The "Best Rock'n'Roll Songs" thread........

[barefeetarebest]

Okay here goes..... Please for each post try to limit yourself to 5 songs....
Post as many times as you want.

I'd Love to change the World, Ten Years After

The Weight, The Band

I'm Only Sleeping, The Beatles

Sweet Jane, The Velvet Underground

God Gave Rock and Roll To You, Argent

 

[JimmyBoy]

"We Are The Champions" - Queen

"Iron Man" - Black Sabbath

"Welcome to The Jungle" - Guns N' Roses

"Enter Sandman" - Metallica

"Free Bird" - Lynard Skynard

By the way, i thought God Rock And Roll To You was a KISS song. Never knew it was a cover song.

 

[ChosenofMystra]

Red Sector A - Rush

Aqualung - Jethro Tull

Locomotive Breath - Jethro Tull

Thick as a Brick (Full Version) - Jethro Tull

A Passion Play (Full Version) - Jethro Tull

...think I'm a little Tull biased? 😀

 

[Bugman]

Red Sector A - Rush

Aqualung - Jethro Tull

Locomotive Breath - Jethro Tull

Thick as a Brick (Full Version) - Jethro Tull

A Passion Play (Full Version) - Jethro Tull

...think I'm a little Tull biased? 😀

Ian Anderson is a poet,love Tull.😀

Hotel California-Eagles

Tuseday's Gone-Lynard Skynrd

Fire On High-Electric Light Orchestra (or most anything by ELO pre 1978)

Who'll Stop The Rain-Credence Clearwater Revival(anything with John Fogerty)

Many more to come.😀

 

[TklDuo-Drew]

"Maybelline" -Chuck Berry
"Bring it to Jerome" -Bo Diddley
"Tube Snake Boogie" -ZZ-Top
"I'm Wanted" -George Thorogood
"Adam's Apple" -Aerosmith



Drew

 

[Frowg]

Absolute best ever?!?

hard to say, but here goes
1st I will give 10 best Classic rock

While My Guitar Gently Weeps-Beatles

No Quarter-Led Zeppelin

Break on Through-The Doors

Faeries Wear Boots-Black Sabbath

Comfortably Numb-Pink Floyd

Jimi Hendrix-Purple Haze

Cream-White Room

Robin Trower-Hannah

Bob Marley-Redemption Song

Detroit Rock City-Kiss

and 2nd, 10 best modern rock

Deep-Pearl Jam

Sober-Tool

Knife Party-Deftones

Rooster-Alice in Chains

Smells like Teen Spirit-Nirvana

Jesus Christ Pose-Soundgarden

American Sleep-Clutch

Galaxy-Blind Melon

Big Red Rocket of Love-Reverend Horton Heat

Tommy The Cat-Primus

I'll start my own thread for Punk songs, cuz this one is gettin fat

 

[Belmont]

I can't believe someone put Tommy the Cat before I did.

I'm Just a Singer in a Rock and Roll Band - Moody Blues
Suffragette City - David Bowie
The Wedge - Dick Dale and his Del-Tones
Manic Depression - Jimi Hendrix
I Can See For Miles - The Who

I was toying with throwing a Yardbirds song instead of Bowie, but I couldn't narrow it down.

 

[unit5610]

Starship Trooper - Yes
Sweetness and Light - Lush
I'm Mandy, Fly Me - 10cc
Psycho Killer - Talking Heads
Pepper - The Butthole Surfers

 

[Saeria]

Baba O'Reilly -- The Who
No sugar Tonite (don't kill me if this is not hte actual title of the song) THe Guess Who
Starship Trooper- Yes
All of the Six Wives of Henry VIII- Rick Wakeman
Behind Blue Eyes- The Who
Led Zepplin- Immigrant Song (nothing beats the sound of Robert Plant wailing in a fine mist of vinyl crackle)

 

[unit5610]

Saeria..."No Suger Tonight" is correct! It was also their biggest American hit.

More fine tunes...

My Sunday Feeling - Jethro Tull
Sing This Song All Together - The Rolling Stones
Karma Police - Radiohead
Dead Man's Party - Oingo Boingo
Reap The Wild Wind - Ultravox

 

[barefeetarebest]

How Many Friends? - The Who

The First Cut is the Deepest- Rod Stewart OR Cat Stevens

Out of Time- Rolling Stones

Tightrope- ELO

Bell Bottom Blues- Derek and the Dominoes

Celluloid Heroes, Rock and Roll Fantasy, Waterloo Sunset- the Kinks
(so that was 8, who's counting?)

 

[subZer0]

Ooh - brilliant thread!

OK, here goes:
(In NO particular order)

More Than A Feeling - Boston
Pearl Of Euphoria - Def Leppard
Action - Def Leppard
Comfortably Numb - Pink Floyd
Shine On You Crazy Diamond - Pink Floyd
Sorrow - Pink Floyd
One Slip - Pink Floyd

I've got plenty more, most that I can't remember, but if I put any more on, I'd want to put my entire list (a bloody long one) up.

 

[jugner]

That Smell, Simple Man, Curtis Lowe- Lynard Skyard
Back in Black, Hell's Bells, You Shook Me All Night Long- AC/DC
Crazy Train- Ozzy Osbourne
Smoke on The Water- Deep Purple

 

[drew70]

Since you specified Rock'n'roll....

