Date: 12/10/2005 1:12:00 PM
From Authorid: 58334
Oo...Bohemian Rhapsody. I love that song.  |
Date: 12/10/2005 1:19:00 PM
From Authorid: 49689
Rock 'n Roll All Night by Kiss  |
Date: 12/10/2005 1:21:00 PM ( From Author )
From Authorid: 18111
May be "Beth" by Kiss can be considered a really good song, but even Gene will tell you none of their stuff is Shakespear.  |
Date: 12/10/2005 1:44:00 PM
From Authorid: 55967
VH-1 did a top 100 songs for the entire 20th century about 6 months ago. That supposedly includes ALL songs, but rock predominated the whole thing since it is the best-selling music of human history by a long shot. I'll tell you the number 1 song of the 20th century in a minute, but I also want to say that what was in the top few were "Gloria" (forget who sings that), "Bohemian Rhapsody," and "Born to Run." The Beatles were given the honors of having the most songs in that list (7). Now, what was I going to say? Oh yeah. The number 1 song of the 20th century. Wait...I have to go right now; someone's calling me.  |
Date: 12/10/2005 1:47:00 PM
From Authorid: 7830
Old Time Rock and Roll by Bob Seger defenitly@  |
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Date: 12/10/2005 1:48:00 PM
From Authorid: 55967
Just kidding. You will never guess what the number 1 song was on VH-1. Never. But before I tell you, I want to mention that all these lists are put together by certain groups that TRY to represent everyone, but who knows how close they come to that? Okay, the number 1 song of the entire 20th century according to VH-1 is...."Satisfaction" from the Rolling Stones! No, seriously, it was! I wonder if they used sales of records as part of their criteria? |
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Date: 12/10/2005 1:53:00 PM ( From Author )
From Authorid: 18111
To come up with that from the Rolling Stones as great had to have to do with sales. "I see a red door & I want to paint it black..." or "I am a man of taste & means..." now those are some great R.S. lyrics, but "I can't get no..." uh, no. |
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Date: 12/10/2005 1:56:00 PM ( From Author )
From Authorid: 18111
Bob Seger, yeah! "...same old cliche' is that a woman or man.." Old Time" just brings up images of Tom Cruise &...eeeuuw. |
Date: 12/10/2005 1:56:00 PM
From Authorid: 63026
I thought Bob dylans "Like A Rolling Stone" was the #1 all time greatest rock and roll song? I hate lists that chart the so called greatest songs, cuz everyone has a opionion on whats the greatest song is.  |
Date: 12/10/2005 1:59:00 PM ( Admin )
Satisfaction, Rolling Stones.. It was before all these others..  |
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Date: 12/10/2005 2:00:00 PM ( From Author )
From Authorid: 18111
Can't truly say that Dylan's or Guthrie's (father & son included) ever rocked....but Dan Fohgerty's "The Day the Music Died"...man I forgot about that one, but is it truly Rockin'? |
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Date: 12/10/2005 2:01:00 PM ( From Author )
From Authorid: 18111
Admin..."Rock Around The Clock" was before all these others too, but that doesn't make it a great song. |
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Date: 12/10/2005 2:07:00 PM ( From Author )
From Authorid: 18111
Wait, it wasn't Dan's it was the Bay City Rollers & "The Night Chicago Died". Dan's was "American Pie", got so much music in my head now I'm mixing lyrics with song titles!!! |
Date: 12/10/2005 2:08:00 PM
From Authorid: 39370
I think it's a bit pointless since everyone is going to have their own opinions about what is the best rock song. But, in my opinion....some of my favourites are "Like a Rolling Stone" (Dylan), "Draw the Line" (Aerosmith), as for Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds...although I love the Beatles, I hardly consider this their greatest rock song. I'd personally choose something more on the lines of Back in the USSR, Helter Skelter, Drive My Car, All My Loving, etc. But, like I said, everyones got different opnions.  |
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Date: 12/10/2005 2:10:00 PM
From Authorid: 39370
By the way, I believe it was Don McLean that did American Pie. |
Date: 12/10/2005 2:28:00 PM
From Authorid: 8024
Led Zep...stairway to heaven...c  |
Date: 12/10/2005 2:30:00 PM
From Authorid: 8024
Your right lucy  ...c |
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Date: 12/10/2005 2:32:00 PM ( From Author )
From Authorid: 18111
Don it was L.R., but the Eagles "Hotel California" has to be included in any discussion like this one, doesn't it? |
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Date: 12/10/2005 2:48:00 PM
From Authorid: 63026
I love hotel california |
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Date: 12/10/2005 3:45:00 PM
From Authorid: 55967
"The Night Chicago Died" was from Paper Lace. |
