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Best rock song of all times

Only one answer please.
Not the best written or the best musical complexity but the one that represents the rock.

My choice: Satisfaction - Rolling Stones

Reasons:
- first notes are like the 5th of Beethoven (when you hear those notes, everybody pumps up the volume)
- still very up to date
- a mix of rock and blues rock and Motown sound
- lyrics talks about disatisfaction of young people vs life, politics, money and women (even B Dylan like that song)
- music is very basic as a good rock song should be
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bdp24...

Yup - that cut is absolutely insane.  Even when I listen to it now it gets around 4-5 replays instantly.  I can only imagine what it would be like live. 

In the the same vein I’ll offer “Right Hand Man” by Joan Osborne.  Song just goes...
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@oblgny, Joan is wonderful live, better than on record. Check out her live-in-studio version of Slim Harpo’s "Shake Your Hips" on You Tube. Very hot! Lou Ann Barton does a great version the song too, another great singer. She was Stevie Ray Vaughan's original singer in Austin, and now sometimes tours with his brother Jimmie.
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Okay...anudder OBVIOUS one...

”Heartbreaker” - Led Zeppelin. 

That it’s also also one of the best rock riffs ever is beside the point. I read an article many years ago regarding the techniques used recording the tune. If my 60+ year old memory has retained anything, Page’s amplifier was situated 20 feet down a hall and cranked to eleven - or something like that. 

I swear that I can hear that. 
ron_hartman
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Fire and Water by Free has it all for me. Pounding drums, great vocal and guitar.

But the earlier mention of Little Wing had me thinking. My favorite Hendrix song, it almost transcends rock music. In its own category.
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War Pigs - Black Sabbath
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