Best Rock-n-Roll Songs... Not Pop, not ballads but R-n-R....

[WCGreen]

In no particular order...

Get Out of Denver - Bob Seager
Helter Skelter - The Beatles
Street Fightin' Man - Stones
Locomotive Breath - Jethro Tull
Thunder Road - Bruce Springsteen
We Won't Get Fooled Again - The Who
Bad Moon Risin' - Creedance Clearwater
Lust for Life - Iggy
Suffragette City - Bowie
Whippin'Post - Allmand Brothers
I'm Eighteen - alice Cooper
It's My Life - Animals
Song for the Dumped - Ben Folds Five
Lawyers, Guns and Money - Warren Zevon
Every Little Thing - Yes
White Punks on Dope - The Tubes
Sunday, Bloody Sunday - U2
Walkin on the Sun - Smash Mouth
Love is the Drug - Roxy Music
Beds are Burning - Midnight Oil
You Really Got Me - Kinks
Somebody to Love - Jefferson Airplane
Goin' Down - Jeff Beck
867-5309 - Tommy Tutone
Teen Angst - Cracker
Zombie - Cranberries
Crazy on You - Heart
Sweet Jane - Lou Reed

Feel free to add....

I picked these for the attitude that goes along with the songs..

[taterguy]

1. Chuck Berry's Carol

It's about cars, dancing and getting laid which makes it the perfect rock and roll song.

The Ben Folds Five song you mentioned is a fine song but it does not rock because there's no guitar.
ps: Sweet Jane was originally a Velvet Underground song even though you might prefer some subsequent version by Lou Reed

[WCGreen]

4. I like the live Sweet Jane...

I know the VU did that but Lou was in the band so...

Ben Folds has a kick ass bass line in the song...

Doesn't need a guitar...

[taterguy]

7. You can not rock without a guitar

Ronald Thomas Clontle said it. I believe it. That settles it.

Anyone unfamiliar with the work of Ronald Thomas Clontle is unqualified to give opinions on rock.

[WCGreen]

9. So the peoples music is now elitist...

[taterguy]

11. Ronald Thomas Clontle is a man of the people

How can you be more populist than working at Java the Hut?

[WCGreen]

14. I agree that Madness was the first real SKA band...

But, the guy hasn't been around as long as I have...

So Jerry Lee isn't Rock-n-Roll....

[taterguy]

17. Jerry Lee wasn't included in your list

Goodness gracious great balls of fire what were you thinking?

[WCGreen]

19. I forgot about him....

Until you brought up the piano...

Remember, I am old enough to remember when they played Elvis, Jerry Lee and Litle Richard on the AM radio...

So I forget...

[unpossibles]

2. awesome. some more

New Order - Generation X
Got The Time - Joe Jackson Band
Radio, Radio - Elvis Costello
Hang Onto Yourself - Bowie
Don't Cry Wolf - The Damned
What Do I Get? - The Buzzcocks
Dead End Job - The Police
Don't Care - Klark Kent

[WCGreen]

6. I really like Got the Time....

I have lived through so many great songs, it's hard to pick...

[taterguy]

3. Who Do You Love

A rock song so good it's been covered a bazzillion times. I like Bo Diddley's original and versions by Ronnie Hawkins and the Hawks, Townes Van Zandt, George Thorogood and that anonymous band on the Nuggets compilation

[WCGreen]

5. That is a great one...

[GenDem]

8. Me and Bobby McGee, Janis Joplin

[Richardo]

10. 'Precious' and 'The Wait' by the Pretenders

[Gatchaman]

12. Disorder in the House - Warren Zevon

A real cranker!

[SKKY]

13. Here are some Rock 'n Roll songs that get me moving...

"Orange Crush" R.E.M.
"Local God" - Everclear
"Wild Flower" - The Cult
"Machine Head" - Bush
"Lithium" - Nirvana
"Plush" - Stone Temple Pilots
"Even Flow" - Pearl Jam
"Outshined" - Sound Garden
"People of the Sun" - Rage Against The Machine
"Running with the Devil" - Van Halen
"Dr. Feelgood" - Motley Crue (Sorry, this song is a guilty pleasure of mine)
"Du Hast" - Rammstein
"Cult of Personality" - Living Colour
"Been Caught Stealing" - Jane's Addiction
"Suck My Kiss" - The Red Hot Chili Peppers
"Funky Crime" - The Red Hot Chili Peppers
"Flirtin' with Disaster" - Molly Hatchet
"Wasteland" - The Mission UK

[hellbound-liberal]

15. Pat Travers- Boom, Boom Out go the Lights! was the first one that came to mind. See for yourself!

It's not the best video or audio but I think you will get the idea.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cdaDZslJavA

[WCGreen]

20. I forgot about that song...

I remember seeing him at an outdoor fest sometime in the 70's...

[hellbound-liberal]

21. I saw him in the late 70s in Orlando. He looks like he hasn't aged well

It's nice to see he's still making a living at playing music.

[kwassa]

27. I always liked this song, too.

[enigmatic]

16. "Final Solution"- Pere Ubu

Gotta have that on there....

http://www.secraterri.com/final.html

[hellbound-liberal]

18. Johnny Winter- Highway 61. Rock and Roll, People!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-8siLZ4zNbY

[guitar man]

22. Hell yeah

Johnny Fucking Winter!! Now that's some guitar slingin' right there.

If you like Jonny, you'll love Bugs Henderson, killer version of Highway 61 here:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rCH6LV87k7w

[johnnie]

31. Oh yeah!

One of the best clips ever. Right before that he does some playing that is fantastic, then he goes into the song. I taped that when it initially ran and I watched that clip about 100 times..lol. Johnny is one of the best blues players ever. I liked Stevie Ray to a point, but I could never understand how people thought he was a better blues player than Johnny.

[WilmywoodNCparalegal]

23. Who Are You, The Who

and a whole lot of other Who songs.
Dream On - Aerosmith

[JennyH]

24. A list would have to be really long

so I'll just add

Clapton's Layla

[taterguy]

25. Welcome to DU

Are you the Jenny that the 867-5309 song is about?

[Beer Snob-50]

26. The original, not the lame acoustic version

the instrumental break at the end is awesome.

BTW JennyH, welcome- a good start with the Layla post.

[kwassa]

28. Satisfaction, 19th Nervous Breakdown, Get Off of My Cloud, Sympathy for the Devil,

Brown Sugar, All Down the Line, Rip This Joint, It's Only Rock 'N Roll, Honky Tonk Woman, Street Fighting Man, Paint It Black, and a few others.

The Stones!

[BOSSHOG]

29. Live for the Music - Bad Company

Driving too Fast - The Stones off their latest CD
Back in Black - AC DC

[regularguy]

30. Stones: Midnight Rambler