top 100 rock songs...disgraceful

[Buff]

What amazes me is the fact that there is absolutely no agreement on what would constitute a legit list these days (judging from the thread thus far). I can remember a time when there was almost universal agreement that "Stairway To Heaven" and "Layla" were the two greatest rock songs ever.

I think what happens now is that you have 50 years of rock music and several generations of listeners with very widely varying tastes. Consensus? Forget it! Ain't gonna happen!

You took the words right out of my mouth. Along with wide variance of age and taste, there's also the notion that if you've listened long enough, you get tired of a lot of stuff. No one loves Stairway to Heaven more than I, but I've heard it enough in my 38 years. Same with a lot on that list. I could go the rest of my life without hearing Money ever again, or Born To Run. Doesn't mean I don't like them, or PF or Bruce. I just wanna hear something else.

I was, however, happy to see Won't Get Fooled Again at 17. Pinball Wizard is another I'd never want to hear ever again, unless I'm spinning all of Tommy.

All that aside, I believe this list was comprised by number of requests to hear a song over a certain amount of time. I do find it interesting that the majority have been for Satisfaction, tho.

 

[Reverend Rock]

...Along with wide variance of age and taste, there's also the notion that if you've listened long enough, you get tired of a lot of stuff. No one loves Stairway to Heaven more than I, but I've heard it enough in my 38 years. Same with a lot on that list. I could go the rest of my life without hearing Money ever again, or Born To Run. Doesn't mean I don't like them, or PF or Bruce. I just wanna hear something else...

Well, I'm different than a lot of listeners on that score. It's probably because I've all but stopped listening to any radio. I have a large record collection, and I listen widely; so if I'm tired of, say, "Stairway To Heaven", I just don't get it out for a few months. By that time, I'm ready to hear it again.

Anyhow, I don't think I've ever gotten to the point with a song I really enjoy that I'd never want to hear it again.

 

[Jack D.]

Rev. Rock. You are right on the money. Top song charts are decided by a personal preference more than anything. I think sometimes the charts are more what the chartmakers think should be on the list and not so much what deserves to be there. Louie, Louie for instance. Admittedly when you are college age and drunk at a party it's a great song. It's easy to sing along, and if you mess up the lines who knows or cares. A top 100 song? That is a long stretch. Top 100 songs are only good as a source of conversation and debate.

 

[DarkWishWall]

I think that was a cracking list. I would have placed 'Summertime Blues' and 'Stand By Me' much higher, but apart from that I thought it made sense.

On a kind of unrelated note, here's my top 100 FAVOURITE songs (NOT MY OPINION ON THE 'BEST'):

