Top 10 Favorite Songs by Artist

Usually I post about new music and concert reviews in my favorite genre of hard rock.  This post will be a list of favorite songs by some classic rock artists and early alternative bands.  I was inspired by watching The Beach Boys: An American Family during a snowy Saturday and reminiscing about listening to my dad's vinyl collection which was the initial spark in my interest in rock and music in general.

No list is perfect and it is extremely hard for me to rank favorites.  I know not everyone will agree and will have different opinions. That's fine. These are my top 10 favorite original tunes by a few classic artists.  I'll continue to add to this on occasion.  Listed alphabetically by artist first name:

AC/DC
You Shook Me All Night Long
Back in Black
Hells Bells
Highway to Hell
Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap
TNT
Thunderstruck
Whole Lotta Rosie
Who Made Who
It's A Long Way to the Top (If You Wanna Rock N' Roll)

AEROSMITH
Sweet Emotion
Back in the Saddle
Train Kept A Rollin'
Toys in the Attic
Rats in the Cellar
Walk This Way
Cryin
Dream On
Don't Want To Miss A Thing
Rag Doll

ALICE COOPER
I'm Eighteen
School's Out
No More Mr. Nice Guy
Under My Wheels
Poison
Feed My Frankenstein
Billion Dollar Babies
Long Way To Go
Muscle of Love
Is It My Body

ALLMAN BROTHERS BAND
Whipping Post
Melissa
Ramblin Man
Jessica
Southbound
Midnight Rider
Dreams
Black Hearted Woman
Revival
Soulshine


BEACH BOYS
Good Vibrations
I Get Around
Kokomo
Surfin Safari
Surfin USA
Fun Fun Fun
Little Deuce Coup
In My Room
Surfer Girl
California Girls
Help Me Rhonda

BEATLES
Yesterday
I Saw Her Standing There
I Wanna Hold Your Hand
While My Guitar Gently Weeps
Here Comes The Sun
Revolution
Come Together
Please Please Me
Ticket To Ride
Blackbird


BILLY JOEL
She's Always A Woman To Me
Everybody Loves You Now
For the Longest Time
This Night
Piano Man
Innocent Man
Captain Jack
Miami 2017 (The Lights Go Out on Broadway)
Still Rock and Roll to Me
My Life

BLACK SABBATH

War Pigs

Paranoid

Iron Man 

NIB

Black Sabbath

Sweet Leaf

Supernaut

Heaven and Hell (w/Dio)

Fairies Wear Boots
The Wizard

BLUES TRAVELER
Most Precarious
Yours
Hook
Run Around
Canadian Rose
Felicia
Crash & Burn
The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
Brother John
Last Night I Dreamed

BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN
Born to Run
Thunder Road
Rosalita
My Hometown
The Ghost of Tom Joad
My City of Ruins
Hungry Heart
Blinded By The Light
Born in the U.S.A.
The Rising

DAVE MATTHEWS BAND

Ants Marching

Satellite

Shake Me Like a Monkey

Why I Am

Crash Into Me

What Would You Say

Tripping Billies

Crush

Too Much

Typical Situation

DAVID BOWIE
Ziggy Stardust
Suffragate City
Moonage Daydream
Changes
Space Oddity
Heroes
Width of A Circle
Black Country Rock
The Man Who Sold the World
Life on Mars?

DIO
Holy Diver
Rainbow in the Dark
Last in Line
Stand Up and Shout 
Straight Through the Heart
Don't Talk to Strangers
We Rock
I Speed At Night
Sacred Heart
Born on the Sun

DOOBIE BROTHERS
China Grove
Jesus is Just Alright
Long Train Runnin'
Black Water
Listen to the Music
Takin' It To the Streets
Nobody
Greenwood Creek
Without You
Minute By Minute

DOORS
Roadhouse Blues
Break on Through
Touch Me
Light My Fire
Love Me Two Times
People Are Strange
L.A. Woman
Riders on the Storm
Gloria
My Eyes Have Seen You

EAGLES
Hotel California
Already Gone
Take It Easy
Peaceful Easy Feeling
Heartache Tonight
Life In the Fast Lane
Take It to the Limit
Desperado
Lyin Eyes
Witchy Woman

ELTON JOHN
Bennie and the Jets
Saturday Night's Alright For Fighting
Rocket Man
Can You Feel the Love Tonight
Crocodile Rock
Your Song
Circle of Life
Your Sister Can't Twist (but she can rock 'n roll)
Tiny Dancer
Candle in the Wind

GUNS N' ROSES (orig. only)
Sweet Child O'Mine
Welcome to the Jungle
Paradise City
November Rain
Nightrain
My Michelle
Mr. Brownstone
Used to Love Her
Don't Cry
Patience

IRON MAIDEN
Run to the Hills
Number of the Beast
The Trooper
Hallowed Be Thy Name
Invaders
Phantom of the Opera
Aces High
Rime of the Ancient Mariner
Fear of the Dark
Wasted Years

JETHRO TULL

Locomotive Breath
Aqualung
Too Old To Rock and Roll
Bungle in the Jungle
The Whistler
Hymn 43
Living in the Past
Sweet Dream
Skating Away (On the Ice of a New Day)
Dr. Bogenbroom


JIMI HENDRIX EXPERIENCE
Purple Haze
Voodoo Child
All Along the Watchtower (Dylan)
Foxey Lady
Fire
The Wind Cries Mary
Manic Depression
Bold As Love
Crosstown Traffic
If 6 Was 9

