The definition of rock and roll will always evoke an individual, emotional response from people. That’s what “The Devil’s Music” is supposed to do.
Word…unfortunately the Devil’s music has been bought up by big corporations…probably always has been…I don’t think you’ll see Pearl Jam on these lists in 10 - 20 years as they don’t play by the corporation rules…but of course the corporations control all the rules…so even by not playing by the rules, they’re playing by the rules…so to speak…
If you look at the lists from 10 years ago you’ll see all the same songs in the top 10…pretty much the top 100 also…funny that RUSH seems to be moved out of the top 100 when they were in the top 10 or 20 a few years ago with Tom Sawyer and Limelight always broke the top 100…I’m believing this is because they insist on putting out new music and not just playing the oldies for aging boomers…which confuses the corporations on how to make a buck off them…maybe I’m just pissed RUSH isn’t in the top 10.
AND FFS how could Big Bottoms by Spinal Tap not be top 10 material ! Three basses and one of them a double neck at that ! AND they go to 11…
[quote]Yo Momma wrote:
And I wouldn’t call the Beatles’ music classic rock and roll, either, except for their earliest numbers.
The definition of rock and roll will always evoke an individual, emotional response from people. That’s what “The Devil’s Music” is supposed to do. As long as the music is aggressive, driving and heavy on the bass, that’s rock and roll to me. Oh yeah, and it has to be real fuckin LOUD![/quote]
By your definition (and mine too as I agree with you) I’d say Beatles’ later stuff is far closer to being Rock and Roll than their early stuff. They started off as a pop band playing cheesy love crap, but their later albums had a lot more of an edge to them, more substance. I’d take Rocky Raccoon over Hey Jude any day…
[quote]taylorsj wrote:
FightingScott wrote:
I hate the Eagles. They’re worse than 3 dog night. They’re worse than Simon and Garfunkel. Ok. Maybe Simon and Garfunkel are worse. James Taylor sucks too. If you disagree with any of this, I refuse to believe you have any balls.
Blasphemy! How can you like classic rock and not like the Eagles?! Classic rock and the Eagles are synonymous to me. Ok, so maybe most of the Eagles tunes don’t do it for you, but can you honestly say that “Hotel California” is not a good song?[/quote]
Because my balls tell me so. I’m also never wrong. I hate “Hotel California.” It is not a lovely place. It’s people like you that make classic rock stations suck.
[quote]Yo Momma wrote:
rainjack wrote:
There are only about 4 songs in the Top 10 that are any good.
The Beatles suck ass. If Buddy Holly had lived another 10 years, you would have never heard of the Liverpool Asslicks.
A strange coincidence that Paul McCartney now owns the publishing rights to most of Buddy Holly’s songs.
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Even stranger that he doesn’t own the rights to his own songs. Michael Jackson does. Lol.
Long live Buddy Holly…anybody born on September 7th is …basically awesome ;o)
That includes Chrissy Hyndes.
Honestly though, I’m sick of classic rock. It doesn’t matter to me anybody’s definition of it. Yes thats a preposition at the end of a sentence. It FEELS right. …and I don’t FEEL tardy. Just for you Van Halen fans. I love the hell out of Zeppelin and Co…but I’m done with it. I am tired of going to parties and having some A-hole put on The Eagles or Journey. I’m TIRED of it. I don’t care anymore about the long run or street lights and fucking people ohhh ohhh ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhh. I’ve stopped believing okay. And its about time you did too. If you’re discovering it for the first time, do it on your own watch bitch I have new music to love. So let me pop in my CD and be enlightened, or I’m leaving. Enough past dwelling…good music is being made in the here and now. If you would just escape whatever decade you are cemented into…take the decades out of your ears and really listen.
Honestly though, I’m sick of classic rock. It doesn’t matter to me anybody’s definition of it. Yes thats a preposition at the end of a sentence. [/quote]
[quote]Molotov_Coktease wrote:
Honestly though, I’m sick of classic rock. It doesn’t matter to me anybody’s definition of it. Yes thats a preposition at the end of a sentence. It FEELS right. …and I don’t FEEL tardy. Just for you Van Halen fans. I love the hell out of Zeppelin and Co…but I’m done with it. I am tired of going to parties and having some A-hole put on The Eagles or Journey. I’m TIRED of it. I don’t care anymore about the long run or street lights and fucking people ohhh ohhh ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhh. I’ve stopped believing okay. And its about time you did too. If you’re discovering it for the first time, do it on your own watch bitch I have new music to love. So let me pop in my CD and be enlightened, or I’m leaving. Enough past dwelling…good music is being made in the here and now. If you would just escape whatever decade you are cemented into…take the decades out of your ears and really listen.[/quote]
I don’t want to give up listening to the good classic rock songs just because some ppl suck and fuck it up for the rest of us. Its like old movies to me. They are much better then any of the shit coming out now adays. I don’t totally dislike new stuff, I listen to it when I’m at the gym, but that doesnt mean theres no room for the old stuff.
