Greatest classic rock songs and bands/artists

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Greatest classic rock songs and bands/artists

I thought I would make a thread that is completely unrelated to religious debate.

Here is my list of songs:

1) "Layla" by Derek and the Dominoes

2) "Stairway to Heaven," by Led Zeppelin

3) "Sympathy for the Devil," by the Rolling Stones

4) "Like a Rolling Stone," by Bob Dylan

5) "A Day in the Life," by the Beatles

6) "Baba O'Reilly," by The Who

7) "Satisfaction," by the Rolling Stones

Cool "Hey Jude," by the Beatles

9) "Heartbreaker," by Led Zeppelin

10) "Hotel California," by the Eagles

HM) "Comfortably Numb," by Pink Floyd. "Start me up," "You Can't Always Get what you Want," and "Brown Sugar," by the Rolling Stones. "Let it Be," "The Long and Winding Road," and "While my Guitar Gently Weeps," by the Beatles. "Imagine," by John Lennon. "Black Dog," and "Rock and Roll," by Led Zeppelin. "Redemption Song," and 'No Woman no Cry," by Bob Marley (maybe doesn't qualify as classic rock, but I put it up anyway). "Purple Haze," by Jimi Hendrix.

Here is my list of bands/artists:

1) The Beatles

2) The Rolling Stones

3) Led Zeppelin

4) Pink Floyd

5) Bob Dylan

HM) Eric Clapton, The Who, The Eagles, Jimi Hendrix, The Doors, The Grateful Dead, Bob Marely and the Wailers, Jethro Tull, AC/DC and the Traveling Wilburys (technically a 90's band, but they included Harrison, Dylan, Petty and Orbison so I'll add them too).

 

Feel free to disagree and post your own lists. I might post a revised lsit later on if persuaded.

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I'm all for getting away

I'm all for getting away from the intensity every now and then. Smiling

Top 5 songs of all time, in order:

1: Countdown to Extinction: Megadeth

2: The Unforgiven: Metallica

3: Battery: Metallica

4: Master of Puppets: Metallica

5: Orion: Metallica

Continuing in no particular order with good tunes...

6: Bring Me to Life: Evanescense

7: Right Round: Flo Rida Laughing out loud

8: My Sacrifice: Creed

9: Video Killed the Radio Star: The Buggles

10:  C'mon: Go Betty Go

11: Lazy Generation: F-Ups

Oo. This could go on for quite awhile. Maybe I'll switch over to bands now.

1: Metallica.

2: Meatloaf

3: Weird Al

4: John Williams (composer)

5: Roxette (good sex music Eye-wink)

6: Offspring

Ah shit. Same problem as above. I think I'll leave it at this. Smiling

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 I've always had a soft

 I've always had a soft spot for Led Zeppelin, because I was a drummer in a former life. I'm not sure how you can leave out Zappa, though ... 

(Or Grand Funk Railroad, or BTO)

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Oops. Skimmed over the

Oops. Skimmed over the "classic" part I guess. Ah well, a few of those still qualify.

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Vastet, excellent addition

Vastet, excellent addition of Meatloaf. "Paradise by the Dashboard Light" and "Bat out of Hell" are a couple of my favorites.

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 I refuse to rank songs or

 I refuse to rank songs or artists because I change my mind every third day or so.  The ones that stay near the top of the list no matter what follow, in no particular order, and with no pretense of completeness.

Led Zepplin - When the Levy Breaks

The Beatles - I Want You/She's So Heavy

King Crimson - Twenty First Century Schizoid Man

The Who - Love Reign O'er Me

The Who - Baba O'Reilly

Black Sabbath - Iron Man

Blue Oyster Cult - Don't Fear the Reaper

Alice Cooper - School's Out

Jimi Hendrix - Voodoo Chile

The Rolling Stones - Sister Morphine

Heart - Crazy On You

The Rolling Stones - Flowers on Your Grave

Aerosmith - Dream On

Yes - Heart of the Sunrise

 

Bear in mind that I'm restricting myself to the um... classic definition of classic rock.  The other day, I heard the Police on a Classic Rock station.  If that's acceptable, it opens up an awful lot more early 80s possibilities.

 

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 Really "Don't Fear The

 Really "Don't Fear The Reaper"? Was that an ironic choice? Are you in need of yet more cowbell?

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HisWillness wrote: Really

HisWillness wrote:

 Really "Don't Fear The Reaper"? Was that an ironic choice? Are you in need of yet more cowbell?

ROTF

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 Quote: Really "Don't Fear

 

Quote:
 Really "Don't Fear The Reaper"? Was that an ironic choice? Are you in need of yet more cowbell?

It's kind of like that girl in grade school that you always used to punch in the arm and then run away... sometimes the things we abuse the most are the things we secretly like.

Actually, I love the guitar solo.  Cheesy, yes.  Cheesy gooey goodness.

 

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Hambydammit wrote: I

Hambydammit wrote:
I refuse to rank songs or artists because I change my mind every third day or so.

