Links to videos of the greatest Rock Songs ever recorded. I think
PLAY THEM LOUD!!!!
Real music for the discerning! These are some of my favourites for all sorts of reasons!
Captain Beefheart – Hothead
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ASDCoI2bk14
Bob Dylan – Newport – Maggie’s Farm
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G8yU8wk67gY
Bob Dylan – It’s Alright Ma I’m Only Bleedin’
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mYajHZ4QUVM
Beatles – Come Together
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=axb2sHpGwHQ&list=RDaxb2sHpGwHQ
John Lennon – God
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jknynk5vny8
Roy Harper – I Hate the Whiteman
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zXPFfgdxp9o
Nick Harper – Simple
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1MVPbJI6z7s
Captain Beefheart – Big Eyed Beans From Venus
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZfNb1w7pVcA
Phil Ochs – Cops of the World
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LaTbI7FCLl0
Rolling Stones – Gimme Shelter
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R3rnxQBizoU
Beatles – Across the Universe
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RKtk3bK5yTk
Nick Harper – The Verse Time Forgot
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IH6TqeeM5ZY
Roy Harper – The Lord’s prayer
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uKFe6Hcc1Y4
Eels – Novocaine for the Soul
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V2yy141q8HQ
North Mississippi Allstars
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eXyIKfB9_M0
Nick Harper – The Verse Time Forget
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8E0deQPcw1Q
Bob Dylan – Subterranean Homesick Blues (talk over)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VY4HtQ-XJQE
Country Joe and the Fish – An untitled protest
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bV7mDnI16h8
Doors – Unknown Soldier
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0oW9GLgsa8s
James Varda – May this Moment ever Glow
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9odPFezdyHA
Downliners Sect – One Ugly Child
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wc4wr2A6H94
Bob Marley – redemption song
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QrY9eHkXTa4
Michael Smith
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m8sj5gxW2xg
Linton Kwesi Johnson – Sonny’s Lettah
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7uvY5qU7ayg
John Cooper Clarke – Twat
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g-aVtKEhpO0
Sex Pistols – Pretty Vacant
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VcauCclfytI
Clash – Rock the Kasbah
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bJ9r8LMU9bQ
Elvis Costello – Tramp the Dirt Down
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9t4-zDem1Sk
Stiff Little Fingers – Suspect Device
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sKsN5cj9ehs
Tom Robinson Band – Better decide which Side are You’re On?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oJqsrEF4gw4
Woody Guthrie – This Land is Your Land
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wxiMrvDbq3s
Billy Bragg – Between the Wars
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xjUA3RU4B8E
Buffy St Marie – My Country Tis of Thy People You’re Dying
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FKKX-H3NMNI
Bert Jansch – Do You Hear Me Now
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3IIvWsmJEm0
Bruce Springsteen – Independence Day
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gnAJlJHXn_M
Bruce Springsteen – Chimes of Freedom
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ncGIqIuNUk
Donovan – Universal Soldier
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PT6NRc37T_8
Love – alone again or
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cNcXFy8QTC4
Love – you set the scene
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KdELzBV9pyo
Pink Floyd – Astronomy Domine
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pJh9OLlXenM
Fleetwood Mac – Green Manalishi
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kTvKaLW5bu8
Elmore James – Shake your moneymaker
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vn77rGEV6XM
Son House – Death Letter
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MDCNbacVt5w
Muddy Waters – I’m Ready
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bx1XBFpARIA
Howlin’ Wolf – Backdoor Man
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZGuCgDikMB4
ZZ Top – Gimme all your Luvin’
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ae829mFAGGE
RL Burnside – Snakedrive
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LTmC7BhYa8k
Junior Kimbrough – Done got old
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nSWTkI_aVSo
Jefferson Airplane – White Rabbit
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XR8LFNUr3vw
Steppenwolf – The Pusher
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3XqyGoE2Q4Y
Captain Beefheart – Electricity
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S8eRDkiwGMM
Roy Harper – McGoohan’s Blues
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_MDrciF2-kU
Roy Harper – One of Those Days in England
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sjlm1WrYD5Q
Who – Won’t Get Fooled Again
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SHhrZgojY1Q
Free with Koss – The Hunter
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HsRoKLsAMQs
