Classic Rock Song of the Day (Deep Cuts now being featured!!)

[nicmos]

The solo/instrumental section is totally killer and overlooked.  This is a great song.

[KevShmev]

Meat Loaf - Paradise by the Dashboard Light

Definitely a classic tune, I suspect that this is a song many have grown to hate, but it is impossible not to know it.  I still like it, especially when someone karaokes it, and I have to admit that I still know almost all of the words to it.  I mean, I can't sit there and rattle them off on command, but turn the song on and ask me to sing along and I can pretty much do it without missing many words.  Interestingly, this has never struck me as being a song that classic rock radio plays to death, but it is a classic rock song nonetheless.

[Orbert]

Completely overblown, and overplayed, as are all Meat Loaf songs, but a classic nonetheless.

I actually like the story it tells, the place where we've all been, the promises we make, and the unforseen consequences.

[King Postwhore]

I'm in the same boat with Bob.  I just can't listen to it anymore.

[jingle.boy]

One of the weakest songs on a great album. 

[Jaq]

A sign of the early days of MTV was, when they got the videos off of Bat Out Of Hell, the videos were an eight minute version of of the title track, and the FULL version of Paradise by the Dashboard Light...and they played them in FULL.  Different time, man.

As for the song itself; would be the worst song on the album if All Revved Up And No Place To Go wasn't on it. It's become a classic, yes, but the rest of the album is so much better that I rarely play it, and I'm a general sucker for Steinman's batshit crazy, over the top style.

[masterthes]

I probably will never get tired of this song

[DebraKadabra]

Eddie Money - Two Tickets to Paradise

Never really dug this one.

Meat Loaf - Paradise by the Dashboard Light

Decent enough song, but I was never really a big fan of it.

[Bolsters]

Bat Out Of Hell is a fucking fantastic album, and so is this song.

[KevShmev]

Deep Purple - Smoke on the Water

This is probably still THE most recognizable riff in the history of rock music.  I remember it always being the riff that new guitar players wanted to learn how to play, and in many cases, the riff itself made peeps want to learn how to play the guitar, just so they could play that riff.  And it is easy to see why: the riff, after all, is still after all of these years totally awesome.  The rest of the song is good, too, but that riff...it's all about the riff.

[jjrock88]

Classic!

[BlobVanDam]

That sums it up perfectly. Everyone man and his dog knows that riff, even if they don't know the song.
A great solo too. I was pretty pissed off that when seeing Deep Purple a month ago that Steve Morse made no attempt to retain any of it. Blasphemy!

I remember once having an argument with my high school music teacher because she didn't believe me that the hammond organ doubling the riff was a hammond organ. She was adamant it was another guitar.

[King Postwhore]

Doon't forget the unwritten rule of not playing this song and Stairway To Heaven while trying out guitars at a music shop.

[Jaq]

Just going to add to what others have said: it's the riff, man. One of the most recognizable riffs in the history of rock and roll. The song is great overall, but man, that riff. 

[wolfking]

Classic as it gets, great song.

[Pols Voice]

Awesome song. I really like it when the bass first comes in.

Also, it includes one of my favorite misheard lyrics that I've read somewhere: Slow Walking Walter, the fire engine guy.

[masterthes]

That's great! 

[KevShmev]

Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers - Breakdown

Good tune.  It can be an easy to dismiss, even if you aren't a fan of his, or if you like a lot of his songs more, but this really is a well-written song.  I love the way during the instrumental interludes, the way the organ acts as almost a counterpoint to the lead guitar playing, and then later in the song, the vocal harmonies add another element to the mix.  I love that aspect of the song.  The vocal melodies almost act as a build-up to those little instrumental sections.

[masterthes]

Definitely one of his good early songs

[Orbert]

I'm not a huge Tom Petty fan, but I like this one.  That's a Rhodes piano, by the way, not an organ.

[KevShmev]

I was waiting for someone to correct me on that.

[Lolzeez]

Not a fan. But still,decent song.

[DebraKadabra]

Deep Purple - Smoke on the Water

Dat riff!

Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers - Breakdown

I intensely disliked this song when it blew up all over the radio, but now I'm not ashamed to admit that it's a pretty decent song.

[wolfking]

Always kinda liked Tom Petty.

[jingle.boy]

Always kinda never really liked Tom Petty.

Fix'd for me.

Smoke on the Water, along with Back In Black, is the granddaddy of all riffs.

[KevShmev]

Cream - White Room

This song absolutely blew me away the first time I heard it, particularly Eric Clapton's guitar work, which is really saying something since I have never really been a huge fan of his.  Maybe it's because I heard it in the very early stages of my discovery of classic rock, but it really hit me hard.  Over time, it became less of a favorite, but to this day, I still like it a lot.

[masterthes]

Really like this, a little bit more than Sunshine of your Love.

[Pols Voice]

I'm not a Cream fan, but this is a very good song.

[Bolsters]

I'm not a Cream fan, but this is a very good song.

[DebraKadabra]

Really like this, a little bit more than Sunshine of your Love.

+1

[Lolzeez]

Really like this, a little bit more than Sunshine of your Love.

+9000

[Orbert]

The hook is weird, with that staggering, 5/4 beat, but somehow it makes it hit you even harder when they break into straight 4/4 for the verses, then especially for the guitar solo at the end.  I like it.

[wolfking]

White Room is awesome.

[KevShmev]

Billy Joel - Piano Man

Another classic many of us have probably heard hundreds, if not thousands, of times over the years, yet it still sounds great every time I hear it.  This song put Joel on the map, and remains his definitive song to this day.  It's a great story.

[Unlegit]