Question:
Rock songs everyone should know?
Arubula
2008-06-08 17:22:10 UTC
My friends are constantly being horrified at my taste in music, so i was wondering....what are some rock songs/bands that everyone should know? i DO like the music they play, i just cant get...connected with it, i guess. Thanks!
Eighteen answers:
2008-06-08 17:34:21 UTC
WE'RE NOT GONNA TAKE IT - TWISTED SISTER

Won't Get Fooled Again - The Who

November Rain - Guns N' Roses

Comfortably Numb - Pink Floyd

(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction - The Rolling Stones

Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap - AC/DC

Stairway To Heaven - Led Zeppelin

Kashmir - Led Zeppelin

Rock & Roll - Led Zeppelin

Black Dog - Led Zeppelin

When The Levee Breaks - Led Zeppelin

The Immigrant Song - Led Zeppelin

School Days - The Runaways

Cherry Bomb - The Runaways

Jaded - Aerosmith

Cryin' - Aerosmith

Thunderstruck - AC/DC

La Grange - ZZ Top

Sharp Dressed Man - ZZ Top

Tush - ZZ Top

Baba O' Riley - The Who

Sweet Child O' Mine - Guns N' Roses

School's Out - Alice Cooper

The Boys Are Back In Town - Thin Lizzy

Caugh Somewhere In Time - Iron Maiden

Jailbreak - Thin Lizzy

Paint It Black - The Rolling Stones

Back In Black - AC/DC

Love Hurts - Nazareth

Highway Star - Deep Purple

Sweet Home Alabama - Lynyrd Skynyrd

Free Bird - Lynyrd Skynyrd

Smoke On The Water - Deep Purple

Purple Haze - Jimi Hendrix

Rebel Rebel - David Bowie

Bohemian Rhapsody - Queen

Magic Carpet Ride - Steppenwolf

I Stole Your Love - KISS

Calling Dr. Love - KISS

Strutter - KISS

God Gave Rock 'N' Roll To You - KISS

Love Gun - KISS

Shout It Out Loud - KISS

I Love It Loud - KISS

Detroit Rock City - KISS

Can I Play With Madness - Iron Maiden

Run To The Hills - Iron Maiden

The Trooper - Iron Maiden

T.N.T - AC./DC

Highway To Hell - AC/DC

Problem Child - AC/DC

You Shook Me All Night Long - AC/DC

Pour Some Sugar On Me - Def Leppard

Photograph - Def Leppard

Paranoid - Black Sabbath

Iron Man - Black Sabbath

Rock You Like A Hurricane - Scorpions

The Number Of The Beast - Iron Maiden

Big Balls - AC/DC

Surrender - Cheap Trick
2008-06-08 17:40:21 UTC
Adema - The Way You Like It

Atreyu - Right Side Of The Bed

Avenged Sevenfold - Bat Country

Celldweller - Switchback

Custom - Hey Mister

Def Leppard - Pour Some Sugar On Me, Animal, Hysteria, Rock Of Ages, Tomorrow

Filter - Hey Man, Nice Shot

Finger Eleven - Stay In Shadow

Ill Nino - What Comes Around, This Times For Real, Unreal

Janes Addiction - Superhero (Also Entourage theme song)

Killswitch Engage - End Of Heartache

Lostprophets - Rooftops

Motorhead - Ace Of Spades

Mudvayne - Happy?

Nine Inch Nails - Hurt

Oleander - Are You There?

Orgy - Fiction (Dreams In Digital)

Puddle Of Mudd - Psycho

Seether - Fine Again

Silverchair - Anthem For The Year 2000

Sixx Am - Life Is Beautiful

Smile Empty Soul - Bottom Of A Bottle, Californias Lonely

STABBING WESTWARD - SAVE YOURSELF

Static-X - Cold

THE BLANK THEORY - MIDDLE OF NOWHERE

SR-71 - TOMORROW

Toto - Africa

Urban Voodoo - Brutality (MK2 Movie Soundtrack)

