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Fun Stuff => BAND => Topic started by: Jackie Blue on 10 Jun 2008, 22:52
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I don't know about you, but myself and most people I know who are passionate about music occasionally have times where the planets align or whatever and you're listening to a rock song and you suddenly realise you would have no problem whatsoever declaring it The Most Awesome Thing In Existance. I've got many, but I'll start with the song/incident which gave me the idea to do this thread in the first place.
It was about 30 minutes ago. I had just pulled out of the parking lot after a night of working. I was a little stoned. As the song on the radio station started, I thought "Oh, awesome song." Somewhere around the end of the first chorus, as I drove through an empty, closed small city with no one else on the road and the stereo blasting, it hit me.
The song in question? Ladies And Gentlemen We Are Rocking The Fuck Out. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pD8ymBR2Ufo)
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BREAKIN' THE LAW, BREAKIN' THE LAW (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OYn5hxeFt10)
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ONLY THE GOOD DIE YOUNG, ALL THAH EEEEE-VIL SEEM TO LIVE FOR-EVAH (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4cVwCk2fD4s)
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Young hearts, be free tonight. Time is on your side. (http://www.box.net/shared/hxn0547go8)
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...and this bird you can not chaaaaaange (http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=7PENBU3lrpE)
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I know this is a cover, but this is absolutely awesome!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zq3ngpGMgU8
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This thread started off poorly, but things sharply looked up at Judas Priest and haven't come back down since. Good job, guys.
PS. I've got a war inside my head. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fc-7FXzbeA0)
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This thread started off poorly, but things sharply looked up at Judas Priest and haven't come back down since. Good job, guys.
PS. I've got a war inside my head. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fc-7FXzbeA0)
OH GOD YES
ROOOOOCK
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Another girl in the neighbourhood. Wish she was mine she looks so good. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wAtUw6lxcis)
If it's good enough for Peel it's good enough for the likes of us.
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Grunge Attack! (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d_qRTMKDqXA)
This however cannot beat the greatness that is Breakin' the Law
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Oh baby, don't kill me. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pYh2otrbKSQ)
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BEST ROCK SONG ROBOT ROCK SONG
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vl1XYK72J3g (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vl1XYK72J3g)
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Another girl in the neighbourhood. Wish she was mine she looks so good. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wAtUw6lxcis)
If it's good enough for Peel it's good enough for the likes of us.
I almost said this as well.
I NEED EXCITEMENT OH I NEED IT BAAAAD
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This thread started off poorly
How the fuck can you deny the power of "Surrender"? Seriously?
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Another girl in the neighbourhood. Wish she was mine she looks so good. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wAtUw6lxcis)
If it's good enough for Peel it's good enough for the likes of us.
I almost said this as well.
I NEED EXCITEMENT OH I NEED IT BAAAAD
Fuck yeah! Hadn't listened to that in ages, brilliant song.
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It's probably Heat of the Moment
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Either http://youtube.com/watch?v=GfH9-MgouFs or http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=khpQQLzWHF8&feature=related
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Another girl in the neighbourhood. Wish she was mine she looks so good. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wAtUw6lxcis)
If it's good enough for Peel it's good enough for the likes of us.
I almost said this as well.
I NEED EXCITEMENT OH I NEED IT BAAAAD
AND IT'S THE BEST I'VE EVER HAAAD
I could listen to this song on repeat forever.
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Why the Donnas were totally unneccesary. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xQ0I-duD3cw)
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You can see his stripes but you know he's CLEAN (http://youtube.com/watch?v=bkysjcs5vFU)
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IVE GOT AN ORGONE ACCUMULATOR (http://youtube.com/watch?v=FOA1tp4SNvg)
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Come on, everyone, this thread is as much about the moments as it is about the songs!
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...and this bird you can not chaaaaaange (http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=7PENBU3lrpE)
...SMACK.
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This is absolutely impossible. It is a straight tie between any number of songs, not necessarily limited to:
The Beatles - Helter Skelter
Black Sabbath - Children of the Grave
Blue Oyster Cult - (This Ain't The) Summer of Love
Carpathian Forest - He's Turning Blue
Danzig - Devil's Plaything
Dead Kennedy's - Holiday in Cambodia
Hawkwind - Master of the Universe
Iron Maiden - Two Minutes to Midnight
Judas Priest - Breaking the Law
The Misfits - Halloween
Motorhead - Killed By Death
The Rolling Stones - Paint it Black
Saxon - And The Bands Played On...
Sigue Sigue Sputnik - Love Missile F1-11
Twisted Sister - We're Not Going to Take It
The Undertones - Teenage Kicks
X-Ray Spex - Oh Bondage! Up Yours!
To choose a single one would be ludicrous.
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The Rolling Stones - Paint it Black
This. Also either When the Levee Breaks or Kashmir by Led Zeppelin.
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ONLY THE GOOD DIE YOUNG, ALL THAH EEEEE-VIL SEEM TO LIVE FOR-EVAH (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4cVwCk2fD4s)
Dude, what the fuck? That's like, one of the last Maiden songs I would pick.
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This is by no means "The Greatest Rock Song of All Time", but it was a remarkable experience that changed my perspective on a certain song, as well as made me LOVE a song I had previously though of as "just, ok". So here's my contribution.
The song in question is "I Was Meant for the Stage" by The Decemberists. I had always listened to this song and thought, "This song has potential, but there's something missing from this recording." A while after that, I had the pleasure of seeing The Decemberists perform at Chastain Park with the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra. After hearing the live version with orchestral accompaniment, I cried. There was no verbal recognition that I could muster. It just overtook me, and I can honestly say the crowd, the orchestra, and the serenity of that evening gave me one of the most memorable concert experiences in recent years.
While I could not find a youtube, or video clip of the performance, I found a website (http://www.archive.org/details/decemberists2007-07-13.flac16) that has a lossless recording of the entire performance from that evening. Take a listen, close your eyes, and try to be there.
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http://youtube.com/watch?v=VBsbCMIyG6E (http://youtube.com/watch?v=VBsbCMIyG6E)
No Quarter
http://youtube.com/watch?v=89yw7wqoaio&feature=related (http://youtube.com/watch?v=89yw7wqoaio&feature=related)
Since I've Been Loving You
http://youtube.com/watch?v=TcW8F91dZO8 (http://youtube.com/watch?v=TcW8F91dZO8)
Achilles Last Stand
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Actually, Khar's post has just reminded me
MOTHER! TELL YOUR CHILDREN NOT TO HOLD MY HAND (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vgSn0SbQJQI)
and also
LET ME HELP YOU OUT OF YOUR CHAIR, (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cgnwnPqZBdM&feature=related) GRANDMA (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mzKWXrBNAYc&feature=related)
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All you've found is another back door (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M3tLtF8kyOQ).
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DIDN'T MEAN TO MAKE YOU CRY, IF I'M NOT BACK THIS TIME TOMORROW (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=veTm1sZz2eo&NR=1)
I think Faye said it as well. I'll post a link when I find it.
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Stairway to Heaven
(Foreplay) Longtime
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U6Yr0aZJyM0
also why did every live D-Plan video I find be of the utmost shitty quality?
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Actually, Khar's post has just reminded me
MOTHER! TELL YOUR CHILDREN NOT TO HOLD MY HAND (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vgSn0SbQJQI)
TELL YOUR CHILDREN NOT TO UNDERSTAND
Yes. You know you're all drunk and in the right place when that comes on and everyone swarms the dancefloor, raise their fists and sing along.
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Cheap Trick is probably the best power pop band ever and Surrender is one goddamn hell of a song, but I would not say it is The Greatest.
Just from sheer popular votes it seems that Teenage Kicks is taking the cake here.
My personal favourites change a little depending on the year, but the following are all songs I can tell you I think are perfect
Anyway That You Want Me - written by Chip Taylor but performed by people like The Troggs, Spiritualized and Evie Sands, the latter's version is my favourite.
Time After Time - Cyndi Lauper
Teenage Kicks - The Undertones
Temptation - New Order
There Is A Light That Never Goes Out - The Smiths
When My Boy Walks Down The Street - The Magnetic Fields
Ladies And Gentlemen We Are Floating In Space - Spiritualized
Sweet Jane - The Velvet Underground
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I said, "Hey, babe, take a walk on the wild side." (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4pAE5G5OBzw&feature=related)
Although, I don't know if that's a "rock" song...
But, Don't Stop Believin'. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ip1zsUIosoA)
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Cheap Trick is probably the best power pop band ever and Surrender is one goddamn hell of a song, but I would not say it is The Greatest.
As my original post said, this is about songs that you've had moments in which you thought "This is the greatest thing ever." It's not, as you and Khar seem to think, about actually declaring one single song to always be the best.
Also I agree with "Anyway That You Want Me". I've had many moments where both the Troggs and Spiritualized versions made me think it was the Best Thing Ever.
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JUSTIFY YOUR PICK: The Sloan song has come on an iPod/radio/CD or whatever that I've been listening to before probably three or four of my gigs, and each time I just go "FUCK YEAH I AM PUMPED TO PLAY SOME GODDAMN MUSIC! YEAH!" and then I totally rock out.
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It's not, as you and Khar seem to think, about actually declaring one single song to always be the best.
So that's why you called the thread 'The Greatest Rock Song Of All Time. Ever.' It all makes sense!
