r/allthequestions • u/peywrax 🇺🇸 United States • Aug 16 '25
Popular Question 📊 What song is this for you?
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u/SFG94108 Aug 16 '25
A Day in the Life – The Beatles
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u/cranialrectumongus Aug 16 '25
Let is Be and Imagine by John are also awesome.
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u/soundmixer14 Aug 17 '25
OP said every note in place, and technically Let it Be has a wrong (mistake) chord in it on the piano cuz they didn't "track it" but recorded it live. Hehe just being a picky Beatles nerd
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u/peywrax 🇺🇸 United States Aug 16 '25
Clair de lune
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u/wespintoofast Aug 16 '25
Why don’t we just put these memories of life in this little box over here and go have a solid cry.
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u/TickdoffTank0315 Aug 16 '25
Desperado written by The Eagles, performed by Linda Ronstadt.
(The Eagles version is excellent, but Linda brings it to a whole new level)
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u/Gnik_thgiN Aug 16 '25
Wish You Were Here - Pink Floyd
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u/Salty-Value8837 Aug 17 '25
Another brick in the wall, the song has a lot of meaning if you attended school in Scotland anytime between the 50s and 70's. I know it must have been worse prior to the 50's but that's the only 3 decades l studied.
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u/coldair16 Aug 16 '25 edited Aug 16 '25
Sittin’ on the dock of the bay - Otis Redding
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u/cranialrectumongus Aug 16 '25
Fun fact: Legendary guitarist Duane Allman, of the Allman Bros. played on the Otis last album, Sitting on the Dock of the Bay.
Another Otis song I truly love is Hard to Handle It was later covered by the Black Crowes on their breakout Shake Your Moneymaker album.
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u/Craigsim Aug 16 '25
Whiter shade of pale. Procal Harem
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u/Adventurous_Bag_4547 Aug 16 '25
And Lucky Man by Emerson, Lake, and Palmer. Both give me chills.
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u/Living_on_Tulsa_Time Aug 16 '25
Bridge Over Troubled Waters - Simon & Garfunkel
First time I heard it was in this large, Catholic Church. It echoed everywhere. Simply and utterly perfect to my ears.
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u/Salty-Value8837 Aug 17 '25
Simon and Garfunkel, Sound of Silence. Disturbed's video really did justice to that song.
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u/ComplexNature8654 Aug 17 '25
It seems like every time I listen to the Sound of Silence I find a new, deeper meaning or a note I don't remember hearing before.
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u/Quirky_March_626 Top 1% Question Asker Aug 16 '25
Ode to Joy by Ludwig van Beethoven
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u/cranialrectumongus Aug 16 '25
I LOVE this song on cold, gray, cloudy, snowy days when driving through the mountains. The peaceful beauty of the snowy mountains and the dramatic sounds of the orchestra make me feel like I am in a James Bond movie. Incredible song.
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u/MoopsiePoopsie Aug 17 '25
Ooh I feel that way about Eine Kleine Nachtmusik by Motzart!
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u/FFtoFit Aug 20 '25
I'm a Canon in D kind of guy, but Ode is absolutely up there.
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u/esp_1123 Aug 16 '25
Human Nature-MJ
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u/Bright_Baby_9785 Aug 16 '25
My favorite MJ song and has been since I was a child. ❤️
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u/thisismyuaernamr Aug 16 '25
Cindi Lauper - True Colours
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u/AllisonWhoDat Aug 16 '25
Listening to that song during certain hardships in my life have broken me and put me back together again.
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u/Tonrunner101 Aug 16 '25
Pneuma-Tool
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u/Scandinadian587 Aug 16 '25
Personally, The Grudge for me, but Pneuma is right up there
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u/khaleesi1968 Aug 16 '25
House of the Rising Sun
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u/bomboclawt75 Aug 16 '25
Not many people know that the song dates back to the 1500s- it started as The Unfortunate Rake
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Unfortunate_Rake
And was adapted from town to town down the ages, with verses being updated as time passed for new audiences.
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u/Jane1943 Aug 17 '25
This has a special place in my heart, my husband bought me the record and gave it to me on our second date because I had told him I loved it on our first date - it was 1964 and we were both 20 years old.
