Last week, trying to fight off the heat wave and honoring the Chris Martin’s band’s name, we asked our readers for their favorite songs with icy subject matter. After tallying the votes, KISS‘ ode to frosty alcohol beverages claimed the top spot. Here’s the rest of the Readers’ List of Cold Songs:
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It figures that the week we put a band called Coldplay on our cover, temperatures on the Eastern seaboard touched a hundred degrees. In an attempt to at least try to keep cool in our heads, this week’s Rock List is dedicated to “cold” songs. Let us know what songs with frosty subject matter are your favorites and next week we’ll reveal the Readers’ List of Best Cold Songs. Before we go and commune with the peas in our freezer, check out our picks:

GZA - “Cold World”
Vanilla Ice - “Ice Ice Baby”
Madonna - “Frozen”
John Cale - “Antarctica Starts Here”
Prince - “Sometimes It Snows in April”

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To bid farewell to our Greatest Guitar Songs issue, we’re revealing our readers’ Top 25 list of the best six-string classics ever recorded. After two weeks, the votes have been tallied, and the readers have decided to load up on guns and bring their friends by selecting Nirvana’s “Smells Like Teen Spirit” as the number one guitar jam of all time. Radiohead’s “Paranoid Android” settled for number two, but don’t worry classic rockers, the list is stocked with Hendrix, Zeppelin, Pink Floyd and the Stones. Check out the full list below:

1. Nirvana - “Smells Like Teen Spirit”
2. Radiohead – “Paranoid Android”
3. Led Zeppelin – “Stairway to Heaven”
4. Guns N’ Roses – “Sweet Child of Mine”
5. Deep Purple – “Smoke On The Water” (more…)

As part of our 100 Greatest Guitar Songs extravaganza, we’re asking our readers to draw up their own lists and let us know what they think the best six-string epics are. After one week of voting, the readers have declared that Radiohead’s “Paranoid Android” is the Greatest Guitar Song ever, with a pair of Hendrix tunes, “Voodoo Chile (Slight Return)” and “Little Wing” on its heels. Disagree with the majority thus far? Tell us your picks in the comments below. We’ll post the final results for the Greatest Guitar Songs: Readers’ Remix next week.

Rolling Stone has already spoken on The Greatest Guitar Songs of All Time, lead by Chuck Berry’s “Johnny B. Goode.” Now it’s your turn to curate your own list. So Rock Daily asks: What are the greatest guitar songs of all time? So important is this list that we’re going to give you a full week to submit your responses. We’ll tally up the votes, and next week Rock Daily will premiere the 100 Greatest Guitar Songs of All Time: The Rolling Stone Readers’ Remix. Click below for the RS list, and leave your own votes in the comments.

• The 100 Greatest Guitar Songs of All Time

Last Friday, we asked our readers to tell us what their favorite “question” songs were. The long Memorial Day weekend is over, and the votes say David Bowie asks the most pertinent question of them all: “Life on Mars?” Check out the rest of the top twenty below, including such excellent pieces of rhetoric as “Should I Stay or Should I Go?” and “Wouldn’t It Be Nice?”

1. David Bowie — “Life on Mars?”
2. Pixies — “Where Is My Mind?”
3. Jimi Hendrix Experience — “Are You Experienced?”
4. The Who — “Who Are You?”
5. The Clash — “Should I Stay or Should I Go?”
6. Ramones — “Do You Remember Rock & Roll Radio?”
7. Pink Floyd — “Is There Anybody Out There?”
8. Nirvana — “Where Did You Sleep Last Night?”
9. Nine Inch Nails — “Where Is Everybody?”
10. The Smiths — “How Soon Is Now?” (more…)

Here at Rock Daily, we’re full of questions. Why has the weather been so volatile? How could the Mets get swept by the Atlanta Braves? And every Friday, what should this week’s Rock List be? Thus, this week’s Rock List is dedicated to songs that ask questions. Tell us what inquiring songs you love and on Tuesday we’ll add ‘em up and reveal the readers’ list. Until then, here’s our burning questions:

Creedence Clearwater Revival — “Have You Ever Seen the Rain?”
R.E.M. — “What’s the Frequency, Kenneth?”
Fairport Convention — “Who Knows Were the Time Goes?”
Radiohead — “You and Whose Army?”
Frank Zappa — “Why Does It Hurt When I Pee?”

