Which song do you wished you'd have written?

Gassage

i can honestly say my songwriting output is somewhat sparse.

However, if you could have written one or two songs (not for royalty reasons) what would they have been?

My choices:
Don't Dream It's Over- simply the most poignant perfect pop song ever written and when you see Finn perform it live you'll get goosebumps. It's just sublime,

Go Your Own Way- if I were Lindsey, I'd have finished that track and thought fuck me I just created a masterpiece. Simply one of the greatest hooks and harmonies ever written.

What would your choices be?

DiscoStu

Paranoid Android.

And for early retirement purposes, Yesterday.

slacker

honky tonk women and I feel love

Nikko

A Christmas song...purely for royalties.

boogieman

May You Never by John Martyn. Peach of a song, so simple yet so beautiful. 

Purple Rain. Just because. 

stimpsonslostson

Nikko said:

A Christmas song...purely for royalties.

My first thoughts were Jingle Bells, We Will Rock You & We Are The Champions. 

lloyd

To be a smug twat I'm gonna say I'm glad I got the chance to write the songs we did in my last band.

Even if no one else liked them....

Im glad I didnt write any of my favourite songs as no fucker would have got to hear them....

But to play the game some songs start and yeah, I could have done that.

One - U2
UnDer the Bridge - RHCP
School - Nirvana

Any of The Stones Open G juggernaughts

some of them I have written subconsciously then cried when I realised they'd already been written....

Alnico

'Speed of light' or 'The Red and the Black' by Iron Maiden.
Both from the latest album, Book of Souls.

Speed of light is one of the most creative fast rock / metal songs I've ever heard. The format may sound simple on the surface but as it moves through the song the playing becomes more and more,..........well just more ! It's incredible.

The Red and the Black is a heavier song and has much more to it at 13:34 minutes. The hook line is catchy and the guitar work is just non stop. I really wish i could be part of something creative like that. I can't write lyrics to save my life but i can write riffs and songs and to work with someone like Dave Murray or Adrian Smith would have been a dream come true - still would be !

RocknRollDave

There Is A Light That Never Goes Out is the obvious one for me.
I just think it is a wonderfully crafted song. I like the subtlety, and ambiguity of the title. It's not "I LOVE YOU!" or even "I love you and you don't love me!"...and it is all the more powerful for that.


There are more, of course.
The Few by Billy Bragg is a song I'd love to be clever enough to have written. (http://songmeanings.com/songs/view/3530822107858519424/)
I'd also love to be able to capture a moment in time as perfectly as God Save The Queen by the Pistols too.

Ah, there are loads more...I am keenly envious of great songwriters. Or any kind of songwriter, to be honest. Only ever written one song in my life - the one I wrote my other half to propose to her, which did the trick and went down very well...Am a bit loathed to risk breaking my 100% strike rate by writing another song!

axisus

Billy Idol - Man for all seasons. A great song with a ripping Steve Stevens solo

Pink Floyd - Money. No explanation required.

TheBlueWolf

Rooster, Start Me Up and La Grange

ThorpyFX

Bohemian Rhapsody- Queen

Psychosocial- Slipknot

 i wish it could be christmas every day -Wizzard

Gassage

For pure musicianship, I think I'd have to add Stay by David Bowie as being one of the most brilliantly executed funk rock tracks ever....

Of course it helped that he had the astonishingly talented D.A.M. powerhouse rhythm section for the album but hey........

Gassage

TheBlueWolf said:

Rooster, Start Me Up and La Grange

Those three songs really do cover every single possible activity in Midwest America, don't they?

TheBlueWolf

Gassage said:

TheBlueWolf said:

Rooster, Start Me Up and La Grange

Those three songs really do cover every single possible activity in Midwest America, don't they?

Pretty much lol. I'm relocating to Texas so I might as well enjoy the music

CHRISB50

Cinematic Orchestra - To Build a Home

Beautiful song, and with it being rinsed on various ad's / TV shows I'd have a little nest egg too.

joeyowen

Brothers in Arms, just love it!
Estranged by GNR

guitarfishbay

Sad But True
Holy Diver

Because, riffs.

thecolourbox

I Got Plenty of Nuttin' by the Gershwins

Perfect Day by Lou Reed 

EricTheWeary

I'm sure there's loads but True by Spandau Ballet. 

Gassage

@joeyowen

Apparently Mark Ker-Nopfler also once confided (to Snowy White) that he wished he'd written Brothers In Arms too.