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[God's Hand]

Must be some music fanatics here. So what are some of the best songs from these artists:

Springsteen, Beatles, The Who, BB King, Marley, Janice Joplin, Van Morrison, Zeppelin...

 

[temp]

Led Zeppelin: Your Time is Gonna Come, How Many More Times, Ramble On, Bring It on Home, Immigrant Song, Bron-Y-Aur Stomp, Rock and Roll, Misty Mountain Hop, The Crunge, In My Time of Dying, Black Country Woman, Fool in the Rain

The Beatles: I Feel Fine, She Loves You, Ticket to Ride, Twist and Shout, In My Life, She Said She Said, I Want to Tell You, Tomorrow Never Knows, Back in the U.S.S.R, Happiness is a Warm Gun, Helter Skelter, Revolution, Come Together, Get Back, Don't Let Me Down

 

[karasu]

Jimi Hendrix - All Along the Watchtower, Hey Joe, Third Stone from the Sun, Fire,

The Who - Pinball Wizard, Listening to You, My Generation

The Beatles - Come Together

 

[Blackace]

Jimi Hendrix - All Along the Watchtower, Hey Joe, Third Stone from the Sun, Fire,

Vodoo Chile...and if 6 were 9

I would add to that list!

 

[SteveMeister]

Off the top of my head:

Springsteen: Rosalita, Born to Run
Beatles: Hey Jude, Revolution
The Who: Behind Blue Eyes, My Generation
Janice Joplin: Oh Lord Won't You Buy Me A Mercedes-Benz, Me & Bobby McGee
Van Morrisson: Moondance, Brown Eyed Girl

 

[Eminem]

Springsteen - Secret Garden, Better Days, Born in the USA, Born To Run, Dancing in the Dark, Glory Days, Hungry Heart, Streets of Philadelphia

Beatles - While My Guitar Gently Weeps, A Day in the Life, Across the Universe, Eleanor Rigby, From Me To You, Hello Goodbye, Hey Jude, I Am The Walrus, Lucy in the Sky With Diamonds, Something, Strawberry Fields Forever, Ticket to Ride, Yellow Submarine

The Who - Teenage Wasteland, You Better You Bet, Behind Blue Eyes, I Can See For Miles, My Generation

Van Morrison - A Whiter Shade of Pale, Tupelo Honey, And It Stoned Me, Baby Please Don't Go, Dancing in the Moonlight, Days Like This, Here Comes The Night, Into Mystic, Someone Like You, These Are The Days

Zeppelin - Achilles' Last Stand, Hey Hey What Can I Do, Over the Hills and Far Away, Houses of the Holy, All My Love, Babe I'm Gonna Leave You, Battle of Evermore, Black Dog, Dancing Days, Dazed and Confused, Dyer Maker, Fool in the Rain, Friends, Going to California, Tangerine, Kashmir, Since I've Been Loving You, Stairway to Heaven, That's the Way, The Ocean, What Is and What Should Never Be

 

[God's Hand]

Thanks! You guys rock.

 

[Blackace]

Zepplin, "When the Levy breaks" needs to be added...

 

[Eminem]

oh shit, good call. yes, yes it does. Except it's spelled "When the Levee Breaks"

 

[God's Hand]

How about some others...

AC/DC, Dire Straits, Stevie Ray, Clash, Eurythmics, Bob Marley...

 

[temp]

The Clash: London Calling, Hateful, Rudie Can't Fail, Clampdown, Death or Glory, The Card Cheat, Train in Vain, Protex Blue, I Fought the Law, Should I Stay or Should I Go?, This is Radio Clash, Rock the Casbah

 

[Blackace]

oh shit, good call. yes, yes it does. Except it's spelled "When the Levee Breaks"

Levy was the Coach of he Bills wasn't he? :lol

 

[nitewulf]

dire straits - down to the waterline, lady writer, sultans of swing, romeo and juliet, so far away, money for nothing, walk of life
bob marley - iron, lion, zion; buffalo soldier, could you be loved, is this love, get up stand up, no woman no cry, natural mystic, everything's gonna be alright, one love
clash - spanish bombs, bankrobber, i fought the law, lost in the supermarket, london calling, should i stay or should i go, somebody got murdered, train in vain, straight to hell
eurythmics - sweet dreams, here comes the rain again, missionary man

 

[Shinobi]

I'll list some other songs for Zepp...

Communication Breakdown
Celebration Day
Dazed and Confused
Heartbreaker/Livin' Lovin' Maid
Rain Song
Whole Lotta Love

AC/DC - Thunderstruck, We Salute You

Beatles - Dear Prudence, I Want You, In My Life

Springsteen - Dancing in the Dark, I'm On Fire

The Who - Going Mobile, Who Are You, Won't Get Fooled Again


Heh, should turn this into one big classic rock thread...enjoyed listening to a lot of this stuff the last couple of years.