Zebrahead - Falling Apart
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2016-10-01 08:48:48 UTC
do no longer supply up Believin' - adventure enter Sandman - Metallica walk this sort - Aerosmith Detroit city Rock - Kiss Smells Like teen Spirit - Nirvana leap - Van Halen we can Rock You - Queen candy new child O' Mine - weapons N' Roses Breaking the regulation - Judas Priest entire Lotta Love - Led Zeppelin Iron guy - Black Sabbath alterations - David Bowie Smoke on the Water - Deep purple Tiny Dancer - Elton John ect.
Aldo G
2008-06-08 17:33:16 UTC
I'll tell you bands everybody should know:



Queen

Pink Floyd

Led Zeppelin

The Rolling Stones

The Who

The Beatles

(These are my 6 favorite bands in no particular order)



Other bands you should know:

AC/DC

Ramones

Metallica

Scorpions

(These 4 complete my top 10)



Also you should know about:

Bob Dylan

The Byrds

The Doors

Simon and Garfunkel



If you need more bands:

Bon Jovi

Bruce Springsteen

Cheap Trick

The Clash

The Damned

Def Leppard

The Eagles

Europe

Guns N' Roses

Iron Maiden

Nirvana

Sex Pistols

The Smiths

Sting

Wire

Yes

ZZ Top



All of them are great bands and/or artists
VS
2008-06-08 17:29:37 UTC
Hm. It would be too hard to list them all here. I suggest looking up Rolling Stones' list of the greatest songs of all time (I think they made it 500). It's received a lot of criticism, but I think if you at least are familiar with the artists on the list, you'll be prepared for any average musical chit-chat.
2008-06-08 17:26:21 UTC
Led Zeppelin

Hendrix

Beatles

Stones

Dylan
2008-06-08 17:33:01 UTC
Crazy Train, Iron Man, Back In Black, Free Bird, Sweet Child O' Mine and so many more.
Honky Cat (USA Spartans RB #29)
2008-06-08 20:13:49 UTC
Kashmir - Led Zeppelin. I cannot believe no one said this before me. The only rock song in my opinion to be close to a masterpiece.
2008-06-08 17:26:31 UTC
blitzkrieg bop by the Ramones

pretty much the guitar hero songs
Fonzie T
2008-06-08 17:38:02 UTC
It'd help me to know what your friends are so horrified at.
smeg head
2008-06-08 17:37:13 UTC
any thing from ac/dc with the legendary BON SCOTT singing as brian johnstone has only made one may be two good albums
Janie Jones
2008-06-08 17:35:15 UTC
I was inspired by an ad on the side of my screen.



Avril Lavigne- Skater Boy.



You need to know a bad song, so you know the songs you like are just that good. Makes your record collection and musical knowledge look awesome.



Oh you said rock songs...
2008-06-08 17:37:09 UTC
RUSH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! they are a legendary band and no drummer alive isn't better than neil peart... and of course my fav album from them is 2112
2008-06-08 17:25:55 UTC
what style of rock?
Lestrange
2008-06-08 17:29:47 UTC
Aerosmith

Guns'n'roses

Metallica



You just have too choose what do you like the most?
Paigey<3
2008-06-08 18:27:32 UTC
Pain by three days grace

Really anything by three days grace

Disturbed(band)

Blink 182

Sum 41

10 years

12 stones

32 leaves

Nickleback
2008-06-08 17:43:05 UTC
mm.. okay these are some bands people know A lot!

Fall Out Boy

Green day

Beatles

Panic at he disco

Red hot chilli peppers

....

Rolling Stones

My Chemical Romance

or just look up ROCK BANDS in google
Nick P
2008-06-08 17:58:13 UTC
ac/dc- back in black & you shook me all night long

