Flic Your Bic 9

As you can see, this pick is an ongoing series. It has been awhile since I posted one up, however. You have to go back to August of 2023 to see the last Flic Your Bic. But worth clicking to get all of them if you like this sort of stuff (and I do). These are all songs that I would pull out my lighter (an app nowadays) for if I saw this song played live. So it's very subjective. I am sure you have a favorite that you would think is anthemic rock. See if it has already been posted before and if it hasn't, leave a comment with your choice.

Flic Your Bic 9

97 John Mellencamp - R.O.C.K. In The U.S.A.

98 Jimi Hendrix - Hey Joe

99 Phil Collins - In The Air Tonight

100 Queen - We Are the Champions-We Will Rock You

101 Cream - White Room

102 AC-DC - Highway To Hell

103 Tom Petty; Jeff Lynne; Steve Winwood; Dhani Harrison; Prince - While My Guitar Gently Weeps

104 Jethro Tull - Aqualung

105 ZZ Top - Sharp Dressed Man

106 Scorpions - Rock You Like A Hurricane

107 Ted Nugent - Cat Scratch Fever

108 Grand Funk Railroad - We're An American Band

109 Sweet - Fox On The Run

110 Rolling Stones - It's Only Rock 'n' Roll

111 Neil Young - Rockin' In The Free World (Electric)

112 REO Speedwagon - Ridin' the Storm Out

113 Kiss - Rock And Roll All Nite

114 Steppenwolf - Born to Be Wild

Flic Your Bic 8

This has been an ongoing series of mine. Anthemic rock. This pick is number 8 in the series. Basically rock songs that I'd pull a phone out to show my zippo app. Almost at a hundred songs with this one. I'm sure that each of us has a band and some songs that feel like anthems to them. These are mine continued. See Flic Your Bic for more of mine. A couple of new bands in the list and several repeat bands. Allman Brothers make my list as does John Cale for the first time. And with great songs I might add. This list is indicative of the bands I really like, have a lot of albums of and would see live. Obviously, some no longer are available to see live, so I will have to imagine.

Flic Your Bic 8

86 Doors - L.A. Woman

87 Jimi Hendrix - Fire

88 John Cale - Gun

89 Lou Reed - Heroin

90 Scorpions - I'm Goin' Mad

91 Allman Brothers Band - Whipping Post

92 Led Zeppelin - In The Evening

93 Yes - Starship Trooper a. Life Seeker b. Disillusion c. Wurm

94 Rolling Stones - Gimme Shelter

95 Neil Young - Hey Hey, My My (Into The Black)

96 Ted Nugent - Stranglehold

Flic Your Bic 7

This is the last of the series that is completely finished. You would think that getting the cover made would be easy, as well as setting up the text files and m3u's, but it always takes me awhile to finish each pick.. Even though it's already pretty much set. Oh well. This volume has quite a few doubles (bands, not songs). Can't help it. So many great songs to Flic Your Bic to. Anyway it may be a little bit before you see more of this compilation, but I know what's coming up, It'll be worth the wait. Probably not the write up, since this one was kind of lame.

Flic Your Bic 7

71 Deep Purple - Highway Star

72 Frank Zappa - Montana

73 Rush - Tom Sawyer

74 Led Zeppelin - Dazed And Confused

75 ZZ Top - Cheap Sunglasses

76 REO Speedwagon - 157 Riverside Avenue

77 Jimi Hendrix - Wild Thing

78 Neil Young - Cinnamon Girl

79 Scorpions - The Zoo

80 Lou Reed - Walk On The Wild Side

81 Eagles - Life in the Fast Lane

82 Grateful Dead - Truckin'

83 Metallica - Enter Sandman

84 Kinks - Lola

85 Nazareth - Love Hurts

Flic Your Bic 6

The last few that are finished coming up on this Flic Your Bic pick series of anthemic songs that inspire me to flash my cell phone of my Bic lighter. Nothing too long in this volume Deep Purple is th eonly one that goes over ten minutes although Guns and Roses and Metallica get over seven minutes each. As we reach the last few in this compilation series that are completely done, make sure you leave your suggestions in the comments. What inspires you to Flic Your Bic?

Flic Your Bic 6

59 Triumph - Lay It On The Line

60 Boston - More Than a Feeling

61 Metallica - One

62 Scorpions - Coming Home

63 Jethro Tull - Locomotive Breath

64 Spirit - Dark Eyed Woman

65 Deep Purple - Child In Time

66 Who - Behind Blue Eyes

67 Rush - The Trees

68 Elton John - Funeral for a Friend (Love Lies Bleeding)

69 Styx - Come Sail Away

70 Guns N' Roses - November Rain

Flic Your Bic 5

The fifth volume of Flic Your Bic picks. Several more to go, but we're reaching the back half of these anthemic rock song compilations that inspire me to pick up my lighter when I hear these tracks. I promised you a lame story of how the cover came to be. It has to do with graphic software called CorelDraw. I use it, have been using it and it is my graphic software of choice. I had found an interesting font and was trying out some textures and effects when I decided to use it for the very first Flic Your Bic picks. I liked it and as I made more of the volumes, I used the cover on all the rest. Only changing the volume number. I still like the look of it.

