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20 best songs from a plethora of musical ear-candies.

Music is the expression of a pure heart and creativity at its best. Nothing seeps down deep in heart as best as music. It has been enthralling many enthusiasts from times immemorial and I present to you the compilation of 20 best songs of all times, from the enthralling world of music. Listen to the melodious songs and sing along with the help of the lyrics provided. If you are further interested, I offer to you other famous songs by the same artists and for the true aficionados, the biographies of the artists are also complied. Listen to the riveting songs and linger in the resulting trance.

All Time Hit Songs

Purple Haze by Jimi Hendrix

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'Purple Haze' by Jimi Hendrix
Album: Are You Experienced?
Released: 1967
US Chart: 65    
UK Chart: 3
Q magazine ranked "Purple Haze" at number one in its list of the 100 Greatest Guitar Tracks
#17 in the list of "500 Greatest Songs of All Time.
#17 on Australian music TV channel- MAX in 2008 countdown Rock Songs: Top 100

 

Lyrics of Purple Haze

Purple haze all in my brain
lately things don't seem the same
Acting funny and i don't know why
excuse me while i kiss the sky

Purple haze all around
don't know if I'm going up or down
am i happy or in misery?
whatever at is a girl put a spell on me

Purple haze all in my eyes
don't know if it's day or night
you've got me blowin', blowin' my mind
is it tomorrow or just the end of time

help me, help me
i don't know
cant go on like this

blow my mind

 

Other Famous Songs

Other Famous songs of the Artist

Song: All Along The Watchtower
Album: Electric Ladyland
Year: 1968

Song: Burning Of The Midnight Lamp
Album: Electric Ladyland
Year: 1968

Song: Dolly Dagger
Album: Experience Hendrix
Year: 1970

Song: Hey Joe
Album: Are You Experienced
Year: 1966

Song: Gypsy Eyes
Album: Electric Ladyland
Year: 1968

Song: Foxy Lady
Album: Are You Experienced
Year: 1967

Song: The Wind Cries Mary
Album: Are You Experienced
Year: 1967

Song: Stone Free
Album: Smash Hits
Year: 1966

Song: Stepping Stone
Album: Cry Of Love
Year: 1970

Song: She’s So Fine
Album: Bold As Love
Year: 1967

Artist Biography

Jimi Hendrix

James Marshall well-known as Jimi Hendrix was an American guitarist, singer and songwriter. He pioneered the volatile possibilities of the electric guitar and was broadly identified as one of the most creative and significant instrumentalist of 20th century. A new form of music was created by him with the help of his ground-breaking style of merging fuzz, criticism and restricted distortion. Inspite of the fact that, he was not able to read and write music his melodious language persists to influence a host of contemporary musicians.

In 1963 after leaving military, Hendrix practiced his music. He worked as a session musician and playing endorsement for other performers. Hendrix was first noticed by audiences in his emergence on the ‘Testify’ in 1964 with The Isley Brothers. In 1966 he formed his own band, The Blue Flame which performed at several places in New York. Then he formed another band, The Jimi Hendrix Experience, first release of which was seen in 1967, the group’s debut US album-Are You Experienced? “Purple Haze”, which is often quoted as greatest song of Jimi Hendrix and which was formerly released as a single appeared in this album. The song is identified by many as Hendrix’s signature song. Followed shortly by “Purple Haze”, their single, "Hey Joe," reached Number Six on the U.K. chart in 1967.Hendrix’s next album- Axis: Bold as Love was also released in the same year. It was with it where he first experimented with format of using much panning and other hi-fi effects. His third double album released in 1968 was ‘Electric Ladyland’ which comprised many memorable compositions and arrangements of Hendrix.

