Queen “Fat Bottom Girls”
Led Zeppelin “Black Dog”
Pink Floyd “Wish you were here”
Radiohead “Myxomatosis”
Red Hot Chili Pepper’s “Around the World”
Rolling Stones “Gimme Shelter”
Santana “Black Magic Woman”
Smashing Pumpkins “1979”
Styx “Fooling Yourself”
Talking Heads “Life During Wartime”
Tenacious D “The Greatest Song in the World” (sorry I couldn’t resist)
U2 “Sunday Bloody Sunday”
The Velvet Underground “Heroin” (or Run Run Run)
The Who “Baba O’Riley”
Yes “I’ve seen all good people”
Oingo Boingo “No Spill Blood”
Muse “New Born”
Journey “Wheel in the Sky”
Jethro Tull “Aqualung”
Eric Clapton “Layla”
Elton John “Rocket Man”
ELO “Evil Woman”
Earth Wind & Fire “Got to Get you Into my Life”
The Doors “Riders on the Storm”
Crosby Stills Nash & Young “Woodstock”
CCR “Travelin’ Band”
Chicago “24 or 6 to 5”
Billy Joel “Zanzibar”
The Beatles “I am the Walrus”
The Beach Boys “God Only Knows”
Stevie Wonder “Superstition”
David Bowie “Space Oddity”
The Rolling Stones “Ruby Tuesday”
Moody Blues “Nights in White Satin”
The Animals “House of the Rising Sun”

Phew.  I should probably be sleeping now.

Cheese and Onions (The Rutles)

Because it was funny.

Black Betty - Ram Jam

Ring of Fire - Johnny Cash

Sweet Jane - Velvet Underground

I Put A Spell On You - Screaming Jay Hawkins

Rumble - Link Wray

Wendy - Concrete Blonde

Perfect Day - Lou Reed

Famous Blue Raincoat - Leonard Cohen

Fly - Nick Drake

Creep - Radiohead

Camera Obscura - R.E.M.

Caribou - The Pixies

Mother - Pink Floyd

Temptation - New Order

I’m Not Like Everybody Else - The Kinks

You & I - Jeff Buckley

Hello Earth - Kate Bush

Bird Doggin’ - sung by Gene Vincent

Rave On - Buddy Holly

Lordy Hoody - Tommy Blake

Cold Dark Night - Charlie Feathers

Crossroad Blues - Robert Johnson

Robber Dub - The Clash

Anarchy in the UK - Sex Pistols

Institutionalized - Suicidal Tendencies

Lake of Fire - Meat Puppets

Kashmir - Led Zepplin

You Sexy Thing - Hot Chocolate

Low Rider - War

Don’t Ride The White Horse - Laid Back

Rock Superstar - Cypress Hill

Give Up The Funk - Parliament

Hallelujah - John Cale’s version (written by L. Cohen)

Lady Grinning Soul - David Bowie

Kid - The Pretenders

Metropolis - Kraftwerk

Killing an Arab - The Cure

Dear Prudence - Siouxsie and the Banshees

Bela Lugosi’s Dead - Bauhaus

Just Like Honey - Jesus and Mary Chain

Bittersweet Symphony - The Verve

All Tomorrow’s Parties - Nico/Velvet Underground

The Man Who Sold The World - as sung by Nirvana (written by Bowie)

I Don’t Want To Grow Up - The Ramones

What?

No mention of “Hot August Night” by Neil Diamond?

You heathens! May you all spend an eternity* rotting in hell

I’ll just put my Ben Folds Five CD back on.

(* “an eternity” being your choice from a closet full of eternities)

Well, music is certainly personal!

I really love many of the songs mentioned above, by everyone, and have never heard many of them, also, I suppose they are album tracks that for one reason or another did not get much exposure.

‘Stairway To Heaven’ is oftem given credit for having the greatest guitar riff of all time, by the way.

And I happily observe that no one named anything by the greatest group of rock impostors that ever took the stage or played an instument, namely ‘The Who’.

There must be somewhat of listing and quantifying all these entries!

Perhaps, each member is given, say, ten votes to spend, and then each vote can be given out, one per song for ten entries, or ten votes all to one entry, or any variation of same, to total ten.

