Balloons - Nena
500 miles - The Proclaimers
Help I'm Alive - Metric
Five Seconds - Peeping Tom
Experiment in Terror - Fantomas
This Town Sucks - Liam Lynch
Gimme a Ride - Liam Lynch
The Storm - Yanni
Chop Suey - System of a Down
Fade to Black - Metallica
Sleeping in the Fire - W.A.S.P.
The Heretic - W.A.S.P.
Last Redemption (P1+P2) - W.A.S.P.
No Children - The Mountain Goats
Bat Out of Hell - Meat Loaf
Just Breathe - Pearl Jam
One - Metallica
School - Supertramp
A Forest - The Cure
C&C Red Alert music (Hell March) - ???
Secrets - One Republic
Hotel California - Eagles
Aloha - COOL
Deconstruction - Devin Townsend Project
Self vs Self - Pendulum
Love Will Tear Us Apart - Joy Division
The Great Gig In the Sky - Pink Floyd
Song to the Siren - Tim Buckley
Inní mér syngur vitleysingur - Sigur Rós
Hoppipolla - Sigur Rós
Voodoo Child - Jimi Hendrix
Sympathy for the Devil - Rolling Stones
Distorted Dimensions - Winds
Akkadian Empire - AudioMachine
"the entire Beatles catalog" (I am the Walrus, Yesterday, A Day in the Life, Let it Be etc)
Jailhouse Rock - Elvis Presley
Anesthetize - Porcupine Tree
T-Ara - Roly Poly
Symphony No. 3, 2nd Movement - Sibelius
The Pretender - Foo Fighters
New Dawn Fades - Joy Division
Jotenheim - Moonsorrow
Bloom - Pogo
The Warrior's Code - Dropkick Murphys
Disorganized Fun - Ronald Jenkees
In the End - Linkin Park
Porcupine Tree - Trains
Darjeeling caravan - Luc Arbogast
Glory Box - Portishead
Toys and Flavors - Hellacopters
The Bard's Song - Blind Guardian
Duppy Conqueror - Bob Marley & The Wailers
Where'd You Go - Fort Minor
Pinball Wizard - The Who
Tasteless - Ken Ashcorp
You've Got a Friend In Me (Toy Story) - ???
Soothsayer - Buckethead
Who Are You - Andrew Jackson Jihad
Strangers Like Me - Phil Collins
Circle of Life - Lebo M
Waiting Hare - Buckethead, Serj Tankian & Shana Halligan
Time - Deli Creeps
Tchaikovsky Violin Concerto (check p8 for specific piece)
Tristram Village (Diablo Soundtrack) - ???
Everybody - Backstreet Boys
The Ecstasy of Gold - Ennio Morricone
Nightrain - Guns N' Roses
Can't Catch Tomorrow - Lost Prophets
Back in Black - AC/DC
Time - Pink Floyd
Eruption - Eddie Van Halen
Bat Country - Avenged Sevenfold
Rocky Mountain Way - Joe Walsh
Isla Blanca - Aerosoul
God Only Knows - Beach Boys
Born Slippy - Underworld
The Exception to Everything - Sadistik
Epitaph - King Crimson
Desecration Smile - Red Hot Chili Peppers
The Drugs Don't Work - The Verve
I Want to Conquer the World - Bad Religion
A Tribe Called Quest - Oh My God
Brother Sport - Animal Collective
Illusion - VNV Nation
Can't Touch This - MC Hammer
Nick "Tasteless" Plott The Theme Song - for more info, visit p9
Paranoid Android - Radiohead
Arriving Somewhere but Not Here - Porcupine Tree
The Quiet Place - In Flames
Venice Queen - Red Hot Chili Peppers
Jammin'/Get Up And Stand Up - Bob Marley
Put Your Head on My Shoulder - Michael Buble
The Games We Played - Aspergian
Starálfur - Sigur Rós
Everloving - Moby
The Boxer - Simon and Garfunkel
Collapse the light in Earth - Porcupine Tree
Paradise By The Dashboard Light - Meat Loaf
Aruarian Dance - Nujabes
Final Fantasy X OST : To Zanarkand - ???
