Greatest classic rock songs and bands/artists
Offline I thought I would make a thread that is completely unrelated to religious debate.
Here is my list of songs:
1) "Layla" by Derek and the Dominoes
2) "Stairway to Heaven," by Led Zeppelin
3) "Sympathy for the Devil," by the Rolling Stones
4) "Like a Rolling Stone," by Bob Dylan
5) "A Day in the Life," by the Beatles
6) "Baba O'Reilly," by The Who
7) "Satisfaction," by the Rolling Stones
"Hey Jude," by the Beatles
9) "Heartbreaker," by Led Zeppelin
10) "Hotel California," by the Eagles
HM) "Comfortably Numb," by Pink Floyd. "Start me up," "You Can't Always Get what you Want," and "Brown Sugar," by the Rolling Stones. "Let it Be," "The Long and Winding Road," and "While my Guitar Gently Weeps," by the Beatles. "Imagine," by John Lennon. "Black Dog," and "Rock and Roll," by Led Zeppelin. "Redemption Song," and 'No Woman no Cry," by Bob Marley (maybe doesn't qualify as classic rock, but I put it up anyway). "Purple Haze," by Jimi Hendrix.
Here is my list of bands/artists:
1) The Beatles
2) The Rolling Stones
3) Led Zeppelin
4) Pink Floyd
5) Bob Dylan
HM) Eric Clapton, The Who, The Eagles, Jimi Hendrix, The Doors, The Grateful Dead, Bob Marely and the Wailers, Jethro Tull, AC/DC and the Traveling Wilburys (technically a 90's band, but they included Harrison, Dylan, Petty and Orbison so I'll add them too).
Feel free to disagree and post your own lists. I might post a revised lsit later on if persuaded.
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I'm all for getting away from the intensity every now and then.
Top 5 songs of all time, in order:
1: Countdown to Extinction: Megadeth
2: The Unforgiven: Metallica
3: Battery: Metallica
4: Master of Puppets: Metallica
5: Orion: Metallica
Continuing in no particular order with good tunes...
6: Bring Me to Life: Evanescense
7: Right Round: Flo Rida
8: My Sacrifice: Creed
9: Video Killed the Radio Star: The Buggles
10: C'mon: Go Betty Go
11: Lazy Generation: F-Ups
Oo. This could go on for quite awhile. Maybe I'll switch over to bands now.
1: Metallica.
2: Meatloaf
3: Weird Al
4: John Williams (composer)
5: Roxette (good sex music
)
6: Offspring
Ah shit. Same problem as above. I think I'll leave it at this.
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I've always had a soft spot for Led Zeppelin, because I was a drummer in a former life. I'm not sure how you can leave out Zappa, though ...
(Or Grand Funk Railroad, or BTO)
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Oops. Skimmed over the "classic" part I guess. Ah well, a few of those still qualify.
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Vastet, excellent addition of Meatloaf. "Paradise by the Dashboard Light" and "Bat out of Hell" are a couple of my favorites.
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"A young man who wishes to remain a sound atheist cannot be too careful of his reading." (CS Lewis)
I refuse to rank songs or artists because I change my mind every third day or so. The ones that stay near the top of the list no matter what follow, in no particular order, and with no pretense of completeness.
Led Zepplin - When the Levy Breaks
The Beatles - I Want You/She's So Heavy
King Crimson - Twenty First Century Schizoid Man
The Who - Love Reign O'er Me
The Who - Baba O'Reilly
Black Sabbath - Iron Man
Blue Oyster Cult - Don't Fear the Reaper
Alice Cooper - School's Out
Jimi Hendrix - Voodoo Chile
The Rolling Stones - Sister Morphine
Heart - Crazy On You
The Rolling Stones - Flowers on Your Grave
Aerosmith - Dream On
Yes - Heart of the Sunrise
Bear in mind that I'm restricting myself to the um... classic definition of classic rock. The other day, I heard the Police on a Classic Rock station. If that's acceptable, it opens up an awful lot more early 80s possibilities.
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Really "Don't Fear The Reaper"? Was that an ironic choice? Are you in need of yet more cowbell?
Saint Will: no gyration without funkstification.
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It's kind of like that girl in grade school that you always used to punch in the arm and then run away... sometimes the things we abuse the most are the things we secretly like.
Actually, I love the guitar solo. Cheesy, yes. Cheesy gooey goodness.
