• starman2112@sh.itjust.works
    47·
    6 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

  • s38b35M5@lemmy.worldEnglish
    18·
    6 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·
    6 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·
    6 months ago

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

  • bstix@feddit.dk
    10·
    6 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·
      6 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·
        6 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·
          6 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·
            6 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·
              6 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·
                6 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·
                  6 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 :)

  • 404@lemmy.zip
    9·
    6 months ago

    The best songs we’ve ever heard are the ones we listened to as teenagers. You’ll never get a dopamine rush like that again.

    https://slate.com/technology/2014/08/musical-nostalgia-the-psychology-and-neuroscience-for-song-preference-and-the-reminiscence-bump.html

    Brain imaging studies show that our favorite songs stimulate the brain’s pleasure circuit, which releases an influx of dopamine, serotonin, oxytocin, and other neurochemicals that make us feel good. The more we like a song, the more we get treated to neurochemical bliss, flooding our brains with some of the same neurotransmitters that cocaine chases after.

    Music lights these sparks of neural activity in everybody. But in young people, the spark turns into a fireworks show. Between the ages of 12 and 22, our brains undergo rapid neurological development—and the music we love during that decade seems to get wired into our lobes for good.

    • Tippon@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
      7·
      6 months ago

      I disagree. When I was a teenager, I loved Green Day, Nirvana, The Offspring, and The Sex Pistols. I went through a heavy phase in my early 20s.

      While I still like those artists and songs, there are other bands and songs that I like more now. (The Rumjacks are a great band if anyone’s looking for something new).

      The music I listened to when I was in my teens and early 20s will always be special to me, and shaped my tastes, but now that I’m in my 40s, my life is vastly different to how it was back then, and other songs speak to me more now than those songs do.

      • 404@lemmy.zip
        3·
        6 months ago

        Interesting. What did you listen to in your 30’s? Do you remember it as vividly as you do the music you listened to in your teenage years? Can you sing along the same way? How will the music you listen to now compare when you’re in your 50’s?

        Not saying the music is objectively better or suitable for all points in life. Just pointing to studies saying teenagers have a huge emotional response to music. IIRC there have been studies showing dementia patients kind of wake up when you start playing music they listened to in their teens.

        It’s “better = more suitable here and now” vs “better = more impactful” I guess.

      • MrBusiness@lemmy.zipEnglish
        2·
        6 months ago

        I agree with you. Back then my preference was pretty narrow, but I still love most of what I listened to. Now there’s something in almost every genre that I really like.

      • AA5B@lemmy.world
        1·
        6 months ago

        The Rumjacks are a great band if anyone’s looking for something new

        Holy crap, that’s not Green Day. I don’t know if those first few seconds were representative but really not my interests.

  • Buddahriffic@lemmy.world
    9·
    6 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.