What are your guys 20 favorite classic rock songs? Try not to have more than a couple by each artist.

20? Wow...

 

1. Comfortably Numb - Pink Floyd

2. Sultans of Swing - Dire Straits

3. Paint it Black - Rolling Stones

4. House of the Rising Sun - Animals

5. All Along the Watchtower - Jimi Hendrix

6. Hey You - Pink Floyd

7. Horse With No Name - America

8. Long Long Way From Home - Foreigner

9. Roundabout - Yes

10. Simple Man - Lynyrd Skynyrd

11. Money for Nothing - Dire Straits

12. Stairway to Heaven - Led Zeppelin

13. Hotel California - Eagles

14. Immigrant Song - Led Zeppelin

15. Black Water - Doobie Brothers

16. Peace of Mind - Boston

17. Something - Beatles

18. Carry On Wayward Son - Kansas

19. Go Your Own Way - Fleetwood Mac

20. Cocaine - Eric Clapton

 

Probably forgot so many...

in no order at all, here's my 20:

 

1. Can't Find My Way Home- Blind Faith

2. Taking Care of Business- BTO

3. Money for Nothing- Dire Straits

4. Jumpin Jack Flash- The Rolling Stones

5. L.A. Woman- The Doors

6. Black Water- The Doobie Brothers

7. Ramblin Man- The Allman Brothers

8. I'm Your Captain- Grand Funk Railroad

9. Tom Sawyer- Rush

10. Cocaine- Eric Clapton

11. Sweet Home Alabama- Lynyrd Skynyrd

12. Sunshine of Your Love- Cream

13. Amie- Pure Prairie League

14. Back in the USSR- The Beatles

15. Won't get Fooled Again- The Who

16. Blue Sky- The Allman Brothers

17. Cat Scratch Fever- Ted Nugent

18. Fat Bottomed Girls- Queen

19. Dancin Days- Led Zeppelin

20. Heroes- David Bowie

 

id have more from the same bands, but i tried not to repeat them. also, probably forgot a ton of songs.

trying not to repeat bands often, and pulling it straight from my head without much thought:

1) Melissa - Allman Brothers

2) Soulshine - Allman Brothers

3) Horse With No Name - America

4) Bellbottom Blues - Eric Clapton

5) Freebird - Lynyrd Skynyrd

6) Simple Man - Lynyrd Skynyrd

7) Green Grass and High Tides - Outlaws

8) Listen To The Music - Doobie Brothers

9) Double Vision - Foreigner

10) Dust In The Wind - Kansas

11) Have You Ever Seen The Rain - Creedence Clearwater Revival

12) Proud Mary - Creedence Clearwater Revival

13) Fire On The Mountain - Marshall Tucker Band

14) South's Gonna Do It Again - Charlie Daniels Band

15) Devil Went Down To Georgia - Charlie Daniels Band

16) Show Me The Way - Peter Frampton

17) Amie - Pure Prarie League

18) Eye Of The Tiger - Survivor

19) The Night They Drove Dixie Down - The Band

20) Keep On Smiling - Wet Willie

Awesome Furmy.

 

Much love for Peter Frampton. That guy kicked total butt live.

 

Best CCR song - Long as I can see the light

Long as I can see the light is a great song.

 

So is Lodi, Bad Moon Rising, etc. There are too many goodies.

...Green River, Fortunate Son, Down on the Corner

 

What a great band CCR was.

Let me try not to repeat much, as well as throw some new ones out

 

In order that they come to me:

 

"Roxanne" The Police

"Hotel California" Eagles (the Unplugged version is beyond awesome)

"Highway to Hell" AC/DC

"Hell's Bells" AC/DC

"London Calling" The Clash

"China Grove" Doobie Brothers

"Love Song" Cure (I like the new one better though)

"Behind Blue Eyes" The Who

"Fortunate Son" CCR

"The Joker" Steve Miller Band

"All Along the Watchtower" Jimi Hendrix

"Purple Haze" Jimi Hendrix

"Voodoo Child" Jimi Hendrix

"Man on the Moon" REM

"Don't Stand so Close to Me" The Police

"Dream On" Aerosmith

"Spanish Bombs" The Clash

"Changes" David Bowie

"Long Train Runnin" Doobie Brothers (they played it tonight at JRS)

"Welcome to the Jungle" Guns N Roses.....Just cuz

 

Damn, I could throw about 80 more in here.

how could I forget "Joker" by Steve Miller Band!

 

and, as mentioned before, I could have chosen from a plethora of good CCR songs....

 

but speaking of Fortunate Son, did anyone see Manchurian Candidate? During the credits, I think it's Wyclef singing Fortunate Son...it sounds pretty cool.

