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Best Rock Song Ever
Fred Cole (@fredcole) thinks the best rock song is “White Room” by Cream for some reason. Jon Gabriel (@jon) said he’d only ever heard The KLF song titled “White Room.” I listened to both and now I want to go BASE jumping without a parachute.
I say “Unforgiven” by Metallica is much better, although it’s not even necessarily my favorite Metallica song (“Whiskey in the Jar” is high on my list). You see, Fred and I obviously have a difference in opinion when it comes to music. He seems like easy listening soft rock, while I prefer to listen to good music.
What do you think is the best rock song ever? Or, at least, share one of your favorites. And don’t forget to casually insult anyone who disagrees with you. That’s the fun part of asserting one’s own subjective preferences as being objectively true.
“White Room” by Cream (😴):
“Unforgiven” by Metallica:
Another favorite of mine is “Cochise” by Audioslave:
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Led Zeppelin Kashmir.
Yep.
I’m not even sure Kashmir would be on a list of the top 10 zeppelin songs.
“Joy to the World “ by Three Dog Night.
Fred made a good choice, but there are far too many to come up with a numero uno.
I’ll submit “Behind Blue Eyes” by The Who.
But the best Metallica song by far is “Sad But True” . . .
Afternoon Max(too young to know squat about rock)
Start with Bo Diddley “Who do you Love”
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=MAGoqMZRLB4
yea, I am so old I don’t even know how to make the picture appear, and no don’t teach me
or; Chuch Berry “Roll over Beethoven” live from Paris dig the audience
and the logical result that has its hooks in me Quicksilver’s “Who do you love suite”
FYI, every song on Master of Puppets is better than Whiskey in a Jaro. lol I love Metallica but I can’t stand that one.
This is a disqualifying statement
Now if you want to talk greatest Rock album of all time, it’s clearly Meatloaf’s Bat Out Of Hell. On this there can be no debate.
An excellent choice. If “Paradise By the Dashboard Light” isn’t the best song about teenage guys dating, I don’t know what is . . .
I’d have to go with “Subhuman”, by Throbbing Gristle:
It’s up there. Gets the length should-be-requirement about right.
Too gay.
Or maybe “Philosophy Of the World” by The Shaggs:
Pssst – you forgot to insult someone.
Metallica without Cliff Burton is basically a Disney remake of a speed metal band.
The best rock song is one that you losers have never heard of. I’d link to it but it’s just that rare. Plus I don’t want you to sully it with your inability to appreciate genius.
BE CORDIAL
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I think an examination of homoerotic subtext in Meat Loaf’s earlier work, particularly the emphasis Mr. Fawlty places on the over-abundance of that subtextual reading (indeed; even meta-reading), informs not only this discussion but also our lives with a requisite amount of cordiality or, failing that, acts as a respectable epistemological excursion certainly appropriate to this site.
One concluding paragraph and you’ve got a dissertation.
I was going to say much the same thing.
Dissertation? You’ve got a new academic discipline!
Live version of “Midnight Rambler” – Rolling Stones.
End of Thread.