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Too many to list. Opeth has been my go to this last year. Specifically this song: https://youtu.be/p3SXIWS7rBQ

I'm usually a jam band guy, but heavier jam band stuff like this, though it's a song sandwich with some trippier parts: https://youtu.be/1avn1v1Whqc

You raise me up by Josh Groban and The Prayer by Celine Dion & Andrea Bocelli.

WookieMan says

Too many to list. Opeth has been my go to this last year. Specifically this song: https://youtu.be/p3SXIWS7rBQ

I'm usually a jam band guy, but heavier jam band stuff like this, though it's a song sandwich with some trippier parts: https://youtu.be/1avn1v1Whqc

Not getting opeth, imo Dream Theater and Queensryche will run circles around opeth any day, but you're a bit younger, so that's tue prog rock of your tike, so you're excused ;) decent band though no doubt

A Night in Tunisia and Darn that Dream by Dextor Gordon

Even your most favorite song gets old.

Came of age to Led Zep and the original AC/DC.

Guilty pleasure is Bee Gees. Please don't judge.

mell says

Not getting opeth, imo Dream Theater and Queensryche will run circles around opeth any day, but you're a bit younger, so that's tue prog rock of your tike, so you're excused ;) decent band though no doubt

Every Dream Theater song sounds the exact same if I'm being honest. Fine they're talented, but I don't think they're making "good" music/songs.

I look at Opeth as kind of a Pink Floyd of prog/metal/rock. The one I linked is just one example. Each song album is vastly different. They range from Emerson/Lake/Palmer, Alice in Chains, Pantera, Floyd, etc. Basically it's not prog to be prog if that makes sense. That's what Dream Theater is.

https://youtu.be/oIjAXkwrE5k
https://youtu.be/JTnfP30IWZc

I know the growls turn people off with Opeth, but this 2nd link is where I like them. Dream theater just seems like a bunch of dudes trying to show their chops at their respective instruments and it's not about a song. And anytime I see a drummer with way too much equipment around them, I've lost respect for them immediately as a drummer myself.

Listen to Sunday Rain, Foo Fighters. Paul McCartney played the drums on that track in I think 2 takes. Not my taste, but the drums are spot on for that song. It's not about hitting a bunch of bells and whistles or shredding the same solos over and over. My biggest beef with the "official" prog rock artists. Sunday Rain: https://youtu.be/k0jX8y53ceY

Sorry for all the YouTube Patrick

There are a ton of songs I like to hear especially when driving.
I like AC/DC Shoot to Thrill and play it on my way to the gun range, as I get psyched up to blast some 9mm ammo.

komputodo says

A Night in Tunisia and Darn that Dream by Dextor Gordon

I love working to Be Bop Jazz, that was a good start, I would throw in.

Well you needn't
Louis Armstrong & Duke Ellington "Duke's Place"
And most anything by Mose Allison

In the last year or so, I have gotten into ELO. I know now let me explain.
Growing up, for some reason ELO was pigeon holed into the Easy Listening category. When someone said ELO, it conjured up images of Air Supply and Leo Sayer.
That was another travesty of the Record Label cabal. I now know the reason for that. Had they let Jeff Lynne get the recognition he deserved. He would have been considered the second coming of George Martin, and many of the acts on Arista and Columbia labels would have wanted Jeff to produce their sounds. Just as every surviving Beatle realized and did exactly that after ELO's heyday. People equate that 12 string guitar sound of George Harrison as his own, but in reality that big 12 string sound was Jeff's studio work. You hear it on Roy Orbison, George Harrison, as well as Tom Petty's albums, and of course you really see who the 12 string master was when you watch a Traveling Wheel Berrys video.
Going back to ELO in my Youth, if you listen to many of the tracks on his albums, he was picking up where the Beatles left off. It's as if he was writing and producing music that was meant for the Beatles to play. But of course since they broke up he had to play, record and perform them. Jeff was a studio nerd, he did not fit the pop star or rock star mold. The face of ELO was the colorful Space Art Deco album covers, we never saw Jeff Lynne while he was ELO. And since he was pigeonholed into the easy listening genre, most rockers didn't buy his albums, and really give his tracks a good listen, or he would have been a much more important part of musical history at the time.

I can listen to Mr Blue Sky over and over.

Wham: Last Christmas. Seriously.

Don Henley: The Boys of Summer.

Swingle Singers. Gets me every time and makes me want to tear my hair out.

Karloff says

Wham: Last Christmas. Seriously.

In the last two months I have made many trips to the Home Depot, it's as if that song is on infinite loop there, it's on every time I go there.
More over, I forgot that Wham did it, I kept trying to think which Chick sung it. LOL

Song : Beach Boys Only God Knows

Album : Quuensryche Operation Mindcrime

Tenpoundbass says

I can listen to Mr Blue Sky over and over.

"Hold On Tight To Your Dream"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gt_Se7BtSQg

If I recall, that was the coffee drinker's anthem during the 80s.

Tenpoundbass says

More over, I forgot that Wham did it, I kept trying to think which Chick sung it. LOL

Anybody old enough to remember thinking Michael of the Jackson 5 was a girl singing?

