• starman2112@sh.itjust.works
    48·
    7 months ago

    Well the greatest song in the world was famously performed by Jack Black and Kyle Gass, and they can’t remember how it went

  • intensely_human@lemm.ee
    211·
    7 months ago

    I’m an uber driver. I had a passenger and we got to discussing what kind of music she likes. She said “Little Wing” so I told Siri to play some “Little Wing”. Of course Siri knew what I was asking for and played some Lil Wayne.

    Passenger said she liked Lil Wayne because he’s got different moods. “Sometimes I just wanna chill, you know? Like it ain’t gotta be all go-go-go all the time you know?”

    So I asked her if she’d heard any BB King before. She said “Who’s that?” So I told Siri to play The Thrill is Gone by BB King.

    She was like “Ooooooh! This is chill as fuck thank you!”

    I had just learned about BB King the previous day from another passenger, when I had the Grateful Dead playing some blues. The passenger from the day before was an old hippie, and she was telling me about seeing BB King and Led Zeppelin at a place called The Psychedelic Supermarket in Salem, MA back in the 70s.

    I also showed this younger passenger Since I’ve Been Loving You by Led Zeppelin. She was so stoked to have some new music to get her friends to chill to, since they all into that go-go-go music all the time.

    I love being someone in a position to introduce people to new music. I love my job.

    • BOMBS@lemmy.worldEnglish
      5·
      7 months ago

      Congrats on hearing BB King! The dude is a legend, basically creating a whole new genre. Imagine making music so good that it becomes a genre. That’s BB King.

      • deezbutts@lemm.ee
        2·
        7 months ago

        +1 for a new aspiring guitarist. Never cared for the blues until I tried playing along with thrill is gone and it blew my mind.

        Anyone reading this wondering if they should check him out, do it.

  • s38b35M5@lemmy.worldEnglish
    191·
    7 months ago

    The pedant in me has to point our that if it’s the “best song we’ve ever heard…” then we already heard it, and it isn’t still “out there” as in unheard and waiting to be listened to.

  • tyrant@lemmy.world
    11·
    7 months ago

    There’s a good chance that you’d a have a new favorite song every day if you could listen to all of them. We’re constantly changing and they would probably speak to us differently on different days.

  • 200ok@lemmy.world
    10·
    7 months ago

    Reminds me of a saying, “that some of the best days of our lives haven’t happened yet”.

  • bstix@feddit.dk
    101·
    7 months ago

    There’s sort of an observer effect at play too though.

    The more you hear it, the less interesting it is to you. The song doesn’t change, but your perception does, and you develop an acquired taste in music that way.

    • raspberriesareyummy@lemmy.world
      5·
      7 months ago

      While true for some songs, others grow on you or stay good for eternity. My favourite all-time song hasn’t changed in 30 years: Black (Colin Vearncombe) - Wonderful Life

      • bstix@feddit.dk
        2·
        7 months ago

        That song had a revival recently. I don’t remember hearing it when it came out, but it has been on my coworkers radio every day for the last couple of months. Maybe it has been on a TV show or something. Great song.

        • raspberriesareyummy@lemmy.world
          2·
          7 months ago

          In the past two decades there’s been a bunch covers that I know of (or just learned of):

          • Ace of Base
          • Seeed
          • Zucchero (didn’t even know about this one until now)
          • Katie Melua
          • Smith & Burrows (the one you heard on your coworker’s radio?)
          • Imany (or did you hear this one?)

          and then a bunch of electronic music mixes.

          I love that song since the 80s; and for a long time - until the early 2000s I knew no covers - so I am very happy that there’s a lot of tributes to Black with lots of different styles :)

          • bstix@feddit.dk
            2·
            7 months ago

            I just heard it again my radio on my way home. I still don’t know why it’s so suddenly popular again right now and it’s puzzling me.

            Anyway, it has stood the test of time, and I think that’s about the only way to actually find the greatest songs.

            • raspberriesareyummy@lemmy.world
              1·
              7 months ago

              I just heard it again my radio on my way home. I still don’t know why it’s so suddenly popular again right now and it’s puzzling me.

              Which version, though? :) That sounds like you mean the original?

              Anyway, it has stood the test of time, and I think that’s about the only way to actually find the greatest songs.

              I suppose it’s one way to judge them :) But yes, that’s why my favourite has not changed for over 30 years - I don’t get tired of it. Much like this one.

              PS

              I know, without autoplay it’s not the same, but I didn’t want to use a youtube-link - f*ck google ;)

              • bstix@feddit.dk
                1·
                7 months ago

                Yes, the original keeps playing on radio stations near me for some reason.

                (Even the piped link gave away the “WqXcQ” in the url)

                I have NewPipe installed, so YouTube links automatically open in that instead.(YouTube must be disabled as default app).That’s the best fix that I know for that issue.

                Also, NewPipe works great because it keeps playing when the screen is off and so, so I highly recommend it if you have issues with Google.

                • raspberriesareyummy@lemmy.world
                  2·
                  7 months ago

                  (Even the piped link gave away the “WqXcQ” in the url)

                  well I was serious, I was basically saying “I never mind if someone rickrolls me, because I’ve been enjoying that song since I first heard it on Vinyl in the 80s” :) so it was a kind of “reverse rickroll” - in that I actually meant to link the song for being good :)

  • Buddahriffic@lemmy.world
    9·
    7 months ago

    It might not even be written yet.

    I don’t know why, but it just seems so weird that you can go back 30 years and no one would have any awareness of a lot of songs that everyone knows today. They were only up to like Mambo Number 2 or Hey I’ll Think About It! Nickelback didn’t yet exist but if they did, they’d be singing to look at this thing they are doing right now, maybe take a photograph.

    Go back 100 years and no one has any awareness of entire genres of music loved by billions today. It was almost an entirely different culture with popular hits like classical music, Take Me Out To The Ballgame, or You Are My Sunshine and other songs that are considered children’s music today.