# Best song to crank till your ears hurt?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-song-to-crank-till-your-ears-hurt/80667>\
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [September 10, 2001, 2:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-song-to-crank-till-your-ears-hurt/80667 "2001-09-10T14:49:46Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 6\
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**Author:** ![hegel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/cab0a1/32.png) [@hegel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hegel)\
**Post date:** [September 11, 2001, 1:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-song-to-crank-till-your-ears-hurt/80667/41 "2001-09-11T01:43:00Z")

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master of puppets–metallica.

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**Author:** ![elbows](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/b3f665/32.png) [@elbows](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elbows)\
**Post date:** [September 11, 2001, 3:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-song-to-crank-till-your-ears-hurt/80667/42 "2001-09-11T03:38:20Z")

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Layla, Eric Clapton

'nuff said.

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**Author:** ![Airman\_Doors\_USAF](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e36b37/32.png) [@Airman\_Doors\_USAF](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Airman_Doors_USAF)\
**Post date:** [September 11, 2001, 3:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-song-to-crank-till-your-ears-hurt/80667/43 "2001-09-11T03:49:57Z")

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“Frayed Ends of Sanity”-Metallica  
“Jesus Built My Hotrod”-Ministry  
“All Along the Watchtower”-Jimi Hendrix  
Anything by Pantera

That’s all I have to add. Most of the rest have been said.

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**Author:** ![Creaky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e68b1a/32.png) [@Creaky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Creaky)\
**Post date:** [September 11, 2001, 4:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-song-to-crank-till-your-ears-hurt/80667/44 "2001-09-11T04:31:54Z")

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[li] “We’re Not Gonna Take It” - Twisted Sister[/li]  
[li] “Oh, Maria” - From the _Sister Act II_ soundtrack[/li]  
[li] “On the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe” - The Andrews Sisters[/li]  
[li] “Leave the Dishes In the Sink” - Spike Jones and His City Slickers[/li]  
[li] “Volcano” - Jimmy Buffett[/li]Yeah, I’m a rebel.

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**Author:** ![ALTHOMAS4](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/2bfe46/32.png) [@ALTHOMAS4](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ALTHOMAS4)\
**Post date:** [September 11, 2001, 5:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-song-to-crank-till-your-ears-hurt/80667/45 "2001-09-11T05:08:02Z")

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Fishbone: Sunless Saturday  
Megadeth: Forclosure of a dream  
Iron Maiden: Losfer Words (Big 'Orra) [instrumental]  
Filter: Skinny  
Led Zeppelin: Immigrant song  
Ozzy: No more tears  
Metallica: Hero of the day  
Foo Fighters: My poor brain  
KMFDM: Megalomaniac  
The Clash: Clampdown  
Run DMC: Run’s house  
Monster Magnet: Space Lord  
Steve Vai: The ultra zone  
Primus: Tommy the cat (live from new year’s '99)  
Reverend Horton Heat: Living on the edge (of Houston)  
Duran Duran: Rio  
Dream Theater: 6:00  
The Cult: Edie (Ciao baby)  
Jane’s Addiction: Mountain song  
Type O Negative: October Rust  
Liz Phair: Supernova  
The Police: Invisible Sun

Enjoy…

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**Author:** ![Drastic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/f9ae1b/32.png) [@Drastic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Drastic)\
**Post date:** [September 11, 2001, 7:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-song-to-crank-till-your-ears-hurt/80667/46 "2001-09-11T07:33:03Z")

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I tend to crank the entirety of Nefilim’s “Zoon” album.

Also, that opening number of the “Carmina Burana” is just made to be played till walls shake.

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