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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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kedoades
251 posts
 
hotel california by the eagles
trelja
3,223 posts
 
This is proving an impossible task for me. So many on this list would get my vote. But I'll nominate one that's not yet been mentioned, "Crosstown Traffic" by Jimi Hendrix.
oregon
820 posts
 
All Along The Watchtower, Hendrix. It was actually written by Hendrix, he just used Dylan as a surrogate.
...Watchtower performed by Dylan and The Band is also way up there.

Voodoo Chile, slight return --really moves me. I live in the Northwest. If you've ever stood in Seattle, looking across at the Olympic Mts, you could imagine Hendrix wondering, tripping, on the majestic sceney before him. Water all around, small islands here and there, huge snow covered mountain across the way shrouded in clouds. He probably reached out, and with the side of his hand, chopped the side of the mountain- making islands.
Jimi lives forever in the Northwest and beyond.
vegasears
1,173 posts
 
Won't Get Fooled Again, The WHO
andr
109 posts
 
Queensryche : Silent lucidity

Best "symphonic" rock song ever heard. Acoustically pleasing, kicks ass while still a ballad.
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