The Most Important Song Ever Written

What is the most important song ever written and why?

I woke up with an offer from Bono to choose one of U2’s songs. Apparently his ego is not bloated enough already.

Then I was thinking along the lines of Band Aid’s Do They Know It’s Christmas, which raised millions for Ethiopian famine relief (sound familiar?) and inspired We are the World, Live Aid and countless other efforts. Seriously, do we really want to encourage Bob Geldof and stroke more celebrity ego?

Then my thoughts turned to Rock Around the Clock written by Max C. Freedman and James E. Myers for Bill Haley & His Comets, which is generally regarded as the song to kick start Rock-and-Roll.

I finally had to to settle for the Shins New Slang.

In the words of Natalie Portman in Garden State, You gotta hear this one song, it’ll change your life I swear.

You can do much worst than what Natalie Portman tells you.