# Classic Rock Bands and Their Best Work/Hit(sorta of a poll) **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [October 30, 2000, 3:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/classic-rock-bands-and-their-best-work-hit-sorta-of-a-poll/38926 "2000-10-30T15:34:13Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![blur](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/dbc845/32.png) [@blur](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/blur)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2000, 6:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/classic-rock-bands-and-their-best-work-hit-sorta-of-a-poll/38926/21 "2000-10-31T06:56:07Z")
Well, here are some I thought of off the top of my head. Some of them seem too new to be classic rock, but the local station seems to play them, so I must just be getting old! Stones - Paint it Black Doors - Five in One Springsteen - Born to Run Kiss - Rock and Roll All Night Van Halen - You Really Got Me Rush - Tom Sawyer Guns N Roses - Paradise City ---
**Author:** ![Jack\_Batty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jack_batty/32/3201_2.png) [@Jack\_Batty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jack_Batty)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2000, 3:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/classic-rock-bands-and-their-best-work-hit-sorta-of-a-poll/38926/22 "2000-10-31T15:48:12Z")
In my first response I stuck to WB’s list. Everybody’s been adding to it and now I feel left out. Here are my additions: **Allman Brothers** - _Whipping Post_\* (live) **Jethro Tull** - _Skating Away_ **Jimi Hendrix** - _Cross Town Traffic_ **Pink Floyd** - _Wish You Were Here_ or _Comfortably Numb_ (can’t decide) **Chicago** - _Saturday In the Park_ **Grateful Dead** - _Friend of the Devil_ **Joe Walsh** - _Life’s Been Good_ or _Funk 48_ **Aerosmith** - _Seasons of Wither_ **Doors** - _The End_ **Springsteen** - _Tenth Avenue Freeze Out_ **Kiss** - _Shock Me_ (I’m a big Ace fan) **Doobie Brothers** - _Black Water_ **Steely Dan** - _Balck Friday_ **April Wine** - _Roller_ ---
**Author:** ![zwaldd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/a9adbd/32.png) [@zwaldd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zwaldd)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2000, 3:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/classic-rock-bands-and-their-best-work-hit-sorta-of-a-poll/38926/23 "2000-10-31T15:59:51Z")
> [@](#): > > Joe Walsh - Life’s Been Good or Funk 48 was there a funk 48? i know the one song they always play on the radio is called funk 49. ---
**Author:** ![Jack\_Batty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jack_batty/32/3201_2.png) [@Jack\_Batty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jack_Batty)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2000, 4:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/classic-rock-bands-and-their-best-work-hit-sorta-of-a-poll/38926/24 "2000-10-31T16:24:18Z")
I’m pretty sure there was a Funk 48, but Funk 49 is probably the one I’m thinking of - “Work all night/Sleep all day/ I know what you’re doing …”) IIRC, Funk 48 may have been instrumental. ---
**Author:** ![Ukulele\_Ike](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/df788c/32.png) [@Ukulele\_Ike](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ukulele_Ike)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2000, 4:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/classic-rock-bands-and-their-best-work-hit-sorta-of-a-poll/38926/25 "2000-10-31T16:30:32Z")
The Kinks: “Village Green Preservation Society” The Band: “King Harvest (Will Surely Come)” The Grateful Dead: “Saint Stephen” The Jefferson Airplane: “The Farm” Bob Dylan: “Desolation Row” ---
**Author:** ![Feynn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/ecb155/32.png) [@Feynn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Feynn)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2000, 4:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/classic-rock-bands-and-their-best-work-hit-sorta-of-a-poll/38926/26 "2000-10-31T16:43:40Z")
Just listening to Supertramp’s “Fool’s Overture” from the CD Paris. It is a hard double CD to get but worth the search as Supertramp live is the only way to go. I find it difficult to pick just one song from the aforementioned groups especially when some have an immense body of work that in some cases stretches over decades. Now I am listening to “Rudy”… see what I mean? No-one mentioned the Guess Who and “American Woman”. Must be a Canadian thing. I like everyone’s choices. ---
**Author:** ![Jack\_Batty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jack_batty/32/3201_2.png) [@Jack\_Batty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jack_Batty)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2000, 4:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/classic-rock-bands-and-their-best-work-hit-sorta-of-a-poll/38926/27 "2000-10-31T16:44:27Z")
Originally released in 1969, **The James Gang’s** _Yer’ Album_ does in fact contain the track entitled _Funk #48_. But _Funk #49_ is the tune that I dig the mostest. ---
**Author:** ![neutron\_star](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/51bf81/32.png) [@neutron\_star](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/neutron_star)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2000, 8:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/classic-rock-bands-and-their-best-work-hit-sorta-of-a-poll/38926/28 "2000-10-31T20:23:35Z")
> [@](#): > > No-one mentioned the Guess Who and “American Woman”. Must be a Canadian thing. Nah, classic rock radio plays them into the ground here in the states, too. I’d have to go with _Share the Land_ or _No Sugar Tonight/New Mother Nature_ over _American Woman_, though. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/classic-rock-bands-and-their-best-work-hit-sorta-of-a-poll/38926.md?page=1)