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01-29-2012 , 04:37 PM

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while it probably isn't considered top 15, can we all agree that The Weight by The Band is a ****in awesome song?

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01-29-2012 , 04:38 PM

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wtf @ The Rolling Stones being "borderline" for classic rock, CQ. lol

Also whoever said D2 of Physical Graffiti is "meh" is an idiot.

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01-29-2012 , 04:38 PM

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01-29-2012 , 04:39 PM

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There's always some dickhead who thinks Stairway sucks so let him just come out of the woodwork now plz thx.

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01-29-2012 , 04:42 PM

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There's always some dickhead who thinks Stairway sucks so let him just come out of the woodwork now plz thx.

http://forumserver.twoplustwo.com/sh...4&postcount=43

I disagree fwiw. Stairway is my top pick

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01-29-2012 , 04:43 PM

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Sly,

1 Stairway
2 Hey Jude
3 Won't Get Fooled Again
4 Freebird
5 Another Brick in the Wall
6 Satisfaction
7 Layla
8 Light My Fire
9 All Along the Watchtower
10 Bohemian Rhapsody
11 Baba O'Reilly

Your list has been the standard (more or less) since they started the countdowns like 20 years ago. Considering that classic rock is more or less done, it will not change much. I guess a case for some U2 or GNR, , and some pre-beatles stuff can be considered. NOt to mention Sympathy for the Devil and Gimmee shelter can be in the top 10 easily. Fwiw I love the list, but not a Boehmian fan and never understood why it is up so far.

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01-29-2012 , 04:44 PM

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Originally Posted by Clare Quilty

Stairway
Like a Rolling Stone
Satisfaction
Baba O'Riley
Bohemian Rhapsody

Is pretty definitive. Not my favorite songs, but probably the songs you would play for an alien trying to get up to speed on CR. The Rolling Stones are borderline, b/c they overlap that oldies/pop category that the Beatles are probably in. If the Beatles are CR, then sub Hey Jude in for Bohemian Rhapsody, and Hendrix (Purple Haze? Watchtower?) probably deserves a six man vote.

That said this is a good short list. I think the Rock and Roll HOF's top 10 list was:

Stairway
Yesterday
Satisfaction
Like a Rolling Stone
Won't Get Fooled Again
Johnny B Goode
Purple Haze
Imagine
Light My Fire

and I forget.

Oh, Layla too.

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01-29-2012 , 04:45 PM

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Istewart,

I think they qualify, but iirc it's been debated in these threads before. a purist definition of classic rock might arguably start in the late sixties and be slanted more toward heavier rock. the same rationale people have for excluding the beatles could be used to exclude the stones, or at least their earlier songs

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01-29-2012 , 04:48 PM

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That said, when I was in NJ and listened to Q104.3 all the time, songs like White Room, Baba O'Reilly, Money, American Pie, Fortunate Son, Gimme Shelter, and Free Bird were some of the ones that got tons of plays. And Knights in White Satin ldo.

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01-29-2012 , 04:55 PM

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Sure I agree w/ that. If you group out sixties pop I think you could make an argument for throwing out Get Off My Cloud and Under My Thumb (I wouldn't agree). But imo stuff like Gimme Shelter, Sympathy for the Devil, Brown Sugar is like the backbone of the genre.

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01-29-2012 , 05:09 PM

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http://forumserver.twoplustwo.com/34...sults-1030248/

How did this take 42 posts? Are we srsly doing this all over again?

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01-29-2012 , 11:31 PM

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Hendrix - hey joe
Stones - satisfaction
Dylan - like a rollin stone
Beatles - sgt pepper
Doors light my fire

Oops - 1st one I thought of when I saw the thread was hotel California so that instead of the doors

Mine would have none of the above.

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01-29-2012 , 11:37 PM

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Originally Posted by Clare Quilty

I wouldn't really want to try to make a list, but since I saw this quoted....

I'd definitely put the Hendrix version of Watchtower up instead of Bohemian Rhapsody. Bohemian Rhapsody and Queen are great and all, but if you've got to show those aliens CR, Hendrix is way more important. (Like a Rolling Stone is the Dylan, not Hendrix version ofc.)

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01-29-2012 , 11:44 PM

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Name the time and place bro, cause BH is THE WORST SONG OF ALL ****IN' TIME on my list. It is absolutely god-awful.

What you mean you rate 'we will rock you higher?' (including all of its pop culture fall out)

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01-29-2012 , 11:47 PM

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I'm pretty disappointed that I have yet to see Cream's Sunshine of Your Love, but maybe I'm just doing it wrong (but I don't think so).

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01-30-2012 , 12:32 AM

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I'm pretty disappointed that I have yet to see Cream's Sunshine of Your Love, but maybe I'm just doing it wrong (but I don't think so).

if sunshine of your love is wrong i dont want to be right

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01-30-2012 , 12:36 AM

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Disappointed at the scarcity of Eagles tunes itt

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01-30-2012 , 12:40 AM

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Disappointed at the scarcity of Eagles tunes itt

hey, take it easy.

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01-30-2012 , 04:46 AM

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What you mean you rate 'we will rock you higher?' (including all of its pop culture fall out)

Just to clarify: I hate all Queen songs equally – some just more than others. Like Bohemian Rhapsody.

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01-30-2012 , 04:47 AM

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Disappointed at the scarcity of Eagles tunes itt

That's cause Eagles isn't really rock – it's more like mushy-pop.

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01-30-2012 , 05:42 AM

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01-31-2012 , 01:23 AM

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just was driving home, Don't Stop Believing came on the radio, then I had massive amounts of trouble parallel parking, felt like Meadow Soprano

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01-31-2012 , 01:27 AM

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I could listen to the solo in Free Bird on repeat for 4 billion years and still have no idea wtf is going on or why the hell it's so amazing, but my god. #1 on my list.

Does Metallica count as classic rock these days? Also, are we going on "best" song, or most popular?