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Post by nonrabbit on Sept 25, 2009 22:48:47 GMT
other than whats on the Forum label Is it this?
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Post by admin on Oct 1, 2009 9:07:27 GMT
First the best pop song ever and now this!!! These babies should probably be in the short list:
Freebird
Suppers Ready
Awaken (another epic in two parts. Me, an old hippy? never!)
Xanadu
Shine On You Crazy Diamond
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Post by admin on Oct 1, 2009 9:29:21 GMT
Looking back on my last post you would think that there is nothing in my music collection that isn't big floaty epics. Not so! The best rock ('n'roll) songs ever? Time for the boys your mother warned you about to have a go, let's boogie!!!!
and bottom of this list because they were never that famous but way top of my list because to me they were for a little while the greatest kick ass rock n roll band ever......Blackfoot
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Post by broadsword on Oct 1, 2009 10:40:02 GMT
This gets my vote
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Post by nonrabbit on Oct 1, 2009 11:13:54 GMT
Great choices there Col/Sword ! I'd better make sure my teeth and wig are well glued in/on before I start listening and rockin
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Post by maddogfagin on Oct 1, 2009 18:16:35 GMT
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Post by broadsword on Oct 1, 2009 20:21:24 GMT
Or this
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Post by broadsword on Oct 1, 2009 20:23:33 GMT
Maybe this
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quizzkid
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Post by quizzkid on Oct 1, 2009 20:50:08 GMT
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Post by admin on Oct 2, 2009 21:15:40 GMT
And one from me too! And how could we forget this? Putting favourites aside for a moment and trying to subjectively pick the biggest milestones in rock history then it's surely got to be this Vs Stairway To Heaven? Maybe!?
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Post by TullSkull on Mar 27, 2010 13:27:53 GMT
Remember seeing this one live on the Album Tour in 1971 or 72...
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Post by volospian on Mar 27, 2010 19:55:46 GMT
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Post by tulloholic on Mar 28, 2010 18:08:24 GMT
That's easy. "sunshine of your love" by Cream it is.
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Post by steelmonkey on Mar 30, 2010 1:21:19 GMT
Based on criteria of how many hundreds of other great songs were stolen from these songs, how about:
Not Fade Away, Sweet Jane, Satisfaction
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Post by steelmonkey on Mar 30, 2010 1:23:08 GMT
How about : Don't Let me be Misunderstood...and isn't White Room better than Sunshine of Your Love?
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Post by tullist on Mar 30, 2010 3:20:01 GMT
My computer buddy has been able to goose my computer to where apparently I am living off the juices of others in this dwelling, nice to know mini geniuses, plus he gave me one of those thingys where I can use it outside this dwelling. Unfortunately the service is a bit spotty but wtf. Not Fade Away, Don't Let Me Be Misunderstood, cool choices. I am sure we would mostly agree that if this can be whittled down to 100 it would be a miracle. What was that bird is the word one from the mid sixties that was pretty mad, we once got this ace guy I worked with who had a stuttering problem and wonderful disparate musical tastes pretty much touching all genres to sing it in the trading room, some of the most hysterical $h1t I have ever seen. After saying 96 tears from ? and the Mysterians off some garage tape copilation of 100 or so from that realm with some truly nasty stuff in there, glorious rock and roll, I will reach for my uber obvious choices of the Stones and the Who, Stones, Hand of Fate, 19th Nervous Breakdown, the intro to Can't You Hear Me Knockin, well, that list is pointless those guys have at least 15 worthy contenders and the guy who even outdoes IA for stage energy in his sixties, near as I can tell he has not even slowed down yet in his urgency to deliver that Stones message, and the Who's take on what was originally something of a jazz piece from Mose Allison, Young Man Blues. I know, I won't vote for a song at all just the vision that was John Lennon as a young Beatle stepping up to the microphone Beatle boot legs apart and nose first, or any of hundreds of swivel hipped moves from the late very great Bettie Page, that children, was the heart of rock and roll and therefore is its best song, so there.
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Post by tullist on Mar 30, 2010 4:47:47 GMT
In my sheer joy in having the computer back so quick I will now shamelessly litter this website with at least 3 videos of worthy contenders, Keith Richards from a few years back, all though roughly half of Get Yer Ya's Ya's Out would merit inclusion, particularly the covers and Stray Cat Blues but Wicked as it Seems from Keith, dig those heroin eyes, though of course I am glad he has stopped, there have been so many pretenders to the throne, but to this day I consider the Stones the worlds greatest rock and roll band, and though all the ingredients have been VERY important, none more so than Keith. www.youtube.com/watch?v=85aCbRjtV9wI've only known of this guy for about ten years though he has been around much longer and believe this piece merits inclusion on the list, though I would have included any number of his others if I could find one of professional enough quality. Dave Alvin and the Guilty Men, 4th of July, which I have seen him perform on that date about 3 times due to his love for my friends the Fitzgeralds local music roadhouse and their 30 year 4 day American music festival every year, that Califorinia boy and his tour bus usually tries to make a point of being in town to close the fest, always with this song. www.youtube.com/watch?v=1BtzpaCZnjA and from which naturally follows another worthy contender, Hey Baby, Bruce Chanel which translated out of rock and roll basically means omg do i love pretty girls and will certainly know I am dying once I don't care. www.youtube.com/watch?v=L4w1Mp6Mce4Paul in Moscow for the sheer historical import of this event for those of us old enough to remember when the idea of this right in Red Square was literally unimaginable, and of course right before some of the prettiest girls in the world, when we were bred on a notion of sturdy legged women with hunched backs from cruel labor with babooshka's with occasional exceptions like that villainess in the old Batman show or the occasional Russian temptress in a James Bond film, cannot recommend this entire show highly enough, particularly the interviews with artisans and older people who remember only too well, literally gets me choked up that as much as the Beatles meant to us, pretty much everything, they meant more to these people necessarily, all on You Tube particularly to those with an interest in the historical import of the Beatles and why I think they did more to bring freedom of sorts to Eastern Europe and the world in general than any other factor, Paulie proudly representing the other Fabs,and may I borrow verbage from the very greatest of American composers, Edward "Duke" Ellington on this terrifying day that has just passed in Moscow, Dear Moscow, remember, "We Love You Madly", Back in the USSR www.youtube.com/watch?v=tw0kJf_15QEAnd the guy who remains so stupid good that he renders a case of endgame, just want to pick up my ball and go home, James Marshall Hendrix, Johnny B Goode, probably should include James Brown at the Apollo, but the game is well and truly over after Jimi, only a fool follows him onstage, he leaves nothing left to say. www.youtube.com/watch?v=ni0skv6GgbU I am not sure what higher compliment I can give Jethro Tull than to say I love them more than everything I have listed, and I mean the whole ride from 1968 to now. Still not sure I would want to see any era of Tull try to follow Jimi on stage, endearingly enough, apparently Jimi had the same thing to say about Tull, forget where I read that, but it was within the last 2 years.
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Post by janu on Oct 5, 2010 13:27:25 GMT
without any doubt this is for me the best rock song ever written, led zeppelin forever.
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Post by nonrabbit on Oct 6, 2010 7:58:16 GMT
a million yessss - not that I had forgotten it in my first post subconciously blanking it out to give the others a chance
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Post by bunkerfan on Oct 6, 2010 13:44:24 GMT
A couple from Bad Company.
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