Everyone will have their own version of this:

Mine are but necessarily in this order as that changes with mood.

Metallica - One
Led Zeppelin - Stairway to Heaven
The Doors - The End
Eric Clapton - Tears in Heaven
Queen - Bohemian Rhapsody
Pink Floyd - Wish you were here
Tool - Right In Two
Rollins Band - Another Life
Pearl Jam - Jeremy
Suicidal Tendencies - How will I laugh tomorrow.
Foo Fighters - Everlong

Actually I could go on for a while longer, that's 11.

What's yours? How many of mine do you hate? No doubt some of them are commercial, are you too cool to like anything that has been a commercial success?

nightmonkey said...

Not a bad list dude. Be impossible for me to name a top 10 thou. Love Tool, Foo's, QOTSA, Metallica, Eagles of Death Metal, Grinspoon, Green Day, Pearl Jam, A Perfect Circle, Probot....list goes on and on. Could make a top 10 for eveyday. LOL

Yeah I know. I don't even try to choose anymore.

I just think of one song and hit the genius button, Itunes sorts the rest for me. 25 songs later I hit it again.

felixdcat said...

Hotel California
Money for nothing
Brown suggar
Those should be in the list surely!

yeh for most second rate cover bands

Top 10 is tough CMC,

It's doing my head in.
In no particular order:
Pink Floyd - Us & them, wish you were here, uncomfortably numb.

Foo Fighters - my hero.

Kae Sanh

Pearl Jam - jeremy, alive.

Coldplay - yellow, clocks,

Billy Ray Cyrus - achy break heart

beasty boys. whatcha want
dead kennedys. to drunk to f?ck
infectious grooves. you lied and your breath stank
david bowie. sorrow
transplants. tall cans in the air
alice in chains. rooster
rage against the machine. every thing
g love and the special sauce.booty call
mr bungle. girls of porn
hot chocolate.everyones a winner
and the list goes on. life without music is a sad sad life

Prawnhead said...

you guys have totally missed the most obvious and the most influential instrument/guitarist of the last century
hendrix voodoo child..
anyone that even picks up a guitar has to pay homage

They say left handed people have a shorter life span. Christ, he could play.

ACDC - Hells Bells
Nirvana - Smells Like Teen Spirit (Nirvana = whole new genre, gotta be top 10!!)
Motley Crue - Kickstart my Heart
Silverchair - Freak
Blink 182 - Dammit
Metallica - King Nothing
Nickleback - Figured You Out
Linkin Park - In The End
No FX - Seeing Double at the Triple Rock
Led Zepplin - Whole Lotta Love
Jimi - Purple Haze (oops that's 11 but he has to be in there...)


All good singalong "get pumped up before hitting the waves" kinda songs
And yeah, fair bit of variety there

Don't really agree Nirvana started a whole new Genre.

They were the first band to become well known but bands like Mudhoney, The Melvins and Sonic Youth to name a few were playing this kind of stuff well before them and influenced them.

It's a bit like saying The Living End started the Psychobilly thing when there were bands like the Fireballs playing it a long time before them.

That's why they are not on my top 10.

A lot of good songs mentioned above though. Hendrix Machine Gun is always a favourite of mine as well.

If I got right into it there would be some Hoodoo Gurus, Midnight Oil etc also but it is just a top 10 and it's always a subjective thing. Everyone has their own top 10!

"Rearveiw Mirror" Pearljam

nightmonkey said...

Can't beat cranking Tool before a surf.

i do that to help me sleep

ahhh....the single life hey.

nightmonkey said...

ahhh....the single life hey.

no the married life

rocks songs- best rock band- led zeppelin

black dog

rock and roll

kashmir

dazed and confused

ramble on

whole lotta love

immigration song

houses of the holy

nobodies fault but mine


achllies last stand

and so on.

in pure rock terms, no one comes close to them
cheers

SandS said...

laceys lane said...

rocks songs- best rock band- led zeppelin

black dog

rock and roll

kashmir

dazed and confused

ramble on

whole lotta love

immigration song

houses of the holy

nobodies fault but mine


achllies last stand

and so on.

in pure rock terms, no one comes close to them
cheers

your pretty much correct , but i do think the Rolling Stones may have a strong case against that.

i meant in pure rock gene.
'
hey, i love the stones.

the stones are their own gene

Maggie should be turning 100 any day now.