SMX presents The Top 100 Classic Rock Songs

Time for the next installment, before cornfedhick guesses the last clue. :P

Title contains a color... (+5 to Albie)
#25. AC/DC, "Back In Black"
I suppose with Purple Haze already set at #35, this one was kind of obvious. The other contenders wouldn't rank this high... Red House (Hendrix), Yellow (Coldplay), Orange Crush (REM), Blue Suede Shoes (Carl Perkins), etc. I think the best (wrong) guess would have been Brown Sugar.

A type of emotion... (+5 to mosh)
#24. Aerosmith, "Sweet Emotion"
I suppose this one was also obvious, although I was hoping for misdirection. Aerosmith made a video for this in the late 80s, to promote the Pandora's Box package. About 15 years between song and video - that might be a record.

It's a euphemism for sex...
#23. Led Zeppelin, "Rock And Roll"
Or as Hank Williams Jr. put it: "Rock and roll used to mean fucking. I think we should get back to that." If you're wondering how Bonham got that cymbal sound, it's a ride cymbal with rivets inserted into holes drilled into the cymbal. They rattle and give a sound something like a tamborine. For fans of odd time signatures: the drum intro contains a quick bar of 3/8.

A song by the father, but not about the son... (+5 to Shadow)
#22. John Lennon, "Imagine"
This song leaves me speechless. One of those songs that, when it comes on, all I can do is listen and be moved.

This one is about the son... (+5 to Shadow)
#21. The Beatles, "Hey Jude"
In his famous 1980 Playboy interview, Lennon expressed the opinion that McCartney subconsciously wrote the song about John, even though the conscious subject was Julian. The commercial power of the Beatles is evident in the fact that there was no single edit - radio stations readily played the full version, even when songs over 3 minutes were considered too long to be singles.


Alright, I have to put some serious thought into the next group, and make the clues tougher...

It ends as it begins. In between, you might say "why?"
As a child, I had one. (mwahaha, let's see you get that one!)
A place.
In the final word of the title, every other letter is the same.
Intensified sensations. (There's your easy clue!)
 
In the final word of the title, every other letter is the same: Sweet Home Alabama - Lynyrd Skynyrd.
 
Intensified Sensations= More Than A Feeling, Boston
It ends as it begins= A Day In The Life, The Beatles
 
It ends as it begins. In between, you might say "why?" -- "Whole Lotta Love" (I always hated that psychedelic crap in the middle)
As a child, I had one. (mwahaha, let's see you get that one!) -- let's try this again: a "Black Dog"
A place. -- "House of the Rising Sun" or "All Along the Watchtower" (though Kashmir or Hotel Calif is probably right)
In the final word of the title, every other letter is the same. -- agree with Albie
Intensified sensations. (There's your easy clue!)  -- agree with Wasted
 
FINALLY reached the end of this thread. I'm making a playlist based on SMX's posts...and listening as I go. Currently at LA Woman. This has been great.
 
LooseCannon said:
FINALLY reached the end of this thread. I'm making a playlist based on SMX's posts...and listening as I go. Currently at LA Woman. This has been great.
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Ditto on all counts.  I'm doing the same playlist.  SMX should sell this game.  It'd be good to use for corporate retreats and the like:  divide into teams for the weekend and give prizes to the teams that can come up with the most correct answers.   
 
Actually, we may do this again in some form. I like cfh's idea of teams.

I'm going through my source lists again, and working on a top 500. I'm also including a much wider variety of sources, so everything from the Beach Boys to Metallica get in the next list.

I think it would be interesting for others to contribute clues next time too. :ok:
 
Wasted CLV said:
I can't wait for Layla to be the answer!!
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You missed your chance to finally be right on that one, Wasted. :P

It ends as it begins. In between, you might say "why?"... (starts and ends with "la", with a "y" in the middle.)
#20. Derek And The Dominoes, "Layla"
If you listen to the first guitar solo - the one in the fast part, with the really high notes - that's Duane Allman on slide guitar. The notes are so high because he's playing higher than the fretboard, way up over the pickups. Drummer Jim Gordon (the commissioner!) wrote the piano bit which the ending was built around, and was reportedly unhappy with Clapton stealing it for this song. That big ending was recorded much later than the first part of the song, and they spent a lot of studio time making sure they were perfectly duplicating the instrument sounds and microphone placements so it matched.

As a child, I had one... (+5 to cornfedhick)
#19. Led Zeppelin, "Black Dog"
Named after a stray dog that was wandering around the grounds when Zep were making IV. John Paul Jones wrote the main riff, trying to make a lick that twisted all over itself and lost the beat (despite this, it's actually in a straight 4/4). That lick is the very first thing I learned the day I got my first bass back in 1986. This song is where my life as a rock musician began. And my dog was a black lab named Magic; got her newborn (daughter of my cousin's dog) in 1981, and she died in 1995. Not from old age; she was hit by a car, and the chickenshit driver sped off. If I ever catch him... :ninja:

A place... (+5 to nush)
#18. Led Zeppelin, "Kashmir"
This has remained a favorite of the surviving Zep members; Page and Plant played a memorable new version on their tours together in the 90s. I used to play a bit of it in a band long ago... we would tease 4 reps of the main riff, but then launch into "Anarchy In The UK".

In the final word of the title, every other letter is the same... (+5 to Albie)
#17. Lynyrd Skynyrd, "Sweet Home Alabama"
Just look at what you can do with three chords. This song is nothing but D-C-G, over and over, yet they keep it interesting. For a long time I was sick and tired of this song, but it's getting better with age.

Intensified sensations... (+5 to Wasted)
#16. Boston, "More Than A Feeling"
It took Tom Scholz 7 years of experimentation to perfect this song (and the rest of that album). Too bad he never matched it, despite taking years for all his subsequent albums as well. Brad Delp's range on this vocal is outrageous; it's one of the most difficult songs I've ever sung.


It's getting really hard to come up with clever clues, when the songs are this famous.

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Double negative.
Famous quote from a former US president.
The chorus is a question.
From dusk till dawn.
 
From dusk till dawn: I would say - All Day, and All of the Night - The Kinks.
 
Nope, it's Dream On!
Aerosmith.
Why? I dunno, "from dusk till dawn" is an actual line from the song, got me thinking of it. I bet it's that.
 
0.0040741827% - "A Day In The Life" by The Beatles.

Double negative. - "(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction" by The Rolling Stones.

Famous quote from a former US president. - "Bed Of Roses" by Bon Jovi. ("Government isn't bed of roses" - I'm not sure which President said that though)...

The last one is a complete shot in the dark.
 
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