If aliens appeared and decreed you can listen to one song, and one song only,

[kairos12]

for the rest of your life. What would you choose? Here's mine:

Here's mine:

[PJMcK]

1. John Cage's 4'33" (n/t)

[LuvLoogie]

2. I would shoot the aliens or infect them with the Spanish flu.

[LuvLoogie]

3. Then I would write a song about it and make them listen to it...

while they died choking on phlegm.

[NNadir]

11. You made me laugh. n/t

[stonecutter357]

4. Danzig's Bound by Blood are Type O Negative - Cinnamon Girl .

[Fozzledick]

5. Shake Some Action by The Flamin' Groovies

[FSogol]

62. That's probably the best choice out of everyone's answers so far. n/t

[lisby]

6. Stairway to Heaven NT

[Heartstrings]

7. That would be mine as well......nt

[TEB]

8. Pets pornos for pyros

[pnwest]

9. Peter Gabriel "Secret World"

[Lochloosa]

10. Stella Blue

[ghostsinthemachine]

45. Dust off those rusty strings, one more time

Gonna make em shine.....

[MedusaX]

12. I would agree to no less than 2:Tom Sawyer-Rush & Salio el Sol - Don Omar

Otherwise they can take their little alien asses over to someone else's house and play dick-tater.
Their choice.

[sarge43]

13. Body and Soul, Benny Goodman, Teddy Wilson, Gene Krupa

[Iggo]

14. Beyond The Realms Of Death -- Judas Priest.

It's got my favorite lead of all time in it.

Turn it up.

If you want to watch the lead being played, check out the first couple of minutes of this video.
The rest of the video is for the curious and adventurous intermediate player.
Give it a shot. There's some real good stuff in there, all up and down the fretboard.
(To be clear, that's NOT me in the video...lol.)

[SCantiGOP]

15. Beethoven's Ninth

For one thing it is almost an hour long. And compared to a pop/rock song....no comparison.

[Iggo]

16. Maybe I should change mine to Shine On You Crazy Diamond then.

[SCantiGOP]

17. Yeah, a 3-4 minute song

Would drive you bonkers in a short time.

[Iggo]

18. There's a 10 or 11 minute song from Opeth...

...that's currently the only song I can start over and listen to again after I've got to the end.

But that's like murder music, and they'd probably have to put me down if I listened to it for days on end.

Wreath -- Opeth

[OregonBlue]

51. I thought of Beethoven too but the Fifth and of course Pink Floyd. I wouldn't be able to choose just

one. Might have a heart attack trying to decide.

[aka-chmeee]

19. Beethoven's 9th or Pink Floyd Atom Heart Mother Suite nt

[NotASurfer]

20. One of the songs from "Mars Attacks!"

The stuff that made their heads explode, Slim Whitman or whatever it was. I have a higher tolerance for yodel-induced brain damage than most aliens.

[Skittles]

21. Like a Hurricane

[earthshine]

22. Aliens? "Take Me Away" by Blue Oyster Cult

If not that one, then I'd choose a super long one to get as much music as possible.

ELP - Karn Evil 9
Rush - Hemispheres
Yes - Close to the Edge

[Major Nikon]

23. This one...

[WinkyDink]

24. My All-Time favorite for 55 years: "SHERRY"!

[MyOwnPeace]

37. Frankie Valli

"Walk like a man, sing like a girl!"

[WinkyDink]

47. You don't get the allure for a female, do you? Read on:

https://mareecunnington.com/2016/01/11/higher-and-higher-falsetto-and-masculinity-in-pop/

Note the terms "hyper-masculine" and "sexually alluring" in the paragraph on the Four Seasons.

http://www.classicbands.com/seasons.html

#1, August, 1962.

[MyOwnPeace]

60. Great article!

Thanks!

