Vh1's Top 100 Hard Rock Songs of All Time
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Topic: Vh1's Top 100 Hard Rock Songs of All Time
Posted By: Kestrel
Subject: Vh1's Top 100 Hard Rock Songs of All Time
Date Posted: January 03 2009 at 13:09
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Bolded songs of interest: 100. Sammy Hagar - I Can’t Drive 55 99. Grand Funk Railroad - We’re an American Band 97. The Edgar Winter Group - Frankenstein 96. Kansas - Carry on Wayward Son 95. Creed - Higher 94. The Darkness - I Believe in a Thing Called Love 93. Autograph - Turn Up the Radio 92. Night Ranger - Don’t Tell Me You Love Me 91. Smashing Pumpkins - Bullet with Butterfly Wings 90. Jethro Tull - Aqualung 89. Andrew W.K. - Party Hard 88. Alice in Chains - Would? 87. Winger - Seventeen 86. Marilyn Manson - The Beautiful People 85. Velvet Revolver - Slither 84. W.A.S.P. - I Wanna Be Somebody 83. Evanescence - Bring Me to Life 82. Rainbow - Since You Been Gone 81. Black Sabbath - Heaven and Hell 80. Journey - Any Way You Want It 79. Billy Idol - Rebel Yell 78. Bad Company - Feel Like Making Love 77. Soundgarden - Black Hole Sun 76. Lita Ford - Kiss Me Deadly 75. The White Stripes - Seven Nation Army 74. The Cult - Love Removal Machine 73. Thin Lizzy - Jailbreak 72. Pat Benetar - Heartbreaker 71. Jane’s Addiction - Mountain Song 70. Foreigner - Hot Blooded 69. Living Colour - Cult of Personality 68. White Zombie - More Human Than Human 67. ZZ Top - Tush 66. Europe - The Final Countdown 65. MC5 - Kick Out the Jams 64. Rollins Band - Liar 63. Survivor - Eye of the Tiger 62. Dokken - Breaking the Chains 61. Ratt - Round and Round 60. Skid Row - 18 and Life 59. Billy Squier - The Stroke 58. Stone Temple Pilots - Interstate Love Song 57. The Kinks - You Really Got Me 56. Warrant - Cherry Pie 55. Blue Oyster Cult - Don’t Fear the Reaper 54. Faith No More - Epic 53. Steppenwolf - Born to Be Wild 52. The Runaways - Cherry Bomb 51. Megadeth - Peace Sells 50. Red Hot Chili Peppers - Give It Away 49. Iggy and the Stooges - Search and Destroy 48. Korn - Freak on a Leash 47. Kid Rock - Bawitdaba 46. Anthrax - Madhouse 45. Foghat - Slow Ride 44. Cream - Sunshine of Your Love 43. Dio - Holy Diver 42. The Clash - Should I Stay or Should I Go 41. Quiet Riot - Cum on Feel the Noize 40. Talk Dirty To Me – Poison 39. More Than A Feeling – Boston 38. Stone Cold Crazy – Queen 37. My Generation – The Who 36. Hot For Teacher - Van Halen 33. School’s Out - Alice Cooper 34. Barracuda - Heart 33. Basket Case - Green Day 32. Cat Scratch Fever - Ted Nugent 31. Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap - AC/DC 30. Even Flow - Pearl Jam 29. Bad Reputation - Joan Jett 28. Everlong - Foo Fighters 27. Still of the Night - Whitesnake 26. Free Bird - Lynyrd Skynyrd 25. Blitzkrieg Bop - The Ramones 24. In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida - Iron Butterfly 23. Crazy Train - Ozzy Osbourne 22. Hey Joe - Jimi Hendrix Experience 21. Kashmir - Led Zeppelin 20. You Give Love a Bad Name – Bon Jovi 19. Tom Sawyer – Rush 18. Rock You Like a Hurricane – Scorpions 17. I Wanna Rock – Twisted Sister 16. Rock and Roll All Nite – Kiss 15. Dr. Feelgood – Motley Crue 14. Run To The Hills – Iron Maiden 13. Photograph – Def Leppard 12. Breaking the Law – Judas Priest 11. Smoke on the Water – Deep Purple 10. Ace of Spades – Motorhead 9. Runnin With the Devil – Van Halen 8. Walk This Way – Aerosmith 7. Smells Like Teen Spirit – Nirvana 6. Won’t Get Fooled Again – The Who 5. Enter Sandman – Metallica 4. Paranoid – Black Sabbath 3. Whole Lotta Love - Led Zeppelin 2. Back in Black - AC/DC 1. Welcome to the Jungle - Guns N’ Roses Anyone else think this list is just terrible? Back in Black #2? Really? I also think that with a few of these bands, they could have chosen better songs. Walk this Way? Runnin with the Devil? Enter Sandman? Not sure what they were thinking. |
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Posted By: DJPuffyLemon
Date Posted: January 03 2009 at 13:42
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Hmm, well almost all these songs are songs I've heard....so potentially by top 100 they mean top 100 popular songs, at the same time, all these songs do rock a lot...even The Final Countdown, which is cheesy as hell but a fun song. Only differences I would make would be: Rock and Roll all nite by kiss....that song is horrible, move it to like number 102. And definately change enter sandman to something off master of puppets.