 

[snaildog]

Beatles: My favourite band, and practically all their songs are great, but to narrow it down to a few: While My Guitar Gently Weeps (my #1), Girl (Anyone else like this?! Underrated I think; fantastic song), I Want You / She's So Heavy, A Day In The Life, I Am The Walrus, Michelle, She Loves You. There are also Paul's soft popular ones that everyone knows and you either love or don't - And I Love Her, Yesterday, Hey Jude, Let It Be, Long Winding Road.

Led Zeppelin: Only really know their greatest hits, but my picks are All My Love (my favourite), Black Dog, Babe I'm Gonna Leave You, and Stairway To Heaven (of course).

 

[Rorschach]

The Who - Teenage Wasteland

:|

 

[Manics]

Led Zeppelin: Only really know their greatest hits, but my picks are All My Love (my favourite), Black Dog, Babe I'm Gonna Leave You, and Stairway To Heaven (of course).

You can't really go wrong with any Zeppelin tune except maybe "Hats off to Roy Harper" which is really weird and probably wouldn't appeal to many people. Here's my general rule of thumb when categorizing Zeppelin songs:

Anything over 5 minutes in length = classic Zeppelin tune.


That is all.

 

[SteveMeister]

The Who - Teenage Wasteland

That song's actually titled "Baba O'Riley", in case you have a hard time finding the track

 

[Kung Fu Jedi]

We need some older Springsteen stuff listed here!

I'll vote for Born To Run, of course, as others have, but I'll add Badlands, Darkness on the Edge of Town, The River, Hungry Heart, Johnny 99, Tenth Avenue Freeze Out, It's Hard To Be a Saint in the City, Racing In The Streets, and the best Boss song of all, Thunder Road.

As for some of the newer stuff: Streets of Philadelphia, The Rising, Ghost of Tom Joad, My City of Ruins, You're Missing, Better Days, Should I Fall Behind.

 

[Manics]

We need some older Springsteen stuff listed here!

Lest we forget Jungeland!

 

[Kung Fu Jedi]

Lest we forget Jungeland!

Ooo..good one. And your nick reminds me that 10,000 Maniacs remade Because The Night, another great song.

 

[Loki]

Springsteen - Secret Garden, Better Days, Born in the USA, Born To Run, Dancing in the Dark, Glory Days, Hungry Heart, Streets of Philadelphia

Yes.

In addition: "Brilliant Disguise" (very underappreciated; my fave of his along w/ Glory Days)

 

[Dagless M.D.]

If you like acoustic guitar then you should listen to 'bron y aur' on physical graffiti

 

[milanbaros]

For Bruce Springsteen I will go for the trio of The River, Born To Run and Thunder Road. Great songs and the lyrics are fantastic. How can so much be crammed into 5 minutes, the characters, the story, the emotions, the regrets. Thats why he is the boss.

My favourite The Who song is easily Baba O'Riley since its one of my favourite songs of all time. Substitute is great as a more poppy song and Won't Get Fooled Again is also a good listen.

I'm a huge Led Zep fan and I'm finding it difficult to think of their best but I will go for two that are probably not the most representative of their work as a whole. When The Levee Breaks could make it based solely on the drumming, esepecially at the start but also because of the images this song can magically conjure up in my mind. The second is Tangerine. One of the most beautiful songs ever created in my opinion. Both the songs best aspects are the instruments but thats why I love Led Zeppelin.

The Beatles songs I enjoy listening to most are In My Life and Here Comes The Sun but they probably aren't their best songs. A day In The Life is a very well crafted song where their brilliance is easily found.

 

[Triumph]

Springsteen- Born to Run
Beatles-Across the Universe
The Who-Baba O'reilly
BB King-?
Marley-Redemption Song
Janice Joplin-Bobby Mcgee(lipstick lesbians love to sing this song at karaoke and make out with each other on stage)
Van Morrison-Brown Eyed Girl?
Zeppelin-Rock and Roll until they whored it out to that car company. Now? Going to California.

 

[dave is ok]

Springsteen - "For you" off of 'Greeting from Asbury Park' GO DOWNLOAD

Beatles - You know my name, look up the number

The Who- I'm partial to '905'. ( I like songs about robots)

BB King- Babe you done lost your good thing now

Marley- Redemption Song

Janice Joplin- Fuck Janice Joplin.

Van Morrison - TB Sheets

Zeppelin - Trampled Under Foot


My taste > yours. Go check these songs out

 

[BigGreenMat]

I guess I am alone in my love for the Who song 'The Seeker'. Oh well that makes me somehow better than you all!

