Best song ever picks me up when I'm feelin' blue

Chicago Sun-Times ^ | March 30, 2005 | RICHARD ROEPER SUN-TIMES COLUMNIST

[P8riot]

The opening guitar lick is one of the most recognizable and electrifying intros in the history of popular music,

And easy to play too.

[Slip18]

"Eighth." Or 8th or VIIIth.

[SMARTY]

"Anything you want, we got right here in the U.S.A."

Amen! This tune ought to replace the National Anthem, and it's the most high energy, jump'n rock tune I know.

[cyncooper]

I hope 'is name isn't 'enery...

;)

[Mad Dawgg]

"Everybody knows the first line"

"Turn it up"

Ummm, ah, No!

One, two three, (guitar riff)

[SVTCobra03]

House of the Rising Sun - The Animals
Bad Moon Arising - Creedence

[Datahead]

Gotta be All Right Now by Free... simple, clean, straight-ahead guitar rock. Never heard a live club band who could do it justice though.

[Rudder]

Sweet Home Alabama ranks right up there with the other sappy classics, like "Achey Breaky Heart."

[P8riot]

My favorite is a toss-up between "Listen To the Music", by the Doobie Brothers, and "25 Or 6 to 4" by Chicago.

I can't count the number of tickets I got when I was kid, just because either of those two songs were on the radio when I was behind the wheel.

[Slip18]

Hehehehehe!

And what about "Ferry Cross the Mersey"?

[Slip18]

I love both of those.

[Slip18]

I have to disagree with you there, Rudder. Sweet Home Alabama is a classic. Achey Breakie Heart makes you want to be ill.

[zip]

ping

[Chi-townChief]

I always liked Joe Walsh's guitar opening on The James Gang's "Walk Away."

[cyncooper]

I like that song...

I'm not a huge Hermans Hermits fan, but "No Milk Today" has always been one of my favorite all-time songs for whatever reason. (flip of the 45 = "There's a Kind of Hush" which I like, too, but I did not play as much as the B side)

[biblewonk]

Pantera, Down, Manson, Korn, White Zombie.

[whereasandsoforth]

The all-time attention-getter is the guitar intro to "California Dreamin'". That song is like an anthem.

[new cruelty]

For me it is Led Zeppelin's Immigrant Song


or the Who's Baba O'reily

[mommadooo3]

I'm sorta partial to 'Baby Likes To Rock It' by The Tractors.

OR.....'I'd Love To Knock The Hell Outta You' by Hank Jr.

LOL.

[SPRINK]

I was at a high school baseball game last night and in between innings sweet home came on....the whole crowd was singing and clapping. This writer may be right. I get the chills when "let it be" comes on.