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November 10, 2004

The Ultimate Rock Song

Yeah, well, ten thousand bloggers have asked you what the best rock albums are. And all the answers are always wrong.

An alien space-craft just landed outside my house and the five-legged leader approached me and asked me to explain what this "rock and roll" is.

If I had to pick one single song that summed-up rock and roll, it would be the song I've just been blasting in my ears over and over for the past half-hour: ZZ Top's La Grange. Period. If your feet don't start dancing to that, your legs break.

Posted by Jeff Soyer at November 10, 2004 07:46 PM
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Here's my quick list of dance-inducing rock songs:

Bachman-Turner Overdrive: Taking Care of Business
Boston: Rock 'n Roll Band
Cars: Shake It Up
Creedence Clearwater Revival: Travelin' Band
Foreigner: Double Vision
Grass Roots: Temptation Eyes
Heart: Barracuda
Led Zeppelin: Rock & Roll
Loverboy: Hot Girls in Love
Sugarloaf: Green-Eyed Lady
Elton John: Saturday Night's Alright for Fighting

Posted by: Greg at November 10, 2004 09:10 PM

La Grange...Oh yeah.

Posted by: Tina at November 10, 2004 09:34 PM

Never heard of it! Does that make me uncultured?

But I love most of Greg's list.

Posted by: Jay Solo at November 11, 2004 10:53 AM

I rather prefer 'Give it Up' or 'Doubleback' to 'La Grange.' But I do agree that 'La Grange' is a dang fine tune.

Other good rock (real rock. not metal, punk, rap-rock or any of those other bastardized hybrids. Just classic, blues-based rock) in no particular order:

We Gotta Get Out of this Place by the Animals
Berneice by Lynrd Skynrd
Play it Loud by Kiss
We Will Rock You by Queen
Slow Ride by Fog Hat
Gun Love by ZZTop (How could you resist?)
Smoke on the Water by Purple Haze
Lucretia MacEvil by Blood Sweat and Tears
Cyclops Rock by They Might Be Giants
Revolution by The Beatles

Posted by: The other Greg at November 11, 2004 11:32 AM

La Grange is my favorite ZZ Top song.
Freebird by Skynyrd
American Woman by the Guess Who
Rock and Roll All Night by Kiss
Bad Company by Bad Company
Kashmir by Led Zeppelin (not that it's a real dance song, unless you're stoned)

Posted by: caltechgirl at November 12, 2004 02:37 PM

Enter Sandman. Period!

Posted by: Miller's Time at November 12, 2004 05:08 PM

You young whipper-snappers make me sick... Sick of being old...

Posted by: Jeff Soyer at November 12, 2004 06:47 PM

How about old school rock?

Rave On by Buddy Holly and the Crickets
Johnny B. Goode by Chuck Berry
Great Balls of Fire by Jerry Lee Lewis
A Hard Day's Night by The Beatles


Then, more recently and eclectically...

The Stranger by Billy Joel
Anything, Anything by Dramarama
Underwater by Mary's Danish
I Will Dare by Replacements
It's the End of the World as We Know It by REM

Posted by: Ian Hamet at November 12, 2004 06:56 PM

Here's five of the greatest rock n' roll songs I know of:

"Voodoo Child" by the Jimi Hendrix Experience
"Sympathy for the Devil" by the Rolling Stones
"Old Brown Shoe" by the Beatles
"Smells Like Teen Spirit" by Nirvana

and

"Fortunate Son" by CCR

Posted by: Toby Petzold at November 12, 2004 08:49 PM

Speaking of "old school", Ian, how about Ike & Tina Turners' Proud Mary?

Posted by: Jeff Soyer at November 13, 2004 07:23 AM

Where did Jeff Beck go,or the Pretenders,or any version of Little Wing ?
Who will speak for the Who ? Who ?
I Can See For Miles, best starting chords of all !

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