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Date: 12/10/2005 4:07:00 PM
From Authorid: 49689
Beth wasn't a rock 'n roll song..rather the first ballad that hit the mainstream, and is probably from the first note is the most recognized ballad in exsistence |
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Date: 12/10/2005 4:44:00 PM
From Authorid: 58334
I Can't Get No Satisfaction has also been a favorite of mine. |
Date: 12/10/2005 4:58:00 PM
From Authorid: 7574
I can't stand "Stairway to Heaven" and I'm a huge Led Zeppelin fan. Even they admit that that song ruined them. So many of their other songs are so great. I like a lot of Queen songs too, and just ugh, so many other songs too. I can't pick the best one. They all rock in their own ways.  |
Date: 12/10/2005 6:05:00 PM
From Authorid: 16023
You know whats funny about this post?? Right before I read it I had been singing Bohemian Rhapsody. That is a great song. Its hard to say what the best song is because there are so many awesome songs. You have the Eagles, Aha, Ozzy, KISS....I could go on forever. I'm a big fan of music there's no way I could possibly choose the best rock and roll song!!! =-D  |
Date: 12/10/2005 6:58:00 PM
From Authorid: 63172
Time of Your Life is IMO the best  |
Date: 12/10/2005 7:04:00 PM
From Authorid: 11240
Lynard Skynard's "FREEBIRD"! I love it. And Sweet Home Alabama (although me and the girls used to insert our own hometown name in there . "Wild Horses" is a better Rolling Stone song (and better ballad) than anything else mentioned here. And I also was a BIG FAN of Peter Frampton and "Show Me the Way". Of course I'm just an 40+ groupie, but that doesn't stop me from getting into some of the "newer" stuff. Have you noticed how many bands these days are remaking old classics? Limp Biscuit doing The Who's "Behind Blue Eyes" (and leaving out the best part, and some really bad redo of Charlie Daniels' "The Devil Went Down to Georgia". Gee, now that you've got me started I really really like Marshall Tucker's "Heard it in a Love Song" and that other one about "Gonna take a freight train, all the way to Georgia, til the train runs out of track . . ." "What that woman, she been doin' to me" . . . I want to say the name of the song is "Can't You See". I don't think "Hotel California' is the best Eagles song, and I also don't think "Born to Run" is Springsteen's best song, and the Beatles' "Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds" was pulverized by Elton John's rendition as far as I'm concerned. Seager has better material than the two mentioned but my 40+ brain isn't coming up with it. Eric Clapton has some great material from all his bands' albumns, and I am also a BIG FAN of Journey, Boston, the Doors, Santana, Fleetwood Mac and a whole host of others. I better stop now . . . God Bless.  |
Date: 12/10/2005 7:26:00 PM
From Authorid: 35720
BOC's Don't Fear The Reaper is my favorite song eveerrrrr. HIM did a remake and it doesn't even really compare at all.. which is something coming from me, because HIM is my life.  |
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Date: 12/10/2005 7:30:00 PM
From Authorid: 49689
any beatles version is pulverized by a remake... |
Date: 12/10/2005 7:57:00 PM
From Authorid: 15070
Mmmmm.....I love so many, STAIRWAY TO HEAVEN, PAINT IT BLACK, SHOOK ME ALL NIGHT LONG,OLD TIME ROCK AND ROLL, FREEBIRD......tough call.  |
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Date: 12/10/2005 7:58:00 PM
From Authorid: 15070
I might go with Typo-O Negatives "LOVE YOU TO DEATH" though.....for right now. |
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Date: 12/10/2005 7:59:00 PM
From Authorid: 15070
or Ozzy's CRAZY TRAIN..... |
Date: 12/10/2005 8:07:00 PM
From Authorid: 20977
Something from Jimi Hendrix would have to be on there!!  |
Date: 12/10/2005 8:44:00 PM
From Authorid: 47296
Stairway to Heaven is seen by many old time rock and rollers, as well as many radio stations as being the best Classic Rock song there is. In fact, in a survey of most requested classic rock songs by various radio stations, Stairway came out on top. But it is really the best? As a rock and roll standard, maybe so. One though that stands out that few ever think about though is Nights in White Satin. The song, as well as the composition, was written by one of the band members when he was 19 years old. It called for a full orchestra backup, something that was unheard of in rock and roll back then.  |
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Date: 12/10/2005 8:47:00 PM
From Authorid: 15070
I LOVE "Nights In White Satin"-now that is a song to fall in love too.... |
Date: 12/10/2005 8:55:00 PM
From Authorid: 24924
"Satisfaction", "Jumpin Jack Flash" by the Stones. "Legs" ZZ Top, "Wanna take you Higher" Sly & the Family", "Rock & Roll ain't Noise Pollution" AC/DC. "Proud Mary" Ike & Tina Turner.
