Buffalo Springfield, Blue Bird. Nowadays Clancy Can't Even Sing. (Features a time signature change.)
Dick Dale and the Deltones, Misirlou. Before Clapton, before Bloomfield, my first guitar hero. "King of the Surf Guitar." Pipeline (with Stevie Ray Vaughan). Nitro (with So Cal scenes). Let's Go Trippin', 1961. The first surf instrumental?
Beach Boys, Don't Worry Baby
Little Feat, Willin'
Los Lobos, La Bamba
Doors, Riders on the Storm. L. A. Woman
Byrds, Chimes of Freedom. Dylan's greatest anthem?
Eagles, Life in the Fast Lane. Take It Easy. Standin' on the corner in Winslow, Arizona/Such a fine sight to see/ A girl my Lord in a flat bed Ford/Slowin' down to take a look at me.