Cream – Politician
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uJqgk2XAg4k
AC/DC – Whole Lotta Rosie
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QMvE0yFnR0I
Led Zeppelin – Living loving maid
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m5uB9kMFh80
Tommy Tucker – Hi-Heeled Sneaker
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8bmbSC9c2ys
Elvis Presley – Baby Let’s Play House
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=92iwC-xI3mE
Buddy Holly – You’re so Square
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aCRR5IGlfVg
Little Richard – Long Tall Sally
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jqxNSvFMkag
Slim Harpo – I’m a King Bee
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XWLvm11MAaM
Bo Diddley – Who do you love?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MAGoqMZRLB4
Pete Seeger – Which side on you on?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9XEnTxlBuGo
Woody Guthrie – Tom Joad
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WKWGAGPy_kw
Jefferson Airplane – Somebody to love
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Jj3wZVc7nw
Jerry Lee Lewis – Whole Lotta Shakin’ going on
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KWReDqMopt8
Traffic – Dear Mr Fantasy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KWReDqMopt8
John Lennon – Gimme Some Truth
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aDDJeM5R4PM
Dead Kennedys – Kill the poor
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TWrJAaUU1r8
Chuck Berry – Nadine
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=myPzYiTLvK0
Steppenwolf – The Pusher
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3XqyGoE2Q4Y
Dillinger – Cocaine all around my brain
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5xVp1mauGnU
Ry Cooder – Vigilante Man
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x4KmbUCwkyE
JJ Cale – Cocaine
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KwRvafqi_-U
White Stripes – Seven Nation Army
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0J2QdDbelmY
Eddie Cochran – C’Mon Everybody
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ncbdW9bI27o
Dale Hawkins – Suzie Q
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kb9vcqam_tQ
Bob Dylan – Positively Fourth Street
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SsovdtBgz3Q
Captain Beefheart – Abba Zabba
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JTo7OgXkbe8&list=RDJTo7OgXkbe8
Family – Weaver of Life
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WKD8tAElTpQ
Janis Joplin – Piece of My Heart
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iJb7cBfrxbo
Beatles – Revolution
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KrkwgTBrW78
Doors – 5 to one
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6dI0rwRGdVs
Pink Floyd – Shine on you Crazy Diamond
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8UXircX3VdM
Everly Brothers – When will I be Loved
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rI0ll5SexV0
Johnny Kidd & Pirates – Shaking all over
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n327ncoU_ZU
Sex Pistols – God Save the Queen
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dtUH2YSFlVU
Billy Bragg – Which Side are You On?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ALCm5Peie_8
Otis Redding – Hard to Handle
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HWItBTevUdg
James Brown – Papas Got a Brand New Bag
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gJgkuyJ8NLo
Howlin’ Wolf – Spoonful
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3LFjHo7Cdrw
Sonny Boy Williamson – Bring it all back home
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nHpqQaf0EK8
Little Walter – My Babe
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=duRp_avXtMM
Albert King – Born under a bad sign
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_q9zl9N2Vss
Malvina Reynolds – Little Boxes
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2_2lGkEU4Xs
Muddy Waters – Mannish Boy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MxwUOIlqhGA
Phil Ochs – I Ain’t Marching Anymore
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gv1KEF8Uw2k
Jimi Hendrix – Voodoo Chile
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9irsg1vBmq0
Jimi Hendrix – Purple Haze
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e4is-Iyo6YA
Velvet Underground – Heroin
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=skxi4NTqFlw
Lou Reed – Perfect Day
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QYEC4TZsy-Y
Wayne County – Fuck Off
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J34zX-JsOrI
Patti Smith – Piss Factory
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y6aUbrZYjYE
PJ Harvey – Sheena Na Gig
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AF3H-cG-sk4
Jimmy Reed – Shame Shame Shame
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aB_W54K8SLc
Jimmy Reed – Aint That loving You Baby
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sV_nZaOcbXo
Aretha Franklin – Respect
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6FOUqQt3Kg0
Arthur Brown – Fire
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NOErZuzZpS8
Small Faces – ItchyCoo Park
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=14ViwvgtvbA
Leonard Cohen – I’m Your Man
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r24_T-HOcyg
Leonard Cohen – Everybody Knows
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9F8QM3tjkTE
