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Most classic headbanging songs ever!
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Subject: Most classic headbanging songs ever! From: Little Hawk Date: 09 Nov 03 - 01:50 PM Attention! This is a music thread. But it's not about folk music. No indeed. It's about a completely different style of music, the kind of music that has enthralled generations of frustrated, pimply, horny, lonely adolescent males between 13 and twenty-something with its heavy beat, its bad attitude, its screeching guitar solos, and its raging vocals. Yep. Headbanging songs. Heavy Rock, Acid Rock, Punk Rock, Progressive Rock, Electric Blues, Glamrock...all that stuff that parents hate and kids love, because it expressed their frustrations so brilliantly. Simply contribute your favourite (or most hated) headbanging titles of all time. You don't have to like the stuff. I don't like much of it, but I do like some of it. My first nomination is: SMOKE ON THE WATER (Deep Purple) It has to rate as one of the most relentlessly dumb and memorable songs of its type. An auditory trip through brute stupidity that has few rivals. My 2nd monination is: YOU AIN'T SEEN NOTHIN' YET (B.T.O.) I actually like it for some reason...good energy and enthusiasm. Go to it, folks. - LH |
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Subject: RE: Most classic headbanging songs ever! From: wysiwyg Date: 09 Nov 03 - 01:52 PM ... generations of frustrated, pimply, horny, lonely adolescent males between 13 and twenty-something Do we have that many here who meet or once met that description AND are/were of the generation that has/had headbanger music?? ~S~ |
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Subject: RE: Most classic headbanging songs ever! From: Amos Date: 09 Nov 03 - 02:00 PM I dunno -- it is outside of my aesthetic experience. A |
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Subject: RE: Most classic headbanging songs ever! From: Q (Frank Staplin) Date: 09 Nov 03 - 02:17 PM Who? What? What form of assault is this? |
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Subject: RE: Most classic headbanging songs ever! From: Little Hawk Date: 09 Nov 03 - 02:24 PM Of course we do, Susan. The kind of music I am referring to has really been around since Gene Vincent recorded "Be-Bop-A-Lu-La", although it didn't really hit its full stride until the late 60's when it pretty well took over for awhile. Show me a male who is 50 now who was not exposed to this kind of music. Show me one who did not at least partially meet the description "frustrated, pimply, horny, lonely adolescent male" at one time. It is a fact that most teenage boys are mysteriously drawn to music that expresses inchoate hostility and has a heavy beat. I wonder why? Well, they are in a situation where they feel powerless and oppressed by their parents, their school system, and the older world in general, where they don't have enough money, and can't find a girlfriend or get anyone to take them seriously. Why wouldn't they be frustrated and angry? Now, I recently saw the movie "Rock School", and it was great! It was all about the kind of music I'm talking about here, and the kind of guys I'm talking about...and it was darned funny, and actually enlisted one's sympathy for these lads, living out their fantasies of male grandeur through loud music. Downright hilarious. If you can't see the amusing and enlightening possibilities in putting together a list of the most classic songs in this genre, you may be the very thing those youngsters were legitimately protesting against! :-) Another nomination: "Highway to Hell" (AC-DC) - LH |
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Subject: RE: Most classic headbanging songs ever! From: Little Hawk Date: 09 Nov 03 - 02:26 PM Look, buddy, take off your birkenstocks, and get in the mood... I laugh at headbanging music, but I think it's an interesting phenomenon at the same time. |
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Subject: RE: Most classic headbanging songs ever! From: Little Hawk Date: 09 Nov 03 - 02:30 PM That last comment was to "Q", who should go back to pestering Captain Picard, in my opinion. Here's another nomination: YOU SHOOK ME (Old blues lyric covered by Led Zeppelin...and I absolutely hate it...as I do most Led Zeppelin songs, but it's still a classic.) - LH |
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Subject: RE: Most classic headbanging songs ever! From: Padre Date: 09 Nov 03 - 02:33 PM "Inchoate" LH? - there's a word I haven't seen in print (outside the pages of the Partisan Review) for a long time. Merriam Webster defines it as: "being only partly in existence or operation; especially : imperfectly formed or formulated." |
