OFFICIAL "BEST SONG EVER" POLL

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These are the first twenty songs that turn up on a Google search for "is the best song ever". Maybe we can finally answer this question once and for all.

Poll Results

Option	Votes
4'33 by John Cage	13
God Only Knows by the Beach Boys	10
Bohemian Rhapsody by Queen	6
Don't Stop Believing by Journey	5
Chocolate Rain by Tay Zonday	4
Mack the Knife by Bobby Darrin	4
Born to Run by Bruce Springsteen	4
Rock the Casbah by The Clash	2
Amazing Grace (Traditional)	2
Heartbreak Hotel by Elvis Presley	1
Cry by Faith Hill	1
Ditty by Paperboy	1
Jezebel by The	1
Baby Girl by Sugarl	0
America the Beautiful by Katharine Lee Bates	0
Imagine by John Le	0
Mahmoud by Andy Samberg	0
Sway by Michael Buble	0
I Was The Sword by Funeral Diner	0

― Dom Passantino, Tuesday, 9 October 2007 08:50 (seventeen years ago)

Voted for Journey, obv.

― Dom Passantino, Tuesday, 9 October 2007 08:50 (seventeen years ago)

haha, it came down to a choice b/w journey & queen for me. i picked "bohemian rhapsody."

― Eisbaer, Tuesday, 9 October 2007 08:53 (seventeen years ago)

"Bohemian Rhapsody" is at least the best single ever, and the other ones I like better are so long and complex they hardly count as songs, so I voted for that one.

― Geir Hongro, Tuesday, 9 October 2007 08:57 (seventeen years ago)

Btw. the list included under "Bohemian Rhapsody" is probably a more representative selection of nominees :)

― Geir Hongro, Tuesday, 9 October 2007 08:58 (seventeen years ago)

A hard choice between "Sway" and "Mack the Knife" as songs, but since I don't who Michael Buble is, I'll have to go for the latter.

― Tuomas, Tuesday, 9 October 2007 10:03 (seventeen years ago)

Also, it's Bobby Darin with one r.

― Tuomas, Tuesday, 9 October 2007 10:07 (seventeen years ago)

If this poll would've íncluded Dean Martin's version of "Sway" and Louie Armstrong's version of "Mack the Knife" I would've had a really hard time choosing between them, since they really are the best versions of two of the best songs ever.

― Tuomas, Tuesday, 9 October 2007 10:11 (seventeen years ago)

no axel f?

wtf

― max r, Tuesday, 9 October 2007 10:13 (seventeen years ago)

Clash

― blueski, Tuesday, 9 October 2007 10:32 (seventeen years ago)

God Only Knows

― zeus, Tuesday, 9 October 2007 10:35 (seventeen years ago)

gotta be the zonday.

― Frogman Henry, Tuesday, 9 October 2007 10:37 (seventeen years ago)

M/A/R/R/S

― wanko ergo sum, Tuesday, 9 October 2007 12:03 (seventeen years ago)

Faith Hill

― Alex in Baltimore, Tuesday, 9 October 2007 13:23 (seventeen years ago)

Clash. I'm still trying to pinpoint the moment in history when those Journey and Queen songs (which is to say, all Journey and Queen songs) crossed over from kitchy jokes to records that are praised unironically.

― Sara Sara Sara, Tuesday, 9 October 2007 13:37 (seventeen years ago)

Family Guy, Wayne's World, respectively.

― Dom Passantino, Tuesday, 9 October 2007 13:42 (seventeen years ago)

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

― ILX System, Tuesday, 9 October 2007 23:01 (seventeen years ago)

The answer is 'He's So Shy' by the Pointer Sisters.

― calstars, Tuesday, 9 October 2007 23:02 (seventeen years ago)

god only knows will win

― Zeno, Tuesday, 9 October 2007 23:06 (seventeen years ago)

Jezebal by the drones - talking about obscurity..

― Zeno, Tuesday, 9 October 2007 23:12 (seventeen years ago)

Common sense tells me 'God Only Knows', but sometimes I just get carried away by ILM's Journey love. 'Don't Stop Believing' it is then.

― Phil Will, Wednesday, 10 October 2007 10:06 (seventeen years ago)

4'33 because I refuse to take this poll seriously.

― John Justen, Wednesday, 10 October 2007 15:28 (seventeen years ago)

Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.

― ILX System, Wednesday, 10 October 2007 23:01 (seventeen years ago)

YES

― John Justen, Wednesday, 10 October 2007 23:02 (seventeen years ago)

The system works.

― John Justen, Wednesday, 10 October 2007 23:03 (seventeen years ago)

Well, that's that one solved then.

― Dom Passantino, Wednesday, 10 October 2007 23:12 (seventeen years ago)

eagerly awaiting best album poll, after which we can close ILM.

― John Justen, Wednesday, 10 October 2007 23:13 (seventeen years ago)

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