OT: Best hard rock song of all time

[rugbysecondrow]

Originally Posted by firerescuefin

Hard Rock will mean different things to different folks....and age will certainly be a factor. This came up on my shuffle today.

Metallica: One

Checks off all the boxes for me. My favorite.

Can I get a witness from the congregation

I will start by saying that all of my favorite Hard Rock songs share a strong opening, which pulls you into the song and forces your head to jam, air guitar to come out, drums on your steering wheel. You don't even know it is happening, it just takes you over. With all of that said, here are my favorites, in my current ranked order:

"One" is a great song, maybe one of the best. The guitar, the drums, the raw emotion. It is gripping. This song has moved me to tears more than once.

"Cult of Personality" Living Colour...just a great song which has the energy to get you head banging from the first note.

"Welcome to the Jungle" When it starts, you know it is going to take you on a ride...roll with it and enjoy it.

"Changes" Black Sabbath...arguably not a Hard Rock song, but I put it here anyway. A great song, it is hard to believe it is 40 years old, as it could have been a hit. Ozzy vocals at their best, IMO.

[Davist]

hmm. From BMX days:

Fugazi Waiting Room

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cMOAXm94VWo

[eddief]

Dust in the Wind
Carry on My Wayward Son

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ob_Iwbd8h4

More Than A Feeling

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SSR6ZzjDZ94

[firerescuefin]

One thing about most of these songs is that they need time to breathe/open up if you're wanting he full experience.

[rugbysecondrow]

Originally Posted by firerescuefin

One thing about most of these songs is that they need time to breathe/open up if you're wanting he full experience.

Amen my man

[Tony Edwards]

Some of my favorites:

Hocus Pocus by Focus - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NGaVUApDVuY

Song for the Deaf by Queens of the Stone Age - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j9zeb5BfpgE

Song for the Dead by Queens of the Stone Age - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HrA2KLtAn1A

Avon by Queens of the Stone Age - (awesome live version with Dave Grohl on drums) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xW2AKkwJb_c

War Pigs by Black Sabbath - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nxgtk_3qwXw

Shortest Straw by Metallica - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7yVodvRpW2M (actually I could count at least 20 songs off their first 4 albums as among my favorites - don't really care for anything after that, though)

Airbag by Radiohead (not sure it really qualifies but it's fun to think of the days when they were a guitar-based band) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NvTNWWL4CW4

Nights in Venice by the Saints (this is really more punk than hard rock, but my God did these guys kick ass - it has always irritated me that everyone knows the Ramones and the Sex Pistols but not their vastly superior contemporaries the Saints) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t7XvE0CWUbA

[beeatnik]

Originally Posted by Davist

hmm. From BMX days:

Fugazi Waiting Room

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cMOAXm94VWo

hahaha...i'm sure young Ian would have been thrilled to be included on a "hard rock" list.

anyway, the obvious is Back in Black

or

You Shook Me All Night Long

[dogdriver]

I won't settle for just one, but will add:

The Real Me, The Who

[martl]

Little known, but rocks: "Meat" by Tony Iommi sung by Skin from "Skunk Anansie"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B_ZlJsFeyy4

[Saint Vitus]

...it's probably children.

The man said hard rock, I'll offer up "Kashmir" only because it's my youth. "Hocus Pocus" is an interesting inclusion to the pantheon of hard rock: Yodeling and fantastic guitar work by a jazz musician.

[mdeeds71]

MOTHER by Danzig '93



"If you wanna find hell with me, I can show you what it's like…till you're bleeding"
(awesome song to listen to on a grinding double digit gradient, double digit km climb…or a screaming fast, tight crit)

[learningtoride]

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[ptourkin]

Any excuse to post this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zfD7agP1yxw

[beeatnik]

Originally Posted by ptourkin

Any excuse to post this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zfD7agP1yxw

hahaha

satan and roids, better for music than for fighting.

[bobswire]

Originally Posted by eddief

In a gadda da vida

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZCkHanF4v1w

I was semi friends with Doug Engle, I was working the Fillmore the first time they played there, they arrived late and didn't have a place to stay or stash there personal gear etc, so I let them use my place to stash their stuff. Anytime they returned Doug and I would bull···· about our lives.
Most (not all) of the rockers I knew were pretty down to earth once they were off stage, even Janice.

I was backstage manager (fancy title for back door man) that's me on the far right. Bill Grahm and staff of the Fillmore 1968.

For me the iconic R&R song is the Stones, Satisfaction, It came out when I was in Vietnam but they wouldn't play it on Armed Forces Radio BUT..we had a record we played over and over and over again. I'm not saying it was the best song,just the one that turned me on.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qXcNQTa3zgs