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Subject: RE: Most classic headbanging songs ever! From: Little Hawk Date: 09 Nov 03 - 02:40 PM Exactly. I got the word from H.P. Lovecraft. He went in for inchoate things in a big way...seemed to find the concept terrifying for some reason. He felt that way about extreme antiquity too. Strange man. Another favourite Lovecraft word: eldritch (meaning very, very old and mysterious) |
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Subject: RE: Most classic headbanging songs ever! From: Midchuck Date: 09 Nov 03 - 02:48 PM Also "rugose" and "squamous." P. |
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Subject: RE: Most classic headbanging songs ever! From: Peace Date: 09 Nov 03 - 02:52 PM Little Hawk, As you address the ardent blush of teenage angst, the eager mottled faces, the carpet of young growth displaying its verdure with cataclysmic spasms as teens quested after meaning in an otherwise tremulous world, please allow me to suggest that Great Balls of Fire gave vent to the vertical expression of a horizontal desire. And for those who take umbrage, don't. Many of us came from exactly that. Good thread, LH. And if by accident two people actually did bang heads, there was always the chance to take it outside and use the comb on one's locks. Goodness, gracious . . . . |
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Subject: RE: Most classic headbanging songs ever! From: Midchuck Date: 09 Nov 03 - 02:53 PM ...the kind of music that has enthralled generations of frustrated, pimply, horny, lonely adolescent males between 13 and twenty-something with its heavy beat, its bad attitude, its screeching guitar solos, and its raging vocals. Yeah. I'm a lot older, but I kind of enjoy Steve Earle too, now that you mention it. Peter. |
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Subject: RE: Most classic headbanging songs ever! From: Q (Frank Staplin) Date: 09 Nov 03 - 03:16 PM My daughter, just retired as a teacher, had stuff by Lead Zepilin or some such which she played when young (lps still in a corner of the basement somewhere). I figured she might know what head-banging music is, but she says she has heard the term somewhere but no idea what it means. Of course this is western Canada, and we are a little backward here. I asked her husband, who plays in a celtic and western band from time to time, and he said it was what a drunken bodhran player did. Yes, Littlehawk, I remember Jacques Piccard and his father, Auguste. I don't know if he had the rank of Capitaine, but he did work with the French Navy at one time. In Middle English, eldritch meant fairyland, but it has come to mean weird. |
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Subject: RE: Most classic headbanging songs ever! From: Jeri Date: 09 Nov 03 - 04:14 PM I was never an adolescent male, but I went through a phase... Smoke on the Water - OK, but too much of a 'classic' now. I wouldn't classify much 'classic' rock as head-bangin' music. For instance, I LOVE Jethro Tull, but never banged my head while listening. I always thought of head-banging stuff as being even louder. Black Sabbath's 'Iron Man' springs to mind. I saw them in London in 1980 (I think it was '80). I had a traumatic experience surrounding 'You Shook Me'. I was living in a dorm. The woman next door was engaged in 'shaking' with partner picked up in bar, and had that album, at volume eleventy-billion, on continuous replay during and after said shaking. They passed out after a while, but AC/DC was still goin' strong. I shut off the circuit breaker to her room for long enough to kill the music. Don't know if she was late for work the next day or not. In any case, every time I hear that song, I want to find out where she lives now and go strangle her. |
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Subject: RE: Most classic headbanging songs ever! From: GUEST,Blind DRunk in Blind River Date: 09 Nov 03 - 04:17 PM Totally decent man!!! Now hyer talkin eh? Lemme see... Bat OUta Hell Hells Bells You Shook Me All Night Long Sufferajet City Honky Tonk Women Stairway To Heaven Aqualung Roundabout I Love Rock and Roll - BDiBR |
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Subject: RE: Most classic headbanging songs ever! From: Bill D Date: 09 Nov 03 - 04:20 PM I will not post what I am thinking, 'cause most of you KNOW what I am thinking... ...and so it goes... |
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Subject: RE: Most classic headbanging songs ever! From: Wincing Devil Date: 09 Nov 03 - 04:22 PM I have a sampler CD that I got for free a few years ago. It's entitled "Bolt Your Speakers to the Floor" One of the cuts was "Cotton Eyed Joe" by Ricky Scaggs and the Chieftains. My favorite cut, thjough, and the ultimate headbanging tune of all time: O Fortuna from Orff's Carmina Burana. Now as to 70-80's Rock, I nominated Queen's We Are the Champions, Bicycle race, Fat bottomed Girls and We will Rock You WD >;-( |
