For Your Listening Pleasure

It you know me well, then you know that I LOVE rock music, it's one of my passions.....classic rock, soft rock, southern rock, country rock, hard rock and even a little heavy metal and even though I may listen to an occasional pop song, I rarely venture outside my comfort zone of music.  It's taken me years, but I think I have finally complied what I call my perfect "Best Rock Songs Of All Time" playlist.  I have honestly been working on this list for years and have had various versions of it on my iPod, but I think I have finally finalized it.......so without further ado....in no particular order....

• Second Chance - Shinedown
• Fire Woman - The Cult
• Back in the USSR - The Beatles
• In My Blood - Black Stone Cherry
• The Hand that Feeds - Nine Inch Nails
• Stranglehold - Ted Nugent
• Pride; In the Name of Love - U2
• You're Going to Get What's Coming - Robert Palmer
• Somebody Told Me - The Killers
• Black - Pearl Jam
• Bitch - The Rolling Stones
• Whole Lotta Rosie - AC/DC
• Stone In Love - Journey
• Born to Run - Bruce Springsteen
• You Wreck Me - Tom Petty
• Houses of the Holy - Led Zeppelin
• Sex on Fire - Kings of Leon
• Thunderstuck - AC/DC
• Gimme Shelter - The Rolling Stones
• Not Strong Enough - Apocalyptica
• Burden In My Hand - Soundgarden

As you can see, a couple of bands made it on the list more than once, AC/DC and The Stones and I was fortunate enough to see AC/DC twice with Bon Scott before he passed and once with Brian Johnston, but alas, have never see The Rolling Stones.  Same goes with Led Zeppelin, they NEVER played Iowa and by the time I lived anywhere that they would have possibly played, Jon Bonham was dead and the band was no more.

Another note.....there is one lead singer that appears twice on the list in two different bands....Brent Smith, lead singer of Shinedown.  He also lent his voice to the Finnish heavy metal band Apocalyptica on their single "Not Strong Enough" and just because these guys are so unique, I'm going to link you up....check it out!



I also hesitated to have Ted Nugent grace my list because of how bat shit crazy he seems to be these days, but "Stranglehold" is a kick ass song from a kiss ass album, so I'm holding my nose and including it.

The rest are songs that have been absolute favorites of mine that I find myself playing over and over again, in fact, Nine Inch Nail's "The Hand That Feeds" is one of my ring tones.  :)

It's certainly an eclectic mix of rock, but that's always the way I have always liked my rock.
Enjoy!