Jun
05
Sticky: The Greatest Rock Lyrics of All Time
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Announcing an UnCommon contest. List your top five greatest Rock and Roll Songs of all time (lyrically speaking that is – Sorry Beelzebob that means no La Villa Strangiata) and you may be honored and gifted at the UnCommon Show one year anniversary party. Submit your picks in the comment section for this post for a chance to win or to simply be heard. bon chance
I’ll get you all started:
1. Hallelujah by Leonard Cohen performed by Jeff Buckley (thanks Cleaner)
2. Wish You Were Here by Pink Floyd
3. Won’t Get Fooled Again by The Who
4. Sympathy for the Devil by The Rolling Stones
5. The Sound of Silence by Simon and Garfunkel
With apologies to Led Zeppelin my favorite band and Elton John my favorite songwriter (and apparantly Rush Limbaugh’s too) for not making the top 5.
The Parson
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Ya know, i never read the lyrically speaking part. That would have changed my list quite a bit. I was just thinking of great songs. Queensryche still takes the cake, through in some Judas Priest in there too though since it’s a lyrical thing.
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Red Sector A – Rush
This is not America – David Bowie
Nobody’s Hero – Rush
Suspicious Minds – Elvis Presley
Coming Back to Life – Pink Floyd
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I love you, Tank Girl!! I dun raised ya right, too, great pics!
;^)
Cleaner…
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Wow Dave….. guess I should have asked my Dad for help on this one…. i wasn’t over the age of 2 when any of those were released. I knew I should have went with moldies… I mean oldies
8^)
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(In no particular order..)
- Stairway to Heaven, Zepplin
- Hotel California, Eagles
- I Still Haven’t Found What I’m Looking For, U2
- Comfortably Numb, Floyd
- Blackbird, Beatles
* (alternate track) – Baba O’Reilly, The Who
Brother Stage
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This was definitely a difficult task, but this is what I chose, like it or not, I don’t care, I’m the instrumental type of music lover…
Led Zeppelin – Kashmir
Aerosmith – Sweet Emotion
Pink Floyd – Comfortably Numb
Ben Harper – Ground on Down
Pearl Jam – Jeremy
but why’s it have to be best lyrical songs, we can’t forget Soul Sacrifice or YYZ, I mean come on…Cleaner, you better know who this is or I will be very disappointed in you.
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There have been some good songs selected. Now if only you would play them on the show instead of this terrible hip hop-pity garbage!!!! Here’s my list, though it really is an impossible list. I love so much music, but off the cuff:
Queensryche- Is There Anybody Listening (Great song listen to it)
Rainbow (With Dio of course)- The Wizard
Pantera- No Good/ Attack The Radical
Skynyrd- Tuesday’s Gone
Dire Straits- Sultans of Swing
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This was no easy task, but after much deliberation the Cleaner has spoken, and these are the 5 lyrically greatest rock songs of all time! My picks, with small samples of their greatness so that none may deny:
#1 – Led Zeppelin – Stairway to Heaven
And as we wind on down the road
Our shadows taller than our soul
There walks a lady we all know
Who shines white light and wants to show
How everything still turns to gold
And if you listen very hard
The truth will come to you at last
When all are one and one is all
***To be a rock and not to roll***
#2 – Pink Floyd – Brain Damage
The lunatic is in my head
You raise the blade, you make the change
You re-arrange me ’till I’m sane
You lock the door
And throw away the key
There’s someone in my head but it’s not me.
And if the cloud bursts, thunder in your ear
You shout and no one seems to hear
And if the band you’re in starts playing different tunes
***I’ll see you on the dark side of the moon***
#3 – Bruce Springsteen – Born to Run
In the day we sweat it out in the streets of a runaway American dream
At night we ride through mansions of glory in suicide machines
Sprung from cages out on highway 9,
Chrome wheeled, fuel injected and steppin’ out over the line
Baby this town rips the bones from your back
It’s a death trap, it’s a suicide rap
We gotta get out while were young
***`cause tramps like us, baby we were born to run***
#4 – Hotel California – Eagles
Last thing I remember, I was
Running for the door
I had to find the passage back
To the place I was before
’Relax,’ said the night man,
We are programmed to receive.