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Subject: RE: Most classic headbanging songs ever! From: GUEST,Blind DRunk in Blind River Date: 09 Nov 03 - 04:31 PM YEAH!!!! WE WILL ROCK YOU! AWright! I Shoulda thought of that. Man am I pumpt now! Only 3 beers ta go here and Don has no money left. Crap! Who's got smokes? - BDiBR |
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Subject: RE: Most classic headbanging songs ever! From: Little Hawk Date: 09 Nov 03 - 05:49 PM brucie - Great Balls of Fire was an absolutely inspired nomination. Bravo! We can thank the great Jerry Lee Lewis for being one of the most early and historically significant headbangers of all time with his frenetic performances, and for telling all of England it could "k*ss his *ss". He was a headbanger before his time, and should serve as an inspiration to succeeding generations of angry young men who love loud music, mind-altering substances, sex, and violence. He also set a piano on fire onstage to outdo Chuck Berry, thus paving the way for other noisy, if talented idiots (like Hendrix and The Who) to do similarly destructive things in their pursuit of fame and notoriety. It's amazing what too much testosterone can drive people to, isn't it? :-) - LH |
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Subject: RE: Most classic headbanging songs ever! From: Peace Date: 09 Nov 03 - 07:36 PM Hey, Little Hawk, Love this thread. Sorry, Bill. When I saw the thread title and LH's name on it, first person I thought of was you. Another good headbanger song was "Tell Laura I Love Her." I was putting the make on an older gal (I was 14 and she was 15) and I wasn't doin' so good. That friggin' song came on the radio (hifi) and spoiled my moves--which mostly consisted of trying to figure out just how a freakin' bra was hooked up in the back. She got all googoo over the song, and 'this magic moment' went away very fast. Had a woody for two days, and was bangin' my head against the wall, wanting real bad to howl at the moon. Hang tough, bro. |
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Subject: RE: Most classic headbanging songs ever! From: Peace Date: 09 Nov 03 - 07:45 PM PS, Thanks for the mammaries. |
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Subject: RE: Most classic headbanging songs ever! From: Bill D Date: 09 Nov 03 - 08:18 PM umm-hmmm, brucie.. *sigh* ....maybe I should have tried head-banging...it would do me as much good as pleading for restraint..*wry smile* |
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Subject: RE: Most classic headbanging songs ever! From: SINSULL Date: 09 Nov 03 - 09:42 PM Satisfaction? |
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Subject: RE: Most classic headbanging songs ever! From: Little Hawk Date: 10 Nov 03 - 12:02 AM "Satisfaction" definitely qualifies, and would be among the top ten, I should think. Nice work there by the Stones. Some others by the Stones: "Nineteenth Nervous Breakdown", "Sympathy For the Devil", "Get Off of My Cloud", "It's Only Rock n' Roll". Another by my least favourite band, Led Zeppelin: "Been A Long Time" (I think that's the title...) - LH |
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Subject: RE: Most classic headbanging songs ever! From: SueB Date: 10 Nov 03 - 01:38 AM Inna Gadda Da Vida by Iron Butterfly. Used to raise my dad's blood pressure by thirty points to hear it. |
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Subject: RE: Most classic headbanging songs ever! From: alanabit Date: 10 Nov 03 - 01:59 AM Black Dog by Led Zeppelin should have been mentioned LH. It has the sort of stupid, macho, white boy psuedo blues lyrics which imbue it with the essential silliness which qualifies it for this thread. It's noisy with lots of screaming too. Oddly enough, I like it. Paranoid hasn't been mentioned yet. It should have been. Black Sabbath at their most intelligent were pretty dumb - and that wasn't their most intelligent. Uriah Heep had a serious claim to being the worst band in the whole world at that time. So Easy Living should not be omitted. We will no doubt soon hear from AC/DC fans who will inform us what other aberrations apart from Highway to Hell and Whole Lotta Rosie were indispensable to the long locked and flared trouser brigade. (I am ashamed of knowing all this). |
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Subject: RE: Most classic headbanging songs ever! From: Amergin Date: 10 Nov 03 - 02:14 AM suzy is a headbanger... ;) led zeppelin? deep pruple? come on this is pussy stuff... war pigs....iron man....green hell...ride the lightening...welcome home(sanitarium)...and the list goes on.... ( i dont listen to most of tht stuff anymore...but every once in a while ill bring out my old favourites...) |
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Subject: RE: Most classic headbanging songs ever! From: GUEST,.gargoyle Date: 10 Nov 03 - 02:25 AM A current group..... you will find that Operation Ivy's Energy album will be on the classics lists in 20 years.
