An artist/band's masterpiece

[eestlinc]

Hunting Bears!

[-N-]

That is a damn awesome song.

[eestlinc]

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

[faster skating penguin]

"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

[Yamaneko]

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

[Kirobaito]

<b>John Denver - "Rocky Mountain High"</b>
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".

<b>James Taylor - "Fire and Rain"</b>
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.

<b>The Beatles - "Yesterday"</b>
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.

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

[-N-]

Incubus - Aqueous Transmission

[fire_of_avalon]

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

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

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.

[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.

[jrgen]

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

Therion - The Siren of the Woods

This is a great song aswell.

[fire_of_avalon]

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.

Yay I win!

[eestlinc]

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

[Optium]

Haha please. What is then? Fake Plastic Trees?

.opt

[Pure Strife]

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.

[Shoeberto]

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.

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.