One Song. Only one Song. To define the best of Rock and what it means

[wiffleball 4,638]

 

 

I love a thousand songs, but this song? Focking Iconic. DEFINES Iconic. Defines the passion of a teenager and the muse that rock provices. Defines the best of Rock and what it stands for - and is some pretty GD incredible musicianship, lyrics and vocals at the same time.

 

 

Everybody has their own opinion. This is mine.

 

 

[mobb_deep 917]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MemXBAVJLJs

 

This is mine. Maybe not the heaviest Hendrix tune, but the most perfect. Powerful guitar riffs, melded with great medleys and lyrics. Hendrix is the god of rock guitar, and this is his masterpiece.

[frank 2,144]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X6VnjwG5N5w

[rholio 339]

[SUXBNME 1,324]

You guys kick ass

 

The only thing I could possibly add would be another ACDC song, but Frank already nailed it. Actually he kinda won this thread

Meh....What goes along with Let There Be Rock?

FAT WIMMENS

 

[Drizzay 645]

It is sad that the moron who originally posted the video to YouTube can't get the focking song title right.

 

That is a major pet peeve of mine, and it happens all tge time with that song.

[shotsup 832]

It is sad that the moron who originally posted the video to YouTube can't get the focking song title right.

 

That is a major pet peeve of mine, and it happens all tge time with that song.

DUDE I was just going to post the same thing but I figured I would read the thread first and you nailed it. I know it is just a pet peeve as well but it drives me crazy.

 

I Whole lotta Rosie.

[jets24 6]

Stairway to Heaven. Discussion over.

[mahan day 4]

[ZeroTolerance 582]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CYwbkqGmeKw

[posty 2,296]

Too bad people are posting songs from Led Zeppelin and the Rolling Stones...

 

:puke:

[Franknbeans 46]

Mine

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fe5PaIa0SX4

[shotsup 832]

Too bad people are posting songs from Led Zeppelin and the Rolling Stones...

 

:puke:

Doucheybag or homo ?

[flap 1]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gQ9kJa_6cBg

[mahan day 4]

one band that is rock and roll and cool to me is dire straits.

 

[mahan day 4]

one band that is rock and roll and cool to me is dire straits.

 

if u start at 16:05 its an absolutely beautiful that i bet many of you havent heard.

[BunnysBastatrds 1,913]

Keep On Rockin In The Free World needs to be considered.

[mobb_deep 917]

 

This would be my #2. My favorite Floyd tune, and I like Floyd's collective work much more than Hendrix. Little Wing is just so damn good.

[mahan day 4]

This would be my #2. My favorite Floyd tune, and I like Floyd's collective work much more than Hendrix. Little Wing is just so damn good.

i agree. i love 'may this be love'. its so something to me when i discovered pot. he was magic. but pink floyd was ingenious and it was art.

 

edit: dont mistake what i just said. pink floyd was different intellectually to me.

[nzoner 936]

Out on the road for forty days
Last night in Little Rock, put me in a haze
Sweet, sweet Connie was doin' her act
She had the whole show and that's a natural fact

Up all night with Freddie King
I got to tell you, poker's his thing
Booze and ladies, keep me right
As long as we can make it to the show tonight

We're an American band
We're an American band
We're comin' to your town
We'll help you party it down
We're an American band

Four young chiquitas in Omaha
Waitin' for the band to return from the show
A feelin' good, feelin' right and it's Saturday night
The hotel detective, he was outta sight

Now these fine ladies, they had a plan
They was out to meet the boys in the band
They said, "Come on dudes, let's get it on!"
And we proceeded to tear that hotel down

We're an American band
We're an American band
We're comin' to your town
We'll help you party it down
We're an American band

We're an American band
We're an American band
We're comin' to your town
We'll help you party it down
We're an American band

 

 

 

[BLS 313]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GxSIqb529s8

 

and I hate the stones, but this song IS rock and roll

[GobbleDog 816]

This thread has been an epic FAIL. Sorry, I love Zeppelin, but they're the very defination of BLUES rock & roll. It's a technicality, but it disqualifies them.

 

Then all these Rolling Stones songs... yeah, they were good, but their sound still had that oldies 60's feel to it. Not what I would consider true rock. Another DQ. Same goes for Hendrix and The Who.

 

Pink Floyd is more like psychodelic music mixed with rock. FAIL.

 

The only post that even came close was ACDC, but the song selected wasn't all that great. The "definining song of rock" needs to be popular. Therefore, the answer is....

 

[nzoner 936]

This thread has been an epic FAIL. Sorry, I love Zeppelin, but they're the very defination of BLUES rock & roll. It's a technicality, but it disqualifies them.

