The liner notes on “Truth” by the Jeff Beck Group say of I Ain’t Superstitious, “This song must be played at maximum volume regardless of the phonograph used.”
On the label of “Ogden’s Nut Gone Flake” by the Small Faces, it says, “For amazing results, play this record at maximum volume.”
Both instructions are right on the money!
Another one that must be played very loud is Highway 61 Revisited by Johnny Winter off “Second Winter.”
I’ll second that. And throw System of a Down in there, too.
Some great, great songs listed in this thread.
“Rip This Joint” Rolling Stones
“Freeze Frame” J. Geils Band
“Suffragette City” Bowie
“Cecilia” Simon and Garfunkel
“Superstition” Stevie Wonder
“Back in Black” AC/DC
“New York Groove” Ace Frehley
“Free for All” Ted Nugent
“Cross-Eyed Mary” Jethro Tull
“Hair of the Dog” Nazareth
“You’ve Got Another Thing Comin” Judas Priest
The Pixies Debaser
David Bowie Sweet Thing/Candidate and Rebel Rebel
Carmel Bad Day
Lush Ladykiller
The Cure Boys Don’t Cry
New Order Blue Monday
The Teardrop Explodes Reward
Graham Parker New York Shuffle
The Dammed Eloise
The Clash London Calling and Rock the Casbah
Spacehog In the meantime
The Stooges Gimme Danger
Basement Jaxx Rendez-Vu
Thin Lizzy Boys are back in town
The Jam Eton Rifles and Going Underground
Prince Cream
Muse Feeling Good
Complete Control by The Clash but the live versions off of From Here to Eternity
The extended version of Tank!(the Cowboy Bebop opening theme)
Gloria-Them
Waiting for the Man and White Light/White Heat-VU
oh yeah and also Sister Ray by the velvets
Skinhead Moonstomp-Symarip
Kick Out the Jams-MC5
The Oi Song-Casualties
Sick of You, No Fun, 1969, Search and Destroy and a lot of others from the real IGGY(and the stooges) of course
and
Roadrunner-Jonathan Richman and the Modern Lovers
And that would be the song that I identified as “Highway 69” by Johnny Winter. I knew it was one of those highways.
Also also good to listen to loud is “Mr. Skin” by Spirit and The Black Crows’ remake of “Hard to Handle” and most of all, Stevie Ray Vaughn when he answers the musical question, “What do you not bother to do if the house is a rockin’”?
Agreed! Along with “I Got a Line on You,” “Nature’s Way” and “Animal Zoo.”
(Completely forgot about Spirit! :smack: )
Who Are You? , and Won’t Get Fooled Again, both by the Who, demand to be played at volumes that make your ears bleed.
The Stooges “TV Eye”.
The Oblivians and Mr. Quintron “What’s the Matter Now?”
The Oblivians “Vietnam War Blues”
Hell, anything by The Oblivians.
I can’t belive I forgot TV Eye. I was just listening to that on the bus too. At full volume of course.
OK, I cheated a bit. These are extracted from my MP3 directory. Not all get air play, but most do. I pared the list down from 26 pages to 3.
