Timeless songs

[docevi1]

I bought Brian Wilson's SMiLE album t'other day, quite good overall, but it's Good Vibrations on the end which still stands out as the best song on the album. Which started me thinking, which other songs stand the test of time, the ones which still sound fresh and impressive many years after?

Obviously a fair bit of classical music does , but stuff like The Beach Boys - Good Vibrations, most of The Beatles stuff (give or take some of their "experimental" albums and a few songs) still sound relevant today.

Some songs which are recognised as been "great" as they to significant of the era in which they were recorded, e.g. Madness / mad 70's...

What other songs/sounds simply endure past generations and are fairly acceptable to everyone? I don't personally think that any of the current crop of "artists" will be about in a couple of years time never mind in 40 years time

I do like the new Kylie track mind

[lazyitus]

docevi1 said:

I don't personally think that any of the current crop of "artists" will be about in a couple of years time never mind in 40 years time

Stefan, Stefan!

You may be a student but you have the tongue of an old codger.

[thebluemonkey]

Music has got no better or worse, we still have the same shit we had 40 years ago and there are still the same top quality artists about, it's just hidden amongst all the commercial dross. Peoples taste (or lack of) and what is heavily marketed has changed the music hasn't. When people are looking back they will see think the same as we do now and the same as people 20 years ago did. Nostalgia and selection will always make the past look better than it really was.

As for a timeless song I think that Teenage Kicks by The Undertones is as close to timeless as there is.

[docevi1]

On this subject I don't really care. I much prefer to listen/watch to people with talent be it Crash Test Dummies/Andrew Bird/BareNaked Ladies/Brian Wilson... not, well some band who can do "harmonies", or some jumped up little wazzoks who deem themselves worthy enough to put down every other band but "she can bone me, hahahahahahaha" attitude I discovered Radio 2 and Radio Newcastle and I like it

thebluemonkey is right, but in the same respect bands that make the "timeless" classics I refer to were huge, they'd be the equivalent of the Spice Girls/Oasis... and yet I don't see the former crap been anything other than novelty on TOTP2 or what ever it's called in 20 years time

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[matt_t16]

Jimi Hendrix - Voodoo Child, All Around the Watchtower and Fire. Three tracks by the same artist that will always sound fresh and bloody good no matter what.

Oh that and the fact that they sound bloody brilliant when accompanied by D/V woosh, turbo whine and the pops from the anti-lag whilst on an evening hoon

Matt

[EmmaP]

That list could be endless, so here are a few artists whose music I feel will stand/ has stood the test of time:

Elvis
Led Zeppelin
U2
Blondie
Madness
The Beastie Boys
Michael Jackson
Jimi Hendrix
The Pretenders
The Bee Gees
The Clash

That's just a short list of my faves (not in any particular order).

[docevi1]

You see, I'll agree with Elvis, Zepplin, Michael Jackson, Bee Gee's and Jimi Jendrix but think that Blondie/Madness are too much of their time as are Beastie Boys. Pretenders/Clash, I can't remember what they play now

U2 are jumped up little plonkers who can't make decent music anymore so have spoiled any decent memories people may have had IMO!

[EmmaP]

docevi1 said:

You see, I'll agree with Elvis, Zepplin, Michael Jackson, Bee Gee's and Jimi Jendrix but think that Blondie/Madness are too much of their time as are Beastie Boys. Pretenders/Clash, I can't remember what they play now U2 are jumped up little plonkers who can't make decent music anymore so have spoiled any decent memories people may have had IMO!

I prefer U2's earlier work. Can't recall much that they have done in the past two or three years.

'London Calling' by The Clash is awesome.

Pretenders: 'Brass in Pocket', 'Don't Get Me Wrong', 'Kid', 'Talk of the Town'...

Blondie go back thirty years almost! Beasties nearly twenty! God I feel old

[.Adam.]

Bohemian Rhapsody, never been another song like it, will still sound as good in 50 years time I reckon.

[D_Mike]

Paranoid Android is very like Bohemian Rhapsody and just as good.

[DanBoy]

Jimi Hendrix.
Michael Jackson.
Stevie Wonder.
Johnny Cash.
Elvis Presley.
Bob Marley.
Prince.

Legends!

Pretty much everything by The Clash is brilliant. I'm not really a fan of bands though - For some reason I'm more of a "solo artist" kind of guy.

I can't stand U2. I think they're crap, always have done and I have no idea why they're still releasing records. Then again I can't stand The Beatles either.

As for bands that will stand the test of time, who knows! I don't think anybody will really know until at least ten years from now... At least I hope that's the case as I can't think of any one (or any group) off the top of my head.

Definitely not Razorlight though. They suck.


>> Edited by DanBoy on Sunday 12th December 22:50

[v8thunder]

IMO Guns 'N' Roses haven't dated at all if you just take them on musical terms (ie ignore the hair/clothes). Neither, for the most part, have Aerosmith or The Cure.

[EmmaP]

Come to think of it v8thunder, neither have Status Quo

[docevi1]

ah but the Quo use the same chords in all their songs

[EmmaP]

docevi1 said:

ah but the Quo use the same chords in all their songs

My point exactly

[docevi1]

[shirley temple]

"then I'm dying at the bottom of a pit in the blazing sun
Torn and twisted at the foot of a burning bike
and i think somebody somewhere must be tolling a bell"

Pure timelessness!!!!

Mark

[EmmaP]

shirley temple said:

"then I'm dying at the bottom of a pit in the blazing sun Torn and twisted at the foot of a burning bike and i think somebody somewhere must be tolling a bell" Pure timelessness!!!! Mark

Who sings that then? Not The Darkness I hope

[docevi1]

Meat Loaf - Bat out of Hell

[EmmaP]