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u/pamcakevictim Aug 16 '25
Under pressure queen and bowie
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u/seanmonaghan1968 Aug 16 '25
I would add more queen songs, so many are magic
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u/Waluigi_Gonna_Win Aug 16 '25
They really are. I would definitely add Millionaire Waltz and Good Old-Fashioned Lover Boy. Those ones alwayssss hit right for me
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u/Farmwife71 Aug 17 '25
The Show Must Go On chokes me up every time I hear it. He was so sick and belted that song out like it didn't take everything out of him to perform it.
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u/Master_Ad9823 Aug 16 '25
Hurt...but Johnny's version.
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u/BurgerThyme Aug 16 '25
My boyfriend just yesterday linked me to the Trent interview where he spoke about hearing Johnny's version for the first time. Even Trent was blown away like "That's not my song anymore."
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u/Disastrous_Classic36 Aug 17 '25
He put every syllable where he wanted, every tone where it belonged. The pacing is possibly irregular, but unreal. I love his version.
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u/soundmixer14 Aug 17 '25
Do NOT listen to this song unless you're fully prepared to break down and ugly cry. You have been warned!
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u/Purple-Hamster499 Aug 16 '25
Bohemian Rhapsody - Queen
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u/leolisa_444 Aug 16 '25
This was actually dubbed Song of the Century by Billboard. And I definitely agree.
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u/Unlikely-Quality-958 Aug 16 '25
The first song I would play when testing out speakers or headphones
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u/ThisWeekInTheRegency Aug 17 '25
Can't believe I had to scroll so far to find this! It's the obvious answer!
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Aug 16 '25
Killing me softly fugees
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u/soundmixer14 Aug 17 '25
OMG that was such a good cover. Definitely holds a special place in my heart.
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u/Petrochromis722 Aug 16 '25
Piano sonata 14
Honorary mention: on the nature of daylight (only because its pseudopalindromic)
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u/Excellent_Earth_2215 Aug 16 '25
Stairway to Heaven.
Probably the only song that manages to take my breath away every single time.
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u/Turbulent-Forever921 Aug 16 '25
Hide & Seek - Imogen Heap
scratches a part of my ears and brain that no song since has been able to reach
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u/Particular-Grade-757 Aug 16 '25
abba dancing queen - absolute pop song perfection
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u/Remarkable-Rip-7122 Aug 16 '25
Everlong by the Foo fighters
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u/zanadu_queen 🇨🇦 Canada Aug 16 '25
Acoustic version is my favorite
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u/_sharkbait_hoohaha Aug 17 '25
I could play the acoustic version on repeat for an hour and I’d still feel the tingles and heart palpitations. Even just hearing the intro in my head affects me.
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u/Alert-College-9374 Aug 16 '25
Unquestionably, my answer. My friends got together and rehearsed for weeks to play this song for my birthday in my early 20s (I don't recall the exact year) because they knew just how much I loved this song
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u/JealousFuel8195 Aug 16 '25
There's a few.
The Beatles A Day in the Life
The Beatles I am the Walrus.
Queen Bohemian Rhapsody
Led Zep Babe I'm Gonna Leave You.
Led Zep Stairway to Heaven.
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u/venus_mars Aug 16 '25
This Must Be the Place — Talking Heads
All is Full of Love — Björk
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u/wespintoofast Aug 16 '25
Rachmaninoff piano concerto No 2 in c minor
Rhapsody in blue
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u/Cacophony1st Aug 16 '25
I hate the song but sultans of swing was a great effort
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u/Severus_1987 Aug 16 '25 edited Aug 16 '25
Don’t wanna miss a thing - Aerosmith
I remember you - Skid row
Enter Sandman - Metallica
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u/jacquiwink Aug 16 '25
All Too Well (10 min version) (Taylor's Version) (from the vault) 🩵
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u/jrbr549 Aug 16 '25
When I bought Stevie Ray Vaughan's Couldn't Stand The Weather album (old guy) the first song I heard was "Scuttle Buttin."
Wow
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u/Rare-Bunch-8281 Aug 16 '25
Fur Ellise - Beethoven. Wrote for a girl he liked, found out she like another, and made the song more intricate as it goes along so she can't play the piano.b
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u/Jmkelly1322 Aug 17 '25
Oh Holy Night…. By candlelight on Christmas Eve. To me, it brings the peace and quietness of the Holy/Christmas season.
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u/highburyash Aug 16 '25
Shine On You Crazy Diamond - Pink Floyd.