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Last week, thanks to Metallicamonium here at Rock Daily, we asked our readers to tell us their favorite Metallica songs. We counted the votes, and …And Justice For All’s centerpiece “One” was deemed the best from San Francisco’s loudest. Check out the top ten list of Metallica epics below.

1. “One”
2. “Master of Puppets”
3. “Nothing Else Matters”
4. “Fade to Black”
5. “The Unforgiven”
6. “Enter Sandman”
7. “Battery”
8. “Creeping Death”
9. “Sad But True”
10. “For Whom the Bell Tolls”

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Here at Rock Daily, we’re getting excited about the new Metallica album. “Mission: Metallica” just launched, the band is playing live gigs again and James Hetfield says it’ll sound like Master of Puppets. To honor the legendary headbangers, for this week’s Rock List we’re asking our readers to tell us their favorite Metallica songs and on Monday, we’ll tabulate the picks and reveal your list. So before you go loading, reloading or riding the lightning, check out our favorites:

“One”
“Wherever I May Roam”
“Fuel”
“For Whom the Bell Tolls”
“Welcome Home (Sanitarium)”

On Friday, Rock Daily was so inspired by a visit from Tokio Hotel that we wondered what were the finest songs that incorporated the name of a city into the title. What we discovered was that the definitive winner was British, there are way too many songs about New York and a handful of readers think California is a city and that “Paradise City” is real (only in Axl’s mind, children). Check out the twenty biggest winners below, lead by the Clash’s signature anthem “London Calling.”

1. The Clash - “London Calling”
2. Kiss - “Detroit Rock City”
3. Billy Joel - “Allentown”
4. Randy Newman - “I Love L.A.”
5. Neil Young - “Philadelphia” (more…)

Tokio Hotel came to our office today, and even though they spell Tokyo incorrectly (well, the German way), it got us thinking about songs with cities in their titles. Therefore this week’s Rock List is an ode to tracks that serve as homages to big metropolises, small towns and other places you can find on a map. Let us know your favorites, and on Monday we’ll count up the picks. Before you break out your atlases, here’s a few to get you started:

Nirvana – “Frances Farmer Will Have Her Revenge on Seattle”
Tom Waits – “I Wish I Was in New Orleans (In the Ninth Ward)”
Madonna – “I Love New York”
KISS – “Detroit Rock City”
The Clash – “The Guns of Brixton”

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Last week, inspired by his performance at Coachella, we asked our readers what were their favorite songs “written, composed, performed and recorded” by Prince. We tallied the votes, and “When Doves Cry” was voted the Most Purple song of them all. Check out the full list below.

1. “When Doves Cry”
2. “Little Red Corvette”
3. “Purple Rain”
4. “Kiss”
5. “Raspberry Beret (more…)

This week’s Rock List is dedicated to the MVP of this year’s Coachella festival: Prince. After re-watching Prince’s explosive version of Radiohead’s “Creep” for the hundredth time, we’re asking our Rock Daily readers to tell us their favorite songs by the Purple One. On Monday, we’ll count up the picks and reveal your Rock List. Before you pop Purple Rain into the VCR or peruse Rolling Stone’s list of his diamonds (and pearls) in the rough, here are our jams:

• “The Beautiful Ones”
• “Gett Off”
• “Raspberry Beret”
• “D.M.S.R.”
• “Paisley Park”

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Last week, as a tribute to our Rock Daily colleagues baking in the ninety-plus-degree Indio heat to bring back Coachella reportage, we asked our air-conditioned readers to pick their favorite “hot” songs. The readers have spoken, we’ve battled through our third-degree sunburns to compile the votes and you’ve selected Jimi Hendrix’s “Fire” as the most thermometer-bursting song. Check out the full list below.

1. Jimi Hendrix Experience — “Fire”
2. Johnny Cash — “Ring of Fire”
3. Sly & the Family Stone — “Hot Fun in the Summertime” (more…)

Today, our intrepid Rock Daily team is suffering through mid-ninety degree heat just so they can report back to you, our readers, all that’s going at this year’s Coachella Festival. As a tribute to our colleagues in Indio, California, this Rock List is dedicated to songs about being hot. Like Fahrenheit hot. Tell us your picks, and on Monday, depending on how sunburned we are, we’ll compile the lot and reveal the Readers’ Rock List: Hot Songs. Until then, here are our picks:

Prince — “Hot Thing”
Brian Eno — “Baby’s On Fire”
The Doors — “Light My Fire”
MC5 — “Motor City is Burning”
Talking Heads — “Love –> Building on Fire”