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Actually, Khar's post has just reminded me
MOTHER! TELL YOUR CHILDREN NOT TO HOLD MY HAND (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vgSn0SbQJQI)
Fuck YESSSS Glenn Danzig
I submit IT'S BEEN A LONG TIME SINCE I ROCK AND ROLL'D!! (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VJpyWrNNifo)
Orgasmic.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nIA4gcrk-50
I change my answer to this.
or maybe Bang A Gong..
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It's not, as you and Khar seem to think, about actually declaring one single song to always be the best.
So that's why you called the thread 'The Greatest Rock Song Of All Time. Ever.' It all makes sense!
Well, it's not like he could have titled it "This thread is about those little moments where all of a sudden you are struck with the thought that what you are listening to may, in fact, be the greatest thing ever, whether it is objectively or not." That's what the--GASP--first post is for.
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ONLY THE GOOD DIE YOUNG, ALL THAH EEEEE-VIL SEEM TO LIVE FOR-EVAH (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4cVwCk2fD4s)
Fuck. yes. Though I prefer this epic tale: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9fy7B5pM44A&feature=related (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9fy7B5pM44A&feature=related)
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YOU, YOU, YOOOOOOU (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JVUGeFbF0kA)
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YOU WANNA KNOW HOW I DO IT, I DO IT ALL RIGHT (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QWrNPCLsVRM)
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nIA4gcrk-50
I change my answer to this.
or maybe Bang A Gong..
I love you! Not really, but...
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I submit IT'S BEEN A LONG TIME SINCE I ROCK AND ROLL'D!! (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VJpyWrNNifo)
Orgasmic.
I second the motion.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nIA4gcrk-50
I change my answer to this.
or maybe Bang A Gong..
I love you! Not really, but...
please? :( haha.
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Another girl in the neighbourhood. Wish she was mine she looks so good. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wAtUw6lxcis)
If it's good enough for Peel it's good enough for the likes of us.
I almost said this as well.
I NEED EXCITEMENT OH I NEED IT BAAAAD
AND IT'S THE BEST I'VE EVER HAAAD
WANNA HOLD YOU WANNA HOLD YOU TIGHT AND GET TEENAGE KICKS ALL THROUGH THE NIGHT.
i'm not voting for this song since i only listen to it cause it's endorsed by john peel. i just felt like joining the singalong.
i would like to second (or third?) the nomination of bang a gong though. also i had a brief best-song-ever moment with mclusky's day of the deadringers at some point but now i don't think it deserves that title.
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AT THE HEART OF A TRAVELIN' BAND
YOU GOTTA UNDERSTAND THAT
ALL THEY KNOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOW
IS A YELLOW LIGHT
WOO!
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I'm a little surprised no one said "Love Will Tear Us Apart." But I won't either.
DAY IN DAY OUT DAY IN DAY OUT (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=btzIdZpln6k)
Basically, last week I was at a friend's house hanging out with a bunch of people and everyone was listless, necks were going limp and heads were sort of lolling to the side. I was annoyed cus it was my day off of work, so I plopped on the song and things picked up again. Me getting up and dancing all by myself also generated some giggles and conversation.
Oh! And that reminds me of a scene from the film Reprise, if anyone's seen it. The key that turns a somewhat lame party into a totally awesome party is this song: Who took the bomp? (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EU1CDSP7FRk)
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Fuck that was a sweet-ass dance
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ok, I can play this game
A MAN IS REAL, NOT MADE OF STEEL (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZdFY8IIvd4g)
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I forgot how awesome that Le Tigre song is. Man, I heard that on a snowboarding video once, and it was sweet.
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or perhaps IN THE NIGHT THE FIRES ARE BURNING BRIGHT (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AUOpUqni0_g)
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before they got shit, wooooo (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8FkJIlCBoZI)
BONUS LEVEL (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7_wGFfrJv4Y)
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NICOTINE STAINED ON ACCOUNT OF HER CRUTCH
AND I'M ACHIN' FROM FUCKIN' TOO MUCH (http://youtube.com/watch?v=OgkzRE89Gyw)
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COME FROM THE LANDS OF THE ICE AND SNOW (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=svR3iXKTJvc)
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I GET UP IN THE EVENING AND I AIN'T GOT NOTHIN' TO SAY. I COME HOME IN THE MORNING I GO TO BED FEELIN' THE SAME WAY. I AIN'T NOTHIN' BUT TIRED, MAN I'M JUST TIRED AND BORED OF MYSELF. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pk8VZgJkpeg)
(Just close your eyes and listen to it. The video ruins the mood.)
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You know, right now I think the acoustic version of Born To Run is maybe the best thing ever.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mfzov0Cq90o
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We'll stay inside till somebody finds us, do whatever the TV tells us... (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RnI28bdZylM)
Every time I listen to this song it makes me feel the same way. It, and the song after it on the album, remind me so much of the relationship I had with an ex and how it ended. Cathartic, I reckon.
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ANYONE WHO DOES NOT ANSWER CRAZY TRAIN IS EITHER A LIAR OR DEAF (http://youtube.com/watch?v=xTsvwBkVdKw)
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WHEN I GET TO THE BOTTOM I GO BACK TO THE TOP OF THE SLIDE / WHERE I STOP AND I TURN AND I GO FOR A RIDE / TILL I GET TO THE BOTTOM AND I SEE YOU AGAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAIINNNNN YEAH YEAH YEAH-HA HAHAHA. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9WuJ3EvNh-0)
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If you had put Siouxsie, I would have kissed you. But you haven't, so you will remain unkissed by me. I hope you've learnt your lesson.
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OTHER GIRLS WENT AND OTHER GIRLS CAME I CAN'T GET OVER MY OLD FLAME (http://youtube.com/watch?v=uvA0UBesfbY)
oh and:
NICOTINE STAINED ON ACCOUNT OF HER CRUTCH
AND I'M ACHIN' FROM FUCKIN' TOO MUCH (http://youtube.com/watch?v=OgkzRE89Gyw)
That video is amazing.
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EVERY EVENIN' WHEN I WALK THROUGH THE DOOOOR (http://[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m2gdsOjIb-s&feature=related)
Jason And The Scorchers, have as far as I'm concerned written the best rock song ever, with this one.
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You know, right now I think the acoustic version of Born To Run is maybe the best thing ever.
I don't think Bruce thinks about being Bob Seger any more than a Monster truck thinks about being a roller skate.
I'm just quoting this because it's the best thing I've ever read on YouTube.
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KICK OUT THE JAMS MOTHERFUCKERS (http://youtube.com/watch?v=4I8o3y5wP48&feature=related)
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I couldn't find any videos of it that were any good.
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If you had put Siouxsie, I would have kissed you. But you haven't, so you will remain unkissed by me. I hope you've learnt your lesson.
Agreed.
Most of this song doesn't really fit with the ALL CAPS song links we've been doing, I suppose, but then end does kick it a bit that way. Anyway: Are you asleep, are you in a dream? (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LzMEem448_4)
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oh hellz yes. WHAT IS FORGIVENESS? ITS JUST A DREAM!
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I actually think 'Rocket Reducer No. 62 (Rama Lama Fa Fa Fa)' would be a better candidate.
SISTER ANNE YOU CUNTS
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I WAS CAUGHT IN THE MIDDLE OF A RAILROAD TRAAAACK (http://youtube.com/watch?v=X80Qjh9Yivs)
dude it sucks that angus young has died
Is saying that people are dead on the internet a meme I've missed out on?
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I prefer this version (http://youtube.com/watch?v=nB0RQtce2Oo).
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Is saying that people are dead on the internet a meme I've missed out on?
Yes, see http://www.encyclopediadramatica.com/Goodnight_Sweet_Prince
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I prefer this version (http://youtube.com/watch?v=nB0RQtce2Oo).
Oh man, me too. That song kicks ass regardless of how much AC/DC annoys the shit out of me. I like this version better because it doesn't have the wailing screechy vocals of Bon Scott.
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I like this version better because it doesn't have the wailing screechy vocals of Bon Scott.
WHAT.
DUDE BON SCOTT WAS THE GOOD AC/DC SINGER. (http://youtube.com/watch?v=0XraJP0jmwE)
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Prince - Raspberry Beret
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HEY KID, YA THINK THAT'S OIL? MAN, THAT AIN'T OIL...THAT'S BLOOD!! (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u_h4jxXPENU)
It starts slow, the first few minutes--but keep watching. It has to be the live version of this song. The original is sub par compared to this version.
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KICK OUT THE JAMS MOTHERFUCKERS (http://youtube.com/watch?v=4I8o3y5wP48&feature=related)
You have won my heart even if you did pick the wrong song.
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I actually think 'Rocket Reducer No. 62 (Rama Lama Fa Fa Fa)' would be a better candidate.
I thank you for this comment because it made Sonic Reducer by the Dead Boys get stuck in my head.
that song rules.
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I like this version better because it doesn't have the wailing screechy vocals of Bon Scott.
WHAT.
DUDE BON SCOTT WAS THE GOOD AC/DC SINGER. (http://youtube.com/watch?v=0XraJP0jmwE)
My bad. I thought he did all the vocals. Did Angus Young do the vocals on "Thunderstruck," then?
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WILD THING, I THINK YOU MOVE ME
BUT I WANNA KNOW FO SHO
COME ON AND SSSSSSSSSSSSSOCK IT TO ME ONE TIME
*POP* YOU MOVE ME (http://youtube.com/watch?v=hfPgj4bviKY)
My favourite part is the looks on the faces of the people in the crowd. They look to be in fear for their lives.
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My bad. I thought he did all the vocals. Did Angus Young do the vocals on "Thunderstruck," then?
