Rock's Greatest Hits
It's a Friday, I'm stuck at work, and I've got a long, long evening ahead of me.
Help me kill some time by contributing your own $0.02 to my otherwise unassailable list of pure rock awesomeness:
Greatist Guitarist Besides Jimmy Hendrix: Eric Clapton
Greatest Rock Band Ever: Led Zeppelin
Beatles Or Stones: Trick question--it's The Who, bitches. The Beatles are more of a pop band and the Stones suck.
Most Overrated Rock Band: Stones
All-Time Ass Kickingest Band: AC/DC Hon. Men.: G'N'F'NR
Greatest Rock Song: Stairway
Worst Rock Song That's Ever Been Considered For Greatest Rock Song: Freebird
Longest, Most Mind-Numbingly Stupid Rock Song That Never Seems To End: Freebird
The sh*ttiest Excuse For A Rock Band Ever: Kiss Hon. Men.: Cheap Trick
Bonzo or Peart: Bonzo. He choked on vomit. But the thing is, well, it wasn't actually his vomit you see and...
Most Timely Death In Rock History: Kurt Kobain. Had he lived a little longer, Nirvana would be outsucking Pearl Jam.
The Holy sh*t Did You Guys Ever Flush Your Career Down The Crapper Award: Pearl Jam. It's not about Ticket Master, guys. Hon. Men.: Radiohead.
Greatest Guitar Solo: Slash, Paradise City Hon. Men.: Clapton, Crossroads and Page, The Lemon Song
The Greatest Rock Album: Zep IV (aka Zoso aka 4 Symbols aka...)
Most Underrated Rock Band: Jane's Addiction
Most Underrated Album: Weezer's Blue Album
The STFU Award For Biggest Tard As A Frontman: Green Day, Billie Joe Armstrong Hon. Men.: U2, Bono
The Explain To Me One More Time Why This Guy Is Famous Award: Bob Dylan. Face it: he sucks.
The Most Annoying Rock Band Ever: System of a Down
Best Concert: The Steve Miller Band. Ok, ok, fine. It's really Pink Floyd, but my first kiss came at a SMB concert. So sue me.
Greatest Vocalist: Greg Allman Hon. Men.: Maynard James Keenan
The Why Couldn't She Be The One Who Died Award For Most Despicable Surviving Girlfriend: Yoko Ono, natch. Really, the only other option was to name this award in her honor and give it to Courtney Love every year.
The Single Greatest Moment In The History Of Rock: Daltrey's defiant shriek at the end of Won't Get Fooled Again. Like, duh.
The Best Way I Could Think Of To Finish This Post:
And in the end
The love you take
Is equal to the love
You make
Ken Levine wrote:
I could be at the office making BioShock, or I could be at the office making Pet the Pony 3 on the Wii or something, and I'd rather be making BioShock.
Pretty much negates the rest of your picks, most of which were kind of negative for no good reason.
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Just fooling around on a Friday, that's all.
You ok, bro? You sound like you might need a hug. Course, if my team had just kicked off the season with a loss to Houston, I'd probably feel the same way.
Ken Levine wrote:
Any list of this sort that does not include the Ramones, the Clash, Talking Heads, even Blondie...Well, I can't get behind it. I lived through the 70's and believe me, musically, it was a relief to start slamming by the time it was over.
"Sometimes I go around saying, 'Kommisar Paulson has seized the commanding heights of the economy!'" - Paul Krugman, asked if recent changes to banking are socialistic.
