Top ten rock songs

[prometheus]

Savatage - Legions
Grave Digger - Lionheart
Bal Sagoth - Calisto Rising
Yngwie Malmsteen - Disciples of Hell
Ring of Fire - Atlantis
Vision Divine - New Eden
Blind Guardian - Punishment Divine
Ice Age - When You're Ready
Edguy - Babylon
Helloween - You Always Walk Alone

Excluding instrumentals of course. I could make a top 100 for those.

[harjoydes]

Pardon me, I may be showing my age, but I've never heard of any of these bands. 

[prometheus]

I never said any of them were famous. A few of them are well known by rock music fans. A few of them are totally obscure.

But if you are interested you can find most of these songs with a good music sharing program.


Do note that I can't stand in for my taste in rock music

[semme]

i like yngwie. what about "rising force" and "hold on"?  i think they are even better than disciples of hell .
i never heard of divine punishment from blind guardian, but "bards tale" is sweet!
well, i cant talk about the other bands since i dont know them myself either.

about the top ten. i mean, there will always be some songs being at the peak of my taste, whereas it often depends on the situation when you are hearing a great song/piece


simon

[letters]

out of those i recognise helloween and blind guardian.... only because they are constantly blasting out of my little brothers room!!

[brewtality]

Yngwie rules. Hmm I was going allude to his infamous tokyo flight (you've released the [something] fury!) but Nils will just tell me I'm violating the rules again. My favourite of his songs is Judas, followed by I am a Viking and Evil Eye.

[arensky]

For me...

Purple Haze
Bohdisattva
Kashmir
House Burning Down
Jamie's Cryin'
Something
Red
Psychotic Reaction
Jessica
If 6 was 9
Along Comes Mary
Norwegian Wood
Little Miss Lover
Tomorrow Never Knows
Good Morning Good Morning
Mexican Radio
Love or Confusion
Godzilla
School's Out
Only Women Bleed
Sexy Sadie
You Got Me Floatin'
Fire in the Hole
With a Gun
Amazing Journey
Baba O'Riley
How Many Friends
In a Hand or Face
High Flying Bird
Guinevere
Whole Lotta Love
Satisfaction
Jumpin' Jack Flash

and many more...

[brewtality]

Jamie's Cryin'

Good song, but the lyrics suck. David Lee Roth comes up with the dumbest lyrics. EVH is a god.

[timothy42b]

Savatage - Legions
Grave Digger - Lionheart
Bal Sagoth - Calisto Rising
Yngwie Malmsteen - Disciples of Hell
Ring of Fire - Atlantis
Vision Divine - New Eden
Blind Guardian - Punishment Divine
Ice Age - When You're Ready
Edguy - Babylon
Helloween - You Always Walk Alone

Excluding instrumentals of course. I could make a top 100 for those.

I see two columns.

Which one is the band, and which one is the tune title? 

[brewtality]

hey is that Helloween song a take off of the Rogers and Hammerstein song "You'll never walk Alone"? That's my favourite song. And Tim, Yngwie Malmsteen is neither a band nor a song but a person (a fat swede).

[prometheus]

First comes the artist name, then band name.


I have some doubts about that Yngwie song. I like 'On The Run Again' as well. But I also like Hangar 18, Area 51 (yes, haha). I think that one is with Mark Boals, Ring of Fire is his band, with classical pianist Vitalij Kuprij, and with Tony McAlpine, the guitarist that plays keyboards for Steve Vai while being the better guitarist, imo. He also records Chopin pieces on his solo CDs.

Rising force is probably his best album because of Black Star and Far Beyong the Sun, but those are instrumentals. Just like Evil Eye, Blitzkrieg and Arpeggios from Hell. pieces that are all some fun.


It was kind of funny that after 'the incident' he called his next album 'Fury'.

But of course Shawn Lane is a far more impressive guitar player.



About Helloween. I don't know. Is that that Liverpool song? It's Oscar Hammerstein? Actually I never knew he wrote it. Well, he's a good songwriter. I love All The Things... I think the Helloween title is probably a pun aimed at that song.


And about state being dynamic. Yes, this is generally true. But I didn't listen to any guitar music for the past two years, excluding Shawn Lane. So my taste in rock music has to be static. Just went through my old records, trying to conjure up some old emotions that I assosiate with some of those songs.

[invictious]

Yngwie isn't rock, he is just shred.

Rock is like..Acdc and so on.

[mephisto]

Yngwie isn't rock, he is just shred.

Rock is like..Acdc and so on.

Please, please think before you write.

[invictious]

Please, please think before you write.

Rock and Metal are pretty different you know, and if you say, Yngwie is metal shred on guitar.

ACDC IS rock, classic rock if you want to be finicky.

[prometheus]

What's the difference?

[mephisto]

Rock and Metal are pretty different you know, and if you say, Yngwie is metal shred on guitar.

ACDC IS rock, classic rock if you want to be finicky.

Rock(big genre! with any sub genres) - Metal is a sub-genre of rock(wich also have many sub genres)

[anodibu]

Bal Sagoth - Calisto Rising

I don't understand why people rate that song so high. It's got a weak production and musically it's too much a repetition of earlier stuff. My favourite Bal-Sagoth song is "Starfire Burning upon the Ice-veiled Throne of Ultima Thule" from their second cd, what power and emotion!