Greatest Rock Song

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  • xSmackSoundx
    xSmackSoundx Posts: 479
    Simple Man -Lynard Skynard (If thats how you spell it)
  • Get_Right
    Get_Right Posts: 14,211
    rock songs?
    some already mentioned

    Queen-bohemian rhapsody
    Aerosmith-dream on or walk this way
    AC/DC-back in black or for those about to rock
    Eagles-Life in the fast lane
    Zep-communication breakdown
    Kansas-carry on our wayward sun
    Yes-roundabout or starship tooper
    Doors-la woman
    Who-cant explain
    Stones-satisfaction
    Hendrix-foxey lady or purple haze
    Skynryd-that smell

    now way to pick just one
    I kinda like that mix actually
    sorry to the boss lovers
  • pearljamgirl07
    pearljamgirl07 Posts: 792
    Alive -pearl jam
    rockin' in the free world
    Smell like a teen spirit-nirvana
    "You're the eve of my destruction in the garden of fears"
  • Carlos D
    Carlos D Posts: 638
    Smashing Pumpkins -1979
    Bullet With Butterfly Wings
    Today
    Tonight,Tonight
    Muzzle
    Nirvana -Smells like Teen Spirit,Lithium
    Pearl Jam - Porch
    The Strokes - Last Nite
    Bruce Springsteen - Thunder Road
    It may be the devil or it may be the Lord
    But you're gonna have to serve somebody.

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  • seanw1010
    seanw1010 Posts: 1,205
    Odin wrote:
    Rockin' In The Free World
    +1
    they call them fingers, but i never see them fing. oh, there they go
  • jackrabbit slim
    jackrabbit slim Posts: 565
    Johnny b. goode - chuck berry
  • ii44
    ii44 Posts: 430
    Baba
  • lastexit
    lastexit 10923 Posts: 259
    The winner..........
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LzpN9ce_qF0

    Wait for it.
    2:19 in.
  • ashtrayrock
    ashtrayrock Posts: 167
    It's kinda hard not to give props to BTR in this category.

    That song is full of life.
    ************************************************************************
    For Those About To Rock !

    Art changes people. People change the world.
  • ianh42
    ianh42 Posts: 279
    Bushleaguer28 said:
    I apologize if this has already been a thread but i cant find it if it is - im interested to hear what people would say they think is the single greatest rock song of all time. One that epitomizes rock music at its finest.

    I have two in mind so ill put both - Roadhouse Blues by the Doors and Wish You Were Here by Pink Floyd. Doesnt get much better then that IMO.
    I was about to start a similar thread and figured there was one already...sure enough I found yours.  I like one of the two you mentioned for this as you hit Pink Floyd's best song ever.  But the Doors have better songs than Roadhouse Blues.

    I always think its funny with this discussion because it is widely known and accepted that Stairway to Heaven is the greatest rock song ever, no doubt.  I do like the argument though and happy to throw out others such at Hotel California, Come Together or a handful of other considerations by the Beatles, and you can make an argument for Corduroy now that its over 20 years old.  
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  • Loujoe
    Loujoe Posts: 12,005
    Dream On is up there for me.
  • 23scidoo
    23scidoo Thessaloniki,Greece Posts: 20,202
    Maybe not a rock song, but My Way from Sinatra it's the ultimate song for me..
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  • brianlux
    brianlux Moving through All Kinds of Terrain. Posts: 43,778
    Today?  From 1:12 to 4:22, Dinosaur Jr covering The Cure's "Just Like Heaven.  Tomorrow?  Who knows.

    "It's a sad and beautiful world"
    -Roberto Benigni

  • dr122931
    dr122931 Posts: 464
    It’s criminal Gimme Shelter has not been mentioned.   
    Easily my favorite song ever.  Never gets old 
  • Loujoe
    Loujoe Posts: 12,005
    Good call^^
  • ianh42
    ianh42 Posts: 279
    dr122931 said:
    It’s criminal Gimme Shelter has not been mentioned.   
    Easily my favorite song ever.  Never gets old 
    That is a great song but not even the Stones greatest song IMHO.  Give me Beast of Burden, Brown Sugar, SFTD, or probably a handful more over Gimme Shelter.
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  • brianlux
    brianlux Moving through All Kinds of Terrain. Posts: 43,778
    Since metals come from rocks, from there we might consider the greatest rock song to be Fripp and Eno's "An Index of Metals" from the album Evening Star.
    Fripp Enos Evening Starjpg

    This one might be contender as well:


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    -Roberto Benigni

  • Gern Blansten
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  • dankind
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    Gern Blansten said:
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    There's a story there somewhere....
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  • brianlux
    brianlux Moving through All Kinds of Terrain. Posts: 43,778
    The best rock song?  One could argue Jean the Birdman pulled it off.

    "It's a sad and beautiful world"
    -Roberto Benigni

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