Conference back40::soapbox

    
    the best pop song of all time is clearly "lonely teardrops" by
    jackie wilson.
    
    just say you will,
    
    say you will..
    
    
    bill

    Was there ever any doubt?
    

    Stand by Me, Ben E. King

    Apparently "I will always love you" by Whitney Houston is the number 1
    seller of all time. It beat out Bryan Adams' "Every thing I do".
    
    ?
    
    
    Annd IIIIIIII EEEEE IIIIIIII will always love Youuuuuuu OOOOOOOOOOOOOO
    
    8-p

    
    "Baby I Need Your Lovin'" 
    
    Levi Stubbs and The Four Tops, 1964

 "In the Midnight Hour"   



         sung by Wilson Pickett

    all of the above and a few more...
    
    
    Sin-te-da

    Mustang Sally

    Bridge over troubled water, its been re-recorded over 200 hundred
    times since it was first performed by Simon & Garfunkel.
    
    joan

    Got carried away, should be two hundred times.
    
    joan

    Mustang Sally -- that wuz on the freebie tape I just got wif my '95
    Stang.  And a helluva stooopid song it iz too.  HTH.
    

    Re: .4
    
    And thus we see illustrated the difference between "best" and "most
    popular."  The public, for the most part, loves pap.

    Tough one. I agree with .1 on Lonely Teardrops. Then again maybe it's
    That Is Why by Jackie Wilson. Other than that Whitney Houston crap, the
    rest are all excellent. Enjoy every one of them anytime I catch them on
    the radio. Two of my favorite albums - Jackie Wilson's Greatest Hits
    and Wilson Pickett's Greatest Hits. Would not trade either for a
    truckload of Whitney or Barry Manistink.

 I love almost anything by Jackie Wilson..


 'nother favorite.."Won't get Fooled Again" by the Who..that song always gets
 me turning the radio up..heard it this afternoon and hope my neighbors didn'
 mind me cranking the thing up a few notches.



Jim

"Happy Birthday to You" is *the* song that has been sung the most times
by the most people in the most places, ever.

HTH,

Art

    Surely what is sung from minarets all over the world whenever it's time
    for Moslems to pray must have been sung more often ?
    
    how many times has "Happy B'day" been sung ?    :-)
    
    Dave
    

    .16
    More than 40 times alone for me.

    Times of Your Life by Paul Anka.  Used to be the bif wedding song

    
    What's a bif wedding?

    Given that "pop" covers a pretty broad spectrum, the greatest pop song
    of all time, based on sales, is Bing Crosby's "White Christmas."

    
    Sittin on the Dock of the Bay - Otis Reading.
    
    jeff

    Chaucer mentions that "Com hider love to me" was riding pretty high in
    the C14th pop charts...

	dick, i have one of those "White Christmas" 78s!

	this is impossible, but i'd have to give "Stardust" a place
	of honor somewhere on the list.

	

| <<< Note 327.4 by POLAR::RICHARDSON "Alleged Degirdification" >>>

| Apparently "I will always love you" by Whitney Houston is the number 1
| seller of all time. It beat out Bryan Adams' "Every thing I do".


	Actually, it had beat out Boyz 2 Men's song, "End of the Road" which
stayed at #1 for 13 weeks. Whitney went 14. Bryan Adams went 6 weeks. Hope this 
helps. :-)

    
    Some times I wonder why I spend the lonely nights
    Dreaming of a song
    The melody haunts my reverie
    And I am once again with you
    When our love was new
    And each kiss an inspiration
    But that was long ago
    Now my consolation
    Lies in the stardust of a song
    
    Beside a garden wall when stars are bright
    You are in my arms
    The nightingale tells a fairytale
    of paradise where roses bloom
    Though I dream in vain
    In my heart it will remain
    My stardust melody
    The memory of love's refrain.
                                 

| <<< Note 327.19 by POWDML::LAUER "Little Chamber of Fuzzy Faces" >>>


| What's a bif wedding?


	It's a wedding where punches are thrown. Remember the old Batman
series!!!??? Bif was used everytime someone got hit!

	I would have to say, "I love you", by the Climax Blues Band.

	.25  ;>  thank you, mz deb.  that "sometimes I wonder" opening
	gives me a chill every time.  beautiful.

