It's another one of those threads.
I'm making a list, because I do that with songs. I'm looking for rock songs that ... sound archetypal. Rock songs like "Twist and Shout." but they don't have to *be* archetypal Just seem to... access the core ideals and sound of rock.
Songs with more than 4 chords are suspect, so while "Surfing with the Alien" kicks some major bootay, it's not really got an "archetypal" sound to it.
I'm not sure how to describe it, so here are some examples:
Rush
The Spirit of Radio
Freewill
Tom Sawyer
Led Zeppelin
Stairway to Heaven
Rock and Roll
Black Dog
The Ramones
I Wanna Be Sedated
Rock and Roll High School
Sheena is a Punk Rocker
Teenage Lobotomy
The Kinks
All Day and All of the Night
You Really Got Me
I Need You
I'm Not Like Everybody Else (pretty much the proto-punk song)
The Beatles
Twist and Shout
While My Guitar Gently Weeps
The Dandy Warhols
Not if You Were the Last Junkie on Earth
Bohemian Like You
Fountains of Wayne
Stacy's Mom
The Who
I Can See for Miles and Miles
Teenage Wasteland
Reign O'er Me
Pinball Wizard
Nine Inch Nails
Head Like a Hole
The Hand that Feeds
Rob Zombie
Dragula
Chuck Berry
Johnny B. Good
Roll Over Beethoven
The Refreshments
Banditos
Wanted
The Birds Sing
Broken Record
Fastball
You're an Ocean
Toad the Wet Sprocket
Hey Bulldog (yeah, I know it's a Beatles song, but I think Toad did it better -- one of those rare instances)
Jimi Hendrix
All Along the Watchtower (after all, who would disagree that this remake doesn't rock harder?)
Guns 'n' Roses
Paradise City
Welcome to the Jungle
Sweet Child o' Mine
The Yardbirds
Sunshine of Your Love (actually, I think I would pick the recording Clapton did in concert on One More Car, One More Rider)
Cream
White Room
Crossroads
Derek and the Dominoes
Layla
Credence Clearwater Revival
Down on the Corner
Fortunate Son
Born on a Bayou
Sugarcult
Stuck in America
Green Day
Basket Case
KISS
Rock and Roll All Night
Van Halen
Best of Both Worlds
Panama
Right Now
Running with the Devil
AC/DC
You Shook Me All Night Long
Highway to Hell
Buddy Holly
Peggy Sue
Weezer
Buddy Holly
The Police
Next To You
Jefferson Airplane
Don't you want Somebody to Love
Metallica
Hero of the Day
Blue Cheer
Summertime Blues
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The Stray Cats
Stray Cat Strut
Queen
We are the Champions/We will Rock You
Foreigner
Juke Box Hero
Bob Dylan
Trouble
Deep Purple
Smoke on the Water
Iron BUtterfly
In-a-Gadda-Da-Vida
Joan Jett and the Black Hearts
I Love Rock and Roll
Lynyrd Skynyrd
Freebird
The Mighty Mighty Bosstones
The Rascal King
So Sad to Say
The Impression that I Get
The Ataris
Your Boyfriend Sucks
ZZ Top
Legs
Sharp Dressed Man
Deep Purple
Highway Star
The Scorpions
No One Like You
Ben Folds
Rockin' the Suburbs
The Donnas
Don't Wait Up For Me
Tom Petty
Running Down a Dream
That's just off the top of my head. I'm looking for suggestions for the list and discussion on the appropriateness of selections.
Songs I need to listen to (possibly again) because I'm either lame or blond:
None! I caught up!