My friends and I have this discussion a lot and I wanted other people's take on it. List as many as you like.


1. Sometimes My Balls Feel Like Tits (Sweep The Leg Johnny)
This song gets more amazing each time I listen to it. Each member of the band moves freely through the song without being tied to a specific part or another instrument. Sometimes they all move together, sometimes they start changing one by one. They also have a great sense of time and polyrhythms. The drummer does a sort of metric modulation in a certain part that makes me shake my head every time.

2. Don Caballero 3
Enough said.

3. Heart Of The Sunrise (Yes)
A little hokey at times and very dated but, still great nonetheless. As soon as the song opens you know it's being played by people who know what they are doing. This song has a number of great parts that move from one to the next flawlessly. They exaggerate this in the end. Where it seems as if the are pulling the names of every part of the song out of a hat and randomly smashing them together. By the end you feel some sense of accomplishment, you have gone from point A to point B.

Starship - we built this city
Huey Lewis & the News - Power of love
Genesis - I cant dance
Phil Collins - Sussisidio
Glenn Fry/Don Henly - smugglers blues, all she wants to do is dance
John Couger Mellencamp - they are all so good I cant pick one
Rod Stewert - all of his work since the mid-70's is so epic!
Eric Clapton - Tears in heaven
Kenny Loggins - footlose
Bon Jovi - Wanted dead or alive
Queensryche - silent lucidity
REM - everybody hurts

Man, Capnreverb is so full of shit....

Everybody knows that if you're going to pick Kenny Loggins,
that "DANGER ZONE" is so much better than "Footloose..."

geez.

You are right.
I stand corrected.
That song is so good that i think my mind tried to erase it to prevent me from plagiarizing it.

Argent: Hold Your Head Up


Absolute perfection, I can't believe you left this one off the list cap'n.

Well, which is better?

Argent - Hold you head up
Edgar Winter - Frankenstein
or that awesome Boston hit tune with that overly long instrumental intro (Piece Of Mind?).

It seems to me that this is not in fact a discussion of the "Greates Rock Song Ever", but instead one of the most over-the-top, campy and/or hokey rock song ever... oh well, either way:

AC/DC- You Shook Me All Night Long
Black Sabbath- Iron Man
Def Leppard- Pour Some Sugar on Me

i know the correct answer. here is it.

mr. blue sky (elo)

"Violence" Mott the Hoople

Larry Bird wrote:

i know the correct answer. here is it.

mr. blue sky (elo)

Did anyone see the Volkswagen commercial that used Mr. Blue Sky?

Forget selling cars; they sold ELO!