Best Rock Songs In The History of Rock Songs:

[criteria: done by bands you have or should have heard of]

10.  Such Great Heights- The Postal Service/Iron and Wine:  When a song can be done electrically and acoustically, it’s probably pretty good.

9.]  Ben Folds: Song For the Dumped:  Yes, Virginia, the piano can Rock.

8.]  Mysterious Ways: U2.  On your knees, boy.

7.]  Untouchable FaceL Ani DiFranco:   Nobody alive covers the range of emotions as well as Ani.

6.] Certain Songs: Hold Steady:  Closing time was too saccharine, but this song paints the end of the bar night picture better than anything on the planet.

5.]  Come As You Are, Nirvana: An invokation and invitation.

4. ]  Spirit of the Radio: Rush  No song on the planet has a more energizing guitar opening.

3.]  Like A Rolling Stone:  Bob.   It is that good.  Everyone’s pretty much right about it.

2.)  Spirits in the Night- Bruce Springsteen:  Oh, man, the snapshot of your early 20’s.

1.)  Everlong – Foo Fighters:  The cadence, the desparation, the driving beat, the fact that it kicks ass acoustically and with the whole nine.   There is no better song, and nobody can say different.

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