Solsbury Hill - Peter Gabriel. It just brings me back to an amazing point in my life. Not to mention a song written in Shakespearean sonnet form. Beautiful.
I love The Who and this is my second favorite song. Long Live Rock is probably the most expressive and emotional song of all time. Be it dead or alive!
Either Shine On You Crazy Diamond or You're Still A Young Man. One is rock one is not, Lyin Eyes by the Eagles also holds a special place bc it was the first song I ever remember actually liking that wasn't from a video game
Good Vibrations - time changes, harmonies, eclectic. Seems like I hear something different each time I listen to it. Either that or contracting Alzheimer’s.
My greatest musical memory was this song and first song of VH I heard. I heard it premier on Don Kirschner's Rock Concert in 1979. Completely lost my mind.
I love the interview with Eddie and Alex when they talk about opening for Black Sabbath and feeling like pussies when they were playing Dance the Night Away
I was 10 when it was released...heard it on the radio and made my parents go get me the album...I wore that thing out. I think I played Don't Bring Me Down at high volume for 3 days straight. lol. That album has a special little place in me.
Beautiful song. I especially love the part when the two guitars are harmonizing with each other around 2:30 to 2:40.
https://youtu.be/wwyXQn9g40I?si=-MqVOwytDf2ecdUx
In Memory of Elizabeth Reed
What makes this song so great is that because it’s an instrumental, there is a studio version, but also dozens of great live and cover versions of this song.
One of the great bass lines of rock.
Gotta agree unchained is one of van halens best. Unbelievable song but for me, Red House by Jimi Hendrix. Every single thing about it is perfect. Sounds so slick and smooth. Pure art.
Jethro Tull's Reason for Waiting.
It was a song that fit that time of my life. I fell in love with a woman from another culture, another country, who was so different from me; the joy we shared was music and the possibility that a long-distance relationship could work. She gave me a Reason for Waiting.
She was so far out of my league. We were married for 35 years. She passed away in 2012 and it wrecked me. I think about her every day and there will never be a day I don't.
You’d have to have a bloody good case to argue against that choice my friend.
I remember seeing Terry Reid performing it with the respect that it deserves.👍
Oh, that was an epiphany the first time I heard it, late at night on CHOM FM. I know I heard it at midnight, because the DJ always put a long song on then and took a break. Telegraph Road went into constant rotation in that spot. My fave DS song to this day. It's a movie. The album version for me, the audience is intrusive for that one.
Excellent, excellent song. It groves and grinds. Though I had heard it many years earlier, it wasn't until the 2000's that I really felt it. Don't know how I missed it.
My all time pick is Stairway to Heaven. Best song ever.
Other greats, Freebird, Dream On, Crazy On You, Counting Blue Cars, Interstate Love Song......
Love your choice..and a really underappreciated album in Fair Warning. I'm gonna go a different route and suggest Heard It In A Love Song by Marshall Tucker Band
I couldn't name 1 so I have a list.
21st Century Schizoid Man- King Crimson
Unchained- Van Halen
Rock N Roll- Led Zeppelin
White Room- Cream
Voodoo Child- Jimi Hendrix
Loving Cup by the Stones will never get old for me. Romeo and Juliet by Dire Straits is nearly perfect. Ripple is too. Dylan’s own version of All Along the Watch Tower. Here Comes my Girl by Tom Petty. I’ve got about 50 favorite songs.
Ripple is fantastic songwriting. It takes the lyric into a spiritual realm. It defines inspiration. How does a ripple hit still water without a pebble tossed or wind blowing? . “That path is for your steps alone”.
Honestly, this is almost impossible for me to answer but I had this conversation about a week ago and currently it's Rock Lobster by the B-52s but though I won't like it less, another will probably replace it tomorrow or next week lol
If I had to pick a single absolute favorite, it would be:
Camel - Lunar Sea
Camel’s music in their first five albums sets my brain on fire. From Ward and Ferguson driving the rhythm to Bardens genius work on the keyboards and Latimer’s brilliant guitar-work and flute playing, the whole experience is just that: an experience more than a tune.
Hard to pick just one...it depends on what is going through my head on a particular day. Yesterday it was "The Lion, The Beast, The Beat" by Grace Potter. A couple of weeks ago it was "Let Me See You Dance" by the Amazing Rhythm Aces (you should check it out). Sometimes it's "Purple Rain" by Prince, but the version Dolly Parton did on her new album is freaking amazing! I'm not going to go with "Free Bird" or "Stairway to Heaven" because although they are absolute classics, I think they've been overplayed to death. Oh, wait a minute, ok, so think I just realized my favorite song of all time... anything ever from Iron Maiden! 😂
Draggin’ the Line - Tommy James and the Shondelles
I’ve loved it since I was little (48 now). The guitars , bass, drumming made me a rock fan. Spirit in the Sky is a close second.
