Best Jazz or Other (besides Rock) Song(s) EVER!

[Hammerite]

What about Krautrock, is that acceptable?
This thread confuses me.

[Steel Drummer]

As long as it not rock in the strictest sense- bands like Green Day or Black Sabbath don't count. But if they aren't strictly rock- like Tears For Fears, then it's okay.

[Hammerite]

well, new green day isn't rock.

but krautrock is a form of experimental rock (which i suppose is allowed?), with bands like Kraftwerk, Tangerine Dream and Can, all of whom influenced the more commercialised electronic music of the 1980's (depeche mode and the like).

i like my experimental.Ã, 

the whole of radiohead's amnesiac album is good alt.rock incorporating elements of ambient and jazz
http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:ezkxlfke0cqp

[Steel Drummer]

If it's experimental, then yes. Electronic sort of stuff, yes.

[Nikolas]

Film music: Elfman (but his earlier stuff, like Batman Returns etc...), NOT zimmer, Williams, Bruce Smeaton, etc...

Game music: Sean Beeson, Jeremy Soule (a little bit, because he's usually very slopy and fast, but... he has a lot of things in his hands. I would gladly take the weight off his shoulders ), Nobuo Uematsu, Akira Yamaoka

"Classical": Prokofiev, Schnittke, Feldman, NOT shostachovich, but a little Rachmaninov, Yes  Beethoven, Mozart and Bach, Brahms, Arvo Part, Birthwistle and many more... (Especially of the russian school, or the "Eastern Europe" school...)

Everything else I like to listen to seems to be falling into the "Rock" category more or less, liks NIN, or Korn, or dEUS, so I can't really name them here

[Hammerite]

speaking of experimental and the like, is the new Beck album any good?

[LimpingFish]

Video game music:

Akira Yamaoka, Rika Muranaka, Sotaro Tojima - Masanori Adachi's soundtrack to Super Castlevania 4, Jean Baudlot - Raphaël Gesqua - Fabrice Visserot's soundtrack for Flashback, Norihiko Hibino, Micheal Land, Yuzo Koshiro...many more who I can't recall at the moment.

[lo_res_man]

I like "thousand kisses deep" by lenard cohen, "10,000 Miles" when sung by Mary Chapin Carptenter "Fire and Rain" "Windmills of your Mind" and dripping slow piano jazz with some woman with a whisky voice crooning sadly.