After listening to yet another all-time, definitive, never to be bettered (until the next) list of top rock tracks of all time on my local radio station, I couldn't help but think it was the same old doodoo rearranged. So I started thinking about how many good tracks there are that never really get up to "classic" status, and decided to compile a top 5 (I got lazy when I flicked onto Discovery and found an episode of Gold Rush I hadn't seen) of songs that are simply class. Feel free to compile your own, slag off mine, or whatever. Any genre, any age, it's all good. So here's my definitive, non-definitive list ! (In no particular order).
1. AC/DC ...The Jack. (Has there ever been a better song about venereal disease ?)
2. Manic Street Preachers...Motorcycle Emptiness. (Saw them live at the Glasgow O2, best gig ever.....so much energy).
3. Comfortably Numb...Pink Floyd. (The most amazing guitar solo ever, apparently. Read it on a definitive list somewhere).
4. I Will Go...The Corries. (The sound of the bodhran makes my hairs stand up. Plus, if you don't like The Corries, you can't be Scottish).
5.This Land Is Your Land...Woody Guthrie. (I'm going with the Springsteen version. Why ? Because it's my bl**dy list, ok !).
So there you go, my top 5, even though as I typed, I could have added another 50.
Enjoy.
