10 Favourite Title tracks of all time!

[Charger]

So time for another Top 10 list!

This time lets go for 10 favourite Title tracks of all time.

Lets make a limitation though so that we won't do the easy way out and just do 10 Sabbath tunes!

So this time ONE entry per band! ONE! Not two not three but ONE! This should make this bit harder and bit more thought needs to be given.


Question before we start.

Will we be doing a list in order 10 -> 1 or just random order? I'm okay with both.

[Zzzptm]

Sabbath Bloody Sabbath, Paranoid, The Mob Rules, Heaven & Hell... ok, I pick just ONE of those??? Gonna be at least 3 honorable mentions as a result of the above policy. I'm cool with that.

Fireball, Burn, Stormbringer, Perfect Strangers... three MORE honorable mentions!

[Zzzptm]

Also, doing them in rando order will be how I'll probably roll with this.

[KiloDeltaCharlie]

I think my early choices will be random but the last 3 will be in order.

[Zzzptm]

Suggestion: what if we have a pool of dead obvious tracks that we all acknowledge are monsters in and of themselves - Overkill, Ace of Spades, the Sabbath ones, the Deep Purple ones, and if we went after the less-well-known title tracks that are among the best?

Also, I promise not to nominate any one-song albums, even though I really love Thick as a Brick.

[Charger]

I was thinking of something along those lines too...

We could do that. I think all of our top three would be Sabbath/Purple/Dio/Motörhead....so maybe we could leave those bands out completely and try to focus on other bands that aren't so....well...obvious.

So
NO

SABBATH
PURPLE
DIO
OZZY
MOTÖRHEAD

We've already covered most of those tracks on the other threads anyways. This could leave room for some more interesting and unknown choices....

[KiloDeltaCharlie]

That sounds very workable to me. I do need to think about my list though.

[Vyn]

So
NO

SABBATH
PURPLE
DIO
OZZY
MOTÖRHEAD

We've already covered most of those tracks on the other threads anyways. This could leave room for some more interesting and unknown choices....

Since I hate all music except those bands, this will cause me to have to think

[Charger]

I believe you might be pulling my leg there a bit....

Yeah some time to think is needed here though with these new rules....but I think I have come down to 10....

[Zzzptm]

I'm gonna do 10 funk/soul and 10 hard rock/metal. I'm going for the more obscure, so also no Metallica, Megadeth, or Iron Maiden on my list or bands/albums we've visited at length.

[Charger]

Alright let's kick things off then!


My first pick is

BURNT OFFERINGS from ICED EARTH

Could have been Iced Earth as well but the intro to BO is just brilliant. Has a bit of a Tubular Bells feel to it.
Musically this is great the riffing here is nothing short of suberb and Matt's vocals are also very good although he got more comfortable with it in later albums.

[Zzzptm]

It begins...

My funk/soul tracks start with Parliament's "Up for the Down Stroke"

Tight horns, clean bass and drums, everything you need for an epic funk track. The vocal layers are incredible, especially in the final part that interleaves the A and B parts. The very definition of groove, right here.

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I got 13 picks for a list that focuses mostly on the 70s Classic Rock and Hard Rock/Metal. I know my honorable mentions, time now to pick the first pick, #10 on my list...

I first heard this on a Faces compilation that I bought and loved it. Found out it was used in the film Rushmore and had to go see that film. And then it started popping up in commercials around me. No matter, my joy at the first listen remains fresh. Both Rod Stewart and Ronnie Lane did a vocal track for it, but somehow it was Ron Wood's forlorn delivery that fit the song best, and I agree with that choice. It has a powerful, reminiscing warmth that comes through the acoustic guitars and singalong final lines.

[Vyn]

In at number 10 is, Iggy Pop's "Lust for Life". A punk-infused celebration of hedonism with a smattering of determinism in the face of this inexplicable thing called life.

[KiloDeltaCharlie]

No. 10

Let's start with a classic from Joe Bonamassa, Sloe Gin, the ode to drinking yourself to death.

[Zzzptm]

OK, these No. 10s are really sweet.