The 10 Greatest Rock Songs of All Time

SlinkyRedfoot · Mar 17, 2021

occupant said:
Honorable mention:

Oh, shit!

That is too fucking funny!

occupant · Mar 17, 2021

SlinkyRedfoot said:
That's an awesome tune. The second half of that album is just fucking awesome.

Good music to bang to.

Its Jane's "Stairway to Heaven". Eric Avery was a great songwriter and that song is his opus imo.

occupant · Mar 17, 2021

SlinkyRedfoot said:
Oh, shit!

That is too fucking funny!

If you like that one, there are other "shreds" that are pretty funny too.

"Shittyflute" will get me rolling on the floor at times as well.

SlinkyRedfoot · Mar 17, 2021

occupant said:
Its Jane's "Stairway to Heaven". Eric Avery was a great songwriter and that song is his opus imo.

Hard to believe that Ritual is almost thirty years old. . .

I can't even guess how many hundreds of times I've listened to that album.

DayButtAssMans’s · Mar 17, 2021

occupant said:
in no particular order

Three Days - Jane's Addiction
Move Me On Down the Line - ZZ Top
...and the Gods made love/Have You Ever Been... - Jimi Hendrix
Draw the Line - Aerosmith
Jimi - Butthole Surfers
The Grobe - Ween
Motherfucker - Beck
Killing In the Name Of - RATM
Dogs - Pink Floyd
Party at Ground Zero - Fishbone

60's to the 00's

God damnit. You’re the coolest.

SlinkyRedfoot · Mar 17, 2021

SlinkyRedfoot said:
Hard to believe that Ritual is almost thirty years old. . .

I can't even guess how many hundreds of times I've listened to that album.

Correction, it's almost 31...

Released August 21, 1990.

DayButtAssMans’s · Mar 17, 2021

Not Fade Away-Buddy Holly
Norwegian Wood-The Beatles
Machine Gun-Hendrix
When the Levee Breaks-Led Zeppelin
Have a Cigar-Pink Floyd
Garageland-The Clash
And She Was-Talking Heads
Then She Did-Jane’s Addiction
Serve the Servants-Nirvana
Reptile-Nine Inch Nails

Trying to span decades with bands that signify a sort of changing of the guard and have some influence. Obviously no way to not leave a lot out.

DayButtAssMans’s · Mar 17, 2021

SlinkyRedfoot said:
Hard to believe that Ritual is almost thirty years old. . .

I can't even guess how many hundreds of times I've listened to that album.

It’s so good. I still listen to it all the time.

DayButtAssMans’s · Mar 17, 2021

SlinkyRedfoot said:
That's an awesome tune. The second half of that album is just fucking awesome.

Good music to bang to.

And it’s followed by Then She Did. A back to back dose of epic trippy songs.

outofyourmind · Mar 17, 2021

occupant · Mar 17, 2021

TheDayMan said:
God damnit. You’re the coolest.

LOL!

There are many Beatles and Frank Zappa songs that I could interject in any of those spots.

outofyourmind · Mar 17, 2021

Clayton2 · Mar 17, 2021

TheDayMan said:
Not Fade Away-Buddy Holly
Norwegian Wood-The Beatles
Machine Gun-Hendrix
When the Levee Breaks-Led Zeppelin
Have a Cigar-Pink Floyd
Garageland-The Clash
And She Was-Talking Heads
Then She Did-Jane’s Addiction
Serve the Servants-Nirvana
Reptile-Nine Inch Nails

Trying to span decades with bands that signify a sort of changing of the guard and have some influence. Obviously no way to not leave a lot out.

Reptile is an interesting selection from Trent Reznor's catalog. Its definitely his best passive-aggressive song but as I get older I lean more towards his live stuff. And All That Could Have Been live is pretty stellar. Really anything that combines his newer 'chaos' sound from Yearzero on with some real musicians playing instruments is the sweet spot. The Perfect Drug live outros are pretty stellar. There is a Just Like You Imagined live version that leaves the album version in the dust. It wouldn't surprise me if the 10 best rock songs were all live performances, tbh.

