Is this the best song ever written?

[yiostheoy]

... and from the air waves above Los Angeles in the 1970's:

 

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[yiostheoy]

As our 3rd Fleet battle group was returning to US waters towards San Diego our CV-64 carrier Constellation could pick up the Los Angeles airwaves on the com and the Admiral would pipe it through the ship and everyone would love it and dance and be very happy that home and wives and lovers and girls and alcohol were waiting for us onshore.

 

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[yiostheoy]

The Oakland Raiders had just won their first Superbowl.

 

[westwall]

This is the greatest song in the history of mankind.

Uhhhhhhmmmmm, no....

 

[westwall]

This is the best song ever written.

Nope.

 

[westwall]

There is no greatest song. There are great songs though, my wife is partial to Only a Lad, Heart of Glass, Killing me Softly, My favs are Won't Get Fooled Again, Shine on You Crazy Diamond, and Try to Believe.

 

[Skull Pilot]

there is no best song ever written

 

[yiostheoy]

there is no best song ever written

Rolling Stone magazine said Dylan's "Like A Rolling Stone" was the best ever, with the Stones' "Cant Get No Satisfaction" in 2nd Place behind it.

 

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[yiostheoy]

Of the 2 of them, my vote is Satisfaction !!

 

[yiostheoy]

When I was first out of college and serving in uniform defending the West Coast from Mother Russia and from Uncle Mao (during peacetime), we would run BLT and RLT training ops in the middle of the Mojave Desert at a big sand dune called 29 Palms.

The name of the game was "Capture The Oil Well" and that game is played in a desert.

We made a big QRF base on a lake there called Emerson Lake.

Everyone fondly called it Emerson Lake And Palmer though. Their hit songs were popular that year:

 

[yiostheoy]

Great lyrics:

"There might have been things I've missed,
But don't be unkind,
It don't mean I'm blind.

Perhaps there's a thing or two,
I think of lying in bed,
I shouldn't have said,
But there it is.

You see it's all clear,
You were meant to be here,
From the beginning."

 

[yiostheoy]

They had yet another great hit that I can remember:

 

[yiostheoy]

And this one is epic too:

 

[yiostheoy]

Disco was born shortly after Emerson Lake And Palmer. They sank away into obscurity then.

 

[Marion Morrison]

Geldoff saw the indoctrination happening way back when. It's a good thing US trails the UK in indoctrination by about 20-30 years or so.