Greatest Song in Each of My Arbitrary Categories
 

So I'm gonna post some categories and you post the best song, in your opinion, of that category. These are from "all-time", by the way, unless stated otherwise.

Best love song:
Best song from 1969:
Best song that starts with the letter Z:
Best song that falls under the shoegaze genre:
Best song by a band that had only one studio album:
Best song by a post-rock band from the 2000s or later:
Best song by a prog band where the prog band's name can't include a color and must be more than one word*:

*this means no Pink Floyd, no King Crimson, no Moody Blues, no Yes, no Genesis, no Rush, etc.

If enough people do this then I'll create some more silly categories for people to participate in. This is just for a little fun!

Best love song: 18th Floor Balcony - Blue October
Best song from 1969: Gimme Shelter - The Rolling Stones
Best song that starts with the letter "Z": Ziggy Stardust - David Bowie
Best song that falls under the shoegaze genre: New Years - Asobi Seksu (at least i think they're a shoegaze band)
Best song by a band that only had one studio album: I Hope I Didn't Just Give Away the Ending - New Radicals
Best song by a post rock band from the 2000s or later: i don't think i know any. I'm no good at identifying sub genres.
Best song by a prog band: Lifting Shadows Off a Dream - Dream Theater (technically they're prog metal or something but who cares?)

Best love song:
"Our Love is Here to Stay"—George and Ira Gershwin. There's just something so sweet and obviously timeless about this.

Best song from 1969:
"Gimme Shelter"—Rolling Stones. Kind of a safe choice I guess, but it's a great song.

Best song that starts with the letter Z:
"Zombie"—Fela. I'm willing to bet I'm not the only person who is going to nominate this defining afrobeat song here. Great, groovy stuff.

Best song that falls under the shoegaze genre:
"Give Us Moon Rocks!"—The Swirlies. Honestly I don't listen to much shoegaze but I do love this track, even if I think the singer is an asshole.

Best song by a band that had only one studio album:
"Xerox My Hand"—Kill Me Tomorrow. Possibly the best track off of what is probably my favorite album of the 00s. They've released some other things here and there but never another LP unfortunately.

Best song by a post-rock band from the 2000s or later:
"I Want It All"—Trans Am. These guys probably aren't even considered post rock anymore because of how the genre has changed in the past decade, but they were considered post rock back when I started listening to them and this song kicks ass, so there.

Best song by a prog band where the prog band's name can't include a color and must be more than one word*:
Soft Machine—"Facelift". The only prog band I could think of that didn't violate the name rules here. Anyway, this is a pretty good song, though I'm not sure if prog purists would consider it prog or not.

:beer:

par-ty-down?

YES!

Louie Louie, oh no
Me gotta go
Aye-yi-yi-yi, I said
Louie Louie, oh baby
Me gotta go

Best love song:
Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Maps

Best song from 1969:
David Bowie - Space Oddity

Best song that starts with the letter Z:
The Antlers - Zelda

Best song that falls under the shoegaze genre:
Slowdive - Machine Gun

Best song by a band that had only one studio album:
The Sex Pistols - Anarchy in the UK

Best song by a post-rock band from the 2000s or later:
Sigur Ros - Hoppipolla

Best song by a prog band where the prog band's name can't include a color and must be more than one word*:
The Mars Volta - Day of the Baphomets

Best love song:
Etta James - Sunday Kind of Love




Best song from 1969:
David Bowie - Space Oddity




Best song that starts with the letter Z:
Smashing Pumpkins - Zero




Best song that falls under the shoegaze genre:
Swervedriver - Expressway




Best song by a band that had only one studio album:
Joy Division - Twenty Four Hours (I'm putting this in on a technicality as they only released one album before Curtis's suicide)




Best song by a post-rock band from the 2000s or later:
Tortoise - Seneca




Best song by a prog band where the prog band's name can't include a color and must be more than one word*:
Mahavishnu Orchestra - Be Happy (not sure if this falls under prog but oh well)