Flic Your Bic 5

48 Black Sabbath - War Pigs

49 Joe Walsh - Life's Been Good

50 Doors - Riders On The Storm

51 Eric Clapton - Cocaine

52 Neil Young - Like A Hurricane

53 Yes - Sound Chaser

54 Pink Floyd - Money

55 Rush - La Villa Strangiato

56 Led Zeppelin - Kashmir

57 Who - Who Are You

58 Jackson Browne - Stay

Flic Your Bic 4

Volume four of the Flic Your Bic pick. You will notice that there are only eight songs. Thats because each of these tracks is fairly long. Steve Miller Band is the shortest of the bunch at just five and a half minutes. This volume is not really fair. There is one track that never really was used as an anthemic Flic Your Bic song and now that he is dead and left word to not really play it live anymore, it won't get played as one in the future. But Watermelon In Easter Hay should be the perfect song for this category. One of my favorite FZ songs and perfect for raising your lighter. Okay, okay, the cover is not that big of a story. It mostly has to do with some software and I'll tell you about it tomorrow.

Flic Your Bic 4

40 Meat Loaf - Bat Out Of Hell

41 Vanilla Fudge - You Keep Me Hanging on

42 Frank Zappa - Watermelon in Easter Hay

43 Creedence Clearwater Revival - Heard it Through The Grapevine

44 Iron Butterfly - In A Gadda Da Vida

45 Steve Miller Band - Threshold-Jet Airliner

46 Lou Reed - Rock 'N' Roll

47 Yes - Machine Messiah

Flic Your Bic 3

I did not get to see all these bands live, but I imagine the concerts of the ones I didn't get to see and these are the tracks I would have Flic'd My Bic to. And the rest, I really did Flic My Bic at these picks or at the very least I used my cell phone. Rush is one of those bands that I have seen live multiple times (and they are reflected by that over the course of several volumes. What I have not talked about yet is the cover I designed for this compilation pick. And I won't yet. Ha ha! And did you notice from yesterday that a couple of the tracks were also about fire, smoke, light? This volume has a few mentions of White. Is that coincidence?

Flic Your Bic 3

25 Bad Company - Shooting Star

26 Pink Floyd - Another Brick In The Wall (Part 2)

27 Procol Harum - A Whiter Shade Of Pale

28 Derek & The Dominos - Layla

29 It's a Beautiful Day - White Bird

30 Supertramp - The Logical Song

31 Free - All Right Now

32 The Moody Blues - Nights In White Satin

33 Jimi Hendrix - Gloria

34 Kansas - Carry On Wayward Son

35 Nazareth - Hair Of The Dog

36 Rush - The Spirit Of Radio

37 Rolling Stones - (I Can't Get No) Satisfaction

38 Eagles - Hotel California

39 ZZ Top - La Grange

Flic Your Bic 2

Continuing on with the Flic Your Bic Pick, it's volume two! I limited the selection to only one song per band per volume. And not just to "hits". Well, I guess they are all hits, to me. The first couple of bands that are repeating show up on this volume. Led Zeppelin and Sweet are the ones here. Ballroom Blitz is the one song that people usually place first for Sweet, but you notice that I used Love is Like Oxygen on volume one. No mistake. I think of that song as the biggest Flic Your Bic song of theirs (although the Blitz is certainly up there. On the other hand fo Zeppelin, it is hard to not use Stairway as a Flic Your Bic tune. It is perhaps the biggest example of this type of song. The song I used here is probably way less thought of, but I think that's a mistake.

Flic Your Bic 2

11 Led Zeppelin - Rock And Roll

12 Barnstorm - Rocky Mountain Way

13 Blue Oyster Cult - Godzilla

14 Focus - Hocus Pocus

15 Edgar Winter - Frankenstein

16 Golden Earring - Radar Love

17 Outlaws - Green Grass and High Tides

18 Sweet - The Ballroom Blitz

19 Deep Purple - Smoke On The Water

20 Doors - Light My Fire

21 Who - Won't Get Fooled Again

22 Manfred Mann's Earth Band - Blinded By The Light

23 Ted Nugent & The Amboy Dukes - The Great White Buffalo

24 Black Sabbath - Iron Man

Flic Your Bic 1

There could be a lot of volumes in this pick, and I have quite a few finished and more on the way. These are all anthemic rock songs that make you want to pull out your lighter in the dark. Back in the stone ages, we called it Flic Your Bic. Nowadays, you pull out your cell phone and put in flashlight mode (or you can even find a Bic Lighter app or perhaps a Zippo). Either way the concept is the same. The song is rocking or about to rock and you want to join in with the band and the rest of the audience. I am sure that over the course of the next several hours, you are going to agree (and perhaps strongly disagree) with my picks. As always leave a comment about Flic Your Bic songs you would like to see. over the course of the next week or so, each volume is long enough to fit on a CD.

Flic Your Bic 1

01 Journey - Kahoutek

02 Boston - Foreplay-Long Time

03 Yes - Roundabout

04 Led Zeppelin - Stairway To Heaven

05 Kansas - Dust In The Wind

06 Aerosmith - Dream On

07 Lynyrd Skynyrd - Free Bird

08 Sweet - Love Is Like Oxygen

09 Queen - Bohemian Rhapsody

10 Beatles - A Day In The Life