Greatist Guitarist Besides Jimmy Hendrix: Stevie Ray Vaughn (for technical) David Gilmour (for style)
Greatest Rock Band Ever: Rolling Stones
Most Overrated Rock Band: Nirvana
All-Time Ass Kickingest Band: Here we agree: AC/DC
Greatest Rock Song:(personal choice) Comfortably Numb
Worst Rock Song That's Ever Been Considered For Greatest Rock Song: Stairway
Longest, Most Mind-Numbingly Stupid Rock Song That Never Seems To End: Hey Jude
The sh*ttiest Excuse For A Rock Band Ever: I agree, KISS
Bonzo or Peart: Trick question - Bonn Scott
Most Timely Death In Rock History: Janis Joplin
The Holy sh*t Did You Guys Ever Flush Your Career Down The Crapper Award: The Rolling Stones
Greatest Guitar Solo: Comfortably Numb
The Greatest Rock Album: Sgt. Pepper's
Most Underrated Rock Band: Jeff Buckley
Most Underrated Album: Grace
The Explain To Me One More Time Why This Guy Is Famous Award: Elvis Costello (you will pay for your ill words of Dylan)
The Most Annoying Rock Band Ever: I'm going back to KISS
Best Concert: No, it's totally Floyd
Greatest Vocalist: Freddie Mercury
The Why Couldn't She Be The One Who Died Award For Most Despicable Surviving Girlfriend: Courtney Love, hands down
The Single Greatest Moment In The History Of Rock: Hendrix lights his guitar on freakin' fire!
"I think Elysium has the right of it" - Certis
Here is my limited playlist that is by no means complete.
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You know, I should have invented a special category just for the ramones:
The Greatest Punk Band No One Ever Seems To Mention When Mentioning Great Punk Bands
I'm so torn on this one. Hey Jude is probably my all time favorite song to sing along with--and would have made the list for that reason had it not been for the NA-NA-NAs.
And seriously, what's the deal with Dylan?
One more:
Rock's Most Guilty Pleasure: Bon Jovi, Wanted Dead or Alive
Check this:
I walk these streets
A loaded six string on my back
I play for keeps
Cause I might not make it back
I've been everywhere
Still I'm standin tall
I've seen a million faces
And I've rocked them all
f*ck yeah!
The honorable mention, as if there could be one, would also go to Bon Jovi for Blaze of Glory.
Is it me, or did it just get awesome in here? Gives me chills.
*shiver*
Ken Levine wrote:
Now that's funny. My wife saw Bon Jovi on some show and was laughing about how silly he was. But I could tell she had no idea how silly he really coud be. So I sung her the lyrics to Wanted: Dead or Alive which have been burned into my skull from being played over my drugstore's piped music.
"on a steel horse I ride..."
I love to watch my wife giggle.
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I'm completley powerless before this song. The only thing I can do is pray that whenever it comes on, no one else is around so I don't make a complete ass of myself singing/air guitaring along with it.
It's simultaneously the best and worst song in rock. Well, maybe not. It's definitely the cheesiest, but in a good, chester cheetah sort of way.
Ken Levine wrote:
I secretly long to play it on Rock Band, when, I fear, my wife my actually leave me out of embarassment.
"I think Elysium has the right of it" - Certis
Jimi Hendrix, not Jimmy. Rock cred revoked!
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Dylan is awesome... when someone else is doing his songs.
Hendrix doing All Along the Watchtower is one of the few true pinnacles of rock. If we had to hear some Dylan warbles to get there, so be it.
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Wow, serious party foul on me for "Jimmy". At least I remembered to correctly misspell Beatles and Led Zeppelin...
Also, on Dylan. I can't think of a single song of his I wouldn't rather hear someone else sing. There is one possible exception. Note track 6.
Ken Levine wrote:
Any list of greatest rock&roll that fails to include Jethro Tull fails.
I'm sorry, but I'm just a huge huge fan of Ian and the boys, and I had to say it. They made some of the most textural and interesting music of the 70s and 80s, and their footprint has become indelible.
That is all.
"I have not supped of Buffy, nor have I supped in any wise during the absence of Firefly. When Firefly returns again in glory, then shall I sup at the table of Whedon." - Fedaykin98
Heh, Wanted Dead or Alive is the best song ever. You have no idea how much my buddies and I are looking forward to this song in rock band!
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Locdog, I actually agree with you on most of these picks, especially Annoying Band (System of a Down), Yoko, and Zep.
AC/DC does kick alot of ass, but Iron Maiden reigns supreme as the ass-kickingest band of all time. They formed only a few years after AC/DC and 30 years later they still put out great new music, still have one of the best live shows, selling out concerts around the world.
Stones suck.
Man, all of a sudden I feel like I'm signing a highschool yearbook back in the '80's again. Feels good.