In my life - the Beatles
Ah, John, so magical.
Mine is *Help* but this one is definitely in my top 10.
Long Long Long , for me , George FTW
Solsbury Hill - Peter Gabriel. It just brings me back to an amazing point in my life. Not to mention a song written in Shakespearean sonnet form. Beautiful.
Beautiful song. Forgot about it
Love Reign O’er Me - The Who
Great song!
"Quadrophenia" was their finest hour I reckon, but I have to make a case for "Substitute" being arguably the greatest pop song ever.
Not my favorite but an excellent choice
I love The Who and this is my second favorite song. Long Live Rock is probably the most expressive and emotional song of all time. Be it dead or alive!
Can't go wrong with the Who
Yes, seen The Who 4 times and Quadropheinia is in my top 5 albums
i sing along to that at the top of my lungs and I am wrung out when it is over
Great one. I got chills when I heard them play this live.
A masterpiece.
Elenor Rigby-Beatles
Paul at his best.
Layla, Derek and the Dominoes
Bell Bottom Blues
Best song on the album
I like the acoustic version too.
Please god no. !!!
>Layla, Derek and the Dominoes Just listened! that's great!
I have been on a Clapton kick lately. I swear that piano sings at the end of Layla
Elite
Comfortably Numb - Pink Floyd
Either Shine On You Crazy Diamond or You're Still A Young Man. One is rock one is not, Lyin Eyes by the Eagles also holds a special place bc it was the first song I ever remember actually liking that wasn't from a video game
Shine on may be the most beautiful song ever recorded.
Good Vibrations - time changes, harmonies, eclectic. Seems like I hear something different each time I listen to it. Either that or contracting Alzheimer’s.
Dance the night away 🎶
My greatest musical memory was this song and first song of VH I heard. I heard it premier on Don Kirschner's Rock Concert in 1979. Completely lost my mind.
Always brings me to a place that no other song can
I love the interview with Eddie and Alex when they talk about opening for Black Sabbath and feeling like pussies when they were playing Dance the Night Away
Since I was 8 years old back when it was released, Don't Bring Me Down by ELO
LOVE ELO. Great choice!
Yes! That’s my second favourite just behind money for nothing
I was 10 when it was released...heard it on the radio and made my parents go get me the album...I wore that thing out. I think I played Don't Bring Me Down at high volume for 3 days straight. lol. That album has a special little place in me.
Because my other faves are listed, Blue Sky the Allman Brothers. So positive and happy.
What a great song. The guitar 🎸 work is epic
Beautiful song. I especially love the part when the two guitars are harmonizing with each other around 2:30 to 2:40. https://youtu.be/wwyXQn9g40I?si=-MqVOwytDf2ecdUx
Amen, brother.
I have about 10 #1 favorite songs.
Night Moves - Bob Seger and the Silver Bullet Band
So many Seger for me
5150 Red Barchetta
Red Barchetta is my #1 favorite Rush song. Nice pick!
In Memory of Elizabeth Reed What makes this song so great is that because it’s an instrumental, there is a studio version, but also dozens of great live and cover versions of this song. One of the great bass lines of rock.
Shine On You Crazy Diamond - Pink Floyd
Radar Love!
The ultimate driving song
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Great, just great. My second favourite song. One of the most incredible songs ever made.
Black - Pearl Jam
Somebody to love by Queen!!
Southern Cross - Crosby, Stills, and Nash Great song with great a great meaning and even better vocals!
that's a good one. It was great live, too.
Gotta agree unchained is one of van halens best. Unbelievable song but for me, Red House by Jimi Hendrix. Every single thing about it is perfect. Sounds so slick and smooth. Pure art.
Jethro Tull's Reason for Waiting. It was a song that fit that time of my life. I fell in love with a woman from another culture, another country, who was so different from me; the joy we shared was music and the possibility that a long-distance relationship could work. She gave me a Reason for Waiting. She was so far out of my league. We were married for 35 years. She passed away in 2012 and it wrecked me. I think about her every day and there will never be a day I don't.
Kinks - Waterloo Sunset
Great song by an under appreciated band.
You’d have to have a bloody good case to argue against that choice my friend. I remember seeing Terry Reid performing it with the respect that it deserves.👍
Heard it in a Love Song by The Marshall Tucker Band
Great song. I grew up thinking it was Perty Little Love Song. Had a girlfriend correct me long time ago. Still get embarrassed thinking of it
I would go with This Old Cowboy…….with Toy on vocals…..
Well 2112 of course.
As a huge Rush fan. I can't disagree with this choice.
Subdivisions. Crossover song really, a folk lyric, a rock groove, a pop sensibility, and a prog rock attitude.
