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

Look of Love by Dusty Springfield.

Best romantic song of the 60s from best second best version of Casino Royale ever.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hCKij1dzrvc

I'm sorry, but you're all wrong.

The answer is yes.

yes it is.

TrackCoach wrote:

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.

"And I Am Telling You I'm Not Going" is from the musical play "Dreamgirls" which Jennifer Holliday performed. The tune and the singer won Tony and Grammy awards. This is from the early '80's. When the movie version of "Dreamgirls" came out, the tune was sung by Jennifer Hudson.

Jennifer Hudson's version did not win a Grammy.

TAA wrote:

Top 3 without a doubt

It's a top 3 Otis Redding song. But merely a very good song otherwise.

The best songs are all by Bruce Hornsby and Queen in some order. If Townes van Zandt could sing he'd have all the best songs.

The worst songs are by Pearl Jam.

The thing about these sorts of lists is that people just pick their favorite songs.

1. O Tannenbaum

2. The Police sang Every Breath You Take

3. Sweet Child of Mine

4. Ignorance of a song not that many people know outside of its generation is not ignorance. Not knowing the names of songs or who recorded them is.

5. Michaelangelo, Picasso, Monet, Renoir, Escher, Van Gogh, etc are on people's lips hundreds of years after their death. Of all the songs you listed, maybe a handful will be talked about in a hundred years, half of those in another hundred. You have insulted every great painter you listed by comparing them to Jailhouse Rock.

6. Your post was extremely condescending, "you get the point." The insults were warranted.

If you want to come off as an expert, or even vaguely knowledgeable, you should really get the songs and who sang them correct. You should also know that a grammy, what, a dozen awarded each year, does not make a song "epic."

1. Barbara Streisand doesn't belong on your list and if she did the song title is "The Way We Were", not "Memories". Nor does Gloria Gaynor. How you could include those two and omit Judy Garland's "Somewhere Over the Rainbow" is surprising. 2. Marvin Gaye song title is "Heard it THROUGH the Grapevine", but I think "Whats going on?" or "The Ecology" would take precedence. But minor dispute here. As far as Bob Dylan, "Like A Rolling Stone" would get nod before "Blowing in the Wind". 3. And as far as Queen goes, Freddy Mercury wrote "Bohemian Rhapsody" - which would be the song, but Queen performed it and seeing as you list Aretha Franklin instead of Otis Redding for Respect and Elvis Presley instead of Lieber and Stoller for Jailhouse Rock, ypu're going /w performer. Ditto for "Every Breath You Take" - The Police, not Sting. 4. As far as Sinatra goes "New York, New York" was way too late for it to be his best song. At least you didnt pick "My Way". You could have, should have gone with "Strangers in the Night", "Come Fly With Me", "Fly Me to the Moon", "The Way You Look Tonight", or "I've Got You Under My Skin". But best Sinatra songs you wont find on compilation albums.5. Points for recognizing Nat King Cole's holiday music. His Christmas Album is one of the best, but "O Tannenbaum" for Nat King Cole's best song? That's not even his best Christmas song. If anything "The Christmas Song" would be Nat King Cole's best Christmas song. But for his larger catalogue - "Unforgettable" clearly. "Mona Lisa" long-shot second.6. Whitney Houston's song would be "I will Always Love You". Bruce SpringSTEEN's song would be "Born to Run". Tina Turner doesnt belong on this list. Nor does Jennifer Holiday. Sub her out and put in Diana Ross - "Aint No Mountain High Enough" or Etta James - "At Last" or Janis Joplin - "Piece of My Heart" or Dolly Parton "Jolene" And f*** Guns"N"Roses.

and conspicuous absence of a few bands - The Beatles, The Rolling Stones, The Beach Boys, and The Who. Might have heard of them, perhaps? Mildly successful...

See, now here's a guy with whom I disagree based on personal preferences but he knows his music and earns the right to speak with some authority on the matter. He even knows music outside the States.

say it's '98 thirty years later and your jukebox only had releases from '68

the quarters earned list might go=-

jack flash

dance 2 music

grapevine

everyday people

watchtower

people free

dock sittin'

cry like a baby

abe marty and john

jude revolution

fire

never give you up

wish it would rain

aint nothing like real thing

thank you

magic bus

quinn

tighten up

ramble gamble man

who's makin' love

sunshine your love

preacherman

slip away

love child

lala love you

way2 san jose

cowboys to girls

house jack built

born2Bwild

can't stop dancin

midnight confess

angle o'morning

yummy tummy

cropper takes a run at it

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0hKCXX0zyJA

your missing some

Don McLean- American Pie (with Lyrics

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uAsV5-Hv-7U

also

Neil Diamond - I am... I said (W/Lyrics)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sxDyXK93o6g

also Jimmy Buffet

Jimmy Buffett- He Went To Paris [Lyrics]

hard to make list wrote:

The thing about these sorts of lists is that people just pick their favorite songs.

I agree! So what have we really learned after a thread like this?

There is no greatest song.

Excellent choices. Also, what a wonderful world by Louie Armstrong.

Avocado's Number wrote:

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.

don mclean vincent

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

Now *that* is a list. How about 1970?: Iron Man, Rock and Roll Stew, Instant Karma, Layla, Let it Be, anything off of "Deja Vu," the Moondance album, Workingman's Dead and American Beauty, etc.

whysoseriouswoo wrote:

don mclean vincent

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

A beautiful composition that melds melody, lyrics and historical content.

You could easily find a jukebox like that in Greenwich Village in 2015

I would smash that jukebox to pieces.