Classic Rock appreciation thread

[Mr. Walters]

I just like rock. I don't care if it came out yesterday or 40 years ago, if it makes me nod my head, I like it. I don't get into labels which really allows someone to fully embrace the musical spectrum. I listen to everything from Chuck Berry to Godsmack.

 

[Green Lantern]

I'll just go with my most played list according to my iPod, since it would be about the same thing:

1T) Gimme Back My Bullets - Lynyrd Skynyrd
Free Bird - Lynyrd Skynyrd
3) You Really Got Me - Van Halen
4T) Simple Man - Lynyrd Skynyrd
Sweet Home Alabama - Lynyrd Skynyrd
Jamie's Cryin'
7T) Rooster - Alice In Chains
Whiskey Rock-A-Roller - Lynyrd Skynyrd
9T) No More Tears - Black Label Society
Tuesday's Gone - Lynyrd Skynyrd
Fake - Shinedown
Panama - Van Halen
13T) Heart of Gold - Black Label Society
All I Can Do Is Write About It - Lynyrd Skynyrd
Poison Whiskey - Lynyrd Skynyd
I Need You - Lynyrd Skynyrd
Was I Right or Wrong? - Lynyrd Skynyrd
All Funked Up - Lynyrd Skynyrd
Seek & Destroy - Metallica
There Goes Another Love Song - The Outlaws
Everybody Wants Some!! - Van Halen
22T) Mama Kin - Aerosmith
Draw The Line - Aerosmith
Think About You - Guns N Roses
The Wicker Man - Iron Maiden
Am I Losin? - Lynyrd Skynyrd
Made In The Shade - Lynyrd Skynyrd
Gimme Three Steps - Lynyrd Skynyrd
The Needle And The Spoon - Lynyrd Skynyrd
Hell Or Heaven - Lynyrd Skynyrd
Mad Hatter - Lynyrd Skynyrd
Song In The Breeze - The Outlaws
Crazy Train - Ozzy Osbourne
Heavy Metal - Sammy Hagar
Heroes - Shinedown
Jump - Van Halen
Ain't Talkin Bout Love - Van Halen
...And the Cradle Will Rock - Van Halen
Can't Say It Loud Enough - Van Zant
40T) Caught Up In You - 38 Special
Hold On Loosely - 38 Special
Hole In The Sky - Black Sabbath
Smoke On The Water - Deep Purple
Alexis - The James Gang
Double Trouble - Lynyrd Skynyrd
Saturday Night Special - Lynyrd Skynyrd
Call Me The Breeze - Lynyrd Skynyd
Red, White, and Blue - Lynyrd Skynyrd
Jake - Lynyrd Skynyrd
Heard It In A Love Song - The Marshall Tucker Band
Bad Motor Scooter - Montrose
Rock The Nation - Montrose
Bark At The Moon - Ozzy Osbourne
Paint It Black - The Rolling Stones
I Dare You - Shinedown
Some Day - Shinedown
Drop Dead Legs - Van Halen
Why Can't This Be Love? - Van Halen
Dance The Night Away - Van Halen
60T) Broken - 12 Stones
Back In Black - AC/DC
Back In The Saddle - Aerosmith
Sweet Emotion - Aerosmith
Bleed The Freak - Alice In Chains
Show Me How To Live - Audioslave
Flowers - Bishop
Why? - Bishop
Sweet Leaf - Black Sabbath
All Moving Parts (Stand Still) - Black Sabbath
Highway Star - Deep Purple
Layla - Derek & The Dominoes
Black Dog - Led Zeppelin
Stairway To Heaven - Led Zeppelin
Down South Jukin' - Lynyrd Skynyrd
Thats How I Like It - Lynyrd Skynyrd
Life's Lessons - Lynyrd Skynyrd
Battery - Metallica
Ride The Lightning - Metallica
Crazy Little Thing Called Love - Queen
Stranger Inside - Shinedown
45 - Shinedown
Atmosphere - Shinedown
Carried Away - Shinedown
Black Hole Sun - Soundgarden
Dreams - Van Halen
Can't Stop Lovin You - Van Halen
Pretty Woman (with Intruder intro) - Van Halen
88T) Homeless Guitar - 38 Special
Shoot To Thrill - AC/DC
Highway To Hell - AC/DC
Dream On - Aerosmith
Rag Doll - Aerosmith
Dirt - Alice In Chains
Man In The Box - Alice In Chains
Never Say Goodbye - Bon Jovi
Speed King - Deep Purple
Space Truckin - Deep Purple
War Inside My Head - Dream Theater
Don't Stop - Fleetwood Mac
Sweet Child of Mine - Guns N Roses
Don't Cry (Original) - Guns N Roses
Don't Damn Me - Guns N Roses
Yesterdays - Guns N Roses
Whole Lotta Love - Led Zeppelin
On The Hunt - Lynyrd Skynyrd
The Ballad of Curtis Loew - Lynyrd Skynyrd
Comin' Home - Lynyrd Skynyrd
What's Your Name? - Lynyrd Skynyrd
Pick Em Up - Lynyrd Skynyrd
Sweet Mama - Lynyrd Skynyrd
Rockin' Little Town - Lynyrd Skynyrd
Lucky Man - Lynyrd Skynyrd
The Thing That Should Not Be - Metallcia
Welcome Home (Sanitarium) - Metallica
Rock Candy - Montrose
All I Ever Wanted - Shinedown
Top Jimmy - Van Halen
Unchained - Van Halen
So This Is Love? - Van Halen
Runnin With The Devil - Van Halen
Brickyard Road - Van Zant

