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Tue Mar-13-07 03:58 PM
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Best Rock-n-Roll Songs... Not Pop, not ballads but R-n-R.... |
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In no particular order...
Get Out of Denver - Bob Seager Helter Skelter - The Beatles Street Fightin' Man - Stones Locomotive Breath - Jethro Tull Thunder Road - Bruce Springsteen We Won't Get Fooled Again - The Who Bad Moon Risin' - Creedance Clearwater Lust for Life - Iggy Suffragette City - Bowie Whippin'Post - Allmand Brothers I'm Eighteen - alice Cooper It's My Life - Animals Song for the Dumped - Ben Folds Five Lawyers, Guns and Money - Warren Zevon Every Little Thing - Yes White Punks on Dope - The Tubes Sunday, Bloody Sunday - U2 Walkin on the Sun - Smash Mouth Love is the Drug - Roxy Music Beds are Burning - Midnight Oil You Really Got Me - Kinks Somebody to Love - Jefferson Airplane Goin' Down - Jeff Beck 867-5309 - Tommy Tutone Teen Angst - Cracker Zombie - Cranberries Crazy on You - Heart Sweet Jane - Lou Reed
Feel free to add....
I picked these for the attitude that goes along with the songs..
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Tue Mar-13-07 04:02 PM
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Edited on Tue Mar-13-07 04:04 PM by taterguy
It's about cars, dancing and getting laid which makes it the perfect rock and roll song.
The Ben Folds Five song you mentioned is a fine song but it does not rock because there's no guitar. ps: Sweet Jane was originally a Velvet Underground song even though you might prefer some subsequent version by Lou Reed
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Tue Mar-13-07 04:12 PM
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4. I like the live Sweet Jane... |
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I know the VU did that but Lou was in the band so...
Ben Folds has a kick ass bass line in the song...
Doesn't need a guitar...
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Tue Mar-13-07 04:17 PM
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7. You can not rock without a guitar |
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Ronald Thomas Clontle said it. I believe it. That settles it.
Anyone unfamiliar with the work of Ronald Thomas Clontle is unqualified to give opinions on rock.
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Tue Mar-13-07 04:40 PM
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9. So the peoples music is now elitist... |
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Tue Mar-13-07 04:58 PM
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11. Ronald Thomas Clontle is a man of the people |
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How can you be more populist than working at Java the Hut?
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Tue Mar-13-07 05:21 PM
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14. I agree that Madness was the first real SKA band... |
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But, the guy hasn't been around as long as I have...
So Jerry Lee isn't Rock-n-Roll....
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Tue Mar-13-07 05:38 PM
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17. Jerry Lee wasn't included in your list |
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Goodness gracious great balls of fire what were you thinking?
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Tue Mar-13-07 06:58 PM
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19. I forgot about him.... |
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Until you brought up the piano...
Remember, I am old enough to remember when they played Elvis, Jerry Lee and Litle Richard on the AM radio...
So I forget...
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Tue Mar-13-07 04:04 PM
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New Order - Generation X Got The Time - Joe Jackson Band Radio, Radio - Elvis Costello Hang Onto Yourself - Bowie Don't Cry Wolf - The Damned What Do I Get? - The Buzzcocks Dead End Job - The Police Don't Care - Klark Kent
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Tue Mar-13-07 04:12 PM
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6. I really like Got the Time.... |
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I have lived through so many great songs, it's hard to pick...
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Tue Mar-13-07 04:09 PM
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A rock song so good it's been covered a bazzillion times. I like Bo Diddley's original and versions by Ronnie Hawkins and the Hawks, Townes Van Zandt, George Thorogood and that anonymous band on the Nuggets compilation
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Tue Mar-13-07 04:12 PM
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5. That is a great one... |
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Tue Mar-13-07 04:25 PM
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8. Me and Bobby McGee, Janis Joplin |
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Tue Mar-13-07 04:40 PM
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10. 'Precious' and 'The Wait' by the Pretenders |
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Edited on Tue Mar-13-07 04:41 PM by Richardo
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Tue Mar-13-07 05:09 PM
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12. Disorder in the House - Warren Zevon |
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Tue Mar-13-07 05:17 PM
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13. Here are some Rock 'n Roll songs that get me moving... |
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"Orange Crush" R.E.M. "Local God" - Everclear "Wild Flower" - The Cult "Machine Head" - Bush "Lithium" - Nirvana "Plush" - Stone Temple Pilots "Even Flow" - Pearl Jam "Outshined" - Sound Garden "People of the Sun" - Rage Against The Machine "Running with the Devil" - Van Halen "Dr. Feelgood" - Motley Crue (Sorry, this song is a guilty pleasure of mine) "Du Hast" - Rammstein "Cult of Personality" - Living Colour "Been Caught Stealing" - Jane's Addiction "Suck My Kiss" - The Red Hot Chili Peppers "Funky Crime" - The Red Hot Chili Peppers "Flirtin' with Disaster" - Molly Hatchet "Wasteland" - The Mission UK
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Tue Mar-13-07 05:29 PM
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15. Pat Travers- Boom, Boom Out go the Lights! was the first one that came to mind. See for yourself! |
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It's not the best video or audio but I think you will get the idea. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cdaDZslJavA
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Tue Mar-13-07 06:59 PM
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20. I forgot about that song... |
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I remember seeing him at an outdoor fest sometime in the 70's...
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Tue Mar-13-07 07:56 PM
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21. I saw him in the late 70s in Orlando. He looks like he hasn't aged well |
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It's nice to see he's still making a living at playing music.
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Wed Mar-14-07 07:18 AM
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27. I always liked this song, too. |
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Tue Mar-13-07 05:34 PM
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16. "Final Solution"- Pere Ubu |
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Tue Mar-13-07 06:58 PM
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18. Johnny Winter- Highway 61. Rock and Roll, People! |
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Tue Mar-13-07 08:33 PM
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Johnny Fucking Winter!! Now that's some guitar slingin' right there. If you like Jonny, you'll love Bugs Henderson, killer version of Highway 61 here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rCH6LV87k7w
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Wed Mar-14-07 07:57 AM
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One of the best clips ever. Right before that he does some playing that is fantastic, then he goes into the song. I taped that when it initially ran and I watched that clip about 100 times..lol. Johnny is one of the best blues players ever. I liked Stevie Ray to a point, but I could never understand how people thought he was a better blues player than Johnny.
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Tue Mar-13-07 08:37 PM
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and a whole lot of other Who songs. Dream On - Aerosmith
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Tue Mar-13-07 08:55 PM
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24. A list would have to be really long |
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so I'll just add Clapton's Layla
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Wed Mar-14-07 06:40 AM
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Are you the Jenny that the 867-5309 song is about?
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Wed Mar-14-07 07:11 AM
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26. The original, not the lame acoustic version |
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the instrumental break at the end is awesome.
BTW JennyH, welcome- a good start with the Layla post.
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Wed Mar-14-07 07:23 AM
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28. Satisfaction, 19th Nervous Breakdown, Get Off of My Cloud, Sympathy for the Devil, |
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Brown Sugar, All Down the Line, Rip This Joint, It's Only Rock 'N Roll, Honky Tonk Woman, Street Fighting Man, Paint It Black, and a few others.
The Stones!
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Wed Mar-14-07 07:24 AM
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29. Live for the Music - Bad Company |
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Driving too Fast - The Stones off their latest CD Back in Black - AC DC
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Wed Mar-14-07 07:42 AM
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30. Stones: Midnight Rambler |
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