As I wrote in an earlier post, there are so many different angles in how "best song" can be determined. Is it the best ear worm? Most re-listenable? Or is it purely based on taste and mood at the time? That's why the "best song" has changed so frequently in my head, and usually it's more like a tier from a wide variety of influences.
To try and narrow it down, and look past biases. I'm looking at my most played songs from each decade over the last 10+ years (since 2015)... although, none of them are my favourite song from the artist that decade (at least at this time) - but they obviously caught my ear more than others over the past 10 years, and they're generally highly regarded. So maybe one of these is the best of the timeframe?
1960s:
(note, the Beatles song I'd consider the best is A Day in the Life from Sgt Pepper, but this one is also very good. This one is probably my favourite on Abbey Road.)
1970s:
(Note, my favourite 70s song from this album is probably Heaven... hard to say, I change my mind all the time on this band and while it's not considered their best album, it's definitely the one I've listened to the most and Cities was on a bunch of my playlists in the 2010s because of its energy... surprised I don't have any Elvis Costello ranking higher, because I listened to him a lot back then too. CBGB overall was a great scene and the Mecca of NYC New Wave - Talking Heads, Blondie, The Ramones, Misfits, B-52s, Elvis Costello - one of the best in the US along with Compton (West Coast Hip Hop Mecca) and Olympia (the Grunge Mecca).
1980s: Most played song from 1960 to 1989
(Not my favourite NIN song from the 80s, but definitely the most ear-wormy. My favourite NIN from the 80s, and on the same album, Pretty Hate Machine 1989, is "Something I can Never Have"... but I can understand why I play that one less considering it might be the most depressing song of the 1980s...)
Runner Up (it was right under in my overall rankings, so I figure it's close enough to put on here):
(My favourite Phil Collins & Genesis song... not really sure, Invisible Touch is in the top tier with In the Air Tonight, Easy Lover, Sussudio and a few others... really vapid music that I like to listen to. Perhaps this is his best one of that bunch? I'd say most people probably consider In the Air Tonight, and I remember at the time Another Day in Paradise was overplayed a sickening amount on the radio).
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