Starting tomorrow music is illegal, except for one song per person. What's your song?

Baby shark

Then I can still torture my enemies

Are other people allowed to hear our song when we play it? If so, I choose Macarena and then sell my attendance at parties and weddings and so on.

Is it illegal for me to hear any other person's song? Can we co-ordinate? I think with the 8 billion of us we have around we might actually get close to covering the full library of human songs as long as none of us repeats. In that case then I don't really care which one, I'm happy to be just assigned one to make none of us doubles up. Another question would be how well the human birth rate can keep up with number of new songs people come up with. If we can average out the rate of growth can we just assign any given new song to a registry so we don't exceed that average and that mete out a new entry from the backlog in the registry to each person as they're born? Maybe if we can assign a song to each person that has ever lived or at least who's life was recorded we can add some resilience to account for unexpected low birth yields or something. I'm assuming a song is still "legal" after its person has died. If not it'll be a bit more complicated.

When has something being illegal stopped anything?

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(Pink Floyd - either Time or Another Brick In The Wall)

Jethro Tull - Thick as a Brick. I've always loved this song, it has a mix of different styles, from flute-forward chill sections to more classic rock sounding parts.

Oh and it's over 43 minutes long. Before anyone says "oh but there's part 1 and part 2", this was a limitation of vinyl and not the artistic intent behind the piece. It's one song, fight me.

John Cage - 4'33"

I think if I had only one song, I'd pretty quickly come to hate it. Although props to the commenter who said baby shark. Torture your enemies and become loved by children.

Take five, Brubeck.

Daughters of Darkness, by Halestorm.

Fuck yeah... Yo_oY

Just break the law. You've not stated what the sentence is and it doesn't sound very enforceable

This is the Song that Doesn't End -Lambchops Play Along

Metallica One

Porcupine Tree - Anesthetize

A really hard question, id have to go with a classic. Elton John's Rocket Man.

Dream Theater - A Change of Seasons. Because I want to make sure it lasts.

Alternatively, Six Degrees of Inner Turbulence, as that's technically one song.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Sz0FxOZk_L4

Fingerbib by Aphex Twin or AFX. On repeat forever.

If it'd never get old,

The Cranberries - Zombie

However, for a track that wouldn't get old for me very quickly

VØJ, Narvent - Memory Reboot

NOFX - Please Play This Song On The Radio

Tori Amos - Yes, Anastasia

Devil Doll's 1989 "The Girl Who Was... Death" album, which is technically one very long track.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TIfAkOBMf5A

Phoria - saving us a riot

My comfort song :)

Also it's very relaxing and I think that's a good thing for my peers lol.

Against me - The ocean.

The intense longing and driving song that is about becoming who you are hits extra hard when you know the singer has now come out as trans and is singing about her true self.

The 11 minute version of heard it through the grapevine cover by ccr where they just jam the hell out for the last half of the song

Or any instrumental by northlane. I like his vocals too but the instrumental just feels so good

Edit: Or maybe for longevity go with somrthing like the blue danube waltz or requiem in d minor

No bravery by James Blunt, so I can play it at endless loop at world leaders.

Dopesmoker by Sleep

The first time ever I saw your face. Johnny Cash version.

Either Till It's Over or Once Again by Tristam

https://youtu.be/nS9QtzGwBcc simple enough that maybe it won't get annoying

"I'm not a good Person" by Pat the Bunny

Some mashup song that combines 5-6 songs

Smashing Pumpkins - Soma

The chicken dance song

My allotment would be taken up by my wife and kids. So I'd have to ask.

Peter Gabriel- In Your Eyes