[quote]ss847859 wrote:
Q104.3 in NY played the top 1043 classic rock songs over Thanksgiving weekend. They came up with the list based on their listeners votes. I think the beatles had the most on the list at 79. Heres what they got as their top ten:
10-Rolling Stones
Sympathy For The Devil
9-Pink Floyd
Comfortably Numb
8-Eagles
Hotel California
7-Bruce Springsteen
Born To Run
6-Who
Won�??t Get Fooled Again
5-Who
Baba O’riley
4-Beatles
Hey Jude
3-Lynyrd Skynyrd
Free Bird
2-Derek & The Dominos
Layla
1-Led Zeppelin
Stairway To Heaven
That top 10 sucks. No Highway to Hell? No Dream On? Baba O’Riley? Also, Stairway should not be included because it is not an original song, rather an old blues track done infinitely better.
[quote]Steel Nation wrote:
ss847859 wrote:
Q104.3 in NY played the top 1043 classic rock songs over Thanksgiving weekend. They came up with the list based on their listeners votes. I think the beatles had the most on the list at 79. Heres what they got as their top ten:
10-Rolling Stones
Sympathy For The Devil
9-Pink Floyd
Comfortably Numb
8-Eagles
Hotel California
7-Bruce Springsteen
Born To Run
6-Who
Won�??t Get Fooled Again
5-Who
Baba O’riley
4-Beatles
Hey Jude
3-Lynyrd Skynyrd
Free Bird
2-Derek & The Dominos
Layla
1-Led Zeppelin
Stairway To Heaven
That top 10 sucks. No Highway to Hell? No Dream On? Baba O’Riley? Also, Stairway should not be included because it is not an original song, rather an old blues track done infinitely better.
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Baba O’Riley is on there. The biggest problem in my eyes is no Sweet Home Alabama =P
I honestly would not be able to make my own list, it would change daily if not hourly. I like the list so far I would change a few things though: Free Bird to Sweet Home Alabama. Get rid of the Eagles…not sure what I’d replace it with.
I think the problem with the list by Q104.3 is how they polled. They probubly just asked for ppl to vote on the best classic rock song and then rank them in order of how many votes each got. Its an easy way to do it and to rank the top 1043 I think its the only way. But to get a good list of top 10 you would have to have ppl make up lists of their top 10 and then see how many times a song comes up 1st, 2nd, 3rd etc. It would be a pain in the ass…thats why no one is happy with this list. Thats why I posted it to get ppl pissed off at it.
Enough past dwelling…good music is being made in the here and now. If you would just escape whatever decade you are cemented into…take the decades out of your ears and really listen.[/quote]
I don’t think anyone ever said that good music is not being made here and now. It’s just that rock and roll is not so much a linear progression, as a circular one. And it’s just a matter of personal preference as to what you like to listen to or play.
Jimi Hendrix - Voodoo Chile
Who - Won’t Get Fooled Again
ACDC - Have a Drink On Me, Stiff Upper Lip, Thunderstruck, Shoot to Thrill, Shot Down in Flames
Black Sabbath - War Pigs
Uriah Heap - Stealin’
Allman Brothers - Whipping Post
7 Bruce Springsteen-Born To Run: I think Born in the USA is a lot better song, and I wouldnt have any trouble having it at number 7. Born to Run doesnt have any catch while Born in the USA has.
19 Don Mclean-American Pie: What? Boring song.
26 Guns N’ Roses-Sweet Child O’mine: Have mercy! The worst song in Appetite For Destruction? For me it is. The riff is annoying and repetitive and the song is too long.
45 AC/DC-You Shook Me All Night Long: The most commercial AC/DC song out there and gets quickly annoying. Any other song would do.
But-no Nirvana! Woot woot! (I know Nirvana is n`t classic rock)
Rod Stewart - Maggie May, or maybe You Wear It Well
Dire Straits - Sultans of Swing
Blue Oyster Cult - Don’t Fear the Reaper
Crosby Stills & Nash - Southern Cross
Queen - Fat Bottomed Girls (the only Queen song I like)
Creedence Clearwater Revival - Bad Moon Rising
Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers - Mary Jane’s Last Dance
The Kinks - Lola
George Thorogood - One Bourbon, One Scotch, One Beer
Rolling Stones - Paint It Black
Anybody listen to the french version recorded in 1966 by Marie Laforet? There is an awesome Metal Gear Solid 4 trailer using her version. Her vocals make it sexy. Having terrorists killed by giant mechanical chickens doesn’t hurt either. Marie LaForet - Paint it Black (MGS4) - YouTube
[quote]rainjack wrote:
Someone define the Classic Rock Period.
Is it 60-70’s?
70-80’s?
60-80’s?
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I like to think Classic Rock is 1960 - 1979. Problem is how do you classify acts like Stevie Ray Vaughan, George Thorogood or The Ramones into a category like that? I think most Classic Rock radio stations play everything from 1960 to the mid/late 80s.
Jimi Hendrix - Voodoo Chile
Who - Won’t Get Fooled Again
ACDC - Have a Drink On Me, Stiff Upper Lip, Thunderstruck, Shoot to Thrill, Shot Down in Flames
Black Sabbath - War Pigs
Uriah Heap - Stealin’
Allman Brothers - Whipping Post[/quote]
Wait, little wing the instrumental version by Stevie Ray Vaughn? The one sang Hendrix is the true classic. The lyrics are great on that song.