― Luptune Pitman, Monday, 16 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link
I'm gonna need some time on this one...
― Nick Southall, Monday, 16 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link
― Ned Raggett, Monday, 16 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link
― duane zarakov, Monday, 16 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link
― andy, Monday, 16 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link
When I think about it tho, I always think about the live performance rather than studio recording. Certainly any Who live performance out- rocks their studio work....I'm just glad this was "Best all out rock song" rather than "Best all out rock recording".
― Adam Bruneau, Monday, 16 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link
― Tracer Hand, Monday, 16 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link
"Dont try to reach me cos I'll tear up your mind/I've seen your future and I've left it behind"
― Michael Bourke, Monday, 16 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link
― Momus, Monday, 16 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link
― Arthur, Monday, 16 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link
― Kim, Monday, 16 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link
― Mark M, Monday, 16 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link
― Joe, Tuesday, 17 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link
― Dave M., Tuesday, 17 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link
― duane, Tuesday, 17 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link
― tarden, Tuesday, 17 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link
― Omar, Tuesday, 17 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link
― Sterling Clover, Tuesday, 17 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link
― Jon, Tuesday, 17 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link
― Nick, Tuesday, 17 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link
― Norman Fay, Tuesday, 17 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link
― alex in montreal, Tuesday, 17 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link
― Steven James, Tuesday, 17 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link
― Richard Tunnicliffe, Tuesday, 17 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link
― Andrew Williams, Tuesday, 17 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link
― Nitsuh, Tuesday, 17 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link
― Mike Hanle y, Tuesday, 17 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link
also, as previously mentioned, motorhead, esp. "overkill" and cheap trick's eponymous debut.
― fred solinger, Tuesday, 17 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link
― Larms, Tuesday, 17 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link
My vote has to go to AC/DC's "Back In Black". Mimimal and monolithic, and confident, too. Sure, Lemmy's got the balls to the wall, and Metallica can shred 'em all, and the Stooges are brilliant thugs (at their best), but I can't think of another surly cocksure sumbitch like this song.
No one's mentioned the MC5 yet, either - I find that surprising. Or T-Rex? Wasup with that? Christ, his B-SIDES compilation rocks harder than most A-List albums.
― David Raposa, Tuesday, 17 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link
― Sean, Tuesday, 17 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link
― Adam Bruneau, Tuesday, 17 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link
For runner-ups have to second "Ace of Spades." Also "Surfin' Bird." As much as I love them, Zep don't quite cut it here. They're slower, more reflective (stonier?)
― Mark, Tuesday, 17 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link
― Dan Perry, Tuesday, 17 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link
― aulophobia, Tuesday, 17 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link
just for the use of the word baby.
― doompatrol23@hotmail.com, Tuesday, 17 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link
― Robin Carmody, Tuesday, 17 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link
― gareth, Tuesday, 17 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link
i second "1970" and "highway star." the only original suggestions that come to mind now are "anarchy in the uk" and the birthday party's "hamlet (pow! pow! pow!)."
― sundar subramanian, Tuesday, 17 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link
Kiss me, kiss me, kiss meYour tongue's like poisonSo swollen it fills up my mouthJust love me, love me, love meNail me to the floorAnd push my guts all inside- outGet it out, get it out, get it outGet your fucking voice out of my headNever wanted thisNever wanted any of thisI wish you were deadI wish you were dead
― Jason, Tuesday, 17 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link
― K-reg, Tuesday, 17 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link
I thought very seriously about mentioning Slade, actually.
― Cash Lone, Tuesday, 17 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link
― Kris, Tuesday, 17 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link
― ryan schofield, Tuesday, 17 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link
from when "indie rock" wasn't an oxymoron:
husker du - "eight miles high" (i would of course say this but that doesn't make it less true.)
sonic youth w/ lydia lunch - "death valley '69"
some rap choices:
public enemy - "move"
ll cool j - "mama said knock you out"
nwa - "gangsta gangsta"
i'm actually not sure that classical music belongs in this thread, even sacre du printemps.
― Josh, Wednesday, 18 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link
― Clarke B., Wednesday, 18 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link
― tarden, Wednesday, 18 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 18 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link
― Ally, Wednesday, 18 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link
the headcoatees "i'm happy". dunno which 'tee sings this, but it's brilliant. can't go too wrong with most stuff by thee mighty caesars, either.
stooges' entire first album - not a bad song in the bunch, barring iggy pop's amazingly obvious stupid/brilliant stupid brilliance. blue cheer "parchment farm" electric eels "cyclotron" (and the whole _god says fuck you_ album; the title says it all)
chrome "tv as eyes" amon duul II "archangel's thunderbird" johnny thompson quintet "colour me columbus" the twilighters "nothing can bring me down" (covered, ineffectually, by pussy galore) the dead c "bad politics" fitz of depression's cover of boston's "rock and roll band"
― your null fame, Wednesday, 18 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link
I didn't see anyone mention 'Jumping Jack Flash', for some reason.