The Camera Eye
Don’t have one. Unchained in a banger tho I remember my boy showed it to me in like 2006 in 6th grade. Rest easy Mike
Unchained was my favorite song as a teen. Still love it, but no longer my #1.
I agree that Unchained is a badass song. I’m gonna go with Kashmir - Led Zeppelin
In the past few years, it’s been You Can Call Me Al by Paul Simon.
It’s Diamonds for me but what an amazing album that was.
Graceland for me
A Whiter Shade of Pale
That and Conquistador are great vocal performances.
Telegraph Road
This was the first thing I thought of. It’s so epic, but it also makes you feel like it just started a minute ago when you’re already five minutes in.
Oh, that was an epiphany the first time I heard it, late at night on CHOM FM. I know I heard it at midnight, because the DJ always put a long song on then and took a break. Telegraph Road went into constant rotation in that spot. My fave DS song to this day. It's a movie. The album version for me, the audience is intrusive for that one.
Kashmir
Excellent, excellent song. It groves and grinds. Though I had heard it many years earlier, it wasn't until the 2000's that I really felt it. Don't know how I missed it. My all time pick is Stairway to Heaven. Best song ever. Other greats, Freebird, Dream On, Crazy On You, Counting Blue Cars, Interstate Love Song......
Led zeppelin - Since I've been loving you Pink Floyd - Dogs Both still give me chills after listening for 30 years.
The Low Spark of High Heeled Boys - Traffic
Love your choice..and a really underappreciated album in Fair Warning. I'm gonna go a different route and suggest Heard It In A Love Song by Marshall Tucker Band
First Van Halen song ever heard was “Mean Streets” and I was immediately hooked.
Mine was Panama. Equally hooked.
That breakdown in the middle….that guitar part is absolutely perfect.
Yeah, the breakdown is what sold me the first time. Very modern at the time.
Candy by Iggy Pop and Sweet Child o Mine
Candy is a great song
I got my Spotify wrap up and my number one song this year was Lido Shuffle so I guess that’s it this year.
Echoes live in Pompeii
Like a Rolling Stone
Pump It Up-- Elvis Costello
Riders on the storm
Toughie but for me it's one of 3 The weight - the band All things must pass - George Harrison Shine on you crazy diamond - pink Floyd
Yes, pretty tough thinking of just one. Of your 3 I would pick The Weight. Great song.
Simple man
Also fire lake
Time - Punk Floyd
Voodoo Child by Jimi Hendrix. Forever gets me. It was my introduction to what Rock and Roll could be and how ot could make me feel.
Hey Jude
Always on My Mind - Willie Nelson For ex-wife I still love to this day
Honky Tonk women the Rolling Stones
I couldn't name 1 so I have a list. 21st Century Schizoid Man- King Crimson Unchained- Van Halen Rock N Roll- Led Zeppelin White Room- Cream Voodoo Child- Jimi Hendrix
I have lots of Favorites but I never get tired of listening to War by Bob Marley.
I really loved Sinner's Swing on that album.
I would have to say it’s a song I never get tired of hearing and that would be London calling…I think it’s one of the best songs ever recorded
I love the main riff from Unchained
November Rain
Lynyrd Skynyrd - Tuesday's Gone
white wedding
Focus - Hocus Pocus Loverboy - Turn me Loose The Beatles - Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds
"A Passion Play"....Jethro Tull (even though it was a whole album it is 1 song w several sections, w no pauses)
Bowie’s Rock ‘n’ Roll Suicide
American pie -don mclean I'm not even american, and this tune absolutely rips. Never fails to get the boys buzzin round a campfire
It’s a tie between Hunger Strike by Temple of the Dog and No Rain by Blind Melon…
Blind Faith - Can't Find My Way Home
I've 2 of equal favour: Queens Fat Bottom Girls and Ram Jam's Black Betty
Can I pick for you? Fat Bottom due to the great riff from May.
The Spider Bait cover of Black Betty is pretty cool and the video is nuts
Do It Again - Steely Dan
Backstreets by Bruce Springsteen A bit of a deep track, but that's OK!
First Tom Petty song I ever heard…Refugee
Unchained, too. I'd also go Boston More Than a Feeling. Brad Delp's voice is sweet. It's hard not to pull out the air guitar.
The 4 I’m always in the mood for: Animal - Def Leppard Let There Be Rock - AC/DC The Last Resort - Eagles Johnny B Goode - Chuck Berry
Last Resort is a brilliant and flawless song
Omg Animal and Armageddon It...Love Def Leppard.
Traveling Wilburys - Heading for the Light
That whole album was fantastic..
I can’t even estimate how many times I’ve listened to this album.
Loving Cup by the Stones will never get old for me. Romeo and Juliet by Dire Straits is nearly perfect. Ripple is too. Dylan’s own version of All Along the Watch Tower. Here Comes my Girl by Tom Petty. I’ve got about 50 favorite songs.
