Can’t You Hear Me Knocking
Whole Lotta Love
Voodoo Child
Funk #49
Layla
Day Tripper
& for the bass lovers
5/2/70 The Other One
Come Together
@receipt-keeper I have no clue who that is, but he's probably awesome.
are they playing air guitars?
As a side bar, I attended a music event with a professional violinist who plays in many pit orchestras with broadway shows. She observed synthesizers are a real problem. They are now so good at mimicking real instruments that even musicians can’t tell the difference.
Alright. First Pass (in no particular order):
- Dire Straits - Money for Nothing
- AC/DC - Back in Black
- AC/DC - Thunderstruck
- AC/DC - Highway to Hell
- Led Zepplin - Kashmir
- Led Zepplin - Immigrant Song
- Led Zepplin - Whole Lotta Love
- Eric Johnson - Cliffs of Dover
- Poison - Nothing but a Good Time
- Deep Purple - Smoke on the Water
- Nirvana - Smells Like Teen Spirit
- Survivor - Eye of the Tiger
- Eagles - Hotel California
- Chuck Berry - Johnny B. Goode
- Derek and the Dominos - Layla
- Yes - Roundabout
- Beatles - I Feel Fine
- Black Sabbath - War Pigs
- Black Sabbath - Iron Man
- Steppenwolf - Born to be Wild
- The Raspberries - Go All the Way
- The Offspring - The Kids Aren't All Right
- Van Halen - Aint Talkin’ ‘Bout Love
- Van Halen - Hot for Teacher
- Roy Orbison - Pretty Woman
- Rolling Stones - Satisfaction
- Rolling Stones - Start me Up
- Guns and Roses - Sweet Child of Mine
- Green Day - When I Come Around
- Lou Reed - Sweet Jane
- Metallica - Enter Sandman
- Metallica - Master of Puppets
- Iron Maiden - The Trooper
- Jethro Tull - Aqualung
- The Beach Boys - Fun Fun Fun
- Queen - Another One Bites the Dust
- The Toadies - Possum Kingdom
- John Mellencamp - I Need a Lover
- John Mellencamp - Jack and Diane
- Jimi Hendrix - All Along the Watchtower
- Jimi Hendrix - Purple Haze
- ZZ Top - Sharp Dressed Man
- ZZ Top - Gimme All Your Lovin’
- The Kinks - You Really Got Me
- Henri Mancini - Peter Gunn
- The Pretenders - My City was Gone
- The White Stripes - Seven Nation Army
- The Red Hot Chilli Peppers - Can't Stop
- Aerosmith - Walk This Way
- Ozzy Ozborne - Crazy Train
- Cream - Sunshine of Your Love
- Europe - The Final Countdown
- Grand Funk Railroad - We’re an American Band
- Thin Lizzie - The Boys are Back in Town
- James Gang - Funk #49
- Bachman-Turner Overdrive - Takin’ Care of Business
- Spin Doctors - Two Princes
- Creedence Clearwater Revival - Fortunate Son
- Doobie Brothers - China Grove
- Lynyrd Skynyrd - Sweet Home Alabama
- Michael Jackson - Beat It
- Huey Lewis and the News - Power of Love
- Foo Fighters - Everlong
- Pat Benetar - Hit Me With Your Best Shot
You can keep submitting, I will judge if it is worthy of knocking something on this list out (or if I decide it absolutely needs to be on there, I might do a First Four).
Gotta admit, I tried to not do a anti-recency-bias, but A) I am old and B) most music in the last 25 years has sucked.
I suspect that once we get past the first round this actually going to be really tough.
I presented this list to my 20 year old son and he knew about 80% of them, so I think that is a testament to the fact that I have raised him right.
@receipt-keeper I have no clue who that is, but he's probably awesome.
Hope is not optimism, which expects things to turn out well, but something rooted in the conviction that there is good worth working for. - Seamus Heaney, Irish poet and likely Hoosier basketball fan.
POTFB
I presented this list to my 17 year old son and he knew about three of them, so I think that is a testament to the fact that I am a terrible father. 
With that said, I will probably use his input in seeding these. He will be an unbiased judge. I look through that list and have trouble narrowing it down to even 10 that don't deserve a 1 seed.
Might get my first downvote....
Bumped Van Halen - Mean Street for The Offspring - The Kid's Aren't All Right.
....and no, he had not heard of Pipeline
...But he had heard of Hawaii Five-O, so baby steps.
I'll think about it. There are going to be a bunch over the next two days that I'll wrestle with. Limiting to 64 is going to be tougher than I thought. Might end up bumping a few of the songs from the same band. I hate to do it, but there are legitimately going to be some that deserve to get a shot in the tourney.
For the list I nominate the following dozen in honor of Brad
Rush Xanadu (after the 2-minute-ish lead-in)
Rush Limelight
Hope is not optimism, which expects things to turn out well, but something rooted in the conviction that there is good worth working for. - Seamus Heaney, Irish poet and likely Hoosier basketball fan.
POTFB
too many to list.
a vote for a couple classics
https://www.youtube.com/embed/DH11CPDXzr4?si=6C9BARJZkdf8Jezo
https://www.youtube.com/embed/anpjEN9KeJ0?si=_f9wUZ_Lu-mbKSkh
ok, what is the secret to pasting the actual YouTube link?