 

[milanbaros]

I guess I am alone in my love for the Who song 'The Seeker'. Oh well that makes me somehow better than you all!

You aren't alone. Thats a great song especially when he talks about asking Dylan and the Beatles but I can't see how it compares to the great Baba O'Riley, but I suppsoe they are two completely different styles of songs. One is a grand, epic anthem whilst the other is ... well I don't know what it is but it sure as hell is a good song. However, Baba O'Riley's originality is what makes it a winner.

 

[RevenantKioku]

Zepplin, "When the Levy breaks" needs to be added...

The original by, shit I forget his name, was pretty fucking fantastic though.

I have the complete Beatles discography on my iPod, so lets kick that.

Songs that I couldn't do without:
Any Time At All, I'll Cry Instead, Things We Said Today, Come Together, Something, I Want You (She's So Heavy), Because, You Never Give Me Your Money ~ Her Majesty (Probably the best string of songs ever, individually they're not all so great, but its together where they really shine), Everybody's Trying to be my Baby, Help!, You've Got to Hide Your Love Away, Ticket to Ride, It's Only Love, I've Just Seen a Face, Yesterday, Two of Us, Across the Universe, I Me Mine, Let It Be, The Long and Winding Road, The Fool on the Hill, Flying, Blue Jay Way, I Am The Walrus, Hello Goodbye, Strawberry Fields Forever, Baby You're a Rich Man, Day Tripper, We Can Work it Out, Rain, Hey Jude, You Know My Name (Look Up the Number), Love Me Do, Taxman, Elanor Rigby, I'm Only Sleeping, Love You To, Here There and Everywhere, She Said She Said, And Your Bird Can Sing, For No One (Probably my favorite Beatles song), Tomorrow Never Knows (Best Beatles song people always forget to list), Norwegian Wood (This Bird Has Flown), You Won't See Me, Nowhere Man, Girl, I'm Looking Through You, In My Life, If I Needed Someone, Lucy In the Sky With Diamonds, Fixing a Hole, Within You Without You, Lovely Rita, A Day in the Life, Dear Prudence, Glass Onion, Wild Honey Pie, The Continuing Story of Bungalow Bill, While My Guitar Gently Weeps, Happiness is a Warm Gun (Wild Honey Pie ~ Happiness is a Warm Gun rivals the second half of Abbey Road), I'm So Tired, Blackbird, Don't Pass Me By, Julia, Everybody's Got Something to Hide Except Me and My Monkey, Helter Skelter, Savoy Truffle.

And there are some I passed on which are solid damn songs, (Penny Lane, Eight Days a Week, All You Need is Love, Paperback Writer), but that huge ass list are the songs that I absolutely adore from the Beatles.

As per albums, Abbey Road, Revolver and The White Album are my faves, and I could pass on With the Beatles and Beatles for Sale. But having all their stuff is absolutely worth it.

 

[Kung Fu Jedi]

I feel the same way about Springsteen. I've got his entire collection, along with some bootlegs, on my mp3 player, and it's awesome to have all that music at your fingertips at any given time.

 

[RevenantKioku]

I feel the same way about Springsteen. I've got his entire collection, along with some bootlegs, on my mp3 player, and it's awesome to have all that music at your fingertips at any given time.

Ugh, I'm from Jersey, but I absolutely loathe that man's music. Him an Cougar Melon-fuck-me-I-suck-at-music-camp.
But this is a thread of love!
I've got all of Floyd's stuff, and eventually hope to get Rush, Bowie and Zeppelin complete.
I also got a Syd Barrett album on here, Wouldn't you Miss Me? and its weird ass shit, but great.

 

[Kung Fu Jedi]

Ugh, I'm from Jersey, but I absolutely loathe that man's music.

Hey! To each his own man. I totally understand that Springsteen is an acquired taste and that not everyone likes him. His vocals, in particular, are something you either love or hate. Pretty hard to dispute his talent as a songwriter however.

As for the Beatles, it's pretty difficult to say anything bad about them at all. Arguably the great rock band of all time with more great music then any three bands put together. You won't get any argument out of me about your selections.

 

[RevenantKioku]

Hey! To each his own man. I totally understand that Springsteen is an acquired taste and that not everyone likes him. His vocals, in particular, are something you either love or hate. Pretty hard to dispute his talent as a songwriter however.

Doesn't stop me from hating the motherfucker's music.
I guess its partly from the near panic-esque status my home area can get into when he had a concert coming, or anything to that extent. Radios playing his stuff constantly, people and their things. Blech.
Don't like the music. Can't deny talent, of course, but hey, you know.