I recall thinking Michael sounded like a little kid which he was at the time.

"I Touch Myself" by The Divinyls

Tenpoundbass says

My Honey My Baby
Don't Put My Love Upon No Shelf
She Said Don't Give Me No Lines
And Keep Your Hands to Yo'self

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WonOudGMSdc

Days like this..van Morrison
Ride the wind ...youngbloods
Some people do....Ned LeDoux

Prong - Unconditional
https://youtu.be/s1H9O53onxA

learning to fly - tom petty
refugee - tom petty

king of the hill - song, not related to cartoon
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Wr_LtVkCe18

Ok, here are the three greatest classic rock songs (not related to the Beatles [or Rolling Stones]) of all time ...

The Eagles, "Hotel California":

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hHnlWkjmsb8

Aerosmith's "Dream On":

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=89dGC8de0CA

Boston's "More Than A Feeling":

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zOILAZHf2pE

Rin says

Ok, here are the three greatest classic rock songs (not related to the Beatles [or Rolling Stones]) of all time ...

The Eagles, "Hotel California":

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hHnlWkjmsb8

Aerosmith's "Dream On":

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=89dGC8de0CA

Boston's "More Than A Feeling":

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zOILAZHf2pE

those are great

Learning to Fly - Petty - is pretty good. One of the few huge concerts I remember as I was designated driver and the cops stopped me because they opened the sliding door and were flashing/mooning passing traffic. They let me go when they realized I had a van full of drunks.

Learning to Fly - Pink Floyd

I could probably listen to that regularly and never get tired.

FortwayeAsFuckJoeBiden says

learning to fly - tom petty
refugee - tom petty

He had a bunch of good songs; "Breakdown", "Maryjane's Last Dance" and so many others.

I was lucky enough to see Tom Petty at Bottle Rock in Napa before He died. Excellent show but you could see Tom tremoring and you could tell he was not long for the world.

Andrew Eldritch / Terri Nunn - Under the Gun
https://youtu.be/U0i_uKUJCUI

FortwayeAsFuckJoeBiden says

those are great

Granted, two of the above are from my local Boston area ... I consider those to be the three best American (sans British Invasion) Rock 'n Roll tracks of all time.

All of 'em are now immortal and a part of the cannon of classic rock forever.

mell says

Andrew Eldritch / Terri Nunn - Under the Gun
https://youtu.be/U0i_uKUJCUI

Ah, the Sisters of Mercy.

Doctor Jeep, More, Temple of Love, etc.

AmericanKulak says

mell says

Andrew Eldritch / Terri Nunn - Under the Gun
https://youtu.be/U0i_uKUJCUI

Ah, the Sisters of Mercy.

Doctor Jeep, More, Temple of Love, etc.

To me they were the best (in the sense of most influnetial/inspiring) band of my life time, Eldritch's Lyrics are unmatched, same for Gary Marx and Wayne Hussey on the guitars. The breadth of musical influences they covered is just amazing. Post punk was a good era.

Also pretty much anything Queensryche. Brilliant guitars plus the haunting voice of Geoff Tate.

Adagio for Strings
https://youtu.be/izQsgE0L450

Visage Fade to Grey
https://youtu.be/vMPR6Ujop4k

Pretty much all the songs already listed
Somebody posted Sisters of Mercy, they were great I saw them a bunch of times in the 90s.

I loved 60s to 80s

Tom Petty I passed on his last show thinking I'll catch him next time, I'll never see him live.

Questions like these are tough so many songs that are just great and then there are those songs from our teens and 20s that will always have a special place because of whatever was going on in our life at the time.

Benny Blanco, Halsey - Eastside
https://youtu.be/KFof8aaUvGY

La Oreja de Van Gogh - Rosas

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nYnLVWXmRm8

Kraftwerk 3D - The Catalog:

https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=video&cd=&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=2ahUKEwj1iLWl_az8AhVnnHIEHdGgDfYQtwJ6BAgIEAI&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3Fv%3DL4hGaV5BA2M&usg=AOvVaw0STBU4jWaGagpEzr1uswa9

I know it's probably GloboHomo, but still...

stereotomy says

Kraftwerk 3D - The Catalog:

They pioneered electronica

FortwayeAsFuckJoeBiden says

tom petty

FortwayeAsFuckJoeBiden says

The Eagles,

Nothing gets the 60+ honeys swaying to the music, lighters raised high, than American Girl.

So many Eagles songs do it, too. A few years back I saw J.D. Souther solo at a small DC club. Maybe 15 people in the place. Hey, he schtooped Linda Rondstadt for crissakes. No respect….

Two for me that work - Rip This Joint by the Stones. It do rip. And Sweet Black Angel - plenty of opportunities to join in on harmony while you are driving along.

Tom Petty's I Won't Back Down.

B.A.C.A.H. says

Tom Petty's I Won't Back Down.

In the early 70s, two of them, I forget which ones from Kraftwerk, made a protoMetal album. I'll have to find it, but they predicted the riffs and styles.

More great Krautrock that prefigures New Wave styles: Neu! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zndpi8tNZyQ
Also cool, Can: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LPjF4ZHuIko More Psychedelic.

We love the Motorik.