After an interested debate over whether "Everlong" is one of the greatest songs ever (My vote: yes), I had an epiphany. What makes a song one of the "best ever"? After all, I love hundreds, thousands even of songs from all different genres and time periods. How can they possible be compared to each other?
The simple definition: If a song randomly comes on the radio while driving by myself, there is no way at all I ever turn the station until it's over.
Some songs are great sing along songs and great for party atmospheres (for example Whitesnake). Some songs are great to listen to with the windows rolled down on a nice spring day (for example Santeria). Some are great when you are in a melancholy mood (for example Fake Plastic Trees). The best songs are good in every cause you can possibly think of.
I love "Sweet Home Alabama" and consider it a landmark song, but sometimes I'm just not in the mood to listen to it, or at the very least explore the other channels just to see what's on before coming back to it. No matter what kind of mood I'm in, if I hear "Everlong" or "Thunder Road" on the radio, I'm hooked. That is what for me defines the tag "best songs ever".
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