Classic Rock Songs You Never Tire of Hearing

Material Girl.

I should hate it after all this time, but it still makes me smile, and makes me remember when Madonna was new and fresh and fun. Not the (fill in the blank) we now know.

THIS.

One of the most iconic songs of the 1960's and one of my all time favorites, These Boots Are Made For Walkin' by Nancy Sinatra. Never tire of it!!

Good choice R2

Ditto R3 !! OP here totally agrees.

Lay Down by Melanie

Baker Street by Gerry Rafferty

The Smiths' How Soon is Now.

Yes, they sold out to tv shows and commercials, but I still never tire of hearing it. Especially it's iconic opening.

Love r7 but I love this one more! I could listen to it forever! The harmonies are beautiful!

Thunder Road - that opening piano and harmonica! Like a Rolling Stone Drive by The Cars

(Totally agree with Lyin’ Eyes.)

R9 lol I was just about to post Rafferty's Right Down the Line. So here it is...

I feel like none of these are "classic rock" songs. They are good, but they are "soft rock" or "new wave" or "pop" songs.

Lola

Keeping with the idea of kosher "classic rock" (I agree with many of the commented songs but also the comment that those songs aren't really classic rock),

I just adore the Neil Young song "My My, Hey Hey (Out of the Blue)." I don't feel this way about any of his other songs.

"Mr. Roboto" by Styx.

"The Chain" and "Landslide" by Fleetwood Mac.

"November Rain" by Guns N' Roses. I know, I know.

I generally love any song by The Beatles, The Rolling Stones, Grateful Dead, Roy Orbison and Elvis.

The catalogs of Jimi Hendrix, Queen, The Doors, and Pink Floyd are hit or miss.

I love Bruce Springsteen and Billy Joel's early work.

Neil Young's "Old Man".

I don't know if it can be considered classic, but I stop whatever I'm doing and listen (still) whenever it comes on.

Highway to Hell (original version)

Hey Jude

Neil Young’s Southern Man - love the sound of his guitar.

R12 There's not really a hard/black and white definition or line between Rock and Soft Rock / Pop. The lines are pretty blurred.

Purple Rain

Haven't you heard?

Free Fallin’

Was Procal Harem's Conquistador big enough to be considered classic?

Night Moves, love the lyrics.

I was a little too tall, could've used a few pounds Tight pants points hardly renown She was a black-haired beauty with big dark eyes And points all her own sitting way up high Way up firm and high

Out past the cornfields where the woods got heavy Out in the back seat of my sixty Chevy Workin' on mysteries without any clues Workin' on our night moves Trying' to make some front page drive-in news Workin' on our night moves In the summertime In the sweet summertime

We weren't in love, oh no, far from it We weren't searching for some pie in the sky summit We were just young and restless and bored Living by the sword And we'd steal away every chance we could To the backroom, the alley, the trusty woods I used her she used me, but neither one cared We were getting our share

Workin' on our night moves Trying to lose the awkward teenage blues Workin' on out night moves And it was summertime Sweet summertime, summertime

And oh, the wonder Felt the lightning Yeah, and we waited on the thunder Waited on the thunder

I woke last night to the sound of thunder How far-off, I sat and wondered Started humming a song from nineteen-sixty-two Ain't it funny how the night moves? When you just don't seem to have as much to lose Strange how the night moves With autumn closing in

Hmm, night moves (Night moves) night moves (Night moves) yeah (Night moves) night moves (Night moves) I remember the night moves (Night moves) ain't it funny how you remember? (Night moves) funny how you remember (Night moves) I remember, I remember, I remember, I remember (Night moves) oh (Night moves) move away (Night moves) we're gonna practice, love (Night moves) night moves (Night moves) oh, I remember (Night moves) yeah, yeah, yeah, I remember (Night moves) oh, I remember (Night moves) god, I remember (Night moves) lord, I remember

Oh, woman, oh, yeah, yeah, uh-huh, I remember, I remember

Refugee

Rock Steady, Bad Company

Bad Company, Bad Company

Born to be Wild, Steppenwolf

Blaze of Glory, Bon Jovi

Freebird, Lynyrd Skynyrd

Soul Sacrifice (Woodstock version), Santana

KKKKKKatmandu, Bob Seger

"More Than A Feeling" by Boston

Wild Horses - Rolling Stones. Never get tired of it!

