top 100 rock songs...disgraceful

[Zombeels]

12.Radiohead - Exit Music (For A Film)
13.The Byrds - Wasn't Born To Follow
15.Johnny Cash - A Boy Named Sue
19.The Velvet Underground - Sunday morning
21.Love - AndMoreAgain
24.Buffalo Springfield - For What It's Worth
25.The Kinks - Waterloo Sunset
26.Thin Lizzy - Whiskey In The Jar
36.Supergrass - Richard III
38.Simon & Garfunkel - Mrs Robinson
41.Damien Rice - Delicate
44.Muse - Hysteria
49.King Crimson - Epitaph Including March For No Reason And Tomorrow And Tomorrow
50.Jethro Tull - We Used To Know
59.Johnny Cash - Folsom Prison Blues
60.Radiohead - No Surprises
61.Love - The Daily Planet
62.The Byrds - My Back Pages
67.Suede - Beautiful Ones
70.Nirvana - You Know You're Right
71.Brian Wilson - Surf's Up
79.The White Stripes - Hotel Yorba
91.Radiohead - Creep
94.Procol Harum - A Whiter Shade Of Pale
95.Harvey Danger - Flagpole Sitter

Nice to see these songs on your list. I really enjoy these ones.

 

[pooldude]

Here is another top 20 list. Deep Purple fans can celebrate. The list is from Holland and obviously they like Deep Purple. Most of the songs are similar to the U.S. but there are a few notable exceptions.

1 Child in time Deep Purple....

And just to prove that these lists are totally subjective to the age of the respondents...

...AND to point out that half the listeners don't even know their historical facts, & vote purely on emotion...

The people who call Deep Purple's admittedly musically excellent performance of "Child in Time" the best song ever are actually voting for a song that was STOLEN from the San Francisco group It's a Beautiful Day & PLAGIARIZED (without any credit) by Deep Purple!

Here is a clip of It's a Beatiful Day's "Bombay Calling" from their self titled 1969 release:

http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=50:5xj9kett7q7m~T

If you take the time to listen, there is no mistaking the origins of the song...much like Jake Holme's original version of "Dazed & Confused" which was also stolen, uncredited, by Jimmy Page.

Deep Purple stole the song from It's a Beautiful Day about a year after DP Mach 1 was 2nd on the bill to It's a Beautiful Day @ the Fillmore in November of '68...

"Bombay Calling" was IABD's 2nd most famous song, after "White Bird" (off their very successful debut album that got tons of airplay).

 

[riffs promotion]

if 100 people were to pick 100 best songs i'm sure that most wouldn't pick the same 100. as for myself my musical tastes are vast and my favourite would be picked at by many i'm sure i cannot give any particular order but i guess some in my top hundred would be by the following bands journey, the beatles, the sex pistols, guns n roses, nirvana, black sabbath, ac/dc, the move, the small faces, hendrix, vain, saxon, iron maiden, rolling stones , boston, to name but a few... as for particular songs well it changes to the mood i'm in... but someone will always disagree even if it was top 1,000 in no particular order there would be someones favourite missing.... lists who needs them lol...

 

[0000]

ps. Ok, now I'm REALLY pissed. I was forced to put on my reading glasses to check the dictionary and make shure I was spelling the word "compromise" correctly.

you have to use the tool that completely ruined my generation.................spell check -------- I used to be good at spelling any word I wanted, I probably still am, but just too lazy haha

and to the lists, I find it too hard to make a list because you'd have to have absolutely not opinion on the matter, no preference, and the inability for the sound to influence you, and just about infinite musical knowledge, but this is all impossible so it's impossible to say what the ''best'' song is, for some it may be the song that rocks the hardest, or that has the most amount of music packed into the smallest amount of time, but for your guys' lists, come on? no steely dan, foghat, or eagles? I'm dissapointed

 

[Kino]

Great list! I gotta put one of these together!

 

[Mr. Shadow]

In my opinion, Stairway to Heaven is the best rock song ever composed.

The song's opening guitar arpeggios are strikingly similar to the guitar line from the instrumental track "Taurus" by the American band Spirit, for whom Led Zeppelin toured as support act in 1968.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stairway_to_Heaven

 

[Foxhound]

honestly you guys, stairway to heaven placed third????

Third is incredibly good!

Why would you call the list disgraceful? Must a list validate your every opinion before it's anything but disgraceful? Or must it merely have "Stairway to Heaven" right at the very top?



BTW, "When the Levee Breaks" is a better track anyway.

 

[Foxhound]

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

How can you have a top 100 list without "Satisfaction" or any Rolling Stone tracks?