Guaporense
04-18-13, 02:08 AM
Inspired by the mania of film buffs and critics to list the best movies I decided to list what I think are the ten best songs of all time, in no particular order.
1. The Keeper of the Seven Keys by Helloween
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZUzpf3mMsxA
Overwhelming atmosphere in the greatest nerd song ever made. It transports me to another (very Tolkienesque) planet every time I listen to it. The richness and Kiske's vocal performance are as legendary as the world in which this song inhabits.
Boasting nearly 14 minutes, it is among the longest heavy metal epics.
2. Painkiller cover by Death
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=quPliK3eAy4
Combining aggression and melody like no other song ever written. Heavier than 99.99% of all other songs and boasting more melodic cohesion than also 99.99% of all other songs.
I have listened to some classical music, such as Vivaldi, Mozart, Bach, Haydn, Dvorak, Mahler, Wagner, Tchaikovsky and Schubert, but in my opinion, Beethoven stands above them and so most of my favorite classical songs are movements from his nine symphonies.
3. 1st movement of Beethoven's 5th symphony
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B7pQytF2nak
The first 10 seconds are a bit overplayed but it remains my pick for the heaviest song I know that was composed before the 1970's. When NASA sent the space probe Voyager, it carried this as the representative of the human cultural creation called music. They couldn't go wrong, a true masterpiece.
I listened the whole 5th symphony drunk one day, it was perhaps the single most powerful music experience of my life.
4. 1st movement of Beethoven's 9th symphony
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3SZ9QzGg95g
While the 1st is Beethoven's heaviest, perhaps his most sublime song (and also THE most sublime song ever), is the 1st movement of the 9th symphony, this monumental 15 minute piece is the most awe inspiring song I ever had the honor of listening too. The rest of the 9th symphony falls to the standards set by the first movement, though. As Giuseppe Verdi said: "No one will ever surpass the sublimity of the first movement."
5. Beyond the Realms of Death by Judas Priest
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7TLgxaoxjjg
Truly a monumental work, best guitar solo ever, period. Here is the best existing version, a bootleg when the song was played live in Japan in 1979, when Halford still had his full vocal range.
6. The Rime of the Ancient Mariner by Iron Maiden
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t7zk4as9kzA
It builds and builds, reaching the greatest climax in any song ever recorded. It's Iron Maiden adaptation of a Samuel Taylor Coleridge poem.
Boasting nearly 14 minutes this song proves that size does matter indeed. An epic in the most absolute sense.
7. Chemical Warfare by Slayer
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r1KDcZFKAgY
From Slayer, the greatest American song of all time, Chemical Warfare, combining the melody of early slayer with the extreme aggression of mature Slayer. It was the heaviest song ever recorded in 1983, being heavier than 99.9999% of all other songs in existence and possessing a purity of evil that very few songs manage to match and perhaps none surpasses.
8. The Sixth Station by Hisaishi
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GwTqNNXNQnA
Hisaishi best song IMO. Truly the single greatest piece of film music ever written and the song boasting the highest emotional content per note played.
9. Dreamer Deceiver/Deceiver by Judas Priest
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GjMizl3qQGE
And yet another Judas Priest song. One of the greatest climaxes and the greatest vocal performance of all time, boasting possibly the highest notes ever attained by a man and an amazing dense atmosphere.
10. Hallowed Be Thy Name by Iron Maiden
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J51LPlP-s9o
Finally, another Iron Maiden song, considered by many to be their greatest. It was one of their first epics and still remains one of their two best epics and best songs overall.
That's it 7 Metal, 2 Classical and 1 Film composition. It's fair to say that I have listened to thousands of hours of heavy metal over the past 10 years.
1. The Keeper of the Seven Keys by Helloween
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZUzpf3mMsxA
Overwhelming atmosphere in the greatest nerd song ever made. It transports me to another (very Tolkienesque) planet every time I listen to it. The richness and Kiske's vocal performance are as legendary as the world in which this song inhabits.
Boasting nearly 14 minutes, it is among the longest heavy metal epics.
2. Painkiller cover by Death
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=quPliK3eAy4
Combining aggression and melody like no other song ever written. Heavier than 99.99% of all other songs and boasting more melodic cohesion than also 99.99% of all other songs.
I have listened to some classical music, such as Vivaldi, Mozart, Bach, Haydn, Dvorak, Mahler, Wagner, Tchaikovsky and Schubert, but in my opinion, Beethoven stands above them and so most of my favorite classical songs are movements from his nine symphonies.
3. 1st movement of Beethoven's 5th symphony
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B7pQytF2nak
The first 10 seconds are a bit overplayed but it remains my pick for the heaviest song I know that was composed before the 1970's. When NASA sent the space probe Voyager, it carried this as the representative of the human cultural creation called music. They couldn't go wrong, a true masterpiece.
I listened the whole 5th symphony drunk one day, it was perhaps the single most powerful music experience of my life.
4. 1st movement of Beethoven's 9th symphony
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3SZ9QzGg95g
While the 1st is Beethoven's heaviest, perhaps his most sublime song (and also THE most sublime song ever), is the 1st movement of the 9th symphony, this monumental 15 minute piece is the most awe inspiring song I ever had the honor of listening too. The rest of the 9th symphony falls to the standards set by the first movement, though. As Giuseppe Verdi said: "No one will ever surpass the sublimity of the first movement."
5. Beyond the Realms of Death by Judas Priest
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7TLgxaoxjjg
Truly a monumental work, best guitar solo ever, period. Here is the best existing version, a bootleg when the song was played live in Japan in 1979, when Halford still had his full vocal range.
6. The Rime of the Ancient Mariner by Iron Maiden
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t7zk4as9kzA
It builds and builds, reaching the greatest climax in any song ever recorded. It's Iron Maiden adaptation of a Samuel Taylor Coleridge poem.
Boasting nearly 14 minutes this song proves that size does matter indeed. An epic in the most absolute sense.
7. Chemical Warfare by Slayer
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r1KDcZFKAgY
From Slayer, the greatest American song of all time, Chemical Warfare, combining the melody of early slayer with the extreme aggression of mature Slayer. It was the heaviest song ever recorded in 1983, being heavier than 99.9999% of all other songs in existence and possessing a purity of evil that very few songs manage to match and perhaps none surpasses.
8. The Sixth Station by Hisaishi
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GwTqNNXNQnA
Hisaishi best song IMO. Truly the single greatest piece of film music ever written and the song boasting the highest emotional content per note played.
9. Dreamer Deceiver/Deceiver by Judas Priest
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GjMizl3qQGE
And yet another Judas Priest song. One of the greatest climaxes and the greatest vocal performance of all time, boasting possibly the highest notes ever attained by a man and an amazing dense atmosphere.
10. Hallowed Be Thy Name by Iron Maiden
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J51LPlP-s9o
Finally, another Iron Maiden song, considered by many to be their greatest. It was one of their first epics and still remains one of their two best epics and best songs overall.
That's it 7 Metal, 2 Classical and 1 Film composition. It's fair to say that I have listened to thousands of hours of heavy metal over the past 10 years.