What song do you wish you had written?

[FretWarrior]

I'm driving home from work today and I was listening to Pearl Jam.

Yellow Ledbetter to be exact (one of my favorite songs of all time!).

As I was listening I thought to myself:

"Man I wish I had written that song/created the guitar parts for it".

So I thought it would be an interesting topic to hear from others- what song/guitar playing do you wish you had created (regardless of your current skill level)?

Again, mine is Yellow Ledbetter.

What's yours?

[Pekker_Head]

The Main Riff in "The Thing That Should Not Be", Sucker is heavy but the song got repatative.

[Whiskey]

Surfing With The Alien - Joe Satriani

[AceFrehleyGuitarGod]

The song I wish I had written would have to be KISS' War Machine, I listened to it for about 5min and next thing you know I'm rockin out at home and school, it is only like 4-5 cords the whole song, one of them being a Power cord.

[Blewbyou]

What a fantastic topic!
The problem is I can't narrow it down to just one. I wish I wrote them all. I'll have to think about it and get back to you. My people will contact your people:cool:

[Whiskey]

Ohh .. I know. Gimme Shelter - Rolling Stones.

What a great song. I wish it was mine.

[Jstickley]

Surfing With The Alien - Joe Satriani

What a great tune!

I think that it would have been nice to have written "Eruption"...

who am i kiddin? Im no EVH LOL

Jesse

[angelicrock]

Grey Street - Dave Matthews Band

or

Dazed and Confused - Led Zeppelin

[Ink]

Lets overlook the obvious (Hendrix, SRV, Zeppelin,GnR etc) and go with older underappreciated stuff.

Molly Hatchet - Fall of the Peacemaker
Molly Hatchet - Flirtin' with Disaster

Boston - Smokin
Boston - Rock n Roll Band

Bad Company - Shooting Star
Bad Company - Rock N Roll Fantasy

Well time to practice...

Ink

[KeatonCoker]

Meh I dont know about what song, "But I sure wish I would of joined the Rolling Stones when they asked me." :)

[sheepster]

Ha! Great topic. And I can answer it in two words.

Free Bird.

The greatest rock song ever made. I so wish I'd have written it. I would never need to do another thing.

[Quigg]

Come together by the beatles.

or

Like a rolling stone by bob dylan

[Leigh]

Chicago by Sufjan Stevens or Eli, The Barrowboy by The Decemberists =]

[brianwalker]

simple "wish you where here" - Pink floyd

[Blewbyou]

Like I posted earlier there are just so many but I would have to say Sweet Home Alabama is right up there one of my all time favs. It has to be one of the most recognized songs ever written. Plus it keeps surfacing in commercials and on TV and the movies so I'm thinking It's done OK money wise also.
Blew

[Orphan John]

Hmmm as already been said it is so hard to choose. Some are rock hard and some are beautifully simple. But out of the many would be:-

Queen - Tie Your Mother Down, Stone Cold Crazy.

Metallica - Nothing Else Matters, One

AC/DC - For Those About To Rock,

Rainbow - Stargazer, Since You've Been Gone.

Rush - La Villa, Lakeside Park.

Pink Floyd - All of them.

Various Others - Clasical Gas, Deer Hunter, Hey Joe, Freebird.

[Silke90]

Dir En Grey - Ain't Afraid To Die
Dir En Grey - Zakuro
Dir En Grey - Mushi

with more.

[Rachael]

Hmm... Too Many...

Green Day - Boulevard Of Broken Dreams

Queen - Bohemian Rhapsody

Angus And Julia Stone - What You Wanted

No Doubt - Don't Speak

I think there are just too many... But No Doubt's "Don't Speak" is most likely the one I had wished I had written the most. Lyrics and All...

[AndJustice4All612]

well, to be honest with ya, i assisted Jimmy Paige in writing Stairway to Heaven :D

but uh...i wish i wrote Master of Puppets

[Dmackenzie]

I really wish that I had the talent to write Satch Boogie, by Joe Satriani, or Trademark by Eric Johnson.... or electric gypsy by andy timmons, I really could go on, so I'm going to put a sock in it before I start excessively rambling like usual;).

Dmack.

[RADAR_Brian]

Wish You Were Here - Pink Floyd

Easily my favorite song to play and one I connect with lyrically.

[Calum]

Any song. Just one.

[Flying V]

Iron man - Black sabbath
Summer of 69 - Bryan adams
Sweet child o mine - Guns n Roses

[Da3m0n]

well, to be honest with ya, i assisted Jimmy Paige in writing Stairway to Heaven :D

but uh...i wish i wrote Master of Puppets


I was starting to wonder if anyone was gonna mention SWTH.....

[Fezismyidol]

The Unforgiven I/II -Metallica

[DGnSRV]

But I'd say "wish you were here". It just sounds so damn good. Both the original as well as live.

[Musicca]

I'm gonna say any "one hit wonders" song, just because its a long ways from where I'm at right now when it comes to writing.

[Hendrix]

Machine gun, izabella, purple haze.
But... id have to say life by the drop more than any of those, such heartfelt lyrics with some nice acoustic blues. (Stevie ray vaughan rules!)

[Adam 128]

Im gonna go with Glycerine by Bush. Probably one of the most simple songs I know, but beautiful lyrics IMO. Gavin is an amazing song writer, and this song is just full of emotion. Gives me the sniffles, heh.

[Yarbles]

Without question, Stagger lee, preferably the version done by Nick cave & the bad seeds. The whole murder ballads album is pure genius, but that rendition of a timeless song topic is so beautifully and disgusting at the same time, one can't help but love it!

[bcrich]

Mine would have to be Always With ME , Always With You by Joe Satriani off the Surfing With The Alien Album. That is 3 songs off that album that are on this list now lol.

[inmytimeofdying]

great thread topic! as for me i guess it would have to be the song i haven't wrote yet. it'll have to come from the heart, have meaning and not just rhyme. the first song i ever wrote...that i kept, was born from the death of my three year old daughter. it's about how Heaven would be without children there.
i guess to answer the topic question i wish i had written roger miller's "old friends" as performed by him, ray price, and willie nelson.

[bcrich]

Sounds cool! Almost sounds like the same concept Eric Clapton used for his song Tears In Heaven, that song was about his son who had died.

I never even thought about the song I have been writing for about a year now! My first attempt at writing an all guitar 'Satriani" type song called Cruel Rain. I have a vid of me playing it on you tube.

[Sven_91]

Snow - Red Hot Chilli Peppers

and

Iron man - Black Sabbath

[knoxville]

Imagine - John Lennon ...... enough said. :)

[Hefferz88]

Song i wish i had written nd could possibly write sumthin like it cos seems to describe everything i want to say, it fits my life perfectly at the moment :
go your own way - fleetwood mac

also another is biffy clyro - convex, concave
if u havent heard it giv it a try i can listen to it all day every day nd still pick up new things in it.

one more song that means a lot to me is the chain also by fleetwood mac.

[jmaibauer]

In my Life and Let it Be - Beatles

Great lyrics to go with great music

[kingsrv]

Have to concur with Knoxville, When you are talking about song writing Imagine says it all!!!!!

[Ryan123]

Mine would be anything by Ace Frehley - Genius

Or

Pink Floyd - Wish you Were Here: Beautiful Guitar, Beautiful Lryics. One of the best songs ever writen