Greatest rock song in existence

[RaTheSunGod]

Alright folks, I'll test your rock knowledge here..

The greatest rock song in existance..Van Halen's Eruption.. :rant:

[Mark Vieth]

Mine would have to be a slow song done by metallica. "Nothing else Matters"

[dicksbro]

There are so many, but my wife and my favorite song has been:

Unchained Melody ... several different artists including Elvis

[Belial]

Alright folks, I'll test your rock knowledge here..

The greatest rock song in existance..Van Halen's Eruption.. :rant:

I learned to play that a while ago. Thanks for reminding me to work on it again!


Greatest rock song in existence...hmm...well there's so many great ones that don't exist, so I"ll have to eliminate them...shit, I don't know...Frankenstein by the Edgar Winter Group? Electric Funeral by Black Sabbath? Dante's Inferno by Iced Earth?

[LixyChick]

I learned to play that a while ago. Thanks for reminding me to work on it again!


Greatest rock song in existence...hmm...well there's so many great ones that don't exist, so I"ll have to eliminate them...shit, I don't know...Frankenstein by the Edgar Winter Group? Electric Funeral by Black Sabbath? Dante's Inferno by Iced Earth?
Geezzzzzzz Belial...you've got some memory!

I'm going with Aerosmith's "Walk This Way" and "Dream On" (one can't go without the other). But then there's AC/DC's Thunderstruck (it's got all the elements). What about Pink Floyd's "The Wall"? And Green Day's been no slouch with "American Idiot" (but that could be construed as something else).

Oh wait...could it be Procol Harem's "Lighter Shade of Pale"?

No no, here ya go...it's gotta be The Animals "House of the Rising Sun", right?

What's my grade? This is a test...isn't it? Do I go to the head of the class?

[Belial]

Pour Some Sugar On Me, Love Bites (hell, the whole Hysteria album) by Def Leppard, Sabbath Bloody Sabbath and Ironman by Black Sabbath, Highway Star by Deep Purple, Welcome To The Jungle by GnR, Cemetary Gates by Pantera...

[Superfreak]

I vote for the entire "Frampton Comes Alive" Album. Anyone with me on that?

[Irish]

Lixy---There's still hope for you!I heard,recently(on the news)that Steven
Tyler(Aerosmith) & his wife had separated!You could be #3(?) :line: Irish

[BigBear57]

Always liked Zep's Houses of the Holy or 4th album. Of course Bob Segar's stuff was always tops at my house too. I've worn out 3 copies of Bonnie Raitte's "The Glow" ... that's another all timer. How's that for variety? LOL

[WildIrish]

Metallica's "Frayed Ends Of Sanity"


And "Get Down With The Sickness" is a keeper too.

OMG...Tool's 46 & 2! Love that song.

[RaTheSunGod]

Someone's been naughty, they don't get to go to the end of the class, but they get to stay after. :x:

By the way, Eruption is hard as shit to play, I wish you luck on that.

[LixyChick]

Lixy---There's still hope for you!I heard,recently(on the news)that Steven
Tyler(Aerosmith) & his wife had separated!You could be #3(?) :line: Irish
:x: I know...I know Irish! Hey...he's in my crosshairs! *giggle*

BTW everyone...rock isn't just Heavy Metal...but Heavy Metal is always rock at heart!

Just had that thought in my head all day...lol!

Oh...and one more thing...is it "Lighter Shade of Pale" or Whiter Shade of Pale"? Been thinkin bout that all day too! I've almost convinced myself it's "Whiter"...but then I've been known to be wrong...(once)!

And Ra? Was it me who's been naughty (kicking a stone...standing alone in a sun dress that you can see right through because the sun is behind me and shining at my back)? If so, why (biting on the tip of my right index finger as I tilt my head like the RCA dog...flipping hair off left shoulder)?

*giggle*

I asked everyone at work who might be a rocker to gimme some input. You should have heard some of the suggestive suggestions I got with that request...but I digress! Um...so these are some of the answers I got...

Free Bird
Sympathy for the Devil
Stairway to Heaven
The Immigrant Song
Born To Be Wild
She Bop (believe it or not...someone threw in Cyndi Lauper...lmao!)
Paradise By The Dashboard Lights
Your Move (YES)
Major Tom
Ironman (or is it Iron Man??...good gawd I should know that...drugs'll do it everytime...lol)
When Doves Cry (I said...awwwwww when it was suggested...but didn't agree it's an "in all existance" candidate.
Wooden Ships

There was more...but I forget them all!