aerosmith- dream on & sweet emotion

alice cooper- schools out & i'm eighteen

alice in chains- rooster & them bones

allman brothers- midnight rider & whipping post

the animals- house of the rising sun

audioslave- cochise

badfinger- no matter what

beach boys- barbara ann, sloop john b., wouldn't it be nice, & god only knows

beastie boys- sabotage

the beatles- twist and shout, revolution, & helter skelter

beck- devils haircut

the bellrays- revolution, get down

ben folds five- army & one angry dwarf and 200 solemn faces

big wreck- the oaf

bill haley- rock around the clock

the black crowes- hard to handle & remedy

black sabbath- iron man, paranoid, & war pigs

blind faith- can't find my way home

blind melon- no rain

blue oyster cult- don't fear the reaper

blur- song 2

bob dylan- subterranean homesick blues & rainy day women #12and 35

bob seger- old time rock and roll

bobby fuller four- i fought the law

breeders- cannonball

bruce springstein- born to run

buddy holly- that'll be the day & rave on

buffalo springfield- for what it's worth

bush- everything zen

cake- the distance

canned heat- on the road again

carl perkins- blue suede shoes

chambers brothers- time has come today

chicago- i'm a man

chuck berry- johnny b. goode & downbound train

the clash- should i stay or should i go & london calling

cream- i feel free, sunshine of your love, & crossroads

ccr- proud mary, ramble tamble, bad moon rising, fortunate son, the midnight special

csny- suite: judy blue eyes & love the one you're with

david bowie- rebel rebel, suffragette city, & space oddity

deep purple- smoke on the water & hush

derek and the dominos- layla

dick dale- miserlou

dire straits- sultans of swing

doobie brothers- long train runnin

break on through, light my fire, l.a. woman, roadhouse blues, peace frog

the eagles- hotel california

edgar winter group- frankenstein

edwin starr- war

elvis- heartbreak hotel, hound dog, & jailhouse rock

eric clapton- after midnight, motherless children, & cocaine

the faces- that's all you need & stay with me

faith no more- epic

fleetwood mac- the chain & oh well

foo fighters- baker street, i'll stick around, & stacked actors

free- all right now

george thorogood- delaware slide, bad to the bone, who do you love?, & 1 bourbon 1 scotch 1 beer.

golden earring- radar love

grand funk railroad- closer to home

grateful dead- casey jones

the guess who- american woman & no sugar tonight

guns n roses- welcome to the jungle

heart- barracuda

the hollies- long cool woman in a black dress

james gang- funk no. 49

janes addiction- been caught stealing

janis joplin- piece of my heart

jeff beck- rollin and tumblin & rice pudding

jefferson airplane- somebody to love

jerry lee lewis- whole lotta shakin goin on & great ball of fire

jethro tull- aqualung, locomotive breathe, & songs for jeffrey

jim carroll band- people who died

jimi hendrix- lover man, purple haze, foxey lady, fire, & voodoo child

joe cocker- cry me a river & feeling alright

john lee hooker- boom boom & boogie chillun

john lennon- give peace a chance & watching the wheels

johnny burnette trio- the train kept a rollin

jon spencer blues explosion- bellbottoms

jr. brown- surf medley

kenny wayne shepherd- oh well & i dont live today

the kinks- mr. churchill says, lola, have a cuppa tea, all day and all of the night, & you really got me

led zeppelin- poor tom, the ocean, white summer/black mountainside, good times bad times, babe i'm gonna leave you, how many more times, heartbreaker, bring it on home, friends, bron-y-aur stomp, rock and roll, when the levee breaks, in my time of dying, black country woman

lenny kravitz- are you gonna go my way

link wray- jack the ripper

little richard- keep a knockin & rip it up

living colour- cult of personality

the living end- prisoner of society, carry me home, & lone ranger

local h- half life & fritz corner

lou reed- take a walk on the wild side

lovin spoonful- summer in the city

lynyrd skynyrd- free bird & call me the breeze

manfred mann- do wah diddy

marilyn manson- the beautiful people

metallica- one, ain't my *****, enter sandman, & no leaf clover

ministry- jesus built my hotrod

mitch ryder- devil with a blue dress on

the monkees- sweet young thing

moody blues- question & i'm just a singer in a rock and roll band

motorhead- ace of spades

mott the hoople- all the young dudes

nazareth- hair of the dog

neil diamond- thank the lord for the night time

neil young- southern man, keep on rockin in the free world, cinnamon girl

nine inch nails- last & wish

nirvana- about a girl, smells like teen spirit, sappy

norman greenbaum- spirit in the sky

oasis- married with children

the offspring- living in chaos, special delivery, gone away, i choose, way down the line, & not the one

ozzy osbourne- crazy train

wings- live and let die & maybe i'm amazed

pearl jam- yellow ledbetter, i got id, evenflow, jeremy, corduroy, better man, animal, daughter