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+1
Realistically, as I grow older, I am finding that I am liking music that I used to detest years ago. There are limits though. KISS should pretty much never play “Beth”. Even with the Melbourne philharmonic orchestra behind them, it is just not a good song.
That much being said, I can come up with one measure of what I like. A year or so ago, I finally took the plunge and got a digital music player. It can hold 250 CDs at the rip settings that I use but only 50~60 CDs have made it into the thing.
So what I have taken the time to rip and encode is probably a good metric for what I think is good. Here is a partial list:
Rush
Frank Zappa
Jethro Tull
The Doors
The Band
The Who
Lots of bands with Eric Clapton
The bands that have Ozzy
There are others but that is the general idea.
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1. The Clash- London Calling
2. Rush- 2112
3. Yes- Roundabout
4. Yardbirds- For your love
At what age is music considered classic?
10, 15 years?
It seems "classic" gets older every year because the old geezers get older every year. I have heard the same music on the classic rock station for 5 years in a row.
Let's just say 15 years for arguments sake (sorry, some of these can't be considered rock):
Cradle of Filth - The Principle of Evil Made Flesh
Nine Inch Nails - Wish
Judas Priest - Painkiller
Pantera - Cowboys From Hell
Slayer - Angel of Death
I could go on, but I think everyone gets the point. "Classic" is in the eye of the beholder.
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I'm with you on everything but CoF. Of course, my library bounces between extremes, with someone like Sarah Mclaughlin being followd by Marilyn Manson. You put my mp3 player on shuffle, and it's like listening to a headful of multiple personalities fighting over radio stations.
I'm an old fart now, and I can't even find anyone to go to a Clutch concert with me. Ah, well.
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...where I pretend to have actual taste in music.
Nobody mentioned Pink Floyd or the Moody Blues?
There. Now that that's over with, I'll go back to what I really listen to:
"Saturday, In The Park,
I think it was the Fourth Of July..."
So are you all thoroughly appalled, yet?
Conor
Going to do this in the "traditional" classic rock form (60's to the 80's)
1977 - The clash
Have a Cigar - Pink Floyd
Little Wings - Jimmie Hendrix
Me and Bobby McGee - Janis Joplin version
Sympathy for the Devil - Rolling Stones (and the neptunes remix version)
So fucking what - Anti nowhere league
Sonic Reducer - Dead boys
Taking care of Business - BTO
Saturday Night is Alright - Elton John
Dream on - Aerosmith
Ace of Spades - Motorhead
Those are the top songs
As for bands/singers
Pretty much all those mentioned plus The Dead Kennedy's, The buzzcocks, Black Flag, The beatles, John Lennon, AC/DC, Neil Diamond (the bastard has some great songs), Neil Young, Sex Pistols, Madness, The Who, The guess Who and the Doors.
Anybody here like Ratatat? Far from being classic, but I've grown tired of music with lyrics. Ratatat is all instrumental.
Am I alone on the no lyrics thing?
That said, I still enjoy most of the songs on this list on occasion.
Oooh fun !
I'm gonna try not to repeat songs that are already listed:
- Physical Grafitti (The whole thing) Led Zeppelin
- Achilles Last Stand Led Zeppelin
- Eminence Front The Who
- Message in a bottle The Police
- Barracuda Heart
- Rocky Mountain Way Joe Walsh
- Xanadu Olivia Newton John
- Into the Void Black Sabbath
- Animals (The whole thing) Pink Floyd
- Saucerful of Secrets Pink Floyd
- DSOTM (I don't care how many best of lists its on..it's epic) Pink Floyd
- Red (the whole thing) King Crimson
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Someone's going to have to mention Queen. Might as well be me.
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while your basic rock and metal classics will always retain a spot in my library...
and as you'd expect some excessively heavy metal, but...
i tend to have a soft spot for Manowar (even some of their slow stuff... amazingly >.> i know )
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vsxi-EmZZ2Q (only good audio i could find on youtube, about 30sec in)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CfnizRqgh5Y&feature=related
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HOLY SHIT BATMAN, maybe I missed it, but I swear NO ONE in this thread mentioned QUEEN!
What is wrong with you people?
Bohemian Rapsody
We Are The Campions
We Will Rock You
Another One Bites The Dust
Crazy Little Thing Called Love
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Used to be a huge Pat Benatar fan, untill I actually met her, bitch!
My favorite song by her is a little known remake of "Helter Skelter" last track on "Precious Time"
I still like her music, but she was NOT a nice person back stage.
