what are some good songs?

Question

i need a list of good songs of all types, but rock and alternative are my favorites. it can be from any time period as well? list all of ur favorites that u can think of. thanks!

Answer 1

Rock/alternative, you say?

We'll start with classic (or, rather, not so recent) rock...I'll name a couple of my favorites and, with luck, they will inspire you to further investigate the bands behind them.

NIB (if only for the bass solo at the beginning), War Pigs, Sabbath Bloody Sabbath, Sweet Leaf - Black Sabbath
Stealin', Gypsy - Uriah Heep
Down for the Last Time - Head East
Blinded by the Light - Manfred Mann (cover, granted)
Hurt So Good, Jack and Diane, Little Pink Houses - John Mellencamp
The Chain, Gold Dust Woman, Go Your Own Way - Fleetwood Mac (a little too pop, perhaps)
Cemetary Gates - Pantera (are we calling them classic?)
Rainbow In the Dark, Holy Diver - Dio
Walk of Life, Sultans of Swing, Money For Nothing - Dire Straits
ANYTHING by Rush
Spacetruckin' - Deep Purple (I will not endore Smoke on the Water)
Hotel California, New Kid in Town - Eagles
Somebody to Love, White Rabbit - Jefferson Airplane
Breakdown, Last Dance with Mary Jane, Free Fallin - Tom Petty and the Heatbreakers
ANYTHING Led Zeppelin
ANYTHING AC/DC
Black Magic Woman, Oye Como Va - Santana
Take the Money and Run, The Joker - Steve Miller Band
Tin Man, Ventura Highway - America
ANYTHING Metallica (pre-rehab...so don't really bother after the mid-90's)
Let it Ride - Bachman Turner Overdrive
Guns and Roses are very hit or miss - fun, either way.
Roundabout - Yes...actually, anything Yes is great
La Grange, Sharp Dressed Man, Tush - ZZ Top
Baba O'Riley, Who are You?, Behind Blue Eyes - The Who
Hellbent for Leather, Green Manalishi - Judas Priest (he and Axl Rose from G&R sound quite similar in certain pitches)
Cryin', Sweet Emotion, Dream On - Aerosmith
Beast of Burden, I Miss You, Sympathy for the Devil, Paint it Black - Rolling Stones
Running with the Devil, Panama - Van Halen
Dr. Feelgood, Girls, Girls, Girls, - Motley Crue
Hold on Loosely - .38 Special
Three Steps, Free Bird (duh), Sweet Home Alabama - Lynard Skynard
Heart of Gold, Old Man - Neil Young
Riding the Storm Out, Keep on Loving You - REO Speedwagon
The Night with You?, Winds of Change, Rock you Like a Hurricane - Scorpions
Here I Go Again - Whitesnake
Something to Believe In - Poison
Go to Hell, Feed My Frankenstein, Welcome to my Nightmare - Alice Cooper (again, can't do much wrong)
My Guitar Wants to Kill Your Mama - Frank Zappa
These Dreams, Magic Man, Barracuda - Heart (pretty damn good, actually)
I Stole Your Love, I Wanna Rock and Roll all Night, Firehouse, Lick it up- KISS
Midnight Blue - Lou Gramm
Comfortably Numb, Welcome to the Machine, Hey You - Pink Floyd (one of my favorites)
Fat Bottomed Girls, Bohemian Rhapsody, We Will Rock You - Queen (let's face it, you gotta love 'em)
Rock and Roll Part II - Gary Glitter (whee!)
Long Train Running, Black Water - Doobie Brothers
Wanted: Dead or Alive - Bon Jovi

...and I have only very slightly scratched the surface. However, on to more modern things.

