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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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I somehow doubt Dylan changed his approach to The Mighty Quinn in response.
Speaking of interesting covers, I’ve been fixated
lately on the Vamilla Fudge version of You Keep Me Hangin’ On.
I’ve seen the same quote from Dylan about altering his arrangement after hearing Hendrix. Below is what he might be referring to – an electric rocking version – looks like it was done in the 90s.
Sort of a hybrid between:
Dylan Original: Quiet, haunting, brooding.
Hendrix Cover: “POCALPYSE COMIN’! LET’S ROCK!!!!
Played that in our rock band during high school. Loved that song!
Their name speaks volumes about the times. For some long-gone reason, I remember anticipating the first album.
They were mobbed up.
Yeah, but in a good way.
Great cover:
Great album! I had a copy back in the day.
It became known as “half-speed covers”.
“Ticket to Ride”, “People Get Ready”, “She’s Not There”, “Bang Bang”, “You Keep Me Hangin’ On”, “Take Me For a Little While”, “Eleanor Rigby”.
Oh, yeah, absolutely.
I like Jimi’s version better too . . .
Invitation declined. I don’t care nearly enough about Dylan to trawl Youtube for an “original” version, spend the time to then compare it with more recent versions to assess which one sounds the most “Hendrix-y”, and then post it. Instead I’ll just stick with what I originally wrote, which I read somewhere in a long piece about Dylan (or maybe it was Hendrix), years ago.
I can’t come up with one rock song that I can definitively say is the best, but this one certainly tops all the turkeys that have been listed so far.
https://youtu.be/hiGYiimpPUA
Turkeys? Feh. Feh, I say.
Too loud.
The power chords put it in the mix, but I prefer the original version by ELO’s earlier incarnation, The Move. And I like ELO.
But some of them are surely jive turkeys, which I’d think would put them back in the running.