Sincerely, |
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Subject: RE: Most classic headbanging songs ever! From: fat B****rd Date: 10 Nov 03 - 03:15 AM Too numerous to mention all of them.......... Little Queenie Keep a knockin' Dixie Chicken Don't you just know it ? Drive my car Anarchy in the UK |
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Subject: RE: Most classic headbanging songs ever! From: George Papavgeris Date: 10 Nov 03 - 04:17 AM Anything by Status Quo, surely? Their stuff had all the ingredients: a) 2-chord tunes (3 chords when they got one of the first 2 wrong) b) mindless lyrics carefully constructed to be catchy c) mass hysteria inducing drum beat d) 2-note bass e) magic - I loved every one! "Whatever you want - whatever you need...." |
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Subject: RE: Most classic headbanging songs ever! From: alanabit Date: 10 Nov 03 - 09:20 AM They were great fun to watch in the early seventies. They were often wrongly described as a heavy rock band. They were, in fact, an astonishingly inept blues band. They couldn't play fast enough or flashily enough to do real heavy rock. At least they never pranced around in lurid tight pants or bared their chests unnecessarily. I thought they had a blokish charm about them. I saw them again at Reading Festival, circ '78. They had improved a bit and weren't quite the same! |
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Subject: RE: Most classic headbanging songs ever! From: Beverley Barton Date: 10 Nov 03 - 09:23 AM ALMORAIMA BY PACO DE LUCIA |
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Subject: RE: Most classic headbanging songs ever! From: Lanfranc Date: 10 Nov 03 - 09:41 AM Jeff Beck's "Hi Ho Silver Lining" deserves inclusion here IMHO Alan |
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Subject: RE: Most classic headbanging songs ever! From: Grab Date: 10 Nov 03 - 01:17 PM Amergin, I'll second you on Metallica. "Four Horsemen" and "Master of Puppets" are classics. No mention so far of my favourite band when I was younger, Iron Maiden - "Can I play with madness" is a good uplifting one. Also no mention yet of "Ace of Spades", "All right now", "Wishing well", "Ballroom blitz"... Graham. |
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Subject: RE: Most classic headbanging songs ever! From: Peace Date: 10 Nov 03 - 01:40 PM I guess ABBA would be outta place here, huh? |
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Subject: RE: Most classic headbanging songs ever! From: Ebbie Date: 10 Nov 03 - 01:46 PM As long as we're discussing age-related favorites here, I used to like 'White Coral Bells'. :) |
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Subject: RE: Most classic headbanging songs ever! From: alanabit Date: 10 Nov 03 - 02:43 PM For me ABBA would lower the tone of a dungheap brucie - but that's just for me! |
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Subject: RE: Most classic headbanging songs ever! From: Dave the Gnome Date: 10 Nov 03 - 03:18 PM Who do you love by Juicy lucy. Any idea where I can get it without having to buy the greatest hits album? Moving up to date in the Zepelin genre, anyone else here like Starsailor? Any giving it a folky bent (folky bent what you ask...) Anyone else like Korns Trashin' bagpipes? Not that Korn are at all folky but the lead singer seems to enjoy the warpipes - and they go so well with headbanging;-) Cheers DtG |
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Subject: RE: Most classic headbanging songs ever! From: Peace Date: 10 Nov 03 - 03:44 PM alanabit: You seem quite definite 'bout that. But what kinda dung heap? Horse, cow, goat? |
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Subject: RE: Most classic headbanging songs ever! From: radriano Date: 10 Nov 03 - 03:59 PM Hey, Little Hawk, what the heck do you do with all these lists? Do you ever have days when you're listless? |
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Subject: RE: Most classic headbanging songs ever! From: PoppaGator Date: 10 Nov 03 - 04:01 PM Nice enough thread, surely -- but mostly because of everything written *except* the headbanger song nominations. I was suprised to see stuff I *like* being assigned to this category (e.g., Jerry Lee Lewis, "Can't You Hear Me Knockin"). I would assign the category "headbanger" only to stuff my kids play that I hate, and I don't know the names of any of those numbers. |
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Subject: RE: Most classic headbanging songs ever! From: Little Hawk Date: 10 Nov 03 - 04:37 PM Ha! Ha! Great question, radriano! Yes, I do have days when I am listless. I find the thing that gets me moving on such days is to dig up the most godawful heavy rock records I can find, turn 'em up to ELEVEN!!! (ask Nigel Tufnel about that) and ROCK ON, DUDE!!! Just kidding... :-) Actually a good shower and a brisk walk outside do if for me. Thanks, people, for nominating so many classic headbangers! - LH |
