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Old 06.07.2008, 09:57 AM   #1
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http://www.rollingstone.com/news/cov...947527/page/41

silver rocket made it onto rolling stone's 100 greatest guitar songs..
number 79!

which isnt saying a lot really cause it's rolling stone but i just thought people would like to know.

i think they could of picked a better song
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Old 06.07.2008, 12:10 PM   #2
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bullet with butterfly wings is ranked higher than sy?
and even flow too?
(there are worse songs obviously but these two just hit me in the head)

i dont even know why i looked at it.. i shouldve known. its the rolling stones for fucks sake.
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Old 06.07.2008, 04:14 PM   #3
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71. "Take It or Leave It" The Strokes (2001)
72. "Say It Ain't So" Weezer (1994)

lol. they are higher than sy...
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Old 06.07.2008, 04:37 PM   #4
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the cover os horrble too. john fucking mayer?
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Old 06.07.2008, 06:18 PM   #5
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Sadly, John Mayer is still better than that Mars Volta idiot. I looked at this list, and it's not even the list itself which is bad (which, it is, but...)... the hilarious thing is the reasons behind the songs being included. "Say It Ain't So", for example, got chosen because it has that little feedback part in between the spaces in the 2nd and 3rd chorus.


No Polvo, John Fahey, THinking Fellers Union, Captain Beefheart, hell even Erase Errata? Also, pretty much no REAL metal whatsoever? What the fuck were they thinking?!
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Old 06.07.2008, 06:52 PM   #6
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What the fuck were they thinking?!

It's Rolling Stone, they weren't.
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Old 06.08.2008, 12:56 AM   #7
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they also picked silver rocket. good song but far from sy's best and far from their best guitar song.
it should have been expressway, hell even neil young said that its the best guitar song of all time
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Old 06.08.2008, 01:08 AM   #8
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I would've thought Teen Age Riot would be more appropriate for this list.
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Old 06.08.2008, 01:25 AM   #9
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i think of 'cross the breeze when i think of a great sy guitar song.
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Old 06.08.2008, 03:07 AM   #10
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1. "Johnny B. Goode," Chuck Berry

2. "Purple Haze," The Jimi Hendrix Experience (1967)

3. "Crossroads" Cream (1968)

4. "You Really Got Me" The Kinks (1964)

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what the hell, no "smoke on the water"?!
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Old 06.08.2008, 04:47 AM   #11
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No Peter Green era Fleetwood Mac. That list officially counts for absolutely nothing.
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Old 06.08.2008, 05:05 AM   #12
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Once again Johnny B. Goode is praised for "that" intro.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NwabxJdUkn4

This is the opening riff to Johnny B. Goode played by an orchestra, but it was originally played on guitar, but I can't find a version to demonstrate!
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Old 06.08.2008, 08:07 AM   #13
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Sadly, John Mayer is still better than that Mars Volta idiot. I looked at this list, and it's not even the list itself which is bad (which, it is, but...)... the hilarious thing is the reasons behind the songs being included. "Say It Ain't So", for example, got chosen because it has that little feedback part in between the spaces in the 2nd and 3rd chorus.


No Polvo, John Fahey, THinking Fellers Union, Captain Beefheart, hell even Erase Errata? Also, pretty much no REAL metal whatsoever? What the fuck were they thinking?!
FWIW, Zoot Horn Rollo is on their top 100 guitarists list. I found that pretty surprising.

But yeah, it's fucking Rolling Stone. Do you expect any better?
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Old 06.08.2008, 04:16 PM   #14
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10. "Smells Like Teen Spirit" Nirvana (1991)
Well, They had to put a Nirvana song, they put the best-known...

50. "Debaser" Pixies (1989)
75. "Willie the Pimp" Frank Zappa (1969)
93. "Only Shallow" My Bloody Valentine (1991)
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Why did they choose these songs ?
I'm not sure they've listened to these bands already, they might have picked some songs randomly.
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Old 06.08.2008, 05:15 PM   #15
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I didn't realize Zoot Horn Rollo was ever listed in a Rolling Stone poll -- I do know that Jimi Hendrix or somebody like that said Zoot was his favorite guitar player at some point, which blows my mind. Also, at one Captain Beefheart gig, all 4 Beatles watched them. "Safe as Milk" was John Lennon's favorite album of all time. Crazy.

Anyway...

Silver Rocket isn't SY's best guitar song, but it has possibly the best guitar TONE..
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Old 06.08.2008, 09:07 PM   #16
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Rolling Stone publishes the fucking worst 'best of whatever' lists. Seriously, I hate that rag.
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50. "Debaser" Pixies (1989)
75. "Willie the Pimp" Frank Zappa (1969)
93. "Only Shallow" My Bloody Valentine (1991)
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Why did they choose these songs ?
I'm not sure they've listened to these bands already, they might have picked some songs randomly.

I'd definitely go with 'Willie The Pimp', or just about anything else off Zappa's Hot Rats album (1969). Great vocals from Beefheart and violin from Jean Luc Ponty on that number, too.
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"the mars volta" idiot, despite being in the mars volta, omar is a good fuckin guitar player. his stuff with at the drive in was awesome, tremulant was way cool, and some of his solo stuff is really neat and trippy and very hard to play. he definitley had more fucking business being on there than john mayer.
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Old 06.10.2008, 09:42 PM   #19
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Yeah, Omar did play some stuff in ATDI that was alright but I thought Jim's guitar lines were just as good. The Mars Travolta.. I think he's written maybe one good riff. I've never bothered with his solo stuff. All in all, I think he's a decent player -- definitely worshiped by the wrong people.
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Old 06.10.2008, 10:13 PM   #20
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omar is an ok guitar player.

most everything he does in the mars travolta is done on one string and with millions of effects going on.

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"seven nation army" i can imagine the explanation "jack white used some kind of witchcraft to make his guitar sound like a BASS guitar; how the fuck did he do that? AMAZING SCIENCE!!! jack white is a genius!!!"

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and while, thankfully, they did not include "smoke on the water", no deep purple is unexcusable. discarded for this.
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