*bends over for the teacher's paddle*

I AM NOT CHEATING! You didn't say I couldn't copy off of anyone else's paper. Matter of fact...you didn't give ANY rules!

*makes a mad dash for the revolving door*

[osuche]

Sign me up for anything classic Pink Floyd. I **really** like Dark Side of the Moon.

[Lilith]

Kashmir

[Aqua]

Kashmir
I have no choice but to concur with wisdom and beauty... :)

Kashmir it is. ;)

[MilkToast]

I have no choice but to concur with wisdom and beauty... :)

Kashmir it is. ;)
But if you disagree you get to go to the dungeon... so it might be worth it!

[scotzoidman]

Lixy, it is "Whiter Shade of Pale"...hope I've put your mind at rest...& it is one of the all-time killer rock songs, supposedly derived from J S Bach (& one of the 1st songs I learned when I was playing the Hammond regularly)...also great is LedZep's Kashmir...
One I keep going back to when I need that out-of-body experience is Pink Floyd's "Shine On You Crazy Diamond"...

[lizzardbits]

Stairway to Heaven
La Grange
Iron Man
Smoke on the Water
Paranoid
Inna Godda Da Vida
Strangle Hold
....All way excellent classics.....

My personal favs, though, are:
Black #1---Type O Negative
Summer Breeze (remake)--Type O Negative
Be My Druidess--Type O Negative
Angel--Astral Sleep
Reptile--Nine Inch Nails
Closer--Nine Inch Nails
Physical--Nine Inch Nails
and track #69 off of Undertow--Tool
Sober--Tool
Blue--A Perfect Circle
or just basically anything that Peter Steele, Trent Reznor, And Maynard James Keenan has done, or influenced

[thereIam]

It has to be one of two songs:

Child in Time by Deep Purple or 2112 by Rush.


Or it could be the dark horse candidate: Moonshine by Black Oak Arkansas.

[Oldfart]

Define "Rock" please.

[scotzoidman]

Define "Rock" please.
Geologicly or musically?

[scotzoidman]

& I wonder if I annoyed anybody today on my way to pick up the mallrats as I cranked up the full 180 watts for LZ "Whole Lotta Love"...

gawd, I sure hope so..."way down inside...woman...you need it....LOOOOOOOOOVVVVVEEEEEEEEEEE"

[waltaja]

"Hey Hey what can I Do?"

Led Zeppelin


Greatest song ever!!!!

[cherrypie7788]

Hmm...I cant just pick one!

Whiskey in the Jar--Metallica
Blackhole Sun--Soundgarden
Jeremy--Pearl Jam
Anything Nirvana

I have some oldies too though that I love from Led Zepplin and AC/DC.

[Belial]

Wasn't Black Hole Sun by Soundgarden?

[cherrypie7788]

Oh yeah, oops lol...It's early

[boilergirl1]

i can hardly believe you all left out hotel california
i mean who besides the eagles could take an already great song redo it and improve upon their own material.

then there is pink floyd of course an zep and yes and rush and judas priest and bonnie raitt eric clapton jimmy hendrix stevi ray vaugn i could go on an on but i wont

as for todays rock i truly love mettalica have aqquired a taste for kid rock ,stained, nicckleback, slipknot(a little) green day has my attn currently

