What is the best song by...

[The Modernist]

John Lennon - "(Just Like) Starting Over"
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Shouldn't this be in the worst song thread?

[naughty boy]

It's OTT in a way earlier Lennon would never have dreamed of, but I love it.

[The Modernist]

It's OTT in a way earlier Lennon would never have dreamed of, but I love it.

It's awful. It has one of the sickliest productions I've ever heard and Lennon sounds like a dickie bow wearing cabaret singer.

[naughty boy]

He's channelling ELVIS!

[Jimbly]

He's channelling ELVIS!

FAT ELVIS?

[naughty boy]

Yeah!

[The Modernist]

He's channelling ELVIS!

FAT ELVIS?

..if he was playing The Wheeltappers and Shunters Social Club rather than Vegas. It's like the pound shop version of Chas n' Dave's "There Ain't No Pleasing You".

[naughty boy]

Ah, you know, he got shot, it was awful. I was 12 and hugely affected by it. And that song was played all the fucking time in the weeks that followed. It has ghosts, you know what I mean? It's powerful stuff.

[Goat Boy]

I get that. I think his death casts a shadow on something like that and gives it a poignancy it doesn't really deserve but there you go.

[echolalia]

All my choices are already covered, I think, except for:

Led Zep – Fool in the Rain

Bowie – Sound and Vision

Clash - Gates of the West

[The Modernist]

What's this shit? (Just Like) Starting Over is poor? Incorrect.

It certainly is..appalling would be a better description.

[Ranking Ted]

The Beatles - Strawberry Fields Forever
The Stones - 19th Nervous Breakdown
Led Zep - Immigrant Song
The Doors - Hyacinth House
Pet Shop Boys - Left To My Own Devices
The Smiths - Big Mouth Strikes Again
David Bowie - Station To Station
John Lennon - Jealous Guy
The Clash - Complete Control
The Beach Boys - Heroes and Villains

Some of these are subject to change of course

[George P. Smackers]

The Beatles "I Want to Hold Your Hand"
The Stones ummmm "Jumpin' Jack Flash"?
Led Zep "Ten Years Gone" (don't know about best, just like it the most)
The Doors none
Pet Shop Boys "Always on my Mind" (?)
The Smiths "This Charming Man"
David Bowie "Life on Mars?"
John Lennon none
The Clash "Complete Control"
The Beach Boys "Good Vibrations"

[joels344]

John Lennon - "(Just Like) Starting Over"
"

Shouldn't this be in the worst song thread?

Perhaps, but with any Lennon song, I have to pick what I find to be the least offensive for me.

[Hightea]

The Beatles -Across the Universe
The Stones - She a Rainbow
Led Zep - Battle of Evermore
The Doors - When the Music's over
Pet Shop Boys - Love Comes Quickly
The Smiths - That Joke isn't funny anymore
David Bowie - Moonage Daydream
John Lennon - Imagine okay Jealous Guy
The Clash - Train in Vain
The Beach Boys - Good Vibrations

[Osgood]

Not sure I get the distinction between 'best' and 'fave' (it's all subjective, isn't it?), or between record and song, anyway these are the ones that I like the most today

The Beatles: We Can Work It Out
The Stones: Tumbling Dice
Led Zep: Immigrant Song
The Doors: The Crystal Ship
Pet Shop Boys: pass
The Smiths: the blank spaces between tracks
David Bowie: Watch That Man
John Lennon: Mother
The Clash: Train In Vain
The Beach Boys: Good Vibrations