Then some good heart with too much time on their hands (where is Bible Dude when we need him?), or perhaps Yours Truly, will tally all these up, and then we have a list, and then vote from that list to choose winner, place, and show.

Dan, hoping this impresses Bebe, who he worships

Dan Jr. - 10 June 2007 09:22 AM

And I happily observe that no one named anything by the greatest group of rock impostors that ever took the stage or played an instument, namely ‘The Who’.

Actually, Razela mentioned them in her list.“ Baba O Riley” I believe

Concrete Blonde “God Is A Bullet”
The Ramones “Biltzkreig Bop”
The Descendents “Coolidge”
Creedence Clearwater Revival “Fortunate Son”
Led Zeppelin “Ten Years Gone”
Oingo Boingo “Just Another Day”
The Pixies “Tame”
The Cure “Prayers for Rain”
The Damned “I Just Can’t Be Happy Today”
Frank Zappa “Orange County Lumber Truck”
Marvin Gay “Brother, Brother”
Black Tape for a Blue Girl “Ashes In the Brittle Air”
Louis Armstrong “Wonderful World”
Joy Division “Love Will Tear Us Apart”
Tom Waits “Step Right up”
Nomeansno “Victory”
The Beat Farmers “Happy Boy”
Johnny and June Carter Cash “Jackson”
John Prine “Please Don’t Bury Me”

I drive the guy at the local music trade nuts.

oooo, I forgot Tom Waits, I was trying to figure out which song was my favourite but I ended up forgetting to put him on there at all! I really have a hard time narrowing it down to just one for him though.

I forgot Joy Division too

Rain, me and you have very similar tastes in music

I almost put Blitzkrieg Pop as my Ramones pick too, but I Don’t Want to Grow Up is my current favourite (they tend to rotate)

MadCarlotta - 10 June 2007 10:20 AM

oooo, I forgot Tom Waits, I was trying to figure out which song was my favourite but I ended up forgetting to put him on there at all! I really have a hard time narrowing it down to just one for him though.

I forgot Joy Division too

Rain, me and you have very similar tastes in music

I almost put Blitzkrieg Pop as my Ramones pick too, but I Don’t Want to Grow Up is my current favourite (they tend to rotate)

Well, “I Don’t Want to Grow Up” was a cover the Ramones did of a Tom Waits song, so you got it covered! I was going to put “Rain Dogs” for Tom Waits but that seemed a bit obvious, what with my name….

I listen to a huge variety of music. Since classic rock seemed to be covered by other posters, I went with my current and/or long time favorites. I’m on a big Nomeansno kick lately.

It’s nice to know that I’m not the only person with eclectic tastes in music. The guy at the music trade store loves to see me coming as I usually can’t get out of his store without buying something. Last time I was in, I bought a Tears for Fears greatest hits and a bluegrass compilation. He no longer askes me if I’m shopping for other people. HA!

10CC - Dreadlock Holliday
Bettie Serveert - Wide eyed fools
Bettie Serveert - Palomine
Bob Dylan - The Times, They Are A-Changin’
David Bowie - Space Oddity
Derek and the Domino’s - Layla
Derek and the Domino’s - Little Wing
Cream - White Room
Eric Clapton - Cocaine
Jimi Hendrix - Voodoo Child
John Lennon - Imagine
Kate Bush - Army Dreamers
Led Zeppelin - Stairway to Heaven
Meat Loaf - Paradise by the Dashboard Light
Men at Work - Down Under
Pink Floyd - Wish you were here
Queen - Bohemian Rhapsody
Sex Pistols - Anarchy in the UK
Sex Pistols - God save the Queen
Supertramp - The Logical Song
The Beatles - Penny Lane
The Doors - Riders on a Storm
The Eagles - Hotel California
The Police - Message in a Bottle

Wow, there are so many good ones you guys caught?  How did I forget Police, or Bob Dylan, or Tears for Fears?

Anyways, anyone else like the NCAA style way to choose the best?  I’ll gladly put them all in a chart.

Oh, and don’t forget Oingo Boingo’s “No Spill Blood” and Talking Heads “Psycho Killer”