..Songs that not only rock melodically but actually tell a story....
It's a toughie but I'll go with these..
(5) "Stairway To Heaven"- Led Zeppelin
I'm not even quite sure what Robert Plant's singing about, but it's definitely filled with raw emotion and is sincere, and the breaks in the melody build it up and up and up until the very end..
(4) "Dust In The Wind"- Kansas
A poetic masterpiece in my opinion with a truly phenomenal guitar lick.
(3) "Paradise By The Dashboard Lights"--Meat Loaf
This song, to me, is brilliantly creative and is almost a movie in itself, from a first date, to first time, to marriage, to regretting that any of it ever happened. Meat Loaf nailed the vocal and the melody arrangement is just phenomenal. Song totally rocks.
(2) "Like A Rolling Stone"-Dylan
So far ahead of it's time it's beyond amazing. I think, of all his songs, this one was Dylan's special moment of inspiration. No other song he ever did sounded anything even similar to this one. Great story-Great song!
...and my winner is...(drum roll please)
(1) "Jungle Land"--Springsteen
This song, in the words of my 24 year old son, "is like a play". It's one night in a Jersey City, and Springsteen dramatizes it like no other song I've ever heard.
The musical arrangement is symphonic. Up, down, hard, soft, fast, slow, happy, sorrowful. It captures every emotion. The sax solo in the middle is the greatest, most energetic, touching, toe tapping, solo in history.
This song is just simply untouchable in my opinion as a clear number one.
What say ye I ask??
sip
It's a toughie but I'll go with these..
(5) "Stairway To Heaven"- Led Zeppelin
I'm not even quite sure what Robert Plant's singing about, but it's definitely filled with raw emotion and is sincere, and the breaks in the melody build it up and up and up until the very end..
(4) "Dust In The Wind"- Kansas
A poetic masterpiece in my opinion with a truly phenomenal guitar lick.
(3) "Paradise By The Dashboard Lights"--Meat Loaf
This song, to me, is brilliantly creative and is almost a movie in itself, from a first date, to first time, to marriage, to regretting that any of it ever happened. Meat Loaf nailed the vocal and the melody arrangement is just phenomenal. Song totally rocks.
(2) "Like A Rolling Stone"-Dylan
So far ahead of it's time it's beyond amazing. I think, of all his songs, this one was Dylan's special moment of inspiration. No other song he ever did sounded anything even similar to this one. Great story-Great song!
...and my winner is...(drum roll please)
(1) "Jungle Land"--Springsteen
This song, in the words of my 24 year old son, "is like a play". It's one night in a Jersey City, and Springsteen dramatizes it like no other song I've ever heard.
The musical arrangement is symphonic. Up, down, hard, soft, fast, slow, happy, sorrowful. It captures every emotion. The sax solo in the middle is the greatest, most energetic, touching, toe tapping, solo in history.
This song is just simply untouchable in my opinion as a clear number one.
What say ye I ask??
sip