1.Pink Floyd - Shine On You Crazy Diamond
2.The Beach Boys - God Only Knows
3.Bob Dylan - Tangled Up In Blue
4.Chopin - Nocturne (In Eb major)
5.Nirvana - Breed
6.The Jimi Hendrix Experience - Purple Haze
7.Led Zeppelin - Rock & Roll
8.Enuff Z'Nuff - Wheels
9.John Lennon - Imagine
10.Bruce Springsteen - Downbound Train
11.Chuck Berry - Johnny B Goode
12.Radiohead - Exit Music (For A Film)
13.The Byrds - Wasn't Born To Follow
14.Elvis - If I Can Dream
15.Johnny Cash - A Boy Named Sue
16.The Clash - Wrong 'Em Boyo
17.Jeff Buckley - Hallelujah
18.Bob Marley - Natural Mystic
19.The Velvet Underground - Sunday morning
20.Lou Reed - Crazy Feeling
21.Love - AndMoreAgain
22.U2 - The First Time
23.Tom Petty And The Heartbreakers - Refugee
24.Buffalo Springfield - For What It's Worth
25.The Kinks - Waterloo Sunset
26.Thin Lizzy - Whiskey In The Jar
27.The Who - Go To The Mirror!
28.The Stone Roses - This Is The One
29.The Doors - Roadhouse Blues
30.The Beatles - Here Comes The Sun
31.Guns 'N' Roses - Mr Brownstone
32.Deep Purple - Highway Star
33.The Band - Ain't Got No Home
34.Television - Friction
35.Ramones - Cretin Hop
36.Supergrass - Richard III
37.Tito And Tarantula - After Dark
38.Simon & Garfunkel - Mrs Robinson
39.Robert Johnson - Love In Vain
40.Aerosmith - Stop Messin' Around
41.Damien Rice - Delicate
42.R.E.M. - Man On The Moon
43.Pearl Jam - Once
44.Muse - Hysteria
45.Rossini - William Tell Overture
46.Miles Davis - Summertime
47.Lynyrd Skynyrd - Down South Jukin'
48.Creedence Clearwater Revival - Lookin' Out My Back Door
49.King Crimson - Epitaph Including March For No Reason And Tomorrow And Tomorrow
50.Jethro Tull - We Used To Know
51.Happy Mondays - Kinky Afro
52.Cream - Take It Back
53.David Bowie - Rebel Rebel
54.Pink Floyd - Time
55.Led Zeppelin - Black Dog
56.The Sex Pistols - Bodies
57.Sting & The police - Seven Days
58.The Velvet Underground - Heroin
59.Johnny Cash - Folsom Prison Blues
60.Radiohead - No Surprises
61.Love - The Daily Planet
62.The Byrds - My Back Pages
63.Bob Dylan - Like A Rolling Stone
64.The Beatles - Sgt Peppers Lonely Hearts Club Band
65.The Who - I Can See For Miles
66.The Beach Boys - Fun, Fun, Fun
67.Suede - Beautiful Ones
68.Bruce Springsteen - Jungle Land
69.Apollo 440 - Don't Fear The Reaper
70.Nirvana - You Know You're Right
71.Brian Wilson - Surf's Up
72.Iggy Pop - I Am A Passenger
73.Ryan Adams - To Be Young (Is To Be Sad, Is To Be High)
74.The Doors - Love Her Madly
75.The Stone Roses - I Am The Ressurection
76.The Beatles - Help!
77.Pink Floyd - Comfortably Numb
78.Aerosmith - Uncle Salty
79.The White Stripes - Hotel Yorba
80.The Jeff Beck Group - You Shook Me
81.Guns 'N' Roses - Bad Obsession
82.Judas Priest - Turbo Lover
83.Coldplay - Amsterdam
84.Oasis - Rock 'n' Roll Star
85.Rush - The Spirit Of Radio
86.Lou Reed - Hanging Round
87.Train - All American Girl
88.The Temptations - Papa Was A Rollin' Stone
89.Stereophonics - Billy Davey's Daughter
90.Red Hot Chilli Peppers - Fortune Faded
91.Radiohead - Creep
92.Queen - Breakthru
93.Kraftwerk - The Model
94.Procol Harum - A Whiter Shade Of Pale
95.Harvey Danger - Flagpole Sitter
96.Kings Of Leon - California Waiting
97.The Jimi Hendrix Experience - 51st Anniversary
98.The Jam - A Town Called Malice
99.George Thorogood & The Destroyers - One Scotch, One Bourbon, One Beer
100.The Clash - I Fought The Law

 

[jollywhaler]

hey ive got an idea....why dont we do the most overplayed and thoroughly beaten to death rock songs of all times...i think it would be appropriate to start with stairway and hotel california, born to run...this sounds familiar. Classic rock doesnt change, thats the problem, people need to stop listening only to the same songs they've been listening to since they hit the charts and check out some of the lesser known, less popular, equally great songs which are consistently overlooked. time to give stairway to heaven the stairway to heaven...its been beaten to the point of no return

 

[jollywhaler]

at least there wasnt any U2 on there....U2 sucks

 

[Zombeels]

at least there wasnt any U2 on there....U2 sucks

I concur.

 

[FoxyPage]

Stairway to Heaven is #3? Wow, that list fails.

 

[Reverend Rock]

at least there wasnt any U2 on there....U2 sucks

I don't think so...

 

[FoxyPage]

at least there wasnt any U2 on there....U2 sucks

You prefer Britney Spears don't you.