We’ve gotten some great feedback for our showdown, check it out:
If you aren’t up to speed, here’s the deal: We’re going to take some suggestions from our musically sophisticated readers about what a REAL rock song sounds like. We’re looking to “explore” the meaning of hard. So, if you think you have a pretty good idea about what it means, post a comment below and tell us. Then we’ll pit song vs. song in bare-knuckle mixed-martial arts match ups and see which tunes have some teeth left. We’re looking for song-to-song matchups, so if you think James Taylor has some heavy tunes (we do) then pass it along. And if you nominate the winner, you get a trophy or something.
Here is a sampling of some of the feedback we have gotten so far: some of it you may know, and some you may not (unless you’ve been hanging out with the wrong crowd). Feel free to stretch out. The weirder, the better. Tell us what you think.
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Well, i pretty much turned my Thursday night listening into a playlist for everyone to process. see if I am on the right track. From standard rock fare to more cerebral. Enjoy. – HT
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And one more, thanks Sam.
Outkast’s Bombs over Baghdad is both hard and weird in this list.
Yea, I like that, bring more of it. Dig out some of the heavy, hard hitting stuff. No need to limit “heavy” to the rock section of Coconuts.
I added some tunes in there for y’alls pleasure. I kinda runs the gamut of my rocking style listening. I just took a look at what my shuffle played last night and turn it in a playlist at GS just now.
did i step a little outside the comfort zone.
hey, its in my queue, so.
I just made my way through that one. Good stuff, but I don’t think a list that includes Widespread Panic is pushing out of anyone’s comfort zone around here. I dig that Earthless track, by the way. That has some kick.
To me, real rock sounds like Rocket From the Crypt. My suggestion would be I’m Not Invisible off of Live from Camp X-Ray.
Thanks, Sam. I dug around in Grooveshark (quickly rising to the top of my favorite web apps list) and found the album version. Would love to hear the live one, though. Thanks for playing.