What is the greatest song of all time?
Editors Pick Hit
February 2012
Disconnected - Julian Lennon
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This is what people voted as the Greatest Song of All Time...
No Matter What - Badfinger - Dellio Villareal, Espanola, New Mexico
Not Dark Yet - Bob Dylan - Dan Simpson, Northampton, MA
While My Guitar Gently Weeps - The Beatles - Daniel Brault, St-Cesaire, Quebec, Canada
Waterloo Sunset - The Kinks - Bill Cannon, Chicago, IL
Walking All The Way - Todd Sharp - Claude Khouri, Lakewood, Ohio
Imagine - John Lennon - Jose Luis, Mexico
Wish You Were Here - Pink Floyd - Jim Hartley, Prince Edward County, Ontario, Canada
I got a Line on You - Spirit - Sarah Wilde, Boston, MA
Gimme Shelter - Rolling Stones - John Cahoe, Pahoa, Hawaii
Thunder Road - Bruce Springsteen - Frank Sequin, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
Love Me Tender - Elvis Presley - Pat Jacob, Woodland Park, NJ
Tangled up in Blue - Bob Dylan - Scott W. Stahlmann, Ramsey, NJ
Benedictus - Strawbs - Ken Levine, Massachusetts, USA
Harmony - Elton John - Theresa Kuhl, Garnerville, NY
No Matter What - Badfinger - Lilly au Quebec, Canada
Let it Be - The Beatles - K. Horowitz, Woodcliff Lake, NJ
Yesterday - The Beatles - Ray "Highlander" Kanne, Fallon, Nevada
Cumberland Blues - Grateful Dead - Joe Tretola, Yonkers, NY
Fall at your Feet - Crowded House - James Paterson, Sydney, Australia
Funeral for a Friend/Love Lies Bleeding - Elton John - Dave Emilia, Nashville, TN
Love Time - Badfinger - Jeff Aaron, Charlotte, NC
Fotheringay - Fairport Convention - Steven Norrie, Oberhausen, Germany
Crossroads - Cream - Michael Fanselow, Santa Monica, CA
Brothers in Arms - Dire Straits - John Cahill, Sowerby Bridge, Halifax
Layla - Derek & the Dominoes - Donna Grasso, Blauvelt, NY
Editors Suggestions
Nowhere Man - The Beatles
Day After Day - Badfinger
Romeo & Juliet - Dire Straits
Editors Picks 2012
I Can't Take it No More - Super Heavy
Editors Picks 2011
The Gypsy Girl and Me - Dave Stewart
Tell me what you Want - Pajama Club
Uummannaq Song (5 Cold Years) - KT Tunstall
Save My Love - Bruce Springsteen
Rumour has It - Adele
Chateau - The Doobie Brothers
Down by the Water - The Decemberists
Run Back To Your Side - Eric Clapton
The Best Part of the Day - Elton John and
Leon Russell
Central Two-O-Nine - Robert Plant
Editors Picks 2010
There's Still Time - Peter Wolf
Hey Yeah - Steve Miller Band
Walk With You - Ringo Starr featuring Paul McCartney
Rosanne Cash with Bruce Springsteen - Sea of Heartbreak
Editors Picks 2009
Dave Mason with Sheila E - That's Love
Strawbs - Beneath the Angry Sky
Davy Knowles & Back Door Slam - Tear Down the Walls
Luka Bloom - Eastbound Train
Nick Lowe with Chrissy Hynde - People Change
Yusuf - Roadsinger
thenewno2 - Life Off
Bruce Springsteen - Surprise Surprise
Paul McCartney (a.k.a. The Fireman) - Sing the Changes
John Ford - Big Hit in India
Joan Osborne - Sweeter Than the Rest
Sharon Little - Follow that Sound
Mostly Autumn - Tearing at the Faerytale
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Editors Picks 2008
Blackmore's Night - God Save the Keg/Locked within the Crystal Ball
Asia - An Extraordinary Life
Mostly Autumn - Fireside
Gandalf Murphy & the Slambovian Circus of Dreams - Picture
Mudcrutch - Shady Grove
Eagles - Waiting in the Weeds
Paul McCartney - Why So Blue
Ringo Starr - Give it a Try
Ray Davies - One More Time
Editors Picks 2007
Ann Wilson & Elton John - Where to now, St. Peter?
