76 Candidates for the 17 Greatest pure Rock Songs: Happy Fourth!

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Next year, we’ll have 76- per obvious- if the creek don’t rise!

   It is Twitter DJ time, with leisure on the Fourth. Our local classic rock station used to do the top 100 countdown for the Fourth, and probably still do- without regard to lyrics and meaning. I will do Candidates for the top 17 Pure Rock songs Twitter DJ M. A. Mac. My Daddy: DJ CJ Mac.

   I will do candidates for the top 17 pure rock songs, spreading a net wide enough to catch at least these, if not the top ten. I will require that these be part of our folk tradition, in the sense that they are well known, anthems rather than ditties, composed , and with exalted lyrics that are good rather than harmful for the soul. Because the Fourth is a noisy holiday, we will leave out all the mellow stuff, the pure folk part of folk rock that is classical rock.We will call this “rock proper,” or “pure rock,” if only for lack of better phrases. Hence, Pink Floyd’s Breathe, Eclipse, and the other great tunes that are a part of the classic rock tradition are left out, because they are not noisy. The Fourth is noisy, not moody blues. So it is the led rather than the Zeppelin we are collecting here for our Twitter DJ show, and we will of course try to select these not because we like them personally, but because they might be among the best objectively. The personal is of course our access to the objective, but not nearly as interesting. Where the popular is the standard, the result is a sort of lowest common denominator that makes a whore of the DJ, and prevents his true function, which is not, for example to flatter but to ennoble a wedding.

   I will list these as they come to mind, then they will appear backward on Twitter, like a countdown. There are not that many. # 1 on the radio stations was always like Floyd or Stairway, but that is not so. Watch:

11:03 AM – 4 Jul 2019

#00 is Hendrix doing Dylan’s All along the Watchtower. This is because the exhilaration of Rock is not Bacchic but apocalyptic. I can explain it to ya, but Ja, I cannot understand it for ya. (Of course, I can’t even understand it for myself!). But I have it way down there at # 30!?

#1: Kashmir – Led Zeppelin via

“Oh Father of the four winds, fill my sails…”

#2 Jethro Tull – Aqualung via
“You poor old sot,
You see its only me.”
And as he dies, the line is: “And the flowers bloom like madness in the Spring.” The Aqualung grabs his rasping last breaths with deep-sea-diver sounds.,..

#3: The Who – Love Reign Over Me via

Jimmy has found the unity of the four parts and his “Quadrophrenia.”

#4: Led Zeppelin- Dazed and Confused via

The essential White blues. You thought the hipsters were about “free love?” Try following this guy while lied to.

#5: David Bowie – Moonage Daydream (Live) (Great quality) via
The live version of this song is it, while the studio, in the context of the album, is even better. A lovesong, too.

 #6 Pink Floyd – Wish You Were Here (with lyrics) via

‘Nuff said. A walk on part in The Wall” for the lead role in a cage. Like Achilleus’ choice, too.

#7: The White Stripes – ‘Seven Nation Army‘ via
Bleeding words right before the Lord:
Simon says the same.

#8: Queen – Bohemian Rhapsody (Official Video) via

“So, you think you can love me and leave me to die?”

Well, that is what tragic love is, and most is tragic. It is because of our guilt, our part as human in the murder of Cain, and an expiation. See the trial? Simon says the same: “Somewhere They Can’t Find Me.”

#9: Eric Burden and the Animals – House of the Rising Sun via

Is this the first “Rock” song? From penance blues. The Hippies get their ethics from the blues, as in Steppenwolf, “The Pusher.”

#10: Bruce Springsteen – Born To Run via
Someday, girl, I don’t know when
We’re gonna get to that place we really wanna go/
And we’ll walk in the sun…but till then.
An everlasting kiss.
#11: Led Zeppelin – Led Zeppelin IV – Stairway To Heaven via
Ok, we’ll list it for the Zeppelin part. The meaning is not what most think. Listen, and tell what it means in a couple sentences:
It is the appearance of the light and Christ offered by the Lady, but it is human convention, and so illusion, “as we wind on down the road
Our shadows taller than our souls.” “But if you listen very hard…”the piper”:
Page does not, but Plant, who wrote this, knows.

