Top 10 Badass Songs

[bracomadar]

List what you think the top 10 most awesome badass songs of all time are (list the singer/band who perform it also). 1 being the most awesome, and 10 being almost awesome. Ok, if anyone kick starts this thread and gets it going, then I'll post mine. :bashful:

[jetpack42]

1-February Stars (Foo Fighters)
2-American Pie (Don Mclean)
3-A Hazy Shade of Winter (Simon and Garfunkel)
4-Unforgiven 2 (Metallica)
5-Dust in the Wind (Kansas)
6-Your Song (Elton John)
7-Artistry Jumps (Stan Kenton)
8-Piano Man (Billy Joel)
9-Sand in my shoes (Dido)
10-Somewhere over the rainbow

[itchy_tasty]

1-just like you imagined-nin
2-love will tear us apart-joy division
3-teardrop-massive attack
4-lusid-ohgr
5-b line-lamb
6-never enoulgh-the cure
7-overcome-tricky
8-half day closing-portishead
9-into the void-nin
10-the new flesh-nin

in no particular order

[bracomadar]

10. Hurt – Johnny Cash
9. Behind Blue Eyes – The Who
8. I’d Love To Change The World – Ten Years After
7. Bohemian Rhapsody – Queen
6. Immigrant Song – Led Zeppelin
5. Sympathy For The Devil – Rolling Stones
4. Do You Feel Like We Do – Peter Frampton
3. The Wanderer – Johnny Cash
2. Paint it Black – Rolling Stones
1. The End – The Doors

There are more than I expected. I should have said list your 20, or 30, but I'm a man of my word, so 10 it is. :grandpa: As you can see, I really like 60's/70's stuff.

[Undertow]

1. Blood of Eden- Peter Gabriel
2. Salty Dog- Flogging Molly
3. Is Chicago, Is Not Chicago- Soul Coughing
4. Piggy- NIN
5. Pink Moon- Nick Drake
6. Beauty Never Fades- Junkie XL Featuring Saffron
7. Sonne- Rammstein
8. Cupid- Sam Cooke
9. Jump Around- House of Pain
10. Possession- Sarah McLachlan

This is the hardest thing I've ever had to do. My original list that I had to narrow it down from was...
Beauty Never Fades- Junkie XL Featuring Saffron
Fiddle and the Drum- A Perfect Circle (cover off eMotive)
Thunderstruck- AC/DC
The Negotiation Limerick File- The Beastie Boys
Imagine- The Beatles
All Is Full Of Love- Björk
Green Onions- Booker T and the MG's
Magic Carpet Ride (Remix)- The Crystal Method
Music Sounds Better With You- Daft Punk and Stardust
Lie in Our Graves- Dave Matthews Band
Sweet Lullaby- Deep Forest
Policy Of Truth- Depeche Mode
Here With Me- Dido
Salty Dog- Flogging Molly
Now We Are Free- Hans Zimmer and Lisa Gerrard
Jump Around- House of Pain
The Big Payback- James Brown
Over the Hills And Far Away- Led Zeppelin
Protection- Massive Attack
The Ocean Breathes Salty- Modest Mouse
Pink Moon- Nick Drake
Piggy- NIN
Into the Void- NIN
Born Slippy- Underworld
Cemetary Gates- Pantera
Blood of Eden- Peter Gabriel
Where Is My Mind?- The Pixies
Everything In Its Right Place- Radiohead
Sonne- Rammstein
Breaking the Girl- Red Hot Chili Peppers
Clubbed To Death (Kurayamino Variation)- Rob Dougan
Cupid- Sam Cooke
Waste- Smash Mouth
How Soon is Now- The Smiths
Is Chicago, Is Not Chicago- Soul Coughing
Possession- Sarah McLachlan
Sunday Bloody Sunday- U2
Lateralus- Tool
Learning to Fly- Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers

[MuffinMan]

1-All Apologize-Nirvana
2-beautiful people-Marilyn Manson
3-waste of paint-bright eyes
4-pepper-butthole surfers
5-salty dog-flogging molly
6-bohemian raphsody-queen
7-big brother-mushroomhead
8-surfacing-slipknot
9-the mighty fruit-Fredryk Phox and IFOS (investigators from outer space)
10-dreamer-ozzy osbourne

technically i like every song by MM or Nirvana.

undertow-another fan of floggin molly? W00t!

bracomadar- RIP freddie.

