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My Top 100 Rock songs
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Here it is: My first try at my top 100 rock songs.

I used a couple of criteria: One, that they hold up to the test of time, so nothing on the list is very new. Two, I had to be very familiar with the tunes. Three, it had to feel like a "classic" to me.

As some people know, I have played in a number of cover bands over the years, and a whole bunch of these tunes are ones that we thought about playing at one time or another. And there are a LOT of songs by artists that I love but don't feel like "classics" to me, and might not be known well by a lot of others. Stuff like Cars and Stray Cats and Crowded House are some of my faves but just don't feel like classic tunes. Stuff by Cheap Trick and the BoDeans and a bunch of other midwestern bands are tunes that I will gravitate toward when I'm picking songs to play in a band (and I think Cheap Trick is one of the greatest rock bands around), but again...they don't feel like classics.

So in no particular order and without further ado:
  1. Jumpin' Jack Flash
  2. You Really Got Me
  3. A Hard Day's Night
  4. Paint It Black
  5. I Can't Explain
  6. My Generation
  7. LA Woman
  8. Good Vibrations
  9. Satisfaction
  10. Won't Get Fooled Again
  11. Bang A Gong
  12. Sweet Jane
  13. For Your Love
  14. Maggie May
  15. House of the Rising Sun
  16. All Right Now
  17. White Room
  18. Brown Sugar
  19. Get Back
  20. Hey Jude
  21. Somebody To Love
  22. Pure And Easy
  23. I Fought The Law
  24. I Feel Fine
  25. 96 Tears
  26. Time Of The Season
  27. Something
  28. Oh, Pretty Woman
  29. Summertime Blues
  30. That'll Be The Day
  31. Whole Lotta Love
  32. Sloop John B.
  33. Imagine
  34. Stay With Me
  35. Ohio
  36. We Gotta Get Out Of This Place
  37. Stepping Stone
  38. I'm A Believer
  39. Suffragette City
  40. Turn Turn Turn
  41. Layla
  42. Stairway To Heaven
  43. Smoke On The Water
  44. Rainy Day Women
  45. Get Together
  46. Time Won't Let Me
  47. Maybe I'm Amazed
  48. Band On The Run
  49. What Is Life
  50. A Day In The Life
  51. Whip It
  52. Up On Cripple Creek
  53. White Rabbit
  54. Long Cool Woman
  55. Fortunate Son
  56. Taxman
  57. No Matter What
  58. Statesboro Blues
  59. Summer In The City
  60. All The Young Dudes
  61. Peace Love and Understanding
  62. Hotel California
  63. 25 or 6 to 4
  64. London Calling
  65. Love Is The Drug
  66. Born To Run
  67. Hello I Love You
  68. Vehicle
  69. Black Magic Woman
  70. Low Budget
  71. Feelin' Alright
  72. It's Too Late
  73. The Sounds of Silence
  74. American Woman
  75. Sunshine Superman
  76. Ramblin' Gamblin' Man
  77. It Don't Come Easy
  78. Do You Know What I Mean
  79. Spirit In The Sky
  80. Born To Be Wild
  81. Beat It
  82. Radio Free Europe
  83. Smells Like Teen Spirit
  84. Dream On
  85. Can't Get Enough
  86. Sweet Emotion
  87. School's Out
  88. Piece of My Heart
  89. Sooner or Later
  90. Personality Crisis
  91. Blitzkrieg Bop
  92. What I Like About You
  93. The Letter
  94. Sweet Home Alabama
  95. Rocket Man
  96. Like A Rolling Stone
  97. Gimme Gimme Good Lovin'
  98. Gimme Shelter
  99. Burnin' Down The House
  100. Goodbye Yellow Brick Road
Honorable Mentions go to:
  • Kind of a Drag
  • 19th Nervous Breakdown
  • Little Bit Of Soul
  • Cruel To Be Kind
  • All The Way From Memphis
  • Psycho Killer
  • Honky Tonk Women
  • It's Only Rock and Roll
  • Sunshine Of Your Love
  • Eight Miles High
  • A Well Respected Man
  • Melissa
  • Saturday Night's Alright For Fighting
  • I Can See For Miles and Miles
  • Tangled Up In Blue
  • Incense and Peppermints
  • Crimson and Clover
  • Cecelia
  • Love Me Two Times
  • 5:15
  • Walk This Way
  • I Don't Need No Doctor
  • I Melt With You
And a score of others...I can keep going and going...

One other comment: I left off most of the 50's stuff, like Carl Perkins, Jerry Lee Lewis, Chuck Berry, Fats Domino, Ritchie Valens, and of course, Elvis. If I included these guys, I probably would have had to knock off about 50 of those songs and replace them with stuff like Jailhouse Rock and Blue Suede Shoes and Great Balls of Fire and Blueberry Hill and Johnny B. Goode and...well, you get the picture...

(And even so, I snuck in an Eddie Cochran song and a Buddy Holly song...)

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