#12: Uriah Heep – Easy Livin’ via

Love is of course the activity of the image of God in man, and the principle of lyric poetry. Hence a song about falling in love can also be about the breakthrough that is salvation: We thought “Christian” rock bands should ALL play this (but they don’t like wizards?)

#13: Alice Cooper – School’s Out [Lyrics] [HD] via

The profundity of the song: going with “18,” meant to be a high school graduation anthem, taken from a gangster movie where the Phrase “School’s out” means “now things get real.”

#14: The Who : The Real Me via

Jimmy the Mod goes to the doctor, then the mother, then the preacher in an attempt to cure his teen age Quadrophrenia. Given that the preacher showed him “to the Golden Gate,” one sees what Plant means about the evangelicals in Stairway. Not that Jimmy needs a robed exorcist! The plea of Jimmy is surely not comprehensible to our science of psychiatry, which is why music is better at the healing of the soul than our over-paid “doctors.” They killed Nick Drake, for Chrissakes!

 

#15 Beatles Day Tripper

Is this the first Beatles excursion from pop into pure rock, as distinct from pop psychadelia? Twist and Shout? Work it on out! But romantic dis-illusionment is a motion of the soul, and distinct from the dancing of the body. It is hard to find Beatles doing noisy rock with high lyrics. Actually, number fifteen should be “While My Guitar Gently Weeps.” 

#16 Pink Floyd – Hey You via

One wonders if maybe people who think woman-ness is a primary qualification for intell. and security work are really in the right business to begin. Granted it is ditto for maleness. … Not like the liberal arts departments for the past 20 years, safe to use for gender politics.

Caption: George III when he/she read Jefferson: (Or was it when he learned his favorite petticoat was not back yet from the cleaners?)

   ‘Least ‘e remembered t’ poof ‘is f’n whig! Dudes were cross-dressin back then! French fashions.

   Calley the cat has seen it- the fireworks on the Fourth- 19 times, but wants me to make it stop “Not till the Redcoats go home.”

   Man, there’s skirmishes with Redcoats all about in the woods here by the burbs, where the neighbors set off more fireworks than the amount of money I live off in a year. I tell the squirrels et. al, : “Freemen feed the birds and squirrels better!”

   Did I mention that “King” George wears tights? Poofs his wig at the vanity? Lets his horse ride him? Liberty or death, and make the other sucker die for his, come fight freemen, you slaves, or join us against tyranny!

Now, a word from a direct descendant of Thomas Jefferson:

#17: Somebody to Love Jefferson Airplane:

When the garden flowers, baby are dead, yes and
Your mind, your mind is so full of red
Don’t you want somebody to love
Don’t you need somebody to love
Wouldn’t you love somebody to love
You better find somebody to love

Your eyes, I say your eyes may look like his
Yeah, but in your head, baby
I’m afraid you don’t know where it is…

Tears are running down and down and down your breast
And your friends, baby they treat you like a guest…

Jefferson Airplane – Somebody to Love (HQ) https://youtu.be/Q7O7ihJCq0w via @YouTube

   These are to be the 76 candidates for the top 17 Rock songs of all time. My first list is in the order that I thought of them, to be reshuffled and selected. I do like the method of spreading a wide net to catch the best:

#76: Here’s some we left out: Hendrix “Third Stone from the Sun” is available only with the amplified message from the aliens on Youtube. Maybe we can get it off “Experience.”

#75 Stay – Station to Station – David Bowie via

#74 Pink Floyd – See Emily Play https://youtu.be/7c0EDM-Yu9o via @YouTube

#73 White Stripes – Blue Orchid https://youtu.be/QKntY8WkNYQ via @YouTube

# 71 The Byrds Eight Miles High

This is about when the American reverberation of the British invasion landed in London by airplane.

# 70 Amboy Dukes– Journey To The Center Of The Mind https://youtu.be/Beh1ipK3hN0 via @YouTube

This is Crazy Ted BEFORE he took up hunting! Dude did not learn that from a journey to the center of mind! Oh well, he never said we’d MAKE it !

