Favorite Rock Songs

[Kaiser of Arabia]

What are yours?

1. Freebird - Skynyrd
2. Sweet Home Alabama - Skynyrd
3. The Last Rebel - Skynyrd
4. I want it All - Queen
5. Hammer to Fall - Queen
6. Shine on you Crazy Diamond - Pink Floyd
7. Layla - Eric Clapton
8. Sunshine of your Love - Cream
9. Cocaine - Eric Clapton
10. White Room - Cream
11. Mad Hatter - Skynyrd
12. Princes of the Universe - Queen
13. Bohemian Rhapsody - Queen
14. Gimme Three Steps - Skynyrd
15. The Devil Went Down to Georgia - Charlie Daniels
16. Thunderstruck - AC/DC
17. For Those About to Rock - AC/DC
18. Bark at the Moon - Ozzie Osbourne
19. Rape Me - Nirvana
20. The Hotel California - The Eagles
21. A Horse with No Name - America
22. Mustapha - Queen
23. Live and Let Die - The Wings
24. Gimme Back My Bullets - Skynyrd
25. All I Can Do is Write About it - Skynyrd
26. Imagine - John Lennon
27. Cold Turkey - John Lennon
28. Classic Guitar Solo - Eric Clapton
29. T for Texas - Skynyrd
30. Dragon Attack - Queen
31. Mississippi Queen - Mountain
32. Saturday Night Special - Skynyrd
33. Radio Ga Ga - Queen
34. Under Pressure - Queen
35. Who Wants to Live Forever - Queen
36. Don't Stop Me Now - Queen
37. Cry for the Bad Man - Skynyrd
38. Mr. Bad Guy - Queen
39. Tie Your Mother Down - Queen
40. A Few More Rednecks - Charlie Daniels
41. We Will Rock You - Queen
42. Dark Side of the Moon - Pink Floyd
43. The Fool on the Hill - The Beatles
44. I Wanna Rock - Twisted Sisters
45. Turn Up the Radio - Autograph
46. Wild Thing - Jimi Hendrix
47. Heaven for Everyone - Queen
48. Las Palabras de Amor - Queen
49. Living on My Own - Queen
50. Driven by You - Brian May

-Capo

[Quietus]

It is fairly difficult (read: impossible) for me to rank the best of the best. I can’t even rank my favorite 100 marley songs (believe me, I’ve tried many times). I’ll just put down the songs I’ve been listening to a lot lately (not necessarily in order and not including instrumentals):

1. We Are Going – Burning Spear
2. Holy Man – Burning Spear
3. Hallelujah – Burning Spear
4. Resistance – Burning Spear
5. There You Go (traditional) – Jonny Island Reggae Group
6. The Best Of All (traditional) – Jonny Island Reggae Group
7. Glasshouse (live) – Peter Tosh
8. Pick Myself Up (live) – Peter Tosh
9. Right Back Where We Started From (live) – Maxine Nightengale
10. Son’s Gonna Rise – Citizen Cope
11. Penitentiary – Citizen Cope
12. Bullet and a Target – Citizen Cope
13. Pablo Picasso – Citizen Cope
14. Police & Thieves – Junior Murvin
15. Solomon – Junior Murvin
16. Something(live) – George Harrison
17. Here Comes the Sun (live) – George Harrison
18. While My Guitar Gently Weeps (live) – George Harrison
19. Taxman (live) – George Harrison
20. December African Rain – Juluka
21. African Sky Blue – Juluka
22. Walima’ Mabele – Juluka
23. Thank You Oh Lord – John Brown’s Body
24. Players & Singers – John Browns’s Body
25. Music Is My Only Friend – John Brown’s Body
26. Room Full of Mirrors – Jimi Hendrix
27. Hear My Train Comin’ – Jimi Hendrix
28. Born Under A Bad Sign – Jimi Hendrix
29. Mannish Boy – Jimi Hendrix
30. Paper Thin Walls – Modest Mouse
31. Tiny Cities Made of Ashes – Modest Mouse

[zelda12]

Where the hell is stair way to heaven or any led Zeppelin for that matter?

