Greatest Rock Song

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  • Anon
    Anon Posts: 11,175
    Easy peasy......."Shamans' Blues" by The Doors. Who else,but Jim Morrison could effectively write & sing about indian mysticism.
  • chitty
    chitty Posts: 610
    Probably b/c it was my welcome to rock music and also, it captures melody with pure rage and adrenaline.....and yes I may get called on this, but

    Smells Like Teen Spirit-Nirvana

    Amazing intro
  • glasshouse
    glasshouse Posts: 1,762
    Flagg wrote:
    Yeah, Rock n Roll by Led Zeppelin. Perfect rock song.

    amen

    paint it black aint to bad either.
    Athens, Greece: 2006/09/30

    "Call me Ishmael. Some years ago- never mind how long precisely- having little or no money in my purse, and nothing particular to interest me on shore, I thought I would sail about a little and see the watery part of the world." Herman Melville : Moby Dick
  • lalalalaaaaaaaa
    lalalalaaaaaaaa Posts: 2,445
    LukinFan wrote:
    Lukin
    haha. It's strange to see that listed here, but after thinking about it, it's totally justified.

    There are so many great rock songs, I could never pick a #1.
  • hguz73
    hguz73 Posts: 245
    A whole bunch but the first one that comes into my mind is "Little Wing" by "maestro" Jimmy Hendrix
  • FinsburyParkCarrots
    FinsburyParkCarrots Seattle, WA Posts: 12,223
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4bM_l443VV4
  • gabers
    gabers Posts: 2,787
    FinsburyParkCarrots wrote:
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4bM_l443VV4

    Good choice but I liked Motley Crue's version better. :D

    For some reason it just came to me how much Johnny Rotten looks like this guy.

    http://www.comedycentral.com/images/shows/crankyankers/characters/cy_specialed_m4.jpg
  • keeponrockin
    keeponrockin Posts: 7,446
    Mama Kin - Aerosmith

    Nothing is more rock than that.
    Believe me, when I was growin up, I thought the worst thing you could turn out to be was normal, So I say freaks in the most complementary way. Here's a song by a fellow freak - E.V
  • PJGARDEN
    PJGARDEN Posts: 1,484
    Stairway to Heaven & Rock N Roll - Zep
    Alive - PJ
  • fanch75
    fanch75 Posts: 3,734
    Top three, they are all equal in my head.

    Won't Get Fooled Again - The Who (interesting trivia - on the '96 Kiss Reunion Tour, the big "KISS" curtain dropped and lights went down in synch with Daltrey's blood-curling scream)

    Deuce - Kiss

    GIVEN TO FLY - Pearl Jam
    Do you remember Rock & Roll Radio?
  • pearljamgirl07
    pearljamgirl07 Posts: 792
    Comatose-PEARL JAM
    Even flow-PEARL JAM
    Come as you are -Nirvana
    Lithium-Nirvana
    Somebody to shove -Soul Asylum
    "You're the eve of my destruction in the garden of fears"
  • Sian-of-the-dead
    Sian-of-the-dead Posts: 8,963
    fanch75 wrote:
    Deuce - Kiss

    Another KISS fan!! YAYYYY!! :D

    how are we all missing Black Dog by Zepplin?! one of the best rock songs of all time!!
    Been to this many PJ shows: Reading 2006 London 2007 Manchester & London 2009 Dublin, Belfast, London, Nijmegen & Berlin 2010 Manchester 1 & Manchester 2 2012...

    ... and I still think Drive-By Truckers are better.
  • pearljim
    pearljim Posts: 1,312
    Pink Floyd: Echoes
    Led Zep: Achilles Last Stand, 10 Years Gone
    Bruuuuuce: PissBottle is dead on - Born to Run
    Kiss: Detroit Rock City, Black Diamond (and not because PJ did it at the Vic although that is why I love PJ).
    Aerosmith: I agree with keeponrockin - Mama Kin (played that in my 8th grade speech class while everyone else was playin their Beach Boys and Beatles :gag:)

    Oh yeah - Machine Gun - bought Band of Gypsys when I was 13/14 and played it till the needle was no longer a needle. PJ should do this song :)
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  • Lifted
    Lifted Posts: 1,836
    here are some good ones........going by the formula of......rockin tunes i suppose

    neil young - rockin in the free world
    my morning jacket - one big holiday
    rolling stones - paint it black
    the who - baba o'reily
    nirvana - smells like teen spirit
    bob dylan - maggies farm
    pearl jam - do the evolution
  • Dustin51
    Dustin51 Posts: 222
    PissBottleMan wrote:
    Born to Run

    PBM

    I agree.
    Be excellent to each other
  • Them-Bones
    Them-Bones Posts: 518
    DIRTY FRANK

    man that dirty frank was a bad motha
    SHUT YO MOUTH
    "If my thoughts, dreams, could be seen, they'd probably put my head, in a guillotine, but it's alright ma, it's life and life only."
  • Keller
    Keller Posts: 177
    not even sure if i want to take a stab at this but...

    Bob Dylan - Like A Rolling Stone

    That songs just screams "i own rock n roll" to me.

    but it's probaly not even dylans best song..
    "Be what you want to be, see what you came to see"
  • fanch75
    fanch75 Posts: 3,734
    I'm going to chase my answer to Kiss' entire first Alive! album.
    Do you remember Rock & Roll Radio?
  • whulmef
    whulmef Posts: 176
    Born to Run
    Like a Rolling Stone
    Won't Get Fooled Again

    Everything else that has been mentioned in this thread is a distant cry to these songs.
  • #X.
    #X. Posts: 142
    Rain Song, Houses of the Holy, Led Zeppeling. Uh huh, yes it is. #X.
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