Beyond thought and “what” is of course interesting, because the Lord too is said to be beyond being or logos. He calls it the center, too, as of a circle. He warns of the danger of becoming trapped in the products of the imagination: Jung speaks of getting “possessed” by an “archetype-” the sources of the products of the imagination in the knowledge that is within the soul. We integrate the contents, by understanding, or else these disintegrate us. Hence the danger of psychedelic drugs especially for those who do too much are not friends with themselves, and do not have the patience to sleep off a bad trip. One wonders if Ted did not get possessed as by an Artemis the huntress archetype! Apologies from Michigan!

#69: The Bob Seger System – White Wall via

This whole album is a classic, with most of favorite Bob on it.

#68: Creed – Beautiful via Self indulgeance: (Not as famous as it should be).

#67: Creed – Higher (Official Video) via

 #66: Uriah Heep – Traveller In Time – Live 1973 via
 

#65: Uriah Heep – Wizard via  

#64: Uriah Heep – Stealin via  

#63: The James Gang – Walk Away via

#62: Fantasy will set you free: Steppenwolf – Magic Carpet Ride 1968 HQ via

 
HEY GEORGE!: Reenacting the Boston Massacre via
Crispus Attucks | Boston Massacre | Crispus Attucks Boston Massacre via

#61: Fortunate Son (Live At Cobo Hall 1986)- Bob Seger (Vinyl Restoration) via

#60 The Bob Seger System – 2 + 2 = ? via To be played with Creedence cover:

#59: The Who – Won’t Get Fooled Again (Live at Kilburn 1977) via

#58: Jethro Tull – Locomotive Breath (Live) via
#57: Deep Purple – Highway Star via
#56: Cream – Strange Brew via
  
#55: Humble Pie- 30 Days In The Hole via
  “Gimmie my release, Come on…”

#54: Robin Trower – The Fool and Me. via

 

#53: Robin Trower – Bridge Of Sighs – 07 – Lady Love via

 
#52 Lou Reed – Sweet Jane from Rock n Roll Animal via
 #51: Eric Clapton, Jeff Beck, Jimmy Page-Layla via
  

#50: Blind Faith – Presence of the Lord via

 

#49: Sunshine Of Your Love via

#48: Cream – White Room – Lyrics via

#47: Steppenwolf – Born To Be Wild (Easy Rider) (1969) via

#46: Cream – Tales of Brave Ulysses via Ya, we’ll have to redo the order by next Fourth!

Guest Lyricist- some roadie!

Mine is better poetry, but not music: Seeing Nausikka  via 

 #45: Higher! Cinnamon Girl – Neil Young – LIve – 1991 [HD]  via 

#44 The Who – Magic Bus – Live At Leeds HQ via

#43 The Who ~ Shakin’ All Over via
#42: Who’s nod a mod? The Who – I Can’t Explain (Live) via This is where it began, in a way:

#41: The Who – I Can See For Miles via

#40: The Who ~ Summertime Blues via

#39: The Who ~ Substitute via

 Jul 3

Protesters at Richard Nixon’s July 4th celebration at the Lincoln Memorial in 1970.

…and are doing it now, because WE DON”T GET IT! Could Facebook cause a civil war with targeted marketing? Well, do you think Putin is more villainous but less stupid than Zuck?

Git yer guys in the executive agencies and secure elections and communications from data collection and targeted interference. Restore the security of the 4th Amendment, or you will never have another free election. They messed with the voters themselves, channeled opinion,

Trump would have been eliminated in the primaries. Instead, Putin ran him up the flagpole, and the stupid Americans salute. I do not want to hear another “D” assume they lost a fair election and discuss adjustments on that basis.

As noted by no less an authority than Jimmy Carter.

 Jul 3

The cruelty is the goal. It’s called “deterrence” – a policy stance that if our country inflicts enough pain on refugees, they will think twice before believing America is worth their dreams & aspirations. Only policy change can end cruelty, not blank checks to the status quo.

