That 30 Best vid is a pretty good representation! Personally, I think that as much as I have griped in the past about pop trash, we have seen the growth of a pretty darn good catalogue of rock-n-roll / rock music . . . and all of the other permutations thereof.

Really starts around the 2:50 mark



And another..yet all their songs have very memorable riffs.

The change at :40 gives me chills, EVERY TIME.

recorded in August and released in October 1969. The darkest, loudest prog. riff ever in my opinion.

This rendition live, a number of years later.

Bands such as Tool, etc list this as their start of their journey into metal when they first heard when young.

Here is a "modern version"



The album came out before the first Black Sabbath album, which is seen today as the birth of heavy Metal.

King Crimson were more a unique combination of Rock, Jazz and progressive.

From the same album something completely different ( remember this stuff was written 42 years ago). The singer is Greg Lake who loined ELP after the release of this album

woops meant joined. LOL

Hellacopters

Another great one

Black Night