With A Little Help From My Friends (Woodstock version), the late, the great Joe Cocker

Honorable Mention: Delta Lady, Joe Cocker

BAD COMPANY Feel Like Makin Love

Traffic - Low Spark Of High Heeled Boys

My Sharona - The Knack

My favorite Fleetwood Mac song is Gold Dust Woman, but that one doesn't get played that often on classic rock stations.

Canned Heat - Going Up The Country

Santana- "Black Magic Woman'"

Lay Down, man what a masterpiece.

Still The One!

Loverboy - Take Me To The Top

I used to love Lou Reed's Walk on the Wild Side. They played it to death. Man I got so sick of that fucking song! Then somehow, a bunch of years went by.....

I just heard it the other day. Good song. ;)

Glad to see Bad Company mentioned, they were huge in the 70s but not really remembered. I went through a nostalgic phase of listening to their first few albums a while ago and they all held up--basic blues rock with a great lead singer. I'll add Runnin with the Pack and Ready for Love as ones I never tire of hearing.

Positively 4th Street

Baker Street

Gold Dust Woman

Another one they played the living fuck out of ad nauseum. But still couldn't get enough of it.

Smoke on the Water, Deep Purple and the London Symphony Orchestra

Take Me to the River, Winwood, Clapton, Beck, Watts, Cooper, etc.

Ambrosia - Holding on to Yesterday

Time Waits For No one, The Rolling Stones.

Light My Fire, The Doors

All Along the Watch Tower, Jimi.

Over the Hills and Far Away, Zeppelin

And not rock, but in between, Strange Magic by ELO.

Blue Oyster Cult- Burning for You and Don't Fear the Reaper.

ZZ Top La Grange and Velcro Fly

Heart Crazy on You and Magic Man

Covees of classic rock songs- Courtney Love covering Gold Dust Woman

Type O Negative covering Cinnamon Girl

Dave Mason & Cass Elliot - Look at You, Look at Me (audio sucks on this one. There's higher quality flacs out there. It's just a reminder what could have been for either of them. Pity they didn't more like it)

War- Low Rider

Joe Walsh- Life's Been Good to me so far

Jim Capaldi - Whale Meat Again

This one. They play it a lot! But the opening strands get me every time.

Nazareth -- "Love Hurts"

Band on the Run.

Jethro Tull -- "Living in the Past"

I love classic rock. The Who and Zeppelin never get old. Crank this shit up every time!

Cinnamon Girl Neil Young

Doobie Brothers: Long Train Runnin’

ELP: You Were Meant to Be Here

Alan Parsons Project: I Wouldn’t Want to Be Like You

Van Halen: Ain’t Talkin About Love

Leon Russell -- "A Song for You"

Hey, sorry guys, but I think most of the last 20 postings must be from posters under 30 who are still discovering. Many belong in the Sick of Hearing thread:

(Won't Get Fooled Again, Light My Fire, Baker Street).

The Rolling Stones -- "Sympathy for the Devil"

Journey - Open Arms

Take the Long Way Home - Supertramp

I love this dong. It's so melancholic.

'Cause you're the joke of the neighborhood Why should you care if you're feelin' good? Well, take the long way home Take the long way home

There are times that you feel you're part of the scenery All the greenery is comin' down, boy And then your wife seems to think you're part of the furniture Oh, it's peculiar, she used to be so nice

Does it feel that your life's become a catastrophe? Oh, it has to be, for you to grow, boy When you look through the years and see what you could have been Oh, what you might have been If you would have more time

R63 Your apology is accepted

Lots of great songs, thanks for those of you who post the name of the song AND the youtube link - fun to go check out the ones I haven't heard.

Those of you who simply post a youtube link without including the actual name of the song? You deserve to DIAGF you fat fuck.

It's also interesting that sometimes we know the song itself, but didn't realize its title, or who sang it.

Hey Jude

Here Comes the Sun

Stayin Alive

Lust for Life - Iggy Pop

Debaser - Pixies

Train in Vain - The Clash

"The Logical Song" by Supertramp. Haunting and almost desperate. My favorite song by them.