    
    I'd be inclined to give Unchained Melody (by the Isley Bros, I
    think) a spot on the list... although I doubt I could name
    any single pop song that was "the greatest".
    
    What does "the greatest" mean anyway? Especially, in pop music!
    
    -b

    I thought it was sung by the Righteous Brothers!  Actually, I was
    considering that one too!
    
    -Jack

	Jack Martin is correct. Never thought I would say that, but well, when
he's right..... :-)

 I'm not certain, but I believe the song goes back a bit farther than
 the Righteous Brothers.




 Jim

 .32 methinks you are correct, sir.

    
    
    Delta Dawn
    

    
    Yes, it was the Righteous Bros, and yes, this is part of a
    long string of musical CRI that I seem to be suffering
    from lately, beginning with Gene Loves Jezebel, and going
    downhill from there. :-)
    
    I had the Brothers part right anyway. :-)
    
    -b

Probably the best pop songs are anything by the Beatles.  Or the Sex Pistols.

Chris.

    re: .23
    
    What's a 78?  ;^)

    Unforgettable	Nat King Cole
    Unforgettable	Natalie & Nat Cole
    
    

    
>>    What's a 78?  ;^)

	Hohoha, etc. ;>  I should, at this juncture, explain that I bought
	a 1923 Victrola several years ago, and the guy threw in a whole
	lot of 78s (amazingly enough without breaking a single one).
	The one I prize most is Artie Shaw doing "Begin the Beguine".
	Superb.

    
    My mother has a Victrola and a plethora of 78s.  The only problem is
    you have to keep winding the darn thing 8^).

    I think I read somewhere, once, that "Yesterday" by the Beatles is the
    most "covered" pop song of all time.  But, is it the Best?!  If not,
    some other song by the Beatles must be.....

    >	Hohoha, etc. ;>  I should, at this juncture, explain that I bought
    >	a 1923 Victrola several years ago, and the guy threw in a whole
    >	lot of 78s (amazingly enough without breaking a single one).
    >	The one I prize most is Artie Shaw doing "Begin the Beguine".
    >	Superb.
    
    Well, the stuff between 1000Hz and 3000Hz is probably the most
    interesting part anyway... :-)
    
    -b

      I don't know whats the best, but the 1st one I thought of
      was Unchained Melody.
    
      I'd like to offer up another one I very much like only because
      its just a tad obscure.
    
      "If I Could Reach You"      5th Dimension
    
      But, really, there's so many.
    
                                                    Tony

	"Twilight Time" is up there too.  

 Ooh..I love that song (Twilight Time)

    
    Das Fliegerlied 
    	by Extrabreit (not Hans Albers)
    
    used to be a party booster back in NDW times.
    
    Heiko

    Isn't "Stairway To Heaven" the most played song? I guess it wouldn't be
    considered pop though.
    
    I know I really got sick of it.

    Itsy Bitsy Teeny Weeny Yellow Polkadot Bikini

 Palisades Park by Freddie "boom boom" Cannon

    
    Will you still love me tomorrow ?  Carole King and others.
    
    Under the Boardwalk, Sam Cooke and others.
    
    And many more nominees...
    
       bb

    My personal one is "Stand by Me" by Benny King.

Since we're discussing tunes like Stardust and Twilight Time, might I 
mention Memories?

    
    
    Two of my favorites have always been "The way we were"
    and "The Entertainer".
    
    
    Terrie
    

    
>    Under the Boardwalk, Sam Cooke and others.
 

     I don't recall Sam Cooke recording this one, but the Drifters had the
     big hit.


     Jim


   
    

>    My personal one is "Stand by Me" by Benny King.



    Ben E. King

    .56
    Yea, him too. :')

    I'm Almost Over You
    Here You Come Again
                       

I Heard It Through The Grapevine

(Several artists)

    
    "Mack the Knife"  Bobby Darin
    "My Way"  Sinatra  (I hate this song!)
    
    jeff

	Somehow it makes sense for you to put a song in you hate as one of the
best. 

	Lady Di..... what happened to your note????

    
>>    "Mack the Knife"  Bobby Darin

	That's a good one.  Not only because of his interpretation of it,
	which is just perfection, but also it has to be one of the best
	sets of lyrics around.  "Glow-worm"'s another one with great lyrics,
	as is "Twilight Time", and well, then there's always Cole Porter.

