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The best rock song of all time

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Now of course this is subjective and honestly there are so many songs out there that I find it hard, it was hard to find, oh whatever nevermind.  

I could make the same argument that my dad probably would have made for the Beatles for my selection.  There were plenty of "rock" bands around the time the Beatles came out but what made them different?  I don't know but my dad probably did because unlike me he was actually alive at the time. 

So what is my nomination of the best rock song of all time and why did I choose that song?  If you couldn't guess from the first sentence then maybe you shouldn't participate.  Smells Like Teen Spirit is my nomination for best rock song of all time.  It's not a particularly deep song either musically or lyrically but I think it's the simplicity of it that actually makes it great.  It doesn't have the musical depth of Rush or the lyrical depth Dylan but what it does have in spades is emotion both musically and lyrically.  I've always been one to appreciate emotion.  And I don't care if you're a kid from New York city or Dublin Ireland, if you don't appreciate the emotion in this song then you're dead, probably don't even have a soul. 

 

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7 hours ago, stankowalski said:

Now of course this is subjective and honestly there are so many songs out there that I find it hard, it was hard to find, oh whatever nevermind.  

I could make the same argument that my dad probably would have made for the Beatles for my selection.  There were plenty of "rock" bands around the time the Beatles came out but what made them different?  I don't know but my dad probably did because unlike me he was actually alive at the time. 

So what is my nomination of the best rock song of all time and why did I choose that song?  If you couldn't guess from the first sentence then maybe you shouldn't participate.  Smells Like Teen Spirit is my nomination for best rock song of all time.  It's not a particularly deep song either musically or lyrically but I think it's the simplicity of it that actually makes it great.  It doesn't have the musical depth of Rush or the lyrical depth Dylan but what it does have in spades is emotion both musically and lyrically.  I've always been one to appreciate emotion.  And I don't care if you're a kid from New York city or Dublin Ireland, if you don't appreciate the emotion in this song then you're dead, probably don't even have a soul. 

 

Not only that, but it single-handedly dethroned glam rock as the most popular form of hard rock/metal.  

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2 hours ago, WilmyWood said:

Not only that, but it single-handedly dethroned glam rock as the most popular form of hard rock/metal.  

GNR punched glam in the nuts and then nirvana kicked it in the face.

what's interesting is that if you look at bands like ratt, poison, and everyone else on down they didn't have huge teased up hair and weren't really wearing a ton of makeup anymore by the late 80s.  they were wearing leather jackets and torn up jeans and other fake tough guy stuff to try and look like axl rose and slash.  that and bands like megadeth and metallica were starting to get mainstream exposure.  that genre really might have just died on its own eventually.

i mean seriously this is poison in 1990:

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now who could bret michaels possibly be trying to look like

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