I can't really say my favourites as I really just can't and I'm influenced by what I've been listening recently. For instance I've been listening a lot to Queen and Le Zeppelin so Bohemiam Rhapsody and Stairway to Heaven and a few others. I just can't decide on the top hundred. Too hard.

[PanzerJaeger]

Where the hell is stair way to heaven or any led Zeppelin for that matter?

Exactly!

Although Stairway doesnt present Page's guitar skills at all..

I prefer Dazed and Confused and Heartbreaker. But any LZ trumps all others, besides mabey hendrix, in my opinion.

[Lazul]

Well its really hard list them fairly... but here are some songs... I wonder tho what is rock and not. Some might call some of my songs other then rock...

1. Finch - What is to Burn
2. Finch - Without you here
3. Ebba Grön - Staten och Kapitalet (swedish)
4. Ebba Grön - 800 grader (also swedish)
5. Marylin Manson - Fight Song
6. Marylin Manson - Posthuman
7. Rage Against the Machine - Bullet in your head
8. Rage Against the Machine - Know your enemy
9. The Vines - Get free
10. The Vines - Outtathaway

[lancelot]

Just a little selection of my faves..

1-Travellin man- Skynyrd
2-Wake up- Rage against the machine
3-Shine on you crazy diamond-Floyd
4-Battle of evermore-Led Zep
5-Young heart attack-Misty Rowe
6-Workin for MCA-skynyrd
7-Gimmie shelter-Stones
8-Shook me all night long-AC/DC

[NagatsukaShumi]

In no particular order :

Nirvana
Smells Like Teen Spirit
Rape Me
Lithium
Heart Shaped Box
Come As You Are
Scentless Apprentice
Serve The Servants
Something In The Way
Dumb
Been A Son

Placebo
The Bitter End
Teenage Angst
Bruise Pristine

Disturbed
Down With The Sickness
Stupify
Voices

Marilyn Manson
Tainted Love
Personal Jesus
Disposable Teens

Various Artists
Highway To Hell - AC/DC
Helena - My Chemical Romance
Killing In The Name - Rage Against The Machine
My Happiness - Powderfinger

Those are all the ones I can think of off the top of my head, I'm sure I could find plenty more if I had a look at my CD collection.

[Kaiser of Arabia]

Rape me, Personal Jesus, and Highway to hell are good songs.

[Quietus]

Nirvana
Smells Like Teen Spirit
Lithium
Heart Shaped Box
Come As You Are

Great, great songs! All Apologies too!

@Capo: Fat Bottomed Girls, one of Queen's catchiest songs!

[zelda12]

Fat bottomed girls is really catchy but really pisses me off.

[DemonArchangel]

Korn:
Beg For Me
Helmet in the Bush
Right Now
Everything I've Known
Got the Life
Freak on A Leash

Deftones:
Root
Shove It
Change
Digital Bath
Minerva

Soulfly:
In the Meantime
Brazil
Mars
I Believe
Tree of Pain

Sevendust:
Seasons
Face to Face

Nine Inch Nails:
Slipping Away
Into the Void
Pilgrimage
Reptile
Closer
Terrible Lie
Get Down, Make Love
Deep
We're in this Together

Sepultura:
Roots Bloody Roots
Apes of God
Come Back Alive
Ratamahatta
Refuse Resist

Disturbed:
Want
Stupify
Bound
Prayer
Rise
Liberate

[Kaiser of Arabia]

Heres more, in no particualr order:
Life in the Fast Lane - The Eagles
In Love with my car - Queen (should be in the top 50, around 4 or 5)
Strutter - KISS
American Women - Jimi Hendrix
Stairway to Heaven - Led Zepplin
Knockin on Heavens door - Clapton (i think)
Paint it Black - Rolling Stones
Back in Black - ACDC
Highway to Hell - ACDC
Tie your mother down - Queen
Mr Bad Guy - Queen
Cry for the Bad Man - Skynyrd
Mississippi Kid - Skynyrd.

[Quietus]

Fat bottomed girls is really catchy but really pisses me off.

Why?