Anything by Kansas, Boston, Journey, or Foreigner! Just kidding, Drew! 😉

Okay, seriously...

The Beatles - Savoy Truffle
King Crimson - 21st Century Schizoid Man
The Guess Who - No Sugar Tonight / New Mother Nature
Sugarloaf - Green Eyed Lady
Emerson, Lake & Palmer - Tiger in a Spotlight

 

[maniactickler]

Zeppelin - achilles last stand
Deep Purple - child in time
Bowie - heroes

 

[CitY of MicA]

my 60s list

"All Day and All the Night"- The Kinks (or "The World keeps Going Round")
"Happy Jack"- The Who
"Borderline"- The MC5
"Shape of Things"- The Yardbirds
"19th Nervous Breakdown"- The Rolling Stones (or "Paint it Black," "Ruby Tuesday")
"Tell Her No"- The Zombies
"Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds"- The Beatles (or "Strawberry Fields Forever," "Norwegian Wood")

Over my allotment, but what can you do? I may not even attempt to tackle the 70s...

How Many Friends? - The Who

Woo, man I love this song. Any number of songs on that album, really, which nobody ever seems to talk about.

By the way, i thought God Rock And Roll To You was a KISS song. Never knew it was a cover song.

It sounds like a song that they would do, so I guess you could say they chose their covers wisely.

 

[Iwant2Btickled]

Hotel California - The Eagles
LaGrange - ZZ Top
Barracuda - Heart
I want you to want me - Cheap Trick
Anything by Queen
Smokin - Boston

I'm sure I'll think of more, but that's a start

 

[barefeetarebest]

I just have to amend this: Its proper title is "no Sugar Tonight/New Mother Nature" and an excellent song indeed. Just cause I'm picky about my music. You sure American Woman wasn't their biggest hit? Or These Eyes?

Saeria..."No Suger Tonight" is correct! It was also their biggest American hit.

More fine tunes...

My Sunday Feeling - Jethro Tull
Sing This Song All Together - The Rolling Stones
Karma Police - Radiohead
Dead Man's Party - Oingo Boingo
Reap The Wild Wind - Ultravox

 

[unit5610]

^ You're right...It was American Woman. My bad.

Okay five more songs...

Tomorrow Never Knows - The Beatles
Juice Box - The Strokes
Windy - The Association
Rock Lobster - The B52s (totally stupid but it made me an alt-rocker)
Look Sharp - Joe Jackson

 

[911]

all of my love-ledzeplin
when i come around-greenday
smells like teen spirit-nirvana
unforgiven-metallica
paint it black-rollin stones
stricken-disturbed
layla (unplugged) -eric claptin
all along the watch tower-jimi hendrix
back in black-ac dc
snow-red hot chilli pepers
sister golden hair-america
superbeast-rob zombie
step up-drowning pool
rockstar-nickleback
devil in a midnight mass-billy talent
last dance for mary jane-tom petty
dead leaves on the dirty ground-white stripes

 

[slap'n'ticklee]

Hmm so many of you have mentioned songs that I love and would have mentioned myself Here's a few that pop to mind, although there are others and I may add some later:

Whiskey in the jar - Lynard Skynard (although I also love Metallica's version).
Whole lotta Rosie - AC/DC (although there are several classics from them)
For those about to rock (we salute you) - AC/DC
Hey Joe - Jimi Hendrix
Stairway to heaven - Led Zepp

 

[brianspencer66]

jumpin Jack Flash - The Rolling Stones

Rain- The Beatles

Lola- The Kinks

Won't get fooled again - The Who

God Only Knows - The Beach Boys

 

[Headsnap]

Stairway to Heaven - Led Zeppelin
Bobby Brown - Frank Zappa
Talk Tonight - Oasis
Ready To Meet Him - DMX
Superbeast - Rob Zombie

Limit myself to 5 songs? I tried...

I Want You So Hard - Eagles Of Death Metal
Know Your Enemy - Rage Against The Machine

 

[drew70]

I just have to amend this: Its proper title is "no Sugar Tonight/New Mother Nature" and an excellent song indeed.

Yes it most certainly is! I read somewhere that Randy Bachman wrote No Sugar and Burton Cummings wrote New Mother Nature. If you want a really good Guess Who album, I highly recommend Wheatfield Soul, from 1969.

 

[barefeetarebest]

Yes it most certainly is! I read somewhere that Randy Bachman wrote No Sugar and Burton Cummings wrote New Mother Nature. If you want a really good Guess Who album, I highly recommend Wheatfield Soul, from 1969.

If they were really written by the two, separately, it's great how they flow into and out of each other and are inter-twined, unlike when the Beatles hated each other and we wound up with "Here Come The Sun King" flowing into "Polethene Pam" into Mean Mr. Mustard into "She Came in through the Bathroom Window"--- All great songs and a one of kind arrangement, but how did the songs work together? The album was recorded during very turbulent times in the Beatles carreer, and each member was vying for control over the direction of the band..... The songs were incomplete....fragments and they were left that way on the album.

Whew..... that was a mouthful!