Crowning moments of awesome in rock

Amen on that and OTGDY also has some nifty bits of songwriting, such as

I submit the high point in that song (and one of rock’s crowning momements) is when Merry Clayton belts out “RAAAAPE MURRRDERRR!”

Yeah! I put Eruption in every playlist I make for my iPod…I love the beginning, too, and when it comes up on the shuffle and goes

BUMP-BA-DA-DUMP-BA-DA-DUMP EEEEEEEOOOOWWWWW DUHHHHHHH!

…it makes me grin like an idiot, every time…like instant Beavis. :smiley:

COME ON !

I realise that all of the posters in this thread so far wear jumpers, nipple high pants, and have an unhealthy attrcation to lawns…
But the answer IS and always will be …

AWHOLE LOTTA LOVE EEEEEEEUUUUUUUUUGH !

LED ZEP ,you masturbators !

Not in the face !

Not in the face !

Uno!

Dos!

One, Two, Tres, Quatro!
followed of course by some of the most righteously silly lyrics of all time.

I’m Going Home, by *Ten Years After *at Woodstock, Alvin Lee is slayin’ it, especially when he comes in for the final chorus at 7:54.

Fuck you, I won’t do what you tell me,

Fuck you, I won’t do what you tell me,

FUCK YOU, I WON’T DO WHAT YOU TELL ME!

That’s it in a nutshell, pretty much.

Oh, yeah.

Well, if we’re posting entire songs…
I got Joe Cocker With a Little Help From My Friends at Woodstock as well as him doing The Letter somewhere else with what appears to be Leon Russel on piano (but I could be wrong).

Also, I was trying to find the clip of Joe and John Belushi on SNL. I found one of them doing Feeling Alright, but I’m almost positive there’s an earlier one where Joe didn’t know John was planning to come out. The one I’m finding was clearly set up and rehearsed this way.

And especially especially (for me) when he plays those three feedback notes before the final chord.

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That’s how I remember it too.

Oh, true, the intro is heavily juiced with awesome sauce as well. When I went to listen to get the times, I was going to include 0:30-0:38 at first, but then remembered that was just the end of the second assault. The first 17 seconds or so crush you like a bazooka, then Eddie pulls out the automatic weapons and rips you to pieces, and finally finishes you off with that brain-melting nuclear explosion at the end.

Oh, hmm, that’s a good one too. My 10yo son loves this song…at least the edited version I burned for him. The remarkable thing about that song is that Zack de la Rocha manages to go 80% into the song before drops that first f-bomb (which is where I started editing).

Oh, yeah! Or Ball and Chain. “And I say oh-wo-a-wo, it ain’t fair what you do…” You want to pull her to you, tell her the guy’s a bum, and things will get better.

A couple weeks ago someone here dissed Big Brother. They were not a Top 40 or Album Rock band. They were simply the greatest bar band ever who stumbled on the greatest singer.

…and the crowd goes WILD!

I remember that. I came to their defense, saying that their style fit the singer perfectly.

Best intro I’ve heard yet is on “Something For Nothing and the Chicks are Free.” Best moment…Jimi Hendrix playing the Star Spangled Banner. Never could figure out why they didn’t make a poster of him when he raised the guitar up & the light behind him burst like a star.

Pure Rock Fury is one long CMA from start to finish.

The Doors: the climax of “The End” is one of the most spine-tingling things I’ve ever heard.

A couple of obscure ones:

Living Colour: “This Is The Life” is absolutely amazing. Vernon Reid should be much more famous than he is.

R.E.M.: You’ve all heard their famous stuff, but their most unheralded song was “You” off of Monster. Absolutely nasty stuff, very much unlike their popular music.

Pantera: “Five Minutes Alone”. Yeah. That’s the standard for metal.

I’ll second this one. It’s one of the few songs I absolutely HAVE to get up and dance to.