The cruelty is the point. The cruelty is the point. The cruelty is the point.

We cannot be proud of our military might because it no longer upholds justice, the “end of government,” according to Madison: “‘Till liberty be lost in the pursuit.”

Bastille Day and Independence Day are holidays to celebrate we the people rejecting Monarchies and tyrants via revolutions. What are we celebrating in DC now with tanks?

Last surviving prosecutor at Nuremberg trials says Trump’s family separation policy is ‘crime against humanity’

IMPEACH!! REMOVE!! VOID!! This is the consequence of our not acting according to the truth: Trump and the Trumpsters are tyrants. Our tradition of Liberty does not allow that we acquiesce.

Shock & shame—& rage. All Americans should weep at this stomach churning, heartbreaking Inspector General Report documenting indecency & inhumanity. But more: Demand accountability. Punish all responsible, & lift up families & children.

 Jul 4

-> Safe to assume THIS man knows exactly what he’s talking about.

Last surviving prosecutor at Nuremberg trials says Trump’s family separation policy is ‘crime against humanity’

Notice that the best songs and the best “Classic Rock” is not pure rock at all.

Pretty good way to conclude. I’m trying to stop the list, but it keeps flowing. We’re on the edges of the Genre, though. No more stuff like Entwistle’s base in “Real Me,” etc, stuff that might make the top 10 and is not mellow, but ROCK, for the Fourth, like fireworks!

  

#38: Jethro Tull – My God via

37: Time of the Season – The Zombies (Lyrics on the screen) via

#36: Stevie Wonder Superstition via Written for Jeff Beck, like white guys could recover the ability to dance!
#35: Janis Joplin – Summertime via a fine way to end the 35 candidates for the top 10 Rock songs of all time, if it’s gettin’ a bit mellow on us…
#34: Jefferson Airplane – White Rabbit (1967) HQ via
#33: janis Joplin – Piece of My Heart via
#32: Jefferson Airplane – Somebody To Love, American Bandstand, 1967 via
#31: Neil Young – Southern Man via
The Declaration of Independence (as read by Max McLean) via
The whole Declaration is to be read on the Fourth, as it was in Lincoln’s day and at the Constitutional Convention. + it has a list of examples of tyranny, + ethics of war. The Second Sentence of the Declaration via
There, 30 is a wide enough net to catch the top 10 pure Rock tunes of all time, by Twitter DJ M.A. Mack, the son of DJ CJ Mac .Twitter. Gratis all, and Happy Fourth!
#30: The Jimi Hendrix Experience – All Along The Watchtower (Audio) via

#29: Watch “Voodoo Chile” on

#28: Day Of The Eagle – Robin Trower. via

#27: Heart Crazy On You via “I was a willow last night in my dreams…”

Interlude: Some Contemporary Tunes:

 Counting Crows – Mr. Jones (Official Video) via

One of the great friendship songs, like Stevie’s “Gypsy:”

Counting Crows – Round Here (Official Video) via

Tal Bachman – She’s So High via
Profound lyrics, “for a rock band!) Rock is a crecendo of ascending eros.

#26: Dream On – Aerosmith via

Dream On – Aerosmith via
Hey, this one might get a number some day: 3 Doors Down – kryptonite (lyrics) via
Cake – “Short Skirt/Long Jacket” Live At KROQ via
Cake – War Pigs via

Cake – I Will Survive via

Cake: I Will Survive Lyrics from
I’m likin’ this new stuff, from the bakers of “Short Skirt Long Jacket:” Cake – i will survive via
 

Back to our regular programming. The wedding lapel is a white orchid. “Your given a flower:” The White Stripes – Blue Orchid lyrics via

 Jul 4

Replying to 

That was like one of their/his Debut tracks.

#26: Led Zeppelin – The Rover (Physical Graffiti) via

#25: Led Zeppelin – Ramble On via
#24: Queen – Killer Queen (Lyrics) via

Rocked Out yet? Find a DJ that can Rock You Better!

