Our first competition

Top 10 Greatest Rock Songs. I freely invite comment.
A Quick Note: Some lists of this sort feel the need to pick as obscure a song as possible. As much as I understand a desire to be a buff of things that are outside the mainstream, thereby proving how much smarter you are than everyone else, this list makes no such pretense. Also, in the spirit of Neoconserative belief in the universal applicability of ideas like "liberty" and "democrazy", this is not a list of favorites but rather things that, are with little doubt The Greatest.

10. Take It Easy - The Eagles
9. Subterranean Homesick Blues - Bob Dylan
8. Baba O'Reilly - The Who
7. London Calling - The Clash
6. Sufragette City - David Bowie
5. Stairway to Heaven - Led Zeppelin
4. A Day in the Life - The Beatles
3. Jumpin' Jack Flash - The Rolling Stones
2. Under Pressure - Queen & David Bowie
1. I'm Waiting for the Man - The Velvet Underground

So there you go. I tried to mix it up, but in each case I picked a song that I felt represents each band doing what it did best very very well. Is Jumpin' Jack Flash the best song by the Rolling Stones? Maybe not. But it's the Stones, with one of Keith's greatest guitar licks and bluesy as you could want. Is "A Day in the Life" the best song by the Beatles? Again, maybe not. But it is an excellent combination of experimentation combined with transcendent, catchy and often haunting melodies. Last, "I'm Waiting for the Man". It's not just built from the ground up on a simple, catchy guitar riff (what lou reed has always done best), it's also dangerous. Where other songs of the same period were mostly silly love songs or psychedalia, the VU handed down the blackest, most sinister song in the repetoir. The album which contained it "The Velvet Underground and Nico" is full of this kind of bile, some more experiemental than others. "I'm Waiting for the Man" is simply the greatest representation of this. There you have it. Any thoughs, Phoebe? Want to participate? Think I'm way lame? Think I'm way lame for saying "way lame"? Let me know.

Once we've decided, or next subject shall be, "Greatest President of the 20th Century".