Posted on 11/18/2004 8:59:42 AM PST by ConservativeStatement
"No other pop song has so thoroughly challenged and transformed the commercial laws and artistic conventions of its time, for all time," wrote Rolling Stone senior editor David Fricke in an article accompanying the magazine's list of the top 500 rock songs of all time.
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why? who knows, but it is the most requested.
I read somewhere that Eric Clapton was so strung out on drugs during the "Layla" recording sessions that he didn't leave home for a month after the album was released.
The songs that really had an impact on all the "conventions" that followed . . .
Stairway to Heaven - Zeppelin
Boehemian Rhapsody - Queen
Wish You Were Here - Pink Floyd
Dust in the Wind - Kansas
Goodbye Yellow Brick Road - Elton John
Money - Pink Floyd
Satisfaction - Rolling Stones
Hotel California - Eagles
Shook Me All Night Long - AC/DC
Yesterday - Beatles
Johnny be Good - Chuck Berry
Jailhouse Rock - Elvis
All Along the Watchtower - Jimi Hendrix
Enter Sandman - Metallica
Proud Mary - CCR
Mrs. Robinson - Simon and Garfunkle
Two Out of Three Aint Bad - Meatloaf
Free Bird - Skynyrd
Dream On - Aerosmith
My Generation - The Who
Kashmir - Zeppelin
In the Air Tonight - Phil Collins
Africa - Toto
Learning to Fly - Pink Floyd
Fly Like an Eagle - Steve Miller Band
Every Breath You Take - Police
Immigrant Song - Zeppelin
Sound of Silence - Simon and Garfunkle
Hysteria - Def Leppard
Good Golly, Miss Molly - Little Richard
La Bamba - Richie Valens
A Day in the Life - Beatles
Jeremy - Pearl Jam
Rocket Man - Elton John
Diamonds and Rust - Judas Priest
The list goes on . . .
The list gets better and worse from there
Satisfaction at #2, great song, may not be #2 but a great song
Imagine by John Lennon at #3, Liberal Hippie, anti God Clap trap. Sheer Garbage
What's Going on, Marvin Gaye #4. Not my politics, but an absolutely incredible political anthem, which is just a beautifully sung song.
Nicely put WAW.
Give me "Sympathy for the Devil". Stones Rock for white boys.
Actually, I think Boston's "More Than A Feeling" has been played more frequently on U.S. radio than any other song.
I'll have to check and see if this song made the list, but I would make the case that Boston's signature tune had a bigger impact on rock music than any other . . . their title album was really the first ever to be mixed for an optimal sound on the FM dial.
I woulda opted for Satisfaction.
It's very hard not to distingiush between rock and roll and rock but Satisfaction sort of bridges it.
There is no best song and Rolling Stone the magazine is awful....always has been though it did spawn a few interesting writers and critics.
Flippo, Young, O'Rourke and yes even HST...but one must be on drugs to appreciate him.....forget FALILV....Hell's Angels is his only coherent work.
Because it was long enough for DJs to go to the bathroom
"Like A Rolling Stone" ain't even Bob Dylan's best tune. "Positively 4th Street" is an all-time classic; if you listen to the lyrics, it sounds like the song was written by someone who finally realized that he knew John Kerry or Al Gore for too long.
Bob Dylan wouldn't know a rock-and-roll song if it came up and bit him on his wrinkly old folkie butt. Electrified faux-folk, maybe, but not rock. And seriously, did anyone else know that they were still publishing Rolling Stone magazine? I thought it went the way of "Rosie", "Teen", and "Brill's Content" magazines.
ewwwwwwwwwww is right!!
it is of course "California Girls" .. and the southern girls with the way they talk, they knock me out when Im down there" ya'll know its true!! hehehe
LIKE, who cares what Rolling Stone thinks. This thing of making up lists - top 10 and the best of the best is so passe - like something stupid junior high school students do. I mean who reads this crappy magazine anyway.
The only thing that is important is what songs make you happy inside - not the picks of some drug crazed democratic funders. I mean no 2 or 3 was that stupid song Imagine by John Lennon. I always hated that song even when I was like 13 and everyone loved it. I remeber the after John Lennon was shot - our English teacher - a nun - who told us animals have no soul and don't go to heaven made us pray for John Lennon. I closed my eyes and said - No way God am I gonna pray for this creep! Shortly after that I became a conservative. Well, a couple of years later in High School reading NR in the library.
I think it depends on which Zep generation you are. I'm early to mid so When the Levee Breaks is maybe my favorite of the first 4 albums.
Kashmir is sort of symphonic and complex and hit after my Zep interest had moderated. Nice song though....I'm just more of a blues based Zep afficianado.
I know WTLB was written by I think a black woman in the 20s by Memphis Minnie from Mississippi after the big 20s floods there.
The critics (Cameron Crowe notwithsatnding) loathed Led Zeppelin....it was so ttansparent. They had a very hard time moving out of Stones-Beatles era and the Haight Ashbury music and into big hard rock....they hated Skynyrd too but of course love the Allman Bros.
They loathed ACDC and Sabbath as well but were kinder to Van Halen.
and to them Clapton was indeed God.
One of my all-time favs.
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