Author Topic: Greatest Rock song... (Read 2289 times)

Nash · « **Reply #75 on:** December 12, 2004, 09:04:19 PM »

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.

Gunslinger · « **Reply #76 on:** December 12, 2004, 09:12:51 PM »

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.

wombatt · « **Reply #77 on:** December 12, 2004, 11:41:09 PM »

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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:

StarOfAfrica2 · « **Reply #78 on:** December 13, 2004, 01:49:44 AM »

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.

Reschke · « **Reply #79 on:** December 13, 2004, 12:16:05 PM »

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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.

aztec · « **Reply #80 on:** December 13, 2004, 06:05:16 PM »

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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.

Nash · « **Reply #81 on:** December 13, 2004, 06:26:51 PM »

Hate to say it Reschke, but your last paragraph kind of speaks for itself. No offence intended.