[Industrialblog,
January 18, 2005]
Best Rock Songs Ever?
Norm has one list of the 10 greatest rock songs of all time. Michele has another. Here's my Top 25, in no particular order:
Smells Like Teen Spirit, Nirvana
Personality Crisis, New York Dolls
What's Going On? Marvin Gaye
Little Wing, Derek & The Dominos version
Memory Motel, Rolling Stones
Country Comfort, Rod Stewart
Thank You, Led Zeppelin
Let It Be, the Beatles
The Weight, The Band
Baba O'Reilly, The Who
From a Whisper to a Scream, Elvis Costello
Riders on the Storm, The Doors
All Along the Watchtower, Bob Dylan
Wouldn't It Be Nice, Beach Boys
Hold On, Ian Gomm
Lightning Crashes, Live
I Saw the Light, Todd Rundgren
Let's Stay Together, Al Green
I Think We're Alone Now, Tommy James
Down to Zero, Joan Armatrading
Who'll Stop the Rain, Creedence Clearwater Revival
I Don't Want to Go Home, Southside Johnny & the Asbury Jukes
I'm So Anxious, Southside Johnny & the Asbury Jukes
Prove It All Night, Bruce Springsteen
Darkness on the Edge of Town, Bruce Springsteen
Local Girls, Graham Parker
Not very original, I know. But them's my favorites.
Update: Hmm...how did no Van Morrison make the list? Probably because Brown-Eyed Girl is severely overplayed.
I once heard someone say that your favorite songs are what you listened to when you were 19. Pretty close for me ...
UPDATE 2: I added one more. So there's 26.
Smells Like Teen Spirit, Nirvana
Personality Crisis, New York Dolls
What's Going On? Marvin Gaye
Little Wing, Derek & The Dominos version
Memory Motel, Rolling Stones
Country Comfort, Rod Stewart
Thank You, Led Zeppelin
Let It Be, the Beatles
The Weight, The Band
Baba O'Reilly, The Who
From a Whisper to a Scream, Elvis Costello
Riders on the Storm, The Doors
All Along the Watchtower, Bob Dylan
Wouldn't It Be Nice, Beach Boys
Hold On, Ian Gomm
Lightning Crashes, Live
I Saw the Light, Todd Rundgren
Let's Stay Together, Al Green
I Think We're Alone Now, Tommy James
Down to Zero, Joan Armatrading
Who'll Stop the Rain, Creedence Clearwater Revival
I Don't Want to Go Home, Southside Johnny & the Asbury Jukes
I'm So Anxious, Southside Johnny & the Asbury Jukes
Prove It All Night, Bruce Springsteen
Darkness on the Edge of Town, Bruce Springsteen
Local Girls, Graham Parker
Not very original, I know. But them's my favorites.
Update: Hmm...how did no Van Morrison make the list? Probably because Brown-Eyed Girl is severely overplayed.
I once heard someone say that your favorite songs are what you listened to when you were 19. Pretty close for me ...
UPDATE 2: I added one more. So there's 26.
Incense and Peppermints, Strawberry Alarm Clock
White Rabbit, Jefferson Airplane
Jackie Blue (long version), Ozark Mountain Daredevils (gee, is that rock? well, I don't care :)
Music for the Funeral of Queen Mary (definitely not rock— but it was the music for the opening credits of A Clockwork Orange)
Journey to the Center of the Mind, Amboy Dukes
Mighty Quinn, Manfred Mann
Venus, Shocking Blue
There Is a Mountain, Donovan
Flowers Never Bend with the Rainfall, Simon & Garfunkel
Midnight Confessions, Grass Roots
I Am a Rock, Simon & Garfunkel
Fragile, Yes— the entire damn album
Electric Guitar, Talking Heads (also, off the same Fear of Music album: Heaven and Paper)
Seen and Not Seen, Talking Heads
The Other Side of Life, The Moody Blues
Oliver's Army, Elvis Costello
I Want to Know What Love Is, Foreigner
Like the Fingers on a Windmill, Damnation
Revolution 9, The Beatles (yeah, well, I'm weird)
LOL! I guess that comes to 20 songs, plus one entire album. A lot of this became favorite music for me simply because I was young, and I was there, and there it was.
But hey, I thought I was from the 60s! Check out your psychodelia.
I just picked stuff that I've liked for a long time and would still never turn off the radio if they came on.