Rush
Styx
REO Speedwagon
Somebody already said Metallica "And Justice For All" was the best album. But I like "Seek and Distroy" and "Fight Fire With Fire" off of "Kill Em All". "For Whom The Bell Tolls, and Fade to Black" off of "Ride The Lightning".
Foreigner
Just to name a few.
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Same thing ocurred to me two posts up.
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And various tastes to music, I mean nobody has mentioned the Ramones either (ok I forgot to add them, as well as Queen as ironically I was listening to tie your mother down as I was doing my list) The stooges, MC5, Iggy Pop, Blondie, The Talking Heads, Joy Division/New Order, Iron Maiden, The Dils, Dick Dale and the Del Tones (I mean come on this guy is an amazing guitar player), X, The Slits, I mean the list can go on and on with bands from the 60 to the 80's, and which ones you like/dislike etc, etc, etc.
Strictly speaking what I would consider classic rock... My introduction to most of these is do to my uncles playing covers with their garage band while the local rowdies would come over and drink & smoke into the wee hours of the morning. As a kid sitting in this garage, several of these bands were able to pierce the contact high and grab hold. Most of these took a side-bar during the 80's & 90's as Punk & Hardcore made it's way on my plate but over the years many have seemed to find their way back onto my play list... I assume this qualifies them as classics.
Not in any particular order or any kind of complete list:
Beatles
Rolling Stones
CCR
Jimi Hendrix
Bob Dylan
Pink Floyd
Black Sabbath
AC/DC
Boston
Clapton
Allman Brothers
Led Zeppelin
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Devo - "Wonderful World", "Gates of Steel", "Jocko Homo"
B52s - "Rock Lobster", "Love Shack", "Hallucinating Pluto"
Art of Noise, Culture Club, Human League, Thomas Dolby...
If it's not New Wave, it aint classic.
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Rofl @ B52's.
Anyone mention Elvis yet? He was creditted with starting the whole thing.
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...of derailing the thread.
DanMullin wrote: "Am I alone on the no lyrics thing?"
I don't know how much company I can give you...but I do *occasionally* enjoy instrumentals. Practically none of them qualify as "classic rock," although some are performed by acts that are classic rock acts. I'm thinking of such massively obscure numbers as "Flying Cloud" by the Doobie Brothers, "Time" by Richard Carpenter, "Super Magic 2000" by Chris Isaak, "Angel Eyes" by Jim Brickman, and several others that you probably never heard of, before.
Conor
I love a lot of Chicago's songs (MAKE ME SMILE - favorite), as well as Meatloaf, Heart, Elton John, The Beatles, The Doors, Pink Floyd & Led Zeppelin.
I also love a lot of 90's rock bands but they're not really classic, are they?
Meatloaf actually did a remake of a Celine Dion song and it's 10x better!
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Actually, Vastet listed one of my favorite instrumentals. Orion by Metallica. I also like Call of Cthulu.
Both of those qualify as classic rock. I suppose they could be a little to new for some people's definitions though.
Another Manowar lover.... UNITE!
They make me want to DIE FOR METAL!
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My list of favorite 'classic' rock bands
Doobie Brothers
Lynyrd Skynrd
Tesla
Eagles
Steve Miller band
Bad Company
This is hard because there are so many bands like zepplin and rolling stones that I consider to be great classic bands as well...too many!
I tend to love all music (with the exception of most country music) and if a song/band has a particular effect on my emotions then it is a win for me.
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Just.. YES!
Your mind will answer most questions if you learn to relax and wait for the answer. - William S. Burroughs
Classic Instrumentals: (And I'm stretching the bounds of classics just a little)
Carn Evil 9 - Emerson Lake and Palmer
Frankenstein - Edgar Winter Group
The Star Spangled Banner - Jimi Hendrix
Walk Don't Run - The Ventures
Eruption - Van Halen
Pick Up the Pieces - Average White Band
One of These Days - Pink Floyd
Little Wing - Stevie Ray Vaughan. Yeah, I know it's a remake of a song with words... but it's fucking famous in its own right.
Sleepwalk - Brian Setzer (Or Santo and Johnny. I prefer Brian's version.)
Linus and Lucy - Vince Guaraldi
Peaches en Regalia - Frank Zappa
And... are you kidding me? Foreplay, by Boston.
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And for that matter, I guess the theme from Shaft would count.
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