 Bobby Darin's Mack the Knife was great..'nother one by Bobby Darin that
 I loved was "Somewhere, Beyond the Sea"



 Jim

    
    <-- Um...wasn't that Frank Sinatra?  Or did both of them do it?

 Frank Sinatra may have done it, but Bobby Darin had the "hit" with it..



 Jim

    
    Hey ya'll, how's about
    
    	In Your Eyes               Peter Gabriel
    
    	Woman In Chains            Tears For Fears
    
    just my .02
    
    /steve

Over the Rainbow

    ZZ        In Your Eyes               Peter Gabriel
    
    I though this was sung by Peabo Bryson...
    
    In your eyes.....I can see loves true reflection...etc.

    Peter Gabriel. On the album So. With Youssou N'Dour doing backing
    vocals.
    
    This song has special significance to me that I won't go into.
    
    -b

    P.S. you're thinking of another song Jack...
    
    Peter Gabriel's "In Your Eyes":
    
    in your eyes, the light the heat
    in your eyes, I am complete
    in your eyes, I see the doorway
    to a thousand churches...
    
    -b

    Louie, Louie by the Kingsmen
    
    There was an article in the Wall St. Journal a couple of years ago that
    claimed that more versions of Louie, Louie had been recorded than any
    other Rock song

Must be cuz no one has discovered the REAL lyrics yet . . . 

    If were talking staying power, how about Greensleeves, it first
    turned up in Britain in 1300 as as a love song, we were taught it in school
    in the 40s as a folk song and you can here the melody every christmas 
    in America as a carol, with new words of-course. I have also heard the
    tune over the years as background music in movies and on TV.
    
    joan

re: my .53

Pardon a misnomer. The song I meant to tout was Memories of You, not Memories.

And while we're at it, Cherokee ain't half bad, but I don't know that I've ever
heard any lyrics for it . . . 

    Wasn't it "Memories..." that Ren was quoting when he discovered the
    dear departed Stimpy's hairball, and dissolved in tears?  Ah do bleev so.
    

You have me at a distinct disadvantage, sir, as I've never seen the
cartoon characters in question . . . 

    
    
         Anything the Eagles ever recorded....
    
    

    <------- 
    

  How true!

  How wonderfully true!

  How wonderfully , bubblingly , frothingly , burstingly true!

  What a truly ecstasy inducingly correct observation!
    

    re .74
    
    Greensleeves isn't a pop song, it's a rugby song ! How d'you think the
    lady got her sleeves green ? She wasn't vertical, I can tell you !

    i always liked "I Can't Find The Time To Tell You" by Orpheus...
    
    Chip

| <<< Note 327.76 by LJSRV2::KALIKOW "TechnoCatalyst" >>>


| Wasn't it "Memories..." that Ren was quoting when he discovered the
| dear departed Stimpy's hairball, and dissolved in tears?  Ah do bleev so.

	YES! You ARE correct! They had used that many times together too. It
was the source of my personal name in notes right before the one I have now.


Glen

| <<< Note 327.78 by SWAM1::KAWA_MI >>>



| Anything the Eagles ever recorded....


	with the exception of Hotel California (the song, not the album)

    
    
    
    "You light up my Life" by Debbie Boone.
    
    Really, this song just brings tears to my eyes every time I play it,
    (every payday for example). 
    
    I've never heard anything better although YMCA by the Village people
    is very close.
    
    Now, whats the number of EAP anyhow?

    Hows about "The Sun Will come Out Tomorrow" from Annie. Always gets me
    going in a positive approch to life.

    I love Hotel California, the song and the album.

| <<< Note 327.85 by MAIL2::CRANE >>>

| Hows about "The Sun Will come Out Tomorrow" from Annie. Always gets me
| going in a positive approch to life.

	In Serial Mom they did something very good with this song. :-)

| <<< Note 327.86 by POLAR::RICHARDSON "Alleged Degirdification" >>>

| I love Hotel California, the song and the album.

	We know, you're Canadian... you have an excuse.... :-)

	Actually, I guess that almost everytime I hear an Eagle's song, it's
that. I mean, "New Kid in Town" was a number one hit too, and ya hardly ever
hear that!


Glen

    Downtown by Petulla Clark!

    I rather like "Fragile" by Sting.  At least I think that's the right
    name.  (I should know this, it's on his latest rehash CD that I play so
    often)
    
    Of course, it's not well played on radio, so I guess it doesn't count.

