I’ll start off, my favorite song is all along the watch tower by Jimi Hendrix. That guitar at the start just sounds so beautiful.
When the rain begins to fall by Jermaine Jackson & Pia Zadora
Audio source (archive.org)Two favorites from different genres:
Puddle of Mud - Blurry
Alexi Murdoch - Wait
Old Man Thunder by Ween
I’m actually surprised no one has mentioned it yet.
OkameP - Why am I still alive
Genre: progressive rock metal
https://youtube.com/watch?v=oe0ExC_FJl4OkameP - I’m so sick
Genre: progressive metal
https://youtube.com/watch?v=j4eMi2gC8LMOkameP - Die For You
Genre: metal balad
https://youtube.com/watch?v=nGV164VEaZoAssemblage 23 - Factory
Genre: EBM
https://youtube.com/watch?v=0h7YaQSNwbcAssemblage 23 - Divide
Genre: EBM
https://youtube.com/watch?v=EA7bWTxoQVAClean Tears - SAKURA
Genre: uplifting trance
https://youtube.com/watch?v=UDjeGjcFolAClean Tears - Ruby
Genre: progressive trance
https://youtube.com/watch?v=aJKY_EeAeYcTaishi - bluefieldcreator
Genre: trance
https://youtube.com/watch?v=keF7n1eVKzETaishi - Phant Solo III
Genre: artcore
https://youtube.com/watch?v=tMvGGQZHMjcYa Boy Rick Astley
Genre: eurobeat
https://youtube.com/watch?v=xT6o-GNI6CkT. Stebbins - Savior of the Sky
Genre: eurobeat
https://youtube.com/watch?v=ZhNl_8xvgeEPerfume - Laser Beam
Genre: electro pop
https://youtube.com/watch?v=qQjoZy1PBywAnd so many more.
Ghost Love Score by Nightwish
Can’t pick a single favorite but yours made me think of one of my favorites that’s a guitar piece: Cliffs of Dover by Eric Johnson.
My fav is that one song. By, that guy…
You know.
Like Doo doo doo doo doo doo doo doo doo doo doo doo doo! But like better than that.
Nothing else matters - Metallica
This Song opened my mind for the World of Metal and guitars. I started to learn how to play guitar shortly after hearing it the first time
Funny: so many Metallica fans hated this song with a passion that is holy. They called it a sellout to popular music just to make the charts and a complete deviation from their previous work.
So for this song to be the gateway to metal for you, is a real counter point to those angry fans.
As I recently watched “perfect days” right now my favourite is feeling good by Nina Simone
I mean I can’t pick one really. Parabol/Parabola by Tool ranks pretty high
(I told you I can’t really pick one)
Not my only favorite, but Since I’ve Been Loving You by Led Zeppelin is worth a listen
I’m almost hesitant to say as it feels pretentious, but Debussy’s Clair de lune from the Suite bergamasque. I listen to most genres in some capacity. I could probably narrow down to a top five or ten, including Clair de lune, but the other tracks I would struggle to place relative to each other. Cdl is the only one that stands above the others, which I can listen to literally at any time. Lang Lang did a performance in 2022 which is the closest I’ve found to a perfect recording of the piece.
There are days where I might go for a walk, stop by the river close to my house, sit on a bench on the bank, pop this on my phone and just look out on the water. I’ll watch the birds swooping around, and butterflies on the flowers nearby, the wind blowing the water’s surface, and the clouds over the trees, and just listen. It makes me think of the beauty and impermanence of life and living. Of the complexity and insignificance of our being. Of the individual and the mass. Of my own place in the world, and in spite of my resolutely nihilistic worldview, my own life’s value. Of death and its inevitability, but also its necessity.
It’s one of very few things which can inspire in me that child-like wonder we were all once so acquainted with. I once listened to it sitting alone on an outcropping overlooking Lake Tahoe. My friends were alarmed when I returned to the group wiping my eyes and waxing poetic about the concept of beauty.
I will also say the Rammstein’s Du Hast is a fucking banger.
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Tomorrow Never Knows — The Beatles
