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Best rock song of all times

Only one answer please.
Not the best written or the best musical complexity but the one that represents the rock.

My choice: Satisfaction - Rolling Stones

Reasons:
- first notes are like the 5th of Beethoven (when you hear those notes, everybody pumps up the volume)
- still very up to date
- a mix of rock and blues rock and Motown sound
- lyrics talks about disatisfaction of young people vs life, politics, money and women (even B Dylan like that song)
- music is very basic as a good rock song should be
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oblgny
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Okay...anudder OBVIOUS one...

”Heartbreaker” - Led Zeppelin. 

That it’s also also one of the best rock riffs ever is beside the point. I read an article many years ago regarding the techniques used recording the tune. If my 60+ year old memory has retained anything, Page’s amplifier was situated 20 feet down a hall and cranked to eleven - or something like that. 

I swear that I can hear that. 
ron_hartman
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Fire and Water by Free has it all for me. Pounding drums, great vocal and guitar.

But the earlier mention of Little Wing had me thinking. My favorite Hendrix song, it almost transcends rock music. In its own category.
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sfseay
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War Pigs - Black Sabbath
icanskate
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+1 kinks really got me -classic
+1 sweet child o mine-modern sign along jam
areosmith sweet emotion-pure rock
all of these will still be relevant 50 years from now
rock on🤘
rockysantoro
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For me it has to be "More Than a Feeling" by Boston.
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