Whoa - "Freebird" was only #32?! Clearly this list was put together by yankees (although there's no arguing with the #1 choice).... Jaimie Vernon wrote: > Our boys made the grade (see Klaatu with "Calling Occupants" at #45) > > MOJO featured their Top 100 Epic Rock Tracks - April 2004. Heroic, > uplifting and over-the-top, these tracks shamelessly embody all three > of these admirable values. The rules for inclusion are simple: one > entry per band and the notion that the track in question exemplifies > musical adventuring as its boldest and, in some cases, most foolish. > As Freddie would say, Magnifico-o-o-o! > > 01 Queen - Bohemian Rhapsody > 02 Led Zeppelin - Stairway To Heaven > 03 The Rolling Stones - Sympathy For The Devil > 04 Pink Floyd - Shine On You Crazy Diamond > 05 The Doors - The End > 06 Kate Bush - Wuthering Heights > 07 The Beatles - A Day In The Life > 08 Elvis Presley - An American Trilogy > 09 Meat Loaf - Bat Out Of Hell > 10 Richard Harris - MacArthur Park > 11 The Beach Boys - Heroes and villains > 12 Don McClean - American Pie > 13 Ike and Tina Turner - River Deep, Mountain High > 14 Derek and the Dominos - Layla (Pts 1 & II) > 15 Black Sabbath - Black Sabbath > 16 David Bowie - Space Oddity > 17 U2 - Bullet - The Blue Sky > 18 ELP - Fanfare For The Common Man > 19 John Leyton - Johnny Remember Me > 20 Kraftwerk - Autobahn > 21 Procul Harum - A Whiter Shade Of Pale > 22 Mike Oldfield - Tubular Bells > 23 King Crimson - The Court Of The Crimson King > 24 Radiohead - Paranoid Android > 25 Bruce Springsteen - Jungleland > 26 The Shangri-Las - Past, Present And Future > 27 The Walker Brothers - The Sun Ain't Gonna Shine Anymore > 28 Yes - The Gates Of Delirium > 29 Jethro Tull - Thick As A Brick > 30 Prince - Purple Rain > 31 Wings - Live And Let Die > 32 Lynyrd Skynyrd - Freebird > 33 Manic Street Preachers - A Design For Life > 34 The Velvet Underground - Sister Ray > 35 Frankie Goes To Hollywood - Welcome To The Pleasuredome > 36 Can - Mother Sky > 37 Oasis - Champagne Supernova > 38 Thin Lizzy - Roisin Dubh (Black Rose) Rock Legend > 39 The Darkness - Christmas Time (Don't Let The Bells End) > 40 Joy Division - Decades > 41 Rush - Xanadu > 42 Genesis - Supper's Ready > 43 The Who - Baba O'Reilly > 44 Eric Carmen - All By Myself > 45 Klaatu - Calling Occupants Of Interplanetary Caft > 46 Deep Purple - Child In Time > 47 Bauhaus - Bela Lugosi's Dead > 48 Freddie Mercury And Montserrat Caballe - Barcelona > 49 Alice Cooper - Halo Of Files > 50 Blue Oyster Cult - Don't Fear The Reaper > 51 Guns N'Roses - November Rain > 52 The Verve - Bitter Sweet Symphony > 53 Lou Reed - Street Hassle > 54 Ultravox - Vienna > 55 The Nice - The Cry Of Eugene > 56 Pulp - Common People > 57 the Electric Prunes - Holy Are You > 58 Nick Cave And The Bad Seeds - The Carny > 59 Primal Scream - Higher Than The Sun > 60 Scott Walker - Such A Small Love > 61 Mountain - Nantucket Sleighride (To Owen Coffin) > 62 Fairport Convention - Tam Lin > 63 The Eagles - Journey Of The Sorcerer > 64 Gordon Lightfoot - The Wreck Of Edmund Fitzgerald > 65 Rainbow - Stargazer > 66 Leonard Cohen - Memories > 67 The LA's - The Looking Glass > 68 Supertramp - Fool's Overture > 69 The Monkees - Randy Scouse Git > 70 Sonic Youth - Tunic (Song For Karen) > 71 The Stone Roes - Breaking Into Heaven > 72 Roy Harper - The Lord's Prayer > 74 McAlmont & Butler - Yes > 75 Greateful Dead - Dark Star > 76 Klaus Schulze - Friedrich Nietzsche > 77 David McWilliams - The Days Of Pearly Spencer > 78 Julian Cope - Safesurfer > 79 Buffalo Springfield - Broken Arrow > 80 Iron Butterfly - In-A-Gadda-De-Vida > 81 Alex Harvey - Isobel Goudie > 82 Flowered Up - Weekender > 83 David Gates - Suite: Clouds, Rain > 84 Fleetwood Mac - The Chain > 85 The Bevis Frond - Tangerine Infringement Break > 86 Spiritualized - Don't Just Do Something > 87 ELO - Eldorado Overture > 88 Spock's Beard - The Healing Colors Of Sound > 89 Iron Maiden- Rime Of The Ancient Mariner > 90 Patti Smith - Land > 91 Kiss - Odyssey > 92 Aphrodite's Child - The Four Horsemen > 93 Metallica - One > 94 Dexy's Midnight Runners - This Is What She's Like > 95 John Miles - Music > 96 British Sea Power - Lately > 97 Bob Dylan - Hurricane > 98 Billy Joel - Scenes From An Italian Restaurant > 99 Diamond Head - Am I Evil > 100 Damien Rice - Eskimo > > Jaimie Vernon, > Bullseye Records of Canada, Inc. > > _________________________________________________________________ > MSN Premium includes powerful parental controls and get 2 months > FREE* > http://join.msn.com/?pgmarket=en-ca&page=byoa/prem&xAPID=1994&DI=1034&SU=http://hotmail.com/enca&HL=Market_MSNIS_Taglines > -- ___________________________________________________________ Sam Smith 1020 Jersey St. #2 Denver CO 80220 303.321.0515 /h | 303.981.4398 /c orb@colorado.edu | sam@lullabypit.com http://www.lullabypit.com ...it's a lonesome thing to be passing small towns with the lights shining sideways when the night is down, or going in strange places with a dog nosing before you and a dog nosing behind, or drawn to the cities where you'd hear a voice kissing and talking deep love in every shadow of the ditch, and you passing on with an empty, hungry stomach failing from your heart. - John Millington Synge