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#1 User is offline   mike777 

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Posted 2006-June-16, 23:46

2am on a friday night and listening to Dylan, Like a Rolling Stone and just finished bridge.

Your one and only pick for greatest single song? Ok and your favorite single song...need not be the same :D.

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Posted 2006-June-17, 07:12

Best: Steve Miller's The Joker
Favorite: Jimi Hendrix's Little Wing

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Louis Meyers: Sky is Crying

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Posted 2006-June-17, 09:43

Best: All Along The Watchtower -performed by J. Hendrix, written by B.Dylan

Favorite: Sultans of Swing -written & performed by Dire Straits


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Posted 2006-June-17, 10:08

best - almost anything by queen, cream, or u2 (but stairway to heaven might beat them out)

favorite - see above

edit: i forgot puddle of mudd's 'she f***ing hates me'
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Posted 2006-June-17, 10:20

Stairway to heaven has to near top contender
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Posted 2006-June-18, 02:55

Greatest? torn between Machine Gun and Who Knows by Hendrix

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Posted 2006-June-18, 05:59

This one is really tricky... Rock and Roll is constantly changing and evolving. Its very difficult to pick a greatest song in a genre that streaches from Johnny B Goode to Free Bird and from Hendrix to the Clash.... Its also a pisser trying to determine what is (and isn't) Rock and Roll. I know that its just personal bias, but I'm willing to consider styles of music that I like such as Punk and Ska as "Rock" while dismissing other styles like Rap and Hip Hop.

In any case, here are 5 of my all time favorites:

1. London Calling - The Clash
2. Sweet Child o' Mine - Guns and Roses
3. Sunday, Bloody Sunday - U2
4. What's Mine is Yours - Sleater Kinney
5. Life's been Good to Me So Far - Joe Walsh

If I had to pick a single "greatest" song, it would be Ohio by CSN+Y
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Posted 2006-June-19, 09:57

My choice would be 'Starless', from King Crimson's album Red.

'Stairway to heaven' would definitely be in the top ten if you interview a million people from the 70's :)
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Posted 2006-June-19, 12:31

"Bohemian Rhapsody" by Queen, and "Sultans of Swing" by Dire Straits.
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Posted 2006-June-19, 13:12

Rock AND Roll? Toss up between "Hound Dog" by Elvis and "Rock around the clock" by Bill Haley and the Comets. Rock is an entirely different world.

"Hash Pipe" by Weezer and "Like she said" by Eve 6 are potential classics for head shaking, toe tapping, ultra-high volume ROCK.
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Posted 2006-June-19, 13:24

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Posted 2006-June-19, 14:10

Al_U_Card, on Jun 19 2006, 09:12 PM, said:

Rock AND Roll? Toss up between "Hound Dog" by Elvis and "Rock around the clock" by Bill Haley and the Comets.

I agree with this; just one point to add (very few are aware of it). It was actually

Bill Haley and His Comets.

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Posted 2006-June-19, 15:28

Tie:
The Boxer, Simon and Garfunkel
Just Like Heaven, The Cure
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Posted 2006-June-19, 15:29

hrothgar, on Jun 18 2006, 06:59 AM, said:

This one is really tricky... Rock and Roll is constantly changing and evolving. Its very difficult to pick a greatest song in a genre that streaches from Johnny B Goode to Free Bird and from Hendrix to the Clash.... Its also a pisser trying to determine what is (and isn't) Rock and Roll. I know that its just personal bias, but I'm willing to consider styles of music that I like such as Punk and Ska as "Rock" while dismissing other styles like Rap and Hip Hop.

In any case, here are 5 of my all time favorites:

1. London Calling - The Clash
2. Sweet Child o' Mine - Guns and Roses
3. Sunday, Bloody Sunday - U2
4. What's Mine is Yours - Sleater Kinney
5. Life's been Good to Me So Far - Joe Walsh

If I had to pick a single "greatest" song, it would be Ohio by CSN+Y

I am partial to my friends varient from my Frosh Year at Wesleyan (see I am even using Wesleyan lingo!):
The song was "Oh, Hi, Ed"
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Posted 2006-June-19, 17:06

i'd forgotten the one that puts me in a good mood whenever i hear it, 'paradise by the dashboard light' by meat loaf... it'll never make anyone's top 100, but i love that song
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Posted 2006-June-19, 18:14

Such a tough question as in my mind pure rock and roll began with Buddy Holly and ended with The Rolling Stones - after that it was pretty much subcultures of rock and roll.

Greatest Ever? Satisfaction, The Rolling Stones.

Favorite? Chantilly Lace
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