[Kaiser of Arabia]

I was thinking that...

[NagatsukaShumi]

Great, great songs! All Apologies too!

Yeah, Kurt was a good writer and Grohl / Channing and Novelsic were great Drum Players/Bass Player.

Its a shame things came to an end, Nirvana could have become even bigger without Kurts suicide, but things happen I guess, he had his reasons, still a shame though.

That bring up a question in my head, just how many Rock artists have killed themselves either accidentally (via drugs etc) or suicidally?

[Quietus]

That bring up a question in my head, just how many Rock artists have killed themselves either accidentally (via drugs etc) or suicidally?

Kurt Cobain
Jimi Hendrix
Shannon Hoon
Keith Moon(?)
Jim Morrison
John Bonham(?)
Janis Joplin (?)
Ol' Dirty Bastard
John Entwhistle
Righteous Brothers guy(?)
Layne Staley
John Coltrane
Jaco Pastorious(?)
Guy with "Mystery White Boy" album, can't remember.
Marc Bolan(?)
Brad Nowell


Others:
Bob Marley (cancer)
John Lennon (murder)
Peter Tosh (murder)
Carlton Barrett (murder)
Keith Hudson (murder)
Fela Kuti (AIDS)
Karen Carpenter (leukemia?)
Elvis (heart attack?)
Marvin Gaye (AIDS?)
Freddie Mercury (AIDS)
Selena (murder)
Tupac Shakur (murder)
Biggie Smalls (murder)
Bernard Edwards (unknown)
Roger Troutman (murder)
Maurice(?) Gibbs (heart problem/operating room mishap?)
Rolling Stones guy (?)
Joe Strummer (heart attack)
Metallica guy(?)
Ezy E (AIDS?/Murdered?)
Left-Eye (Car Crash)
Aaliyah (Airplane crash)
Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valence and Big Bopper(?) (Airplane Crash)
Otis Redding (murder?)
Sam Cooke (?)
George Harrison (Cancer)
Stevie Ray Vaughan (helicopter crash?)
Warren Zevon (cancer)

There's a lot of others like lots of sidemen, I can't remember.

[Kaiser of Arabia]

Jerry Garcia?

[Quietus]

Jerry Garcia?

Not sure how he died. Cancer or natural causes?

I remember the names of some:
Cliff Burton
Jeff Buckley and
Billie Holliday.

[Lehesu]

Locomotive Breath-Jethro Tull

[DemonArchangel]

Jerry Garcia (Heart Disease)
Marvin Gaye (Shot by his own father)

[Quietus]

Marvin Gaye (Shot by his own father)

Oh yeah! Roger Troutman (of Zapp with the computer voice) was also shot with his brother. Also, typo: Keith Hudson died of cancer not murder.

Another great: Augustus Pablo died of cancer.

[Procrustes]

How 'bout some favorite punk rock songs? Off the top of my head, only one song per band, and in no particular order:

Love comes in spurts - Richard Hell and the Voidoids
We're living on dog food (so what?!) - Iggy and the Stooges
Warthog (and dozens of others) - Ramones
God save the queen - Sex Pistols
I'm waiting for my man - Lou Reed / Velvet Underground
Let's have a war - Fear
Sometimes good guys don't wear white - Minor Threat
Static - The Misfits
Pablo Picasso - Jonathan Richman & the Modern Lovers
Born to loose - Johnny Thunders & the Heartbreakers
Looking for a kiss - The New York Dolls
Butcher Baby - Wendy O. Williams and the Plasmatics
Sound system - Operation Ivy
Liza and Louise - NOFX
Fried chicken - The Cramps
Kill the poor - Dead Kennedys
Cough syrup - Butthole Surfers
Bongwater - Bongwater
Crackin' up - Revolting Cocks (Also check out their cover of Rod Stewarts "Do ya think I'm sexy")
Everything turns grey - Agent Orange
I'm not a loser - Descendents
Rock and roll gas station - Adrenaline OD
Coup d'etat - The Circle Jerks


And just because I've had it stuck in my head for two weeks:

Lola - The Kinks

EDIT - spelled a band name wrong....