In 1969, there was a fall in relationship with his band mates which went together with his escalating musical prospect with eventually resulted in their breakup. However in the same year he formed one more new band, Gypsy Suns and Rainbows in order to play the Woodstock festival. On the contrary, the band was transient after which Jimi again formed the next band, Band of Gypsys. The group later performed four unforgettable concerts on New Year’s Eve 1969-70 and was recognized as one of the concerts which included Hendrix's best live concerts. He nevertheless gave his last performance in UK at the Isle of Wight Festival where he also expressed his unhappiness at his fans’ loud outcry to hear his old hits rather than his new ones.

Hendrix was honored with many awards after his demise. Most of them were the most high-status rock music awards which included, being inducted into the US Rock and Rock Hall of Fame and Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award in 1992. he was the first person placed ceremoniously in the Native American Music Hall of Fame. In 2003, Rolling stone named Hendrix the top guitarist on its list of the 100 greatest guitarists of all-time and his debut album-Are you experienced was placed into the US National Recording Registry in 2006.

 

Imagine by John Lennon

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'Imagine' by John Lennon
Album: Imagine  
Released: 1971
US Chart: 3
UK Chart: 1

 

Lyrics of "Imagine"

Imagine there's no heaven
It's easy if you try
No hell below us
Above us only sky
Imagine all the people
Living for today...

Imagine there's no countries
It isn't hard to do
Nothing to kill or die for
And no religion too
Imagine all the people
Living life in peace...

You may say I'm a dreamer
But I'm not the only one
I hope someday you'll join us
And the world will be as one

Imagine no possessions
I wonder if you can
No need for greed or hunger
A brotherhood of man
Imagine all the people
Sharing all the world...

You may say I'm a dreamer
But I'm not the only one
I hope someday you'll join us
And the world will live as one

 

Other Famous Songs

Other Famous Songs of the Artist

Song:Give Peace A Chance
Album:Lennon Boxed Set
Year:1969

Song:Borrowed Time
Album:Milk And Honey
Year: 1984

Song:Gimme Some Truth
Album:Imagine
Year:1971

Song:God
Album:John Lennon: Plastic Ono Band
Year:1970

Song:Grow Old With Me
Album:Milk And Honey
Year: 1984

Song:Starting Over
Album:Double Fantasy
Year:1980

Song:Instant Karma
Album:The Very Best Of John Lennon
Year: 1970

Song:Love
Album:John Lennon/Plastic Ono Band
Year:1970

Song:#9 Dream
Album:Walls And Bridges
Year: 1974

Song:Happy Xmas (War is Over)
Album:Shaved Fish
Year: 1971

Artist Biography

John Lennon

John Winston Ono Lennon was an English rock musician, singer-songwriter, writer, and peace protester. He was also one of the founding members of the English Rock Band known as The Beatles. Lennon exposed a rebellious nature and biting humor in his music, on film, in books, and at press conferences and even interviews. He was divisive through his work as a peace activist and visual artist. After disconnecting from The Beatles, Lennon had the benefit of a winning solo career.

He came up with highly-praised albums like John Lennon/Plastic Ono Band and Imagine. Symbolic songs such as "Give Peace a Chance" and "Imagine” were also gifted to the nation by him. The album- Imagine and its title song Imagine, was a passion of John Lennon which also turned to be the most-profit-making song of his career. It shaped up his dream for the world and his optimism. It later became an anthem for anti-war movements. He also recorded other solo singles: the anti-war anthem, "Cold Turkey", and "Instant Karma!” Lennon took a self-imposed "retirement" in 1980, after which he reappeared with a comeback album, Double Fantasy, but was murdered less than one month after its release. Lennon had also written and recorded sufficient material for another forthcoming album and was already planning his record, Milk and Honey, which was released posthumously in 1984.

Billboard has ranked John Lennon as the second most successful songwriter in singles chart history after McCartney. In 2002, respondents voted Lennon eighth, to a BBC poll on the 100 Greatest Britons. In 2004, Rolling Stone magazine positioned Lennon number 38 on its list of "The Immortals: The Fifty Greatest Artists of All Time". In 2008, he was also ranked fifth greatest singer of all time by Rolling Stone. He was posthumously included into both the Songwriters Hall of Fame in 1987 and the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1994.

 
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