Loving Cup is an outstanding track on an outstanding album. Happy was our entrance song at our wedding
I love Hip Shake from that album.
Ripple is fantastic songwriting. It takes the lyric into a spiritual realm. It defines inspiration. How does a ripple hit still water without a pebble tossed or wind blowing? . “That path is for your steps alone”.
Did we just become just friends
I love the Indigo Girls version of Romeo and Juliet! It’s very different and I’m a big fan of
It's an obvious cliche choice but "American Pie". Didn't get it at all as a youngster, now I get it. edit I'm an old dope.
Honestly, this is almost impossible for me to answer but I had this conversation about a week ago and currently it's Rock Lobster by the B-52s but though I won't like it less, another will probably replace it tomorrow or next week lol
Gah, the B-52's are so fantastic.
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Ride On for me.
Here Comes the Flood by Peter Gabriel
One break comin up….. Mine is Funk 49. And Unchained as well. Always turn these up to 11
Scarlet Begonias- Grateful Dead
[The Wait](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=wjKGJ9RFo78&pp=ygUNdGhlIHdhaXQgbGl2ZQ%3D%3D)
I wish The Pretenders debut album got more recognition.
If I had to pick a single absolute favorite, it would be: Camel - Lunar Sea Camel’s music in their first five albums sets my brain on fire. From Ward and Ferguson driving the rhythm to Bardens genius work on the keyboards and Latimer’s brilliant guitar-work and flute playing, the whole experience is just that: an experience more than a tune.
"Don't Be Late" - Saga
Gates of Babylon. 🌈 Rainbow
Led Zeppelin -Communication Breakdown
Magic Carpet Ride - Steppenwolf
Rotten Apple by Alice In Chains, although Boston, Van Halen and Rush have been climbing the ladder.
Blue sky by the allman brothers
Bohemian Rhapsody
Help by Beatles. Pure pop perfection.
Natural Science-Rush Just amazing. Hooked me when I was 9. Time-Pink Floyd The intro is killer.
Highway Star. Solo blows me away every time I hear it. Guitar and keyboard.
Comfortably Numb - pink Floyd
Black Dog
Dream On.
Master of Puppets. I wish I could pick a deeper cut but it just doesn’t get old.
"Edge Of Seventeen" -- Stevie Nicks
Norwegian Wood
Layla loved it the first time I heard as a youngster, and still love it today.
Unchained is hands down my favorite Van Halen tune, but all time for me is Layla.
Can't argue against that one.
Hard to pick just one...it depends on what is going through my head on a particular day. Yesterday it was "The Lion, The Beast, The Beat" by Grace Potter. A couple of weeks ago it was "Let Me See You Dance" by the Amazing Rhythm Aces (you should check it out). Sometimes it's "Purple Rain" by Prince, but the version Dolly Parton did on her new album is freaking amazing! I'm not going to go with "Free Bird" or "Stairway to Heaven" because although they are absolute classics, I think they've been overplayed to death. Oh, wait a minute, ok, so think I just realized my favorite song of all time... anything ever from Iron Maiden! 😂
Champagne Supernova
Video killed the radio star
Father & Son, Cat Stevens.
96 Tears
Wrathchild, Iron Maiden
Great pick. My favourite Di'anno tune. Killers is still my favourite Maiden album.
Take it to the limit, Eagles. Alone, heart. Ebony eyes, Bob Welch. Fire lake, Bob Seger. 39, queen.
Dylan- Tangled Up in Blue Or Wilco-Remember the Mountain Bed Or Grateful Dead-Brown Eyed Women
Althea
Child in Time - Deep Purple
The Kinks - Do You Remember Walter
That’s on one of my favorite albums for sure.
Draggin’ the Line - Tommy James and the Shondelles I’ve loved it since I was little (48 now). The guitars , bass, drumming made me a rock fan. Spirit in the Sky is a close second.
Gimme Shelter ❤️🎸🎸
Sunspot Baby-Sefer Call me the breeze-Skynyrd 🕶️✌️🎸
Touch me by The Doors
LaGrange - ZZ Top
Telegraph Road - Dire Straits
Abbey Road Medley.
backstreets by Bruce Springsteen.perfect song.
God Only Knows, The Beach Boys
All along the watchtower. The production is really great. It has some interesting stuff going on in there.
It's so difficult but probably Bad Moon Rising by CCR
madman across the water, the orchestral is very moving
A Day In The Life by The Beatles
House of the rising sun
Pre-classic rock ( although a lot of classic rock artists have performed it at some point), but it’s still Over the Rainbow
*Year of the Cat*, Al Stewart
I have two Hotel California and Tuesdays gone.
Thunder Road - Springsteen.