I’m not much for metal but I love You’ve Got Another Thing Coming by Judas Priest. Good on Rob Halford for being a gay man in the homophobic world of hard rock. He’s the only one in the band with the good taste not to have the hair metal hairdo.

Welcome to the Jungle. It's easy to see why Guns N' Roses caused the hysteria that they did. Compare this to the shit that was dominating the airwaves at the time.

"Don't Worry, Baby" - the Beach Boys

"Baba O'Riley" (Teenage Wasteland) - the Who

The entire album was my main listening for 1972, but most people remember this Todd Rundgren song, "Hello, It's Me."

"The screen door slams, Mary's dress waves" Bruce Springsteen

"Positively Fourth Street" - Bob Dylan

Spaceship Superstar by Prism

My homies from El Cerrito California.

Also Proud Mary.

....

Ballroom Blitz

YES R82!

also, Iggy's Want to be your dog.

I never get sick of hearing "Instant Karma" by the Plastic Ono Band (aka John Lennon)

I was a little too young to know it when it was a hit, and it's not one of those classics that's been played to death in the years since.

"Days" - the Kinks

"Heroes and Villains" - the Beach Boys

So many, but just this week had a moment. Browsing in a sunlit bookshop, 'American Pie' came on, and I waited till it finished I loved it so much. Not heard in ages, so all those brilliant words hit me afresh. (Must have got something in my eye. Mary.)

This version of Lou Reed's Waiting for the Man - Bowie live at Santa Monica 1972.

Keeping to the strict definition of classic rock (i.e., anything that got played constantly on classic rock stations): Running on Empty. And anything by Steely Dan (who sort of transcended the format).

David Bowie, Young Americans

We’re Not GoNna Take It -The Who

Classic rock? You mean like Coldplay?

All the Young Dudes - Mott The Hoople

Sara by Fleetwood Mac

Nights in White Satin: The Moody Blues

Waiting For A GIrl Like You: Foreigner

Good Vibrations: The Beach Boys

[quote] "Mr. Roboto" by Styx.

Really?

Another vote for Good Vibrations, hell, anything Beach Boys. Fun Fun Fun, Wouldn't it Be Nice....I'm instantly a kid again with a future.

Buddy Miles - "Them Changes"

Barracuda by Heart

Lately, I've been binging a lot of Metallica. They really were one of the greatest bands ever. My vote for greatest American band.

"The Little Girl I Once Knew" - the Beach Boys. For r96.

Simply incomparable....

If we're going there, r101, may I suggest "Da Doo Ron Ron."

I think I had a hardon for every single member of the Birthday Party. And this was pure sex to listen to.

I totally despise the mean, racist pos, but I love the original version of Layla. The beautiful piano solo feels as if it touches my soul.

"Crazy On You" by Heart. Their first hit and my favorite by them. It really rocks!!!

Big yes to all the Supertramp mentions - most underrated group of all time.

Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers -- "American Girl"

Tuesday Afternoon, Moody Blues

sorry...

Thin Lizzy - Running Back

Unrequited love, my old friend.

Be My Baby by The Ronnettes

Happy Christmas (War is Over) by John Lennon

Chicago - "Beginnings"

Midnight Ride, Allman Bros.

Tossing R113 an 'r'

"You Don't Own Me"

This was a real statement when it was first released.

R115 This one made even more of a statement!

So dark

Leslie's biggest "statement" song.

I Want You To Want Me - Cheap Trick

This one is so 80s

Night Ranger - Sister Christian

Black Sabbath--one of the most influential bands ever.

Layne Staley is my choice for greatest rock singer of the 20th century. I prefer his voice to Chris Cornell's by far. Cornell enters Christina Aguilera territory way too often.

The Famous Final Scene- Bob Seger

Black Sabbath - Paranoid

R125, see R122 lol.

Every single song on "Pet Sounds" is a classic rock song I never tire of hearing. I've had it in my CD player all week, and I keep playing it.

And to the "It's not classic [bold]rock[/bold], it's classic [bold]pop[/bold]" queen, STFU and listen to "Pet Sounds." [bold]Rock[/bold] was the name of the section of the record store where we found our Beach Boys albums.