***You can checkout any time you like,
But you can never leave!***
#5 Don’t Fear the Reaper – Blue Oyster Cult
Came the last night of sadness
And it was clear she couldn’t go on
Then the door was open and the wind appeared
The candles blew then disappeared
The curtains flew then he appeared…saying don’t be afraid
Come on baby…and she had no fear
And she ran to him…then they started to fly
They looked backward and said goodbye…she had become like they are
She had taken his hand…she had become like they are
***Come on baby…don’t fear the reaper***
Honorable Mention – My Generation – The Who (Because the Parson took the best one!)
People try to put us d-down (Talkin’ ’bout my generation)
Just because we g-g-get around (Talkin’ ’bout my generation)
Things they do look awful c-c-cold (Talkin’ ’bout my generation)
***Yeah, I hope I die before I get old (Talkin’ ’bout my generation)***
This is my generation
***This is my generation, baby***
All can now marvel.
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Top 5 (in no order) R&R Lyrics
1. Nights in White Satin – Moody Blues
2. Pinball Wizard – “Tommy” The Who
3. Colour My World – Chicago
4. While My Guitar Gently Weeps – Frampton
5. Bad to The Bone – George Thorogood
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Heres my 5. In no particular order and mainly judgeing by lyrics. Wasn’t easy.
Foo Fighters- Best of you
Hoobastank- The Reason
Pearl Jam- Black
Alice in Chains- Down in a Hole
Tool- Parabol/Parabola (yea its two songs but really one long one)
DANNY
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American Pie – Don McClean
Cats in the Cradle – Harry Chapin
Bobby McGee – Janis Joplin
Don’t Stop Believing – Journey
Pearl Jam – Alive OR Nirvana – Come As You Are
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Cleaner, Why is it that your posts sound like they were lifted from the villains dialogue of a SpeedRacer script?
Snake Oiler: “My car is going to blow you away Speed; the Mach 5 is an inferior car … and Trixie should wise up and ride with a real driver.”
Speed: “Try drinking Decaf Snake”
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Cleaner … Warriors (click, click) Come out and Play …
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Jethro Tull / Skating away
Well do you ever get the feeling
That the story´s too damn real and in the present tense?
Or that everybody´s on the stage
And it seems like you´re the only person sitting in the audience?
Clancy Brothers/Moonshiner
(Metallica certainly wasnt creative enough to write whiskey in the jar… Whos Molly anyhow?)
I’m a rambler I’m a gambler
I’m a long ways from home.
And if you don’t like me well leave me alone.
I’ll eat when I’m hungry and I’ll drink when I’m dry,
And if moonshine don’t kill me I’ll live till I die.
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Well here goes….
Pantera – Walk
Metallica – Sanitarium
Megadeath – Sweating bullets
Suicidal Tendencies – Institutionalized
Overkill – Toxic waltz
Nope…. no Air Supply, Zeplin, Hendrix, Beatles, Journey,or Joplin.
I like metal, always have always will.
Charlie
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*Ahem* Cleaner, are we still waiting for your list to be posted?
-Katie
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Ok, I am far from knowledgable on the best rock lyrics of *All Time* but here is my contribution to this great post!
Live – I Alone
Metallica – Enter Sandman
Foo Fighters – Monkey Wrench
Superchick – Stand in the Rain
Creed – Hide
* Bonus
Pearl Jam – Black
Everclear – Wonderful
Due to the obvious generational gap here you guys are probably gonna rip my list to shreds but, nevertheless…. I’ll go first for those under 35.
-Katie
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1. Freebird – Lynard Skynard
2. Hotel California – The Eagles
3. Hey Jude – The Beatles
4. Born to be Wild – Steppenwolf
5. Space Oddity (Major Tom) – David Bowie
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Oh, and pardon my dust, Parson, but Leonard Cohen might be somewhat dismayed at your attribution of Jeff Buckley to his seminal masterpiece, but since Cohen is still around (whereas Jeff Buckley isn’t) perhaps you can ask him directly!
Heh!
Oh, I’m going to have fun with you, Brother Burly…!!
Cleaner…
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*Ahem*
Your #1 pick is *hardly* a “Rock” song, my list is going to blow yours away, my friend. I told you I had a distinct advantage over you!
;^)
Cleaner…
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