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General Forums => The O' Club => Topic started by: BlueJ1 on December 08, 2004, 05:20:55 PM
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Only proper to have a greatest Rock song thread...
Have at it.
Mine is Imigrant Song.(Besides stairway)
I'll record Drediock's vote for llama llama duck ahead of time.
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Free Bird (From 4:40 to the end :D)
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Stairway? Hotel California?
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Blur, Song 2. Or guerilla Radio.
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Kashmir
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You shook me all night long - AC/DC
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Battle of Evermore? The greatest rock song?
I'd say something more like Heartbreaker. If any of you folks get the chance, listen to the BBC Sessions version of Heartbreaker. It is the most unbelievable live recording I've ever heard.
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Im confusing threads lol. Gona leave it at Imigrant song.
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Stairway
defining traits of all rock and roll since and to be
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ooooo... so many bands and songs to choose from!
Lotsa people have mentioned led zeppelin- it's hard enough picking a single song from just this one band let alone every other band in the world. My personal zeppelin fave is "The ocean" but they have so many fantastic songs it's soo hard to choose!
Something dif- how about skunk anansie with "cheap honesty", I love this band!:)
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Comfortably Numb
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Moutain Jam
Allman Brothers Band
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Without a doubt
"love shack" by the B52s
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It's a long way to the top
If ya wanna rock 'n' roll
Cheers,
Scherf
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Its a toss between Close to the Edge, Revealing Science of God and Awaken.
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Heh heh, I knew Yeager would toss in a Yes song or two. What Yeager? Not Heart of the Sunrise? I really like Long Distance Runaround and Wonderous Stories too.
Gotta agree with DJ111, Freebird was a great song.
But the best? Hard if not impossible to define as it is purely subjective.
Great songs, how about In-a-Gada-Da-Vida? Certainly about the longest.
I always loved Radar Love, but I wouldn't call it the greatest. Same for Suite: Judy Blue Eyes
So many great songs, too little time.
dago
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can't think of anything besides... Stairway to Heaven.
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Now this is easy - "Sweet Jane" Velvet Underground and later Lou Reed on "Rock'n Roll animal" (or was it transformer? - the live album).
The other topic is hard, (best tune ever), and impossible to answer.
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You know...I whipped out Fragile just yesterday and listened to it front to back for the first time in years. Those guys as young twenty year olds had a frightening amount of talent and creativity.
Yes, Heart of the Sunrise as well as South Side of the Sky are awe inspring peices of audio art.
I guess I could throw in the entire Moving Pictures Album by Rush as one of the truly great masterpeices of modern times.
But thats just me :)
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A Day in the Life
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Gotta toss in "Hush" by Deep Purple; of course I am a huge Led Zeppelin fan and my two favorites to toss into the category would be "Kashmir" with "When the Levee Breaks" right there with it.
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Echoes - Pink Floyd
or
Tie Your Mother Down - Queen
Karaya
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Kashmir
Immigrant Song
Another Brick In The Wall Part 2
It's a Long Way to the Top (If you wanna rock 'n' roll)
Tronsky
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kansas-carry on my wayward son
foreigner-juke box hero:D
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Maybe not best rock song ever, but my fav LedZep songs are Ramble On, Thank You, Tangerine, and Levee.
Hush rocks teh big one!!1 Puts me in a great mood.
Always have room for Thin Lizzy too. Frickin dueling guitars - ever hear them live? They sound perfect, just like their recordings.
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Originally posted by Manedew
Moutain Jam
Allman Brothers Band
Great tune :D
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Originally posted by Octavius
Maybe not best rock song ever, but my fav LedZep songs are Ramble On, Thank You, Tangerine, and Levee.
Hush rocks teh big one!!1 Puts me in a great mood.
Always have room for Thin Lizzy too. Frickin dueling guitars - ever hear them live? They sound perfect, just like their recordings.
Some of my favorites by them too. White Moutain/Black Riverside is probably my favorite, but thats really just Jimmy Page.
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Cant pick just one .... its worse then trying to eat one chip ...
shure Led Zep at the top ...
but then
AC/DC,Ted Nug,Deep purple, Yes , floyd,Heart,nazereth,B.O.C,Rush,Pantera,Queensryche, clapton,jimmie,mountian,hatchet,,ozzy,Tesla,Santana, Dio,ZZ,Marshall tucker,Supertramp,G-n-R,SrV,Scorps,Judas P. ....
.... hmm is this just a best rock thread ??
or can we drag the Blues into it ... Robin Barrett , Savoy Brown , ect ..
well there's hundreds of others .. help somebody save me... and i havent even gone Surf music yet ..... Well I like it all ... (rap and whiny country can get kinda yuk,yuk though)
I cant possiably list just one as my all time fav or very best . (ok now you guys have done it ... ill be up all nite with my music collection ... )
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Limelight- Rush
And anything composed by Bethoven
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You people are weird... Good songs, yes, but tiresome ones at that.