Bon Scott died in 1980 from alcohol poisoning. AC/DC replaced him with Brian Johnson, who has really never been as good in my opinion. Back in Black and Who Made Who were about the only good post-Bon Scott albums.
The only time I've enjoyed Thunderstruck has been in clubs where for some reason some DJs have taken to mixing bits of it into other songs that are actually good. Bonde do Role mixed it into the background of a song during their show last week and it was pretty ace.
THIS IS WHAT A GOOD AC/DC CLIP LOOKS LIKE (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=98I85ceICRM)
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Fuck I wish Bon Scott didn't die (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eiBMltWg2RQ)
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HEY KID, YA THINK THAT'S OIL? MAN, THAT AIN'T OIL...THAT'S BLOOD!! (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u_h4jxXPENU)
It starts slow, the first few minutes--but keep watching. It has to be the live version of this song. The original is sub par compared to this version.
First thing I thought was: "Oh hey. This Bruce Springsteen song kind of reminds me of Tom Waits, only not as cool." But I suppose I haven't really given the dude a fair chance. The singles of his that still get radio play are not all that great and are sometimes annoying, but of course, this is probably not very representative of his work.
Before I stray too far from the subject, though: you'll never recognize yourself on-
you'll probably see someone you know on-
what you say you meet me down on-
you can see a million of 'em on-
you're waitin' for the rtd on- Heart Attack & Vine (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C49H3aWdiK8)
I would have posted "Rome Is Bleeding" because it oozes the most sheer cool of any song I've ever heard, but the only recording I found was even more spoken word than the album version. Which isn't bad; just ain't what I'm going for. "Heart Attack and Vine" is still totally badass.
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WAKE ME UP WHEN WE GET TO HEAVEN (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cNNxx6HzURY)
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Man I never could figure out why ACDC are so renowned and why people are so passionate about them. Does this make me a bad Australian?
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No, but it makes you a bad musician.
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What? Screw that. I don't much care for AC/DC. I find them grating and annoying and unoriginal. That said, "You Shook Me All Night Long" is always a fun song.
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I like Bon Scott era AC/DC but they're not for everyone and I wouldn't say they're as good as some people think.
They're pretty fun when you're drunk and playing pool and need something to throw on the jukebox.
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Guys!
OUT HERE IN THE FIELDS (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hKUBTX9kKEo)
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You guys fail so hard (http://youtube.com/watch?v=-BxgFOhzxkg).
Frigging a (http://youtube.com/watch?v=OzwK2IioX-c).
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I say this with no smugness at all but this is the pinnacle of epic rawk
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KZKFgtvIKd0&feature=related
(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KZKFgtvIKd0&feature=related)
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Hot Wire My Heart (the Sonic Youth version) (http://youtube.com/watch?v=HPVVUCNXts4)
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something to throw on the jukebox.
That's what this (http://youtube.com/watch?v=wX7H2LFSA5M) is for.
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I like this version better because it doesn't have the wailing screechy vocals of Bon Scott.
WHAT.
DUDE BON SCOTT WAS THE GOOD AC/DC SINGER. (http://youtube.com/watch?v=0XraJP0jmwE)
My bad. I thought he did all the vocals. Did Angus Young do the vocals on "Thunderstruck," then?
...???
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That's what this (http://youtube.com/watch?v=wX7H2LFSA5M) is for.
So much! I always feel like Thin Lizzy are underservedly unsung aside from that one song though, which stings all the more because of the puzzling hype given to AC/DC.
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My bad. I thought he did all the vocals. Did Angus Young do the vocals on "Thunderstruck," then?
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Um... to guess at what you're confused about, Bon Scott died in 1980, which was before AC/DC did Thunderstruck... so, it is Brian Jophnson on vocals. Also the version I posted was live, so Brian Johnson sounds about five times shittier than usual.
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Nah man I'm fully aware of that. I'm confused as to iampiratearg's response which seemed to imply he was unaware of that particular line-up change.
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What it implies is what it entails, I guess. I never really cared that much about AC/DC to get to know the band's history.
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NO ONE'S GONNA TAKE ME ALIVE (http://youtube.com/watch?v=K9-r82TakGY)
Yes, the song is awesome, but that specific version (especially his solo at the end) is just perfect, and it's what inspired me to get more into playing music. Easily my favorite Muse performance ever- every time I click on it, I have to drop what I'm doing and watch it all the way through.
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JESUS ON THE DASHBOARD (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WAsFcz5Hvf0)
HAAAAAAAALLOWED BE THY NAME (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b2za92DQOCw)
CAPSLOCK IS FUN (http://youtube.com/watch?v=662dOoTubJ8)
Wouldn't necessarily say any of those are the best song ever, but I thought it at one point.
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Apparently Angus Young is so awesome that people assume he sings, too!
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angus young actually has sang in a few songs, but not lead, just for harmony's sake
still hate ac/dc
greatest rock song of all time?
i'm alive by the shaky hands
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NO ONE'S GONNA TAKE ME ALIVE (http://youtube.com/watch?v=K9-r82TakGY)
Yes, the song is awesome, but that specific version (especially his solo at the end) is just perfect, and it's what inspired me to get more into playing music. Easily my favorite Muse performance ever- every time I click on it, I have to drop what I'm doing and watch it all the way through.
I'm no Muse fan, but that is a really fucking good song.
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Yeah it doesn't get much better'n that.
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I waffle on Muse but that song is undeniably excellent.
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NO ONE'S GONNA TAKE ME ALIVE (http://youtube.com/watch?v=K9-r82TakGY)
Yes, the song is awesome, but that specific version (especially his solo at the end) is just perfect, and it's what inspired me to get more into playing music. Easily my favorite Muse performance ever- every time I click on it, I have to drop what I'm doing and watch it all the way through.
Yeah, the Reading performance was great. Have you seen their extremely tiny set from Live 8? Pretty decent performance of my favorite Muse song. (http://youtube.com/watch?v=HVwUBPDA9DM)
That's what this (http://youtube.com/watch?v=wX7H2LFSA5M) is for.
So much! I always feel like Thin Lizzy are underservedly unsung aside from that one song though, which stings all the more because of the puzzling hype given to AC/DC.
I dunno, AC/DC and Thin Lizzy are pretty different in terms of style, I don't think their listenership overlaps as much as, say, AC/DC and Maiden.
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NO ONE'S GONNA TAKE ME ALIVE (http://youtube.com/watch?v=K9-r82TakGY)
Yes, the song is awesome, but that specific version (especially his solo at the end) is just perfect, and it's what inspired me to get more into playing music. Easily my favorite Muse performance ever- every time I click on it, I have to drop what I'm doing and watch it all the way through.
I'm no Muse fan, but that is a really fucking good song.
Yeah, I stopped listening to Muse for one reason or another a few years back, but I still adore this song. It's like everything that's good about them distilled in six minutes.
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The Kinks - You Really Got Me
Such a great energy.
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This is by no means "The Greatest Rock Song of All Time", but it was a remarkable experience that changed my perspective on a certain song, as well as made me LOVE a song I had previously though of as "just, ok". So here's my contribution.
The song in question is "I Was Meant for the Stage" by The Decemberists. I had always listened to this song and thought, "This song has potential, but there's something missing from this recording." A while after that, I had the pleasure of seeing The Decemberists perform at Chastain Park with the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra. After hearing the live version with orchestral accompaniment, I cried. There was no verbal recognition that I could muster. It just overtook me, and I can honestly say the crowd, the orchestra, and the serenity of that evening gave me one of the most memorable concert experiences in recent years.
While I could not find a youtube, or video clip of the performance, I found a website (http://www.archive.org/details/decemberists2007-07-13.flac16) that has a lossless recording of the entire performance from that evening. Take a listen, close your eyes, and try to be there.
I am listening to The Tain right now, and I'm pretty much speechless. Wow, what an awesome concert!
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That's really odd. I watched it out of curiosity and I couldn't stop laughing. It's like everything that sucks about this band made so palpable that it's practically its own parody.
I guess what makes it so awesome is that they are clearly reveling in it. Calling it its own parody is fairly apt, and as a result it's actually a really fun song.
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The dead-serious conviction with which they deliver total nonsense kind of reminds me—not at all musically, mind you—of Dopesmoker. They're either supremely egotistical or having one hell of a larf.
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I've got news for you--the very act of making music is egotistical and pretentious. There's just varying degrees of it.
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That boiling water is just too big to fit through the windows of your mind. You gotta open the door. Translation: open your skull and pour boiling water in.
Hey guys does anybody like Metallica
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I guess what makes it so awesome is that they are clearly reveling in it. Calling it its own parody is fairly apt, and as a result it's actually a really fun song.
Basically this.
The first time I heard it, without even knowing who it was or when it was recorded, I was laughing and like "Man, this is so completely ridiculous and awesome."
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This is even more apparent when you watch the music video (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jV1bRfLHA3A) for the song. It's ten times as ridiculous.
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The lyrics are trite, not ridiculous. They have a decent anthemic qualitity to them, in that the lyric mostly consist of statements 95% of people would agree with. There's a couple of decent riffs in there, some nice galloping rhythms, a homage to Ennio Morricone (or two) and the video is great. It's just a good song, really. Most of the time I don't think muse produce good songs. That's really the extent of my feelings on Muse. I don't, for example, think, as Tommy seems to do, that Muse are an almost cosmic force of degenerative evil and soul crushing despair.
That, of course, is Coldplay.
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This is even more apparent when you watch the music video (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jV1bRfLHA3A) for the song. It's ten times as awesome.
