The best Rock Song Ever!

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Some more of my favorites from the 70's include "Crazy On You", "Magic Man", "Barracuda", and "Even It Up", by Heart. "The Joker", "Rockin' Me", "Take The Money And Run", and "Jet Airliner", by The Steve Miller Band. One hit wonder, "Cruel To Be Kind", by Nick Lowe, an ALMOST one hit wonder, "I Hear You Knocking", by Dave Edmunds. "Hi, Hi, Hi", "Jet", "Helen Wheels", "Band On The Run", "Rock Show", and "Let 'Em In", by Paul McCartney, with or without Wings. "Back Off Boogaloo", "Photograph", "You're Sixteen", and "Goodnight Vienna", by Ring Starr. Also, "Whatever Gets You Through the Night", "Be-Bop-A-Lula", and "Stand By Me", by John Lennon. John "rocked up" Ben E. King's "Stand By Me" a bit, so I consider his version to be a "rock" song.

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I have to mention Three Dog Night. A band that belongs in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Some of my favorite "rockin" songs by the group include "Mama Told Me (Not To Come)", "Joy To The World", "Liar", "Never Been To Spain", "The Family Of Man", "Black And White", "Shamabala", "Let Me Serenade You", "Sure As I'm Sittin' Here", "Play Something Sweet (Brickyard Blues)", and "The Show Must Go On".

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Another band that ABSOLUTELY deserves to be in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame is Jethro Tull. Some of my favorites by them include "Aqualung", Locomotive Breath", "Wind Up", "Living In Past", "Bungle In The Jungle", "Skating Away On The Thin Ice Of A New Day", "Too Old To Rock And Roll, Too Young To Die", "The Minstrel In the Gallery", "Songs From The Wood", "The Whistler", "Velvet Green", ".....And the Mouse Police Never Sleeps", "Heavy Horses", "North Sea Oil", "Dark Ages", "Steel Monkey", and "Farm On The Freeway".

[PostmodernProphet]

I see archives grew up with that penis in his ear.....kept him from learning to tell good music from bad music.....

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This is the song that inspired Little Richard to start playing piano, so it's the grandaddy of rock!

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Many music writers acknowledge its importance in the development of rock and roll music, with several considering it to be the first rock and roll record. In 2017, the Mississippi Blues Trail dedicated its 200th marker to "Rocket 88" as an influential record.[1] The song was inducted into the Blues Hall of Fame in 1991,[2] the Grammy Hall of Fame in 1998,[3] and the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Singles in 2018.[4]

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I see archives grew up with that penis in his ear.....kept him from learning to tell good music from bad music.....

Ha-ha!

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This is the song that inspired Little Richard to start playing piano, so it's the grandaddy of rock!

From Wiki!

Many music writers acknowledge its importance in the development of rock and roll music, with several considering it to be the first rock and roll record. In 2017, the Mississippi Blues Trail dedicated its 200th marker to "Rocket 88" as an influential record.[1] The song was inducted into the Blues Hall of Fame in 1991,[2] the Grammy Hall of Fame in 1998,[3] and the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Singles in 2018.[4]

Great song. Thanks for the post.

[Matt Dillon]

I recently saw a high school girl with her guitar playing that song over and over for tips down at the harbor.
I hated that song when it first came out. Hard to fathom it has lasted into a third generation

Fuck You! "Eye of the Tiger" is epic!

[Matt Dillon]

Hopefully I didn't post this here yet.

That's some good stuff there! Whoo!

[Matt Dillon]

This one is little known, yet epic! (Not as good as teh Grand Funk, though)

[Cypress]

Fuck You! "Eye of the Tiger" is epic!

There is obviously a market for that tune which I am unaware of.

But I can honestly say in all the amateur rock bands I played in, there were exactly zero dudes who wanted to learn or play Eye of the Tiger. It wasn't even remotely given consideration. All we wanted to learn to play was Zepplin, Stones, AC DC, Van Halen, Creedence, Aerosmith, Def Leppard, U2, etc. Actual rock tunes by actual rock bands.

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There is obviously a market for that tune which I am unaware of.

But I can honestly say in all the amateur rock bands I played in, there were exactly zero dudes who wanted to learn or play Eye of the Tiger. It wasn't even remotely given consideration. All we wanted to learn to play was Zepplin, Stones, AC DC, Van Halen, Creedence, Def Leppard, U2, etc. Actual rock tunes by actual rock bands.

Yep. In a word, Survivor SUCKS. Thank you.