I have to say either God Save The Queen, or Anarchy In The U.K. --- both by the Sex Pistols. 27 years later and people still can't figure out what the lyrics really mean.
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Kashmir or Stranglehold
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Originally posted by Yeager
Its a toss between Close to the Edge, Revealing Science of God and Awaken.
Long Distance Runaround-I love that song,great interplay.Bruford at his best:D
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Castles Are Made of Sand-Jimi Hendrix
Axis Bold as Love..any track..it's just awsome song writing.
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Rick Derringer: Rock'n'Roll Hoochie choo
Clash: I fought the law
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Originally posted by Yeager
You know...I whipped out Fragile just yesterday and listened to it front to back for the first time in years. Those guys as young twenty year olds had a frightening amount of talent and creativity.
Yes, Heart of the Sunrise as well as South Side of the Sky are awe inspring peices of audio art.
I guess I could throw in the entire Moving Pictures Album by Rush as one of the truly great masterpeices of modern times.
But thats just me :)
Funny how Yes fans almost always are into Rush as well..:).....any live version of Xanadu...Cinderella Man and FreeWill as well.
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Friends by the van Zant Brothers band.
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Originally posted by SirLoin
Castles Are Made of Sand-Jimi Hendrix
Axis Bold as Love..any track..it's just awsome song writing.
SirLoin, I get into shouting matches over that album, I'm only 31 and love that album, I'd put it at No.3 on my All-Time list for me. My buddy blows a gasket when I say that. It's Sheer bloody poetry.
Karaya
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Originally posted by Fruda
You people are weird... Good songs, yes, but tiresome ones at that.
tiresome becaus of overplay on the radio in our youths, but still no denying the greatness of Zep.
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Roll over bethoven - Chuck Berry
Johnny BGood - Chuck Berry
Back in the U.S.S.R. - Beatles
Great Balls of Fire - Jerry Lee Lewis
oh ya.... and any song by The Monkeys
;)
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"Amy Saw me looking at her boobs today"
By Screeching Weasel
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Yeaaaaahhhhhhhhh ............
HUSH! (2 3 4) HUSH! (2 3 4) ta dum dum dum dum dum de dum de dum dum ... HUSH! (repeat as needed, no side effects other than mesmerization)
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I started reading this thread last night and promptly loaded my MP3 player up with lots of kick bellybutton music for the work day today. Its funny though how some just keep getting knocked right back to the top of the playlist.
Just a few of those are Peace Train, Hush, Immigrant Song, Levee, Moonshadow, Morning has broken...well there are many more like anything Jimi Hendrix did...lets just say that I could listen to one song at a time all day and not get to them all.
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Hmm.. Greatest Rock song and no mentions of Deep Purple's Smoke on the Water?
Although there are lots of other great songs... but I'll go with that one for now.
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Good song and yes I did think of it but I honestly like Hush better even though Smoke on the Water is considered by many to be the better of the two.
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Originally posted by Blooz
You shook me all night long - AC/DC
Agreed.
Highway to Hell is probably better known though. Heck, I like anything AC/DC. :)
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Tutti-Fruitie - Little Richard (especially the original before he cleaned up the lyrics)
63tb
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Alice Cooper's Rock'n'roll PartI\ii.
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It's a Long Way to the Top
Runnin’ With The Devil
Born to be Wild
LA Woman
Piece Of My Heart
Ironman
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Uriah Heep - July Morning
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Greatest rock song or Favorite? Greatest means it's overall popularity and influence on others. Probably have to go with Heartbreak Hotel or Jonny Be Good for that.
Favorite is tougher. But, if I only get to pick one I suppose I have to go with Thin Lizzy's "Cowboy Song" from the JAILBREAK album.
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John Fogerty, Roy Orbison, and Elvis Presley all covered Hank's "Jambalaya", but Jimmy Page and Robert Plant duoed on Hank's "My Bucket's Got a Hole In It"
Tough to choose.
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Originally posted by BlueJ1
Only proper to have a greatest Rock song thread...
Have at it.
Mine is Imigrant Song.(Besides stairway)
I'll record Drediock's vote for llama llama duck ahead of time.
Mama..Pink Floyd, Free bird...Stairway
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Slow Ride - Foghat
Stranglehold - Ted Nuegent
Stairway to Heaven - Led Zepplin
and many more...............
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not the greatest, but really damn good, well performed and recorded:
"Barracuda" and "Heartless" by Heart
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I love the riff in Barracuda.
