Broken Prey's Top 100 Rock Songs

Nah, don't maintain a Top 100 Songs list, it would change way too often. I'm more of an album guy anyway, could rattle off a top 25 list there if need be.

By Broken Prey you mean the John Sanford series? Looking for something to read and was curious if that series was worth looking into.

Like him or not, Springsteen is one of the great songwriters of this generation, one of the few who could be mentioned in the same breath as Dylan.

I like the PREY series and that is where the 100 song list came from.

I would like to hear your top 25 album list.  Springsteen is OK, but Dylan has a lot better song list in my opinion.  I don't like either one as a vocalist.

Here are ten from am old (2006) thread. Limited to one album per artist:

The Lucas Davenport list.  Form the website.

1. Sharp-Dressed Man · ZZ Top
2. Legs · ZZ Top
3. Mustang Sally · Wilson Pickett
4. Superman's Song · Crash Test Dummies
5. Rock On · David Essex
6. Radar Love · Golden Earring
7. Heart of Glass · Blondie
8. White Rabbit · Jefferson Airplane
9. Somebody to Love · Jefferson Airplane
10. Layla · Derek and the Dominoes

1. Roadhouse Blues · Doors
2. House of the Rising Sun · Animals
3. Sweet Emotion · Aerosmith
4. Dude (Looks Like a Lady) · Aerosmith
5. Dancing in the Dark · Bruce Springsteen
6. Born to Run · Bruce Springsteen
7. Thunder Road · Bruce Springsteen
8. Every Breath You Take · Police
9. Heart of Saturday Night · Tom Waits
10. Hot for Teacher · Van Halen

1. Won't Get Fooled Again · Who
2. Hotel California (cover the Eagles) · Gipsy Kings
3. Give Me One Reason · Tracy Chapman
4. Down on the Corner · CCR
5. Lyin' Eyes · Eagles
6. Life in the Fast Lane · Eagles
7. Skateaway (Roller Girl) · Dire Straits
8. Mary Jane's Last Dance · Tom Petty
9. Me 'n Bobby McGee · Janis Joplin
10. Black Water · Doobie Brothers

1. I Love Rock 'n Roll · Joan Jett
2. Jack and Diane · John Mellencamp
3. The Wall (Part 2) · Pink Floyd
4. Money · Pink Floyd
5. Piano Man · Billy Joel
6. After Midnight · Eric Clapton
7. Lay Down Sally · Eric Clapton
8. You Shook Me (All Night Long) · AC/DC
9. Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap · AC/DC
10. Long Cool Woman · Hollies

1. Like a Rolling Stone · Bob Dylan
2. Knockin' on Heaven's Door · Bob Dylan
3. Subterranean Homesick Blues · Bob Dylan
4. Satisfaction · Rolling Stones
5. Brown Sugar · Rolling Stones
6. Sympathy for the Devil · Rolling Stones
7. Anarchy in the UK · Sex Pistols
8. Sugar Magnolia · Grateful Dead
9. Slow Hand · Pointer Sisters
10. Sweet Dreams · Eurythmics

1. Jailhouse Rock · Elvis Presley
2. Ziggy Stardust · David Bowie
3. Night Moves · Bob Seger
4. Bye-Bye-Love · Everly Brothers
5. Purple Haze · Jimi Hendrix
6. Lola · Kinks
7. Tender is the Night · Jackson Browne
8. Louie Louie · The Kingsmen
9. Bad to the Bone · George Thorogood
10. Turn the Page (covers Bob Seger) · Metallica

1. Sweet Home Alabama · Lynryd Skynyrd
2. We Will Rock You · Queen
3. Ramblin' Man · Allman Brothers
4. Rock 'n Roll · Led Zeppelin
5. What's Love Got to Do With It · Tina Turner
6. Born to Be Wild · Steppenwolf
7. With or Without You · U2
8. Paranoid · Black Sabbath
9. Blue Morning Blue · Foreigner
10. White Wedding · Billy Idol