Stay cool and have a bitchin' summer
"I'm for the guy who can tell the lion from the lamb." -Charles K.
You guys suck. How come no one mentioned Eddie Van Halen?
And while tastes differ, I think SRV was a worthy follower of Hendrix, more than Clapton. Clapton was very much a product of his time, I guess. He always seemed to follow the trends of the decade. SRV had his own thing going on...
edit: ok, ok, I'm bored and the party is tomorrow:
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- Most asskickin' duo of musicians who are worthless without each other: Slash & Axl.
Runner-up: Page & Plant. Sort of.
- The "Holy sh*t I really thought you were the new Pink Floyd, but, ah, actually, you really suck" award: Mars Volta
- Most annoying virtuoso: Yngwe Malmsteen. Twiddlyditwiddidlly Twiddlyditwiddidlly Twiddlyditwiddidlly
- Award for Rock Star who actually aged well: David Bowie
- Award for managing to play the same song all their career, yet remaining popular: AC/DC
- Best Rock Composer, like, EVAR: Frank Zappa
- Gone Way Too Soon: Duane Allman
- Seven Fingers from Outer Space Award: Buckethead
- Guitar Hero of the 90's: John Frusciante
- Underrated Rock/Bluesman of the 2000's: John Mayer
- Not Exactly a Guitar Hero, More like an FX Hero: Tom Morello
- No One Really Cares Anymore Award: The Doors
- The Goddamn She's Hot and She Rocks Award: Nancy Wilson from Heart. Oh yeah.
The man wears a bucket of KFC on his head. I wouldn't expect anything less. - Pred
Ok, new category: Drunk that should have been kicked out of a band instead of the bass player:
"I'm for the guy who can tell the lion from the lamb." -Charles K.
The one and only time I sang karaoke at a bar, I chose Blaze of Glory.
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Also:
Greatest unfinished Solo EVAR: NightTrain from GNR. That f*cker just FADES OUT! And it sounds like Slash is just getting started. =/
Runner up: Little Wing...
The man wears a bucket of KFC on his head. I wouldn't expect anything less. - Pred
Oh, and the correct answer to "greatest guitarist besides Hendrix" is Robert Fripp.
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That's not so bad. When that song was a hit, I actually had a mullet going.
I miss it sometimes.
Ken Levine wrote:
In 1990, wasn't everybody sportin' the mullet?
Psychotic Foreign Teenage Chicks are so hot. - Legion
I find it ironic anytime a healthy vaccinated person bitches about science...on the internet. - MaverickDago
I agree, Rolling Stones suck.
Fedaykin98 wrote:
wordsmythe wrote:
No! You are stupid and wrong!
I love the Stones. I admit that I am completely incapable of forming a rational opinion towards them because I was more or less raised on a steady diet of Mick Jagger and David Gilmour, but still - I love 'em.
Can't be arsed to fill out that whole list, but let me note that nothing has so far surpassed a small club concert from Dank Jones for me.
And if I haven't seen further, it's because those bloody giants blocked my sight.
Not bad, but where are Neil Young, Steve Albini, Thurston Moore, Lee Reynaldo
Neil Young has to take the cake for style when he can make a 1 note solo kick so much a$$ (Cinnamon Girl). Gilmour needed 6 to do that.
Albini understands the amplifier and puts it to better use more than any other guitarist I can think of.
A note left at the scene simply read: "Pwn3d" - Hubbinsd
1977: My Aim is True.
1978: This Year's Model.
1979: Armed Forces.
These albums alone provide indulgence for any and all other wrongdoings.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KOuknbvu21Q
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Neil Young? Ugh!
Fedaykin98 wrote:
wordsmythe wrote:
No doubt. f*ck Neil Young. And Strekos is wise beyond his years. Elvis Costello is like Weezer or Springsteen. The early stuff trumps everything
Psychotic Foreign Teenage Chicks are so hot. - Legion
I find it ironic anytime a healthy vaccinated person bitches about science...on the internet. - MaverickDago
I'm definitely with you on Weezer. Pinkerton is actually my favorite release of theirs.
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Uh... Where's all the Bowie? And Nick Cave? Tom Waits?
Anyone?
don't you wonder sometimes...