 

Then all these Rolling Stones songs... yeah, they were good, but their sound still had that oldies 60's feel to it. Not what I would consider true rock. Another DQ. Same goes for Hendrix.

 

Pink Floyd is more like psychodelic music mixed with rock. FAIL.

 

The only post that even came close was ACDC, but the song selected wasn't all that great. The "definining song of rock" needs to be popular. Therefore, the answer is....

 

IF AC/DC is included then it must be Bon Scott on vocals.

 

[SUXBNME 1,324]

Mine

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fe5PaIa0SX4

One of my favorites, also

[GobbleDog 816]

One of my favorites, also

 

Punk music is a subset of rock. FAIL!

[titans&bucs&bearsohmy! 2,745]

I can't get embed to work mobile, but I'd say the kinks, all day and ask of the night.

[southcarolina 166]

"I have found some kind of temporary sanity in this sh*t blood and c*m on my hands. Ive. Come. Round. Full circle."

 

I think its about love and hope and rainbows and unicorns.

 

[JT 137]

 

Stairway to Heaven. Discussion over.

If the discussion was "name the most overrated song in music history".

[mahan day 4]

This thread has been an epic FAIL. Sorry, I love Zeppelin, but they're the very defination of BLUES rock & roll. It's a technicality, but it disqualifies them.

 

Then all these Rolling Stones songs... yeah, they were good, but their sound still had that oldies 60's feel to it. Not what I would consider true rock. Another DQ. Same goes for Hendrix and The Who.

 

Pink Floyd is more like psychodelic music mixed with rock. FAIL.

 

The only post that even came close was ACDC, but the song selected wasn't all that great. The "definining song of rock" needs to be popular. Therefore, the answer is....

 

fair enough, but dire straits, thats rock and roll. come on.

 

[edjr 5,556]

[jets24 6]

Bat Out of Hell- Meatloaf. Great focking tune.

[Gepetto 982]

Jessie's Girl - Rick Springfield

 

[Recliner Pilot 61]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DE-8yO3fnJ4

[GobbleDog 816]

fair enough, but dire straits, thats rock and roll. come on.

 

Dire Straights made ctachy tunes, but never recorded a song that would ever be considered "the defintion of rock". That requires loud electric guitars, kick ass style, and huge popularity.

 

Outside of ACDC's Black In Black, the only other song that immediately comes to mind is...

 

[Herbivore 905]

Born to be Wild

[edjr 5,556]

Born to be Wild

Born to be my baby

[The Next Generation 10]

Satisfaction is the quintessential Rock song.

 

"It's the riff heard round the world," says Steve Van Zandt, guitarist for the E Street Band. "And it's one of the earliest examples of Dylan influencing the Stones and the Beatles — the degree of cynicism, and the idea of bringing more personal lyrics from the folk and blues tradition into popular music."

The riff came to Keith Richards in a dream one night in May 1965, in his motel room in Clearwater, Florida, on the Rolling Stones' third U.S. tour. He woke up and grabbed a guitar and a cassette machine. Richards played the run of notes once, then fell back to sleep. "On the tape," he said later, "you can hear me drop the pick, and the rest is snoring."

That spark in the night — the riff that opens and defines "(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction" — transformed the rickety jump and puppy love of early rock & roll into rock. The primal temper of Richards' creation, played through a Gibson Fuzz Box; the sneering dismissal in Mick Jagger's lyrics; the strut of rhythm guitarist Brian Jones, bassist Bill Wyman and drummer Charlie Watts: It was the sound of a generation impatient to inherit the Earth.

[Frank M 181]

[cbfalcon 824]

Satisfaction is the quintessential Rock song.

 

"It's the riff heard round the world," says Steve Van Zandt, guitarist for the E Street Band. "And it's one of the earliest examples of Dylan influencing the Stones and the Beatles — the degree of cynicism, and the idea of bringing more personal lyrics from the folk and blues tradition into popular music."

The riff came to Keith Richards in a dream one night in May 1965, in his motel room in Clearwater, Florida, on the Rolling Stones' third U.S. tour. He woke up and grabbed a guitar and a cassette machine. Richards played the run of notes once, then fell back to sleep. "On the tape," he said later, "you can hear me drop the pick, and the rest is snoring."

That spark in the night — the riff that opens and defines "(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction" — transformed the rickety jump and puppy love of early rock & roll into rock. The primal temper of Richards' creation, played through a Gibson Fuzz Box; the sneering dismissal in Mick Jagger's lyrics; the strut of rhythm guitarist Brian Jones, bassist Bill Wyman and drummer Charlie Watts: It was the sound of a generation impatient to inherit the Earth.

 

This is the answer.

 

It's not in my top 20 Stones songs, but Satisfaction is the first song I thought of that defines Rock and Roll.

[Cruzer 1,992]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=otdHbA4GlSI