If you could only pick a single song to portray the type of music you have listened to throughout your whole life, that captures the emotion and feeling when you listen to music, what would that single track be?

For me it's Pink Floyd's Pulse concert live, Comfortably Numb.

It contains arguably the greatest guitar solo of all time, by the brilliant David Gilmore. You can feel his emotion through the guitar and he takes the original album track and just expands and blows it away. And out of all the albums I've bought throughout my live The Wall is probably the one I've listened to more than any other.

Another guitar solo that comes very close to this was from another live performance. When George Harrison was being posthumously inducted to the hall of fame, Price playing the solo at the end of While my Guitar Gently Weeps. If you have never seem and listened to this you need to take a look on Youtube. It's an amazing moment in history, just as Pink Floyd live was.
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For me it would be Pink Floyd also, but i would go for he song shine on you crazy diamond.
2nd it would be also floyd with the great gig in the sky
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When we were in Cyprus last year we went to the Cyprus Rocks open air concert next to the sea, we only arrived the last day in Cyprus and went to the last concert, I think it's going on for 6-7 days, a VERY british thing, as there are mostly british cover bands playing, the best of them, and when we went there was Jimmy Hendrix Experience, Very Santana and Brit Floyd, they were amazing.

It's difficult to name one song, but I always have my top five albums which I would take to an island, youth stuff obviously like Deep Purple's Made in Japan, any Suicidal Tendencies album, some stoner rock like Kyuss or perhaps Monster Magnet, Exodus' Bonded by blood and probably Fukpig just to get that fire working *shit****comeonnow*****

Probably miss some, I would have to think too much about it now.
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Deep Purple, yes great band, saw then a few years ago here in lisbon. Made in Japan for me is one of best live albuns ever. Another fantastic live album is live alchemy by dire straits.
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Totally agree. Deep Purple were brilliant. When I was young my Dad worked in Southampton Docks and must have mentioned to one of the truckers that I was into heavy rock and metal. He gave my dad an original tape of their album Machine Head and said I really need to listen to it. Brilliant album with the track Smoke on the Water,

Suicidal Tendencies. I've not listened to them for 20+ years. I saw them supporting Slayer in the early 90s in Portsmouth. Brilliant concert, but I couldn't hear for days! Must have a listen to both when I get time.
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The machine head album from Purple is just brilliant from start to finish. The drum solo is fantastic if i remember correctly is in the song the mule. And highway star is one of my all time favorites.
Suicidal i saw them in lisbon in 93 as guests in a metallica concert.
Your dad worked in southampthon dock? We were talking about floyd, there is a song in the final cut album were Roger sings about it.
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The original version of the song, Southampton Dock, was written for The Wall album and called "It's Never Too Late" but was cut after the demo tape was recorded. The melody was reworked and used in the later song Southampton Dock. As it's about soldiers departing for war from Southampton Docks you can see the connection to The Wall. I think they reworked it for the later album because of soldiers also departing from Southampton Docks in 1982 for the Falklands War, the year The Final Cut was released.

There used to be so many songs linked to historical and cultural events. It feels like most new songs don't have much connection like that.
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