Greatest rock song of all time??

**witchcurlgirl** · November 30th, 2009, 10:51 AM

I could never pick just one, but I'd maybe suggest Johnny B. Goode for number one.........for runners up- Devil With A Blue Dress On, Somethin Else, Summertime Blues, or maybe Good Golly Miss Molly......If you don't like those songs, you don't like rock and roll.

**ManxMouse** · November 30th, 2009, 02:29 PM

Originally Posted by witchcurlgirl

I could never pick just one, but I'd maybe suggest Johnny B. Goode for number one.........for runners up- Devil With A Blue Dress On, Somethin Else, Summertime Blues, or maybe Good Golly Miss Molly......If you don't like those songs, you don't like rock and roll.

witch, have you ever heard Peter Tosh's reggae version of Johnny B. Goode? Brilliant!!!

I'd add "Satisfaction" by the Rolling Stones to the list.

**witchcurlgirl** · November 30th, 2009, 02:53 PM

Originally Posted by ManxMouse

witch, have you ever heard Peter Tosh's reggae version of Johnny B. Goode? Brilliant!!!

I'd add "Satisfaction" by the Rolling Stones to the list.

Adore him, and yes, his version rocks.

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TKtURqCt-JQ[/youtube]

**sputnik** · November 30th, 2009, 03:15 PM

other possible contenders (but the more i think about it, the more i think 'like a rolling stone' is simply unbeatable):

bob dylan - visions of johanna

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fm2oWBICkeo[/youtube]

bob dylan - positively 4th street

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ov_2Q36QLcQ[/youtube]

bob dylan - rainy day women nos. 12 & 35

bob dylan - ballad of a thin man
(can't find video with the album version, but this live version is amazing)

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0_wWYmep1Ng[/youtube]

the beach boys - god only knows

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NDfH_J4MAUQ[/youtube]

lou reed - walk on the wild side
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WZ88oTITMoM[/youtube]

david bowie - space oddity
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ssnxo4lNp8w[/youtube]

**Sojiita** · November 30th, 2009, 03:33 PM

Stairway to Heaven. I remember back in the seventies it was always voted number one, year after year, on those New Years Eve countdowns.

Satisfaction a close second.

**Nightdragon** · November 30th, 2009, 03:34 PM

Oh man you guys have picked some great ones already! Here's a few more:

"More than a Feeling" - Boston

[YOUTUBE]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IcsVPis1iNs[/YOUTUBE]

"Don't fear the Reaper" - Blue Oyster Cult

[YOUTUBE]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MEE4mvqi4pc[/YOUTUBE]

"Have you ever seen the rain" - CCR

[YOUTUBE]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TS9_ipu9GKw[/YOUTUBE]

"Love Hurts" - Nazareth

[YOUTUBE]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L2BjJbKQkgc[/YOUTUBE]

"Hair of the Dog" - Nazareth

[YOUTUBE]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jEG0-3xlAkg[/YOUTUBE]

Ok I could seriously go on all damn day!!

**Penny Lane** · November 30th, 2009, 06:32 PM

Originally Posted by angelais

Kashmir is my cell phone ring tone. Love it!!
Whole Lotta Love ranks right up there as well.

HAHA. It's my ringtone, too. I went to visit my grandma in the hospital this weekend (she's fine, no worries

) and my phone rang and the first thing she said was "Oy, you're just like your mother"

'Walk The Line' - Johnny Cash

**witchcurlgirl** · November 30th, 2009, 06:45 PM

Roll Over Beethoven, or Rock and Roll Music-Chuck Berry

Be-Bob-A-Lula- Gene Vincent

Long Tall Sally-Little Richard

C'Mon Everybody- Eddie Cochrane

Great Balls of Fire- Jerry Lee Lewis

Again, it's hard to pick just one. These are all songs I would use to explain rock and roll to someone who had never heard it.

**Penny Lane** · November 30th, 2009, 07:26 PM

Great Balls of Fire is a great pick... as much as I love music from the '60s and '70s, I think the best and most memorable representations of true rock music are from the '50s.

**sputnik** · November 30th, 2009, 07:27 PM

personally i don't think there's such a thing as 'true' rock. that's what's awesome about rock, people keep swearing it's dying but talented artists always find a way to renew the genre and keep it relevant.

**Penny Lane** · November 30th, 2009, 07:32 PM

Rock was such a young genre back then, though.. it was probably like "whoa, where the fuck did that come from?" for people in earlier generations.. and it was probably so awesome to have been able to experience such pioneering music firsthand. I just don't think we have that anymore. Maybe I'll feel differently in a few decades.

**sputnik** · November 30th, 2009, 07:40 PM

i don't know. i don't believe in the whole nostalgia thing and that everything was better before. maybe in the sense that all the good music today has been pretty much driven underground and isn't what you hear in mainstream media, radio, etc...
but i don't agree that music today isn't innovative. maybe not in the sense that elvis or the beatles blew things up but every generation does that. before rock it was jazz that was breaking all the rules of traditional music and composition. the first rockers coincided with the advent of television and mass media so i think that partly explains the impact.
and there are bands right now that still blow me away. that blow me away just as much as the classics, and sometimes more. (though dylan is still god, lol)
look what radiohead did to rock.

**Nightdragon** · November 30th, 2009, 08:38 PM

"Dust in the wind" - Kansas

[YOUTUBE]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SjGF6Hrxj9w[/YOUTUBE]

"Carry on my wayward son" - Kansas

[YOUTUBE]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CB17uWuBrL0[/YOUTUBE]

**Penny Lane** · December 1st, 2009, 12:59 PM

Originally Posted by sputnik

i don't know. i don't believe in the whole nostalgia thing and that everything was better before. maybe in the sense that all the good music today has been pretty much driven underground and isn't what you hear in mainstream media, radio, etc...
but i don't agree that music today isn't innovative. maybe not in the sense that elvis or the beatles blew things up but every generation does that. before rock it was jazz that was breaking all the rules of traditional music and composition. the first rockers coincided with the advent of television and mass media so i think that partly explains the impact.
and there are bands right now that still blow me away. that blow me away just as much as the classics, and sometimes more. (though dylan is still god, lol)
look what radiohead did to rock.

Good point about Radiohead... I guess I'm just overly nostalgic lol. I was never able to experience the music I love so much firsthand so it makes me kind of sad.