Greatest Rock Song of All Time
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No doubt... voted most popular song in music history. (Go figure, since it was never a top 40 hit when originally released)
It's not that is wasn't popular, it's just that it wasn't officially released as a single, so it wasn't eligible for the charts. Pretty sure I read somewhere that the band never liked the song despite it being arguably their most well known work. For my money, Rock & Roll is their best song. The late John Bonham at his best, excluding the virtually unknown Moby ****.
Anyone who picks the Beatles ought to be shot, stabbed, poisoned, hung by the neck, have their guts ripped out with a rusty can opener and strung across the highway to be run over by a 100 dripping manure wagons, set their manure-wagon-run-over guts on fire, then roll them back up, stuff them back in your body and sew you up with a rusty pickax for a needle and for thread, a log chain that's been steeping in bat guano for a century and then be left on a desert island for your wounds to fester until you DIE!
Seriously, the Beatles? It can be argued that the Beatles never played rock. If the Beatles came out today would anyone consider them rock? What song of the Beatles' rocks with the possible exception of Back in the U.S.S.R.? The Beatles are easy listening, almost bubble gum, and ballads, not even rock ballads. I wanna hold your hand? Give me a break.
Can you tell I hate the Beatles? It comes from having a sister who played nothing but for 10 long years. Every time, you turned on the radio station there were 10 different Beatles songs playing. No sooner would one stop than another one would start. The Beatles, yeeeech!
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GEEZ! calm down haha
Yeah, some of the beatles songs are straight pop songs.
But several are definatly rock songs and GOOD rock songs
For example:
Helter Skelter
Come Together
Revolution
Most of the white album
More..............
Heard it Through the Grapevine - Marvin Gaye
Sultans of Swing - Dire Straits
Shelter of Your love - Eric Clapton
Whole Lot of Shakin' Goin' On- Jerry Lee Lewis
Great Balls Of Fire
There have been so many great ones
I think Heard it Through the Grapevine is probably my nominee for all time best.
Ummmmmm...don't worry broheme, Nickelback will be putting out plenty of "rock" records for you and your ilk to enjoy for years to come...
Just because the Beatles didn't play hard rock or heavy metal doesn't mean it isn't rock and roll. If you don't think the Beatles played rock and roll, you don't understand too much about where rock and roll came from, or have a really limited definition of it...
I was around when rock was born. I think I know what it is. Rock 'n' roll is a completely different thing. The question was greatest ROCK song ever. The Beatles never played much rock if any; they played rock 'n' roll, if you want to call it that. I still say a lot of their songs would have been considered bubble gum a generation or two later.
Saying the Beatles play rock is the same thing as saying The Captain and Tennille played rock in my book. Why hasn't someone nominated Muskrat Love for greatest rock song ever?
The Beatles definitely played Rock, maybe a different brand of rock than you're into or looking for here, but nonetheless.