    .89
    Not if you live in Manhattan!

    Yours is no Disgrace

	anything by the Lovin Spoonful
	
	Summer in the city, did you ever hafta make up your mind,
	nashville cats, 
	
	;-)

    
    
    	I like too much music....I could never pick just one
    	song!
    

    "One Love" - Bob Marley & the Wailers

 RE: Lovin Spoonful...they had song called "you and me and rain on the 
 roof" that was "our song" to an old flame and I..





Jim

    
    Moonlight Seranade  Glenn Miller Band
    Moon River Andy Williams

	Moonlight Feels Right- Starbuck

 Back Home Again, by John Denver..lotta memories in that one..





Jim

 Best Snarf of all time

    Fragle Rock - That fantastic song they used to sing !!! Bloody great
    piece of music.

    Put your blues away,
    and save it for a rainy day,
    let the music play
    down at Fraggle Rock...

    You forgot the clapping !! :*)
    
    Put your blues away - clap clap 

    You're a loonie.

    	Sympathy for the Devil (Stones) gets my vote.
    
    								S.R.

    re .104
    
    Well at least I'm only 'a' loonie !!! :*)

 Redneck Friend....Jackson Brown(e?)




 "Well, she's a missin' link, the kitchen sink, 11 on a scale of 10"

    
    The Devil went down to Georgia,
    He was lookin' for a soul to steal.
    He was in a bind 'cuz he was way behind,
    He was willin' to make a deal.
    
    When he came upon this young boy 
    Sawin' on the fiddle and playin' it hot,
    And the devil jumped up on a hicory stump
    and said 'boy, let me tell you what...'
    
    'I guess you didn't know it,
    But I'm a fiddle player too,
    And if you'd care to take a dare,
    I'll make a bet with you.
    
    Now you play pretty good fiddle boy,
    But give the devil his due,
    I'll bet a fiddle of gold against your soul
    'Cuz I think I'm better than you.'
    
    Well, the boy said 'My name's Jonny,
    and it might be a sin,
    But I'll take your bet, you're gonna regret,
    'Cuz I'm the best there's ever been.'
    
    I *love* that song!!!!
    
    Terrie
    

    Ms. Franklin did a nice one about a pink cadilac but can`t remember
    the title.

    
    hickory

    
    tanks
    

    
    
    	Would believe someone idiot let Guns and Roses remake that
    	song?!  Horrible is an understatement.  "Interview with the
    	Vampire" was an excellent flick except for the last ten minutes.
    	They played that horrible remake while Christian Slater is running
    	a classic Mustang convertible along the side of some jersey
    	barriers......  sacrilege I tell ya!
    
    	JJ

		Dancing Fool    by    Frank Zappa



and especially for those of you on a particular side of the pond


		Bobby Brown     from the same album 'Sheik Yarboti'

    It's impossible to pick the "best", or even my "favorite", but
    the Beatles' cover of "Long Tall Sally" usually manages to bring
    some oxygenated blood into my brain better than most songs, so
    I'll go with that one for now.
    
    Chris

    >and especially for those of you on a particular side of the pond


    >		Bobby Brown     from the same album 'Sheik Yarboti'
    
    "Flakes" is better. But Bobby Brown does have its charm:
    
    "Gonna ram it, ram it, ram it,
    ram it up your poop shoot (corn hole)...
    ...
    Sir Richard Pump a Loaf!"
    
    (I know, some of you are _real_ charmed at this point :-)
    
    -b

    Voices carry - Gang Green
    
    Peter

    Is that the same song that Til Tuesday made popular?

    Why yes it is, given a bit rougher edge by the GG boys.
    Peter

    	re .115
    
    	I thought that was, "Broken Hearts..." 

    Hmmmm... you might be right, the two songs are together on the album.
    
    I do remember another part though:
    
    	I got a job doing radio promo
    	and none of the other jocks
        even know I'm a homo
    
    -b

    
    Keeper For Every Flame
    
    Stones In The Road
    

    
    
    The Logical Song  By Supertramp
    
    Always been one of my favorites.
    
    
    Terrie
    

    >The Logical Song  By Supertramp
    
    A band with a lot of great songs; one of my all-time favorite
    bands. They put on an excellent concert too.
    