JUDAS PRIEST 
Screaming for Vengeance
Judas is Rising
Breaking the Law
You've Got Another Thing Coming
Painkiller

Metal God
Living After Midnight
The Sentinel
Lightning Strike

Halls of Valhalla

LED ZEPPELIN

Rock and Roll

Black Dog

Immigrant Song

Whole Lotta Love

Dazed and Confused

Stairway to Heaven

Communication Breakdown

Good Times Bad Times

Ramble On

Heartbreaker

LYNYRD SKYNYRD
Free Bird
Simple Man 
Sweet Home Alabama
Gimme Three Steps
What's Your Name
I Know a Little
Workin' For MCA
Tuesday's Gone
Saturday Night Special
You Got That Right

MEAT LOAF
Paradise By the Dashboard Light
Bat Out of Hell
You Took the Words Right Outta My Mouth
All Revved Up and No Place to Go
Two Out of Three Ain't Bad
Everything Louder Than Everything Else
Objects in the Rearview Mirror
I'd Do Anything for Love (But I Won't Do That)
Where the Rubber Meets the Road
Amnesty Is Granted

MEGADETH

Holy Wars...The Punishment Due

Symphony of Destruction

Peace Sells

Rattlehead

Angry Again

Hangar 18

Trust

Tornado of Souls

Lucretia

Dialectic Chaos

METALLICA

Enter Sandman

Hit the Lights

Master of Puppets

Metal Militia

Sad But True

Seek and Destroy

For Whom the Bell Tolls

Creeping Death

Lux Aeterna
One

MOTORHEAD

Ace of Spades
Iron Fist
Overkill
Damage Case
Dead Men Tell No Tales
Born to Raise Hell
Speedfreak
Live to Win
Go to Hell
Loser

NIRVANA 

Smells Like Teen Spirit
All Apologies
Come As You Are
Aneurysm
Breed
Heart Shaped Box
Rape Me
Lithium
Dumb
Pennyroyal Tea

OZZY OSBOURNE

Crazy Train

Mr. Crowley

No More Tears

Over the Mountain

Flying High Again

Bark at the Moon

Perry Mason

Diary of a Madman

Patient Number 9

Mama I'm Comin' Home

QUEEN
Bohemian Rhapsody
Somebody to Love
We Are the Champions
We Will Rock You
Another One Bites the Dust
Don't Stop Me Now
Tie Your Mother Down
Crazy Little Thing Called Love
Killer Queen
Fat Bottomed Girls

REO SPEEDWAGON
Roll With the Changes
Take It On the Run
Time For Me To Fly
Say You Love Me or Say Goodnight
Ridin' the Storm Out
Keep On Lovin' You
Can't Fight This Feeling
Runnin' Blind
Let Me Ride
Do You Know Where Your Woman Is Tonight

ROLLING STONES
I Can't Get No Satisfaction
Honkey Tonk Women
Jumpin' Jack Flash
It's Only Rock & Roll (But I Like It)
Gimme Shelter
Wild Horses
Start Me Up
Paint It Black
Brown Sugar
Sympathy For the Devil

TED NUGENT

Stranglehold

Cat Scratch Fever

Wang Dang Sweet Poontang

Free For All

Great White Buffalo

Wango Tango

Motor City Madhouse

Hey Baby

Heads Will Roll
Turn It Up

THIN LIZZY

Boys Are Back In Town

Cowboy Song

Jailbreak

Whiskey In the Jar

Cold Sweat
Emerald

Soldier of Fortune

Waiting For An Alibi

The Rocker

Angel From the Coast

TOM PETTY & The HEARTBREAKERS
Runnin' Down A Dream
Free Fallin
American Girl
Mary Jane's Last Dance
You Don't Know How It Feels
I Won't Back Down
Don't Come Around Here No More
You Wreck Me
Refugee
I Need To Know


TWISTED SISTER
We're Not Gonna Take It
I Wanna Rock
Under the Blade
Tear It Loose
I Am (I'm Me)
S.M.F.
Burn in Hell
You Can't Stop Rock and Roll
What You Don't Know (Sure Can Hurt You)
The Kids Are Back

VAN HALEN
Eruption

Panama

Ain’t Talkin’ Bout Love

Why Can’t This Be Love

I’m The One

On Fire

Runnin’ With the Devil

Unchained

Mean Street
Hot For Teacher

 
THE WHO
(no definitive order because they are all 10/10)
Baba O'Riley
I Can See For Miles
My Generation
Pinball Wizard
Squeezebox
Who Are You
You Better You Bet
Won't Get Fooled Again
Behind Blue Eyes
I Can't Explain

WEEZER (THIS HAS CAUSED ME MUCH ANXIETY AND HAS NEVER BEEN PUBLISHED BEFORE EVER AND I PROBABLY WILL DISAGREE WITH MYSELF AD INFINITUM)
Say It Ain't So
My Name Is Jonas
Put Me Back Together
Tired of Sex
Jamie
Don't Let Go
Perfect Situation
Across the Sea
Dope Nose
Mykel and Carli
 
ZZ TOP

Sharp Dressed Man
Tush
La Grange
Gimme All Your Lovin'
Got Me Under Pressure 
Legs
I Thank You
Cheap Sunglasses
Brown Sugar
Beer Drinkers & Hellraisers