[Undertow]

undertow-another fan of floggin molly? W00t!

but of course;) There were tons of traditional Irish drinking songs that i wanted to put on the list like Red Rose Cafe or Tim Finnegans Wake.. I fealt that Salty Dog personified the spirit of those songs and was a fitting replacement for the list :vodkamachine:

[Chяis]

1. Jimmy Page - Stairway to Heaven
2. Jimi Hendrix - Purple Haze
3. Eric Johnson - Cliffs of Dover
4. Eddie Van Halen - Eruption
5. Slash - Sweet Child O' Mine
6. Steve Vai - For the Love of God
7. Eric Clapton - Crossroads
8. Stevie Ray Vaughan - Texas Flood
9. David Gilmour - Comfortably Numb
10. Don Felder and Joe Walsh - Hotel California

It was way to hard to pick the most bad ass song so I picked the Greatest Guitar solos ever.

[Wisdom_Cube]

New fan of flogging molly!!! :vodkamachine:

i feel like heavily drinking now... :tihi:

[gasmask]

1.paranoid android-radiohead
2.hurricane-bob dylan
3.southern man-neil young
4.happiness is a warm gun-beatles
5.high and dry-radiohead
6.sparks-coldplay
7.#41-dave mathews band
8.beautiful day-U2
9.eriatarka-mars volta
10.simon and gfunk-scarborough fair

there are tons others and these are in no perticular order and im sure im missing some but anyhow this is basically my fav type of stuff. sorry no flogging molly

[peterhurman]

in no particular order

sex pistols - anarchy in the uk
the who - the seeker
oasis - cigarettes and alcohol
the ramones - blitzkreig pop
hell is for heroes - you drove me to it
blur - parklife
pulp - sorted for e's and wizz
the verve - bitter sweet symphony
oasis - dont look back in anger
nirvana smells like teen spirit

[dfacto]

Speaking strictly from the perspective of baddass, and not just good:

1)KMFDM - Ultra
2)NIN - Heresy
3)Metallica - Fuel
4)NIN - Happiness in Slavery
5)Metallica - Enter Sandman
6)Velvet Revolver - Slither
7)Juno Reactor - Tetsujin
8)Rage Againt the Machine - Sleep Now in the Fire
9)System of a Down - Aerials
10)Apocalyptica - Harmageddon

[davi]

Glassjaw - tip your bartender
In Flames - system
Refused - New noise
KMFDM - WWIII
Sadaharu - Lifestyle tips for the dead
Zao - Lifes of Serpents, a river of tears
The dillinger escape plan - Come to daddy
Coalesce and boy sets fire - Vehicle
Boy sets fire - After the eulogy
The dillinger escape plan - The mullet burden

[MuffinMan]

don't forget the beatles....they have some great songs.

[gruve24]

1.) Ivy - Undertow
2.) Steely Dan - Deacon Blues
3.) Gregg Allman - Queen of Hearts
4.) Allman Brothers - Melissa
5.) Seatbelts - Time to Know Be waltz
6.) Jamiroquai - Music of the Mind
7.) Skank - Balada Do Amor Inabalavel
8.) Los Hermanos - Ultimo Romance
9.) Los Hermanos - Assim Sera
10.) Yoko Kanno - Real Folk Blues HDN jazz version*

All these songs are awesome, neither one is better than the other*

[Undertow]

1.) Ivy - Undertow
2.) Steely Dan - Deacon Blues
3.) Gregg Allman - Queen of Hearts
4.) Allman Brothers - Melissa
5.) Seatbelts - Time to Know Be waltz
6.) Jamiroquai - Music of the Mind
7.) Skank - Balada Do Amor Inabalavel
8.) Los Hermanos - Ultimo Romance
9.) Los Hermanos - Assim Sera
10.) Yoko Kanno - Real Folk Blues HDN jazz version*

All these songs are awesome, neither one is better than the other*
NICE! Cowboy Bebop tracks! I love Yoko Kanno, I really need to buy legitimate copies of the Bebop soundtracks.