Tomorrow – My White Bicycle
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7JhZqWCqKs8
Pink Floyd – Money
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-0kcet4aPpQ
Tim Rose – Come Away Melinda
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qKWqEXoD–8
Robert Johnson – Come on in my kitchen
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4up4VP8zjyc
Kokomo Arnold – The Twelves
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1tgoLVEb0B4
Captain Beefheart – Moonlight on Vermont
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NZFG1yAxjdQ
Roy Harper – Hallucinating Light
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=atP8gyrD434
Nick Harper – Kilty Stone
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GGcgrmRTuVE
Joni Mitchel – Big Yellow Taxi
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=94bdMSCdw20
Bo Carter – Banana in your fruit basket
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jsje14A-cds
Cream – Strange Brew
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hftgytmgQgE
Chuck Berry – too Much Monkey Business
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5b2w_nJLuvw
Rolling Stones – Jumping Jack Flash
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TIx9YWF02uU
Yardbirds – Over Under Sideways Down
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L4DdAs0PddQ
Neil Young – Cortez the Killer
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m-b76yiqO1E
Neil Young – Like a Hurricane
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6-WMbP1RcC4
Crosby Still Nash And Young – Ohio
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TRE9vMBBe10
Jake Bugg – Lightnin’ Bolt
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fY0oPg1h8fQ
Bob Dylan – Forever Young
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FnFAu9cY5y4
Jefferson Airplane – Crown of Creation
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uOrb0G0tw08
Clash – Should I stay Or Should I go
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7r0iuoj-KNU
Clash – London Calling
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EfK-WX2pa8c
Jefferson Airplane – If You Feel Like China Breaking
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CIb3jc1POFY
Leon Rosselson – Palaces of gold
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YpWluQXKTZk
Billy Bragg – World Turned Upside Down
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YwQwA_kFxoE
Beatles – Piggies
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QnlijUAuna0
George Harrison – My Sweet Lord
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0kNGnIKUdMI
Little Richard – Rip it Up
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pc_F3PaYgl0
Jimmy Reed – Big Boss Man
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dd-o_kLONVI
Roy Harper – Short & Sweet
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hiEEfSgzYyk
Byrds – Artificial Energy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WLGsh611Qk4
Byrds – Wasn’t Born to Follow
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3hEfcawx6Fc
Nick Cave – Stagger Lee
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nbe5RERDh4k
Tommy Tucker – Long Tall Shorty
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pdh67rw1txU
Kinks – I’m Not Like Everybody Else
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mmb7TU0OrOI
Kinks – Well Respected Man
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AcSm0ShU8Y8
Beatles – I Saw her Standing There
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rq8u0tnyDGI
Nick Harper – Acoustic Smithereens
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0u9Q0VVA5Bk
Gene Vincent – Be Bop A Lula
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O4_5593-skQ
Velvet Underground – Pale Blue Eyes
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PK4DeMYtumc
Billy Lee Riley – Flying Saucer Rock n Roll
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hP4GesINziU
Buddy Holly – Peggy Sue
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BMCCHVYV1BA
Everly Brothers – Love Hurts
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hFE2SnliiV0
Elvis Presley – Good Rockin’ Tonight
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6FeWJHUB8aU
Sex Pistols – Anarchy in the UK
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qbmWs6Jf5dc
Iggy Pop – The Passenger
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hLhN__oEHaw
Nice – America
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x_X9YqWu4pU
Bob Dylan – Ballad of Hollis Brown
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yiafR2q82Lw
Bob Dylan – All I Really Want to do
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dOr7baolaoc
Byrds – Eight Miles High
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J74ttSR8lEg
Fleetwood Mac – Man of the World
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OJWOtL-PZiE
Fairport Convention – Meet on the Ledge
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=avX5VlU7MXM
Fairport Convention – Matty Groves
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1it7BP5PckI
Dr Feelgood – Roxanne
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GPRP0gdS95A
Elvis Costello – Pump it up
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3KI9eN-AY1s
Elvis Costello – Let him dangle
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J2hA_Xjr33E
Ian Dury – You’ll See Glimpses
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fTvvERaHog8
