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Come on let's have some classic rock right here - for kicks. :cornut:
Get the leather jackets out.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PfAWR...eature=related
Deep Purple to kick off - Child in Time.
(My dad's got this LP; love the front cover, brilliant.)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w9TGj...eature=related
Led Zeppelin - Stairway to Heaven.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QQBttKoetqo
Black Sabbath - Paranoid.
There are so many classic rock songs that are better than this but for some reason, it's the first one that came to mind. I always enjoyed this one when it came on the radio.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o-6v4H4BtWI
For me, classic rock is this song -- there are others that are good, even great. But this is it: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N_5kv8QeBBc
Van Halen - 'Love Walks In'
Aerosmith - 'Janie's Got A Gun'
I love Heart too. Some girly classic rock!
I don't know if Pink Floyd are classed as classic rock? :s I guess they are classic and rock. 'Comfartably Numb' is a fab song but I need more PF recommendations because I've only just started listening to them.
Boston - 'More Than A Feeling'. I thought I didn't like it because of that bank advert put me off but it's a great song actually!
Great choices everyone else too. Can't beat a classic rock song played full-blast!
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Originally Posted by Neely
Neely, you better grab hold of the reins and define what you mean by "Classic" rock.Quote:
Originally Posted by Veho
Veho, I'm having a difficult time placing Van Halen and later Aerosmith in the Classic category.
Maybe it's a generational thing (grinning smilie here).
We can all agree that disco is out...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fsilz...eature=related
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One of the most under-rated bands ever:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dk3Ei_yoI4c
Haha, I realised when I posted that they weren't really classic in the sense Neely meant but I posted anyway. I think it must be a generation thing! More things must seem classic when you aren't a wrinkly. :pQuote:
Originally Posted by Gilliatt Gurgle
What about Guns N Roses? 'Sweet Child O' Mine'?
Ha, ha sorry. People have my express permission to post what the hell they like - that's the rock and roll attitude!Quote:
Neely, you better grab hold of the reins and define what you mean by "Classic" rock
Yes I love The Kinks, brilliant. I started a post mentioning The Kinks (as well as The Beatles, The Rolling Stones, Black Sabbath) last night but it got too long winded and alas I didn't finish it. They have some great tracks.Quote:
Originally Posted by stlukesguild
Yes I'm not defining classic, read "classic" as "good". Bad choice of title, my error.Quote:
Originally Posted by Veho
Oh, yes now we are talking with this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rMbATaj7Il8
:coolgleamA:
That's me biking down to play tennis on my push bike, cruising at 20 mph. Seriously though, does that song not define the word cool? That link should go next to the word in the dictionary.
A mate and I, both going through messy relationship meltdowns, decided to get the hell out of England for a couple of weeks, and we landed on the island of Patmos in the Aegean - which is just a pointy rock sticking out of the sea, run by the monks from the monastery built around the mountain cave in which St John is purported to have written the Book of Revelations.Quote:
Originally Posted by Neely
The only way to get from the town on one side of the island to the beach on the other side is to hire diddy little mopeds, but the hire place only had one left. So the two of us, both well over six feet tall, got on this thing, kicked it to top speed and headed up the mountain road in our shades and faded 'Stoned Again' t-shirts.
It was a moment of happy, youthful, unselfconscious bliss, not at all deflated by the fact that, as we revved the moped to its limit and sang Born To Be Wild at the top of our voices, we were overtaken on the upward slope by a nun riding a pushbike.
:lol: Fantastic story.
So many fantastic classic rock tracks. I really like this one. Hendrix's All Along the Watchtower.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9WbKB...eature=related
This one's intro always makes my hair stand on end - Shelter by The Rolling Stones.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WJDnJ0vXUgw
Stairway to Heaven is brilliant, but here's a couple of other versions:Quote:
Originally Posted by Neely
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IPOIy4Kb9M4
by Rolf Harris
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IzDEmkfb6VI
By Far Corporation, which is a more conventional rendition. This version came out in the middle 80s, and it hit a new wave of young rock kids who weren't aware of the original.
I've never heard of Far Corporation. I thought it was OK, very close to the original, up until about halfway when the obvious 80s influence kicked it and then it went bad. I've heard the Rolf version before! You are right though there are plenty of good rock tracks out there (and of course some very bad cheesey ones).
Hey, I’m getting a “Content Blocked in Your Country” message on one of Paul’s Stairway selections (I’m in the U.S.). Must be a copywrite thing.
Mmm-hmm, relationships eh?
I call him Mister Loaf. Paradise by the Dashboard Light:
http://youtu.be/ZK-FRac7m58
I couldn’t take it any longer, lord I was crazy
When the feeling came upon me like a tidal wave
So I’m swearing to my god and on my mother’s grave
That I will love you ‘till the end of time
I swore I would love you ‘till the end of time
~~~keyboard and drums~~~
So now I’m praying for the end of time, to hurry up and arrive
‘Cos if I gotta spend another minute with you, I don’t think that I can really survive
I’ll never break my promise or forget my vow, but god only knows what I could do right now
I’m praying for the end of time, that’s all that I can do – whoo –whoo
Praying for the end of time, so I can end my time with you
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g96Za...eature=related
Free Alright Now (oh yes along with some other stuff!)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m_lQ0H4zZEA
Jethro Tull Minstrel in the Gallery live 1976
I love the costumes of the 70's and the showmanship. Excellent performance all the way through! Always loved this song much better than Stairway to Heaven for some reason.
