Despite being utterly bonkers, it's a brilliant and ambitious piece of music. The moment that metal became mainstream and Metallica became one of the biggest bands of all timeĪ 20 minute concept epic that filled a whole side of the album of the same name. The soundtrack to lives of young men around the world for nearly 40 years It's overblown, theatrical and a lot of fun - it's no wonder Meat has been trying to recreate it ever since.Ģ7) THIN LIZZY - THE BOYS ARE BACK IN TOWN Responsible for pretty much every wah-wah pedal sale since its release, this was the last song on the last Experience album and it remains one of the all time great closing tracksįor a song that's actually a bit melancholy in content, you won't find many songs like this that can be sung with such gleeful gusto by pretty much every human on the planet. They may have been paying tribute to their heroes but in doing so they immortalised their own mission statementĢ4) JIMI HENDRIX EXPERIENCE - VOODOO CHILD (SLIGHT RETURN) What other band could have fitted something so big and bombastic into two minutes? The only cover to make the top 30, Hendrix took ownership of Dylan's hit single and essentially created the blueprint for hard rock.Ī perfect encapsulation of the hopes and dreams of youth in small-town America in the post-Nixon era.
That moment when the drums first kick in remains one of the most thrilling in the history of music.Ģ0) JIMI HENDRIX EXPERIENCE - ALL ALONG THE WATCHTOWER If anyone ever asks you to "explain rock music" then - without saying anything - dig out your copy of Highway To Hell, turn the volume up loud and press play. While the song is the band's biggest single, it's no less complex or arresting than the rest of their work - musically prodigious and melodically profound, it's everything that rock should be. The song which put Rush into the UK singles might have been a loveletter to great radio but it was also a prophetic warning about the commercialism creeping into the medium. It is also pretty notable for containing not only an enormous keyboard solo but also an outrageous guitar solo from Ritchie Blackmore. Apparently written in minutes on a tour bus, this remains one of the all time great driving songs. The sound of a band who have nothing left to prove. Gallery: Iron Maiden's Eddie the Head through the yearsįuriously fast and frenetic rock n roll which, when played loud enough, has the tendency to make your brain dance around inside your skull like bouncy ball. Written in minutes solely to make up the numbers on the band's second album this has become their most enduring and recognisable song. It's also the most concise example of what AC/DC do best: fun, loud, hard rock and roll.Īnother example of a song which was born in a moment of magic. The greatest song ever written about an overweight Tasmanian lady who's good in the sack? You bet. It also has the greatest drum intro to any song EVER. The closest thing to a pop song that Zeppelin ever did - three and a half minutes of raw rock fire-power which does exactly what it says on the tin. It remains the greatest example of why rock ballads don't have to suck.Įmerging from an event so catastrophic that it would have destroyed lesser bands, AC/DC's highest placing song in this poll is the greatest tribute they could have paid to their former singer, Bon Scott - celebratory, wild and a killer riff that never gets old Written in minutes and with a riff born out of a guitar warm up exercise, this song most definitely had inauspicious beginnings. Eight and a bit minutes of incendiary guitars, synthesisers, drums and vocals combining to provide one of the most euphoric rock songs of all time. The Who's defining moment closed their greatest album. When you consider that this song is made up of a simple riff repeated many times over, a pretty non-existent chorus and a drum solo which lasts for half the song, it really is spectacularly brilliant. Not to mention that pretty much every human on the planet can probably sing the chorus, even if they have never heard of Free. It turned Dio into a legend, and reminded everyone that with a guitar in his hand, Ritchie Blackmore was unbeatable.Ī staple of rock radio since the moment it was released in 1970, All Right Now is an unceremoniously joyous record that simply screams sunshine and happier times. 50 facts about Led Zeppelin's album coversĪbsolutely bursting with attitude and power, Stargazer was born to be played VERY loud.
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