 

+1

 

Realistically, as I grow older, I am finding that I am liking music that I used to detest years ago. There are limits though. KISS should pretty much never play “Beth”. Even with the Melbourne philharmonic orchestra behind them, it is just not a good song.

 

That much being said, I can come up with one measure of what I like. A year or so ago, I finally took the plunge and got a digital music player. It can hold 250 CDs at the rip settings that I use but only 50~60 CDs have made it into the thing.

 

So what I have taken the time to rip and encode is probably a good metric for what I think is good. Here is a partial list:

 

Rush

Frank Zappa

Jethro Tull

The Doors

The Band

The Who

Lots of bands with Eric Clapton

The bands that have Ozzy

 

There are others but that is the general idea.

 

 

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I'd like to add the following to the list

1. The Clash- London Calling

2. Rush- 2112

3. Yes- Roundabout

4. Yardbirds- For your love


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At what age is music

At what age is music considered classic?

10, 15 years?

It seems "classic" gets older every year because the old geezers get older every year. I have heard the same music on the classic rock station for 5 years in a row.

 

Let's just say 15 years for arguments sake (sorry, some of these can't be considered rock):

Cradle of Filth - The Principle of Evil Made Flesh

Nine Inch Nails - Wish

Judas Priest - Painkiller

Pantera - Cowboys From Hell

Slayer - Angel of Death

 

I could go on, but I think everyone gets the point. "Classic" is in the eye of the beholder.

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dead_again wrote:Cradle of

I'm with you on everything but CoF. Of course, my library bounces between extremes, with someone like Sarah Mclaughlin being followd by Marilyn Manson. You put my mp3 player on shuffle, and it's like listening to a headful of multiple personalities fighting over radio stations.

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Ahem...here's the part...

...where I pretend to have actual taste in music.

 

Nobody mentioned Pink Floyd or the Moody Blues?

 

There.  Now that that's over with, I'll go back to what I really listen to:

 

"Saturday, In The Park,

I think it was the Fourth Of July..."

 

So are you all thoroughly appalled, yet?

 

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Classic rock (using rock in various terms here)

Going to do this in the "traditional" classic rock form (60's to the 80's)

1977 - The clash

Have a Cigar - Pink Floyd

Little Wings - Jimmie Hendrix

Me and Bobby McGee - Janis Joplin version

Sympathy for the Devil - Rolling Stones (and the neptunes remix version)

So fucking what - Anti nowhere league

Sonic Reducer - Dead boys

Taking care of Business - BTO

Saturday Night is Alright - Elton John

Dream on - Aerosmith

Ace of Spades - Motorhead

Those are the top songs

As for bands/singers

Pretty much  all those mentioned plus The Dead Kennedy's, The buzzcocks, Black Flag, The beatles, John Lennon, AC/DC, Neil Diamond (the bastard has some great songs), Neil Young, Sex Pistols, Madness, The Who, The guess Who and the Doors.

 


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Anybody here like Ratatat? 

Anybody here like Ratatat?  Far from being classic, but I've grown tired of music with lyrics.  Ratatat is all instrumental.

 

Am I alone on the no lyrics thing?

 

That said, I still enjoy most of the songs on this list on occasion.


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Oooh fun !I'm gonna try not

Oooh fun !

I'm gonna try not to repeat songs that are already listed:

- Physical Grafitti  (The whole thing)   Led Zeppelin

- Achilles Last Stand   Led Zeppelin

- Eminence Front    The Who

- Message in a bottle   The Police

- Barracuda     Heart

- Rocky Mountain Way   Joe Walsh

- Xanadu     Olivia Newton John

- Into the Void   Black Sabbath

- Animals (The whole thing)    Pink Floyd

- Saucerful of Secrets  Pink Floyd

- DSOTM  (I don't care how many best of lists its on..it's epic)  Pink Floyd

- Red  (the whole thing)  King Crimson

 

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Someone's going to have to

Someone's going to have to mention Queen. Might as well be me.

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while your basic rock and

while your basic rock and metal classics will always retain a spot in my library...

and as you'd expect some excessively heavy metal, but...

i tend to have a soft spot for Manowar (even some of their slow stuff... amazingly >.> i know )

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vsxi-EmZZ2Q (only good audio i could find on youtube, about 30sec in)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CfnizRqgh5Y&feature=related

 

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HOLY SHIT BATMAN, maybe I

HOLY SHIT BATMAN, maybe I missed it, but I swear NO ONE in this thread mentioned QUEEN!

What is wrong with you people?

Bohemian Rapsody

We Are The Campions

We Will Rock You

Another One Bites The Dust

Crazy Little Thing Called Love

.......................................................

 

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My favorite song by her is a little known remake of "Helter Skelter" last track on "Precious Time"

I still like her music, but she was NOT a nice person back stage.

Rush

Styx

REO Speedwagon

Somebody already said Metallica "And Justice For All" was the best album. But I like "Seek and Distroy" and "Fight Fire With Fire" off of "Kill Em All". "For Whom The Bell Tolls, and Fade to Black" off of "Ride The Lightning".