As seen as Neely has let us go wild, I'm going to throw some Madchester rock in the mix.
The Stone Roses - 'Waterfall'
www.youtube.com/watch?v=7uQMqsWsGtA
I can't watch/listen to many of the videos as I'm not on proper Internet at the mo, but some good songs here and some others that I need to listen to too. Like The Rolling Stones - never listened to them properly. And The Kinks. And Jethro Tull. :blush:
M.Bastable - that story paints a really funny image in my head with the nun part! Great.
I'm not sure that the Stone Roses' charming faux-trippy psychedelia really qualifies as Classic Rock, within the meaning of the Act. But enjoyable, nevertheless.
I was going to post exactly that clip of Free - not my favourite band of the era, but you could make an argument for that being the quintessential British rock song, although there's some strong local competition.
In the Netherlands, on the other hand, there was very little competition at all...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hwqkZ...eature=related
True, but Neely said:Quote:
Originally Posted by MarkBastable
The Stone Roses are classed as rock and they're good (IMO ;)), so I mentioned them.Quote:
Yes I'm not defining classic, read "classic" as "good". Bad choice of title, my error.
You're right about defining classic rock. I posted that clip because I reckon nothing beats a good old set of drums with bass & electric guitar (plus some long haired, bearded sweaty men!). IMO, it meets the criteria!Quote:
Originally Posted by MarkBastable
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BYBwa-Rzrgc
Australia's own AC/DC It's a Long Way 1976
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature...3m5bCCOfs&NR=1
Highway to Hell
I also like Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap
This must be the most 'pervy' video of all time. If you think I am wrong, and there is a more pervy one, then please prove me wrong. :biggrin5:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NMNgbISmF4I
I think this is bordering on cheesy rock, but who cares?:drool5:
I'm pretty sure that you could find pervier with about ten minutes concerted effort. Although I'm prepared to put in three or four days.Quote:
Originally Posted by Neely
Is it made more or less pervy for knowing that that's Steve Tyler's daughter climbing out of the window?
Your dedication to the cause is most admirable.Quote:
Originally Posted by MarkBastable
Yes I remember it is his daughter now and the other is Alicia Silverstone. I think it's very tongue-in-cheek anyway.
How about this one to add to your bike adventures? (Not the original recording apparently.) I can just see that nun now - zoom, zoom.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4qHX493bB3U
Absolute classic that.Quote:
Originally Posted by Delta40
I think this topic is lacking a little Def Leppard at the moment so I'll throw this in the mix.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v6R-LZ25Te0
HaHa, one of the best lines, ever:Quote:
Originally Posted by Sancho
We were doubly blessed
We were barely seventeen and we were barely dressed
Some of my favorites:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3JUqpJeIUAE
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WTZtGHnB3qU
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0K63pu7nd6Q
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5nhUlKYeUoE
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Originally Posted by Big Dante
There is no topic that could ever be 'lacking a little Def Leppard', unless the topic was 'to which tiny, featureless and unmapped outcrop of uninhabitable rock in the far South Atlantic shall we banish Def Leppard?'
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Originally Posted by MarkBastable
While in theory a tiny bit of me tends to agree, another part knows Def Leppard had some pretty decent tunes in their early years.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vHA1Cv9XsBk
You should post one sometime.Quote:
Originally Posted by papayahed
Mark, what u think of this tune? *honestly*
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R2poqYvWsyU
k, I'm out. That one and Billy's Got a Gun are the only ones I can recommend and I'm pretty sure you aren't going to like Billy.Quote:
Originally Posted by MarkBastable
The tune I like. His voice irritates me. I always thought his brother had the better voice.Quote:
Originally Posted by smerdyakov
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Originally Posted by Big Dante
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Originally Posted by MarkBastable
:lol: :lol:Quote:
Originally Posted by papayahed
I used to adore Def Leppard, also from Sheffield, when I was at school, when I was 14/15 or so. Then they sold out after Hysteria and went pop - always massive cheesy rock though. Now they are probably sat on that uninhabitable rock in the South Atlantic next to Jon Bon Jovi! As Papaya said though the earlier stuff, was proper rock rock, classic rock - the leathers and spandex variety of rock - yeah man.
This one in my opinion is the best and most underrated of the aforementioned proper spandex period. Hysteria being probably the best in the latter half. Enjoy!!
Lady Strange:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HO-fP...eature=related
I feel the need to purchase Union Jack Y-fronts right now.
Edit: Geek tit bit: the swimming pool on the front cover of the High and Dry album (the one with the really bad image of the man driving in the pool) was taken from Longley park, which lies about 200 metres from my house. The outdoor swimming pool has long since been closed down though. Council cut-backs even then.
Oh what about Thin Lizzy?
Whiskey in the Jar
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0zEZr...eature=related
There are endless versions of this old song of course, including a version by Metallica!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=axQzEYq8ucM
This song is guaranteed to be played in about every Irish pub every night. It was about the third song played by an Irish band when I was in Dublin supping Guinness a few years back, predictably. God, I got drunk that night!
We're missing some Santana, so here's a couple - no I changed my mind - three.
http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xjn...r-stereo_music
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AEm2afF8Iyo
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eaKnRUfh_5I
My favourite Hendrix track:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4AuxJH2Mj30
With some Cream for pudding.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s7rHCYtbZRo&feature=fvst
Nice thread this. I'll be able to populate another excellent Youtube playlist.
Yep that's my favourite Hendrix as well.Quote:
Originally Posted by Paulclem
Although this one is good too:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u2Gwp...endscreen&NR=1