Ian Dury – Sex And Drugs and Rock ‘n’ Roll
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UkdgJ_-Gg3Q
Stiff Little Fingers – Johnny Was
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qLo7z50Tt2g
Billy Bragg – All You Fascists Bound to lose
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OOzBHsjyCks
Dr John – Walk on Gilded Splinters
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kWvdO3l4_P8
Stiff Little Fingers – Alternative Ulster
James Varda – From the Bellevue Hotel
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NK7sPC9WXbQ
James Varda – May This Moment Ever Glow
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9odPFezdyHA
Stranglers – Get a Grip on Yourself
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2nnBE8dC3ck
Ian Dury – Reasons to be cheerful pt3
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qcjh1a9Yoao
Led Zepellin – Whole Lotta Love
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mln0RciE2o0
Bob Marley – War
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XXxEilzNJcE
Bob Marley – Redemption Song
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8wjYFm7m6Xo
Roy Harper – The Game
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eMqFTUhverg&list=RDeMqFTUhverg
Neil Young – Heart of Gold
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7fXaC07X5M8
John Cooper Clarke – Beasley Street
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=37QUUwp9xIs
Bob Dylan – Pawn in their Game
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wvz23ET5ARM
Elvis Costello – Watching the Detectives
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xO_sDtI2bYk
Jimi Hendrix – Hey Joe
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DpkDdLZGg30
John Lennon – Working Class Hero
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YsmQhbd1KWE
John Lennon – Imagine
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RwUGSYDKUxU
Bob Dylan – Emmett Till
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RVKTx9YlKls
Howlin’ Wolf – Wang Dang Doodle
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nEjUfu9-W-w
Love – 7 and 7 is
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PStzQW6XVkM
Love – Alone Again or
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cNcXFy8QTC4
RL Burnside – Going Down South
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P9NG7-lgRlQ
Elmore James – The Sky is Crying
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hKEdlSTHjtU
Elmore James – It Hurts me too
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nBA2REoRD98
Howlin’ Wolf – Smokestack Lightnin’
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Ri7TcukAJ8
Edgar Broughton Band – Death of an Electric Citizen
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FInpOri8vlY
Donovan – Sunshine Superman
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LRGA3CPp6hI
Velvet Underground – I’m Waiting for the man
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MOmZimH00oo
Undertones – Teenage Kicks
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wAtUw6lxcis
Jimi Hendrix – Little Wing
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=03yPUlBE5OU
Jimi Hendrix – One Rainy Wish
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b1d1QOodvCQ
Stone Roses – I wanna be adored
Stranglers – Peaches
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NuT5KUA7iaY
Doors – Strange Days
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-NSz-9qqgKE
Bert Jansch – Needle of Death
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oA7npXJLQOU
Neil Young – Cinamon Girl
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aAdtUDaBfRA
Frank Zappa – Cosmik Debris
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wtx4ZJ1cwI0
Buffalo Springfield – For What it’s Worth
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gp5JCrSXkJY
Gang of Four – To Hell with Poverty
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QRjjVFC-oG4
Joni Mitchell – Little Green
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dvhdKywbcJ0
Them – Gloria
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WkaMVLHxzWE
Frank Zappa – What’s the Ugliest Part of your Body?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=okiGs4_vdyA
Paul Simon – Kathy’s Song
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e9KNS7cHIHs
Frank Zappa – Help I’m a Rock
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ukbu9dmmzJg
Joan Baez – Diamonds and Rust
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2MSwBM_CbyY
Beatles – Revolution
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KrkwgTBrW78
Roy Harper – Me and My Woman
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QC5gebGthAs
Roy Harper – McGoohan’s Blues
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_MDrciF2-kU
Rolling Stones – Honky Tonk Women
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A6M77oHD110
Bob Dylan – Masters of War
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gOyWO2K9Crw
Leonard Cohen – I’m Your Man
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iW8rFho6In8
Leonard Cohen – Bird on the Wire
Doors – Love me two times
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vjs6ZepIc14
Gang of Four – I Love a Man in a Uniform
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=00tjF2ROlwE
Gang of Four – History of the World
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E4IU2UPkqMU
Frank Zappa – Who are the Brain Police?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DuABc9ZNtrA
Leonard Cohen – Everybody Knows