List of Songs
Lucas Davenport's "Best Songs of the Rock Era" list, in no
particular order, except that, as any intelligent person knows, any decent road
trip will start with ZZ Top.
- Sharp-Dressed Man — ZZ Top
- Legs — ZZ Top
- Mustang Sally — Wilson Pickett
- Superman's Song — Crash Test Dummies
- Rock On — David Essex
- Radar Love — Golden Earring
- Heart of Glass — Blondie
- White Rabbit — Jefferson Airplane
- Somebody to Love — Jefferson Airplane
- Layla — Derek and the Dominoes
- Roadhouse Blues — Doors
- House of the Rising Sun — Animals
- Sweet Emotion — Aerosmith
- Dude (Looks Like a Lady) — Aerosmith
- Dancing in the Dark — Bruce Springsteen
- Born to Run — Bruce Springsteen
- Thunder Road — Bruce Springsteen
- Every Breath You Take — Police
- Heart of Saturday Night — Tom Waits
- Hot for Teacher — Van Halen
- Won't Get Fooled Again — Who
- Hotel California (covers the Eagles) — Gipsy Kings
- Give Me One Reason — Tracy Chapman
- Down on the Corner — CCR
- Lyin' Eyes — Eagles
- Life in the Fast Lane — Eagles
- Skateaway (Roller Girl) — Dire Straits
- Mary Jane's Last Dance — Tom Petty
- Me 'n Bobby McGee — Janis Joplin
- Black Water — Doobie Brothers
- I Love Rock 'n Roll — Joan Jett
- Jack and Diane — John Mellencamp
- The Wall (Part 2) — Pink Floyd
- Money — Pink Floyd
- Piano Man — Billy Joel
- After Midnight — Eric Clapton
- Lay Down Sally — Eric Clapton
- You Shook Me (All Night Long) — AC/DC
- Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap — AC/DC
- Long Cool Woman — Hollies
- Like a Rolling Stone — Bob Dylan
- Knockin' on Heaven's Door — Bob Dylan
- Subterranean Homesick Blues — Bob Dylan
- Satisfaction — Rolling Stones
- Brown Sugar — Rolling Stones
- Sympathy for the Devil — Rolling Stones
- Anarchy in the UK — Sex Pistols
- Sugar Magnolia — Grateful Dead
- Slow Hand — Pointer Sisters
- Sweet Dreams — Eurythmics
- Jailhouse Rock — Elvis Presley
- Ziggy Stardust — David Bowie
- Night Moves — Bob Seger
- Bye-Bye-Love — Everly Brothers
- Purple Haze — Jimi Hendrix
- Lola — Kinks
- Tender is the Night — Jackson Browne
- Louie Louie — The Kingsmen
- Bad to the Bone — George Thorogood
- Turn the Page (covers Bob Seger) — Metallica
- Sweet Home Alabama — Lynryd Skynyrd
- We Will Rock You — Queen
- Ramblin' Man — Allman Brothers
- Rock 'n Roll — Led Zeppelin
- What's Love Got to Do With It — Tina Turner
- Born to Be Wild — Steppenwolf
- With or Without You — U2
- Paranoid — Black Sabbath
- Blue Morning Blue — Foreigner
- White Wedding — Billy Idol
- Sweet Child o' Mine — Guns 'n Roses
- Paradise City — Guns 'n Roses
- Knockin' on Heaven's Door (covers Dylan) — Guns 'n Roses *
- Walk on the Wild Side — Lou Reed
- Feel Like Makin' Love — Bad Company
- Rock of Ages — Def Leppard
- Brown Eyed Girl — Van Morrison
- Devil With a Blue Dress — Mitch Ryder and the Detroit Wheels
- Respect — Aretha Franklin
- I'm in the Mood — John Lee Hooker & Bonnie Raitt
- Got You (I Feel Good) — James Brown
- Unchained Melody — Righteous Brothers
- Little Red Corvette — Prince
- Roll Over Beethoven — Chuck Berry
- Mr. Tamborine Man (covers Dylan) — Byrds
- Ohio — CSNY
- Peggy Sue — Buddy Holly
- Great Balls of Fire — Jerry Lee Lewis
- Pretty Woman — Roy Orbison
- Runaway — Del Shannon
- Walk This Way — Aerosmith / Run-DMC
- (Sittin' on the) Dock of the Bay — Otis Redding
- Smells like Teen Spirit — Nirvana
- Still Crazy After All These Years — Paul Simon
- Who Do You Love? — Bo Diddley
- One Toke Over the Line — Brewer and Shipley
- Wanna Be Sedated — Ramones
- Should I Stay or Should I Go — Clash
- Burning Down the House — Talking Heads
- Waltz 2 / Jazz Suite — Dimitri Shostakovich
* Yeah, yeah, I know it's on the list twice.