Fixed it for you.
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I've got news for you--the very act of making music is egotistical and pretentious. There's just varying degrees of it.
Sometimes I realize how selfish it is of me to be alive and live the way I do and then I can get nothing done the rest of the day but cowering in bed.
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This is even more apparent when you watch the music video (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jV1bRfLHA3A) for the song. It's ten times as awesome.
Fixed it for you.
Well, it was pretty much implied
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Hey guys does anybody like Metallica
Actually I got the strongest urge to listen to Master of Puppets today.
Say what you will about the S&M shows/album, but here (http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=6KtF7ql3FJc) is a band in excellent form. Particularly Hetfield, who never sounded better, and never did again.
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Metallica
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I am friends with Metallica's personal assistant.
He used to work for the Metallica fan club, which is or used to be based in Knoxville. He was also in Pegasi 51, a great local band. Anyway, when Metallica played here in the late 90s one time, he ended up playing frisbee golf with them, and started doing more "important" things for them. There is one VH1 documentary where you can see him doing security at some awards show they were at.
Anyway, one day in 2000 or so they called him up and said "Do you want to come live in LA and be our personal assistant, we will buy you a house and car and pay you and you will be knee-deep in trim."
Obviously he said yes. Wouldn't you?
He tells me that Cliff is/was by far the nicest guy associated with the band, but Kirk Hammet is also apparently very nice too. Lars and James are super misogynistic assholes who do things like put drumsticks up groupie's assholes and take pictures of it, then tell them to lick it. I'm not making that up, he has seen the Polaroids. Fucked up, man.
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I've got nothing against Trujillo's bass playing, but I absolutely hate his style, he looks like he should be in a nu-metal band. When I hadn't heard much of Metallica, I was watching music videos on youtube, and I saw one of them performing recently. The one I had been watching previously was the music video to One, and then I see Trujillo and Hetfield with his hair cut off and a broom growing out of his chin. I honestly couldn't believe it was the same group.
I do like the S&M performance, though. You just have to be careful when mentioning it around people that don't know what it is.
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I've got nothing against Trujillo's bass playing, but I absolutely hate his style, he looks like he should be in a nu-metal band.
News for you, he's in one right now.
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He's also in Black Label Society, so he is partially excused, except for the shit albums.
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Hey guys does anybody like Metallica
Actually I got the strongest urge to listen to Master of Puppets today.
Say what you will about the S&M shows/album, but here (http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=6KtF7ql3FJc) is a band in excellent form. Particularly Hetfield, who never sounded better, and never did again.
I agree partly, since it's a great performance and Hetfield is on his toes but damn I loathe the symphony-shit. It really ruins it for me.
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Really? I love the symphonic versions of the songs. I think 'Hero Of The Day' and 'Until It Sleeps' were both crying out to have strings added to them.
And that album does contain my favourite Metallica song, namely 'No Leaf Clover,' which seems somewhat unlike the rest of their material.
But then most Metallica fans hate me because I prefer the 1990s output to the 1980s output.
Am I the only one who thinks their 1980s albums are a bit samey????
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Not the only one. But you're in a pretty small fucking crowd.
As many reasons as there are to begrudge respect to recent Metallica, I think anyone with a knowledge of the history would have shitted their pants with excitement and wept with joy when they realized "Orion" was going to be played for the first time in 20 years at that one gig in 2006.
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He's also in Black Label Society, so he is partially excused, except for the shit albums.
According to wikipedia, he was only with them for 1919 eternal. But then, according to wikipedia, for the first few albums (including 1919), Wylde did just about everything, which either means he was a real control freak about the music, or wikipedia is wrong.
edit: Spluff, was that meaning metallica is a nu-metal band, or is he in another band?
Gaz, I don't think the 80s albums are samey, Kill 'Em All is very raw, I think that the band still needed a bit more practice at that point, RtL is when they hit their stride, it was like KeA except everyone had matured and gained more skill, MoP is when they stopped going for pure speed, a prediction of what was to come, and justice was their most proggy stuff, their most complicated stuff, it might have been wanting to get away from that which sent them down the path of their s/t, load, reload, etc.
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I don't know about you, but myself and most people I know who are passionate about music occasionally have times where the planets align or whatever and you're listening to a rock song and you suddenly realise you would have no problem whatsoever declaring it The Most Awesome Thing In Existance. I've got many, but I'll start with the song/incident which gave me the idea to do this thread in the first place.
It was about 30 minutes ago. I had just pulled out of the parking lot after a night of working. I was a little stoned. As the song on the radio station started, I thought "Oh, awesome song." Somewhere around the end of the first chorus, as I drove through an empty, closed small city with no one else on the road and the stereo blasting, it hit me.
The song in question? Ladies And Gentlemen We Are Rocking The Fuck Out. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pD8ymBR2Ufo)
sure cheap trick did the original, but personally i feel its too slow I prefer this cover http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=07r3nUqfEmo
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I used to love Less Than Jake. Nowadays though, they only bring back memories of frustration, much gamepad-flinging and a burning desire to hunt down and kill whoever designed the fourteenth goal on the Alcatraz level of Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 4.
Well yeah, that too. Well atleast the new album rocks.
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80s are easily my favourite. After that they just went in a pretty generic direction, imo. I even love Kill 'Em 'All - it's better than Justice, in my books.
edit: Spluff, was that meaning metallica is a nu-metal band, or is he in another band?
The first one - it was a whine about the direction Metallica has gone in.
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Man I'm sorry but that Less Than Jake cover of "Surrender" is total fucking shit compared to the original IMO. It just sounds like "yet another power pop-punk song". :|
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Gaz, I don't think the 80s albums are samey, Kill 'Em All is very raw, I think that the band still needed a bit more practice at that point, RtL is when they hit their stride, it was like KeA except everyone had matured and gained more skill, MoP is when they stopped going for pure speed, a prediction of what was to come, and justice was their most proggy stuff, their most complicated stuff, it might have been wanting to get away from that which sent them down the path of their s/t, load, reload, etc.
I didn't say they're exactly the same. I'm saying they're similar. Obviously there are nuances and differences which I'm quite willing to notice, but - and I think this applies to Iron Maiden too, to a greater degree - if you took say, 'Blackened', if you made the production a bit dirtier it'd fit perfectly on Kill 'Em All, and you could probably do the same with a song from KEA (but then Justice was produced horrifically anyway). However, Black Album more distinctive and so are, to a far greater extent, Load and ReLoad.
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I would disagree that the early Metallica albums are samey. They're quite distinctive in the context of metal, in fact.
KEA was a very NWOBHM/proto-thrash effort. You could easily call it thrash metal and be completely correct, but it was still early days for the whole movement and so there was a higher prevalence of the less extreme NWOBHM elements. In addition, Dave Mustaine had a hand in most of the songs. Many songs nodded in the direction of blues due to the melodic parts of the riffs. Hetfield's voice was quite strained and leans more heavily towards early hardcore punk than anything at this point (although his later vocal efforts would considered much more "metal", they wouldn't largely influence the melodic thrash scene, because everyone figured that he was a dick)
RTL was probably their most extreme album. From this disc, Metallica could have easily launched into more extreme thrash along the lines of later Dark Angel. Just listen to Fight Fire With Fire and Creeping Death. There was a much more diatonic feel to the riffs, and Hetfield had less of an edge, but more variance in his voice. This album ushered in the first instrumental that the whole band would play - Call Of Ktulu. Apparently, Mustaine had a hand in this one as well (as well as Ride The Lightning, officially. My gut feeling tells me he did some work on Creeping Death, too). Irrespective, it was quite a bombastic album closer, and the first album lacked that kind of powerful, but not quite epic mood altogether.
MOP is more melodic in general. This is where Metallica began to stray, as they developed some odd fetish for soft interludes. Okay, it works fairly well in Master Of Puppets, due to the powerful re-entry, but I feel it hurts songs like Orion that are otherwise very good. At this point, they seemed to learn from other extreme metal bands from a melodic standpoint. The melodies here are darker and more exotic, like the little lick that sees the opening of the Master Of Puppets chorus, based on the B phyrgian dominant scale. Flat 2nds and all that. To round it off, Metallica developed their power-tendencies a bit further. All in all, the album picked up some darker melodic tendencies and some compositionally softer ones.
You can always tell a song that's from AJFA because there is no bass. 'Nuff said.
A lot of people understandably hate Metallica because they were in the position to show metal to the world like never before, but instead went on to make Load, ReLoad and St. Anger. In addition, they spent their time ramming drum sticks up groupies' asses and making them lick that shit. Gee, thanks Metallica.
It's kind of nice to get the implication that Kirk is sick of all the bullshit, though.
Not that it matters, though. Pantera's Cowboys From Hell was an impressive entry into the 90s for metal (it's a shame they could only do one album that well, but damn, it kicked ass), and Blind Guardian hooned along with 1995's Imaginations From The Other Side. Plus, there was the whole death metal and black metal explosion. Metallica are still dicks for backstabbing every metal fan ever, though.
(Megadeth was always better, anyway)
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See this is the viewpoint that I always think is a crock of shit. Backstabbing every metal fan? They did what they wanted to do, and I say more power to them. I like that they experimented. The fact that even the band themselves don't want to play any of their material from post-1991 says that it's the fans who let THEM down.
