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Weekend Rock List: Bird Songs

To celebrate the legacy of Lynyrd Skynyrd keyboardist Billy Powell and his legendary intro to the band’s “Free Bird,” this week’s Rock List is dedicated to Bird Songs. Whether it’s about an eagle, a pigeon, a double-crested cormorant… if it has wings and feathers, it’s applicable. Tell us your favorites, and on Monday we’ll tally the votes and reveal the Readers’ List. Here’s our picks: • Lynyrd Skynyrd – “Free Bird” • M.I.A. - “Bird Flu” • David Bowie – “Dodo” • The Beatles – “Norwegian Wood (This Bird Has Flown)” • Animal Collective – “Cuckoo Cuckoo”

Published: 2009-01-30 Provider: Rolling Stone Keywords: Rock Lists

Readers’ Rock List: Bird Songs

Photo: Michael Ochs Archive/Getty In memory of Lynyrd Skynyrd keyboardist Billy Powell, the musician responsible for the famous introduction to the band’s “Free Bird” (and to honor last night’s great effort by the Arizona Cardinals in the Super Bowl), this weekend’s Rock List was dedicated to Bird Songs. It was a heated battle between two former Super Bowl Halftime Show performers, but in the end Paul McCartney and the Beatles’ White Album classic “Blackbird” edged out Prince and his Purple Rain gem “When Doves Cry” for the prize. To see where Alice in Chains, the Misfits and Wilco all nested, check out our Readers’ Rock List: Bird Songs below: 1. The Beatles – “Blackbird” 2. Prince – “When Doves Cry” 3. Alice In Chains – “Rooster” 4. The Beatles – “Norwegian Wood (This Bird Has Flown)” 5. Bob Marley – “Three Little Bird” 6. The Trashmen – “Surfin’ Bird” 7. The Beatles – “And Your Bird Can Sing” 8. The Grateful Dead – “Bird Song” 9. Steve Miller Band – “Fly Like An Eagle” 10. Phish – “Birds of a Feather” 11. The Misfits – “Where Eagles Dare” 12. Nelly Furtado – “Like A Bird” 13. Fleetwood Mac – “Songbird” 14. Lynyrd Skynyrd – “Free Bird” 15. Wilco – “Hummingbird”

Published: 2009-02-02 Provider: Rolling Stone Keywords: Rock Lists

Rock List: Readers’ Best Drinking Songs

To honor St. Patrick’s Day, we asked our readers to tell us their favorite drankin’ tunes. We went through the picks and came up with the top ten, because $3 will buy you ten songs on any respectable jukebox. Without further pregaming, here are your picks for the Best Drinking Songs: 1. Tom Petty – “Free Fallin’” 2. Guns N Roses – “Paradise City” 3. Billy Joel – “Piano Man” 4. Lynyrd Skynyrd – “Sweet Home Alabama” 5. Beastie Boys – “Fight For Your Right” 6. The Kinks – “Lola” 7. Elton John – “Tiny Dancer” 8. Journey – “Don’t Stop Believin’” 9. Bon Jovi – “Livin’ On a Prayer” 10. Jerry Lee Lewis – “What Made Milwaukee Famous”

Published: 2008-03-17 Provider: Rolling Stone Keywords: Rock Lists, Rock Daily

The 25 Coolest Guitar Solos

We asked for the greatest guitar solos of all time. You gave us your nominations (including some riffs — we’ll get to those another time, folks). After much complicated tallying, here’s the final list: 1. “Sweet Child O’ Mine,” Guns N’ Roses 2. “Freebird,” Lynyrd Skynyrd 3. “One,” Metallica 4. “Comfortably Numb,” Pink Floyd 5. “Marquee Moon,” Television 6. “Crossroads,” Cream 7. “Purple Rain,” Prince 8. “Machine Gun,” Jimi Hendrix 9. “Ball and Biscuit,” The White Stripes 10. “While My Guitar Gently Weeps,” The Beatles 11. “Stairway to Heaven,” Led Zeppelin 12. “Eruption,” Van Halen 13. “November Rain,” Guns N’ Roses 14. “Alive,” Pearl Jam 15. “Paranoid Android,” Radiohead 16. “Maggot Brain,” Funkadelic 17. “Fortunate Son,” Creedence Clearwater Revival 18. “Time,” Pink Floyd 19. “Hotel California,” Eagles 20. “Cinnamon Girl,” Neil Young 21. “Yellow Ledbetter,” Pearl Jam 22. “Telegraph Road,” Dire Straits 23. “In Memory of Elizabeth Reed,” Allman Brothers 24. “Soma,” Smashing Pumpkins 25. “Scar Tissue,” Red Hot Chili Peppers

Published: 2007-08-07 Provider: Rolling Stone Keywords: Rock Lists

Weekend Rock List: Coolest Guitar Solos

Surely you’ve noticed Rolling Stone’s appreciation for guitarists lately: We’ve covered Eric Clapton’s Crossroads Guitar Festival, gazed lovingly at images of badass hair-metal axes and examined Slash’s ability to play Guitar Hero. So let’s get down to business here: We want a list of the greatest guitar solos of all time. Everyone from classic rockers to jam bands to Nineties alt-rockers to metalheads has contributed a rippin’ solo to our rock canon. Fork over your nominations (and disagree with ours) starting right now. “One” – Metallica “Freebird” – Lynyrd Skynyrd “November Rain” – Guns N’ Roses “Comfortably Numb” – Pink Floyd “Soma” – Smashing Pumpkins

Published: 2007-08-04 Provider: Rolling Stone Keywords: Rock Lists