good classic rock songs

[gap5ewl]

this is pretty much the only stuff i listen to right now.

The 60's had some of the best. Very revolutionary and has a lot of meaning since alot was going on in the time I'll just list my favorite musicians and their best songs (in my opinion) since i can go on about them lol:

Jimi Hendrix (ROCK GOD)-All Along the Watchtower
Jefferson Airplane (One of the best bands from san fran. Grace Slick is the best)-White Rabbit
Janis Joplin (Another GOD) (During her Big Brother and the Holding Company years)-Piece of my Heart
Beatles(..)-Helter Skelter
The Who(Kick ASS)-My Generation
The Doors(Morrison another GOD, Pretty dark)-Light My Fire
Iron Butterfly (Trippy stuff)-In A Gadda Da Vidda
Rolling Stones(AWESOME)-Paint it, Black
The Mamas and the Papas (pretty mellow stuff)-California Dreamin
this is 70's rock that i like:

Led Zeppelin- need i say more? kashmir, stairway to heaven and immigrant songs are my personal favorites

Pink Floyd-one of the best bands ever. comfotably numb, another brick in the wall part 2, have a cigar, time

Aerosmith-gotta love these guys. sweet emotion, dream on, walk this way

Black Sabbath-Ozzy was the **** back then. Iron Man, Paranoid.

Heart-best chick lead rock band EVER. crazy on you, barracuda, magic man and straight on kick ass.

Boston-flat out good band. kinda have and early computer/electronic feel. more than a feeling, something about you and foreplay/long time are awesome.

Foreigner-again awesome. More than a feeling and starrider are awesome.

Lynyrd Skynyrd-god they were so awesome. Sweet Home Alabama and Free Bird of course

Fleetwood Mac-More softer on the rock sound but got some great songs. Go Your Own Way is cool and The Chain is awesome.

 

[gap5ewl]

Oh and how could i forget The Eagles (Hotel California) and Blue Oyster Cult (Don't Fear the Reaper).

 

[EdRyder]

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[Sam Fisher]

 

[Spider-Bite]

i wondering if anyone knew any good classic rock bands. my favorite band is queen and i have all 3 of there greatest hits. i like acdc espiciall when they had bon scott. i like i wanna rock and were not gunna take it by twisted sister. and i liked come on feel the noise by quiet riot. i was wondering if anyone knew any classic rock bands or song you could suggest for me

ac/dc
back in black
you shook me all night long
tnt

michael jackson
beat it
dirty diana
give in to me

 

[Obi-Ron]

Boston-flat out good band. kinda have and early computer/electronic feel. more than a feeling, something about you and foreplay/long time are awesome.

And great for Air-Banding!
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[The Chairman]

michael jackson
beat it
dirty diana
give in to me

Michael Jackson isn't classic rock.

 

[Savage]

You'd think the title "Prince of Pop" would be a giveaway.

 

[Dwarf lord]

And on a side note, there are no bands in the 'classic rock' genre more overrated than the beatles and led zepplin. In fact I don't even consider the beatles 'rock' because they most certainly do not.

I know I have an opinion against the majority, but damn I can't fathom why so many people like their music. Whenever I see praise going towards the group I have to mention my dislike for balance.

Most other classic rock worth listening too has been mentioned already, so nothing comes to mind to add to that list.

Zeppelin is better than you

 

[Tyrinus]

Have I mentioned that I think Pink Floyd is overrated too.

 

[Eggyman]

Sympathy for the devil -- Stones

Crosstown Traffic -- Hendrix

Instant Karma -- Lennon

Wanted dead or alive -- Bon Jovi

Like a rolling stone -- Dylan

House of the rising son -- The Animals

Just a few from the list in my head.

 

[Dwarf lord]

Have I mentioned that I think Pink Floyd is overrated too.

And they're better than you too.

 

[The Chairman]

I saw Roger Waters last May. He's still awesome, and so are Pink Floyd.

Just this past week I got to see Joan Jett, Aerosmith and best of all Chuck Berry all in a week. All still rule.

 

[Dwarf lord]

Chuck Berry, The Rolling Stones and The Who are the three biggies I want to see before they call it quits. I'm also hoping for a Zeppelin world tour.

