Why do I think "The Way" is the best song ever?

It is a good question. Completely without reservation or regret, I have stuck by this opinion for the last few years, since I pulled the song off on "Now: That's What I Call Music Volume 1". Before that I hadn't heard it since sometime in the late nineties.

My best guess is that it more or less have everything I want in a song:

• The lyrics are catchy
• The lyrics tell a story
• It has a piano (with a very similar riff to "Come on Mona"! Actually, almost exactly the same... Hm.)
• It's got one of the best intros I've heard (a radio switching around)
• No one under 25 has heard of it
• Pretty much everyone has heard it
• It's from a one-hit wonder, so no one will cite a better song
  

Not terribly exhaustive, but that's okay. It's the best song ever.

Best song around right now

Off the People In A Position To Know sampler CD (the origins of which I'm going to need to go into in another post) comes a fantastic track from a band I've never heard of. "Come On Mona" by Mona Reels is a bright, almost twee track with a solid piano back. In fact, listening to the song I'm unable to hear any guitar, just the piano and drums, with a few bits of harmony thrown in among the singing. Speaking of the singing, the lyrics are fantastic: "I found her very smart, she said 'you're just too dumb, and that's going to be the only time I tell someone'" is just one of the better bits. Despite a line like that, it's still an incredibly upbeat number. Check it out.

http://www.myspace.com/themonareels