But yay GNR number 1, i'm cool with that.
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Posted By: Abstrakt
Date Posted: January 03 2009 at 13:56
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Quite alot of good or atleast decent songs here. But where's "War Pigs", "Dazed & Confused", "Stargazer", "Child in Time" and alot of other even BETTER ones??? 96. Kansas - Carry on Wayward Son 90. Jethro Tull - Aqualung 82. Rainbow - Since You Been Gone 81. Black Sabbath - Heaven and Hell 73. Thin Lizzy - Jailbreak 55. Blue Oyster Cult - Don’t Fear the Reaper 51. Megadeth - Peace Sells 50. Red Hot Chili Peppers - Give It Away 43. Dio - Holy Diver 39. More Than A Feeling – Boston 33. School’s Out - Alice Cooper 31. Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap - AC/DC 24. In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida - Iron Butterfly 22. Hey Joe - Jimi Hendrix Experience 21. Kashmir - Led Zeppelin 19. Tom Sawyer – Rush 14. Run To The Hills – Iron Maiden 12. Breaking the Law – Judas Priest 11. Smoke on the Water – Deep Purple 6. Won’t Get Fooled Again – The Who 5. Enter Sandman – Metallica 4. Paranoid – Black Sabbath 3. Whole Lotta Love - Led Zeppelin But stuff like The Darkness, The Clash, Kid Rock... Come on! |
Posted By: rushfan4
Date Posted: January 03 2009 at 14:13
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It is a pretty decent list, although my list would probably be quite different since it would have a lot more Rush in it. I guess that heavy metal and punk rock are both grouped in as part of hard rock for these purposes.
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Posted By: manofmystery
Date Posted: January 03 2009 at 14:44
this is VH1 we're talking about, they had The Final Countdown on there for god's sake. I believe they themselves named that the Worst Metal Song of all time, so what is it VH1? Terrible metal (correct answer) or great hard rock? They did have a Greatest Artists of Hard Rock list a few years back that was tolerable, for the most part. -------------  Time always wins. |
Abstrakt wrote:Posted By: jammun
Date Posted: January 03 2009 at 15:18
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Very lame. I mean, it's an okay list, but we could pick equivalent or better tracks from each band represented. |
Posted By: Raff
Date Posted: January 03 2009 at 15:47
"Welcome to the Jungle" # 1? And "Smoke on the Water" only # 11? Lame doesn't even begin to describe it  .... And since when are Nirvana hard rock?!?
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Posted By: micky
Date Posted: January 03 2009 at 15:52
Nirvana rocks sista...  smoke on the water #11....that is THE rock riff like of ALL time... at least Classic Rock magazine isn't the only media outlet sucking off 'GnR'. speaking of that... I wonder just how that new album is? ------------- The Pedro and Micky Experience - When one no longer requires psychotropics to trip |
Posted By: Slartibartfast
Date Posted: January 03 2009 at 16:03
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That's nice, VH1 is one of those channels I mostly just surf through.
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Posted By: micky
Date Posted: January 03 2009 at 16:09
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if it weren't for 'I love the 80's' I wouldn't know or care about VH1 either...