If I get motivated I may organize this list in favorite order but for now this will work.

 

[Dwarf lord]

Pretty good list. I don't know some of the songs, but the ones I do know, I like very much.

 

[Green Lantern]

Any song on that list that you don't know, I highly recomend I'm assuming its the newer Skynyrd songs that are giving you trouble?

 

[The Chairman]

both of those list are amazing (dwarf lord and anthonynasti)

Thanks.

 

[Dwarf lord]

Any song on that list that you don't know, I highly recomend I'm assuming its the newer Skynyrd songs that are giving you trouble?

Mostly. I'm just starting to get into get into classic rock, so I haven't gotten to the newer stuff of some of these classic bands. What are some Skynyrd albums you recomend. I have the classics (Free Bird, Sweet Home Alabama, and Gimme Three Steps).

 

[Dwarf lord]

both of those list are amazing (dwarf lord and anthonynasti)

Not fully happy with how mine came out. I left out a lot of songs I like. I mean, I could pretty much make a list with just The Beatles, Elvis and The Who. The most glaring thing I left off was Travelin' Band.

 

[Green Lantern]

Mostly. I'm just starting to get into get into classic rock, so I haven't gotten to the newer stuff of some of these classic bands. What are some Skynyrd albums you recomend. I have the classics (Free Bird, Sweet Home Alabama, and Gimme Three Steps).

I recomend all of their classic albums (Pronounced Leh-Nerd Skin-Nerd, Second Helping, Nuthin Fancy, Gimme Back My Bullets, Street Survivors, One More From The Road, Skynyrd's First... and Last, and their newest album (where most of the songs you don't know are) Vicious Cycle)

 

[maxwell's demon]

i like Bill Haley and the Comets.

also Carl Perkins.

 

[Dwarf lord]

I also forgot Rock Around the Clock...

But yeah, I love Carl Perkins. He's very underrated in the whole scheme of things. He was very instrumental in the Birth of Rock and Roll.

 

[Dwarf lord]

Back to The Beatles for another question. Which Beatles era do you prefer?

Early- The start to Beatles for Sale
Mid- Help! to Sgt. Pepper
Late- Magical Mystery Tour to Let it Be

 

[Green Lantern]

Late

 

[The Chairman]

Back to The Beatles for another question. Which Beatles era do you prefer?

Early- The start to Beatles for Sale
Mid- Help! to Sgt. Pepper
Late- Magical Mystery Tour to Let it Be

Definitely the later period.

 

[Dwarf lord]

Heh. I'm the opposite. I like both the Early and the mid equally. The thing I noticed with the late period is that, for me at least, they lose their full album appeal. Every CD from Please Please Me to Sgt. Pepper, I can listen to straight through and enjoy each and every song. But the later stuff gets way to experimental for my tastes.

That said, some of my favorite Beatles songs are late. Something for example and While my Guitar Gently Weeps. But, for the life of me, I can't listen to an album straight through.

 

[Kmack]

I love the Beatles. I just started buying their albums and I have to say I think Help! (album) is terribly underrated.

 

[Dwarf lord]

I love the Beatles. I just started buying their albums and I have to say I think Help! (album) is terribly underrated.

I love Help. I'd say that was the first album to show me that The Beatles were a hell of a lot better than their greatest hits. Sure they have some good hits, but they aren't the end all, be all of The Beatles.

 

[JLBats]

To me, the early period has become extremely dated. Most people today probably wouldn't listen to it for entertainment. The middle period, while containing brilliance, also fluctuates wildly between self-indulgent flights of fancy and outdated work. The later work, to me, is most consistent.

