Is "Sittin' on The Dock of the Bay" by Otis Redding the greatest song of all time?

We can't stop

TAA wrote:

Top 3 without a doubt

Top 3 for me, too. Probably #1, with "Ain't No Sunshine" by Bill Withers in the runner-up position. Honorable mention to "Try a Little Tenderness" (by Otis) and "Lean on Me" (by Bill).

As for the post above me, I agree that "Everybody Wang Chung" is a fine song.

Obviously music is subjective, but since you asked, I don't think it would make top 300,000 on my list. My hippy teacher taught us that song - along with "love is a Rose" - when I was in first grade and it wasn't even the best song of the two.

Ummmm....ever heard of Don't give up on Baby?

TAA wrote:

Top 3 without a doubt

Ironic you chose "top 3" when it was number 4 four the year 1968.

Nope.

It's clearly this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o_v9MY_FMcw

129 and a half million views and still climbing, the undisputed champion:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ

this!!!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eBG7P-K-r1Y

But Dave can't rock as hard now that he has a broken leg...or can he?

Depends on the mood. For running, I would go with this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3fa4HUiFJ6c

For jamming, this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hqsgr3rPvSQ

I always thought this one was interesting for the "oddities" category. Note the killer guitar work by Duane Allman:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=apdCgfr05rU

It really is a damn good song, I'll give it that much. Love singing it in Rock Band.

I will say this, it's probably in the top 10 or 15 songs from 1968, which is really saying a lot, because there was a great amount of songs that came out every year from probably 1963 to 1977 or so. Obviously great songs from all the other years, but the depth back then was nuts. When a song like "All Along the Watchtower" or "Crimson and Clover" or "Sympathy for the Devil" aren't even the best song that came out that year, you know music is good.

By the way, I don't necessarily agree down to the number with all their lists, but Digital Dream Door has a ton of fun music lists, such as this one (best 100 songs from 1968):

http://digitaldreamdoor.com/pages/bg_hits/bg_hits_68.html

. By the way, "Dock of the Bay" was #4 on their list.

TAA wrote:

Top 3 without a doubt

Not sure about top-3 or even 20, but it is definitely one of those epic songs that is part of American cultural heritage. I would put Louis Armstrong's What A Wonderful World at number one, Bing Crosby's White Christmas and Frank Sinartra's New York at 2 and 3. The top-20 will be dominated by songs that transcend time, race, nationality and music category. Once you get past Nate King Cole's Ole Tannenbum, Ray Charles' Georgia and songs like that, then you can start talking about:

Bill Withers - Lean on Me

Barbara Strisand - Memories

Aretha Franklin - Respect

Led Zeppelin - Stairway To Heaven

Elvis Presley - Jailhouse Rock

John Lennon - Imagine

We are the World

Marvin Gaye - Lets get it On, Heard it throw the Grapevine

Gloria Gaynor - I will Survive

Temptations - My Girl

Billy Joel - Piano Man

Bob Dylan - Blowing in the Wind

Freddie Mercury - Bohemian Rhapsody, We are the Champions

Patsy Cline - Crazy

There have only been a few songs in the last couple of decades to achieve icon status. A few are:

Gun and Rose - Sweet Love of Mine

Whitney Houston - I am telling you

Tina Turner - Simply the Best

Sting - Every Breath You Take

Michael Jackson - Billy Jean

Prince - Purple Rain

Bruce Springsting - Born in the USA

Jennifer Holiday - I am telling you

Stevie Wonder - You Are the Sunshine of My Life

...hopefully you get the point

I'm sorry but I only get the point if the point is you know nothing about music. You got the names of songs and who performed them completely wrong...even one of your favorites. You also don't seem to know when "We are the World" came out (terrible ripoff of the superior British version btw) as it is just as recent as a couple of the songs you listed under "last couple of decades." I'm going to have to look up this Jennifer Holiday song. I've never heard of it. We get it. You're old. So no music past 1990 exists to you but if society makes it another 50 years, songs like "Smells Like Teen Spirit" will be far more widely recognized than half the songs on your list. (BTW- if these songs allegedly transcend nationality, how come almost all of your songs are by Americans?)Not a single "Who" song.

Beach Boys God only knows and Ben E King - stand by me. 2 of the top 3.

If you think it is then it is to you.

If any posters disagree then it isn't to them.

Those two statements aren't mutually exclusive

Soda pop star wrote:

If you think it is then it is to you.

If any posters disagree then it isn't to them.

Those two statements aren't mutually exclusive

I agree. (I'm still thinking about Wang Chung's greatest songs. My favorite is probably "Let's Go.")

TrackCoach wrote:

We are the World

WE ARE THE WORLD? The most contrived POS song ever made? You've got to be kidding?

No.

Next question.

TrackCoach wrote:

Marvin Gaye - Lets get it On, Heard it throw the Grapevine

...hopefully you get the point

Marvin Gaye and you pick these two. Not terrible songs but how about "What's Goin' On". Tune is absolutely iconic at so many levels.

A couple of things:

1. - The insults were not necessary.

2. - I actually know quite a bit a about music from various era's, in fact, I do some DJing from time to time where I play the latest pop and hip hop.

3. - Whitney Houston - I am telling you was a mistype, I meant I Will Always Love You. I do know when We are the World came out, I watched it on TV when it first aired.

4. - re: "I'm going to have to look up this Jennifer Holiday song" (Your ignorance is showing...big time.) This song won a Grammy when it was sung by Jennifer Holiday, it was remade a couple of years ago and won another Grammy when it was resung by Jennifer Hudson and it has been used in over a dozen movies.

6. - There are good songs made every year and there have been many great songs since the 1999s. However, when the says "greatest song of all time" I assume we were talking about the Michaelangelos, Monets and Pablo Picassos and quite frankly, most of the recent music does not rise to that level.

7. - I am not so old that I remember Louis Armstrong or Pablo Picasso for that matter, but greatness transcends time.

8.- The Who is a wonderful group and produced a lot of great songs, my list was meant to be sample of great songs, surely you didn't think it was a comprehensive list.