Tosin Abasi with the EMG 808X (p10 for more info)
Under A Luminous Sky - Communic
Breathe - Telepopmusik
Eu Sei Que Vou Te Amar - Diego El Cigala
La Bien Paga - Bebo & Cigala
Sweet Disposition - The Temper Trap
Don't Panic - Coldplay
Maracatú Atômico - ??? (p10 for more info)
First Snow - Emancipator
In the Twilight - Phaeleh
Stolen - Dashboard Confessional
The Big Sky - Kate Bush
The Living Years - Mike & The Mechanics
Some Skunk Funk - Brecker Brothers
Friday - Rebecca Black
Friday I'm In Love - The Cure
Philistine - ????
Monster - Parov Stelar
Wisdom - Brian Jonestown Massacre
Kings and Queens - 30 Seconds to Mars
Hallowed Be Thy Name - Iron Maiden
So Come Back I am Waiting - Okkervil River
Shameful Metaphors - Chevelle
Ocean - John Butler Trio
Cradle in the Crater - The Number Twelve Looks Like You
Everybody Knows - Leonard Cohen
Fly Mode - Odd Nosdam
Evgeny Kissin plays Liszt-Liebestraume no.3 "O lieb" in As (p11)
Bris - Kaizers Orchestra
An Ending - Brian Eno
More Than A Feeling - Boston
Folsom Prison Blues - Johnny Cash
Pepper - Butthole Surfers
Gymnopédie No.1 - Erik Satie
Video Games - Lana Del Ray
Metropolis Part 1 "The Miracle And The Sleeper"
There is a light that never goes out - The Smiths
It's My Life - Bon Jovi
Free Bird - Lynyrd Skynyrd
Fear of the Dark - Iron Maiden
Park Bench People - Freestyle Fellowship
For Sephora - Rosenberg Trio and Bireli
Drive - The Cars
Johnny Appleseed - Joe Strummer and the Mescaleros
A Cloak of Elvenkind - Marcy Playground
Take It All Away - Red
Slow Motion - Third Eye Blind
Burial at Sea - Mono
Last Train Home - Lostprophets
Past is Prologue - Kenmochi Hidefumi feat. Tycho
Cry More - Sadie
On the Backs of Angels - Dream Theater
Just Communication - Two-mix
Redemption - Gackt
The Legend of Dragoon OST - If You Still Believe
Evisceration Plague - Cannibal Corpse
Excitable Boy - Warren Zevon
Aqua marine - Santana
Wonderlust King - Gogol Bordello
So Here We Are - Bloc Party
To Glory - Two Steps From Hell
Where Did You Sleep Last Night - Leadbelly
To Run in a Dream - Antoine Dufour
Love keeps lifting me - Jackie Wilson
Nuvole Bianche - Ludovico Einaudi
Schindler's List - John Williams
Strain of Stairs - Smooth Current
On Melancholy Hill - Gorillaz
I Can Feel a Hot One - The Manchester Orchestra
Glitter Freeze - Gorillaz
Sincerely - Tsutchie
The Island - Pendulum
One Summer's Day - Joe Hisaishi
Louder - Jose Amnesia feat. Jennifer Rene
Anya Marine - Whatever You Like
Third Planet - Modest Mouse
Love of my life - Queen
Lufia 2 (Last Duel) - Yasunori Shiono
HR 8938 Cephei - deadmau5
Not Afraid/Beautiful/When I'm Gone/Mockingbird/Like Toy Soldiers - Eminem
My Moment - Rebecca Black
Mama - Genesis
The Last Baron - Mastadon
Wings for Marie - TOOL
Youth of the Nation - POD
How To Save A Life - The Fray
Moon Child - M83
Sway Your Head - We Shot the Moon
Story of Us - Taylor Swift
Rain - Steve Conte (via Cowboy Bebop)
Under Pressure - Queen
Capricho Arabe - Francisco Tarrega
Let's Listen VVVVVV OST - Positive Force
When You Sleep - My Bloody Valentine
Godspeed You! Black Emperor - BBF3
Seven - Sunny Day Real Estate
Gloria - Mineral
Hero - Enrique Iglasias
The Eternal Optimist - A Moment's Worth
Zimerman plays Chopin Ballade No. 1
Yann Tiersen - Sur le Fil
The Best Song - Jon Lajoie
PONPONPON - きゃりーぱみゅぱみゅ
I Believe In A Thing Called Love - The Darkness
Tighten Up - The Black Keys
They Reminisce Over You - Pete Rock & C. L. Smooth
Layla - Derek and the Dominos
My Generation - The Who
The General - Dispatch
Mr. Larkin - State Radio (Acoustic Version)
Our Lady Peace - 4am
Whiskey and Wine - Matt Costa
Heavyweight - Infected Mushroom
Pints of Guinness Make You Strong - Against Me
Tallulah - Sonata Arctica
The Battle of Yavin (Star Wars) - ???
