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Post by Paul on Jan 11, 2006 11:01:08 GMT -5
Some of my favorite Stones songs:
Can't You Hear Me Knocking
Bitch
Under My Thumb
Sister Morphine
Jigsaw Puzzle
Miss Amanda Jones
The Citadel
High and Dry
19th Nervous Breakdown
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Post by melon1 on Jan 11, 2006 13:35:03 GMT -5
I made a Top 250 Songs list many months ago which was incredibly hard to do. And I was somewhat dissatisfied later at how many songs I had forgotten. Going back and looking at this list, more that half of my top 30 songs aren't really even rock even though they are all by rock bands. For instance, "With Or Without You","Us and Them", "Girl From the North Country" which certainly isn't rock, but folk. So I went down the list and found the top 10 songs I would actually consider rock. Here's what I came up with:
1. Time - Pink Floyd
Rock doesn't get better than this. From the ticking clocks to the "softly spoken magic spell" I'm absolutely mesmerized. One of my favorite guitar solos ever which has its ending with the female singers harmonizing in the background. I wish more music sounded like this.
2. Drown - Smashing Pumpkins
Their best song, bar none, even though it isn't found on any of the studio albums. The ghost of Hendrix smiles at the feedback at the end of this song. This song reminds me of fall of my senior year of high school so it has sentimental and nostalgic value which actually what causes me to rate most of my pix for any list.
3. Echoes - Pink Floyd
I love all of this song except for the creepy middle part. I'm not such a purist that I can't skip past that and hear the ending. The end of this one is one of the best endings I've ever heard, ESPECIALLY when the guitar comes in.
4. Kicked It In the Sun - Built To Spill
This band has written plenty of great tunes but this one stands so far above the rest that it's hard to believe they wrote it. The guitar is absolutely heavenly. And there are a couple of great transitions.
5. Brain Damage/Eclipse - Pink Floyd
The perfect ending to a perfect album. This one always leaves me smiling from ear to ear.
6. Deserted - Blind Melon
I've actually cried to this song before because it's as if Shannon Hoon is actually spilling his guts out expressing his pain at the moment. I haven't heard music get much more passionate.
7. Title Unknown(Somebody please help me here) - Unwound
A friend of mine once recorded a song by a band called Unwound for me on a blank cassete tape. He told me it was on an album called Fake Train so I ordered it. It came in and this song was not on there. A guy I knew at a record store started playing a bunch of their albums through his computer for me and it seems like it was the third album that had that sound even though I couldn't pick out the song. The reason why is when he clicked on each song it started playing somewhere in the middle. I used to know this song well, so I don't know why I couldn't pick it out. ANYHOO, it has sorta like a Sonic Youth ending with beautiful feedback. I'll find it one day, hopefully.
8. Warped - Red Hot Chili Peppers
Funny how Dave Navarro came along, wrote the greatest Chili Peppers song ever, IMO, and then left. I can't stand the whole rest of the album, but right there at the beginning is the heaviest, most intense song the Peppers ever did. It also has one of the greatest instrumental endings I've ever heard.
9. Dirty Boots - Sonic Youth
I used to refer to this song as the "orgasm song". It builds up intensity at the end and then crashes into ecstasy and ends. From the very beginning of this song, it sounds like what should be considered the classic rock of our generation in the future.
10. Ramble On - Led Zeppelin
Heavenly.
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Post by Kensterberg on Jan 11, 2006 13:41:09 GMT -5
Melon -- If "With Or Without You" isn't rock and roll, what the fuck is it? It sure as hell doesn't fit into any other genre.
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Post by melon1 on Jan 11, 2006 13:48:09 GMT -5
I suppose it is, Ken. I just wanted to pick out more "rockin'" songs, I suppose. Btw, check your PM, dude. I'm waiting to hear back from you.
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Post by Paul on Jan 11, 2006 14:17:25 GMT -5
Has anyone here heard "Mr. Churchill Says" by the Kinks? I nearly lost it when I first heard it back in May....The song has everything, and is way ahead of it's time, the lyrics are spot on, and the music; where to begin? It starts slow, then after a minute and a half or so, all hell breaks loose. There are traces of alt. rock, metal, and punk all through this song, and if anyone here has the means, I strongly recommend giving this song a listen.
