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  • danger boy
    danger boy Posts: 15,722
    edited March 2010
    Heart - Crazy on You

    the beginning 40 seconds are great classic rock intro
    and the rest of the song is great too
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  • Jstas
    Jstas Posts: 14,842
    edited March 2010
    Soundgarden - Fresh Tendrils
    Expert Moron Extraordinaire

    You're just jealous 'cause the voices don't talk to you!
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  • John30_30
    John30_30 Posts: 1,024
    edited March 2010
    George Grand wrote: »
    Wipeout
    Louie Louie
    96 Tears
    Summertime Blues (Blue Cheer)
    If You Wanna Be Happy For The Rest of Your Life (Jimmy Soul)
    Good Lovin'
    Get Of of My Cloud
    19th Nervous Breakdown
    Dance to the Music

    There ought to be a sub-category of hits that were sung on Ed Sullivan.
    House of the Rising Sun by The Animals.
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  • dfranks
    dfranks Posts: 207
    edited March 2010
    "when the bullet hits the bone"
    "radar love"
    Both by Golden earring.

    Anything by Asia
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  • dl090465
    dl090465 Posts: 212
    edited March 2010
    American Pie
    Show Me The Way
    Hey Jude
    Get Back
    Radar Love
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  • steveinaz
    steveinaz Posts: 19,538
    edited April 2010
    Had to add this one, probably one of the best songs I've ever heard:

    Tears for Fears "Woman in Chains"

    Powerful, incredibly well put together/composed song. If you've never seen the video, take the time to check it out: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QzkK3ZtI9SU
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  • cnoat
    cnoat Posts: 315
    edited April 2010
    Hard to choose just one.
    Stranglehold Ted Nugent
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  • hearingimpared
    hearingimpared Posts: 21,136
    edited April 2010
    steveinaz wrote: »
    Had to add this one, probably one of the best songs I've ever heard:

    Tears for Fears "Woman in Chains"

    Powerful, incredibly well put together/composed song. If you've never seen the video, take the time to check it out: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QzkK3ZtI9SU

    Ya know Steve, my wife turned me onto that song one day because she was going through the bags full of CDs that we hadn't taken out since we moved and she said, "wait until you hear this on your SDAs and that rig," man was she right. It just is so engaging and mesmerizing.:)
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  • george daniel
    george daniel Posts: 12,096
    edited April 2010
    Well I'll chime in with Hendrix's Voodoo Chile--long version
    JC approves....he told me so. (F-1 nut)
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  • hearingimpared
    hearingimpared Posts: 21,136
    edited April 2010
    Carlos Santana - Live at Woodstock, "Jingo," that guitar gives me goosebumps!

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kZhnwAbZm34
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  • rcrook317
    rcrook317 Posts: 280
    edited April 2010
    im lil younger than most on hear but if smells like teen spirit or lithium by nirvana dont get your blood pumpin somethings wrong(or your really old)...jk!
    i discovered music in heyday of the "seattle sound" so those bands still stick w me.

    but love n.young,inxs,v.morrison,sam cooke....lil bit of everything
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  • george daniel
    george daniel Posts: 12,096
    edited April 2010
    hearingimpared wrote: »
    Carlos Santana - Live at Woodstock, "Jingo," that guitar gives me goosebumps!

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kZhnwAbZm34

    Yep-- and how about 10 Years After "I'm goin' Home"

    http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-4325628803664817506#

    Talk about a good "goin home from work on friday" jam
    JC approves....he told me so. (F-1 nut)
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  • hearingimpared
    hearingimpared Posts: 21,136
    edited April 2010
    george daniel wrote: »
    Yep-- and how about 10 Years After "I'm goin' Home"

    http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-4325628803664817506#

    Talk about a good "goin home from work on friday" jam

    Yes indeed George another awesome performance and Alvin Lee's guitar, oh baby. I may have mentioned this early in this thread or in another similar thread. His facial expressions are as priceless as Joe Cocker's.
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  • hearingimpared
    hearingimpared Posts: 21,136
    edited April 2010
    How about this one; John Mayall, Turning Point, "Room to Move" live with a little chica, chica.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=au_2ssij9Xk
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  • camp21178
    camp21178 Posts: 273
    edited April 2010
    I love this post, some great songs listed here. How about Bridge of Sighs by Robin Trower, or a fun song is Spirit in the Sky by Norman Greenbaum. Or anything by the most underrated group of all time, Blue Oyster Cult.
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  • virtualdean
    virtualdean Posts: 286
    edited April 2010
    nooshinjohn wrote: »
    "It's a Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood"

    by Fred Rodgers

    McArthur Park by Donna Summer ranks up with that one.
    Well see if anyone is paying attention..
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  • Erik Tracy
    Erik Tracy Posts: 4,673
    edited April 2010
    Rare Earth's "I Just Want to Celebrate" from the live "In Concert" album.

    It kicks!