Golden Sun (Battle Theme Medley) - ???
I'm Bo Yo - Bo Burnham
Blind Willie McTell - Bob Dylan
This Is The Thing - Fink
Orinoco Flow (Enya) - Taliesin Orchestra
Changes - Tupac
What A Wonderful World - Louie Armstrong
Where Is The Love - Black Eyed Peas
Hey Ya! - OutKast
Jesus of Suburbia/Basket Case - Green Day
Testify - Rage Against the Machine
Always (Robot Unicorn Attack Song) - Erasure
Pure - Mors Principium Est
Sick Heart River - Soilwork
The Whole of the Moon - The Waterboys
Teenage Riot - Sonic Youth
Basshunter - DotA
Rising Sun - TVXQ!(동방신기)
Mr. Brightside - The Killers
What Are You Doing The Rest Of Your Life - Frank Sinatra
Kettering - The Antlers
If this is a Dream - Grand Staff
Time to Pretend - MGMT
Find Yourself - John O'Callaghan
Chase That Feeling - Hilltop Hoods
Ain't No Sunshine - Bill Withers
Artillery - Infected Mushroom
L'Amour Toujours - Gigi D'Agostino
The Magic Of The Wizard's Dream - Rhapsody
Rutten - Skream
Ludique - Zombie Nation
Ghostwriter - Rjd2
Teurastaja - Turmion Kätilöt
Fantasie Impromptu - Chopin
Sigh No More - Mumford and Sons
Gotta Knock A Little Harder (from Cowboy Bebop)
Beside You - Iggy Pop
Just Like Heaven - The Cure
ポリスマン/GAL男宣言 (c/p from post

Somewhere Over The Rainbow - Israel Kamakawiwo'ole
Mr. Tambourine Man - Bob Dylan
The Piano Man - Billy Joel
Synchonicity II - The Police
Little Wing - Jimi Hendrix (*cover version)
Crazy Train - Ozzy Osbourne
Riders On The Storm - The Doors
Nooke - Limp Bizkit
From Pixels Born - Snild Dolkow
Harvest - Opeth
A Tout Le Monde - Megadeth
Thorns Of Crimson Death - Disection
Shape of my Heart - Sting
Have You Forgotten (acoustic version) - Red House Painters
The Great Below - Nine Inch Nails
God Save The Queen - Sex Pistols
The Passenger - Iggy Pop
The Winner Takes It All - ABBA
Protect Ya Neck - Wu Tang Clan
Welcome to St. Tropez - Dj Antoine vs Timati
Blurry - Puddle of Mudd
No Rain - Blind Melon
Breaking All Illusions - Dream Theater
Highway To The Dangerzone - Kenny Loggins (from Top Gun)
A Better Place, A Better Time - Streetlight Manifesto
Undiscovered Colors - The Flashbulb
Miserere - The Cat Empire
The Funeral - Band of Horses
Stockholm Syndrome - Muse
Cult of Personality - Living Colour
Hate Me - Blue October
Paper Lung - Underoath
Agalloch - Odal
Olson - Boards of Canada
Children - Robert Miles
Prejudice - Tim Minchin
A Diamond For Disease - Arsis
Lateralus - Tool
Death in Fire - Amon Amarth
Runes To My Memory - Amon Amarth
I Need A Doctor - Dr. Dre
Thieves In The Night - Blackstar
2 AM (Just Breathe) - Anna Nalick
Tarantula (Short Mix) - Pleasurekraft
Milliontown - Frost
Nigga Nigga Nigga - Gangsta Rap (actually a decent rap, nice beat, give it a chance)
Killing Me Softly - Fugees
The Zelda Song hyr00l - iamerror
The Pursuit of Vikings - Amon Amarth
Vitriol - Bluejuice
100 Years - Five For Fighting
Gangsta Luv - Mayer Hawthorne
Embrace of the Endless Ocean - Amon Amarth
Deadwing - Porcupine Tree
Jesus Etc. - Wilco
Symptom of the Universe - Black Sabbath
The Man Who Sold The World - David Bowie
Modestep - Feel Good
Dammit - Blink 182
Saturday - Yo La Tengo
Sexy Silk - Jessie J
Scene From American Psycho (?)
