What is your favorite ROCK song that asks "Why" either in the title or lyrics?

Question

Here is an older song from the 80's by Tony Carey and Planet P Project

It's called "Why Me"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BnyEN6yGQB8

&feature=fvsr

Bonus Question:

Do you remember and/or like this song?

Answer 1

Favorite Answer

"Tell Me Why" by Painter...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EWhbvye9y6Y

'Painter' only released one LP, and the song I've featured above is one of the lighter numbers from that album.

A bit of info on the band...

They were an early 70's Canadian group from the cities Calgary and Edmonton...with roots going back to the 60's psychedelic band 'The 49th Parralel'. Painter's style was much in the same vein as April Wine or BTO. Eventually they evolved into the mid-late 70's hard rock band 'Hammersmith'. Their drummer 'Bob Ego' later married Sally Zildjian of the Zildjian cymbal family, and later became a key member of the Sabian Cymbal management team when that Canadian company broke the U.S. market during the mid 80s.

Painter's guitarist, Danny Lowe developed a three-dimensional recording technology in Calgary Canada, which has found its strongest application in the world of video gaming, but its roots were strictly rock ’n’ roll.

In 1982, Danny experienced what he called "an industrial accident" while placing 14 microphones in a sound studio. In playing back the recording made that day, he discovered he had inadvertently created an auditory illusion that he was surrounded by sound. The effect resembled how the human ear actually hears.

Over the next eight years, he and electro-technician John Lees worked together to fine-tune the system. In 1986, the pair formed a partnership with Larry Ryckman, a former Calgary real estate developer, and formed Archer Communications Inc.

"QSound" was patented in 1990, and the recording system was quickly embraced by music artists such as Pink Floyd, Sting, Madonna, INXS, Paula Abdul, Peter Gabriel, Phil Collins, Julian Lennon, Wilson Phillips and Luther Vandross, to name a few.

BQ: Yes I remember them, and I like the song. From the same album, 'Static' and 'Top Of The World' were also cool.

I still own the albums "Planet P" and "Pink World" on vinyl. His solo albums from the early 80's, "In the Absence of the Cat", "Tony Carey", and "Yellow Power" were pretty good too. I haven't heard them in years though...

Of course I loved his work with 'Rainbow' also :)

Edit -

A recommendation for you...

Tony Carey's replacement during the late 70's in 'Ritchie Blackmore's Rainbow' was Canadian keyboardist David Stone. If you enjoy Tony's "Planet P" stuff, I think you'd probably like David's work with the mid 70's Toronto prog band 'Symphonic Slam'. They also featured guitarist Timo Lane, who is credited as being the first to ever play a synthesizer guitar. Timo hooked up six separate synthesizers to his Les Paul guitar. Each string had its own synthesizer that could be set up separately. A really cool sounding album if you can find it. Must have been reissued on CD I would think.

Here's a couple tracks...

Modane Train:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j7nRGAmxtSs

&feature=related

Universe:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AIYPHh6GENQ

Answer 2

Hey now Child? I remember that oldie....it's an okay song & the video showing the dude being lost in space due to problems w/his ship. Pretty good for it's day :P

Tell Me Why - Neil Young

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ynlW5_rnRVE

Why Does Love Got To Be So Sad - Derek & the Dominos

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gaTkHCSGn1k

Answer 3

Tell Me Why (You Cry) - The Beatles

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B-W2mc5sWdU

Why Can'T We Be Friends - War

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WJTBPdVpdMc

Don't laugh but I love this song - "Close To You" - The Carpenters

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6inwzOooXRU

Don'T Know Why - Norah Jones

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tO4dxvguQDk

Answer 4

Van Halen of course!

Why Can't This Be Love!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_zuMu0r9XO0

Answer 5

The Rock by The Who BQ1: Classic BQ2: Indie

Answer 6

"Yesterday" by the Beatles

Yesterday

All my troubles seemed so far away

Now it looks as though they're here to stay

Oh, I believe

In yesterday

Suddenly

I'm not half the man I used to be

There's a shadow hanging over me

Oh, yesterday

Came suddenly

Why she

Had to go I don't know

She wouldn't say

I said

Something wrong now I long

For yesterday

Yesterday

Love was such an easy game to play

Now I need a place to hide away

Oh, I believe

In yesterday

Why she

Had to go I don't know

She wouldn't say

I said

Something wrong now I long

For yesterday

Yesterday

Love was such an easy game to play

Now I need a place to hide away

Oh, I believe

In yesterday

Why Do You Love Me - Garbage

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dcrv9nhH9iY

Why Do Fools Fall In Love - Frankie Lymon and the Teenagers

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q96ylFiQK_I

Answer 7

Good evening Problem Child :)

Why Don't You Kill Yourself? - The Only Ones

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NdV7iNxx83Y

BQ: Not heard that before, not really my cup of tea to be honest.

Answer 8

Tell Me Why - The Beatles:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zsc1vooM0rs

BQ: I haven't heard this in ages. I'd forgotten all about it.

Answer 9

ha ha I am hard of hearing so I always thought they were saying "Why, Why, Why Let it Ride"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j83xviHVmGg

really the song I remember the most is just called "Why" by Frankie Avalon

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TqjjUKu9t-8

I remember singing this to a girl on her birthday at Karaoke and she came up and sang it with me as a duet.

Answer 10

There's too many, I don't remember this song because I was born in the late 90's but I like it.