    -

    >The Logical Song  By Supertramp

	I abhor that song.  

	There - I said it.

    
    Oh well.
    

    I prefer the intro to the "bloody well right" song, myself.

    
    >I prefer the intro to the "bloody well right" song, myself.
    
    Excellent piano solo by Ray Davies that. Used to play it
    in a cover band, some 17 or 18 years ago.
    
    =b

    "Teenage Kicks" by the Undertones.
    

    "Message to you, Rudy" - The Specials
    Peter

    
    California Dreamin' - The Mommas and Poppas

      The one album that was my single favorite for the longest
      time was Supertramp 'Crime of the Century.'  Funny, but Bloody
      Well Right was my least favorite song on the album (not that
      I didn't like it though).
    
      But, I much preferred School, Dreamer, Rudy, Hide In Your Shell,
      If Everyone Was Listening You Know, Asylum
    
      Part of Rudy (paraphrase!)
    
      "Rudy's on a train to no where
      Halfway down the line
      He doesn't want to get there,
      But he needs time
    
      He needs time, he needs time
      He needs time just for living
      He needs time, he needs time
      For someone just to see him
    
      Its not just because he's fat
      No there's more to it than that, etc.
    
    
      It was also a really fine album so far as sound quality is concerned.
      It was the second master recording I know of.  Steely Dan Katy Lied
      (now THERE'S a good song!) being the first.
    
      I also liked Crisis What Crisis and Even In The Quietest Moments more
      than Breakfast In America (which was when they got big).
    
      I liked Crime of The Century longest, but later on, I preferred
      throwing on the Dead and hearing especially one side of Europe 72.  The
      side with Jack Straw, China Cat Sunflower, I Know You Rider - wow
      what a side!  I also loved Little Feat and especially liked 'Time
      Loves A Hero' and 'Fat Man In The Bathtub' off of Waiting for
      Columbus.
      
      Besides those two, it was Neil Young (even though I admit A Man Needs
      A Maid is pathetic) and Beatles.  But, man the words to Thrasher -
      wow!  Comes A Time and accoustic side of Rust Never Sleeps are
      beautiful.
    
      But, come to think of it, my all time favorite album is Cat Stevens
      'Tea For The Tillerman.'  From Where Do The Children Play, to Father
      to Son, to Longer Boats, Lisa Lisa, Into White - what a brilliant 
      album!!!
    
    							Tony

    Tony,
    
    I agree with almost everything you said. I could easily live
    without the Dead (and, in fact, do), but other than that,
    spot on!
    
    When Supertramp did Rudy live, they used to show a film
    that was made with a camera mounted on the front of a train.
    It was very cool, especially when it passed another train
    going in the opposite direction...
    
    -b

    
    "Subdivisions" Rush
    "Limelight"    Rush

    re: -1 cossack!
    
     At least pick one of their better tunes!

    
    Howzabout "Take Off" 8^)?

                        The Thrasher

  They were hiding behind hay bales.
  They were planting in the full moon.
  They had given all they had for something new.

  But the light of day was on them.
  They could see the thrashers coming.
  And the water shown like diamonds in the dew.

  And I was just getting up.
  Hit the road before it's light.
  Trying to catch an hour on the sun.

  When I saw those thrashers rolling by
  looking more than two lanes wide.
  I was feeling like my day had just begun.

  Where the eagle glides descending
  there's an ancient river bending
  through the timeless gorge of changes
  where sleeplessness awaits.

  I searched out my companions
  who were lost in crystal canyons
  when the aimless blade of science slashed the pearly gates.

  It was then that I knew I'd had enough.
  Burned my credit card for fuel.
  Headed out to where the pavement turns to sand.

  With a one way ticket to the land of truth
  and my suitcase in my hand.
  How I lost my friends I still don't understand.

  They had the best selection.
  They were poisoned with protection.
  There was nothing that they needed;
  nothing left to find.

  They were lost in rock formations
  or became park bench mutations.
  On the sidewalks and in the stations
  they were waiting, waiting...

  So I got bored and left them there.
  They were just dead weight to me.
  Better down the road without that load.

  Brings back the time when I was eight or nine.
  I was watching my mama's TV.
  It was that great Grand Canyon rescue episode.

  Where the vulture glides descending
  on an asphalt highway bending
  through libraries and museums,
  galaxies and stars.

