Badass Songs: Yea or Nay?

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  1. barnaclelapse

    barnaclelapse Commodore Commodore

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    Doesn't have to be the greatest song of all time. Just something that blows your hair back, as the kids are fond of saying.

    Bruce Springsteen: Atlantic City (Live in New York: 2001 version).
     
  2. Alidar Jarok

    Alidar Jarok Everything in moderation but moderation Moderator

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    1. What kids are fond of saying that?

    2. Jesus Christ Pose
     
  3. DarKush

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    I'm not sure what you mean by the definition of badass, but songs that got me hype and some even ready to rumble:

    (Nothing works quite the same as gangsta rap; though let me add that I find a lot of the language and imagery, especially pertaining to African Americans in gangsta rap objectionable, I still enjoyed these hardcore songs)

    Never Scared-Bonecrusher
    Ain't No Play in GA-Pastor Troy
    Vice Versa-Pastor Troy
    What Up Gangsta-50 Cent
    Hit 'Em Up-Tupac
    Tradin War Stories-Tupac
    Hail Mary-Tupac
    Bury Me a G-Tupac
    Notorious Thugs-Notorious BIG feat. Bone, Thugs, N Harmony
    Down Bottom-Ruff Ryders
    What's My Name?-DMX
    M.C. Hammer-Rick Ross
    Quiet Storm-Mobb Deep feat. Lil' Kim
    Wild Out-The Lox
    Deep Cover-Dr. Dre and Snoop Dogg
    Bout It Bout It-Master P
    Tear the Club Up-Triple Six Mafia
    No Vaseline-Ice Cube
    Gangsta, Gangsta-NWA
    Straight Outta Compton-NWA
    Boyz in the Hood-Eazy E
    Bawitdaba-Kid Rock
    I'm Bad-LL Cool J
    King of Rock-Run DMC
    Playaz Circle-Duffle Bag Boy
    Thuggish Ruggish Bone-Bone, Thugs, N Harmony

    Others:
    Welcome to the Jungle-Guns N' Roses
    Blaze of Glory-Bon Jovi
     
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  4. Mistral

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    And, see, other than GnR this list leaves me cold. No offense.
    We all have different tastes. So what is kick-ass?

    How about Listzomania by Phoenix?
    Dreamweaver by Gary Wright
    Rock n Roll by Led Zepplin
    Born To Be Wild by Deep Purple
    Good Vibrations by The Beach Boys
    Suite: Judy Blue Eyes by CSN
     
  5. Alidar Jarok

    Alidar Jarok Everything in moderation but moderation Moderator

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    Listzomania and Good Vibrations, to be, are examples of great songs but not badass songs. For me, it has more to do with attitude than quality. IMO, that limits the genre to some degree. But it's definitely a thing where taste varies to quite a degree.
     
  6. marillion

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    Yay to Good Vibrations!

    It's overplayed in recent years, but Rush's Tom Sawyer.. It was my introduction to the band and that opening synth line ALWAYS got the hair on my neck standing.

    Same thing for ELP's Lucky Man.. Maybe not badass, but always gave me a reaction.
     
  7. Admiral2

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    Nay to everything mentioned.

    BAD TO THE BONE by George Thorogood and the Destroyers.

    The definition of "bad ass song"
     
  8. CaseNumber825

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    I'm not really a rock fan at all, I like some old school rock but it doesn't really 'get me going' as they say, I think...

    So for a change of perspective these are some songs that DO get me going (All songs need to be played loudly with plenty of bass):

    HuH - 4Minute

    Superstar - 4Minute

    FIRE - 2NE1

    Pretty Boy - 2NE1

    NU ABO - f(x)

    Hurricane Venus - BoA

    Dangerous - BoA

    talkin' 2 myself - Ayumi Hamasaki

    Ningyo Hime - Koda Kumi (PV)

    I'm gonna stop there but I know I'll think of more as soon as I hit reply:rolleyes:
     
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  10. Mistral

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    In that case-

    Jim Dandy by Black Oak Arkansas

    And I stay with Born To Be Wild, adding School's Out by Alice Cooper
     
  11. Owain Taggart

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    What a badass song is or isn't is highly subjective since everyone has different tastes. In my opinion, it has a lot to do not with how popular a song is, but by the musicianship, and then I guess by how it makes someone feel.
     
  12. Roshi

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    The Theme From Shaft by Isaac Hayes.
     
  13. Admiral2

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    ^^^Exactly!


    And to my list I add The Devil Went Down to Georgia by the Charlie Daniels Band. Why? 'Cuz a good ol' boy from Georgia pwned the Devil at his own game! That's why!
     
  14. barnaclelapse

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    It just has to be your definition of badass in terms of a song being badass because it's everything you look for in a great song.

    I realize I kind of tried to go the objective route on this one. Sorry.

    Bad to The Bone is awesome live. I was actually able to see those guys in concert a couple years back.

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  15. Owain Taggart

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    That too, which is why I said it was very subjective. I also feel it has to make its mark in the music industry and mean something to it. Something you can also look at and say, "Oh yeah, those guys are undeniably talented." Though there are also very talented people that never get their due because the music industry is too focused on the latest thing. In the end though it's a very personal thing. What may be badass to someone may not be to someone else.
     
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    Nightwish, Bye Bye Beautiful.

    Singing about your lead singer who abandoned the group...badass. Oh the rage!
     
  17. Daedalus12

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    When I think of the most badass songs I am thinking songs that have certain sections that becomes essentially timeless monuments that you admire and then bow down to it thinking how insignificant you are in the grand scheme of the universe.

    Some examples

    Baba O'Riley - The opening organ piece.
    Beethoven's 9th symphony - Just listen to the choral section.
    Tchaikovsky's 1812 overture - The climax (heard in movies like V Vendetta).
     
  18. Nerys Myk

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    Two from Johnny Cash: Folsom Prison Blues and A Boy Named Sue.
     
  19. cultcross

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    Well, they kind of fired her really, but it is certainly a badass rage song :lol: I've often wondered if Tarja was actually awake enough to realise the meaning, obvious as it is.
    Bit mean making her replacement sing a bitching song about her really :D
     
  20. mariahpc02

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    the one below is my favourite .Apart from this i am a big fan of all celine dion songs:-)Bruce Springsteen: Atlantic City (Live in New York: 2001 version).