Music: What are your Top Ten 60s-70s Classic Rock Songs? (One Song per Band)

[Elvis P]

One Song per Band. Any rock music from the 1960's to the late 1970's. Progressive rock and heavy metal included.

Black Sabbath, Paranoid
Pink Floyd, Comfortably Numb
Van Halen, Everybody Wants Some!!
Queen, Bohemian Rhapsody
The Jimi Hendrix Experience, All Along the Watchtower
The Beatles, A Day in the Life
AC/DC, Back in Black
The Rolling Stones, Gimme Shelter
Led Zeppelin, Kashmir
Aerosmith, Sweet Emotion

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[Dr Pepper]

CCR - Fortunate Son
Beatles - No Reply
Rolling Stones - Jumping Jack Flash
Animals - House of the Rising Sun
Led Zeppelin - Stairway to Heaven
Pink Floyd - Another Brick in the Wall
Queen - Bohemian Rhapsody
Janis Joplin - Crybaby
Jimi Hendrix - Machine Gun
AC/DC - Thunderstruck

 

[Hockey Outsider]

How would you define classic rock? Is it any rock music from the 1960's to the late 1970's? Are you including progressive rock (Genesis, Yes - Pink Floyd always seems to get a pass) and/or heavy metal (Sabbath, Priest, etc)?

 

[Elvis P]

How would you define classic rock? Is it any rock music from the 1960's to the late 1970's? Are you including progressive rock (Genesis, Yes - Pink Floyd always seems to get a pass) and/or heavy metal (Sabbath, Priest, etc)?

@Hockey Outsider Yes to both questions.

 

[Hockey Outsider]

With that definition in mind, here are my first impressions (I'll give a dozen instead of ten):

• King Crimson - "Starless"
• Yes - "Gates of Delirium"
• Wishbone Ash - "Throw Down the Sword"
• Thin Lizzy - "Emerald"
• Judas Priest - "Victim of Changes"
• Black Sabbath - "War Pigs"
• Led Zeppelin - "When The Levee Breaks"
• The Who - "Won't Get Fooled Again"
• Pink Floyd - "Time"
• Camel - "Lady Fantasy"
• Deep Purple - "Highway Star"
• Emerson, Lake & Palmer - "Tarkus"

 

[Mescaleroman]

Genesis - Carpet Crawlers
Gentle Giant - I Lost My Head
Springsteen - Candy's Room
Bowie - Rock n Roll Suicide
the Clash - Washington Bullets HM to Lose This Skin
the Jam - Ghosts
the Animals - Don't Let Me Be Misunderstood
the Beatles - Tomorrow Never Knows
Donovan - Jennifer Juniper
Cat Stevens - Father and Son

 

[PANARIN BREAD FAN]

boston-more than a feeling
van halen-dance the night away
the police-message in a bottle
yes-wurm
hendrix experience-castles made of sand
hendrix band of gypsys-power of soul
wings-juniors farm
neil young-like a hurricane
linda ronstadt-when will i be loved
ted nugent-great white buffalo
rolling stones-heartbreaker
deep purple-strange kind of woman

 

[kihei]

Chronological order, sort of

Sally Go Round the Roses--The Jaynetts
So Sad--The Everly Brothers
Don't Ever Say I Didn't Tell You So--Dionne Warwick
Don't Throw Your Love Away--The Searchers
Feel a Whole Lot Better (When You're Gone)--The Byrds
Dancing Days--Led Zeppelin
Cause We've Ended as Lovers--Jeff Beck
In All of My Dreams You Rescue Me--Wishbone Ash
Lord of the Starfields--Bruce Cockburn
St. Thomas (Don't You Know)--Peter Frampton

 

[Hippasus]

Can: "Oh Yeah"
The Velvet Underground & Nico: "Sunday Morning"
Ramones: "Blitzkrieg Bop"
Bob Marley & the Wailers: "Corner Stone"
Neu!: "Leb Wohl"
Black Sabbath: "Black Sabbath"
Steve Reich: "Come Out"
Augustus Pablo: "Nature Dub"
Pink Floyd: "Bike"
The Kinks: "I Took My Baby Home"

 

[kihei]

Do you plan to do an '80s/'90s era top ten? That would be fun to figure out, too.

 

[S E P H]

The problem with classic rock songs from this era is that disco ruled these decades and was better in every single way compared to any other genre.

 

[Behn Wilson]

Children Of The Grave - Black Sabbath
The Green Manalishi - Judas Priest
Run To The Hills - Iron Maiden
Smoke On The Water - Deep Purple
The Immigrant Song - Led Zeppelin
Draw The Line - Aerosmith
Ace Of Spades - Motorhead
The Boys Are Back - Thin Lizzy
Lights Out - UFO
Happy - Rolling Stones

 

[Elvis P]

Do you plan to do an '80s/'90s era top ten? That would be fun to figure out, too.

Okay

 

[Section337]

Hard to pick a single song for some of these bands. Or if they are always classic rock/metal. And I don’t know if these are my favourites or just the ones I am most likely to go out of my way to listen to.

Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap - AC/DC
War Pigs - Black Sabbath
Union City Blues - Blondie
Barracuda - Heart
Kashmir - Led Zeppelin
Killer Queen - Queen
Fox on the Run - Sweet
I Wanna Be Sedated -The Ramones
Cherry Bomb - The Runaways
Baba O’Riley - The Who

 

[spintheblackcircle]

One Song per Band. Any rock music from the 1960's to the late 1970's. Progressive rock and heavy metal included.

Black Sabbath, Paranoid
Pink Floyd, Comfortably Numb
Van Halen, Everybody Wants Some!!
Queen, Bohemian Rhapsody
The Jimi Hendrix Experience, All Along the Watchtower
The Beatles, A Day in the Life
AC/DC, Back in Black
The Rolling Stones, Gimme Shelter
Led Zeppelin, Kashmir
Aerosmith, Sweet Emotion

Rather than pick my top 10, I will pick my favorite from the artists that you picked:

Sabbath-Heaven and Hell
Floyd-Wish You Were Here
Van Halen-Unchained
Queen-Fat Bottomed Girls
Jimi-The Wind Cries Mary
Beatles-Dear Prudence
AC/DC-Shake a Leg
Stones-Sympathy for the Devil
Led Zeppelin-Traveling Riverside Blues
Aerosmith-Draw the Line

CCR - Fortunate Son
Beatles - No Reply
Rolling Stones - Jumping Jack Flash
Animals - House of the Rising Sun
Led Zeppelin - Stairway to Heaven
Pink Floyd - Another Brick in the Wall
Queen - Bohemian Rhapsody
Janis Joplin - Crybaby
Jimi Hendrix - Machine Gun
AC/DC - Thunderstruck

CCR-Traveling Band
Animals-Rising Sun
Joplin-Me and Bobby McGee

 

[frisco]

60's
Five To One-The Doors
California Dreaming-The Mamas And Papas
Eve Of Destruction-Barry McGwire
Little Sister-Elvis Presley
Massachusetts-Bee Gees

Solitary Man-Neil Diamond
The Boxer-Simon And Garfunkel
All Day And All Of The Nite-The Kinks
Can't Take My Eyes Off Of You-The Four Seasons
My Generation-The Who

70's
L.A. Woman-The Doors
Running On Empty-Jackson Browne
Come Sail Away-Styx
Wheel In The Sky-Journey
Double Vision-Foreigner
Somebody To Love-Queen
Kentucky Rain-Elvis Presley
Nights On Broadway-Bee Gees
Lost In The Flood-Bruce Springsteen
Hanging On The Telephone-Blondie


My Best-Carey