KT Tunstall - Funnyman
Dave Cousins - Never Take Sweets from a Stranger
Paul McCartney - House of Wax
John Fogerty - Long Dark Night
Eagles - Long Road out of Eden
Robert Plant & Alison Krauss - Gone Gone Gone
Graham Parker - I Discovered America
Ian Hunter - Stretch
Joan Osbourne - What becomes of the Broken Hearted? (live)
The Who - It's Not Enough
Jeremy Spencer - Psychic Waste
Sean Lennon - Headlights
Yusuf - Maybe There's a World
Joan Osborne - Shake the Devil
KT Tunstall - Under the Weather
Editors Picks 2006
Willie Nile - Cell Phones Ringing
Paul Weller - Blink and You'll Miss It
Rosanne Cash - Dreams are not my Home
Sid & Susie - Alone Again Or
Bob Dylan - Thunder on the Mountain
Tom Petty - Saving Grace
Bob Seger - Face the Promise
Susan Cowsill - I Know You Know
Jewel - Only One Too
Cheap Trick - Every Night and Every Day
Sammy Hagar - Let Me Take You There
Bruce Springsteen - O Mary don't you weep for Me
See what the readers picked as best of 2005
Editors Picks 2005
Oasis - The Importance of Being Idle
Ringo Starr - Choose Love
Robert Plant - Dancing in Heaven
Hothouse Flowers - Tell Me
Gov't Mule - Simple Man
Joe Cocker - Chain of Fools
U2 - Love and Peace or Else
Mick Jagger and Dave Stewart - Old Habits Die Hard
Heart - Make Me
Crosby-Nash - Don't Dig Here
John Kay - Endless Commercial
Sam Phillips - Draw Man
Strawbs - Cold Steel
Little Feat - Heaven Forsaken
Baby Please don't Go - Aerosmith
Eric Clapton - They're Red Hot
Dave Lambert - The Man I Saw Last Night
Little Feat - Night on the Town
Paul McCartney - For You Blue
Peter Frampton - I'm Back
Allman Brothers Band - Firing Line
Bruce Springsteen - From Small Things
Peter Frampton - Flying Without Wings
Crying out for Love - The Yardbirds
What are You Looking For? - Steve Holley
Dirty Little Secret - Graham Nash
Fleetwood Mac - Say You Will
Wallflowers - See you when I Get There
The Crossroads Band - Free Man
George Harrison - P2 Vatican Blues (Last Saturday Night)
Worlds Apart - Bruce Springsteen & the E Street Band
Nothing but the Wheel - Peter Wolf
Blizzard of Lies - Graham Nash
Heaven Sent - Heather Nova
Hey Joe - Robert Plant
Andy Timmons - Slips Away (Dedicated to George Harrison)
Company of Snakes - Kinda Wish You Would
Fairport Convention - The Crowd
Growing Pain - Peter Wolf
Natalie Merchant - Tell Yourself
Seven Days - London Quireboys
Real World - Peter Green Splinter Group
Horse to Water - George Harrison
Saint Judas - Natalie Merchant
Side - Travis
Matter - Josh Joplin Group
Standing Still - Jewel
Wasteland - Elton John
I just want to Celebrate (Another Day of Living) - Glenn Hughes
People Gotta Love Again - Doobie Brothers
Squeeze Me In - Delbert McClinton
Give It To Me - Gregg Rolie
Testify - John Mayall & Shannon Curfman
Wild Honey - U2
Letters from the Wasteland - Wallflowers
Perfect Day - Collective Soul with Elton John