(Doesn't make the line any less funny though! )

[LeftInTX]

42. Oh my!!!

I couldn't take it....
Shrillllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllly Bay-yay-by
Shrilly Baby

[WinkyDink]

48. Who asked you? I didn't realize our choices were up for criticism. And educate yourself:

https://mareecunnington.com/2016/01/11/higher-and-higher-falsetto-and-masculinity-in-pop/

Note the terms "hyper-masculine" and "sexually alluring" in the paragraph on the Four Seasons.

http://www.classicbands.com/seasons.html

#1, August 1962.

[MiltonBrown]

52. The happiest I ever saw my mother was when she was ice skating to this song.

[lastlib]

25. SIMPLE solution to this!

Request Paul Anka's "You're Having My Baby"--and make THEM listen to it!

They'll be outa here in five minutes!

[skylucy]

26. LOL! Good one! I agree!

[kairos12]

32. LOL.

[3catwoman3]

40. Yeah, that oughta do it.

Brilliant.

[FM123]

27. Layla, I could listen to Slowhand's guitar riffs forever....

[Binkie The Clown]

28. I'd tell them "I don't accept your terms." n/t

[Hortensis]

30. Join you in the Underground. Boom boxes

and backpacks full of old cassettes.

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[Binkie The Clown]

39. I can see it now: Musical speakeasies run by the mob. Knock twice and tell them Manny sent you. n/t

[50 Shades Of Blue]

29. Starship Jingle

From the incredible Intergalactic Touring Band LP
[link:

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[dubyadiprecession]

31. Elvis with 'suspicious minds'

Then maybe he would appear as the alien leader.

[WePurrsevere]

33. There's only one song I'd enjoy hearing all the time....

and that's the ever changing song of Nature played by the orchestra of the oceans, creeks, thunder, rain, winds, leaves, etc and accompanied by the chorus of purrs, howls, whistles, chirps, neighs, trills, etc of Earth's various creatures great and small.

I love all sorts of music and have my favorites but I don't think that there's any human created song I could listen too all the time, for the rest of my life without going bonkers after a while. Nature's I'm pretty sure I can handle since I enjoy listening to it quite a bit already.

[ghostsinthemachine]

34. Dark Star

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Veneta Oregon 1973. Twenty minutes of crunchy, weird, psychedelic, Grateful Dead.

[Fozzledick]

44. I prefer The Other One

[Lochloosa]

46. Takes 10 minutes to figure out it's a Dark Star show

[Codeine]

35. Coltrane's "Naima", the live version

recorded at the Village Vanguard in 1966. It goes on forever and it's absolute OTT bonkers.

[pansypoo53219]

36. bach's tocatta & fugue. pipe organ.

[MyOwnPeace]

38. Gabriel Faure..........

Sanctus from Requiem:

[farmbo]

41. The Mighty Jupiter!

Mozart's Symphony #41

[LeftInTX]

43. A symphony

I don't know which one....but it would be long and complicated with varying melodies/rhythms etc etc.

[Callmecrazy]

49. Hanson...

[Iggo]

53. About ten years ago, I was eating a sandwich on the patio at The Deli in Rancho Cucamonga...

...when this car full of twenty-something-year-old young ladies pulled up to the red light blasting that song and singing it at the top of their lungs.

To this day that's one of the happiest sights I've ever seen.

[Rustyeye77]

50. Carole King "Beautiful"

[MiltonBrown]

54. Yes Sir!

yowza ha ha ha yowza swing out

[Phentex]

55. Rainbow Connection

someday we'll find it

[jmowreader]

56. There is only one correct answer to this question.

It has GOT to be Slim Whitman's "Indian Love Call."

[kairos12]

57. LOL. Very good.

[Leith]

58. It Would Be a Toss-Up

Between these two pieces:

The Blue Danube Waltz as I saw and heard the entire thing for the first time.

And my nomination for the Song of the 20th Century, Sing Sing Sing, Benny Goodman.

Can I have both?

[wyldwolf]

59. Calling Occupants of Interplanetary Craft

[Mendocino]

61. Edvard Grieg

Piano Concerto in A minor.

[Tikki]

63. This..and I'd spend the rest of my life teaching aliens how to do all the dances in the song.

Tikki