 

[Dwarf lord]

To me, the early period has become extremely dated. Most people today probably wouldn't listen to it for entertainment. The middle period, while containing brilliance, also fluctuates wildly between self-indulgent flights of fancy and outdated work. The later work, to me, is most consistent.

Well, I guess my enjoyment of the older period comes from my overall love of The British Invasion. It may be dated, but I'm the guy who listens to Frank Sinatra and Fred Astaire. And to tell you the truth, I don't see the later work to be consistent at all. You have gems like Let it Be, yet also you have rather weird songs like Revolution #9.

Plus, the mid period has all of my top Beatles albums in it. In this order, they are:

Revolver
Sgt. Pepper
Help
Rubber Soul

That's the reason it's my favorite above all.

 

[The Chairman]

To me, the early period has become extremely dated. Most people today probably wouldn't listen to it for entertainment. The middle period, while containing brilliance, also fluctuates wildly between self-indulgent flights of fancy and outdated work. The later work, to me, is most consistent.

I disagree. I love the early period. It's porbably their least substantial period artistically, but it had some great tunes. I remember when I was young loving the soundtrack to Hard Day's Night in particular.

For me, the middle period is their least consistant. I find a lot of the stuff from there doesn't hold up as well as far as repeated listens go. It has some brilliant stuff, no doubt, about that, but it also as you say has some stuff that's very over the top and outdated.

The later period is definitely their best. I disagree with Dwarf lord. I can listen to everything from Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band to Abbey Road without skipping over anything.

Well, I guess my enjoyment of the older period comes from my overall love of The British Invasion. It may be dated, but I'm the guy who listens to Frank Sinatra and Fred Astaire.

Sinatra = badass.

 

[Dwarf lord]

I disagree. I love the early period. It's porbably their least substantial period artistically, but it had some great tunes. I remember when I was young loving the soundtrack to Hard Day's Night in particular.

For me, the middle period is their least consistant. I find a lot of the stuff from there doesn't hold up as well as far as repeated listens go. It has some brilliant stuff, no doubt, about that, but it also as you say has some stuff that's very over the top and outdated.

The later period is definitely their best. I disagree with Dwarf lord. I can listen to everything from Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band to Abbey Road without skipping over anything.

Eh, I just have a bit of trouble with it. Too weird in some ways. I do really like Abbey Road though.

Sinatra = badass.

Agreed!

 

[The Chairman]

Agreed!

Sinatra is the man who turned me on to music in the first place. I'm captivated by his music as well as him as a person. He is by far the coolest person to ever walk the earth.

 

[Dwarf lord]

Sinatra is the man who turned me on to music in the first place. I'm captivated by his music as well as him as a person. He is by far the coolest person to ever walk the earth.

Are we the same person? lol. It was exactly the same with me. My grandfather had the greatest Frank Sinatra collection I've ever seen. Every CD of his was a Sinatra CD and I think that the sum of all of them had his full library. And one of the first CDs I bought on my own was Frank Sinatra: His Very Best. I can equate a Frank Sinatra song will pretty much every experience of my life.

 

[The Chairman]

Are we the same person? lol. It was exactly the same with me. My grandfather had the greatest Frank Sinatra collection I've ever seen. Every CD of his was a Sinatra CD and I think that the sum of all of them had his full library. And one of the first CDs I bought on my own was Frank Sinatra: His Very Best. I can equate a Frank Sinatra song will pretty much every experience of my life.

I come from a very large Italian family, so Sinatra has always been prevalent ever since I was young. It was my dad who bought me my first Sinatra cd, The Reprise Years: The Very Best Of, I believe it was called, and I just fell in love with the man's music as well as his persona. He was The Man.

 

[Dwarf lord]

Of the Pre-CSNY bands, which is your favorite?

The Byrds
Buffalo Springfield
The Hollies

 

[Wilhelm-Scream]

I love the Beatles. I just started buying their albums and I have to say I think Help! (album) is terribly underrated.

LMFAO

Don't worry.

In the grand scheme of things...no, "Help" is not "under-rated".

LOL

Everyone with 2 thirds of a brain knows what "The Beatles" means.

hahaha


case-in-point?.....it's 2006. When did The Beatles start writing songs?
see?


Beatles are the best pop-rock band that ever was/will ever be.
Led Zeppelin is the best BAND that ever was or ever will be.
Anyone that says different is simply wrong.
Empirically Proven Cosmic Truth. *

*(EPCT)**


**carob