and then of course lets not leave out SANTANA
carlos continues to push the window of his own music and others by melding the old with the new

~~~do I really have to pick just one?, Impossible!!!~~~

[Oldfart]

Scotz,

Both, but with addenda on how they relate to the music of the latter 20th Century.

John Cafferty and the Beaver Brown Band, "On the Dark Side" with all it's connotations.

[jseal]

Can't Buy Me Love, Back In The USSR: The Beatles

Brown Sugar: The Rolling Stones

Purple Haze: Jimi Hendrix

[LixyChick]

Lixy, it is "Whiter Shade of Pale"...hope I've put your mind at rest...& it is one of the all-time killer rock songs, supposedly derived from J S Bach (& one of the 1st songs I learned when I was playing the Hammond regularly)...also great is LedZep's Kashmir...
One I keep going back to when I need that out-of-body experience is Pink Floyd's "Shine On You Crazy Diamond"...
TY sweet cakes! Remind me to suck you...er...thank you personally when we get a chance to chat (soon, I hope)!

I'm more partial to The Immagrant Song (Zep) than Kashmir...but that's prolly just me!

[waltaja]

figured i'd add a few more for my honorable mentions list...

Radar Love by Golden Earing
Paint it Black by the Rolling Stones
Ballroom Blitz by Sweet
Cities on Flame With Rock and Roll by BÖC
ME 262 by BÖC
Tales of Brave Ulyssess by Cream
Any Zeppelin, preferably the Brown Bomber album
Sin City by ACDC

[scotzoidman]

TY sweet cakes! Remind me to suck you...er...thank you personally when we get a chance to chat (soon, I hope)!

I'm more partial to The Immagrant Song (Zep) than Kashmir...but that's prolly just me!
scotzoidman issues one (1) rain check to LixyChick, to be honored at the first opportunity.

[scotzoidman]

Scotz,

Both, but with addenda on how they relate to the music of the latter 20th Century.

A solid mineral object which may be igneous, sedimentary, or metamorphic in origin.

How that relates to music et cetera et cetera escapes me at the moment...

[Oldfart]

Scotz,

By beating a "rock" on a hollow log, a beat may be established.

By a number of people beating a "rock" on a hollow log or three, contrapuntal beats

may be established, leading to sex in the outside world, or dancing in the bible belt.

BTW, the best points on record needles were made of diamond, making Beethoven and

his fellow classicists maybe rock musicians?

[jseal]

...Beethoven and his fellow classicists maybe rock musicians?

Oldfart,

I always believed that. :) Sooner or later, the word was bound to get out.

[wyndhy]

giggling at OF...you wiley old coot!

as usual i could never pick just one or even a few.
however! if a swing vote is needed, a properly greased [*eyebrow wiggle*] palm would surely secure another vote in your favor.

[scotzoidman]

Scotz,

By beating a "rock" on a hollow log, a beat may be established.

By a number of people beating a "rock" on a hollow log or three, contrapuntal beats

may be established, leading to sex in the outside world, or dancing in the bible belt.

BTW, the best points on record needles were made of diamond, making Beethoven and

his fellow classicists maybe rock musicians?I had already remembered the old cartoon from Mad Magazine, depicting the origins of music (stick against rock, rock against stick, rock against head...until, about 10,000 BC, orchestras were formed...)
Incidently, in these parts, some Southern Baptists always leave their shades up when having sex, so people won't think they're dancing...
As to whether Ludwig & his contemporaries were the rockers of their day, Mr. Twain once said of the music of Richard Wagner, "It's not nearly as awful as it sounds..."

Just a few random neural firings from the Scotzophrenic mind...

[jseal]

...of the music of Richard Wagner, "It's not nearly as awful as it sounds..."...

scotzoidman,

The proof that it was early rock music! :D

[Mae]

Depends on what kind of "rock" you mean.

Queen "Bohemian Rhapsody"
AC/DC "Back in Black" or "You Shook Me All Night Long"
Bob Seger "Main Street"
Van Halen "Running With The Devil"
Scorpions "No One Like You"
Phil Collins "Susudio"
Led Zeppelin "Kashmir"
Pink Floyd "Comfortably Numb"

And others too numerous to mention. Hope to be back soon. Couldn't resist the question. :)

[RaTheSunGod]

lizzardbits, you are a woman after my own heart, I must admit, your personal favs are also some of my personal faves, especially 'Sober'...because Tool RAWKS MY SAWKS! :nopics:

[RaTheSunGod]

I guess my personal favorites would be:

"Eruption" - Van Halen
"Born In A Burial Gown" - Cradle of Filth
"Sharp-Dressed Man" - ZZ Top
"No Leaf Clover" - Metallica
"Lithium" - Nirvana
"Progenies of the Great Apocalypse" - Dimmu Borgir
"Sober" - Tool
"Schism" - Tool
"Judith" - A Perfect Circle
"Closer (Trance Remix)" - Static-X and NIN

I have many more favorites, but by the time I finished listing them, my pubes would've overtaken the entire state of Virginia.
:hair:

[Ranger1930]

Hmmm... let me see.. lets scroll thru da list..

Painted Black - Stones
Ramble On - Zepp.
Anything by the Doors
Burning bright - shinedown
anything by Rob zombie
Respect - Pantera
anything by Ozzy
Why I'm here - Oleander
Closer - NIN
Metallica... that is too many to count..

lol i could do this alllllll day long..