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Posted By: Kestrel
Date Posted: January 03 2009 at 17:24
| The list does illustrate how terrible a label such as "hard rock" is. It does not really tell you much about the song other that it has some heavy guitar (and even that isn't always the case like in More than a Feeling). The list comprises classic blues rock, hair metal, grunge, metal (itself a vague term but I'm not familiar enough with the listed bands outside Metallica and Megadeth), and punk (also a vague term). Oh well. |
Posted By: DJPuffyLemon
Date Posted: January 03 2009 at 17:49
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Posted By: Equality 7-2521
Date Posted: January 03 2009 at 19:17
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I stopped watching when after I saw Andrew W.K. placed a spot higher than Aqualung. ------------- "One had to be a Newton to notice that the moon is falling, when everyone sees that it doesn't fall. " |
Posted By: jimmy_row
Date Posted: January 03 2009 at 20:28
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Posted By: Queen By-Tor
Date Posted: January 03 2009 at 20:44
| People still watch Vh1, MTV and MuchMusic?? I thought those channels were reserved for sh*tty reality shows based on burnt out rockstars and slut-machines. |
Posted By: AlbertMond
Date Posted: January 03 2009 at 23:53
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I agree. In fact, I'll collect some I think shouldn't qualify and list them here:
98. Buckcherry - Lit Up (I haven't heard this song, but the stuff I've heard by Buckcherry was rather wishy-washy)
95. Creed - Higher (Lol)
86. Marilyn Manson - The Beautiful People (Tee hee)
83. Evanescence - Bring Me to Life (Dear God, no!)
56. Warrant - Cherry Pie (Ew)
*48. Korn - Freak on a Leash
*47. Kid Rock - Bawitdaba (These two Clowns above Blue Oyster Cult, GFR, and the Kinks?) 41. Quiet Riot - Cum on Feel the Noize (This wasn't even an original song. Why isn't The Slade original on here?)
16. Rock and Roll All Nite – Kiss (Meh...)
7. Smells Like Teen Spirit – Nirvana (Way too high. Not even Nirvana's best song)
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Posted By: A Person
Date Posted: January 04 2009 at 00:29
I wouldn't have considered all of those bands as hard rock,  but even if I did I wouldn't be able to take any list seriously that puts Blue Öyster Cult only 55th. |
Posted By: manofmystery
Date Posted: January 04 2009 at 00:31
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how come everyone seems to like Nirvana's version of More Than A Feeling better than Boston's? ------------- Time always wins. |
Posted By: Queen By-Tor
Date Posted: January 04 2009 at 00:37
AMEN BROTHA!! Black Blade for #1!!  |
Posted By: moreitsythanyou
Date Posted: January 04 2009 at 00:45
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Why are the White Stripes on this list at all. A better question is, why so low? And I don't think they could have picked a worse song for #1. Really, that thing is atrocious. -------------  <font color=white>butts, lol[/COLOR] |
Posted By: topofsm
Date Posted: January 04 2009 at 01:59
I just love the fact that a cheesy song like "You give love a bad name" is a spot above "Kashmir". Did people actually vote on this list? -------------  |
Posted By: Queen By-Tor
Date Posted: January 04 2009 at 02:02
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Posted By: progrules
Date Posted: January 04 2009 at 02:32
This would be more or less my selection. But then again: where's Jump/Ain't talkin' about love by Van Halen, or Let there be rock by AC/DC or Here Again by Rush
 , or Elected/Halo of Flies by Alice Cooper or Wasted Years by Iron Maiden or The eagle has landed by Saxon or Rock you to the ground by MSG or Rock Bottom by UFO ?????Indeed, what kind of list is this ? One half is ok/justified, the other half foolish and off the mark.
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Posted By: moreitsythanyou
Date Posted: January 04 2009 at 03:01
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Posted By: Chicapah
Date Posted: January 04 2009 at 09:47
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After watching most of that farce I have come to the conclusion that it has as much relevance to reality as the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Seriously, The Who's "Baba O'Riley" isn't even included? Give me a frakkin' break already! ------------- "Literature is well enough, as a time-passer, and for the improvement and general elevation and purification of mankind, but it has no practical value" - Mark Twain |
Posted By: Raff
Date Posted: January 04 2009 at 10:18
YES!!!!!! |
Posted By: Queen By-Tor
Date Posted: January 04 2009 at 12:02
They probably tried to add it as "Teenage Wasteland" but gave up when their editor told them that no such song existed |
Posted By: debrewguy
Date Posted: January 04 2009 at 13:21
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First - Hard Rock Songs. And just as non-prog groups can have a prog song in their repertoire, punk, grunge, heck even country bands can have a hard rock song. Two - with the change in generations, why would it be surprising that GnR's Welcome to the Jungle surpassed Smoke on the Water ? Time will tell which one ends up on top, or gets passed over by another song. And at the moment, I hear more guitar players playing that riff than Smoke on the Water. And as with all these lamenting threads (oh my, they got it quite wrong from what me & my friend (no "s") know to be true), it seems like the majority opinion, which includes the unwashed hoi polloi who are not proggers, is dismissed. The list seems quite accurate if you were to do a poll among hard rock music fans, as opposed to say , corporate country fans. And while arguements could be made as to why these songs are on, well ... they do merit inclusion, if only in the debate, eh. ------------- "Here I am talking to some of the smartest people in the world and I didn't even notice,” Lieutenant Columbo, episode The Bye-Bye Sky-High I.Q. Murder Case. |
Posted By: topofsm
Date Posted: January 04 2009 at 14:45
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WTF Bawidaba? People listen to that sh*t? Even the people at my school who listen to the pop radio hate it. ------------- |
Posted By: AlbertMond
Date Posted: January 05 2009 at 09:04
I think it sounds even more like BOC's Godzilla.
