The Pixies- Head On
Sex Pistols- Anarchy in the UK (especially the live version)
Electric 6- Danger High Voltage
David Bowie- Suffragette City
**Piece of my Heart ** - Janis Joplin
**Born in the USA ** - Springsteen
**I Heard It Through the Grapevine ** - Creedence Clearwater
Oh, my. Where to start?
Everything by Alice Cooper of course, but particularly “Feed my Frankenstein”, “Hello Hooray”, “School’s Out”, all of “Trash”, especially 'Poison", all of “Raise Your Fist And Yell”, especially “Freedom”. all of “Hey Stoopid”, “Frankenstein” of course but also 'Might As Well Be On Mars" um, yeah, let’s just leave it at EVERYTHING.
I’ll also crank it up for -
“Don’t Fear the Reaper” - Blue Oyster Cult
“Paint it Black” - Stones
“Conquisitador” - Procal Harum
The last one almost got me collected by an ambulance once. I didn’t even hear the siren. Oops!
Purple Haze - Jimi Hendrix
Blue Water - Fields of the Nephilim
Spirit - Bauhaus
Salterello - Dead Can Dance
Garlands - Cocteau Twins
Deep Purple, Child In Time: the live version, off Made In Japan. Best guitar solo ever - I achieved my personal land speed record driving to this song when I was 19 and stupid: 227 kph. Oh, and ANYTHING by Cheap Trick - now I’m old and have slowed down a bit.
Stranglehold - Ted Nugent
Celebrated Summer - Husker Du
And Your Bird Can Sing - The Beatles
Time Has Come Today - The Chambers Brothers
Monkey Man - The Rolling Stones
Last Time - Ike Reilly
Norman Greenbaum, Spirit in the Sky.
I do the weddings/dances/parties DJ job on the side.
The following songs usually get a “turn it up” shout from somebody in the crowd.
Not my choices but possibly an informal pole. (except the Selby tune. He’s not well known but I “push” him at my jobs and return customers have grown fond)
Taking care of Business - BTO
Wild Thing - Tone Luc
The Electric Slide - Carousel
What am I doing - Mark Selby
** The Train, C’mon and ride it**
My personal choices in the car are -
La Rosa Negra - Gary Hoey
Eminence Front - The Who
Burn in Hell - Joe Bonamassa
Wander this world - Johnny Lang
Too much stuff - Delbert McClinton
Hazy Shade of winter - Bangles
And I’m worried that fishbicycle may be deaf by now if he listens to all of that music at full volume.
Anything by The Who, but especially Baba O’Reilly and Won’t Get Fooled Again
Paperback Writer by the Beatles
First and foremost, “Man In the Box” by Nine Inch Nails
“Trouble No More” “Black Hearted Woman” and “Whipping Post” by the Allman Brothers
“That’s Alright Mama” Wet Willie
“I Drink Alone” by George Thoroughgood
“One of These Days” Pink Floyd
“Bad Motor Scooter” Montrose
“Train Kept A Rollin’ All Night Long” Aerosmith
Anything from “Deguello” by ZZ Top. “La Grange” and “Jesus Just Left Chicago” get cranked up too
“Walkin the Dog” by Eric, Quincy Tate
That’ll do for now, but there’s a lot I left out. LIke, “Highway 69” by Johnny Winter
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[li]“White Man in Hammersmith Palais”, The Clash[/li][li]“96 Tears”, ? and the Mysterians[/li][li]“Dreaming”, Blondie (Clem Burke! Clem Burke!)[/li][li]“Bright Future in Sales”, Fountains of Wayne[/li][li]“Hard to Handle”, Otis Redding[/li][li]“No Matter What”, Badfinger[/li][li]“Starry Eyes”, The Records[/li][li]“September Gurls” and “When My Baby’s Beside Me”, Big Star[/li][li]“I Can’t Stand It”, The Chambers Brothers[/li][li]“Ain’t Too Proud to Beg”, The Temptations[/li][/ul]
Pardon?
Yeah this was one of the first ones I thought of and also:
The Bends - Radiohead
Smells Like Teen Spirit - Nirvana
Once - Pearl Jam
Good Vibrations - Beachboys
Sunday Bloody Sunday - U2
Lose Yourself - Eminem
No Diggity - Blackstreet
Song 2 - Blur
Just a nitpick but it is Tom Cochrane not Tom Petty.
Lynyrd Skynyrd - Free Bird
Neil Young - Rockin’ in the Free World, Cinnamon Girl, Hey Hey My My (Into the Black)
The Who - I Can See For Miles
Rolling Stones - Gimme Shelter, Happy, Tumblin’ Dice
Rod Stewart - Every Picture Tells a Story
Don Henley - Boys of Summer
Jefferson Airplane - Somebody to Love, The Ballad of You, Me, and Pooneil
Led Zeppelin - When the Levee Breaks
Derek and the Dominoes - Layla
And on indy radio:
Sons and Daughters - Blood
Quintron - Meet Me at the Clubhouse
Many, many.
The first one to come to mind that hasn’t been mentioned already was Red Rain by Peter Gabriel.
Man, there are a ton of great tunes already mentioned, so I’m sure I’ll repeat a few…
Led Zeppelin- When the Levee Breaks, Kasmir, and the live version of Bron Y’ Ar Stomp… there are so many more, but those are my top 3
Who- Baba O’Reilly, Goin Mobile
Doors- WASP, Soul Kitchen, Land Ho, LA Woman
Springsteen- Thunder Road, Born to Run
Mellencamp- Lonely old Night, Cherry Bomb
Ravel’s Bolero
Skynard- Sweet Home Alabama, Tuesday’s Gone
ZZ Top- LaGrange… ahal, hal, hal hal
Hendrix- Voodoo Chile ( the opening 10 seconds of that song are just nasty funky), Hey Joe, Red House
George Thorogood- Who do you love
Man, makes me want to take a roadie!
Burning Down the House - Talking Heads
Sanitarium - Metallica
Brown Sugar - The Stones
The Five O’Clock song - which gets played on the radio at 5 O’clock Friday afternoon on the way home from work, don’t know the artist.
No Sleep 'Till Brooklyn - Beasties. It’s on right now, too bad I’m at work though.