GetTheLedOut Posted November 23, 2007 Share Posted November 23, 2007 I've heard others but they've never received the amount of airplay All Right Now has. Exactly, and the vast majority of people cannot name another song by Free (assuming they know All Right Now was a Free song in the first place). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jahfin Posted November 23, 2007 Share Posted November 23, 2007 Beautiful Day? I'm pretty sure U2 had their defining song well before 2000. Try "(Pride) In The Name Of Love," "I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For," or "One." For their most well known song (aka "signature" song) I'd have go with either Pride or With Or Without You. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GetTheLedOut Posted November 23, 2007 Share Posted November 23, 2007 For their most well known song (aka "signature" song) I'd have go with either Pride or With Or Without You. I forgot about With Or Without You. That's probably the song by them I hear most on the radio. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bigstickbonzo Posted November 23, 2007 Share Posted November 23, 2007 James Gang - Funk # 49 Bruce - Rosalita (anyone whose ever been to a Springsteen concert will back me up on this one) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lzfan715 Posted November 23, 2007 Share Posted November 23, 2007 Most people know the Beatles by Yellow Submarine, Pink Floyd by Dark Side of tthe Moon even though it's really Brain Damage. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GetTheLedOut Posted November 23, 2007 Share Posted November 23, 2007 James Gang - Funk # 49 Bruce - Rosalita (anyone whose ever been to a Springsteen concert will back me up on this one) I think it has to be "Born To Run," with a slight possibility of "Thunder Road." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GetTheLedOut Posted November 23, 2007 Share Posted November 23, 2007 Most people know the Beatles by Yellow Submarine, Pink Floyd by Dark Side of tthe Moon even though it's really Brain Damage. I think more people know the Beatles for songs like "Blackbird," "Yesterday," "I Want To Hold Your Hand," "Come Together," "I Am The Walrus" and many more. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Electrophile Posted November 23, 2007 Share Posted November 23, 2007 Rosalita is far from Bruce's defining song. I've seen him in concert quite a few times and he's not performed that song at all and the songs that get the loudest applause/screams are Born To Run, Thunder Road and Born In The USA. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GetTheLedOut Posted November 23, 2007 Share Posted November 23, 2007 Rosalita is far from Bruce's defining song. I've seen him in concert quite a few times and he's not performed that song at all and the songs that get the loudest applause/screams are Born To Run, Thunder Road and Born In The USA. Yeah, any of those three are bigger songs than Rosalita, not that Rosalita isn't a big song of his, it's just not his signature. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
redeyedrichard Posted November 24, 2007 Author Share Posted November 24, 2007 Wow, there have been some good ones mentioned...ones that I totally forgot to mention. There was some extensive talk of Lynard Skynard which hit the nail right on the head IMO. It is a shame their other stuff just seems to get pushed to the back. I guess that is because 'Sweet Home Alabama' and 'Freebird' are slapped on nearly every rock compilation album going. Everyone overlooks their other stuff. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ninthwave Posted November 24, 2007 Share Posted November 24, 2007 The Cure - Just Like Heaven Portishead - Sour Times Depeche Mode - Personal Jesus Jimi Henderix - Purple Haze Joy Division - Love Will Tear Us Apart Nine Inch Nails - Closer Ministry - Stigmata Lords of Acid - I Sit on Acid My Life With The Thrill Kill Kult - A Daisy Chain For Satan The Violent Femmes - Blister in the Sun The Sundays - Heres Where the Story Ends. The Sneaker Pimps - 6 Underground Poe - Angry Johny Jane's Addiction - Been Caught Stealing Massive Attack - Teardrop The Eagles - Hotel California The Steve Miller Band - Fly Like an Eagle Pink Floyd - Money Led Zeppelin - Stairway to Heaven The Who - Baba O'Reilly Queen - Bohemian Rhapsody U2 - Sunday Bloody Sunday The Doors - Light My Fire Dire Straits - The Sultans of Swing Bahaus - Bella Logousie's Dead Love and Rockets - No New Tale to Tell Kate Bush - Wuthering Heights Heart - Barracuda Ok I have to shut off my ipod now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
redeyedrichard Posted November 24, 2007 Author Share Posted November 24, 2007 Haha! Thanks for the list. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GetTheLedOut Posted November 24, 2007 Share Posted November 24, 2007 Pink Floyd - Money I think Wish You Were Here, Time, and Another Brick In The Wall (Part 2) are all more "signature" than Money. Just MHO. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