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  • Erik Tracy
    Erik Tracy Posts: 4,673
    edited April 2010
    camp21178 wrote: »
    Or anything by the most underrated group of all time, Blue Oyster Cult.

    Red & Black, baby! :D

    H9: If you don't trust what you are hearing, then maybe you need to be less invested in a hobby which all the pleasure comes from listening to music.
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  • dkg999
    dkg999 Posts: 5,647
    edited April 2010
    Taking it back to the womb!

    Rave On - Buddy Holly
    That'll Be the Day - Buddy Holly
    I Walk the Line - Johnny Cash
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  • hearingimpared
    hearingimpared Posts: 21,136
    edited April 2010
    dkg999 wrote: »
    Taking it back to the womb!

    Rave On - Buddy Holly
    That'll Be the Day - Buddy Holly
    I Walk the Line - Johnny Cash

    Don't forget "Ring of Fire" Johnny Cash
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  • greyford1979
    greyford1979 Posts: 749
    edited April 2010
    My dad got my brother and I hooked on Johnny when we were younger:D one of my all time favorite musicians. A song that always gets me going is Highway to Hell AC/DC, gotta crank it every time I hear it:D
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  • camp21178
    camp21178 Posts: 273
    edited April 2010
    Erik Tracy wrote: »
    Rare Earth's "I Just Want to Celebrate" from the live "In Concert" album.

    It kicks!
    It does kick. So does the 23.34 minute version of "Get Ready".
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  • afex
    afex Posts: 3
    edited April 2010
    Bohemian Rhapsody :cool:
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  • FiveORacing
    FiveORacing Posts: 105
    edited April 2010
    WMMR radio in Philly just started a program about 5 minutes ago playing the best voted song of each year starting in 1968. The first year 1968, playing now is Sympathy for the Devil.

    wmmr.com if you want to listen


    1969 Whole lotta love
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  • Erik Tracy
    Erik Tracy Posts: 4,673
    edited April 2010
    camp21178 wrote: »
    It does kick. So does the 23.34 minute version of "Get Ready".

    I had that Concert on cassette tape waaay back.

    I'm gonna have to put that on my short list to find on vinyl or CD.

    Rare Earth is way under appreciated, imo.

    H9: If you don't trust what you are hearing, then maybe you need to be less invested in a hobby which all the pleasure comes from listening to music.
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  • sda2mike
    sda2mike Posts: 3,131
    edited April 2010
    FiveORacing wrote: »
    WMMR radio in Philly just started a program about 5 minutes ago playing the best voted song of each year starting in 1968. The first year 1968, playing now is Sympathy for the Devil.

    wmmr.com if you want to listen


    1969 Whole lotta love

    i used to listed to mmr! i listened mostly to wxpn 88.5...once in a while online for old times sake....www.xpn.org
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  • markmarc
    markmarc Posts: 2,309
    edited April 2010
    Trying to pick just one is futile, way too many great ones. A personal top ten might be doable, but even that would be tough. But here goes in no particular order:

    Baba O'Reilly- The Who
    Stairway to Heaven- Led Zeppelin
    Green Grass and High Tides- The Outlaws
    The Low Spark of High-Heeled Boys- Traffic
    Ride Across The River- Dire Straits
    Ridin' The Storm Out- REO Speedwagon
    Life's Been Good- Joe Walsh
    Needle & The Damage Done- Neil Young
    Where The Streets Have No Name- U2
    Fool's Overture- Supertramp
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  • hearingimpared
    hearingimpared Posts: 21,136
    edited April 2010
    FiveORacing wrote: »
    WMMR radio in Philly just started a program about 5 minutes ago playing the best voted song of each year starting in 1968. The first year 1968, playing now is Sympathy for the Devil.

    wmmr.com if you want to listen


    1969 Whole lotta love

    WMMR was my favorite back in the day. Where you from Bro?

    BTW Yeah Baby!!!! Rare Earth! What a blast from the past!
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  • FiveORacing
    FiveORacing Posts: 105
    edited April 2010
    hearingimpared wrote: »
    WMMR was my favorite back in the day. Where you from Bro?

    BTW Yeah Baby!!!! Rare Earth! What a blast from the past!

    I was a cop in So. Jersey from 1978 till 2004, mostly the overnight shift and listened to them in the squad car all the time. I started listening to WMMR in the summer of 1968 when I was a freshman in High school. Michael Tearson, Earle Bailey, Helen Light. Bailey is on Deep Tracks on XM now, Tearson might be on there too.
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  • hearingimpared
    hearingimpared Posts: 21,136
    edited April 2010
    FiveORacing wrote: »
    I was a cop in So. Jersey from 1978 till 2004, mostly the overnight shift and listened to them in the squad car all the time. I started listening to WMMR in the summer of 1968 when I was a freshman in High school. Michael Tearson, Earle Bailey, Helen Light. Bailey is on Deep Tracks on XM now, Tearson might be on there too.

    Great stuff Bro! Michael Tearson is an oldie but a goodie.
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