Yeah, that was Wyclef. Good version of Fortunate Son.

Down on the Corner

 

What a great band CCR was.

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:thumbup I love that song I can play it on banjo ,mandolin,bass, and guitar

in no order

 

 

1- I need to know - Tom Petty

2- Hit me with your best shot - Pat Benetar

3- London Calling - the Clash

4- Helter Skelter - Beatles

5- Big Shot - Billy Joel

6- Ziggy Stardust - David Bowie

7- Paint it black - Rolling Stones

8- Brass in Pocket - The Pretenders

9- Iron man - Black Sabbath

10- wont get fooled again - the Who

11- people are strange - the doors

12- bohemian rhapsody - queen

13- smoke on the water - deep purple

14- house of rising sun - frijid pink

15- ramblin man - Allman brothers

16- piano man - Billy Joel

17- rock n' roll band - boston

18- baba o'riley - the Who

19- rock n' roll - the velvet underground

20- hold on loosely - .38 special

 

 

probably forgot an a**load and some might have made the list because I forgot others

 

ill probably fix it later as I remember more and more "jams"

Hmm.. here are 20 goodies. I'm limiting myself to the 70s (the "classic rock era")mainly and what I'd hear on like, big 106. No particular order, just what pops in my mind. I'm sure I'll forget some, it would be a lot easier if I hadn't lost all my mp3s

 

1. Moonage Daydream- Bowie

2. Crazy on You- Heart

3. Magic Man - Heart

4. More Than A Feeling- Boston

5. That Smell- Skynyrd

6. Renegade- Styx

7. Don't Fear The Reaper- BOC

8. Burnin For You- BOC

9. Come On and Love Me- KISS

10. Sunshine Of Your Love- Cream

11. Baba O'Riley- The Who

12. Anyway You Want It- Journey

13. Hold on Loosely- .38 Special

14. Magic- Pilot

15. Mama Weer All Crazee Now- Slade or Runaways

16. Saturday In the Park- Chicago

17. Comfortably Numb- Pink Floyd

18. Noone Like You- Scorpions

19. The Chain- Fleetwood Mac

20. Rhiannon- Fleetwood Mac

 

And Juanky..you disappoint me. Love Song? Please. Have you heard much of the Cure? and there's a new version? I assume it's yet another cover (people are so uncreative).

I dont think it is possible, but I love Pink Floyd, CCR, Rush, and Guns and Roses.

And Juanky..you disappoint me. Love Song? Please. Have you heard much of the Cure? and there's a new version? I assume it's yet another cover (people are so uncreative).

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I wasn't really naming the best Cure song IMO, just a song I like.

 

And yeah, there was a cover done by 311 for 50 first dates.

:notworthy

 

To Fishy for adding Comfortably Numb

18) Eye Of The Tiger - Survivor

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Classic Rock - Survivor - WTF???

 

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It is impossible for me to pick a top 20. I try, but I keep remembering a song, and then having to take out a song, but then I want to keep the song, and my head explodes and can't complete the list.

"Roxanne" The Police

"Love Song" Cure (I like the new one better though)

"Man on the Moon" REM

"Don't Stand so Close to Me" The Police

"Welcome to the Jungle" Guns N Roses.....Just cuz

 

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I was debating with a friend abotu songs that would be considered "classic rock" and I think it deals with the era they were made in ... I dont think those songs would fall in that category

 

 

good songs but not classic rock

 

at least in my opinion

I don't go so much by era as the fact that it's over a decade in the past (in the case of most of those, 2 decades or more).

 

It's a classic, it's rock, and it was a long time ago.

I just said that because I wanted to include the police into my list but I couldnt see them in there

 

 

I catch your drift though

 

 

I dont know abotu GnR ... that was like what 1987?

 

way too soon to be considered classic rock ... same with REM with "man on the moon" that was probably early 90's

Forrest Gump soundtrack.

 

:mischief

I just said that because I wanted to include the police into my list but I couldnt see them in there

 

 

I catch your drift though

 

 

I dont know abotu GnR ... that was like what 1987?

 

way too soon to be considered classic rock ... same with REM with "man on the moon" that was probably early 90's

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I only threw GnR in there cuz the song was stuck in my head lol

 

I'm not sure when REM was, but I think it was before the 90's.

Classic Rock is really a sound. Lenny Kravitz plays a 'classic' type of rock. Even on his album that came out this year.

 

It's such a broad issue. Do we put hair metal in the classic rock category? It started around the early 80s and went until around the early 90s. That was pretty recent. It's all pretty confusing.

 

R.E.M. started around the mid-80s, but they didn't play classic rock. They had a very alternative sound, kind of like the modern jam bands.

And Man on the Moon came out in the early 90s like Catchoftheday said.