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Cool's Ranking of the Top 110 Rock SongsI developed this list a few year's ago, in a fannish fit of pique over some of the other lists of top rock songs. Before we get into that, though, let me put in a plug for the greatest radio station ever to broadcast, Radio Paradise. For several years, I've been a contributing listener to this Internet radio station. Not only does it play great music, interesting music, and new music, it does so without commercial interruptions. The best thing about RP, though, are the masterful mixes by its DJ, Bill G., who, in my opinion, is a Living National Treasure in the almost lost art of being a DJ (not the scratching kind, the radio broadcast kind, like your Wolfman Jack's). He blends old and new, so the old songs seem new. If every note in a great song relates to every other note, every song that Bill plays relates to every other song. If I were a dot.com millionaire, I'd send the guy $1000/month. If you are, you should do so. Here's how I listen to RP (almost) all day at work, while remaining in 100% compliance with copyright regulations and the rules for a
Anyway, here's my list. This is what I think is Rock and Roll.
Ranking Song Title Group 1 Johnny B. Goode Chuck Berry 2 Smells Like Teen Spirit Nirvana 3 Middle of the Road The Pretenders 4 Voodoo Chile (Slt. Ret.) Jimi Hendrix 5 Jane Says Jane's Addiction 6 Stairway to Heaven Led Zeppelin 7 The Wind Cries Mary Jimi Hendrix 8 Imagine John Lennon 9 Black Pearl Jam 10 Until the End of the World U2 11 Born to Run B.S. & E Street Band 12 Crawling Linkin Park 13 Sweet Jane Lou Reed 14 Gimme Shelter The Rolling Stones 15 Born to be Wild Steppenwolf 16 Hotel California The Eagles 17 One U2 18 Man in the Box Alice in Chains 19 Fortunate Son CCR 20 Baker Street Gerry Rafferty 21 Alive Pearl Jam 22 Plush Stone Temple Pilots 23 Synchronicity II The Police 24 Sweet Child o' Mine Guns N' Roses 25 Drive (Water Over Wine) Incubus 26 Solsbury Hill Peter Gabriel 27 Heartbreak Hotel Elvis Presley 28 All Along the Watchtower Jimi Hendrix 29 Kashmir Led Zeppelin 30 Eyes without a Face Billy Idol 31 Tangled Up in Blue Bob Dylan 32 Woodstock Joni Mitchell 33 Otherside Red Hot Chili Peppers 34 Light My Fire The Doors 35 Self Esteem Offspring 36 You Oughta Know Alanis Morissette 37 Sounds of Silence Simon and Garfunkle 38 What It's Like Everlast 39 Freak on a Leash Korn 40 Black Hole Sun Soundgarden 41 Push It Garbage 42 When I Come Around Green Day 43 Comfortably Numb Pink Floyd 44 Under the Bridge Red Hot Chili Peppers 45 More Human than Human White Zombie 46 Schism Tool 47 Stupify Disturbed 48 Running up that Hill Kate Bush 49 Ramble On Led Zeppelin 50 Come as You Are Nirvana 51 Even Flow Pearl Jam 52 Walk on the Wild Side Lou Reed 53 Are You Experienced? Jimi Hendrix 54 Hey Hey What Can I Do? Led Zeppelin 55 Us and Them Pink Floyd 56 Riders on the Storm The Doors 57 Who Are You? The Who 58 Losing My Religion REM 59 ISHFWILooking 4 U2 60 Whiter Shade of Pale Procol Harum 61 I Ran A Flock of Seagulls 62 Needle & Damage Done Neil Young 63 Creep Radiohead 64 Loser Beck 65 Layla Derek and Dominos 66 Back in Black AC/DC 67 Like a Rolling Stone Bob Dylan 68 Twist and Shout The Beatles 69 Because the Night 10,000 Maniacs 69 Iron Man Black Sabath 71 Hypnotized Fleetwood Mac 72 Longview Green Day 73 Enter Sandman Metallica 74 Don't Speak No Doubt 75 Walking on the Sun Smashmouth 76 I Wanna Be Sedated The Ramones 77 How Soon is Now? The Smiths (Morrisey) 78 Walk on the Ocean Toad the Wet Sprocket 79 Hash Pipe Weezer 80 You Learn Alanis Morissette 81 Hey Hey My My Neil Young 82 Do It Again Steely Dan 83 Basket Case Green Day 84 Tom Sawyer Rush 85 Disarm Smashing Pumpkins 86 Streets of Philadelphia Bruce Springsteen 87 Blue Monday Orgy 88 Bodies Drowning Pool 89 Lucky Man Emerson, Lake & Palmer 90 White Rabbit Jefferson Airplane 91 House of the Rising Sun The Animals 92 Crystal Ship The Doors 93 Driven to Tears The Police 94 Bad to the Bone George Thoroughgood 95 Cult of Personality Living Colour 96 Last Resort Papa Roach 97 La Bamba Ritchie Valens 98 Big Log Robert Plant 99 It's Been Awhile Staind 100 Hey Joe Jimi Hendrix 101 The One I Love REM 102 Wherever I May Roam Metallica 103 Sympathy for the Devil Rolling Stones 104 Rhiannon Fleetwood Mac 105 In Bloom Nirvana 106 Truckin' Grateful Dead 107 Spirits in the Night BS & E Street Band 108 Whole Lotta Love Led Zeppelin 109 Come Out and Play Offspring 110 Won't Get Fooled Again The Who |