Man in the Box, Would? - Alice in Chains
Best of You, Never Surrender, One by One - Foo Fighters (though I really don't think the Foo Fighters can do any wrong)
ANYTHING Nirvana
Seed, ADIDAS - KoRn (I gave up on them after Follow the Leader, but their newest stuff may be okay if they've regained any sense...I hated the Issues album).
A Place in the Sun (album) - Lit (it's an essential, strangely)
Homesick, Runaway Train - Soul Asylum
Hey Jealousy, Found out About You - Gin Blossoms (kinda pop again, but oh well)
Jail House, Santeria, What I Got - Sublime (kinda punk/reggae, but worthwhile...I think EVERYONE knows the words to Santeria...)
Closer, Hurt (though I think Johnny Cash's cover was better) - Nine Inch Nails
ANYTHING Rammstein
Rybecki, Greet the Machine, Fractured - 20 Dead Flower Children
Disarm, Daphne Descends (and the remix), Bullet with Butterfly Wings, Perfect - Smashing Pumpkins
ANYTHING Everclear (though they were strongest at first, I'd stop after the Afterglow album, personally)
ANYTHING Red Hot Chili Peppers (HUGE talent from every member, been around for ages while remaining relevant, sound always changing but staying distinctly Chili Pepper!)
Long Way Down, Bullet Proof, Naked, Slide, Amigone - goo Goo Dolls
ANYTHING Rage Against the Machine
Black Hole Sun - Sound Garden
ANYTHING Stone Temple Pilots
Fall to Pieces - Velvet Revolver
Cochise, Show Me How to Live - Audioslave
Jeremy, Black, Alive, Evenflo, Do the Evolution, Lowlight - Pearl Jam
Graduate, 1000 Julys, Thanks a Lot, Semi-Charmed Life - Third Eye Blind
All I Want - Toad the Wet Sprocket
Loser, Devil's Haircut, Where it's at, Sexx Laws- Beck (he's pretty funky and original)
Why II, Shine - Collective Soul
When Dolphins Cry, Lightning Crashes - Live
Dragula, Feel So Numb - Rob Zombie (I can't even say that he's talented...I can only say that I like his sound)
One Headlight, Sixth Avenue Heartache - Wallflowers
ANYTHING Bloodhound Gang, because I condone it.
Zombie - Cranberries
ANYTHING Chumbawamba (specifically, Tubthumper album)
Wish You Were Here, Drive, Anti-Gravity, Familiar - Incubus
ANYTHING Lords of Acid (yay! can't even explain it)

...and the list goes on, and on, and on. I'm going to drop it here, but that's a fairly decent scope on the rock/alt, at least for now. *smiles* It'll get you started, at any rate. Again, I know that I didn't dive deeply into any one band, and that I've left many out. Sorry for that.

Enjoy.

Answer 2

Yellow Ledbetter...Pearl Jam
Black....Pearl Jam
Interstate Love Song...Stone Temple Pilots
Feel Good Inc....Gorillaz
Rock The Casbah...The Clash
Whip It....Devo
Losing My Religion...REM
The One I Love...REM
Safety Dance...Men Without Hats
Don't Stand So Close To Me....The Police
Roxanne...The Police
Down Under...Men At Work
Beds Are Burning...Midnight Oil
Shot In The Dark...Ozzy Osbourne
Photograph...Def Leppard
Rock Of Ages...Def Leppard
Street of Dreams...Rainbow
Stoned Cold....Rainbow
Smoke On The Water....Deep Purple
Rebel Yell...Billy Idol
Eyes Without A Face...Billy Idol
White Wedding...Billy Idol
Runnin With The Devil...Van Halen
The Logical Song...Supertramp
Breakfast In America...Supertramp
Layla...Derek & The Dominos(aka Eric Clapton)
Bad Company...Bad Company
Slow Ride...Foghat
Don't Fear The Reaper....Blue Oyster Cult
Do You Feel Like I Do...Peter Frampton
Show Me The Way...Peter Frampton
Behind Blue Eyes....The Who
Who Are You....The Who
Paint It Black....Rolling Stones
All Along The Watchtower...Jimi Hendrix
Incense And Peppermints..Strawberry Alarm Clock
White Room...Cream
Pushin Too Hard....The Seeds
White Rabbit...Jefferson Airplane
Pusher Man...Steppenwolf
Born To Be Wild...Steppenwolf
Magic Carpet Ride...Steppenwolf
Break On Through...The Doors
Light My Fire...The Doors
Riders On The Storm...The Doors
Easy Livin...Uriah Heep
Signs...Five Man Electrical Band
Lunatic Fringe...Red Ryder
War Pigs...Black Sabbath
Black Sabbath...Black Sabbath
Paranoid...Black Sabbath
Comfortably Numb...Pink Floyd
One Night In Bangkok...Murray Head
What I Like About You...The Romantics
Mad World...Gary Jules
How You Remind Me...Nickelback
Hemmorhage...Fuel
Come Back...Pearl Jam
The Way I Are....Timbaland
Roll On Down The Highway...B.T.O (Bachman,Turner Overdrive)
Thunderstruck...AC/DC
Who Made Who...AC/DC
Saved By Zero...The Fixx
Heart Full Of Soul...The Yardbirds
Drivers Seat...Sniff & The Tears
I Got A Line On You...Spirit
Driven Out...The Fixx
Devil Inside...INXS
Mr. Roboto...Styx
Werewolves Of London...Warren Zevon
Run To You...Bryan Adams
Why Me...Planet P
Hells Bells...AC/DC
Question Of Temperature......Balloon Farm
Working For The Weekend...Loverboy
Wild Thing...The Troggs
Paradise By The Dashboard Light...Meatloaf
Fantasy...Aldo Nova

Answer 3

Muse:
Plug in baby
Time is running out
New born
Stockholme syndrome
Hysteria
Supermassive black hole
Butterflies and Hurricanes
Bliss
Sing for absolution
Muscle Museum

Arctic Monkeys:
Brainstorm
I bet you look good on the dancefloor
Fluorescent Adolescent
505

