Whats your most Iconic song

munch said:
As iconic song for me has to be Last Resort by the Eagles.

But my favourite song, that is so hard I don't think I can do it
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I know what you mean Munch but the Eagles are a good second place mate:thumbs:
 
Anything by Muse .... oh! i listened to *** Cassidy album Songbird ,it's amazing !!!! .I have a very varied taste From Mantovani to Metallica depends on my mood really :thumbs:
 
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Dangermouse1964 said:
Some strong songs here but I would like to share a story and a song with you all, Its about my dad who died because of a hospital blunder.

He was being treated for cancer and had been cured by chemo and radiotherapy to the extent that he was coming home the next day so I alone visited him whilst my mum who is also very ill stayed home with my sister getting the house ready, It was 7pm when I got to the hospital and my dad was just pointing into the corner of the room looking very dazed so I asked a nurse what was wrong, she said its nothing to worry about he has had a morphine overdose but he has had the antidote so will be fine once its worn off and he is in no discomfort, whilst I was away the student nurse that gave him the od returned and gave him another shot of antidote...............wrong due to him having a weakened heart....I returned to see him having fits and got a doctor to look at him straight away, at this point the curtains were drawn back and my dad was rushed into a single roon and all sorts of pipes and wires stuck in/on him and an ambulance called to get him from Cookridge to Jimmys fast.

The ambulance got there in 3 mins and we were on our way in 5mins but 1 mile away my dad suffered a massive cardiac arrest due to the second dose of antimorphine so the ambulance had to stop whilst the paramedic gave him the kiss of life and did cpr once it was apparant he was going the blue lights and sirens went on and we were at jimmys in about a minute, he was pronounced deceased on arrival but I held his hand all the way and told him we all loved him....this was playing on the radio on the way back from leeds so it really has to be my song ......sorry for the rant

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NGuJOfrakc8
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Thats a really sad story and the song is very powerful, and a real weepy.
 
I really love all types of music and I've been around long enough to have had a lot of favourites over the years so this was a difficult one. I would have to plump for Righteous Brothers, Unchained Melody but Simon and Garfunkel's Bridge Over Troubled Waters would be a close second.I've also loved Roll Over Beethoven by ELO, Angels, Robbie Williams and How Deep is your Love by the Bee Gees.
 
ladysue said:
I really love all types of music and I've been around long enough to have had a lot of favourites over the years so this was a difficult one. I would have to plump for Righteous Brothers, Unchained Melody but Simon and Garfunkel's Bridge Over Troubled Waters would be a close second.I've also loved Roll Over Beethoven by ELO, Angels, Robbie Williams and How Deep is your Love by the Bee Gees.
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All good and me dad died 15yr ago so not weepy anymore but never forgotten:thumbs:
 
Stairway to heaven. And it annoys Mrs_C when I play it on the guitar :lol:
 
iconic could mean a few things , and doesnt really fit when applied to a song, it does however fit with a band, an era, timeless music that when heard will bring you back and instantly connect you with a distinctive look, attitude or sound. Well, that how i see it anyway.

i could list song after song from many genre's, but trying keep within the above i have narrowed it down to the following.

this song/ band came, saw and conquered they certainly had attitude and to me this song totally defines the early 90's.Their self titled album has got to be regarded as timeless and probably one of the best albums ever produced by a british band. True Icons of their era.

i give to you : the stone roses , fools gold.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k4bHMVAKDao
 
SimonTALM said:
Village Green Preservation Society - Kate Rusby, an amazing voice and she has some other fabulous songs (although a bit folky for some - not me I like that stuff)
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Ah the "folk babe" :) Great choice Simon, but I have to pull you up on the "she has some other fabulous songs" as it's not some ALL her stuff is fabulous (OK maybe Sweet Bells the Christmas album gets a bit much in June)




As for picking my favourite song I find picking one to be very hard , but Kasey Chambers - The Captain will be hard to beat, you really had to be at King Tuts in 2005 it really was one of the stand out moments of the many gigs I've been to.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fdEefQWXPR8
 
Loving people enjoying Metalica - A fair few or mine 'iconics' would be Metalica

Daysleeper, thanks for the intro to a new band to my ears.
 
