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Ok so I always hear people bitch about people who's favorite song is one of the band's most popular songs. Then again, those songs are popular for a reason right? I'd say some of mine are:

 

Tom Sawyer/Limelight

Stairway to Heaven/Rock And Roll

Run To The Hills

Seven Nation Army

Any song off of Dark Side Of The Moon

Baba O'Riley

Roundabout

Breadfan

 

and a lot more....

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Tom Sawyer/Limelight

Run To The Hills

Any song off of Dark Side Of The Moon

Baba O'Riley

Roundabout

 

Of the bands I like as well on this list, these songs are pretty much my picks as well.

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Rush- Tom Sawyer, Limelight, Xanadu

 

Iron Maiden- Run To The Hills, Can I Play With Madness

 

Lacuna Coil- Swamped, Our Truth, Heaven's A Lie

 

Nightwish- Nemo, Ever Dream, Amaranth

 

Bruce Springsteen- Thunder Road, Hungry Heart, Born To Run

 

Taylor Swift- Love Story, I Knew You Were Trouble, Blank Space

 

Paradise Lost- Enchantment, One Second

 

Toto- Rosanna, Africa, I Won't Hold You Back, Hold The Line

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Rush: Side one of Moving Pictures, TSOR/Freewill

 

Maiden: Run To The Hills is alright, The Trooper, 2 Minutes to Midnight :haz:

 

Foos: Everlong, Pretender, My Hero, Walk, and of course THE BEST THE BEST THE BEST THE BEST THE BEST THE BEST (and so on)

 

Floyd: Dark Side Of The Moon, though nothing beats Animals. Ever.

 

Styx: The Grand Illusion album, Blue Collar Man, Rockin' The Paradise, SUITE MADAME BLUEEEE

 

Leppard: F-f-f-foolin', Photograph, Rock Of Ages, Bringin' On The Heartbreak, everything on Hysteria that went popular except for Love Bites.

 

Zeppelin: Shit, pretty much everything up to and including Physical Graffiti was popular, so give me everything up to the end of side 1, then a few tracks off of side two of PG

 

Buddy Guy: YOU DAMN RIGHT I GOT DA BLUES (nothing else by Buddy was popular in the sense we're talking about, maybe Slippin' In or Feels Like Rain)

 

Bonamassa: If anything counts as popular from him, The Ballad Of John Henry, Sloe Gin, Slow Train, Blues Deluxe, Stop!

 

Gary Clark Jr: Bright Lights is his only popular song and it's not even that much blues :sigh:

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BB King - The Thrill Is Gone

Gary Clark Jr - Bright Lights

Porcupine Tree - Trains

Slayer - Angel of Death

Rolling Stones - Paint It Black, Gimmie Shelter, Sympathy For the Devil

Rainbow - Starstruck

Dio - Rainbow in the Dark, Holy Diver, Last In Line

Black Sabbath - War Pigs, Paranoid, NIB, Heaven and Hell

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A few picks of mine:

War Pigs

Mr.Crowley

Kashmir

Baba O'Riley

Speed King

Walking In The Shadow Of The Blues

Kill The King

Emerald

Metal Gods

Phantom Of The Opera

Denim and Leather

 

 

 

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Tom Sawyer

Limelight

The Spirit of Radio

Roll the Bones

Owner of a Lonely Heart

Rhythm of Love

Stairway to Heaven

Paradise City

Are Friends Electric?

Turn It On Again

Holy Diver

Shot in the Dark

Paranoid

Neon Knights

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Usually it's just one song - the song that people will remember the band by "Oh yeah, they did Roundabout, Tom Sawyer, Welcome Home, Roulette Dares, Poison"...

 

Then I'll just think to myself, "there's much more to the band than that one song you know..."

 

And then every tour they'll have to play the song to please half of the audience who showed up wanting to hear it more than anything else...

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Bands themselves can get annoyed by being treated as one-hit-wonders as well (go figure)

 

"My Iron Lung" was Radiohead's reaction to "Creep", their massive hit of 1993 which also became something of a millstone for Yorke. The song's caustic, self-reflexive lyrics used the iron lung as a metaphor for the way "Creep" had both sustained the band's life and constrained them ("this is our new song / just like the last one / a total waste of time / my iron lung").

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One unique instance is alice cooper's "no more mr nice guy" as its not only a popular track of his im not jaded by, but one of my own very favorite songs of his. What can i say, the lyrics speak to me.
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Social Distortion- 99 to Life

Rush- Freewill

Grandfunk Railroad- Closer to Home

Iron Maiden- Run to the Hills

The WHo- Baba O'Reilly

Led Zeppelin- When the Levee breaks

 

I never tire of these

 

Run to the Hills I do get tired of. The Trooper. Never get tired of fhat one.

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Social Distortion- 99 to Life

Rush- Freewill

Grandfunk Railroad- Closer to Home

Iron Maiden- Run to the Hills

The WHo- Baba O'Reilly

Led Zeppelin- When the Levee breaks

 

I never tire of these

 

Run to the Hills I do get tired of. The Trooper. Never get tired of fhat one.

that was the second choice on my coin flip, believe it or not :)

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Social Distortion- 99 to Life

Rush- Freewill

Grandfunk Railroad- Closer to Home

Iron Maiden- Run to the Hills

The WHo- Baba O'Reilly

Led Zeppelin- When the Levee breaks

 

I never tire of these

 

Run to the Hills I do get tired of. The Trooper. Never get tired of fhat one.

that was the second choice on my coin flip, believe it or not :)

 

You take my wife but ill take yours too

Your mamas ugly and so are you...

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This is a pet issue of mine. I never get why a band's "real" fans feel compelled to shun the band's music when it becomes popular with casual fans. Tom Sawyer, Paranoid, Owner of a Lonely Heart, Sharp Dressed Man, and on and on. All great songs. No one will question your dedication to a band if you admit you like that stuff. You don't have to say Caress of Steel is Rush's creative peak to convince someone you're a knowledgeable fan.
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Sexy

Sexy

Sexy

Sexy

Sexy

Sexy

 

and sexy

 

Treeduck, out of curiosity, whose pics are in your signature?

 

ha. Been wonderring who the chick is myself. Of course thats Buckethead obviously..

That's Sarah Carter

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0141931/

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Cheap Trick - Surrender

 

Thin Lizzy - Boys Are Back In Town

 

KISS - Rock And Roll All Night

oh my god, i had no idea that Boys Are Back In Town is by Thin Lizzy

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