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Subject: RE: Most classic headbanging songs ever! From: alison Date: 10 Nov 03 - 07:57 PM another vote for "wishing well" by Free "Paranoid" & "country girl" - black Sabbath "don't fear the reaper" - blue oyster cult "Jane" - Jefferson airplane / starship "because the night" -Patty Smith "Whole lotta love" Led Zepp I loved the "Carmina Burana" suggestion (theme for "the Omen" & "Old Spice ads" for those not classically inclined).... definately head banging material slainte alison |
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Subject: RE: Most classic headbanging songs ever! From: GUEST,.gargoyle Date: 10 Nov 03 - 08:25 PM Sorry to have slipped Ivy in
Sincerely,
It really should be in the classic SKA thread.... but since there are none here....it sits there. |
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Subject: RE: Most classic headbanging songs ever! From: Cluin Date: 10 Nov 03 - 08:33 PM The Clash---Rockin' the Casbah The Sex Pistols---God Save the Queen Lords of the New Church---Holy War Tom Jones---She's a Lady |
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Subject: RE: Most classic headbanging songs ever! From: Sam L Date: 10 Nov 03 - 08:49 PM I seem to remember liking Black Sabbath's completely inane Fairies Wear Boots, but now when I try to remember any of their tunes they all sound like Iron Man. Except the one that went Make a joke and I will sigh and you will laugh and I will cry--that gets stuck in my head, interspersed with the theme to The Odd Couple, for some reason. Deep Purple, I'd go with Highway Star instead, for the solo. I liked Tull's Hymn 43 as a headbanger when I was in 5th grade. The Stones, Brown Sugar. I like Page's sculptural riffs and many things about Zepplin, but somehow they never quite hit the spot, innovative and interesting as they are. And I never thought anything of the Stairway solo. Didn't see why anyone would learn it instead of making something up. Yes had some headbangy stuff like Soundchaser, Southside Of The Sky, bits and pieces, and I liked them a bit. I found their spacey/treky image sort of embarrassing, but it was probably a pretty good advertising metaphor. I've arranged a cover of the mullethead-banger classic of all time, Freebird. I just play the diddlediddle diddlediddle lick over and over, and sing Lord help me I can't cha--ange. Little Richard singing Rock Island Line sounds pretty good. |
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Subject: RE: Most classic headbanging songs ever! From: *daylia* Date: 10 Nov 03 - 09:56 PM LH, it's "Rock and Roll", not "Been a Long Time" by Zep. Had the nostalgic joy of bangin me head to it not so very long ago it seems! (thanks for your tolerance ...I really did have your best interests at heart though ... thought it might be good for your, uh, daylia |
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Subject: RE: Most classic headbanging songs ever! From: Jenny Islander Date: 11 Nov 03 - 12:30 AM Wincing Devil, "O Fortuna" is right ON! My husband and I like to freak the high schoolers on the last day of school by driving through the parking lot headbanging to "O Fortuna" cranked all the way UP with the windows open. For those of you going, "What?": "O Fortuna" has been used in a lot of movies over the years, so people who haven't heard _Carmina Burana_ (a modern arrangement of medieval bar songs about sex, girls, bad luck, and beer--great stuff!) probably know "O Fortuna" anyway. Anybody out there who's seen _Excalibur_ will remember it from Arthur's first brave ride and from his later valiant charge against despair. I think it's in a Conan movie too. The gist of the song, BTW, is "Luck, if you're a lady, I'm the bastard King of England." But this list must include "Bohemian Rhapsody" by Queen! |
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Subject: RE: Most classic headbanging songs ever! From: GUEST, Mikefule Date: 11 Nov 03 - 02:41 AM The fast, live version of We Will Rock You (on the B side of Crazy Little Thing Called Love). Ace of Spades - although this works as a folk song if sung to a jig tune similar to The Lincolnshire Poacher. Gimme Three Steps (Lynyrd Skynyrd) And of course, Freebird, although as I get older, I lack the stamina for the full length version. |
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Subject: RE: Most classic headbanging songs ever! From: muppett Date: 11 Nov 03 - 04:34 AM Stairway to Heaven by ROLF HARRIS !!!!!!!!!!! |
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