Yes, Heart of the Sunrise as well as South Side of the Sky are awe inspring peices of audio art.
Ugh, I didn't know anyone like Yes. Man, I always thought they sucked(still do). The lead singers voice made me want to cover my ears.
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I used to love Yes. I even lost my virginity to the live version of ROUNDABOUT off the Classic Yes Album. But, as I get older I have less time to listen to technically awesome but overblown music. I find any song that clocks in at eight minutes is five minutes too long. -SIGH- I suppose it's going to be Ramones for me...
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Originally posted by NUKE
not the greatest, but really damn good, well performed and recorded:
"Barracuda" and "Heartless" by Heart
good taste Nuke...
my fav. is Superstition
I love Stevie Ray's rendetion of that song...
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Yup SLO, "Superstitious" is a great song and one that I have always liked since I was a kid. Stevie has a lot of great songs.
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Rhyme of the Ancient Mariner and or Aces High
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I went surfing one night looking for tunes I remembered from my teenage years. 12 hours and 20 minutes worth of Rock and Roll. Even some from the new bads. But , mainly older late 70's thru early90's.
I saw this thread at work..went to the car..got the CD...and been cranking all night.:aok
680MB's of RnR on 1 cd with 710kb left.....and there all MP3's:lol
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so we all agree there hasn't been any great r&r in over 20 years?
sad
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Nope can't agree Eagler...for instance; Brian Wilson or What a good boy by the Bare Naked Ladies.
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Originally posted by aztec
Nope can't agree Eagler...for instance; Brian Wilson or What a good boy by the Bare Naked Ladies.
as I was saying ... LOL
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Laugh out loud away Eagler....music is as subjective in preference as anything gets. I have been a performing musician a good deal of my life and my musical interests are very broad. Personally I would never laugh at anyones taste in music however some folks need to cut off others heads to make themselves taller. Have a good day Sir. :)
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Bare Naked Ladies are a great band...!
Original with great melodies,vocals and a kick bellybutton stand up bass player.
Beat that!
(Edit)..>> There IS great R&R out there..It's just hard to find at the CD/DVD store.
You have to frequent your local bar/music hall...Search out the table selling music disks/t-shirts..etc
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Originally posted by genozaur
Alice Cooper's Rock'n'roll PartI\II.
My mistake!
It just somehow happened that I had forgotten that my best rock band is LED ZEPPELIN, and naturally the best rock song is WHOLE LOTTA LOVE.
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No "question" about it, "96 Tears". It has it all; less than 3 minutes long, greasy farfisa organ, hook, bridge, love, hate, anger, anxiety, tension and release, falsetto at the end, and done by nobody famous. Just a great song meaning nothing other than what it says ; the thing stands for itself.
Tom
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Black Bettie by Black Oak Arkansas
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didn't mean to cut your head off - hope it grows back :)
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Originally posted by Eagler
so that makes how many bands others have listed as great younger than 20 years old??
By the looks of it, most folks here stopped listening to music 20 years ago, or stopped listening to anything new 20 years ago.
So of course..... What else are they going to say? Songs they've never heard of?
Take the songs posted here as an accurate indication of the "best" songs if you want, but....
a) we're not exactly dealing with the most informed people when it comes to music here and b) it's an impossible question to begin with.
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I listen to all kinds of music. When I'm driving, I'm more likely to listen to country music nowdays.
newer rock, just at random
Toadies "Possum Kingdom"
Third Eye Blind "I Want Something Else"
These two are well done, good songs that I really liked, but I wouldn't call them the greatest rock songs.
Nash, what songs would you rate as the greatest of rock?
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I'm going to have to go with You Know You're Right or Come As You Are by Nirvana. Smells Like Teen Spirit was popular buuuuuut.......any Nirvana song is great even if it doesn't make sense.:aok
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There is no greatest song.
But mostly, music keeps evolving and through that, keeps getting better. People learning from mistakes, or taking the previous and expanding on it.
But... it's art and therefore subjective. Most cannot divorce music from its context. From the time it was recorded right through to the songs you got laid to.
It's much more than the songs themselves that make them "great".
One person will hear a mess of an arrangement, an embarrasement of lyrics.... and another will hear the soundtrack of when life was better.
And call it "great."
But the song itself? Broken down and analyzed.... structure, musicianship, production, arrangement, lyrics, recording and on and on... often reduces it to something far less than what it wound up becoming.
That's where the context comes in.
Simply put, when folks say "Freebird" they aren't saying that the song is great, so much as they're saying "Man, those were good times."
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In the grand AH tradition:
You're all wrong!
