This list is highly subjective and skewed towards alternative and classic rock (I do listen to some jazz and rap, but don't have the same deep-seated connection to it)....but here goes...
Street Spirit-Radiohead
Sunday Bloody Sunday-U2
While My Guitar Gently Weeps-The Beatles
Where It's At-Beck
When the Levee Breaks-Led Zeppelin
1969-Boards of Canada
All Along the Watchtower-Jimi Hendrix
No Cars Go-The Arcade Fire
Country Feedback-REM
Gimme Shelter-Rolling Stones
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Oh, and Radiohead bores me to tears. To me, they sould like rehashed Pink Floyd/Emerson, Lake & Palmer/Yes/etc, minus any soul or emotion.
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I'm a huge Radiohead fan, and I just have to say this about the Floyd comparison, 'cause it gets made a lot...I just don't see it. To be honest, I'd probably make the argument in reverse...Floyd has no emotion and bores me. I purchased
Dark Side of the Moon some years ago, largely because they were always compared to Radiohead, and I could barely sit through it. Whenever I hear
Welcome to the Machine on the radio, it makes me feel like I have a huge gaping hole in my stomach where the emotion should be. To me, Floyd feels contrived and hollow (and you'll notice from my list that I am by no means a classic rock ignoramus).
But-and here's the point-that's just me. Music is by its very nature intensely subjective, and that's why it's so much fun to discuss. To each his (or her) own, I say.
P.S. I mistakenly did not attribute the above quote to Sion. I apologize for f'ing that up, I'm a noob. I'll get it right next time, I promise.