It's this kind of viewpoint in metal and hardcore as far as loads of different bands that I've always disliked. Green Day sold out in 1994 and 2004 respectively, Metallica sold out in 1991, Black Flag sold out in 1984, Dillinger Escape Plan sold out in 2004, whatever. I apply the phrase 'sellout' to very few artists - the names of which escape me at this second because I care so little - and that's because firstly, I don't think 99% of these alleged sellouts actually did. And secondly, even if they DID sell out, I don't blame them for it one bit, because, well, I like money too. Most of these bands would've ended up making the same album over and over again if they hadn't 'sold out.' As for my personal artistic standpoint, I'd sooner experiment and get called a sellout than make the same safe music.
Correction - you can always tell a song from ...Justice because it sounds like SHIT. I know there's no bass, and that's top of the list of its problems, but it's not that great sounding an album either way. It's like metal as if recorded in Sun studios.
And as for ramming drumsticks up groupies' asses? OMGNOZ
1. I'm sure that's probably the least of what they, and other bands - Led Zeppelin? Motley f'ing Crue anyone? - did to groupies...
2. ...groupies who most likely volunteered for this duty. They're groupies. If they didn't want stuff getting shoved in their various holes, that's their own fault for being a groupie in the first place.
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The decision to defend Metallica for sodomizing groupies with drumsticks is a pretty strange one to make, man. I'm kinda confused by it to tell the truth.
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I wasn't really defending it. But victimising Metallica for doing that kind shit to groupies when stories like the Red Snapper (which to be fair, I've heard isn't actually true as many times as I've heard it is is true) and the Motley Crue talk-to-your-mom-on-the-phone-that's-in-your-vagina story are still knocking around is a tad ridiculous. Quite apart from which, groupies essentially go backstage to service these stars in whatever way they wish. I'm not sure how much 'forcing' Metallica could've got away with here.
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I was just relating that information because it illustrated that Ulrich and Hetfield are much bigger jerks than Kirk and Cliff. I'm well aware that lots of bands abuse the power they have over groupies.
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Yeah see I brought it up as something I'd heard from someone who is a primary source, and Alex referenced it.
READING THREADS IS HARD
I'm just messing with you.
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I wasn't really defending it. But victimising Metallica for doing that kind shit to groupies when stories like the Red Snapper (which to be fair, I've heard isn't actually true as many times as I've heard it is is true) and the Motley Crue talk-to-your-mom-on-the-phone-that's-in-your-vagina story are still knocking around is a tad ridiculous. Quite apart from which, groupies essentially go backstage to service these stars in whatever way they wish. I'm not sure how much 'forcing' Metallica could've got away with here.
Just because someone is willing to let you treat them like an object and do horribly degrading things them doesn't mean it's alright if you do. The whole idea of someone giving proper consent in the fan who's gone backstage/massive rockstar relationship is incredibly dubious anyway. Nor is it alright just because someone else has done worse. Motley Crue are known for being massive arseholes and the Zeppelin story is usually brought up as an example of them being titanic shits to someone, so I don't see how it exonerates Metallica being dickheads.
MadassAlex is right though, the important thing is that Megadeth were always the better band.
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See this is the viewpoint that I always think is a crock of shit. Backstabbing every metal fan? They did what they wanted to do, and I say more power to them. I like that they experimented. The fact that even the band themselves don't want to play any of their material from post-1991 says that it's the fans who let THEM down.
If they had kept going in the style of the Black Album, it would be a lot easier to forgive them. But they decayed even further.
The fact that they stopped referencing metal at all in the 90s shows that they cared nothing at all for the scene that propelled them into the spotlight. The fact that the band don't want to play post 1991 material could say a lot of things. It's probably an admission that Load, ReLoad and St. Anger were really shit!
It's this kind of viewpoint in metal and hardcore as far as loads of different bands that I've always disliked. Green Day sold out in 1994 and 2004 respectively, Metallica sold out in 1991, Black Flag sold out in 1984, Dillinger Escape Plan sold out in 2004, whatever. I apply the phrase 'sellout' to very few artists - the names of which escape me at this second because I care so little - and that's because firstly, I don't think 99% of these alleged sellouts actually did. And secondly, even if they DID sell out, I don't blame them for it one bit, because, well, I like money too. Most of these bands would've ended up making the same album over and over again if they hadn't 'sold out.' As for my personal artistic standpoint, I'd sooner experiment and get called a sellout than make the same safe music.
Metallica were progressing, though. Every album was fairly unique in some way or another. It's fair enough that they wanted to play with catchier music for the Black Album. At least, at that point, the album had elements of what really was Metallica. They weren't as good at hard rock as they were at thrash metal, but more power to them, like you said. But then they went and ignored what happened and removed elements that made Metallica the poster-boys of metal. The ripping solos, vocals that threatened to rip the ears off the casual listener and the high speed was gone.
Oh, and so was Cliff! James lost his voice. Ulrich got really, really bad at drumming. Kirk's solos were cut back.
Effectively, the elements of the music changed so much that Metallica may as well rename themselves because they don't have much in common with the band that released KEA and RTL.
And as for ramming drumsticks up groupies' asses? OMGNOZ
1. I'm sure that's probably the least of what they, and other bands - Led Zeppelin? Motley f'ing Crue anyone? - did to groupies...
2. ...groupies who most likely volunteered for this duty. They're groupies. If they didn't want stuff getting shoved in their various holes, that's their own fault for being a groupie in the first place.
The point is that they were ramming drumsticks up groupies' asses instead of making inspiring albums like RTL. They, very literally, went from well-respected thrash metal heroes to packing fudge.
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I don't think they can blame anyone but themselves for load and reload sucking, there isn't anything wrong with blues metal, see early danzig, but the songs they made just really sucked.
As for the groupies thing, I am not touching that.
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breaking the law = no contest. its called breaking the law, how con you go wrong?
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breaking the law = no contest. its called breaking the law, how con you go wrong?
If you were to be caught.
Heh. How "con" you go wrong. I desperately want that to be a subtle pun. But I know it's just at typo.
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*cracks knuckles*
To a pack of wolves: I'm not saying it's ALRIGHT that Metallica shoved drumsticks up groupies' asses. I'm just saying they're part of a grand tradition of dickheadery which I've never approved of and singling them out isn't fair. I also think if you're going to be a goddamn groupie you should know the risks of what you're going into ahead of time. But then, Alex has since pointed out that he wasn't doing that, he was just making a point that they should've been writing better songs when they were sodomising groupies.
To Nodaisho: I still say Load and ReLoad are underrated records and before then there's a decent to good album, especially if you ignore who made it. I'm probably the only Metallica fan in the world who likes 'Mama Said' (it's one of the ones I can understand. Blues-metal is one thing, but motherfucking country? You're Metallica dammit) but I think 'Until It Sleeps' is one of their greatest songs, and 'Fuel,' 'The Memory Remains' and 'Hero Of The Day' are pretty damn good too. There's also a whole heaping pile of suck, but then that's probably at least partially because both discs are about 80 minutes long for no reason.
To MadassAlex: There's a difference between moving on from the scene and not caring about it. I doubt Daryl Palumbo has stopped caring about post-hardcore just because he's in what's essentially a pop band with Head Automatica. Frank Turner's a folk singer now, albeit a pretty visceral one. And hell, in the opposite direction, if Bob Dylan hadn't picked up an electric guitar again in 1965 then we'd be short about a hundred classic songs.
I'm not saying Metallica weren't progressing, I'm saying I think there's only so far they could've gone before they started repeating themselves. Also, as a live act, I think they've lost it. Without Cliff's distinctive bass playing, or even Jason Newsted's vocal harmonies (which I really, really miss, by the way. I think they added a noteable extra layer to their live sound) they sound so thin, and the songs sound more and more alike with each performance I see them give.
I'm also not exactly hopeful about the new album (what kind of a fucking title is Death Magnetic???) but I think what we can probably agree on is they haven't got much hope of making a good new album now or for the forseeable future. They're too old to get back to being the hungry metallers they once were, and they've gone too far away from it to start from scratch again really.
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I actually like the black album, and while I will admit that a few of the songs on load and reload could be good, they just kind of grate, I don't know where the flaw is, but they annoy me, for the most part.
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How did this thread get to 4 pages without Thunder Road by Springsteen?
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JUKEBOX HERO
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How did this thread get to 4 pages without Thunder Road by Springsteen?
I was actually going to post that, but I had posted the live version of "Lost in the Flood," and I figured putting up two Springsteen songs would earn me a fair amount of ire/ridicule, since people around here don't seem to take too kindly to The Boss. But yeah. Thunder Road is perhaps my favorite song of all time.
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How did this thread get to 4 pages without Thunder Road by Springsteen?
I was actually going to post that, but I had posted the live version of "Lost in the Flood," and I figured putting up two Springsteen songs would earn me a fair amount of ire/ridicule, since people around here don't seem to take too kindly to The Boss. But yeah. Thunder Road is perhaps my favorite song of all time.
Good to know I'm not the only person on the internet who likes The Boss. 8-)
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I like Springsteen too.
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WE MADE LITTLE GRAHAM PROMISE US HE'D BE A GOOD BOY (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WJ9ieVLaLo8)
I couldn't find the studio version, which has a bit more teeth.
oh and also
WHILE YOU'RE DOWN THERE, KISS YOUR ASS GOODBYE (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TtGSk6XvjS4)
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In all fairness a drumstick is smaller then a penis and I am fairly positive any guy/gal groupie is well versed in penis....now a chainsaw up the anus that would be fucking metal and worthy of scorn I mean a chainsaw is effing big.....
anyhow I was busy listening to this when Metallica were destroying the sacred chalice of Heavy meal...these guys are French Canadian I am fairly positive that is on a par with drumstick sodomy
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3hhP9ZGHTEQ&feature=related (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3hhP9ZGHTEQ&feature=related)
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In all fairness a drumstick is smaller then a penis and I am fairly positive any guy/gal groupie is well versed in penis....