As a blanket rule, I’ll crank the knob for Dire Straits, Eric Clapton, Jimmy Buffett, Led Zeppelin, and The Rolling Stones, even if they play something I don’t like. What’s here is the best of the best
Alice Cooper Only Women Bleed
Alice Cooper - School’s Out
Alice Cooper - Welcome To My Nightmare
Allman Brothers - Come on into My Kitchen
Allman Brothers Band - Jessica
Beatles - Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da
Beatles - When I’m 64
Beatles - While My Guitar Gently Weeps
Blackfoot - Train, Train
Blind Melon - No Rain
Bob Rivers - Walking Round in Women’s Underwear
Bob Welch - Ebony Eyes
Boomtown Rats - I Don’t Like Mondays
Brownsville Station - Martian Boogie
Charlie Daniels Band - Devil Went Down to Georgia
Cheap Trick - Dream Police
Count Five - Psychotic Reaction
Creedence Clearwater Revival - Lookin’ Out My Back Door
Dave Edmunds - I Hear You Knockin
Deep Purple - Hush
Deep Purple - Smoke On The Water
Dire Straits - Heavy Fuel
Dire Straits - Industrial Disease
Dire Straits - Millionaire Blues
Dire Straits - Skateaway
Dr. Hook - The Cover Of The Rolling Stones
Elton John - Crocodile Rock
Eric Clapton - Cocaine
Eric Clapton - I’ve Got A Rock N Roll Heart
Eric Clapton - Layla
Eric Clapton - San Francisco Bay Blues
Eric Clapton - Bell Bottom Blues
Eric Clapton - Hello Old Friend
Eric Clapton - Alberta
Fleetwood Mac - Rhiannon
Focus - Hocus Pocus
George Harrison - My Sweet Lord
George Thorogood - Willie and The Hand Jive
Grand Funk Railroad - I’m Your Captain (Closer to Home)
J. Geils Band - Centerfold
J. Geils Band - No Anchovies, Please
J. Geils Band - Piss On The Wall
Jackson Browne - Lawyers in Love
Janis Joplin - Mercedes Benz
Jethro Tull - Aqua Lung
Jethro Tull - Bungle In The Jungle
Jethro Tull - Teacher
Jethro Tull - Too Old To Rock ‘N’ Roll, Too Young To Die
Jimmy Buffett - Margaritaville
Jimmy Buffett - Volcano
Joe Walsh - A Life of Illusion
Joe Walsh - Life’s Been Good
John Fogarty - Center Field
Loggins & Messina - Your Mama Don’t Dance
Kinky Friedman - Ol’ Ben Lucas
Kinky Friedman - They Ain’t Makin’ Jews Like Jesus Anymore
Kiss - Beth
Kiss - Domino
Led Zeppelin - D’yer Mak’er
Led Zeppelin - Hot Dog
Led Zeppelin - Immigrant song
Led Zeppelin - Kashmir
Led Zeppelin - The Ocean
Led Zeppelin - The Rain Song
Led Zeppelin - The Song Remains The Same
Led Zeppelin - What is and What Never Should Be
Led Zeppelin - Your Time is Gonna Come
Led Zeppelin - Whole Lotta Love
Little Feat - Dixie Chicken
Little Feat - Down On The Farm
Little Feat - Oh Atlanta
Little Feat - Rad Gumbo
Lynyrd Skynyrd - Free Bird
Lynyrd Skynyrd - Gimme Three Steps
Lynyrd Skynyrd - I Know a Little
Lynyrd Skynyrd - That Smell
Lynyrd Skynyrd - The Ballad of Curtis Loew
Marillion - Kayleigh
Mark Knopfler - Cannibals
Mark Knopfler - Done with Bonaparte
Mark Knopfler - Going Home (Theme of Local Hero)
Mark Knopfler - Je suis d‚sol‚
Marshall Tucker Band - Can’t You See
Marshall Tucker Band - Fire On The Mountain
Marshall Tucker Band - Heard It in a Love Song
Motels - Take The L
Outlaws - Ghost Riders In The Sky
Paul McCartney - We’re So Sorry Uncle Albert
Paul McCartney and Wings-1985
Pete Townsend - Let My Love Open the Door
Pete Townsend- Slit Skirt
Peter Gabriel - Solsbury Hill
Pure Prairie League - Amy
REO speedwagon - 157 riverside avenue
Robert Plant - 29 Palms
Robert Plant - darkness darkness
Rod Stewart - Rhythm Of My Heart
Santana - Black Magic Woman
Santana - Evil Ways
Steely Dan - Deacon Blues
Steely Dan - Don’t take me alive
Steely Dan - My Old School
Steely Dan - Reeling In The Years
Steely Dan - Rikki Don’t Lose That Number