Franz Ferdinand:
Take me out
Do you want to
The Fallen

The Mars Volta - The Widow, Televators
Velvet Revolver - Slither
We Are Scientists - Nobody move, nobody get hurt
Soundgarden - Black hole sun
Rise Against - The good left undone, Ready to fall
Flyleaf - Fully alive
Stereophonics - Dakota, Mr. writer
Hellogoodbye - Here(in your arms)
Rage Against the Machine - Freedom
Switchfoot - Stars, Meant to live, Dare you to move
Green day - Good riddance(time of your life)
Goo goo dolls - Iris
Disturbed - Get down with the sickness
The Fratellis - Chelsea dagger
The Strokes - Reptilia
The Hives - Tick tick boom

Answer 4

heya!
I suggest you listen to this really great singer called Miley Cyrus! You might have heard of her before! She even has her own TV show, Hannah Montana! Some of her good songs are Nobody's Perfect, G.N.O, True Friends, One in a Million!

Or, of course, a band that was really really famous a long time ago is ABBA. Thats the initials of the band members. They have really cool songs. Not rock, but still really nice! Their most famous song is Mamma Mia! It's also the title of a broadway play which featured all ABBA's songs!

Answer 5

Some good older stuff -
The version of "Train Kept A'Rollin" on the second Aerosmith album
"Reach Out" by Cheap trick
Panama by Van Halen

Answer 6

Fuel-hemmorhage,angels take a soul, won't back down, shimmer, bad day, gone,last time
Korn-alone i break, evolution, coming undone, hold on, freak on a leash, brick in the wall, A.D.I.D.A.S.
seether- broken, needles, love her, fine again, hang on, fake it, your bore, gasoline, driven onder, 69 tea
3 doors down-when i'm gone, here w/o you, kryptonite, the same road, and alot more
3 days grace- almost everything by them
finger eleven-paralyzer, so so suicidal, one thing, talking to walls
i know alot of good band with good songs, but these above are some of my favorites.

Answer 7

Any song by The Academy Is...
Guilty Pleasure by Cobra Starship
Send My Love To The Dancefloor, I'll See You In Hell by Cobra Starship
Snakes On A Plane/Bring It! by Cobra Starship
Spray On Pants by Kisschasy
Stiff Kittens by Blaqk Audio
Slide In Next To Me by Red Riders
Sleep by My Chemical Romance
This Is How I Disappear by My Chemical Romance
It's Not Over Yet by Klaxons
Golden Skans by Klaxons
Papercut Skin by The Matches
Salty Eyes by The Matches
Any song by AFI
All That I've Got by The Used
Paralyzed by The Used
Taste Of Ink by The Used
Take It Away by The Used
I Caught Fire by The Used
The Bird And The Worm by The Used
Pretty Handsome Awkward by the Used
Be Love by Plus One
The Carpal Tunnel Of Love by Fall Out Boy
The Curse Of Curves by Cute Is What We Aim For
Snakeskin by Gyroscope
Any song by Panic! At The Disco
You've Had Your Chance by Behind Crimson Eyes
The Bonesman by Behind Crimson Eyes
Close To Me by The Cure
That's The Way (My Love Is) by Smashing Pumpkins
Tie Up My Hands by British India
Misery Business by Paramore
crushcrushcrush by Paramore
I'll Run by The Cab
London Bombs by Eskimo Joe
Breaking Up by Eskimo Joe
I Still Remember by Bloc Party
Gravity by The Superjesus
Enough To Know by Superjesus
Back In Your Head by Tegan and Sara
The Kill by 30 Seconds To Mars
From Yesterday by 30 Seconds To Mars
Crazy by Expatriate
I Thought About You by Beautiful Girls
This Heart Attack by Faker
Fallen Leaves by Billy Talent
When Your Heart Stops Beating by +44
On Call by Kings Of Leon
anything by Grinspoon
My World by Sick Puppies
All The Same by Sick Puppies
Lights And Sounds by Yellowcard
If You Keep Losing Sleep by Silverchair

Answer 8

she will be loved
old time rock and roll
hella good
girlfriend
strut
i need a hero
baby i love your way
redneck woman
accidently in love
i am i said
play me
sweet caroline
touch me
kiss from a rose
golden slumbers
life is a highway
its my life
the sweet escape
i'm the one who wants to be with you
howzat

Answer 9

one
heart shaped box
enter sandman
master of puppets
back in black
for those about to rock
them bones
hells bells
welcome to the jungle
paradice city
sweet clild o mine
civil war

Answer 10

Black hole sun, spoon man, touch peel stand, war pigs, other side, give it away, almost all aerosmith, the unforgiven, the unforgiven II, don't forget me, rooster, down in a hole, sex type thing, vaseline, almost all nirvana, where ever i may roam, I could go on forever!