#23: Led Zeppelin – How Many More Times via

#22: Aerosmith – Sweet Emotion (Official Music Video) via

#21: Led Zeppelin – Rock and Roll HQ via

#20: David Bowie – Ziggy Stardust via

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#19: Jethro Tull – Cross-Eyed Mary via via

 #18: David Bowie – Panic In Detroit via

#17: Mott the Hoople – All the Young Dudes via #16: The Animals – We Gotta Get Out Of This Place (1965) HD/widescreen ♫♥ via

#16: The Animals – We Gotta Get Out Of This Place (1965) HD/widescreen ♫♥ via
#15: Day tripper – The Beatles (LYRICS/LETRA) [Original] (+Video) via

14 Candidates for the 10 Greatest pure Rock Songs: Happy Fourth!

#14: The Who : The Real Me via
Extra Fourth weekend DJ bonus!: Saturday

The White Stripes-Icky Thump via

Well, Americans What, nothin’ better to do? Why don’t you kick yourself out? You’re an immigrant too Who’s usin’ who? What should we do? Well, you can’t be a pimp And a prostitute too

The White Stripes – ‘Blue Orchid’ via

Where is that f’n pridge…Oh ya, what you oughta know…

Led Zeppelin – Over the Hills and Far Away (Official Music Video) via

Led Zeppelin – How Many More Times (Danmarks Radio 1969) via

Through the invocation, he becomes one with the Jacknife barber- is the best I can figure. At first he is the victim, making Love while he knows the truth and has to deny it to follow the compulsion. Dissociating.

#72: Heartbreaker – Led Zeppelin HD (with lyrics) via

David Bowie – Suffragette city via

Ok, Time to Breathe from the Fourth Fest of pure Rock: Pink Floyd – Time (2011 Remastered) via

David Bowie – Rebel Rebel • TopPop via

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Ja, goeth with “Dazed and Confused.” And “How Many More Times.”

If things get any worse, we’ll lose it= New Orleans prophetic blues: Led Zeppelin – When the Levee Breaks via

I dated that chick, poor Greenie low hanging fruit for the Jack-knife barber.
Sits like a man but he smiles like a reptile She love him, she love him but just for a short while She’ll scratch in the sand, won’t let go his hand He says he’s a beautician and sells you nutrition And keeps all your dead hair for making up underwear Poor little Greenie.

David Bowie – The Jean Genie (Official Video) via

But if we do anything mellow: The Elysian Mystery: T.Rex Cosmic Dancer Lyrics via

Pink Floyd – See Emily Play (1967) HD 0815007 via

The Universe reclining in ‘er ‘air, has she? Brian Wilson’s had such, a word on the wind that lifts her perfume through the air. Bet Patty Boyd had nothin’ such… Plus, she goeth with him to a blossom world!
See Emily Play – Pin Ups [1973] – David Bowie via
T.Rex ‘Jeepster’ via

“The planet queen, perchance to dream… …Well, it’s alright, love is what you want Flying saucer, take me away, gimme your daughter…”

Actually, Marc Bolan just kinda talks that way: T. Rex Planet Queen with Lyrics in Description via
Brian Wilson: “Don’t Worry Baby, from the pre-rock hot rod years, 62-64:”
I guess I should’ve kept my mouth shut
When I started to brag about my car
But I can’t back down now I pushed the other guys too far
She makes me come alive
And makes me want to drive
When she says: “don’t worry, baby” Don’t worry, baby Don’t worry, baby Everything will turn out alright
Don’t worry, baby …
She told me “baby, when you race today
Just take along my love with you
And if you know how much I loved you
Baby nothing could go wrong with you”
Oh what she does to me
When she makes love to me And she says…

With Jeepster, the other Girl-car song. Hot rod guys came about ’63, between racers (James Dean) and Musclecars: Don’t Worry Baby via

Car. Girl, head, car:+ Highway Star via “Nobody gonna take my head I got speed inside my brain Nobody gonna steal my head Now that I’m on the road again Oooh I’m in heaven again I’ve got everything Like a moving ground an open road And everything
The Who – Won’t Get Fooled Again (Glastonbury Festival 2015) via