Foreigner

Just to name a few.

 

 

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Same thing ocurred to me two

Same thing ocurred to me two posts up. Sticking out tongue

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There really are to many

And various tastes to music, I mean nobody has mentioned the Ramones either (ok I forgot to add them, as well as Queen as ironically I was listening to tie your mother down as I was doing my list) The stooges, MC5, Iggy Pop, Blondie, The Talking Heads, Joy Division/New Order, Iron Maiden, The Dils, Dick Dale and the Del Tones (I mean come on this guy is an amazing guitar player), X, The Slits, I mean the list can go on and on with bands from the 60 to the 80's, and which ones you like/dislike etc, etc, etc.


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Strictly speaking what I

Strictly speaking what I would consider classic rock...  My introduction to most of these is do to my uncles playing covers with their garage band while the local rowdies would come over and drink & smoke into the wee hours of the morning. As a kid sitting in this garage, several of these bands were able to pierce the contact high and grab hold. Most of these took a side-bar during the 80's & 90's as Punk & Hardcore made it's way on my plate but over the years many have seemed to find their way back onto my play list... I assume this qualifies them as classics.

Not in any particular order or any kind of complete list:

Beatles

Rolling Stones

CCR

Jimi Hendrix

Bob Dylan

Pink Floyd

Black Sabbath

AC/DC

Boston

Clapton

Allman Brothers

Led Zeppelin

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Devo - "Wonderful World",

Devo - "Wonderful World", "Gates of Steel", "Jocko Homo"

B52s - "Rock Lobster", "Love Shack", "Hallucinating Pluto"

 

Art of Noise, Culture Club, Human League, Thomas Dolby...

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Rofl @ B52's.Anyone mention

Rofl @ B52's.

Anyone mention Elvis yet? He was creditted with starting the whole thing.

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And here's where I become guilty...

...of derailing the thread.

 

DanMullin wrote: "Am I alone on the no lyrics thing?"

 

I don't know how much company I can give you...but I do *occasionally* enjoy instrumentals.  Practically none of them qualify as "classic rock," although some are performed by acts that are classic rock acts.  I'm thinking of such massively obscure numbers as "Flying Cloud" by the Doobie Brothers, "Time" by Richard Carpenter, "Super Magic 2000" by Chris Isaak, "Angel Eyes" by Jim Brickman, and several others that you probably never heard of, before.

 

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I love a lot of Chicago's

I love a lot of Chicago's songs (MAKE ME SMILE - favorite), as well as Meatloaf, Heart, Elton John, The Beatles, The Doors, Pink Floyd & Led Zeppelin.

I also love a lot of 90's rock bands but they're not really classic, are they?

Meatloaf actually did a remake of a Celine Dion song and it's 10x better!

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Conor Wilson wrote:And

Conor Wilson wrote:

And here's where I become guilty of derailing the thread.

 

Actually, Vastet listed one of my favorite instrumentals.  Orion by Metallica.  I also like Call of Cthulu.

 

Both of those qualify as classic rock.  I suppose they could be a little to new for some people's definitions though.


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The Doomed Soul wrote:while

The Doomed Soul wrote:

while your basic rock and metal classics will always retain a spot in my library...

and as you'd expect some excessively heavy metal, but...

i tend to have a soft spot for Manowar (even some of their slow stuff... amazingly >.> i know )

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vsxi-EmZZ2Q (only good audio i could find on youtube, about 30sec in)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CfnizRqgh5Y&feature=related

 

Another Manowar lover.... UNITE!

They make me want to DIE FOR METAL!

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My list of favorite

My list of favorite 'classic' rock bands

Doobie Brothers

Lynyrd Skynrd

Tesla

Eagles

Steve Miller band

Bad Company

This is hard because there are so many bands like zepplin and rolling stones that I consider to be great classic bands as well...too many!

I tend to love all music (with the exception of most country music) and if a song/band has a particular effect on my emotions then it is a win for me.

 

 

 

 

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JillSwift wrote:Devo -

JillSwift wrote:

Devo - "Wonderful World", "Gates of Steel", "Jocko Homo"

 

Just.. YES!

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Classic Instrumentals: 

Classic Instrumentals:  (And I'm stretching the bounds of classics just a little)

Carn Evil 9 - Emerson Lake and Palmer

Frankenstein - Edgar Winter Group

The Star Spangled Banner - Jimi Hendrix

Walk Don't Run - The Ventures

Eruption - Van Halen

Pick Up the Pieces - Average White Band

One of These Days - Pink Floyd

Little Wing - Stevie Ray Vaughan.  Yeah, I know it's a remake of a song with words... but it's fucking famous in its own right.

Sleepwalk - Brian Setzer (Or Santo and Johnny.  I prefer Brian's version.)

Linus and Lucy - Vince Guaraldi

Peaches en Regalia - Frank Zappa

And... are you kidding me?  Foreplay, by Boston.

 

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And for that matter, I guess

And for that matter, I guess the theme from Shaft would count.

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