Not so much Iconic but one that reminds me of my misspent youth.......

The Undertones - Teenage Kicks :D
 
Lost Prophets "Last Train Home" - it was the favourite of a colleague from PWRR who was killed in Iraq and we used it as the soundtrack on the unofficial tour slideshow which was dedicated to him...I think of him whenever I hear it and to me it will always conjur up that Summer of heat and bullets...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vUz2emorJuQ
 
Last Year's Man and Suzanne (Leonard Cohen); The Ride To Agadir (Mike Batt); Bat Out Of Hell, You Took The Words Right Out Of My Mouth and Objects In The Rear View Mirror May Appear Closer Than They Are (Meatloaf), all in different ways.
 
Iconic song for me is Knockin on Heaven's Door by Bob Dylan. I first heard it at school camp where one of the teachers played the soundtrack from Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid.
37 years on I am still an avid Dylan fan and have all his albums released in this country - even his new Christmas one.
I'd love to meet up with that teacher, if he's still alive, and shake his hand and thank him for years of musical bliss.
 
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Other memories

Last year my best mate died suddenly at the age of 51. The songs played at his funeral were Follow, Follow - from the days we travelled far and wide following our favourite football team, Glasgow Rangers, and Take it Easy by The Eagles which played on the way out of the Crem. I always think it was his final message to to me. (lump appearing in my throat as I type this)

Being a Sabbath, Zep, Purple kinda guy, it always surprises me to think of "Candida" by god knows who (I think it was the guy who sang "Knock 3 Times") as a memory song. It conjures memories of warm sunny Sunday afternoons when we would all meet up in the park with our girlfriends and have a fantastic time. I think some of the girls had a sing-song to this song.

Another favourite has to be Bruce Springsteen's Born to Run. Probably the most Iconic song, along with Blowin in the Wind, of my generation.
 
Dangermouse1964 said:
Some strong songs here but I would like to share a story and a song with you all, Its about my dad who died because of a hospital blunder.

He was being treated for cancer and had been cured by chemo and radiotherapy to the extent that he was coming home the next day so I alone visited him whilst my mum who is also very ill stayed home with my sister getting the house ready, It was 7pm when I got to the hospital and my dad was just pointing into the corner of the room looking very dazed so I asked a nurse what was wrong, she said its nothing to worry about he has had a morphine overdose but he has had the antidote so will be fine once its worn off and he is in no discomfort, whilst I was away the student nurse that gave him the od returned and gave him another shot of antidote...............wrong due to him having a weakened heart....I returned to see him having fits and got a doctor to look at him straight away, at this point the curtains were drawn back and my dad was rushed into a single roon and all sorts of pipes and wires stuck in/on him and an ambulance called to get him from Cookridge to Jimmys fast.

The ambulance got there in 3 mins and we were on our way in 5mins but 1 mile away my dad suffered a massive cardiac arrest due to the second dose of antimorphine so the ambulance had to stop whilst the paramedic gave him the kiss of life and did cpr once it was apparant he was going the blue lights and sirens went on and we were at jimmys in about a minute, he was pronounced deceased on arrival but I held his hand all the way and told him we all loved him....this was playing on the radio on the way back from leeds so it really has to be my song ......sorry for the rant

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NGuJOfrakc8
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OMG!! What a really sad story and a really appropriate piece of music. My heart goes out to you and your family.
Tears are welling up in my eyes.
Who said "Grown Men Don't Cry"
 
I don't really care what they play when I die, but I'd rather not listen to love songs or hymns from the shadow world. The Last Post is still the most haunting and beautiful way to say goodbye that I can imagine.
 
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