The best rock song of all time

[CarolinaNCSU]

Something from Led Zeppelin, or the Stones, or even the already mentioned Bohemian Rhapsody would be my answer.

[TheRumGone]

without a doubt in my mind.

 

 

[stankowalski]

10 hours ago, The NFL Shield At Midfield said:

GNR punched glam in the nuts and then nirvana kicked it in the face.

what's interesting is that if you look at bands like ratt, poison, and everyone else on down they didn't have huge teased up hair and weren't really wearing a ton of makeup anymore by the late 80s.  they were wearing leather jackets and torn up jeans and other fake tough guy stuff to try and look like axl rose and slash.  that and bands like megadeth and metallica were starting to get mainstream exposure.  that genre really might have just died on its own eventually.

i mean seriously this is poison in 1990:

 

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now who could bret michaels possibly be trying to look like

Yeah I remember when G'N'R came out and I was blown away by how much different it sounded than all the other rock bands at the time.  Almost as different as Nirvana sounded. 

For the record G'N'R would probably have been my second choice with Welcome to the Jungle.

[TheRumGone]

Idk I always thought slash was overrated. And I know that sounds ridiculous because i get why people put him up as top ten players of all time or whatever but I always felt like something was missing in his playing. Almost like it lacked that oomph feeling or something I can't quite put a finger on. Music is so subjective.

Like that stones song I just posted. I get so much feeling from Keith's guitar playing it's hard to put into words. Just tastes I guess.

 

[TheRumGone]

fug it

 

 

 

[stratopanther]

I'll go with Sultans of Swing. I love Knopflers playing and the lyrics are cool as hell.

[Jangler]

Yeah, I was a Zep head before I was a deadhead, and would consider Led Zeppelin the best rock band of all. Even over The Rolling Stones, the band where I got my name. My favorite Zep song is Tangerine, and then this

 

[Jangler]

Can you find my name?

 

[The NFL Shield At Midfield]

9 hours ago, TheRumGone said:

Idk I always thought slash was overrated. And I know that sounds ridiculous because i get why people put him up as top ten players of all time or whatever but I always felt like something was missing in his playing. Almost like it lacked that oomph feeling or something I can't quite put a finger on. Music is so subjective.

Like that stones song I just posted. I get so much feeling from Keith's guitar playing it's hard to put into words. Just tastes I guess.

 

yeah he's pretty much a pentatonic noodler

looking at the context though i can understand it.  that was a pretty radical throwback considering where things had been going by the mid 80s though.  he played a les paul at a time when the hot thing was to play at a million miles per hour on ridiculous looking pointy 24-fret guitars with floyd rose systems.  it plateaued with michael angelo batio and  if you want to see something awe inspiringly ridiculous you can still find some of his instructional videos on youtube. 

[Raskle]

For about 8 years, there wasn't a single concert a person could attend where this wasn't playing before the show. That alone should be enough to tell you that this is the greatest rock song of all time. But if not, just the way it all flows together is amazing.. don't even care if it's been overplayed to hell and back - still just a terrific song:

 

[Bronn]

so a few Zeppelin's in and nobody's nailed the best one?
 

 

honorable mention

 

as much as I hate the Nuge today...

 

[Bronn]

11 hours ago, TheRumGone said:

fug it

 

 

 

come on man... I'm as metal as anyone, but if you're going to pick a Pantera song, it has to be something earlier than that album...

This sounds off in my head pretty much every time the Panthers score a touchdown... dunno why but that riff tho

 

 

[Anybodyhome]

5 hours ago, Jangler said:

Can you find my name?

 

I had a music appreciation class in 8th grade and this was the very song I spoke 20 minutes about lyrical interpretation. I was a bit over my skis, but it blew everyone's mind in the class.... including the teacher. 

[Anybodyhome]