#69 Stay – Station to Station – David Bowie via

Take Me to the River (2005 Remaster) via

Talking Heads – Once in a Lifetime (Official Video) via

The Stooges – I wanna be your dog (1969) via

The Kingsmen – Louie Louie  via 

Louie, Louie, oh, oh, me gotta go Louie, Louie, me gotta go Fine little girl she waits for me Me catch the ship for cross the sea Me sail the ship all alone Me never think me make it home Louie, Louie, …

[2/2] Three nights and days me sail the sea Me think of girl constantly On the ship I dream she there I smell the rose in her hair Louie, Louie,… Me see Jamaica moon above It won’t be long, me see my love Me take her in my arms and then I tell her I never leave again

The Kingsmen – Louie, Louie (Shindig 1965) via

IGGY POP – LOUIE LOUIE – Live via

 

Patti Smith Group – Because the Night (Official Audio) via

And I lay right down in my favorite place: The benefits of solitude: Iggy Pop – I Wanna Be Your Dog [Lyrics] [HD] via

RAMONES – We’re A Happy Family via

#68 Cream Crossroads via

Ramones – I Wanna Be Sedated (Official Music Video) via

Ramones – “Ramona” – Rocket to Russia via

Surely I remembered to list this: Sunshine Of Your Love via

End: I crossed the ocean Where no one could see And I put a time-bomb In your submarine Goodbye to old friends The secret’s in hand With phonied up papers And counterfeit plans You never will understand

#67: Alice Cooper – Halo of Flies via

#00: The Jimi Hendrix Experience – All Along The Watchtower (Audio) via

FRANK ZAPPA COSMIK DEBRIS via

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#66: Frank Zappa – Cosmik Debris via

I also like Van Halen’s Kinks, but AC/DC is just too ugly to watch. I turn off the radio if they play it, especially on Sunday, let alone the Fourth!

Amusing to see the death metal and Ozzie types, Ja, we don’t do them: except some early Sabbath, Paranoid: Sweet Leaf and: “Will you fear when death is near, and say that you may as well worship the sun?”

#65: The Kinks – All Day And All Of The Night (Official Audio) via

Jack White, even Chain by Fleetwood Mack and Stevie Wonder: Top 10 Guitar Riffs of All Time via

David Gilmour Shine On You Crazy Diamond Pompeii 2016 via

David Gilmour – Comfortably Numb Live in Pompeii 2016 via

David Gilmour Comfortably Numb Guitar Solo in HD! via

Top 10 Guitar Solos via

Top 10 Guitar Solos via

 

Deep Purple – Made in Japan – Highway Star (video) via

Car, girl, head.Come take a free man. Deep Purple – Made in Japan – Highway Star (video) via

And this again: Deep Purple – Highway Star via

Ya, the question would be whether it is noisy enough for the Fourth. I included “Summertime” on account a she screams and cries a bit: Rock proper.

While My Guitar Gently Weeps (Remastered 2009) via

Correction, this is 15, and Day Tripper is #64! While My Guitar Gently Weeps (Taken from Concert For George) via

Watch “Jimi Hendrix Castles Made of Sand lyric video” on

I’m still procrastinating the Mueller report- hard to read on line. I’ll send Tweets out, though, of highlights, if I get to it. I’m still trying to write my paragraph on the context of Arthur, 516-542 AD, what was going on then in Rome, France and Byzantium.

Lets have this one again, Come on in…Humble Pie – 30 Days in the Hole (Lyrics) via

#62: Cream – I Feel Free via

Some Redcoats were still about last night, bomb bursting in air, gorgeous- George- in the field across the street, here in the burbs, where the rich pop off enough fireworks to support a migrant or two- in addition to the ones we are trying to house and failing: LET MY PEOPLE GO!

#61: Here’s some we left out: Hendrix “Third Stone from the Sun” is available only with the amplified message from the aliens on Youtube. Maybe we can get it off “Experience.”

*Woodstock Joni Mitchell as done by Crosby, Stills Nash and Young.

 

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