1. Sweet Child o' Mine · Guns 'n Roses
2. Paradise City · Guns 'n Roses
3. Knockin' on Heaven's Door (covers Dylan) · Guns 'n Roses *
4. Walk on the Wild Side · Lou Reed
5. Feel Like Makin' Love · Bad Company
6. Rock of Ages · Def Leppard
7. Brown Eyed Girl · Van Morrison
8. Devil With a Blue Dress · Mitch Ryder and the Detroit Wheels
9. Respect · Aretha Franklin
10. I'm in the Mood · John Lee Hooker & Bonnie Raitt

1. I Got You (I Feel Good) · James Brown
2. Unchained Melody · Righteous Brothers
3. Little Red Corvette · Prince
4. Roll Over Beethoven · Chuck Berry
5. Mr. Tamborine Man (covers Dylan) · Byrds
6. Ohio · CSNY
7. Peggy Sue · Buddy Holly
8. Great Balls of Fire · Jerry Lee Lewis
9. Pretty Woman · Roy Orbison
10. Runaway · Del Shannon

1. Walk This Way · Aerosmith / Run-DMC
2. (Sittin' on the) Dock of the Bay · Otis Redding
3. Smells like Teen Spirit · Nirvana
4. Still Crazy After All These Years · Paul Simon
5. Who Do You Love? · Bo Diddley
6. One Toke Over the Line · Brewer and Shipley
7. I Wanna Be Sedated · Ramones
8. Should I Stay or Should I Go · Clash
9. Burning Down the House · Talking Heads
10. Waltz 2 / Jazz Suite · Dimitri Shostakovich

 Would recommend the Prey Series for something to read.  Start at the beginning and see out much we have progressed in Technology.   386 Computers, plug in car phones.....Plus Lucas Davenport has a lot of interesting background stories and ladies to read about.

 Nothing to add to the the list. But I do thank you for jogging my memory and making me look at his website. I see the latest Flowers book is now available!!!!! This will be a nice break from the Fire and Ice series. Love that *&^%$#* Flowers!

jmhpsu93 - 2012-10-28 7:51 PM Just a question to ponder...why does every "best Rock 'n Roll blah blah blah" list end in 1983??  Don't get me wrong...I'm 43 and I grew up on Styx, Rush, Boston, and the very recent memories of Yes, Zeppelin, Floyd, etc.  Just sayin'...ya know, they kept writing rock music after disco died.  Some of it is actually good. 

I try to stay current with music, some of it is quite good. I could probably give you a top ten list every year, but IMHO no album released in the last thirty years could crack the list I posted.

Your suggestions?

Our tastes are similar, yet different.

I would agree with some of yours, but there are very few "Albums" that I would consider ever being a top ten.  There are always songs that I don't like on albums.

Beatles - I would have to say Revolver

Roling Stones - Not one album, but you have a good choice

Bob Dylan - Great writer, horrible singer, but agree with your choice

Van Morrison - A lot of the songs are good,  not a specific album for me

The Who - My favorite is Tommy by a landslide.

Stray Cats - Self Titled, but that is because I liked Rockabilly

Rush - Moving Pictures

Joe Satriani - Surfing with the Aliens

Wendy Carlos - Switched On Bach (Not sure if it classifies as rock, but it was all done on MOOG synthesizers and redubbing 8-track recorders)  This was before Moog synthesizers were big.  She actually worked with Robert Moog to make changes.   The first album I purchased was actually called Juan Carlos and not Wendy.  Something about it not being able to sell because it was a woman by CBS records at the time.

Boston - Boston or More Than a Feeling or Third Stage.

Warren Zevon - Excitable Boy

Some Southern Rock from .38 Special should be in the list.   Teacher Teacher, Hold on Loosely, Fantasy Girl.

April Wine,  I Like To Rock.   http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YlcY_enzwmI&feature=related

If I did the rock songs that band was always getting requests for that I know pretty much can't stand to listen to, or play, I could have a list of songs that were popular, but have been beaten to death by radio stations and cover bands.  I wonder if I have some set lists from 15 - 20 years ago????

