# Your top three rock and roll songs of all time **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Tags:** music\ **Created:** [November 28, 2024, 1:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-top-three-rock-and-roll-songs-of-all-time/1010884 "2024-11-28T01:07:23Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 5\ **Page:** 9
**Author:** ![HMS\_Irruncible](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hms_irruncible/32/7394_2.png) [@HMS\_Irruncible](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HMS_Irruncible)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2024, 11:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-top-three-rock-and-roll-songs-of-all-time/1010884/161 "2024-12-23T23:38:32Z")
I could pick dozens if not hundreds, so from that list I’ll name a couple of bangers that haven’t been mentioned: - [Mr. Roboto - Styx](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uc6f_2nPSX8) - [Dream Police - Cheap Trick](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OPemyipJzAM) - [Mickey’s Monkey - Mother’s Finest](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lyy-Sv6D8MM) (a hard funk Miracles/Led Zeppelin mashup) ---
**Author:** ![HMS\_Irruncible](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hms_irruncible/32/7394_2.png) [@HMS\_Irruncible](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HMS_Irruncible)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2024, 11:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-top-three-rock-and-roll-songs-of-all-time/1010884/162 "2024-12-23T23:45:29Z")
> [@Gordon\_G](#): > > The Beatles are almost my favorite group but I couldn’t think of a single Beatles song that could make a Top Three list. Dig into the _Anthology_ double set. There was a time when mostly all they did was rock originals, covers, or tributes. Lately I’m finding more and more that I prefer those Beatles most of all, when they were just working class lads paying tribute to the greats, before they picked up all the pretensions, effriperies, and quirks. ---
**Author:** ![Thing.Fish](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thing.fish/32/9168_2.png) [@Thing.Fish](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thing.Fish)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2025, 5:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-top-three-rock-and-roll-songs-of-all-time/1010884/163 "2025-01-07T17:13:52Z")
Master of Puppets – Metallica Too Drunk to Fuck – Dead Kennedys Peaches en Regalia – Frank Zappa ---
**Author:** ![Wilson](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/96bed5/32.png) [@Wilson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wilson)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2025, 6:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-top-three-rock-and-roll-songs-of-all-time/1010884/164 "2025-01-07T18:34:46Z")
Waterloo Sunset - The Kinks The Low Spark of High-Heeled Boys - Traffic Once in a Lifetime - The Talking Heads ---
**Author:** ![Dr.Winston\_OBoogie](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dr.winston_oboogie/32/2945_2.png) [@Dr.Winston\_OBoogie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr.Winston_OBoogie)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2025, 9:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-top-three-rock-and-roll-songs-of-all-time/1010884/165 "2025-01-07T21:34:31Z")
5:15 - The Who 1952 Vincent Black Lightning - Richard Thompson Watermelon in Easter Hay - Frank Zappa Absolutely THE MOST mournful guitar solo ever. Wonderful. You can hear his acceptance of the loss of music by the end of the solo (ya gotta follow the plot of the Joe’s Garage musical). [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-top-three-rock-and-roll-songs-of-all-time/1010884.md?page=8)