I don't know what kind of monster cock is dangling between your legs, but if it is longer than a drumstick you could earn a fortune in porn. Seriously.
I guess what I am saying is that girth is not everything, and until we have proven reports on how far up the groupie asses the drumsticks were pushed, we remain uncertain of the amounts of pain the inflicted.
You bring up a good point-I was thinking ok Lars greases up a vic frith and pops in a poopshooter--its like the size of a finger, of course, I was not taking in the equation of length versus velocity....The sheer physics of which could be impossible without elastics...coupled with the whole lick it equation I have now surmised that Metallica are the Chachi Arcola's of metal....
In a world of metal gone poostick thankThor's balls we still have the perpetual and untarnished stylings of satans favorites:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BwLtTa2trRs (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BwLtTa2trRs)
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Drumsticks in anuses is no fucking big deal. Neither is having the groupies lick the sticks after the fact. My reasoning? I have four words for you:
Two girls, one cup
Now everybody go listen to "Black Hole Sun" by Soundgarden and find the one good thing that can possibly be associated with Chris Cornell. Though it's not the greatest rock song of all time, it's still pretty goddamn great, and ESPECIALLY considering the jackass singing it.
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For the record Lars uses Ahead sticks, and Regal Tip before that...
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I hate when things get derailed.
NOW OPEN WIDE AND SAY MY NAME (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d6iPi2aauu0)
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I hate when things get derailed.
NOW OPEN WIDE AND SAY MY NAME (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xHbnw_-j2Lg)
Changed your link to what I thought you linked to.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RSsJ19sy3JI
Best song ever guys.
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Now everybody go listen to "Black Hole Sun" by Soundgarden and find the one good thing that can possibly be associated with Chris Cornell.
Dude Soundgarden had lots of good stuff, mostly before that song. "Jesus Christ Pose" is way better.
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Agreed. I'd take Outshined, Slaves and Bulldozers (even with the shitty solo) or Jesus Christ Pose over Black Hole Sun in a second.
Although, then again, I pretty much prefer anything on Badmotorfinger to Black Hole Sun, and I don't even particularly like Soundgarden.
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A Change of Seasons, anyone?
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Right now I am very partial to "Slip Inside This House" from Easter Everywhere by the 13th Floor Elevators.
http://youtube.com/watch?v=nwSA0Tckwbk (http://youtube.com/watch?v=nwSA0Tckwbk)
Sure, "You're Gonna Miss Me" is a lot -tighter- in terms of writing, but I do think that the multi-minute meandering is really suited to the Elevator's sound. There's just something really satisfying about how triumphant the chord progression on the verses, or for that matter the entire song, are.
Sometimes, though, I feel more angry and it would be the Rocket From the Tombs (about 75 or so percent faster) cover of "Search and Destroy." Because it is pure rock'n'roll self-destruction in a two-minute package.
My opinion varies from week to week.
Re:Metallica, I didn't hate Load or Reload, but I basically haven't listened to them since I was 16. I think we can all agree that St Anger was some of the shittiest shit a rock group has every shat? Yes?
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Rock And Roll: Making People Batshit Insane Since 1969 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ecF95ITFjSQ)
EDIT: DUDE THOSE PEOPLE ARE SO STONED
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Something different!
Balrog Boogie (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ad-l54T_kYY).
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Re:Metallica, I didn't hate Load or Reload, but I basically haven't listened to them since I was 16. I think we can all agree that St Anger was some of the shittiest shit a rock group has every shat? Yes?
Several of the songs on St. Anger would be a LOT better if they'd been recorded/produced/mixed properly.
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I know it don't thrill you I hope it don't kill you (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_e1TZ9Sin4o&feature=related)
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Sometimes I almost feel just like a human being (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dip-FtbsD8E&feature=related)
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Wait what? Why hasn't I thought of this song yet: Stagger Lee (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lneSAju-Xtc)
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Wait what? Why hasn't I thought of this song yet: Stagger Lee (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lneSAju-Xtc)
To be pedantic: Because it's not a rock song. It's a reworking of a folk song.
But it is indeed bad ass.
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Nick Caves version is so reworked that the only real connection it has to the folk song is it's title and parts of its premise. Besides which, if you're being really pedantic, a folk song stops being a folk song the moment you record it. Or, if you want to be pedantic another way, a folk song where the author or composer is known is not a folk song. Stagger Lee's a rock song, pure and simple.
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Cave's version is still a folk song in the context of folk being a genre. The arrangement, cadence, composition, premise and delivery are all demonstrably folk.
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Also, it's awesome. Pedantry over. Relax, baby, have a piece of cheese.
Pick: Wash Off (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eqbn7faY6yg)
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Agreed. I'd take Outshined, Slaves and Bulldozers (even with the shitty solo) or Jesus Christ Pose over Black Hole Sun in a second.
Guys, I don't know anything about Soundgarden other than the fact that Chris Cornell should never have tainted Rage with his "Oh sup guys let's play pop-metal now" shit. Whether or not it's the greatest Soundgarden song is Greek to me. I just like the motherfucking song and thought it at least deserved an honorable mention, and if I wanted to see 69ing I'd go look at porn.
I will stand firmly behind the assertion that The Band's "The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down" is the best folk-rock song ever recorded. Joan Baez should go kill herself, by the way, because I am sorry, I'll take the 'defeated' feeling production and in-character gravel of Levon Helm over the bleating sheep vibrato and Dixieland-meets-gospel sound.
(I'd find a video but I don't trust YouTube to have anything that awesome, that site is super shitty for that era of that genre)
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You had to go and make me look it up didn't you?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=odBYhqZ9hAI&feature=related (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=odBYhqZ9hAI&feature=related)
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Guys, I don't know anything about Soundgarden other than the fact that Chris Cornell should never have tainted Rage with his "Oh sup guys let's play pop-metal now" shit.
The gap in quality between early Soundgarden and Audioslave is massive. Give Ultramega OK and Badmotorfinger a chance. They're way less "pop" than "Black Hole Sun".
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I'd have to second "Free Bird" here, together with "Bohemian Rhapsody".
Those are the kind of rock songs my dad listened to when he was younger, the ones I love listening to and the ones which (hopefully) my children will listen to and love.
Also, congratulations on discussing groupie sodomization. I went back a page and re-read the whole thing.
And if you become so famous that it doesn't really affect your superstardom whatever you do with or to your groupies - awesome. You have arrived.
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You had to go and make me look it up didn't you?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=odBYhqZ9hAI&feature=related (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=odBYhqZ9hAI&feature=related)
Shitdaaaaaamn, it's even a live version! My dad will love this link when I send it to him.
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man The Band is ace
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I hate when things get derailed.
NOW OPEN WIDE AND SAY MY NAME (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d6iPi2aauu0)
you are my fucking hero
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Johnny B. Goode (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R0YUA3yTUss) - Chuck Berry, 1958.
The thread may now be locked.
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I recently found my collection of backups and i've been putting them on this computer and finding some lost gems.
Among them was this live album by The Kinks, most of it is very good, but some of the songs are really just phenomenal. Specially a performance of I'm Not Like Everybody Else. I'm Not Like Everybody Else has always been one of my favourite songs by The Kinks, despite the tinny recording, but here the song is a powerhouse.
I uploaded this song http://www.mediafire.com/?921kitmyozj
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I'm kind of torn between which "Cortez the Killer" was better, neil young's or built to spill's.
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*Bump.*
I WOULD WALK FIVE HUNDRED MILES, AND THEN I WOULD WALK FIVE HUNDRED MORE (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O3tNylJr7Z4&feature=related)
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Not bad, Still doesn't top Johnny B Goode, but it's up there.
Or we could just accept that we all have different musical tastes and that everyone will have a different idea of what will constitute the best.
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Man, Judas Priest's cover of Johnny B. Goode shits all over the original.
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I think zerodrone said something that this thread was more about songs we just remember having/have awesome times listening to. I heard that song a few times through my childhood and I could never dislike it. It's so wonderfully catchy and sappy.
Last night I decided I was going to cover it.
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In that case I'm going to mention 'Bittersweet Symphony,' I dunno if it was already mentioned by me or anybody else, but I lost my virginity to it (or rather, started to lose my virginity, to it).
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I love that song, and it's a strong contender in my eyes. But I will play the "The End" trump card on that one, because you can't fucking top Jim Morrison in terms of lyrical or vocal heroism.
I do like the Van Halen covers of Roy Orbison's "Oh, Pretty Woman" and "You Really Got Me" by the Kinks, though.
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What's that? You all got Trumped?
Is this... BALLS TO THE WALL, BLOW YOUR BRAINS OUT ROCK!?!? (http://americasarmy.ca/)
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Isn't America's Army that game that the U.S. Army made in an attempt to recruit more cannon fodder?
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Yeah, but it's pretty damn fun. Or it used to be, before everything got nerfed.
Still better than counter strike, or battlefield, though.
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'Cause it's free.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ftNKCoj7e8c
up the punx.
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This thread started off poorly, but things sharply looked up at Judas Priest and haven't come back down since. Good job, guys.
PS. I've got a war inside my head. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fc-7FXzbeA0)
THANK YOU!
Maybe I'll start a Kyuss Thread sometime...
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Man, Judas Priest's cover of Johnny B. Goode shits all over the original.