 

[The Chairman]

Chuck Berry, The Rolling Stones and The Who are the three biggies I want to see before they call it quits. I'm also hoping for a Zeppelin world tour.

I've seen all three.

It's amazing how good Chuck still is. He's 81 and still has mor energy than most 20-somethings. He still does the Duck Walk.

 

[Dwarf lord]

Oh and I'd probably take a week off of school and work if Pink Floyd got back together.

 

[Wilhelm-Scream]

Care to elaborate?

I hear a lot of people go on and on about the influence of the beatles, but no one ever elaborates.
Which just gives credence to my views that they are all fluff and no filler.

I myself don't see anything influential about they're music, it made no impact on me. From an auditory standpoint they're horrible.



Exactly.

Whenever I see some kid saying that Led Zeppelin or the Beatles are overrated, my temptation is to write them off as someone who has no soul and understands little about good music....BUT, of course everyone has their own taste.


However, th^t post exposes you at least as someone who is ignorant of music history.
Their hair looks totally normal today, but it was considered to be wild and way too long when they came out, and that's an example of how different the world was before they deftly forced change on the world.

I can't believe I'd even have to point this out, but if you listen to their early songs, they're very cheezy love songs based on country and blues progressions that can be reproduced live with drums, 2 guitars, a bass and some harmonies.
Then later, you have a COMPLETELY evolved sound incorporating bizarre effects, symphonic arrangements, backwards stuff, synthesizers, with surreal imagery or political statements and drug-fueled escapism, using found sounds to create sonic landscapes, and they brought the public along, gradually softening them up to the weird stuff that never would've flown had they just burst onto the scene with it.

they invented studio trickery or manipulation (to the point that they were the first band ever to STOP touring the more famous they got), they popularized "World" music, incorporating instruments and styles from all over the world, they made it "cool" to have an anything goes sense of instrumentation, using a stodgy symphonic orchestra in a Rock song, or slapping a table for percussion, or doing a Ragtime send up, etc.

The reason you don't see how influential they were, is hilarious, it's because they were SO influential, that literaly nothing in popular music doesn't bear their mark in some way.

They were the forefathers of intentionally lo-fi grunge, experimental noise Rock and Industrial music, a renewed deference to Rock's roots in the Blues, taking inspiration from Ethnic music....really if you know anything about music and music history you can dislike the Beatles, but you can not in any credible way deny that they were the most influential band that ever was.

Just from a historical perspective, they led the British Invasion. Have you ever heard of that? After their advent, E.V.E.R.Y. O.N.E. was trying to get a "Beatles" sound, dressing the same as they do, etc. That's INFLUENCE.


Really, as an old person who was brought up listening to old music, I find it pretty embarrassing how here we are in 2007, and I still hear people mimicking people mimicking people who were mimicking the Beatles...in their youthful ignorance, many of them don't even know that ultimately they're mimicking the Beatles.

Really it boils down to, you can't see the enormous influence because it was so deep and significant, so pervasive, that everything in music since the Beatles is Post-Beatles. They unlocked the door to everything.


To try to learn more about this influence, you can look up interviews with current musicians.

See what diverse artists like Radiohead, Ozzy Osbourne, U2, Metallica, The Mars Volta, The White Stripes, have to say about their influence.


I read a lot about music, and I've been amazed over the decades to see that pretty much without exception, everyone who creates music is in awe of what the Beatles did and was influenced by it.

It reminds me of the ignorance of comicbook fans regarding Jack Kirby. I couldn't tell you how many times I've seen a youngster dismiss his crude style, and then worship some new, hot artist, and then you read the interviews with the new, hot artist, and he's talking about how he learned the very language of comicbook story-telling from studying Jack Kirby and what a genius he is and how they wish they could ever produce such amazing stuff and that there would be no modern comics without his influence.

 

[The Chairman]

Whenever I see some kid saying that Led Zeppelin or the Beatles are overrated, my temptation is to write them off as someone who has no soul and understands little about good music....BUT, of course everyone has their own taste.


