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I'm trying to find good classic rock music because I believe that Classic Rock is the best music out there. I know many of the good bands/artists, but I don't know what songs of theirs are good.

My dad is a pretty big music fan, but he doesn't really get into the harder stuff, which I like, so he is only so much help. I think I know all of the good songs by bands like Boston, Journey, Bruce Springsteen, REO Speedwagon, and CCR, but I don't know as much about say, ACDC, Led Zepplin, and Aerosmith. Any help would be appreciated.

Yeah, I know Thunderstruck. Sweet guitar solo at the beginning.

Check out The Guess Who...very underrated.

I cant believe I dont know how to spell this but Lynard Skynard has to be in every Classic Rock collection.

2 great movie soundtracks for classic rock, "Dazed and Confused", and maybe the best of all-time for classic rock "Forrest Gump".

I personally think LedZep is the greatest band ever. They often get out voted by the likes of the Beatles and Stones, but they are my personal number 1.

Their first six albums are downright amazing. Their seventh album - Presence - they started to show some signs that the run was coming to an end, although there is a very iconic song on there called Achilles Last Stand ... that song could have gone on any of their previous albums and fit right in.

I'd start with their second album - Led Zeppelin II - and their sixth album - Physical Graffiti. They are considered their best albums by many. Just about every single song on both albums rocks. On Zeppelin II, What Is and What Should Never Be is awesome and Ten Years Gone on Physical Graffiti is another one of my favorites.

Check these out. Hope you like them as much as I do.

The Who made a lot of great songs. Won't Get Fooled Again, Baba O'Riley. The Seeker. Definitely check them out

Yeah, I'm really liking Led Zeppelin, Aerosmith, and ACDC. Though there are a few Zeppelin songs I'm not wild about.

The "Blow" soundtrack has some excellent tracks on it. Also, when it comes to classic rock, some bands and musicians to look into:

Bob Dylan, especially his "Blonde on Blonde" album

Audience, The "House on the Hill" album

Warren Zevon, I am partial to "Werewolves of London" and "Lawyers, Guns, and Money."

Lynyrd Skynyrd, try listening to all their hits "The Ballad of Curtis Lowe," "Tuesdays Gone," "Simple Man," "Free Bird." And there are many more.

Bob Seger, listen to "Ramblin Man"

David Bowie, The "Ziggy Stardust" album is great. Plus he has many other hits like "Fame," "Changes." And many others.

The Doors, Listen to everything they produced.

Bob Marley, innumerable great songs.

The Rolling Stones, "Sympathy for the Devil" plus many others.

The Who

Velvet Underground

Lou Reed, "Sweet Jane" and "Walk on the Wild Side."

These are just off the top of my head. For other input try looking up Rolling Stone Magazines 500 best rock songs ever.

Black Sabbath... their entire collection
Bachman Turner Overdrive... You Ain't Seen Nothing Yet, Let It Ride
Traffic... Low Spark of High Heeled Boys, Light Up or Leave Me Alone
Pink Flyod... entire collection but I'd start with the album Wish You Were Here if you want classic rock... Have A Cigar is a great song
Golden Earing...Radar Love
Blue Oyster Cult... Don't Fear the Reaper, Godzilla
Kansas... Carry on Wayward Son, Smoke on the Water
Heart.. Baracuda, Magic Man
War... Low Rider, Slippin Into Darkness
Bad Company... Can't Get Enough of Your Love, Bad Company, Feel Like Makin Love

Here is a great site you can go to to just listen to various stuff for free to check it out... http://www.seeqpod.com/search/

Bob Marley isnt classic rock. Just good stoner music from the same era.

If you bring up The Doors for classic rock, you have to bring up Pink Floyd.

Here's one of my favorites.. .....All of the other groups to include KANSAS and JETHRO TULL should get an "honorable mention" too.....

AC/DC - (Album) Back in Black - Hell's Bells, Givin' the Dog a Bone, Back in Black, You Shook Me All Night Long
(Album) Let there Be Rock - Problem Child, Whole Lotta Rosie
(Album) Highway to Hell - Highway to Hell
Aerosmith - (Album) Toys in the Attic - Walk This Way, Big Ten Inch & Sweet Emotion
Led Zeppelin - (Album) 4th Album - Stairway to Heaven, Black Dog, Misty Mountain Hop, When the Levee Breaks

Some of my favorite songs & Artists:

Positively 4th Street - Bob Dylan
Sunshine of your Love, Tales of Brave Ulysses, White Room, Crossroads - Cream
Let it Grow, After Midnight, Layla - Eric Clapton
Hocus Pocus - Focus
Bobby Brown, Don't Eat The Yellow Snow, My Guitar Wants to Kill Your Mama, & Beer, Dancin' Fool, Dynamo Hum, What Kind of Girl Do You Think I Am - Frank Zappa
The Ripper - Judas Priest
Freeway Jam - Jeff Beck
30 Days In The Hole, Black Betty - Humble Pie
Fire on the Mountain - Marshall Tucker Band
Kick Out The Jams - MC5
Space Station #5, Rock Candy, Bad Motor Scooter - Montrose
Stone Cold Crazy, Keep Yourself Alive, Modern Times Rock and Roll, Liar, Tie Your Mother Down, Hammer To Fall (or practically anything by) - Queen
Red - Sammy Hagar
Stranglehold, Just What the Doctor Ordered - Ted Nugent
Paper Sun, Feelin' Alright - Traffic
Cherry, Lights Out, Too Hot Too Handle - UFO
Easy Livin', Demons & Wizards, Stealin', Circle of Hands, Sweet Loraine - Uriah Heep


Glad you're interested, hope you get many years of enjoyment out of this music as I have.