I prefer the original, but I cannot deny Priest's energy. Mr. Berry would approve.
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Yeah, but it's pretty damn fun. Or it used to be, before everything got nerfed.
Still better than counter strike, or battlefield, though.
I remember it being very glitchy and annoying, and bunnyhopping being the way to survive when you come face to face with an enemy. I heard the newer versions are less glitchy, but I haven't played for more than a year.
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Isn't America's Army that game that the U.S. Army made in an attempt to recruit more cannon fodder?
Yeah, but that website is a parody-type thing. Check the links down the bottom. It's meant to mock the War and the America's Army game. The text on the webpage is actually the lyrics to the song.
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Yeah, but it's pretty damn fun. Or it used to be, before everything got nerfed.
Still better than counter strike, or battlefield, though.
I remember it being very glitchy and annoying, and bunnyhopping being the way to survive when you come face to face with an enemy. I heard the newer versions are less glitchy, but I haven't played for more than a year.
It was pretty glitchy, seems to be better now. But it goes up and down as they patch - some patches bring new bugs, some eliminate old. You can't jump and shoot, so there's no bunnyhopping. Easiest way to kill somebody near you is to just shoot them in the face.
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Easiest way to kill somebody near you is to just shoot them in the face.
Isn't that the case in real life too?
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Seriously? Of all the Queen songs that could fit, you pick "Killer Queen"? Did you have a moment liked described in the OP with this song? Cus as rawk songs go, "Killer Queen" is anything but sheer heart attack, nawmsayin?
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It's no "Fat Bottomed Girls", either, for that matter.
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"The Distance" and/or "Nugget" by Cake.
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http://youtube.com/watch?v=MMz-wi50ACU
...end of discussion :D
NOOOOOOOOO!!!
Somebody stated this, but the most Rock n' Roll of all Queen songs is Fat Bottomed Girls for sure.
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All I know is that I rawk out to it :D I feel the same about "Can't Stop me Now" if that's a better choice for you people...
YOU PEOPLE!?!?!?!?!!
Hmmmm, you certainly like the poppier of the Queen songs. All Queen songs are great nonetheless, just Killer Queen isn't like.... ROCK N' ROLL!!!!
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QOTSA are one of my favourite modern bands. That's more Rock n' Roll. Thank you
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QOTSA are one of my favourite modern bands. That's more Rock n' Roll. Thank you
Man, I must have been 11 years old when I first heard QOTSA. It was the album "Music For The Deaf"...
That's probably one of the greatest Rock N' Roll albums ever...
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It's actually "Songs For The Deaf". Nonetheless probably their best album, my brains were on the wall behind me the first time i listened.
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Their self titled is by far their best album. After that they just went into boring mainstream rock.
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And then there's Skindred, who I don't like nearly as much, but still listen to, because I listen to almost everything that uses Reggae dubs (see: Thievery Corporation).
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I think Songs For the Deaf is the better album, but 'Regular John' is my favourite tune of theirs. I think the production and the dynamics are virtually flawless.
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Their self titled is by far their best album. After that they just went into boring mainstream rock.
My friend Songs For The Deaf was NOT just shitty mainstream rock. They are by far one of the most talented of the known bands at the moment. Nickelback is shitty mainstream rock.
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I haven't read this thread at all. But it's this one. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gKYsUMrfeAU)
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I haven't read this thread at all.
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What's that? You all got Trumped?
Is this... BALLS TO THE WALL, BLOW YOUR BRAINS OUT ROCK!?!? (http://americasarmy.ca/)
I call shenanigans. That is not John K. Samson on vocals.
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Y'know, I really don't know what to tell you there.
I thought John was only the Bassist for Propaghandi and the singer for The Weakerthans... (i.e. After he quit Propaghandi... Which incidentally was before "Die Jugen Marschiert" was created...)
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He did vocals, too. Granted, I have only heard a few songs by them (mostly "Gifts," because John does it solo at most Weakerthans concerts) and they've all been off of Less Talk, More Rock.
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It's kind of bizarre how Samson is doing so good with The Weakerthans when Propagandhi were such a godawful band.
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I think Songs For the Deaf is the better album, but 'Regular John' is my favourite tune of theirs. I think the production and the dynamics are virtually flawless.
The first thing I thought of as soon as you said this: "A Crack Up At The Race Riot" by Hope of the States.
Can I say "'Semicharmed Life' by Third Eye Blind wins the '90s pop-rock title" without getting pounded into the ground with mockery? I still love that song.
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Their self titled is by far their best album. After that they just went into boring mainstream rock.
My friend Songs For The Deaf was NOT just shitty mainstream rock. They are by far one of the most talented of the known bands at the moment. Nickelback is shitty mainstream rock.
It's not great. They've dropped the interesting individuality of their self titled, getting further and further from stoner rock and further and further into generic hard rock. Songs For The Deaf had a few good songs, but on the whole it was the kind of thing that you'll find from most mainstream rock bands.
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All you've found is another back door (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M3tLtF8kyOQ).
This. Definitely this!
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While my favourites are still the older Blues Masters (John Lee Hooker, Muddy Waters, Howling Wolf) and when I listen to rock I gravitate to the older tunes (Chuck Berry, Bo Diddley, Stevie Ray Vaughan, ZZTop, George Thorogood, Queen, etc.) I do listen to some of the newer stuff, cause hey, it's what's on the radio.
Of all the recent music I've listened to, after the Trews, the only song I've heard that's made it into my collection is Land of Confusion by distrubed. Higher energy than the original and a much harsher tone suits the song much better.
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With that being said Spluff i take it you're a fan of Kyuss. Am I correct?
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I think Songs For the Deaf is the better album, but 'Regular John' is my favourite tune of theirs. I think the production and the dynamics are virtually flawless.
The first thing I thought of as soon as you said this: "A Crack Up At The Race Riot" by Hope of the States.
I don't know. I adore that song, but I don't think the song lives up to its intro.
By the way Pat, have I ever told you that I fucking love you?
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Can I say "'Semicharmed Life' by Third Eye Blind wins the '90s pop-rock title" without getting pounded into the ground with mockery? I still love that song.
Meh. It's nowhere near as good as "Hey Jealousy" in that category.
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The nineties was pretty much the only time in the way of pop-rock.
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While my favourites are still the older Blues Masters (John Lee Hooker, Muddy Waters, Howling Wolf) and when I listen to rock I gravitate to the older tunes (Chuck Berry, Bo Diddley, Stevie Ray Vaughan, ZZTop, George Thorogood, Queen, etc.) I do listen to some of the newer stuff, cause hey, it's what's on the radio.
Not if you are listening to the right stations. Sure, you don't really get new songs on there all that often (some bands are still trucking, but they never seem to have singles on the classic rock stations), but I am fine with that.
I haven't been able to find a Northern Colorado metal station that actually plays metal, though, if I had, I probably wouldn't be listening to the classic rock stations.
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Man, I REALLY wish I could get Satellite radio...
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What about Breakfast at Tiffany's and Two Princes? There is so much in the way of awesome 90's pop-rock!
Errr. I despise those songs, but okay.
Perhaps 90s pop rock is less awesome if one had to actually suffer through it while knowing that every second one was forced to hear Hootie or whatever was one less second that could be spent listening to awesome 90s indie pop rock like The Poster Children, Sloan, The Muffs, Velocity Girl, that dog., Juliana Hatfield, Belly, the Breeders, etcetera...
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What about Breakfast at Tiffany's and Two Princes? There is so much in the way of awesome 90's pop-rock!
Under the circumstances, this (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sC-KaKAmmEY) seems like an appropriate addition to the thread. I know I should dislike the Spin Doctors on the merits, but for sentimental reasons I can't. I still listen to Pocket Full of Kryptonite every so often.
As far as the original premise of the thread, I distinctly remember thinking Rockin' In The Free World (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-eWEfnhWbow) sounded amazing coming out of the theater's sound system at the end of Fahrenheit 9/11.
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PUSH PUSH LADY LIGHTNING! PUSH! PUSH!
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That would be a good song to play while your wife gives birth.
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Can "Bohemian Like You" (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vK5MC8pa_cY) count in that category even though it came out in 2000? The late nineties and early oughts were basically the same anyway, just like the early nineties were pretty continuous with the late eighties.
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With that being said Spluff i take it you're a fan of Kyuss. Am I correct?
Yes. Yes I am.
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In all honesty I'm starting to prefer Kyuss to QOTSA, and I'm thinking about putting two Kyuss albums up onto the Mediaf!re thread.
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Do it, they deeserve it. I'll put up a couple live shows if people want. Kyuss are boss and they deserve to dominate this thread. I mean, come on, how do you stand up against "Supa Scoopa and Mighty Scoop?"
That said, I'm being fucking blown into the stratosphere by La Ira de Dios, a South American heavy-psych-desert-stoner juggernaut I came across recently. With all this Kyuss talk I thought I'd mention them, they're amazing. mediaf!re thread ho!
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I shall let the uploading begin now!
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I have always thought It was either Bohemian rhapsody by queen, Foreplay/Longtime by Boston, or Behind Blue Eyes by The Who.
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Hehe
"Fight For Your Right To Party"- Beastie Boys
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My god do i love The Beastie Boys.
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That said, I'm being fucking blown into the stratosphere by La Ira de Dios, a South American heavy-psych-desert-stoner juggernaut I came across recently.
Dude I started a thread about them and gave the address of the blog I got it from like over a month ago. Yeah, they pretty much slay. And to be specific they're from Peru in case you cared.
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My god do i love The Beastie Boys.