But the answer is probably 'The Queen Is Dead'.
― the pinefox, Friday, 20 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link
― keith, Friday, 20 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link
The Undertones: Teenage Kicks
Transvision Vamp: the first half (or first ten seconds) of Baby I don't care (never was there a song so ruined by going on too long)
Beastie Boys: Sabotage
Ash: Burn Baby Burn
Nirvana: Smells Like Teen Spirit
I guess I may be too fond of the quiet-loud-quiet dynamic, which means I'm missing the point of this thread.
― Andrew Farrell, Friday, 20 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link
― 1 1 2 3 5, Saturday, 21 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link
Young Gods 'L'Amourir' (good shout Ned)
Sex Pistols 'Holiday in the Sun'
Spacemen 3 'Revolution'
Black Sabbath 'Paranoid'
VU 'Heard her call my name' (espec. skull splitting solo)
Pil 'Public Image'
― stevo, Saturday, 21 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link
― James Annett, Saturday, 21 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link
Bam de lam
― bc, Sunday, 22 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link
Velvet Underground, "I Heard Her Call My Name"
― Maria, Monday, 23 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link
― Ronno, Tuesday, 24 September 2002 20:51 (twenty-two years ago) link
― Siegbran Hetteson (eofor), Tuesday, 24 September 2002 20:56 (twenty-two years ago) link
I'll go with that one today.
― earlnash, Tuesday, 24 September 2002 21:06 (twenty-two years ago) link
Loud/soft doesn't strike me as very "balls to the wall." But if we're going to consider orchestral music under this topic, Wagner's "Ride of the Valkyries."
And Janet Jackson's "Black Cat" may not be the most rocking-out song of all time, but it would belong on a good C90.
― j.lu (j.lu), Tuesday, 24 September 2002 22:05 (twenty-two years ago) link
― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Tuesday, 24 September 2002 23:57 (twenty-two years ago) link
― Underclocked, Wednesday, 25 September 2002 00:47 (twenty-two years ago) link
― Justyn Dillingham (Justyn Dillingham), Wednesday, 25 September 2002 01:26 (twenty-two years ago) link
― Burr, Wednesday, 25 September 2002 15:59 (twenty-two years ago) link
― kinski (kinski), Wednesday, 25 September 2002 18:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
Modest Mouse - Doin' the Cockroach
hmmmm
― willem (willem), Wednesday, 25 September 2002 19:58 (twenty-two years ago) link
― bib, Thursday, 26 September 2002 21:55 (twenty-two years ago) link
― Colin Meeder (Mert), Friday, 27 September 2002 08:36 (twenty-two years ago) link
There are some stonkers on here already - Stones' Jack Flash and Sabbath's Paranoid.
What about Paperback Writer from the Fab Four.Thunderstruck - AC/DCWham Bam Thank You Mam - Small Faces
― Roger Fascist (Roger Fascist), Friday, 27 September 2002 09:36 (twenty-two years ago) link
― Chris V. (Chris V), Friday, 27 September 2002 16:38 (twenty-two years ago) link
― daria gray, Friday, 27 September 2002 23:31 (twenty-two years ago) link
― Ian SPACK, Friday, 27 September 2002 23:40 (twenty-two years ago) link
Nirvana-- "Dive"
Trail of Dead-- "Mark David Chapman"
El-P-- "Deep Space 9mm."
The Stooges-- "Shake Appeal"
Public Enemy-- "Brothers Gonna Work it Out"
― Brenya, Saturday, 28 September 2002 03:52 (twenty-two years ago) link
love:: ANDY CASSELS AND DAYLAN CASSELS
― andy cassels, Saturday, 10 April 2004 03:06 (twenty years ago) link
Right on!
― latebloomer (latebloomer), Saturday, 10 April 2004 03:10 (twenty years ago) link
― jim wentworth (wench), Saturday, 10 April 2004 04:00 (twenty years ago) link
― Simon H., Saturday, 10 April 2004 04:01 (twenty years ago) link
EVERYBODY SEXAREENO
― eleki-san (eleki-san), Saturday, 10 April 2004 11:02 (twenty years ago) link
― Hayden Nicholls (Pop the Weasel), Saturday, 10 April 2004 13:51 (twenty years ago) link
― Myonga Von Bontee (Myonga Von Bontee), Saturday, 10 April 2004 18:34 (twenty years ago) link
― Lil' Fancy Kpants (The K is Silent) (ex machina), Saturday, 10 April 2004 18:35 (twenty years ago) link
― latebloomer (latebloomer), Sunday, 11 April 2004 02:00 (twenty years ago) link