Ok here's one for you ole timers.
"Loves Gone Bad" by the Underdogs.
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"Loves Gone Bad" by the Underdogs.
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Best rock song of all times
Only one answer please.
Not the best written or the best musical complexity but the one that represents the rock.
My choice: Satisfaction - Rolling Stones
Reasons:
- first notes are like the 5th of Beethoven (when you hear those notes, everybody pumps up the volume)
- still very up to date
- a mix of rock and blues rock and Motown sound
- lyrics talks about disatisfaction of young people vs life, politics, money and women (even B Dylan like that song)
- music is very basic as a good rock song should be
Not the best written or the best musical complexity but the one that represents the rock.
My choice: Satisfaction - Rolling Stones
Reasons:
- first notes are like the 5th of Beethoven (when you hear those notes, everybody pumps up the volume)
- still very up to date
- a mix of rock and blues rock and Motown sound
- lyrics talks about disatisfaction of young people vs life, politics, money and women (even B Dylan like that song)
- music is very basic as a good rock song should be
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A few candidates off the top of my head. Yeah, some have been mentioned. Doors -- Break On Through and Light My Fire Ramones -- I Wanted Everything Hendrix -- Foxy Lady and Purple Haze Sex Pistols -- God Save the Queen Pearl Jam -- Alive The Who -- Won't Get Fooled Again and My Generation Rolling Stones -- Under My Thumb Cream -- Spoonful Led Zeppelin -- Dazed & Confused Presley -- Heartbreak Hotel and Blue Suede Shoes Eddie Cochran --- Summertime Blues and C'mon Everybody Little Richard -- Lucille |
Hmm, I feel like I should name another one... You all should listen to this one. Tons of energy, uniquely garbed lead singer, and guitars blazing. Anyone remember, "She Sells Sanctuary"? 1985, believe it or not... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZCOSPtyZAPA |
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I didn't read through all the posts, and I'm not certain what "Rock" means, but at the moment I have a special love of "A Whiter Shade Of Pale" (as much Classical as Rock, what with it's J.S. Bach compositional elements) and "The Weight", two majestic, soaring masterpieces of song. That they are Rock (if they are) is incidental; a great song is a great song, regardless of genre-style performance. Now, if you asked for a Rock 'n' Roll song, THAT would get a different answer: "I Hear You Knocking", the version by Dave Edmunds. |
The song Heroes was inspired by an incident when David Bowie was in Berlin and saw Tony Visconti (producer/engineer) kissing Antonia Maaß (backing vocalist) by the Berlin Wall. The Rolling Stone magazine described the song, "Bowie wails with crazed soul about two doomed lovers finding a moment of redemption together — just for one day." Doomed, because Visconti was married. Bowie was a strange one at times, but he certainly had moments of genius. He gave up his wild days, kicked his drug addiction after a scare, and the thin white duke left his mark in the music world for sure. |
Okay...anudder OBVIOUS one... ”Heartbreaker” - Led Zeppelin. That it’s also also one of the best rock riffs ever is beside the point. I read an article many years ago regarding the techniques used recording the tune. If my 60+ year old memory has retained anything, Page’s amplifier was situated 20 feet down a hall and cranked to eleven - or something like that. I swear that I can hear that. |
@oblgny, Joan is wonderful live, better than on record. Check out her live-in-studio version of Slim Harpo’s "Shake Your Hips" on You Tube. Very hot! Lou Ann Barton does a great version the song too, another great singer. She was Stevie Ray Vaughan's original singer in Austin, and now sometimes tours with his brother Jimmie. |
Oh gawd yes, @oblgny! "Mercury Blues" absolutely smokes, and is a good recording ta boot (I've used it for years as material for speaker evaluations). I've seen Lindley perform it live with his great band El Rayo-X, and the room goes insane! People think The Who, The Ramones, The Pistols, and The Clash rock(ed), but none do harder than Lindley and his band on this song. The irony is that he is best known as a sideman for one of the laidback SoCal singer-songwriters, Jackson Browne of course. I've also seen David live with Ry Cooder, which is a real treat. |
Some of my favorite rock tunes Led Zeppelin's " In the Evening " Boston " Piece of Mind " Paul McCartney " let me roll you" Rolling Stones " Slave" Jimi Hendrix " fire" Deep Purple " space truckin " Neil Young "cinnamon girl" Jethro tull " living in the past" Supertramp " school" Van Halen " everybody wants some" the Beatles "she's a woman" Montrose " rock the nation or rock candy" Nillsson " jump into the fire " lynyrd skynyrd " Saturday night Special or on the hunt" the outlaws " green grass and high tides" CCR - " born on the bayou " Hollies " long cool woman in a black dress" AC DC - " have a drink on me" Kinks " all day and all of the night" bad company " feel like makin love" Mountain " Mississippi Queen " Genesis " Abacab" Eric Clapton " She's waiting " new one the Raconteurs " sunday driver" White stripes " ball and a biscuit" |