Ravel Concerto in G major - Krystian Zimmerman
Talisman - Air
What Did You Learn In School - Pete Seeger
Fake Empire - The National
Reckoner - Radiohead
Holiday - Bee Gees
House of the Rising Sun - The Animals
寂寞寂寞就好“ - 田馥甄 (Hebe Tian)
Wheel of Time - Blind Guardian
Road to Nowhere - Bullet For My Valentine
Bright Eyes - Road to Joy
Destination Luna4 - SHE
Setting Sail, Coming Home (End Theme) - ???
The 1812 - Bond
Drones - Rise Against
Enjoy The Silence - Depeche Mode
Trance Opera - Habanera
Faye - Jakob
Kid A - Radiohead
Lawike Metini - Karapete Xaco
Deep Down - Three To None
The Wild Way - Man Meets Animal
Toccata in F major BWV 540 - Johann Sebastian Bach
Ki - Devin Townsend Project
Sweet Child O' Mine - Guns N' Roses
Melodies of Life - Emiko Shiratori
Terrapin Station - Grateful Dead
London Calling - The Clash
Nujabes - Think Different
A Clock With No Hands - The Roots
Matthaeus Passion - Bach
California Soul - Marlena Shaw
Viva la Vida - Coldplay
Love Story - Taylor Swift
I Don't Wanna Be - Kate Voegele
You Never Know - Immortal Technique
Serenity - Godsmack
Remember - Disturbed
Layla - Eric Clapton
21st Century Digital Boy - Bad Religion
Sunlight - Bad Raiders
What I Got - Sublime
Time In A Bottle - Jim Croce
I Don't Believe In Love - Dido
In The Middle of a Heartbeat - Helloween
Birthday - The Cruxshadows
Exxon Valdez - Achim Reichel
Undying Love - Two Steps from Hell
Princes Of The Universe - Queen
Auver's Blue - Ketteni Shiyagare
Walk With Me - Rjd2
Hey Jude - The Beatles
Nothing In My Way - Keane
Death Note OST 3 - Light no Engi
'Ariel' - Stateless
If anyone wants to make a grooveshark playlist of all music listed in this thread (idea credit: Nefariously) please do so.
In addition, if anyone wants to take this list and split it up by genre that would be cool.
Cool Stuff
This is a quote that I thought really summed up what I hoped to get out of this thread, and I hope that everyone who peruses this list ends up feeling the same way:
"I went through the entire thread. I've seen some amazing contributions and songs I wholeheartedly agreed: "I must have these" but at the same time there's stuff I wouldn't listen to if I were paid to, with no explanation whatsoever either. Thanks to the people who posted some of the most beautiful music I can remember." - Cr4zyH0r5e
We Have A Playlist!
http://open.spotify.com/user/mardeth/playlist/0NuC2j9W27SfSObEwUJopj
Thanks so much to TL User bRuTaL!! for putting this together. Unfortunately the free version of Spotify requires an invitation code, so I will be looking for a source (or a single code) we can all use.
http://grooveshark.com/playlist/Teamliquid s Very Heterogenous Mash up Of Awesome/58809155
Grooveshark playlist by procyonlotor
Please PM me for an invite code. I am currently in possession of about 10. First come first served.
"Might want to add to the OP that, at least for me, the invites for Spotify come pretty quickly once you sign up with your email address on the website." - CatharsisUT
Temporary Edit: sorry for not updating recently, just moved into college and haven't had internet, will do my best to stay up on the times.