pink floyd- money, fearless, another brick in the wall, run like hell

the police- message in a bottle & roxanne

porno for pyros- tahitian moon

PUSA- lump & peaches

the pretenders- middle of the road & my city was gone

primus- winonas big brown beaver

procol harum- a whiter shade of pale

quarashi- stick em up

queen- another one bites the dust, fat bottomed girls, we will rock you, bohemian rhapsody, stone cold crazy

queens of the stoneage- no one knows

radiohead- my iron lung, 2+2=5, paranoid android, electioneering, & creep

rage against the machine- testify, sleep now in the fire, freedom, renegades of funk

ram jam- black betty

the ramones- blitzkreig bop

red hot chili peppers- suck my kiss, the greeting song, around the world, higher ground

reo speedwagon- golden country

robert randolph- i need more love

robin trower- bridge of sighs

rod stewart- i know i'm losing you, hot legs, street fightin man

rolling stones- paint it black, sympathy for the devil, tumbling dice, its only rock and roll, gimme shelter, you can't always get what you want, i can't get no satisfaction, jumpin jack flash, brown sugar, can't you hear me knocking

rose hill drive- shakin all over

rush- yyz, working man, one little victory

sam & dave- hold on i'm comin

santana- black magic woman, oye como va, she's not there, everybody's everything

santo & johnny- sleep walk

seven mary three- cumbersome

the sex pistols- anarchy in the UK

shocking blue- venus

simon & garfunkel- cecilia

sly & the family stone- dance to the music & thank you

smashing pumpkins- bullet with butterfly wings, tonight tonight, zero, & drown

soul coughing- super bon bon

soundgarden- outshined, fell on black days, the day i tried to live

southern culture on the skids- soul city

spacehog- in the meantime

spencer davis group- gimme some lovin

stealers wheel- stuck in the middle with you

steppenwolf- magic carpet ride

steroephonics- high as the ceiling

steve miller band- the joker, fly like an eagle, livin in the usa

stevie ray vaughn- the house is rockin, love struck baby, pride and joy, testify, rude mood, life by the drop

stevie wonder- for once in my life, higher ground, sir duke, i was made to love her, superstition

stone temple pilots- sex type thing, naked sunday, plush, sex and violence, mc5, vasoline, interstate love song, unglued, army ants, trippin on a hole in a paper heart

stray cats- stray cat strut

sublime- april 29 1992, what i got, santeria

supertramp- bloody well right

sweet- ballroom blitz

swinging blue jeans- hippy hippy shake

t. rex- bang a gong & 20th century boy

talking heads- psycho killer & burning down the house

tea party- turn the lamp down low & sister awake

ted nugent- stranglehold

temple of the dog- hunger strike

thin lizzy- cowboy song

three dog night- joy to the world

the toadies- hell below/stars above, mexican hairless, mister love, quitter, i come from the water, tyler, velvet

tom petty- yer so bad, mary janes last dance, you wreck me, honey bee, breakdown, american girl

traffic- dear mr. fantasy

the troggs- wild thing

U2- mysterious ways, elevation, hold me kiss me thrill me kill me, sunday bloody sunday, bullet the blue sky, seconds

van halen- mean street, unchained, eruption, you really got me, ice cream man, panama, hot for teacher

them- gloria

velvet underground- white light/white heat, heroin

the vines- get free

violent femmes- blister in the sun, add it up

war- low rider

warren zevon- werewolves of london

wayne fontana- the game of love

weezer- dope nose, keep fishin', el scorcho, buddy holly, undone(the sweater song), say it ain't so, hash pipe

the white stripes- hello operator, little bird, death letter, there's no home for you here, ball and biscuit, catch hell blues, jolene, dead leaves and the dirty ground, the union forever, stop breaking down, cannon, astro

white zombie- thunder kiss 65'

the who- the ox, love reign o'er me, a quick one while he's away, leaving here, young man blues, won't get fooled again, the seeker, who are you, sparks, pinball wizard, we're not gonna take it, magic bus

wilson pickett- land of 1000 dances

the zombies- time of the season

zz top- la grange, watin for the bus, jesus just left chicago, cheap sunglasses, sharp dressed man, legs, party on the patio, heard it on the x

311- homebrew, down, all mixed up, don't stay home, t&p combo


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