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I have no FAVORITE song of all time, but certain songs which I have loved for at least 10 years.....


God Only Knows - The Beach Boys
Blackbird - The Beatles
Unsatisfied - The Replacements
Surf's Up -The Beach Boys
Because - The Beatles
Here At The Western World - Steely Dan
Song To The Pharaoh Kings - Return To Forever
Koln Part IIc (Memories Of Tomorrow) - Keith Jarrett
Wouldn't It Be Nice - The Beach Boys
Tempted - Squeeze
Lush Life - John Coltrane & Johnny Hartman (written by Billy Strayhorn)
Someone To Watch Over Me - Chick Corea (written by George & Ira Gershwin)
Somewhere - Leonard Bernstein & Stephen Sondheim
Babe I'm Gonna Leave You - Led Zeppelin
Thick As A Brick - Jethro Tull
Lesson In Survival - Joni Mitchell

My favorite classical pieces (i don't consider them songs) would be...
Mahler: Symphony 9
Mahler: Symphony 2
Mahler: Symphony 4
Mahler: Symphony 5
Mahler: Symphony 3
Mahler: Symphony 6
Mahler: Das Lied von der Erde
Liszt: Piano Sonata in B Minor
Schubert: Piano Sonata No. 21 in B-flat Major
Schubert - String Quintet
Brahms - Piano Concerto No. 2
Brahms - Symphony No. 4 (at times, this piece has been my favorite work of all)
Schumann - Piano Concerto

I always looked at it this way....

The human body, and entire nervous system is a series of chemicals, complex chemicals, which are never always the same, and music causes and affects chemicals and chemical reactions therefore no one truly has ONE favorite song. If they did, they would simply listen to that one song and nothing else. It's like food. Your "favorite" food may be a nice juicy steak, but sometimes your body needs a starch or a salad or a fruit and in those moments a steak would do nothing for you.

I could say that Mahler is my favorite musician who ever lived in that his entire output is meaningful to me and has consumed the majority of my listening experiences for many years.

No. 8 is still a great work. I never could get my entire brain around it. Mahler himself once remarked that he felt it was his greatest work, but I think the problem for me lies in the fact that while Mahler's music is always BIG and in the words of Mahler "embraces a world", No. 8 is a very public world, and it feels when I'm listening to it that its author wanted people to love it. In a way I just find it to grandiose. Mahler's music is always large, but it is that sense of private contemplation which I feel works so well in his music. The 2nd Symphony is also very grand, but unlike the 8th I feel somehow that it is still one man telling a story or one composer relating his emotions to you.....the 8th somehow lacks that intimacy for me.

It's great that you enjoyed it. Many people consider it his best... Many people consider it his weakest. It polarizes opinion. I would definitely check out his 9th and his 2nd if you liked the 8th.....and maybe even the Das Lied