11. Stairway to Heaven — Led Zeppelin (1971)
The rock genre wouldn’t be complete without including this beautiful track. Over eight minutes in totality, the braintrust of Robert Plant, Jimmy Page, John Paul Jones, and John Bonham crafted something with orchestral elements — all the while staying true to the rock genre. The varying degrees of difficulty are presented quite boldly. The song unabashedly transitions between a fast tempo and one rooted in utter sorry. In a word, phenomenal.