What’s your all-time favorite song and what about it makes it meaningful to you?

Stevie Ray Vaughan's cover of Little Wing. Nothing makes it meaningful, it just sounds really good to me. Is that a shallow way to appreciate music? Enjoying the intrinsic beauty of music.

Machine Gun by Hendrix/Band of Gypsys. Not only is it possibly the greatest live guitar performance ever, it is a poignant look into the horrors of war. The whole song is dive bombs, explosions, screams and moans of terror all coming out of his soul through the guitar and amp. Absolute mastery of feedback and creativity, the song is largely improvised and is more relevant now than ever, unfortunately. Ultimately it's a message of sonic empathy. Hendrix could really make an emotional tether that connects to the audience so you really feel what he's playing, this is a great example, just insanely epic.

Mine is “breathe me” by Sia. It’s just a masterpiece of a song in my honest opinion and I described exactly how I was feeling when I first heard it. Plus it played at the end of of my favorite tv shows of all time in Six feet Under.

Under Pressure by Queen and David Bowie. I can't really say why. Queen for me is part of the Holy Trinity that includes the Beatles and Led Zeppelin (yes, I'm old). The lyrics really connect with me. I just love it.

Mine is "For the Love of God", by Steve Vai. It is an instrumental song. At the time the song was released, if I'm remembering correctly, he said that it represented his ultimate expression of his love for God. I'm not a religious person, really at all, but when listening to the music, I can hear and feel that it is exactly what he was trying to say. If that makes any sense.

Too many, but I’ll go with Cherish the Day by Sade. Reason: the song title.

Cherub Rock by The Smashing Pumpkins. It's the introduction to best guitar album ever made.

I love to sing and I love songs that are super challenging vocally. Paramore's ["All I Wanted"](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J-i_YUptO7I) is my favorite song, not just for that reason but because it's also so pretty.

My all-time favorite song is a song by my favorite band, Amenra titled [Am Kruez](https://youtu.be/7uebOlXN5jk). Every note to me is perfection, from the bombastic opening riff (the only thing that they've never been able to get just right again live), to when it shifts to the second movement and becomes very melancholic, and just what it builds to. While not entirely featuring their range, it has a lot of what makes me infatuated with their music. By vibes, they could be described as the sound of pain. But in a cathartic sense. This song the scream exiting your body as you finally collapse and can give no more. And when the guest vocalist (another singer I admire) comes in, it's the perfect blend of beauty, pain, love, sacrifice... many things I feel too abstractly to articulate here and now. Lyrically, it's *very* heavy. It's stuff I can connect with at different levels depending on my mood. There's obvious Christian imagery (that's a complicated subject out of the scope of this comment, so I'll leave it at that), but there's also a dimension to it that while It's discussing pain, it's also heralding the end of it. Sometimes it's a pure catharsis, sometimes it's a fantasy about just being able to finally have an end to struggle. Either through victory or death. That sort of gets at it

Walk Away Renee by The Left Banke. The violin melody, particularly during the chorus, is what I imagine it sounds like at the gates of heaven.

Answers from Final Fantasy XIV - not really a "personal" reason, but i find it beautiful how it talks about the meaning of life, what it means to be human, purpose. I find that stuff fascinating. And i think the themes/message of the song are a good way to approach life in general. Because of that, it inspired me to actually write a fantasy story that approaches the same themes, so the song is the literal core/basis of that. Also, gotta mention the song "Flow" from Final Fantasy XIV too. Because these 2 songs are tied together in meaning/themes. Meaning of life + the meaning of death. And it's just beautiful.

Sh-Boom by The Chords

I'll Be There For You vby Bon Jovi, performed live by Richie Sambora. This song means the whole world to me because it marked both my resurrection from a very complicated period and coincidentally made me definitely fell in love with him. He really came when I needed something to hold to and kept me alive. The power of music as a healing force still isn't fully acknowledged!

[*Country Feedback*](https://open.spotify.com/track/2H2V8zM6H5RUg8dXfIhpNf?si=QwcQjFNCSNKlx1oh4zr_Eg) by R.E.M has always been in my top 10 tracks. It's not so much the lyrics (post-breakup blues), but the music. It's the most atmospheric track I've experienced, and that's even considering now with all the advancement music has made. It's a ghost of the death of a relationship, and everything from the warping guitar, to the empassioned vocals, to the slow-yet-relentless rhythm, implies the melancholy is eternal. It's such a beautiful piece.

Lotta contestants but I'll go with Oh Sweet Nuthin by Velvet Underground. Beautiful lyrics, multiple guitar solos that have some kicking ass drums behind them.

Eternal Life by Jeff Buckley, sometimes I can't even listen to it because it makes me so emotional

Since I left you - the avalanches. Someone walked out on me. That song helped me see that my life was just starting. The whole album is great but that first song is my spirt animal.

Led Zeppelin - 71-73 live versions of Dazed And Confused. The frantic guitar, changes at every corner, transition to other songs, tension, release, etc. It’s all there

Maybe this is not a song, but a tune: But; I love Waltz For Debbie.

Rolling stone, The Weeknd. Song was so good I decided to learn how to guitar. I got good and taught classes in college for monies. Best song to cry too as well.