As soon as I make one of these lists I want to change it. In terms of mass appeal and what I listen to I figure that I'd have American Girl, Yellow Ledbetter, and Freebird on the list. Not sure where I'd go after that.

DayButtAssMans’s · Mar 17, 2021

Clayton2 said:
Reptile is an interesting selection from Trent Reznor's catalog. Its definitely his best passive-aggressive song but as I get older I lean more towards his live stuff. And All That Could Have Been live is pretty stellar. Really anything that combines his newer 'chaos' sound from Yearzero on with some real musicians playing instruments is the sweet spot. The Perfect Drug live outros are pretty stellar. There is a Just Like You Imagined live version that leaves the album version in the dust. It wouldn't surprise me if the 10 best rock songs were all live performances, tbh.

As soon as I make one of these lists I want to change it. In terms of mass appeal and what I listen to I figure that I'd have American Girl, Yellow Ledbetter, and Freebird on the list. Not sure where I'd go after that.

Solid post.

But this though...

I don’t necessarily disagree with anything you said, but regarding NIN, the downward spiral is a masterpiece. It has to be one of the best complete albums of all time, in my head.

I’d also swap you don’t know how it feels or learning to fly for American Girl. But that’s just nitpicking.

RP-29 · Mar 17, 2021

SlinkyRedfoot said:
I love that everyone has different tastes, and I respect them (sort of), but fucking hell! I just listened to Hunter Eats Hunter. If I could name ten Nickleback songs off the top of my head, I could name ten Nicklback songs off the top of my head that are better than Hunter Eats Hunter.

White Knight · Mar 17, 2021

RP-29 said:
- "Iron Man" - Black Sabbath, 1970
- "Godzilla" - Blue Oyster Cult, 1977
- "Unchained" - Van Halen, 1981
- "Blackened" - Metallica, 1988
- "In Bloom" - Nirvana, 1991
- "Sober" - Tool, 1993
- "My Own Summer" - Deftones, 1997
- "Forest" - System of a Down, 2001
- "Critical Acclaim" - Avenged Sevenfold, 2007
- "Hunter Eats Hunter" - Chevelle, 2014

Yes, every song on this list is way better than anything Led Zeppelin, The Rolling Stones and Pink Floyd has ever done. Fuck you; fight me.

Are you tone deaf?

RP-29 · Mar 17, 2021

GUNS said:
Are you tone deaf?

I like different tones than you do. And

if you expect everyone to like the same tones you do.

White Knight · Mar 17, 2021

RP-29 said:
I like different tones than you do.

Too bad you don't appreciate good music.

DayButtAssMans’s · Mar 17, 2021

GUNS said:
Are you tone deaf?

Your list looks like it was taken from the afternoon playlist of a relaxing with the oldies station. You basic fuck.

Nosferatu · Mar 17, 2021

RP-29 said:
Whenever I see someone's "greatest rock songs of all time" lists, this is your typical spray-chart-by-decade:

1960s ---
1970s -------
1980s
1990s
2000s
2010s
2020s

Really? All of the greatest rock songs of all time were all released before 1980? Only two decades of rock hold all of the greatest music ever and the last 40+ years have given us absolutely nothing that exceeds the origins?

Sorry, I don't buy it or agree with it. Replace some of that old played-out boring shit with something off "Appetite For Destruction", "Nevermind", "Metallica", "Vulgar Display of Power", "Tragic Kingdom", "Undertow" or "Aenima", "Hybrid Theory", "Toxicity", etc., etc., etc.

I really think for me at least it's about the music I grew up on, there are plenty of great songs from the 80's & 90's that would make my list if I did top 50. We tend to romanticize things that remind us of "The good ol' days"

I grew up in a house where there was always music playing, my mom listened to country (which I didn't like at all) and my dad listened to rock and R&B (which I loved)

I like System of a Down, Mudvayne, Soundgarden/Audioslave, Jinjer and all kinds of more recent music more than I do like a bunch of music from the 60's & 70's especially the Dead and the Beach Boys, don't care for them at all. But thats not the music that I fell in love with when I was a kid.