Well another day, another list. Straight from the horse’s mouth here is Mojo Magazine’s Top 100 Epic Rock Tracks:

“Heroic, uplifting and over-the-top, these tracks
shamelessly embody all three of these admirable
values. The rules for inclusion are simple: one
entry per band and the notion that the track in
question exemplifies musical adventuring as its
boldest and, in some cases, most foolish.
As Freddie would say, Magnifico-o-o-o!”

01 Queen - Bohemian Rhapsody
02 Led Zeppelin - Stairway To Heaven
03 The Rolling Stones - Sympathy For The Devil
04 Pink Floyd - Shine On You Crazy Diamond
05 The Doors - The End
06 Kate Bush - Wuthering Heights
07 The Beatles - A Day In The Life
08 Elvis Presley - An American Trilogy
09 Meat Loaf - Bat Out Of Hell
10 Richard Harris - MacArthur Park
11 The Beach Boys - Heroes and villains
12 Don McClean - American Pie
13 Ike and Tina Turner - River Deep, Mountain High
14 Derek and the Dominos - Layla (Pts 1 & II)
15 Black Sabbath - Black Sabbath
16 David Bowie - Space Oddity
17 U2 - Bullet - The Blue Sky
18 ELP - Fanfare For The Common Man
19 John Leyton - Johnny Remember Me
20 Kraftwerk - Autobahn
21 Procul Harum - A Whiter Shade Of Pale
22 Mike Oldfield - Tubular Bells
23 King Crimson - The Court Of The Crimson King
24 Radiohead - Paranoid Android
25 Bruce Springsteen - Jungleland
26 The Shangri-Las - Past, Present And Future
27 The Walker Brothers - The Sun Ain’t Gonna Shine Anymore
28 Yes - The Gates Of Delirium
29 Jethro Tull - Thick As A Brick
30 Prince - Purple Rain
31 Wings - Live And Let Die
32 Lynyrd Skynyrd - Freebird
33 Manic Street Preachers - A Design For Life
34 The Velvet Underground - Sister Ray
35 Frankie Goes To Hollywood - Welcome To The Pleasuredome
36 Can - Mother Sky
37 Oasis - Champagne Supernova
38 Thin Lizzy - Roisin Dubh (Black Rose) Rock Legend
39 The Darkness - Christmas Time (Don’t Let The Bells End)
40 Joy Division - Decades
41 Rush - Xanadu
42 Genesis - Supper’s Ready
43 The Who - Baba O’Reilly
44 Eric Carmen - All By Myself
45 Klaatu - Calling Occupants Of Interplanetary Caft
46 Deep Purple - Child In Time
47 Bauhaus - Bela Lugosi’s Dead
48 Freddie Mercury And Montserrat Caballe - Barcelona
49 Alice Cooper - Halo Of Files
50 Blue Oyster Cult - Don’t Fear The Reaper
51 Guns N’Roses - November Rain
52 The Verve - Bitter Sweet Symphony
53 Lou Reed - Street Hassle
54 Ultravox - Vienna
55 The Nice - The Cry Of Eugene
56 Pulp - Common People
57 the Electric Prunes - Holy Are You
58 Nick Cave And The Bad Seeds - The Carny
59 Primal Scream - Higher Than The Sun
60 Scott Walker - Such A Small Love
61 Mountain - Nantucket Sleighride (To Owen Coffin)
62 Fairport Convention - Tam Lin
63 The Eagles - Journey Of The Sorcerer
64 Gordon Lightfoot - The Wreck Of Edmund Fitzgerald
65 Rainbow - Stargazer
66 Leonard Cohen - Memories
67 The LA’s - The Looking Glass
68 Supertramp - Fool’s Overture
69 The Monkees - Randy Scouse Git
70 Sonic Youth - Tunic (Song For Karen)
71 The Stone Roes - Breaking Into Heaven
72 Roy Harper - The Lord’s Prayer
74 McAlmont & Butler - Yes
75 Greateful Dead - Dark Star
76 Klaus Schulze - Friedrich Nietzsche
77 David McWilliams - The Days Of Pearly Spencer
78 Julian Cope - Safesurfer
79 Buffalo Springfield - Broken Arrow
80 Iron Butterfly - In-A-Gadda-De-Vida
81 Alex Harvey - Isobel Goudie
82 Flowered Up - Weekender
83 David Gates - Suite: Clouds, Rain
84 Fleetwood Mac - The Chain
85 The Bevis Frond - Tangerine Infringement Break
86 Spiritualized - Don’t Just Do Something
87 ELO - Eldorado Overture
88 Spock’s Beard - The Healing Colors Of Sound
89 Iron Maiden- Rime Of The Ancient Mariner
90 Patti Smith - Land
91 Kiss - Odyssey
92 Aphrodite’s Child - The Four Horsemen
93 Metallica - One
94 Dexy’s Midnight Runners - This Is What She’s Like
95 John Miles - Music
96 British Sea Power - Lately
97 Bob Dylan - Hurricane
98 Billy Joel - Scenes From An Italian Restaurant
99 Diamond Head - Am I Evil
100 Damien Rice - Eskimo

This is a tough one to digest so I’m going to give myself a few days. Some I agree with, some I don’t even know so read it and tell me what you think. I know for one that I would never have a list with Billy Joel on it but hey, that’s just me.
Later.

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