Greatest Rock Song in History

[Bernie Sanders]

We all have our ideas of the greatest Rock songs ever. Mine is IRON BUTTERFLY - IN A GADDA DA VIDA

[jgordon1111]

I have two favorites

1st and foremost (Imagine) John Lennon

2nd very different but great nonetheless Killed by death, motorhead,Lemony his songs make me think about living better, and never give up,

[riskllama]

ha, "lemony". i bet he's never been called that before...

[jgordon1111]

Lol risk, I didn't look, freaking preemptive text got me , for the record I know it's Lemmy.and beings you brought it up something else I should have said is both songs remind me never give up, keep on, until the reaper takes you,

[riskllama]

Ian "lemony snicketts" Kilmister.

[jgordon1111]

It seems you know who he is, you ever listen to him ?

[riskllama]

of course! even saw them blow up the PA @ cowboys in Calgary, AB. about 12 years ago now. pretty fuckin' loud, it was...

[riskllama]

llama likes the metal...

[Dukasaur]

We all have our ideas of the greatest Rock songs ever. Mine is IRON BUTTERFLY - IN A GADDA DA VIDA

Excellent choice.

There are a lot of great rock anthems, but there is one which, to me, epitomizes what a great rock song is.

The ten-out-of-ten, the one that all others are measured against, Baba O'Riley.

[riskllama]

yeah but, pete...

[Dukasaur]

I don't consider the lives of artists when looking at their art. Half the masterpieces in the world would have to be destroyed if the personalities of their creators were the test.

[riskllama]

that's tough, but fair.
up next, michael jackson.

[Dukasaur]

that's tough, but fair.
up next, michael jackson.

Thriller was a good album. As for the rest of his stuff, I don't know what so great about it. He had one hit in the 70s, then he vanished off the radar for 10 years, then he had one good album, then he went on to make some music that I've never heard, then he became a circus freak show.

Honestly, I don't know what marketing genius managed to get him crowned "King of Pop" based on one album and not much else. I generally have contempt for marketing people, but whoever pulled that off was some kind of genius.

As for the whole diddler thing, I'm not completely convinced either way. I read some of the stuff, and I found persuasive the argument of the one psychiatrist who said that M.J. was trapped in a mental self-image of being a child. His being attracted to children, therefore, was not abuse, it was simply him playing with his friends. I don't know. Maybe he was and maybe he wasn't, but a jury who heard the evidence firsthand acquitted him by unanimous vote. Reading some of the prosecution's case, one is struck by how they seem to be trying to make something out of nothing. I've read a number of articles detailing how the media, like the prosecution, was desperate for evidence of guilt that simply didn't exist. (http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/luka-neskovic/michael-jackson-biography_b_1589692.html) He was a weirdo, to be sure, but I've seen no proof that he sexually assaulted anyone.

[muy_thaiguy]

I have to do 2. Why? One marks the end of one chapter, but the other marks the beginning of a new one.

[Bernie Sanders]

We all have our ideas of the greatest Rock songs ever. Mine is IRON BUTTERFLY - IN A GADDA DA VIDA

Excellent choice.

There are a lot of great rock anthems, but there is one which, to me, epitomizes what a great rock song is.

The ten-out-of-ten, the one that all others are measured against, Baba O'Riley.

That was the anthem song for many of us who grew up in that era. Liked that video.

[Bernie Sanders]

I have to do 2. Why? One marks the end of one chapter, but the other marks the beginning of a new one.

I saw AC/DC in '79 personally at an outdoor concert. Bon Scott was an original!

[KoolBak]

LOVE Iron Butterfly...Inna- is a classic...remember it blasting out of the basement from my brother whn I was a kid (and the song was new...lol).

Also love the AC/DC picks...saw them about 8 years ago...awesome.

Duk...re your comment on the artist themselves vs their music...totally agree; Neil Young is my fave alltime artist but can't stand his personal views on the world

So MANY favorite songs...country, rock, folk...etc. One that's probly never gonna be mentioned here and has always been in my top several is Brandy by Looking Glass...check out this stud

[iAmCaffeine]

[Keefie]

Just about anything sung by Steve Marriott but this is a great example from the best rock blues vocalist of all time (with a bonus of Peter Frampton on Guitar)



and for just sheer energy then it has to be this:

[jonesthecurl]

I don't know if there's one definitive best - probably if there is, it's "Sympathy For the Devil"... but here's something I love which most of you have probably never heard and which you you really ought.

[Metsfanmax]

It is really not possible to pick the greatest rock song. There are just too many good and varied contenders.

However, the answer is clearly Stairway to Heaven.

[notyou2]

This was already settled, so shut up already.


http://www.rollingstone.com/music/lists/the-500-greatest-songs-of-all-time-20110407/bob-dylan-like-a-rolling-stone-20110516

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Even as he was dying, Mercury threw himself into his majestic, operatic singing. Queen's Brian May recalls that Mercury could hardly walk when the band recorded "The Show Must Go On" in 1990. "I said, 'Fred, I don't know if this is going to be possible to sing,' " May says. "And he went, 'I'll fucking do it, darling' — vodka down — and went in and killed it, completely lacerated that vocal."

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[Quirk]

[Metsfanmax]

This was already settled, so shut up already.


http://www.rollingstone.com/music/lists/the-500-greatest-songs-of-all-time-20110407/bob-dylan-like-a-rolling-stone-20110516

No. The list of greatest rock songs is not a proper subset of the list of greatest songs, nor is the order among the two lists the same. Greatest rock songs are not merely great songs that also happen to be rock songs, but rather the songs that best embody what is great about the genre.