In fact:
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=kArQER5lIjg&feature=channel_page - http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=kArQER5lIjg&feature=channel_page ------------- Promotion so blatant that it's sad:
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Posted By: omri
Date Posted: January 06 2009 at 11:58
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That what happens when you make lists !
I don't know all of them but those I know I would choose quite differently . For example :
Deep purple - April, Blind and Child in time are much better songs than SOTW IMO.
Alice Cooper - 18, Desperado, What have I got, Milion dollar babies and Nobody likes me I prefer on School's out.
Nirvana - I do think they are hard rock but I much prefer "Something un the way" or even Lithium.
I can go on like that forever. Just remember they are still much better than MTV. ------------- omri |
Posted By: Philéas
Date Posted: January 06 2009 at 13:48
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Atrocious list. But I'm not really surprised (except maybe by my own reaction... I knew it would be this way so I shouldn't be upset). It's mostly just a list of hits, which shows how little effort these people really put into the making of it. Yes, hits can be "genre defining" or whatever, but there are many, many choices that could have been omitted. If the authors actually bothered listening thoroughly to the albums the hits are on, instead of just looking at the videos in their archives, the list could have been much better. There's too much stuff in there that isn't particularly interesting, neither in terms of quality nor historical significance. Their definition of hard rock is also questionable. So Green Day are hard rock now, are they? The choice of song would be appropriate in the context, but the band itself isn't. There are many more examples of this type of "faulty inclusion" (for lack of a better term). They've thrown in too much punk and metal in the list, and that alone shatters its credibility, even if one doesn't go into detail looking at the choice of songs. The inclusion of punk and metal would have been acceptable if the people responsible strived to make a "100 greatest rock songs" list, however the title says they've been focusing specifically on the hard rock subgenre, rendering non-hard rock bands/songs inappropriate for inclusion. If allmusic or some decent paper did a list like this, it would probably be better. VH1 in general is not worth bothering with, much less any kind of "greatest" list they turn out. [/rant] |
Posted By: AlbertMond
Date Posted: January 06 2009 at 15:14
Metal's a subgenre of Hard Rock. Supposedly Punk and Grunge aren't, though. I've actually read different opinions on whether or not they are... both coming from the Wiki article on Hard Rock. Guessing they're battling amongst themselves over it. ------------- Promotion so blatant that it's sad:
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Posted By: Philéas
Date Posted: January 06 2009 at 15:42
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Personally I don't trust wiki with music classification. I prefer sites like allmusic.com. In my opinion, metal is more of a parallell genre of hard rock. Early on they were pretty much two words for the same stuff, but metal developed into something else that's very easy to distinguish from hard rock. Grunge, I'd say, is the subgenre of the hard rock. It sounds much more like hard rock than most metal does. |
Posted By: CPicard
Date Posted: January 06 2009 at 16:13
| Too much american for me. Not enough english or french bands. |
Posted By: topofsm
Date Posted: January 06 2009 at 19:30
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Hmm, I've always thought that there's sort of a line between rock and metal, and the heavier you go on that line towards metal the harder your rock was. At about the halfway point, the rock turns into hard rock, and anything past that is hard rock. That includes grunge and metal, but not punk.
However some people don't associate metal with rock at all. But whatever floats your boat. ------------- |
Posted By: Conor Fynes
Date Posted: August 21 2009 at 03:54
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Hmm... yuck.
We all have our own opinions.. It's silly for someone to make a definitive list.
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