Steve Miller Band - Wild Mountain Honey
Sugarloaf - Don’t Call Us, We’ll Call You
Sugarloaf - Green Eyed Lady (full version)
Supertramp - Breakfast In America
Supertramp - Logical Song
Supertramp - School
Supertramp - Take the Long Way Home
Susan Tedeschi - Alone
Susan Tedeschi - Gonna Move
The Alan Parsons Project - Damned If I Do
The Alan Parsons Project - Breakdown
The Alan Parsons Project - Psychobabble
The Alan Parsons Project - Snake Eyes
The Band - the weight
The Band - up on cripple creek
The Beat Farmers - Happy Boy
The Eagles - Hotel California
The Kinks - Art Lover
The Kinks - Come Dancing
The Kinks - Lola
The Motels - Only The Lonely
The Motels - Suddenly Last Summer
The Motels - Total Control
The Rolling Stones - Sympathy For The Devil
The Who - Baba O’Riley
The Who - Magic Bus
The Who - McVicar - 05 - free me
The Who – 5:15
The Who - Squeezebox
The Who - The Song Is Over
The Who - Won’t Get Fooled Again
Three Dog Night - Never Been To Spain
Traffic - Feelin’ Alright
Traffic - Glad
Traffic - The Low Spark of High Heeled Boys
Uriah Heep - Stealin’
Warren Zevon - Excitable Boy
Warren Zevon - Hit Somebody (The Hockey Song)
Warren Zevon - Lawyers, Guns & Money
Warren Zevon - Mr Bad Example
Warren Zevon - Roland The Headless Thompson Gunner
Warren Zevon - Werewolves Of London
Whitesnake - Fool For Your Loving
Whitesnake - Here I Go Again
Whitesnake - Slow and Easy.
Bob Seger Old Time Rock and Roll
Otis Redding Sitting on the Dock of the Bay
and from my kids
Alice Cooper School’s Out
A couple Zeppelin songs I haven’t seen mentioned: Rock and Roll and Achilles Last Stand
Santana: Black Magic Woman, Oye Como Va
Pink Floyd: One of These Days (I’m Going to Cut You Into Little Pieces)
Frank Zappa: Peaches en Regalia, Sofa # 2
Howyadoin,
AC/DC - Hell’s Bells, Problem Child, If You Want Blood… um, pretty much all of 'em!
Montrose - Space Station #5
The Who - Love Reign O’er Me, Young Man Blues
Ted Nugent - Cat Scratch Fever
Tool - Eulogy
Led Zep - Immigrant Song
Cream - Train Time, Toad, Sitting On Top Of the World
Elvis Costello - Peace, Love & Understanding
Kiss - Shout It Our Loud, Rock and Roll All Night, Detroit Rock City
and let’s not forget
Autograph - Turn Up The Radio
(just kidding)
-Rav
Oh, God yes!
Faces–Stay with Me
Rod Stewart–Hot Legs
Double Shot of My Baby’s Love–Swinging Medallions
Sun Ain’t Gonna Shine Anymore–Walker Brothers
Rock and Roll–Led Zeppelin
Highway Star–Deep Purple
Twistin’ by the Pool–Dire Straits
Paradise by the Dashboard Light–Meatloaf
Was it the liner notes on a Joe Walsh album that said: “made loud to be played loud.” Or words to that effect.
I know I’m a weirdo, but…
Groom’s Still Waitin’ At The Altar and Gotta Serve Somebody by Bob Dylan
Heaven’s Open by Mike Oldfield. A sing that just demands high volume. 
The 1812 Overture. (Duh.)
The finale to The Millenium Bell, also by Oldfield.
On the day I was born…
The nurses gathered round…
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I’m baaaaaddd to the bone…
Bad to the bone…
babababababa baddddd…
(Incredibly long list follows)
So, you don’t really use the volume control at all, do you, VunderBob? The volume control isn’t even a knob to you, is it? It’s just a dot, a dot so far in the distance that you can’t see it at all once you’ve cranked that sucker to the max. Eh? Eh? Eh?
I bet you crank Sarah Fucking McLaughlin to the max. I bet you crank Sinead O’Conner to the max! (OK, “Zombies” OUGHTTA be cranked to the max, but other than that and a few others).
I bet you crank Manfuckinghattan DamnTransfer to the max. Doncha?