Name ten rock songs better than The Who's "Baba O'Riley"

[Krill]

Just went and listened to the original version, and ****ing hell is it crap.

[Guynemer]

To support KH's theory on Irish music, I suggest that both "Brown Eyed Girl" and "Wild Night" are better than Baba O'Riley. "Gloria" also rocks, but I don't think it's better than BO...

[Drake Tungsten]

They are more-or-less the same song.

Let's just count them as one, sub 5:00 song.

Time for Clapton now. "Layla" is clearly better than BO. "Sunshine of Your Love" and "Cocaine" are also up there.

[Krill]

Crossroads. The live version basically owns BO.

[Ben Kenobi]

Stairway to Heaven -- Led Zepplin
House of the Rising Sun -- Animals
Satisfaction -- Rolling Stones
Sunshine Superman -- Donovan
Born to be Wild - Steppenwolf
Johnny B Goode -- Chuck Berry
With a Little Help from my Friends -- Joe Cocker
Here comes the Sun -- Beatles
Have you ever seen the rain -- CCR
Beach boys -- Surfin' USA.

I second the votes for Stairway, Satisfaction and Born to be wild.

[Drake Tungsten]

I'm really not sure "Layla" can be beat as a rock song. Two of the all-time top-5 guitarists at their peaks + off-the-scale emotion courtesy of rock's greatest muse + a sick backing band = greatest song evah?

[Ben Kenobi]

Drake, glad to see Pinball Wizard. Good song.

[Ramo]

From the Stones alone:

1. Tumbling Dice
2. Sympathy for the Devil
3. Paint it Black
4. Let it Bleed
5. Satisfaction
6. Jumping Jack Flash
7. Shine a Light
8. Street Fighting Man
9. You Can't Always Get What You Want
10. Mother's Little Helper

[Drake Tungsten]

Change "Shine a Light" to "Honky Tonk Woman" or "Gimme Shelter" and I will support that list wholeheartedly.

[Ramo]

I could go with that. I was scraping the barrel trying to fill the list towards the end. Shine a Light stuck in my head 'cuz of the ads for the movie a while back.

As for Zeppelin:

1. Levee
2. Stairway
3. Dazed and Confused
4. Heartbreaker
5. Immigrant Song
6. Whole Lotta Love
7. Kashmir
8. Black Dog
9. Rock and Roll
10. The Girl I Love She Got Long Black Wavy Hair

[Guynemer]

They are more-or-less the same song.

Let's just count them as one, sub 5:00 song.

Time for Clapton now. "Layla" is clearly better than BO. "Sunshine of Your Love" and "Cocaine" are also up there.

Disagree on Cocaine, but the other two I would, in fact, put it front of BO.

[Ramo]

Sunshine > White Room >> Layla > Cocaine

Spoonful's not on the list only because it's a cover.

[-Jrabbit]

Fun stuff.

Most of you are too young for this discussion. But still, it amuses.

[Drake Tungsten]

Jrabbit, we now have these things called CDs and MP3s that allow people of our generation to listen to music you could only hear when you gathered around the radio with your family, presumably to listen to FDR's fireside chats. It's a magical time.

[Ben Kenobi]

Most of you are too young for this discussion. But still, it amuses.

So add your 2 cents.