[SJ Bennighof]

1. Jimmy Page - Stairway to Heaven
2. Jimi Hendrix - Purple Haze
3. Eric Johnson - Cliffs of Dover
4. Eddie Van Halen - Eruption
5. Slash - Sweet Child O' Mine
6. Steve Vai - For the Love of God
7. Eric Clapton - Crossroads
8. Stevie Ray Vaughan - Texas Flood
9. David Gilmour - Comfortably Numb
10. Don Felder and Joe Walsh - Hotel California

It was way to hard to pick the most bad ass song so I picked the Greatest Guitar solos ever.

http://www.ledzeppelin.com

Go there and click "Audio" and then listen to all of Heartbreaker on the How the West Was Won recording. Knocks the Stairway one down to second, in my opinion.

[corky13]

hummm imho top10 of the under-rated and not so well known Metal Bands :D

The Worst Is Yet To Come - Violent Work Of Art
Fly - SUB DUB MICROMACHINE
Remember - Disturbed
Liberate - Disturbed
Trigger - In Flames
Fire In The Hole - Lordi
Live A Lie - Dream Evil
Dilated - Atreyu
Sugar - System Of A Down
The Only - Static-X

[klinesmoker]

10: Epiphany-- Staind
9: Bleed-- Cold
8: 3 Libras-- A Perfect Circle
7: While My Guitar Gently Weeps-- George Harrison
6: Interstate Love Song-- Stone Temple Pilots
5: Imagine-- Lennon
4: We Are the Champions-- Queen
3: Turn the Page-- Bob Seiger and the Silver Bullet Band
2: Man Who Sold the World-- Kurt Cobain Edition/ MTV Unplugged
1: Let It Be- Beatles

That was hard, and I recognize I'm forgetting some great songs, but this'll do, this'll do.

[s.ketch]

yay anatomy references

[Renegade89]

Dont know if from all times but i do like them all.

1- Master of puppets- Metallica: Classic metal anthem
2- Sabbath bloody sabbath- Black Sabbath: Thanks for metal guys, also one of the most redundant titles ever :P
3- Kashmir - Led Zeppelin.
4- Fear of the dark - Iron Maiden
5- Bodom after midnight - Children of bodom
6- Emerald Sword - Rhapsody of fire :
7- Roots bloody roots- Sepultura : Not the best music ever, but the energy of sepultura is awesome, i mean badass!
8- Master Apprentices- Opeth: Just wanted to put Opeth here.
9- Riders of the storm - Hammerfall
10- Raining Blood - Slayer : Do you need more badass?

11- Spam porn might get someone banned - Enganieme

[tomwaits4noman]

The ones that came to mind first... emphasis on kick ass....

1. Faster - Manic Street Preachers
2. regular People - Pantera
3. Red Receiver - Sons and Daughters
4. Haus Der Luge live version - Einsturzende Neubauten
5. Set the heart to the control of the Pelvis - Barry Adamson
6. Jumpers - Sleater Kinney
7. Stagger Lee - Nick Cave and the bad seeds
8. Drunken butterfly - Sonic Youth
9. Atlas - Battles
10. Here I come - The Roots

[Moai]

Sabbath bloody sabbath- Black Sabbath: Thanks for metal guys, also one of the most redundant titles ever

Actually, I think their song called Black Sabbath, from their album called Black Sabbath, is more redundant. Truly badass song, though. My dad and I rock out to it often as we drive out to go surfing.:teeth:

Anyway, the most badass, but not necessarily the best or my favorite, songs.
Metallica- Master of Puppets (Agreeing with you again, Renegade89!) (Youtube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_z-hEyVQDRA))
Metallica- For Whom the Bell Tolls (Youtube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G63YItfPDG4&feature=related))
Metallica- One (Youtube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AY7p6EIWavc&feature=related)- Symphonic version)
Pink Floyd- Comfortably Numb (The closing solo is what makes it badass) (Youtube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tkJNyQfAprY))
Avenged Sevenfold- Strength of the World (Youtube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gCmK0niJM-A)) The band members themselves seem pretty cheesy and poser-like, but I like some of their music.
Ozzy Osbourne- Revelation (Mother Earth) (Youtube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EGzNoCNfMlA))
Ozzy Osbourne- Diary of a Madman (Randy Rhoads FTW!!) (Youtube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K20yJ5P57bM)) (Don't know what the deal is with the "Creepy" magazine covers in the video.)
Judas Priest- Ram it Down (Youtube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zyu0hZvMhrY))
Judas Priest- The Hellion/Electric Eye (Youtube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=il1etwBDCIs))
Jimi Hendrix- All Along the Watchtower (Youtube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BCwCBh0z3Hs))