redeyedrichard Posted November 25, 2007 Author Share Posted November 25, 2007 I think Wish You Were Here, Time, and Another Brick In The Wall (Part 2) are all more "signature" than Money. Just MHO. Yeah, I would agree with that. Definitely with Another Brick In The Wall...I think that is more recognisable to the general public than Wish You Were Here. Some good lists up there people...well done. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Electrophile Posted November 25, 2007 Share Posted November 25, 2007 The Sneaker Pimps - 6 Underground Holy shit, I haven't listened to them in years. I think I'll drag out my Becoming X album. That song and Spin Spin Sugar are my faves. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ninthwave Posted November 25, 2007 Share Posted November 25, 2007 I think Wish You Were Here, Time, and Another Brick In The Wall (Part 2) are all more "signature" than Money. Just MHO. I don't know the Floyd sound and its evolution is hard to express, Dark Side seems to center it and Time illustrates it the best, though the evolution after that album is best captured by the Wall and Comfortably Numb illustrates all the elements better, but 5 in one you mention all those songs and more people will have heard Money than the others that is the non-floyd fans will no that more than Wish You Were Here as a Floyd song. But I could be wrong it is hard to say. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jarlaxle 56 Posted November 25, 2007 Share Posted November 25, 2007 Sadly...... Enter Sandman- Metallica Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Rover Posted November 26, 2007 Share Posted November 26, 2007 THE MOODY BLUES -- NIGHTS IN WHITE SATIN ELP -- LUCKY MAN ALVIN LEE -- GOIN' HOME ALICE COOPER BAND -- EIGHTEEN THE ARCHIES -- SUGAR, SUGAR STEELY DAN -- REELIN' IN THE YEARS IRON BUTTERFLY -- INNA GADDA DA VIDA THE OUTLAWS -- GREEN GRASS AND HIGH TIDES GOLDEN EARRING -- RADAR LOVE ERIC CLAPTON -- LAYLA JIMI HENDRIX -- PURPLE HAZE THE GUESS WHO -- AMERICAN WOMAN GEORGE THOROGOOD -- BAD TO THE BONE BLACK SABBATH -- IRON MAN BLUE OYSTER CULT -- DON'T FEAR THE REAPER THE POLICE -- EVERY BREATH YOU TAKE U2 - SUNDAY BLOODY SUNDAY THE DOORS -- LIGHT MY FIRE Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Electrophile Posted November 26, 2007 Share Posted November 26, 2007 I think people should omit one-hit wonder groups from their lists. It's too easy to use them as they by definition only had one defining song. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Electrophile Posted November 26, 2007 Share Posted November 26, 2007 Sure that makes it easy....but if you pick a band with MANY hits..how do YOU determine defining song ? The song that is most closely identifited with the group or if more than one song is closely identified with them, you would take the song that is their biggest hit. The Goo Goo Dolls had hits before Iris, but that song is their defining track. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kith Kannan Posted November 26, 2007 Share Posted November 26, 2007 How many people would pick "I can't quit you baby" as Zep's defining song...well, I do !!!! it has to be How Many More Times, more experimenting going on in that song, with the blues still as a strong forefront. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spatdrastik Posted November 26, 2007 Share Posted November 26, 2007 I would say a bands defining song is the one that embodies everything the band is about, not neccessarily the most commercially successful or identifiable to the general public Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spatdrastik Posted November 26, 2007 Share Posted November 26, 2007 Subjective again...... Well I suppose the only way around that is to ask the artists what the defining songs are...even then people would argue Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Rover Posted November 26, 2007 Share Posted November 26, 2007 it has to be How Many More Times, more experimenting going on in that song, with the blues still as a strong forefront. Hello Kith.. I pick "Kashmir" live as performed in 1977 as Zeppelin's defining song. I cannot separate the studio albums with the live performances.... it's all part of it to me.... which is to say, there's not an offically released live version of "Kashmir" that fully embodies what I'm talking about, with reference to the '77 performances... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bigstickbonzo Posted November 26, 2007 Share Posted November 26, 2007 Rosalita is far from Bruce's defining song. I've seen him in concert quite a few times and he's not performed that song at all and the songs that get the loudest applause/screams are Born To Run, Thunder Road and Born In The USA. What can I say, he knows what we New Jersians want to hear the most. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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