Yeah, man. I've been hunting down some of their bootlegs, trying to get the Drum Machine vinyl. "The Scenario" kicked serious ass. If anyone watched Pump Up The Volume, they'd know it.
For everyone else, it basically was a very explicit murder story song that was kept off the Ill Communication album. The song is hell to find now.
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(things about Hope for the States)
By the way Pat, have I ever told you that I fucking love you?
Yes, yes you have. But don't get too enthusiastic. You did send me that song, if you remember.
I will have you all know that "Renegade" by Styx is one of my favourite classic rock tunes ever, and despite constant airplay on Classic Rock Radio (you know, the one that plays the exact same music as every other Classic Rock Radio station in the country) I am not sick of it. Yet.
I don't know what I was thinking when I tried to introduce my friend/boss's kid to "Little Wing" by Hendrix. He promptly deleted it from his iTunes because, well, I guess he's a little bitch with shitty taste in music. You know that band with those 10-year-olds that the Disney Channel whores out these days? The Naked Brothers Band, I think? Yeah, he prefers them.
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I'd say Kyuss - Whitewater http://youtube.com/watch?v=KcY3UF6_IaM
and bonus, whitewater live in the desert :D: http://youtube.com/watch?v=OQdY0LCqoeg
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I've put some Kyuss albums into the Mediafire thread, check em out
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Iron Maiden - Hallowed Be Thy Name
http://youtube.com/watch?v=b2za92DQOCw
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Dude I started a thread about them and gave the address of the blog I got it from like over a month ago. Yeah, they pretty much slay. And to be specific they're from Peru in case you cared.
Whoa, totally missed it. Sorry.
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I've put some Kyuss albums into the mediaf!re thread, check em out
Already got em all ;)
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...And The Circus Leaves Town, or Welcome to Sky Valley? Which is better do you think?
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...And The Circus Leaves Town, or Welcome to Sky Valley? Which is better do you think?
Welcome to Sky Valley, definitely. Though Blues for the Red Sun is better than both of em, well maybe not better than Welcome to Sky Valley. It's a hard decision really, could write a whole thesis about which one of them is better than the other one, though that would require a lot of work, so I wont :P (that probably sparked the prejudices people probably have against stoners, ehrm I mean the typical audience of Kyuss :D)
Starting to go off-topic really...
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Welcome Home by Coheed and Cambria
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:|
Er, Coheed... Well, if you're into that. The song was pretty powerful, I guess.
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hee hee hee
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I mean, its kinda fun in rock band but other than that...
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I mean, its kinda fun in rock band but other than that...
Y'know, it makes sense now...
Songs sound better, when playing it in Rock Band/Guitar Hero...
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That may be true, I have had hells of fun playing that Jet song that is always on the radio on bass in rock band. I normally find that song terribly annoying.
Also, no need to quote the post above you dogg.
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Yes, yes you have. But don't get too enthusiastic. You did send me that song, if you remember.
I will have you all know that "Renegade" by Styx is one of my favourite classic rock tunes ever, and despite constant airplay on Classic Rock Radio (you know, the one that plays the exact same music as every other Classic Rock Radio station in the country) I am not sick of it. Yet.
I don't know what I was thinking when I tried to introduce my friend/boss's kid to "Little Wing" by Hendrix. He promptly deleted it from his iTunes because, well, I guess he's a little bitch with shitty taste in music. You know that band with those 10-year-olds that the Disney Channel whores out these days? The Naked Brothers Band, I think? Yeah, he prefers them.
Seriously hit the kid with a record player.
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That may be true, I have had hells of fun playing that Jet song that is always on the radio on bass in rock band. I normally find that song terribly annoying.
It's true, rhythm games make bad songs tolerable quite often. I remember actually enjoying No Doubt's "Ex-Girlfriend" in freQuency.
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baba o'riely
tnt
lalya
panama
born to run
the solo on smells like teen spirit
cobwebs and the strange
piano man
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Songs sound better, when playing it in Rock Band/Guitar Hero...
The exception: "Dani California", I still fucking hate that song. And at game night tonight (every Thursday night at this one dude's house) all anybody wanted to play was "Enter Sandman" and after about 15 minutes of that shit I promptly left.
I still reamed at "Reptilia" on hard, though.
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So earlier tonight, I was listening to Patti Smith and I had a revelation.
Rock N Roll Nigger is actually the best rock and roll song ever written.
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Ah the glories of our less-than-extensive swear filter.
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How does this thread not have this song (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NEVNoYFpLps) in it? It is the ultimate shivers-down-your-spine blissed-out amazing euphoric rock song ever written by anyone ever, and anyone who disagrees is clearly dead inside.
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That only reminded me of this (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hJxNKrIo_Kg) and I prefer this.
But Captain Jack will get you high tonight
And take you to your special island
Captain Jack will get you by tonight
Just a little push 'n' you'll be smilin'
Oh yeah, yeah
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Captain Jack is a sweet song, you cannot deny the all great Billy Joel.
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Thunder. Road.
"you can hide beneath your covers and study your pain
make crosses from your lovers, throw roses in the rain
waste your summer prayin in vain for a savior to rise from these streets
and i'm no hero, that's understood
all the redemption i can offer, girl, is beneath this dirty hood
with a chance we'll make it good somehow
well what else can we do now
except roll down the window and let the wind blow back your hair?"
"and there were ghosts in the eyes of all the boys you sent away
they haunt this dusty beach road with the skeleton frames of their burnt out chevrolets
i hear them scream your name at night in the street
your graduation gown lies in rags at their feet
and in the lonely cool before dawn
i hear their engines a roarin on, but when you get to the porch
they're gone on the wind
so mary climb in
it's a town full of losers, i'm pullin outta here to win."
i'm not enraptured by bruce's overall career; i don't even listen to him that much. but this is possibly my favorite song of all time.
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Bowel-shaking earthquakes of doubt and remorse
Assail him, impale him with monster truck force (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=__PU5CVSegg&feature=related)
Cake are the only good band
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How does this thread not have this song (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NEVNoYFpLps) in it? It is the ultimate shivers-down-your-spine blissed-out amazing euphoric rock song ever written by anyone ever, and anyone who disagrees is clearly dead inside.
David Bowie has put out some pretty danged cathartic music in his time.
Life On Mars? (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ueUOTImKp0k)
Five Years (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CLamhmCYwX4)
Although I think "Heroes" takes it.
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Thunder. Road.
Yes.
Definitive answer.
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Pulp are the only good band
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hb7IVGag4kY (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hb7IVGag4kY)
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love reign oer' me
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RANDOM ON-TOPIC POST INTERJECTION!
My recent "Greatest Rock Song Of All Time. Ever." include "Lost Parts Stinging Me So Cold" by Melt Banana and "Shaking Hands" by WOMEN (thanks QC Music Blog!). But if I wanted to actually give a single song my love it would possibly have to go to Sonic Youth's "Total Trash".
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It doesn't get much more rock n fucking roll than this.
Even when you sit through a minute of John and Mick talking. That's still more rock and roll than most people ever get in their lives.
I present, the Dirty Mac.
http://youtube.com/watch?v=LAjdRHzH4M8
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New Greatest Rock Song Of All Time. Ever.
"Take On Me" covered by Cap'n Jazz. GHASLDIGOHWOIMOMG! (http://"http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ULTji5N2baU&feature=related")
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"Shaking Hands" by WOMEN (thanks QC Music Blog!)
yesssssss
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"Tiger" (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rMUEfdo5Wac)
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i am currently convinced that polvo's lazy comet is the greatest rock song of all time.
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"Tiger" (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rMUEfdo5Wac)
This song is really awesome. Good find!
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Ok, I have a story that fits this thread so damn perfectly it's awesome.
So I was just relaxing in my beach hut thing with my copy Led Zeppelin's Four blasting out pretty loud and I'm just flipping channels and I wind up on the news. Right as "When The Levee Breaks" really opens up coverage on Hurricane Katrina starts, and this is when they were hiding behind those levees that they were worried would break or whatever. I was just like, "oh they are so fucked".
So, "When The Levee Breaks" - Led Zeppelin
I'm sad someone already took Green Machine though. That would have been my other choice.
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"We Will Rock You"- Queen (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XlFZ2w0RV-8)
/thread
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"We Will Rock You"- Queen (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XlFZ2w0RV-8)
/thread
....nah.
really? i mean that song's great if you've heard it like...4 times in your life. but there's not much in it to sustain one's interest past its immediate appeal.
i love queen dude, and i could name a number of songs that a far more interesting than that one. "don't try suicide" is hilarious.
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That song is fucked up, man. Whose bright idea was that???
I also hate 'We ARe The Champions' as well as 'We Will Rock You.' I hated how they ended EVERY gig with it.
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Know what's a pretty rockin' tune?
Esto. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QuO-ocJRe-U)
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That song is fucked up, man. Whose bright idea was that???
I also hate 'We ARe The Champions' as well as 'We Will Rock You.' I hated how they ended EVERY gig with it.
I hate how every fucking dodgy rock band plays it at the end of their shows. Well, not every band, but I'm sure plenty do.
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*looks at Jonathan Coulton's Thing A Week Week 52*
Eesh.
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ironically those are one of the only two queen songs i can't stand
love all their other stuff though
another one bites the dust is totally a warstomp song
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How can a song be a "/thread" when this is a thread about songs that make you go "OMIGOSH BEST SONG EVER" and not just one particular song that's better than others?
Anyways "This Year" by the Mountain Goats is stuck in my head a good way.