I like April Wine and some .38 special.  Hold on Loosely is one of the songs for me in the list of over played band songs.

I'll play, but I'll join our resident curmudgeon in complaining about the loss of album-oriented rock. I'm fully digital, but it's definitely geared towards the ADHD generation. I'm just as guilty, there are a lot of great new artists but I find myself only downloading songs I like. I still have a turntable, although it's been getting less and less use.

I fully endorse the rest of you over-50 people's choices, and here are my additions:

Allman Brothers - Eat a Peach

David Bowie - Ziggy Stardust (or Hunky Dory)

Dire Straits - Dire Straits

Doors - LA Woman

Elvis Costello - Armed Forces (or My Aim is True)

Eric Clapton - Slowhand or 461 Ocean Boulevard

Genesis - Lamb lies down on Broadway

Grateful Dead - American Beauty (or Workingman's Dead)

Green Day - Dookie

Meat Loaf - Bat out of Hell

Neil Young - Harvest or After the Gold Rush (although I really like Rust Never Sleeps)

Nirvana - Nevermind

Patti Smith -Wave or Horses

Ramones - Road to Ruin

Santana - Santana

Tom Petty - Damn the Torpedoes

The Who - Quadrophenia

And there are a lot of others but not sure their entire albums are worthy  - i.e. Chili Peppers, Steely Dan,  Linkin Park.

"Do you like Phil Collins? I've been a big Genesis fan ever since the release of their 1980 album, Duke. Before that, I really didn't understand any of their work. Too artsy, too intellectual. It was on Duke where Phil Collins' presence became more apparent. I think Invisible Touch was the group's undisputed masterpiece. It's an epic meditation on intangibility. At the same time, it deepens and enriches the meaning of the preceding three albums."

Nice list, BTW.

OVER 50!!!!  PFFT.  Not there yet, but damn close.

I would add Collective Soul, and Live.  Both of their first albums were pretty good. 

The other one I think their first album was called Home by Blessid Union of Souls.

Blues Travelers first wasn't bad either.

No, I do not like Phil Collins or any of the later albums. I'm a Peter Gabriel fan. I like their early work, but it is very complex and not something you can listen to all the time. Foxtrot is an excellent album. I also like King Crimson, which falls into that same category.

I just realized I should have included Stevie Ray Vaughn -  Texas Flood was epic. My favorite "car top down, music cranked, driving the highway" album.

That was funny. 

I do like some of the post-Gabriel Genesis stuff like Trick of the Tail, but I agree that the Gabriel Genesis stuff is absolutely fantastic.

Never heard of Arthur Lee and Love? You really should seek out Forever Changes, it's a late Sixties psychedelic masterpiece.

the bear - 2012-10-30 10:28 AM

BrianRunsPhilly - 2012-10-30 8:51 AM

the bear - 2012-10-30 8:30 AM

BrianRunsPhilly - 2012-10-30 7:17 AM

 

Genesis - Lamb lies down on Broadway

 

"Do you like Phil Collins? I've been a big Genesis fan ever since the release of their 1980 album, Duke. Before that, I really didn't understand any of their work. Too artsy, too intellectual. It was on Duke where Phil Collins' presence became more apparent. I think Invisible Touch was the group's undisputed masterpiece. It's an epic meditation on intangibility. At the same time, it deepens and enriches the meaning of the preceding three albums."

Nice list, BTW.

No, I do not like Phil Collins or any of the later albums. I'm a Peter Gabriel fan. I like their early work, but it is very complex and not something you can listen to all the time. Foxtrot is an excellent album. I also like King Crimson, which falls into that same category.

I just realized I should have included Stevie Ray Vaughn -  Texas Flood was epic. My favorite "car top down, music cranked, driving the highway" album.

Quote is from American Psycho. Everyone knows post-Gabriel Genesis sux.

Sorry, didn't get it. Its a tough morning, hard to sleep last night and I was so dazed this morning I put the coffee in my travel mug and then couldn't figure out what the hell I did with my coffee. Not like I can get to the office today, but I'm conditioned.