Just wondering what songs everyone thinks of when they think of a rock n roll band, rather it be hard rock or rock a billy, really any type of song that really seems to embody rock n roll in one way or another for anyone. I'll start with several.

Billy Haley & the Comets - Rock Around the Clock
Rolling Stones - Paint it Black
Orange Goblin - Scorpionica
The Atomic Bitchwax - Cast Off Your Masks

One word....






Lemmy

When I think of 'Rock and Roll', I think oldies like Chuck Berry... 12-Bar Blues kinds of bands.

When I think 'Hard Rock', I think more like King's X and things like that.

Cool, it's "free association" time.

So.... Rock & Roll. Here's my thoughts.


Elvis.

Performing Led Zeppelin's "Rock N Roll" on a really hot night at Monash University with my band at the time, while suffering the flu and doped up on too many Sudafed. There was also a kid in the front row in a tie dyed T-shirt who was watching me intently during my "Purple Haze" solo and it kind of freaked me out.

The first time I heard "Eruption".

Seeing INXS play live in 1985 at the Sidney Myer Music Bowl with Jimmy Barnes, the Divynls and Psuedo Echo. Michael Hutchence was rock n' roll, pure and simple.

Auto-fellatio.

Watching Cold Chisel demolish the stage during a live performance on Countdown.

The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion.

Pashing Michelle from the deli department at the Safeway Christmas party in 1986. Then taking her sister out the next week and snogging on the steps of some big office building in the city.

Geisha - Part-Time Love Affair

Underage drinking at the pub around the corner from school, then stumbling back to school to get my things, then being challenged by Jay Epstein to a game of squash, which I somehow won, then threw up in the big rubbush bin in the middle of the common room and fell asleep on a couch.

Wa Wa Nee.

Bumping into Perry Farrell on a tram last Tuesday, but having to get off before I could say hello. Nobody else on the tram recognised him.

Playing billiards in our bathing suts during summer 1986 with the large-breasted girl who lived around the corner from me while we listened to her Billy Idol records. To this day I still have a soft spot for "Sweet 16".

The smell of marijuana, beer and petrol during the gatecrashing of a neighbourhood party to listen to the band playing in the backyard.

Iced wee on a stick.

The first time I realised the correlation of sex and appearing on stage.

Being thrown in the pool at a party while wearing handcuffs. It was the middle of winter so I was also wearing a heavy winter overcoat, which I still own. I then went inside, put on Midnight Oil, sat on the floor and had another Strongbow Cider while playing air guitar to "The Power And The Passion".

The stale cigarettes-and-beer smell of all band rehearsal rooms.

Ro

[JuZ]

When I think of Rock n Roll I think of Ro. Who needs the 'ckn Roll?

Jim Morrison

Led Zeppelin - Communications Breakdown

good old tr00 rock'n'roll

One word....






Lemmy

RIGHT THERE!!! THAT'S THE BEST AVATAR (COSBY) I'VE EVER SEEN!!!!
Hats off to you sir!!

i think of "ten years after - go home my baby"

Appetite for destruction

Best rock album ever.

Appetite for destruction

Best rock album ever.

Personally I think there is no BEST album only what your fave is.
I liked GNR lies more but still so many diff choices for best rock album.

I do think that Appetite is an album that set a standard, but as far as best, it is really imposssibly to say that there is one single album that really set the standard, which brings me to another, related album:

Slash's Snakepit - Ain't Life Grand

Destruction was a benchmark. Personally i think that Young Heart Attack's "Mouthful Of Love" is an old school rock piece of genius. No one seems to listen to them!

I just realized that with that last post I completely contradicted myself. Anyway, the second part of it was supposed to say best or something like that.

AC/DC