"The Rose" sung by Bette Midler. "Like a Rollin' Stone" by Bob Dylan. Just a FEW . Too many to list them all.  |
Date: 12/10/2005 9:20:00 PM
From Authorid: 11240
I knew I shouldn't have got started on a "best rock and roll song" post. . . Always connected with Johnny (Cougar Mellancamp and his ode to innocence "Ain't Even Done with The Night", and the poignancy of Duran Duran in "OrdinaryWorld"'s -- "here among the news of Holy War and Holy "*" help me out here . . . is that *reams*?), ours' is just a little sorrow" -- seems to always put me in my place. But the BEST song? In my estimation the most fun I ever had was "getting into " this son: At parties, in bars with cover bands, or at their concert, the song that gets me (even today driving the kids in the car) and everyone around me to get into singing, and moving, and then slowing down and swaying all together in the slow parts, many times while hands clasped, is the Doobie Brothers' "Jesus is Just All Right With Me". And to me, that's what makes for a BEST. God Bless. |
Date: 12/10/2005 10:23:00 PM
From Authorid: 27046
I Love Rock N' Roll by Joan Jett----my personal Friday night Karoake favorite. The regs in the bar we hang out in know its MINE and it wrecks my whole night when someone new to the bar sneaks it in before I get there.....LOL  |
Date: 12/11/2005 7:54:00 AM
From Authorid: 26573
Don't Fear the Reaper is great for only one reason....LOTS OF COW-BELL!!!  |
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Date: 12/11/2005 11:32:00 AM
From Authorid: 27046
Shook Me All Night Long By AC/DC |
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Date: 12/11/2005 6:34:00 PM
From Authorid: 49689
looking at some of the songs listed..it's obvious that people don't know the difference in music genres..Since when has The Rose by Bette Midler been classified or even come close to being rock 'n roll? |
Date: 12/11/2005 9:17:00 PM
From Authorid: 22080
not one of those bands on the list can be classified as rock and roll  |
Date: 12/11/2005 9:55:00 PM
From Authorid: 13952
(1.) peggy sue....buddy holly....(2)..great balls of fire...jerry lee lewis.....(3).hound dog...elvis...(4).only love can break a heart...gene pitney...(5) good vibrations...beach boys  |
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Date: 12/11/2005 10:03:00 PM
From Authorid: 47296
Actually The Rose by Bette Midler is considered under the gendre of Rock and Roll. It falls under the sub-gendre of light rock. Jestr, all the ones listed are true Rock and Roll. Rock music has more sub-gendres than any other type of music. The first four listed in the opening post fall under Classic Rock. |
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Date: 12/11/2005 10:05:00 PM
From Authorid: 47296
It is obvious that some younger people do not know what real rock music is, that is, the music that made rock and roll what it is today. |
Date: 12/12/2005 5:50:00 AM
From Authorid: 49689
actually the sub-gendre for bette midler would be vocal-easy listening
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Date: 12/12/2005 3:16:00 PM ( From Author )
From Authorid: 18111
...and in the end...there was no agreement, only the echoing of great music in the halls of our minds. The fact that we remember is, in the end, what it's all about. Kudos to Freddy (Queen) & John (Led Zep.) for their heavenly work on earth while they were here. |
Date: 12/12/2005 10:40:00 PM
From Authorid: 28946
Eric Clapton and the yardbirds were great. So many songs seemed to me at the time to be the greatest because of the emotions each could come out. I liked Bread and Guitar Man, James Taylors Fire and Rain, Rain drops keep Falling on my head, Hummingbird, Jimmy loves Maryann. Or how about the sing along with Mitch era and we would have blowin in the wind, Banana Boat by Harry Belafonte, If I had a hammer by Trini Lopez, Where have all the flowers gone by The Kingston Trio which are one of the greatest bands ever, IMO. But The Eve Of Destruction, was one of my favorites. Also a dollar down had alot of people singing it -- young and old. Great post Big - O.  |
Date: 12/18/2005 2:28:00 AM
From Authorid: 47166
Hey, Now... you can't honestly say that "Bohemian Rhapsody" out ranks Pink Floyd. I mean, it's a good song, and all, but on par with "Shine on you Crazy Diamond," "Fearless," or the entire "Final Cut" album? I think not.  |
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Date: 12/20/2005 11:38:00 AM
From Authorid: 62280
My son asked me what rock music was when he was 5 (he is 6 now) and from my repertoire of music, the closest I could come up with something I consider truly rock for him to listen to was "Go all the way" by the Rasberries which was a one hit wonder from the early 70's but a great one at that. It has the instrumentation that truly personifies "rock", in my opinion of course. Now, whether it was a great rock song, yes, I consider it to be but there are so many greats. Whose opinion is better than anothers? |
Date: 5/21/2006 7:19:00 AM
From Authorid: 63047
I have a personally list: 1) "Enter Sandman" by Metallica (yes, slightly metal but not as heavy as half of their earlier songs) 2) Back in Black by AC/DC , 3) Heartbreaker/Livin Lovin Maid by Led Zepplin... yes, the Zepplin HAD to be on here somewhere! lol, 4) Purple Haze by none other than Jimi Hendrix! and 5) Stone Cold Crazy by Queen. Yep, I am only 12 but probably know my rock and metal music more than a majority of the US's kids/teens nowadays (sheesh, anyone who thinks Green Day and Fall Out Boy are the best are crazy! lol, just j/k) But I grew up on metal and rock, thanks to my dad. I also grew up on country (like Randy Travis, etc> thanks to my mom (and I'm glad because when you get sick of rock music for a short time and have nothing else in the car to listen to, you tend to go "crazy" lol) Well, sorry for the long reply, but there you go! *ANGUS*  |
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Date: 5/21/2006 7:20:00 AM
From Authorid: 63047
oops! i had a couple typos there, lol |
