Amazing musicians here. Love the guitar…the beat. The groove…all the layers…the hammond organ….the singers….how it hides and darts around like it's being coy with you. Really get into this. Eerie and mysterious.

Finally an instrumental worthy of the top ten. I was getting worried. Definitely a fantasy feel with the Spanish guitars and the operateic vocalists. Just great.

This was a strong contender all the way. This one proved a fierce competitor and showed me that all the other instrumentals had to cross this song to get into the top 10. But it shouted...you cannot pass.

The last of the instrumentals...it lifted the instrumental beyond soundtrack or just randomness up to another level. Such beautiful instrumentation. The spanish guitar. The darkness, the ethereal wailing...the drum beat is on point and drives this song....the swirl of sounds...excellent playing...and singing. I weep...I weep...oh sad little girl on the cover...this is your cry...this is your cry...

Competent rock. Good singer. Nothing special with the drums or guitars

Hang on there. These kids got talent. The more I listened the more I got into it. This song didn't wear on me but kept going and floated away and grabbed me and I rode it on its journey…may have to delve into this group

Has a distinct 90s altrock/hard rock sound. Def grunge influence mixed with 00's rock Like the passion and even inspired me to look up the history of this group.

Oh I really liked this one from the first listen, but it didn't seem really special...then it suddenly grabbed me. It was the leader of the heavy songs for quite awhile. Then fell just a tad...only because the others had just a tad more going for them. Not because this cool song did anything wrong.

Things started to get heavy now...and we like it heavy... Such a nice blend of grunge and 90s rock sensibility. Something this slow...it really grabs me. The lyrics are great. Love the hardness. Very good hard rock. There really wasn't much to say about this one. Soothing... Soothes my hunger...

Kinda like this one. Not big into metal. But the guitar kinda comes across like doing a harpsichord thing at times. Really like the singer. Some of the in between stuff gets a bit monotonous but is saved by the other parts…like the singing.

Like the guitar, the aggression. Like the singer. The tune. The harpsichord guitar

Like the BillyBoydian Scottish accent. The guitar playing is really really good. Really like the chorus *part 2 * *ahem* This song just kicks ass….once it gets to the chorus it just takes off and never looks back. …..KICKS ASS!!!!!!!!!!!

The energy of this song was infectious and far and away the hardest heaviest song on the list. But lots of kickass went on here that it was always a strong competitor. That energy charged it above its predecessor. Got better and better.

Hail to the metal gods. I said I didn't get into metal as much because a lot of it was too distorted unmelodic too fast. This pushes that edge in every way. This is dark fantasy metal in your face. The harmonic melodic guitars. I love this chorus. I love this chorus. Did I mention I love this chorus. Bow down to the mother****ing metal gods.

Very nice hard rock. Some levels. A bit Angsty.

Nice emotional singer. Right away I like the guitar playing. The Solo gets a LITTLE bit hairband. The singer really makes this song soar.

Soulful soulful guitar….Like the singing a lot. One of guitarists that can do any style. Closer listen finding more intricate drum work. The singer has levels.

I don't know what to say. I didn't know what to say. I had to figure this one out. It sat there amid two other heavy songs...one faster...the other more grungey...and slowly it emerged. It blossomed. The tale. The angst is right. The guitar playing is so on point. The opening, the middle...this crawled up the chart. I so want to flip it forward now really. it is too late. I must do this thing. I acknowledge how much I like this...

Oh boy! Someone has tapped into my love of progressive hard rock with a vengeance. THANK YOU <3! I think of Lindsey Buckingham in Fleetwood Mac...how he would layer guitar sounds and types throughout the same song. Like in Gold Dust Woman...there are like 7 different tracks of guitar...all him. I felt like this. The opening acoustic trickles in sadly. It wakes you up and pulls you down. The emotion of the singer is there from the beginning. There is great playing throughout. I love the levels...the hard...the soft. And just now I looked up the band...they are the musicians (not the singer) from Creed. YOU'RE KIDDING!! Holy crap...shows what a bad frontman can do to a band...and what artists the players can become with a new one. That end guitar...it's bleeding...it's crying...

Classic classic Led Zeppelin. Very obvious selection. I mean it mentions Lord of the Rings even giving them a cameo in the song. But you know…you have just picked one of my two favorite Zeppelin songs. It's not as hard not as flat bluesy, not as showoffy...featuring some wonderful guitar moments of various kinds...nice melodic base. How many guitars is Page playing? All of them....the acoustic is nice...and then it takes off....Plant is such a god....baby baby baby baby babby baby....excellent....however...the obviousness has doubled this song up.

Note while this IS one of my two favorite Led songs…listening to it upclse I even found new things nhere. There are like 3 guitar lines going on at any particulrar point playing around and through and with Plant's singing. Acoustic strumming. Accoustic dithering, electric creeping in. Melodic bass in the background. This is one of those songs that deserves to be a classic. And I am SO happy there were four songs that rose to the occasion of being as great as this one.

This is it. This is the litmus test. I've seen other salt in other walruses. Extreme salt. About classic. people seem to hate them. Then someone does a walruses and places one higher and people get mad. I get the dichotomy. It is so hard to place something that's a hit that everyone knows...that you know up against something new and fresh that you don't. I find my walrus echoing gad's in a way. He placed a classic Monkees tune I submitted in this very position. Can I not afford the same compassion to another? Oh yes I can. And with good reason. This is not just any song with Fantasy in it. This happens to be my very favorite song from one of the greatest rock and roll bands of all time. Sure this seems a (what Gad would call) layup. But it is by no means the Ultimate layup...everyone know what that would be...Stairway to Heaven. Denied! So here we are...This is my favorite song by them. But just to be safe I listened to it again. I had to put its money where its mouth is. And hell if didn't deliver. (see below). So this is where our walrus took us boys and girls. This is the mother****ing rock and roll test. What songs can be better than my favorite song by Led Zeppelin. That's why I put this right up front and center...who could do it? Only four songs could. And I was so pleased about that.

I expect salt from this. Honey badger don't care. He really doesn't. And here's something else that will salt your fries. Two different people submitted this song. Yup. Honey badger don't care! I'm not ranking the players. I'm ranking the songs. I'll ding the layups later. It's about the song. As I said...I found things I have never heard before. So many wonderful isolated moments that come and go in this song. If you blink you miss em but they build and add and shape. I'm talkin bout Page. Jimmy Page. Acoustic strum. Electric echo. So melodic and pleasant in his playing. So subtle is the bassline that sneaks in. And the drums do their thing. Bonham...not just doing standard rock anything. He sounds strangely like he's banging erasers after school at the beginning then just comes in powerful. Page starts with a cool strum...then places this honky tonk country thing. Then jams in with full electric...then moves into a fantasy weeping guitar then just layers the kitchen sink in. Did I miss someone...Plant...plant...plant....a masterclass in singing. He knows how to build. He knows how to blast. He knows where the rhythm is. He could sing everything in rhythm he don't have to. Honey badger don't care. Stephen Sondheim described Dean Jones' singing on "Being Alive"....he reached points where he blossomed and bloomed, exploding like fireworks...where he could just explode with a line and sing it however it felt and it didn't matter if it strayed from the rhythm...then he would hop back on again and bloom again. Plant does this excellently throughout this. On the first line he does that. Even in the subtle stuff. And later when he explodes. And then the end. Just layers upon layer of plant seemingly extemporizing, scatting...and of course...the ever cool cameo from Gollum, stealing our girlfriend. Meh...you can have her Gollum. That's alright. I got all i need.
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