I'm putting together some Kinks mixes on my iTunes....if anyone is interested, I can make a Paul's Picks Kinks cd.
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Post by Rit on Jan 15, 2006 11:58:16 GMT -5
yeah i'd be interested in that.
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Post by Rit on Jan 15, 2006 12:08:23 GMT -5
Ode to the Jesus and Mary Chain's Upside Down.
their first ever single, even before the album came out. 3:00 minutes of sonic feedback and primal thumping. To the untrained ear, it sounds like the death of music, with no melody, no tune. If so, it's the greatest blast of noise ever. It's not punk or metal or anyhting like that. It's pop music, except that someone forgot to put any kind of quality control over the sound fidelity. the Beach Boys meets Motorhead/ Ramones. The vocals are sullen, barely recognizable, hidden in layers of squealing ear-splitting feedback. They only got poppier from this point on. Even Psychocandy was pop music compared to this.
But it's the best thing to come out of the mid '80s. What's the point, you ask? It's the most perfect moment in pop music. It sums up the one-trick pony that the Mary Chain undoubtedly were in this one song. It sounds momentous, like it's promising some great future of every indulgence you can think of just around the bend, it sounds like it breaks time in half. No lineage and no future, just a BLAST OF SONIC NOISE. Which, under further inspection, sounds more melodic than seems at first listen. That's the beauty of it though. It's a doorway to a crazy messed up new universe contained in the most unlikeliest of doorways.
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Post by melon1 on Jan 20, 2006 15:18:06 GMT -5
So, can nobody help me out on this one? Weird: Come to think of it, I don't believe I've ever seen anyone on these boards in the last 6(?) years ever mention Unwound, so maybe nobody knows what I'm talking about here:
7. Title Unknown(Somebody please help me here) - Unwound
A friend of mine once recorded a song by a band called Unwound for me on a blank cassete tape. He told me it was on an album called Fake Train so I ordered it. It came in and this song was not on there. A guy I knew at a record store started playing a bunch of their albums through his computer for me and it seems like it was the third album that had that sound even though I couldn't pick out the song. The reason why is when he clicked on each song it started playing somewhere in the middle. I used to know this song well, so I don't know why I couldn't pick it out. ANYHOO, it has sorta like a Sonic Youth ending with beautiful feedback. I'll find it one day, hopefully.
I know this is a long shot, but since we have so many music freaks around, maybe someone can help me out on this one.
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Post by rockysigman on Jan 20, 2006 15:24:36 GMT -5
So, can nobody help me out on this one? Weird: Come to think of it, I don't believe I've ever seen anyone on these boards in the last 6(?) years ever mention Unwound, so maybe nobody knows what I'm talking about here: 7. Title Unknown(Somebody please help me here) - Unwound
A friend of mine once recorded a song by a band called Unwound for me on a blank cassete tape. He told me it was on an album called Fake Train so I ordered it. It came in and this song was not on there. A guy I knew at a record store started playing a bunch of their albums through his computer for me and it seems like it was the third album that had that sound even though I couldn't pick out the song. The reason why is when he clicked on each song it started playing somewhere in the middle. I used to know this song well, so I don't know why I couldn't pick it out. ANYHOO, it has sorta like a Sonic Youth ending with beautiful feedback. I'll find it one day, hopefully.I know this is a long shot, but since we have so many music freaks around, maybe someone can help me out on this one. Do you remember any lyrics? Perhaps if you perused their song titles on the All Music Guide you could make a good guess as to which song it is. |
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Post by melon1 on Jan 20, 2006 15:30:53 GMT -5
Couldn't understand any of the lyrics and it's been years since I've heard the song. But I remember the notes, the grooves pretty well. I HATE that I lost the tape it was recorded on. A friend of mine tried to help me find it on Rhapsody the other night and we went through most of their albums and STILL couldn't find it. The guy who introduced me to it returns phone calls once in a blue moon after you call him fifteen times. He's like that with alot of his friends and keeps them somehow. Maybe he'll tell me what the hell the song is one of these days so I can get a hold of it. Maybe in the year 2011 or so. Frustrating, it is.
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