It's "God Save the Queen" by the Sex Pistols. Get rulebook, tear it up, burn it, p*ss on the embers. Any questions?
Cheers,
Scherf
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I'm getting the feeling that its cyclic. You get about 10 years of great muzic and 10 years of doldrums....more or less. I think were 3 years into doldrums.
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Oh it's incredibly cyclic.
Late 60's/early early seventies you had Hendrix et al. Good stuff.
Then 74'ish you had arena rock. d'Oh!
76 you had Elvis Costello and punk.
79 you had disco.
80ish you had the Clash and New Wave.
85 you had, well, eighties keyboard crap and hair metal bands.
88-94 you had Husker Du and the Pixies and Nirvana and all the rest of it.
97 you had the Spice Girls.
2001's answer to that was Nu-Metal with Corn, Bizket, and... well... a pretty weak response to Spicedom. Plus the Creeds and the Nickelbacks.
2003.... it's changed. It now spans the gamut from Lincoln Park to Norah Jones to Good Charlotte to Eminem to Avril Lavigne... quite random. And meh, not so great.
Now... it's all over the map. And it has everything to do with the internet. We're not fed solely by radio and MTV, so programming changeovers don't have the same cultural impact. Or as much as they used to.
Take punk, or disco, or heavy metal for example... Now there is no one genre of music sweeping everything. It's eclectic.
But... it's harder work trying to pin down and find the kinds of music you like. The good stuff. It takes effort, and I'm not being facetious.... It really does take some effort to find it now.
But because some people can't find it, or can't put in the effort into finding it and therefore default to calling Freebird amazing, does not mean that great music isn't still being created. You probably just don't know about it - or how to find it.
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Nash,
To kind of piggyback on what you were saying:
The other night I was "previewing" music on limewire and decided to download Peter Gabrial "in your eyes (live and Acoustic)"
I never liked the pop version of this song but hearing it this way it was amazing. Same goes for alot of other songs. Even alot of the covers that bands of today are doing make you go back and appreciate or in some cases re-discover the original.
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Originally posted by Nash
By the looks of it, most folks here stopped listening to music 20 years ago, or stopped listening to anything new 20 years ago.
So of course..... What else are they going to say? Songs they've never heard of?
Take the songs posted here as an accurate indication of the "best" songs if you want, but....
a) we're not exactly dealing with the most informed people when it comes to music here and b) it's an impossible question to begin with.
Maybe thats because they stoped making GOOD music 20 years ago:confused:
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Top bands for me, not in any order. If you wanna call it "Rock and Roll" it has to make you move, it has to stir you inside. It has to make YOU rock and roll.
AC/DC - Many good songs, cant list them all. Dirty Deeds, Hells Bells, Highway to Hell, Flick of the Switch, For Those about to Rock, Money..............
Queen - Comon, nobody listed Queen? Freddie Mercury had one of the most distinctive voices of Rock ever! Dont even try to tell me that if you hear Another one Bites the Dust you dont at least tap a finger or a foot.
Guns N Roses - That combo of Axl Rose and Slash was just mind boggling. The stuff they did in the 80s and 90s STILL makes people go crazy. Welcome to the Jungle and Sweet Child of Mine will always be among my favorites.
Bon Jovi - Because with the guys in his band, they wrote songs that got through to kids, to guys bustin their humps for a living every day, to people that hustle on the streets..........everyone had a song or two they could relate to. And they really refined the art of the "power ballad". Other groups did one or two better ones, other artists connected with fans as well or better, but nobody did it on the scale these guys did.
Rush AND Pink Floyd - Because they showed the world the power of lyrics. They made good music, but the lyrics of their songs inspired people. To do other things besides smoke pot. Really.
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Originally posted by Nash
By the looks of it, most folks here stopped listening to music 20 years ago, or stopped listening to anything new 20 years ago.
So of course..... What else are they going to say? Songs they've never heard of?
Take the songs posted here as an accurate indication of the "best" songs if you want, but....
a) we're not exactly dealing with the most informed people when it comes to music here and b) it's an impossible question to begin with.
I think you would be wrong just tossing the whole thread into this list. If you look at the demographics of this community most of the people here are at least 30 years old and for the most part were brought up listening to music from what was probably the greatest age of R&R music creation.
To say that we don't listen to current crap on the radio is wrong. There are several current and not so current bands that I like such as Silverchair (Frogstomp album kicked bellybutton in my mind), Bare Naked Ladies and a few others like Avril Lavenge (sp?), Nickelback and several others.
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Originally posted by Eagler
didn't mean to cut your head off - hope it grows back :)
Hehe, can't imagine I'd use it any better.:)
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Hate to say it Reschke, but your last paragraph kind of speaks for itself. No offence intended.