However, th^t post exposes you at least as someone who is ignorant of music history.
Their hair looks totally normal today, but it was considered to be wild and way too long when they came out, and that's an example of how different the world was before they deftly forced change on the world.

I can't believe I'd even have to point this out, but if you listen to their early songs, they're very cheezy love songs based on country and blues progressions that can be reproduced live with drums, 2 guitars, a bass and some harmonies.
Then later, you have a COMPLETELY evolved sound incorporating bizarre effects, symphonic arrangements, backwards stuff, synthesizers, with surreal imagery or political statements and drug-fueled escapism, using found sounds to create sonic landscapes, and they brought the public along, gradually softening them up to the weird stuff that never would've flown had they just burst onto the scene with it.

they invented studio trickery or manipulation (to the point that they were the first band ever to STOP touring the more famous they got), they popularized "World" music, incorporating instruments and styles from all over the world, they made it "cool" to have an anything goes sense of instrumentation, using a stodgy symphonic orchestra in a Rock song, or slapping a table for percussion, or doing a Ragtime send up, etc.

The reason you don't see how influential they were, is hilarious, it's because they were SO influential, that literaly nothing in popular music doesn't bear their mark in some way.

They were the forefathers of intentionally lo-fi grunge, experimental noise Rock and Industrial music, a renewed deference to Rock's roots in the Blues, taking inspiration from Ethnic music....really if you know anything about music and music history you can dislike the Beatles, but you can not in any credible way deny that they were the most influential band that ever was.

Just from a historical perspective, they led the British Invasion. Have you ever heard of that? After their advent, E.V.E.R.Y. O.N.E. was trying to get a "Beatles" sound, dressing the same as they do, etc. That's INFLUENCE.


Really, as an old person who was brought up listening to old music, I find it pretty embarrassing how here we are in 2007, and I still hear people mimicking people mimicking people who were mimicking the Beatles...in their youthful ignorance, many of them don't even know that ultimately they're mimicking the Beatles.

Really it boils down to, you can't see the enormous influence because it was so deep and significant, so pervasive, that everything in music since the Beatles is Post-Beatles. They unlocked the door to everything.


To try to learn more about this influence, you can look up interviews with current musicians.

See what diverse artists like Radiohead, Ozzy Osbourne, U2, Metallica, The Mars Volta, The White Stripes, have to say about their influence.


I read a lot about music, and I've been amazed over the decades to see that pretty much without exception, everyone who creates music is in awe of what the Beatles did and was influenced by it.

It reminds me of the ignorance of comicbook fans regarding Jack Kirby. I couldn't tell you how many times I've seen a youngster dismiss his crude style, and then worship some new, hot artist, and then you read the interviews with the new, hot artist, and he's talking about how he learned the very language of comicbook story-telling from studying Jack Kirby and what a genius he is and how they wish they could ever produce such amazing stuff and that there would be no modern comics without his influence.

Once again, Wilhem's wit and wisdom shines through. Bravo, mate.

 

[Démon]

Once again, Wilhem's wit and wisdom shines through. Bravo, mate.

Seconded. I don't know why every major band has to be labeled "overrated". I don't like Elvis, but I know he was one of the most influential people in music and certainly was not "overrated".

 

[Mr.Webs]

Seconded. I don't know why every major band has to be labeled "overrated". I don't like Elvis, but I know he was one of the most influential people in music and certainly was not "overrated".

Exactly. When it come to the early roots of rockabilly, I'm more of a fan of Cash, Orbison, and Jerry Lee Lewis, but Elvis was the one that broke the door down. Even Lennon has been quoted, saying, "Before Elvis, there was nothing."

 

[The Chairman]

Chuck Berry > Elvis.

 

[Motown Marvel]

Chuck Berry > Elvis.

word.

 

[Dwarf lord]

Chuck Berry > Elvis.

Chuck Berry = Elvis. Without either of them or Buddy Holly, Jerry Lee Lewis, Johnny Cash, Bill Haley, Roy Orbison or Carl Perkins, we wouldn't have rock and roll. It's silly to compare.

 

[The Chairman]

word.

And the show I saw Friday confirms it.

 

[strikezone89]

Queen, and if you want to go older. you can't go wrong with elvis presley