Greatest Songs by Your Favorite Artists

[Hobbes2702]

No your favorite songs but the songs you feel are their best Lyrically, musically and most important.

Red Hot Chili Peppers - Under the Bridge

Aerosmith - Dream On.

Jimi Hendrix - All Along the Watchtower

Audioslave - Like A Stone

Stone Temple Pilots - Plush

Weezer - Island in the Sun

Stevie Ray Vaughan - Texas Flood

What do you guys think?


Edit: I wasn't sure to what to put for Stevie. Thoughts?

 

[HornGrandioso]

Hmmm. You should expand more, but I think I understand - you want the quintessential band-defining song from our favorite bands?

Led Zeppelin - Trampled Under Foot

Has everything. Sick organ from JPJ, roof-raising vocals and traditional blues-based lyrics (many people argue the lyrics are plagiarized), Jimmy Page crushes the wah pedal and lays down an awesome hook, and Bonham thunders away the whole song. In my opinion the most complete Zeppelin (and arguably rock) song ever penned.

James McMurtry - No More Buffalo

You understand once you hear it.

Willie Nelson - Whiskey River

Too obvious.

Pink Floyd - Echoes

A deep cut, but sonically amazing. A beautiful, beautiful song. My band in high school covered it, but we trimmed it down from 26 minutes to about 10.

Grateful Dead - Jack Straw

Again, I use the word "complete."

Otis Redding - Try a Little Tenderness

Especially the live version(s). Builds and builds until Otis and the band fly full tilt. Great song.

 

[l00p]

I think the Peppers' "American Ghost Dance" is more important and has more to say.

 

[Not Shinola]

The Beatles - Day in the Life

R. E. M. - Losing My Religion

Simon and Garfunkel - America

The Smiths - How Soon is Now

Violent Femmes - American Music

The Cure - Just Like Heaven

Rolling Stones - Sympathy for the Devil

Led Zeppelin - Kashmir

U2 - Where the Streets Have No Name

The Pretenders - Back on the Chain Gang

 

[NRH_Horn]

Radiohead - Creep

Beatles - Across the Universe

Coldplay - Yellow

 

[Hobbes2702]

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[The Muzzler]

Elton John/Bernie Taupin - Funeral For A Friend / Loves Lies Bleeding

 

[mantaray]

Neko Case - Bought and Sold
Pixies - Letter to Memphis
Queen - Bohemian Rhapsody
Smashing Pumpkins - Today
Black Sabbath - Black Sabbath
Van Halen - Mean Street
Roy Orbison - In Dreams

 

[The Eyes of Texas]

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[MAROON]

Bruce Springsteen - Thunder Road

I could have gone Born to Run, but I think TR has the best opening lyrics of any Springsteen song and possibly any song...."the screen doors slams, Mary's dress waves, like a vision she dances across the porch as the radio plays, Roy Orbison singing for the lonely......"

 

[El Torito]

Rush - Tom Sawyer
Led Zeppelin - Over the Hills and Far Away
U2 - I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For

 

[The Eyes of Texas]

for me, U2's defining song/anthem is Sunday Bloody Sunday

 

[SA_Town_Horn]

Led Zeppelin --- When the Levee Breaks

U2 --- Where the Streets Have No Name

Stevie Ray Vaughan --- Pride and Joy

Jimi Hendrix --- Voodoo Child

Pink Floyd --- Us and Them

 

[Steel Shank]

All of mine are right here:

linkage

 

[YoLaDu]

The way i see it. If some one asked you who your favorite band was, what one song would you choose to have them listen to.

Yo La Tengo - Blue Line Swinger
Sonic Youth - Teenage Riot
Dinosaur Jr. - Freakscene
Husker Du - Celebrated Summer
R.E.M. - Radio Free Europe

Yikes, i bet some one could peg my age within 2 years.

 

[vtaenz]

Muse - Dead Star (non-live version)

 

[Rip76]

Rush - I can't possibly choose
Led Zeppelin - The Ocean (just personifies Zeppelin)
Queen - Dead on Time (and everything on the Game)
Beatles - And Your Bird Can Sing & Cry Baby Cry
The Who - Athena
Chicago - Sing a Mean Tune Kid
Fleetwood Mac - Second Hand News/Think About Me
Pearl Jam - In Hiding
AC/DC - Let There Be Rock
Yes - Yours is No Disgrace
Genesis - Down and Out

 

[naked_bongo]

Pearl Jam - Rearviewmirror
Radiohead - Idioteque
OutKast - Rosa Parks
Kanye West - The Wire
Wilco - pot kettle black
Dave Matthews Band - Two Step
Ryan Adams - New York, New York

 

[dallas_the_tiger]

U2~ One
REM ~ Losing My Religion
Pearl Jam ~ Black
Public Enemy ~ Black Steel in the Hour of Chaos
Robert Earl Keen ~ Gringo Honeymoon
Willie ~ Always on my Mind

 

[hullabelew]

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[Statalyzer]

The Band - It Makes No Difference
Delirious? - History Maker
P.O.D. - Portrait
Driver F - You'll Move Mountains, Kid
Alex Dupree and the Trapdoor Band - Guaranteed Wintertime Blues

 

[Hobbes2702]

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[beehorn]

Radiohead - Let Down
The Beatles - She Said She Said
Midlake - Bandits
Wilco - Handshake Drugs
Talking Heads - The Must Be the Place (Naive Melody)
Lyle Lovett - She's No Lady
The Mars Volta - L'Via L'Viaquez

 

[MaduroUTMB]

Karma Police, When the Levee Breaks and Babe I'm Gonna Leave You, Take It To the Limit, Two of Us, Thunderstruck, The Scientist, Lightning Crashes and Turn My Head, Where the Streets Have No Name and Fear.

If you need the artist names then we aren't pretend internet friends any more.

 

[Rip76]

Hullabelew... enjoy....
The Link

that lead at 1:50 wow.

 

[Ahab]

New Order - Ceremony
U2 - Bad
Jerry Jeff Walker - Leavin' Texas

 

[beaVo]

to me.. there's no question that "shine on you crazy diamond" is the one for floyd. musically, and lyrically. it's about syd for cryin out loud!

and for the beatles, it's GOT to be 'strawberry fields' it was written and recorded during the "sgt. pepper era" and it's the perfect example of what many consider the "beatle sound." and george martin was VERY involved in that one, and any true beatle fan knows george martin was, without question, the 5th beatle.

i'd say lyle lovett's tune would be "church"

for those that know of, and care about jellyfish... their tune would have to be "joining a fanclub."

and kajagoogoo's tune is definitely "too shy"

 

[goosehorn]

I Against I - Bad Brains

 

[mr. sunshine]

In My Time of Dying - Led Zeppelin

I read a Jimmy Page interview a few years ago in which he verified that the band could still play serviceable versions of all their songs. Except this one.

 

[Bytor]

u2 Beautiful Day
Rush Xanadu
Pink Floyd Shine on you Crazy Diamond
Guns and Roses Sweet Child o Mine
Talking Heads Once in a Lifetime
Led Zeppelin Whole Lotta Love
AC/DC Back in Black
Men at Work Overkill
Triumph Blinding Light Show/Moonchild
The Killers All these Things I've Done
Genesis Home by the Sea