  Down the windy halls of friendship
  through the roseclip by the bullwhip
  the motel of lost companions
  waits with heated pool and bar.

  But me I'm not stopping there.
  Got my own road left to hoe.
  Just another line in the field of time.

  When the thrasher comes, I'll be stuck in the sun
  like the dinosaurs in shrines.
  But I'll know the time has come to give what's mine.

    <----p/n
    
    Where's your proof ! :*)

    I heard "Eminence Front" by The Who as I was driving home
    tonight.  I do love that song, at window-shaking volume,
    on the car stereo.
    

    Here is a few
    
    1, Midnight Train to Georrgia        Aretha Franklin
    2, You Can't kill rock and roll      Ozzy Ozbourne
    3, The Song is over                  The Who
    4, Smoke gets in your eyes           The Platters
    5, One Step Up   			 Bruce Springsteen
    
    
    

>    Here is a few
          are   


  >  1, Midnight Train to Georrgia        Aretha Franklin
   
       Assuming you mean Georgia, this song was done by Gladys Knight and the
       Pips.


  Jim

     
    

    yes it was...
    
    Take me home country roads!

 Back Home Again, by John Denver



 Jim

    
    
       Whiter Shade of Pale    -    Procol Harum
    
          From their first album. Incredibly underrated group.
          Should have been up there with the greats.
    
          It's a shame most of there 11+ albums will never be
          released on CD's.

                   Don't leave me this way - Thelma Houston
                   Turn the Beat around    - Vicky Sue Robinson
                   It's raining men        - ?
                   Best of my love         - The Emotions

    
    
    	It's Raining Men was by the WeatherGirls.....heard it
    	this morning on the radio even....  =)
    

	You heard it on Kiss 108, right? :-)

	The weathergirls???? were they around in the 70's?? I thought it was
done then.... oh well.... I gotta get all of those records/cd's....

    
    
    	Yup.... I have to start the morning off with Matty.  =)
    
    	I think it was early 80's....
    

    Nights in White Satin by Justin Hayward 
    
    Fab

    Tuesday Afternoon - same group
    
    ME

    Hey Jude - other group
    

>    Tuesday Afternoon - same group

	The song was actually titled: 
	_The Afternoon: Forever Afternoon (Tuesday?)_
	
	Jay

    
    those syrupy songs by the Association 

	<-- like:
	
	Cherish is the word I use to descrriiiIIiiiIIiiiIiibe
	all the feelings ... blah blah bla blah.... deep insiiiIiIiIde

    Oh.... And they all sing flat. It's terrible.

    
    one thing i can't do is sing flat...
    
    
    

    Argh, how did I forget this song:
    
    "Dawn", by the Four Seasons.  Has a very interesting structure
    for a "pop" song (including a "prelude" of sorts), lots of neat
    harmonies, unexpected twists and turns, great lyrics telling a
    sad story of class struggle and self sacrifice, interesting
    instruments, a unique sound, and still has a beat and is danceable
    (that was an important factor in the early 1960's).
    
    A very advanced song for its time, IMHO.  If the Beatles hadn't
    come along, this would probably be my favorite song (or a close
    tie with "Heat Wave").  The Four Seasons were great in their day
    ("Candy Girl" by them is another musically interesting song...).
    
    Chris

 
I've always liked that tune myself, though it brings back memories of the
appendectomy I had way back when..we were on the way to the hospital when
it came on...

    
    
    Yup, Dawn was a killer song.  Frankie and the Seasons have some great
    harmonies.  I'm going to have to dig their greates hits tape out
    again.......
    
    
    
    Mike

    I could never just pick one song as "best", however one of the best for
    me is "Where the Streets Have No Name" by U2.  It's a great driving
    song - can't help blasting the radio and trying to sing along (even if
    I can't make out most of Bono's lyrics)  In fact "The Joshua Tree"
    album has a few songs that would make my list of favs.

    Paranoid - Black Sabbath
    Ace of Spades - Motorhead
    God Save the Queen - Sex Pistols
    Teenage Kicks - The Undertones
    Happy Hour - The Housemartins
    Come on up and make me smile (??) - Steve Harley and Cockney Rebel
    
    Oh dear. What a rather motley collection of favourite pop songs.
    
    

    Well, the Black Sabbath gets my vote.