An artist/band's masterpiece

Hunting Bears!

That is a damn awesome song.

the problem with picking Radiohead masterpieces is all of their songs are so good that none can really stand out that much.

"Wish You Were Here" - Pink Floyd

"In My Life" - The Beatles

"Imagine"/"Watching The Wheels" - John Lennon

"Brenda's Got a Baby" - Tupac Shakur

"Stairway to Heaven" - Led Zepplin



yes indeed

The Floyd's masterpiece is Shine On Parts 1-9. I'd agree that Bach's masterpiece is the Goldberg Variations. Other ones:

Genesis - Firth Of Fifth
Jethro Tull - Thick As A Brick, Part One
King Crimson - Larks' Tongues In Aspic, Part One
Mike Oldfield - Tubular Bells, Part One
Yes - Close To The Edge
Van Der Graaf Generator - A Plague of Lighthouse Keepers

John Denver - "Rocky Mountain High"
The pinnacle song of his career and the one that he is most identified with most today. Other candidates are "Take Me Home, Country Roads" and "Annie's Song".

James Taylor - "Fire and Rain"
The most popular song by him, with the exception of "You've Got a Friend," except he actually wrote "Fire and Rain." Magnificently has become an autograph of JT's soul and what was so about his life and his experiences.

The Beatles - "Yesterday"
This was difficult to decide, but I base this answer on the fact that it's (I think) the most covered song in music history.

Don McLean - "American Pie"
Not too difficult, because he didn't really do anything else.

Incubus - Aqueous Transmission

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Anyone brave enough to take a gander at Radiohead's masterpiece? :p

Oh, and for Coldplay, it's Shiver. (Although I really want to say Spies, too. :\)

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Street Spirit.

Don't care what anyone else says about about other albums that I haven't listened to (but I will), that's the best. The end yay!


I can't think of anything new right now, stfu.

Yamenko I love you, but Close to the Edge isn't Yes' masterpiece.
South Side of the Sky takes the cake for them. And I'd say all of Thick
as a Brick could be considered one song really, it's hard to judge the
first and second parts...but if you do need to choose I agree with you
about the first one.

I'd also say that Floyd's masterpiece is Echoes.

Procol Harum - In Held 'Twas in I
The single greatest progressive rock track ever created. When it's
performed with the Edmonton Symphony Orchestra it is the single most
amazing song in the history of mankind. ;]

Emerson Lake and Palmer - Tarkus

Sergei Rachmaninoff - Piano Concerto no. 2 in Cm (especially Part I)

Yann Tiersen - La Chute

Therion - The Siren of the Woods

Radiohead's most epic song WOULD be We Suck Young Blood if they
had jammed out on the climactic part like 4 minutes into it. However,
the world is not a perfect place and because they don't it makes it one
of the worst songs ever made, simply because it gives me the worst
case of blueballs every time I listen to it. Goddamnit I'm pissed just
thinking about it.

.opt

PS, actually now that you mention I agree with Street Spirit for
Radiohead.

Some bands have one track that stands out from the rest. Some of the include:

ASP: Die Ruhe vor dem Sturm
Die Apokalyptischen Reiter: Erhelle meine Seele
Dornenreich: Reime faucht der Märchensarg
Janus: Der Flüsterer im Dunkeln
Laibach: Die Liebe
Oathean: In fear with shiver
Richthofen: Blut der Pferde
Schmerz: Meine Prinzessin
Stahlhammer: Stahlingrad
Weissglut: Ein Atemzug

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Therion - The Siren of the Woods

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This is a great song aswell.

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Originally Posted by Optium

Yamenko I love you, but Close to the Edge isn't Yes' masterpiece.
South Side of the Sky takes the cake for them. And I'd say all of Thick
as a Brick could be considered one song really, it's hard to judge the
first and second parts...but if you do need to choose I agree with you
about the first one.

I'd also say that Floyd's masterpiece is Echoes.

Procol Harum - In Held 'Twas in I
The single greatest progressive rock track ever created. When it's
performed with the Edmonton Symphony Orchestra it is the single most
amazing song in the history of mankind. ;]

Emerson Lake and Palmer - Tarkus

Sergei Rachmaninoff - Piano Concerto no. 2 in Cm (especially Part I)

Yann Tiersen - La Chute

Therion - The Siren of the Woods

Radiohead's most epic song WOULD be We Suck Young Blood if they
had jammed out on the climactic part like 4 minutes into it. However,
the world is not a perfect place and because they don't it makes it one
of the worst songs ever made, simply because it gives me the worst
case of blueballs every time I listen to it. Goddamnit I'm pissed just
thinking about it.

.opt

PS, actually now that you mention I agree with Street Spirit for
Radiohead.

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Yay I win!

Street Spirit isn't even the best song on The Bends...

Haha please. What is then? Fake Plastic Trees?

.opt

Metallica - One

Heavy metal masterpiece. Full intro-verse-chorus-verse-chorus-solo-chorus song with some nice clean melodies, then a full on heavy metal; thrash down. Good stuff.

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Originally Posted by Optium

Radiohead's most epic song WOULD be We Suck Young Blood if they
had jammed out on the climactic part like 4 minutes into it. However,
the world is not a perfect place and because they don't it makes it one
of the worst songs ever made, simply because it gives me the worst
case of blueballs every time I listen to it. Goddamnit I'm pissed just
thinking about it.

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See, I was too, but I think it's supposed to be in sync with what's going on in the rest of the song. It's like, "Hey, kids. We're gonna draw you in. You're gonna be ours. *build...build...build...slower than before* Haha told you so."

My favorite Radiohead song is No Surprises, but I think Paranoid Android is more epic.

And there's a lot of songs on The Bends that are as good as Street Spirit, particularly at the beginning. Tracks 1-4 are pretty much contenders against it.