Here is a list of a few good albums.

The Allman Brothers.....Live at the Fillmore and Eat A Peach

Black Sabbath..............Their first, Paranoid, Master of Reality, Sabbath Bloody Sabbath, and Sabotage

Captain Beyond....Dancing Madly Backwards

Crosby, Stills, Nash, & Young....Four Way Street

Emerson, Lake, & Palmer........Tarkus

Government Mule......The Deep End

Jeff Beck.......Truth

Humble Pie.....Rockin' the Filllmore

Quit enjoyable!

Go buy Led I,II,and III, Best damn Led Zep albums ever made!

Just clicking...

Here are some to check out...I'll keep this in the 70's for classic rock...

Aerosmith - Dream On, Kings and Queens, Mama Kin
Blue Oyster Cult - Don't Fear the Reaper
KISS - Detroit Rock City, Love Gun
Alice Cooper - I'm Eighteen, Schools Out, No More Mr. Nice Guy, Billion Dollar Babies

I was just about to post how nobody had mentioned Alice Cooper yet. You beat me to it by just a little bit.

Alice Cooper deserves to be in any classic rock discussion.

Jethro Tull....

Build Me Up Buttercup?

Burton Cummings greatest solo effort. "Take One Away."

The Guess Who were a very good band!

I always enjoyed the song THESE EYES....as well as a few others songs they recorded such as American Woman!

WOW! That was a very nice video.....kick ass rock and roll.

I guess to "stretch" this thread a little further, Would anyone disagree with me that the 70's was the best decade ever for music whether you liked Rock, R&B or Country? I believe the 70's was the BEST DECADE for all that mattered in all aspects from sports to news, etc...Give me some feedback if you don't mind sharing my friends.....

Check out a compilation by the Allman Brothers called "Beginnings" ... "Whipping Post", "Not My Cross To Bear", "Midnight Rider" and just about everything else on it are great.

J/C... Not sure exactly what era you're looking for but for me anything before 1990 is classic rock. I love it too and here's a few that I would definitely suggest:

Styx - Renegade, Come Sail Away

Foreigner - Jukebox Hero, Feels like the First Time, Cold as Ice, I Want to Know What Love Is

Asia - Heat of the Moment

Billy Joel - Piano Man, Only the Good Die Young, We Didn't Start the Fire, Captain Jack

Boston - More than a Feeling, Piece of Mind, Foreplay/Longtime, Rock n' Roll Band, and the rest of their debut album

Credence Clearwater Revival - Fortunate Son, Travelin' Band, Down on the Corner, Lookin' Out my Back Door, Bad Moon Rising

Bruce Springsteen - Glory Days, Born to Run, Hungry Heart, Born in the USA

And depending on what you want you can throw in pretty much anything on Queen and Journey's greatest hits, Meatloaf, Joe Walsh (Rocky Mountain Way, Life's Been Good, etc), and China Grove is an absolute must.

Just one man's opinions..

This band formed in 1973 did the Soundtrack for the Bond movie Live and Let Die - GREAT LIVE PERFORMANCE!



Other Favorites The Sensationl Alex Harvey Band Gang Bang, The Last Of The Teenage Idols

The Tubes White Punks On Dope

Lou Reed and or The Velvet Underground Sweet Jane

Mott The Hoople All The Young Dudes wriiten by David Bowie

Jump on Piratebay and search for 'Top USA Singles'... there should be four torrents... grab them all.

Upon completion, you will have the Top 100 songs on the Billboard charts for every year from 1946 through 2005.


THEN, search for 'SuperHits of the 70s', and grab that... that will give you another 25 albums of groovy 70s tunes


Lastly, search for and grab 'Top 500 Rock and Roll Songs'.



You should now be well on your way

ANYTHING by Yngwie Malmsteen if you're into guitar soloists. Hits? No. Good? Yes, I've even heard greatness used and do not object to the use in this instance.



A little more "laid back"?



Captain Beyond is second to none in this "sub-genre" of R&R.

Another classic rock guitarist maybe?



Ronnie Montrose in his debut with the band "Montrose".

And about as close as I get to "classic punk rock", are The Tubes.





As is the case now, the "really good stuff" you don't hear much about.



JMHO

If your checking the top one hundred singles you'll never hear the good stuff. Back in the 70's the classic rockers were buying albums not singles. The people who like the Carpenters and The Yellow Ribbon guy (forgot name) bought singles. Do a top selling album search.

Some songs the every local band did ..

Urih Heep - Stealing

Deep Purple - Space Trucking, Highway Star, Smoke On The Water

Rolling Stones - Live With Me

Grand Funk Rairoad- Some Kind Of Wonderful, We're An Ameican Band

Jethroe Tull - Aqualung

Led Zepplin- Stairway To Heaven, Rock and Roll

Mott The Hoople- Ready For Love, Sweet Jane

Lynard Skynard - Gimmie Three Steps, Freebird, Simple Man

Everyone keeps telling me how great and godly Eric Clapton is on guitar. I beg to differ. May I introduce to you, Mr. Sonny Landreth.