MetaChat - Radio YHBC Presents

MetaChat is an informal place for MeFites to touch base and post, discuss and chatter about topics that may not belong on MetaFilter. Questions? Check the FAQ. Please note: This is important.

25 January 2006

Radio YHBC Presents a special programme of Nothing but the Very Best Rock Songs of All Time →[More:]

Disclaimer No. 1 - in no particular order.
Disclaimer No. 2 - reasonable minds may, of course, differ.
Disclaimer No. 3 - of course I didn't forget about that song, I didn't include it because:

(a) it would have been a far too obvious and predictable choice

(b) I didn't have a copy of it handy; or

(c) it sucks and I think less of you for even suggesting it be considered for inclusion herein. Come on, people! We're talking Best. Rock Songs. Of ALL TIME.

post by: yhbc at: 21:14 | 8 comments

About two and a half hours total, btw.

posted by yhbc 25 January | 21:20

First ten (remember, no particular order!):

1. Faces - Stay With Me
2. AC/DC - It's A Long Way To the Top
3. Todd Rundgren - Band the Drum All Day
4. Modern Lovers - Roadrunner
5. Guess Who - Share the Land
6. Sly & The Family Stone - Dance To the Music
7. Little Feat - Dixie Chicken
8. David Bowie - Panic In Detroit
9. Deep Purple - Woman From Tokyo
10. Dick Dale - Misirlou

What, no angry and/or incredulous denunciations yet? I feel slighted.

posted by yhbc 25 January | 21:56

UNCLE SAM'S BLUES!!!!!! I LOVE YOU!

posted by mygothlaundry 25 January | 21:59

I denounce you! Incredulously! Damn!

posted by matildaben 25 January | 22:33

Next ten (or so):

11. Led Zeppelin - Dancing Days
12. The Grateful Dead - U.S. Blues
13. Edgar Winter Group - Frankenstein
14. B52s - Dance This Mess Around
15. Sweet - Ballroom Blitz
16. The Mamas & The Papas - I Dig Rock and Roll Music
17. J. Geils Band - Ain't Nothin' but a House Party
18. George Throrgood - Move It On Over
19. Tommy James and the Shondells - Draggin' the Line
20. Alice Cooper - Be My Lover
21. Iggy Pop - Lust For Life
22. Violent Femmes - Add It Up

posted by yhbc 25 January | 22:41

These are really good yhbc. I need to go to bed but I can't bring myself to turn off the radio.

posted by mygothlaundry 25 January | 22:50

Last batch!

23. Lou Reed - Take a Walk on the Wild Side
24. Mungo Jerry - In the Summertime
25. War - Low Rider
26. T.Rex - Bang a Gong (Get It On)
27. Cheap Trick - Surrender
28. Wilson Pickett - Mustang Sally
29. Trashmen - Surfing Bird
30. The Beatles - Twist and Shout
31. Bob Dylan - Tangled Up In Blue
32. Gary Glitter - Rock and Roll
33. Aerosmith - Last Child
34. Them - Gloria
35. The Ramones - I Wanna Be Sedated
36. Velvet Underground - Sweet Jane
37. Queen - Bohemian Rhapsody

posted by yhbc 25 January | 23:42

Some notable omissions: I didn't include any Creedence because I couldn't decide between "Born on the Bayou" and "Fortunate Son". There's no Rolling Stones, because I don't have any handy - but I would probably have gone with either "Only Rock and Roll" or "Monkey Man".

No Elvis, Chuck Berry, or other fathers of rock and roll. That's not what I was going for. Likewise, no Allman Brothers or Cream - I didn't want the whole set to be "classic rock".

However, I should have had a KISS song, but I didn't have any available either. Maybe next time!

posted by yhbc 25 January | 23:45

← In which, I'll expose my most recent hopeless crush. || Where are all the men? →

HOME || REGISTER || LOGIN