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10 jan. 2009, 22h15m

Recently I saw a small program aired on VH1 called something along the lines of the "100 Greatest Hard Rock Songs". Needless to say, as expected, their list was awful. I seriously threw up in my mouth after I finished watching the program. Witness the atrociousness for yourself with the below link:
The entire VH1 list can be found here.
My main problem with the list was Welcome to the Jungle hailing the #1 spot, and Def Leppard as well as Twisted Sister netting top 10 spots on the countdown. Absolutely embarrassing. Anyways VH1 made me so angry that I decided to make an ACTUAL top 100 Greatest Hard Rock Songs. You'll notice that my criteria of "hard rock" is very broad.

100-

Slow Ride-Foghat
99-Bang A Gong (Get It On)-T.Rex
98-Immigrant Song-Led Zeppelin
97-

Enter Sandman-Metallica
96-

Carry On Wayward Son-Kansas
95-

Beck's Bolero-Jeff Beck
94-Run to the Hills-Iron Maiden
93-

School's Out-Alice Cooper
92-

Come as You Are-Nirvana
91-

Brown Sugar-Rolling Stones
90-Seek & Destroy-Metallica
89-Another Brick in the Wall (Part 2)-Pink Floyd
88-Bullet With Butterfly Wings-Smashing Pumpkins
87-

Eruption/You Really Got Me-Van Halen
86-

Sharp Dressed Man-ZZ Top
85-

White Room-Cream
84-

Livin' On A Prayer-Bon Jovi
83-

Cult of Personality-Living Colour
82-

All Day and All of the Night-The Kinks
81-I Wanna Be Sedated-The Ramones
80-

Barracuda-Heart
79-

Surrender-Cheap Trick
78-Hey Joe-Jimi Hendrix
77-Alive-Pearl Jam
76-Heartbreaker-Led Zeppelin
75-

The Boys Are Back in Town-Thin Lizzy
74-21st Century Schizoid Man-King Crimson
73-You Shook Me All Night Long-AC/DC
72-

Rock And Roll All Nite-Kiss
71-

Any Way You Want It-Journey
70-

You Give Love a Bad Name-Bon Jovi
69-

Easy Livin'-Uriah Heep
68-No More Mr. Nice Guy-Alice Cooper
67-

Stone Cold Crazy-Queen
66-Helter Skelter-The Beatles
65-

Fire-Jimi Hendrix
64-

Another One Bites the Dust-Queen
63-Hot For Teacher-Van Halen
62-

More Than a Feeling-Boston
61-

Holy Diver-Dio
60-Don’t Fear The Reaper-Blue Oyster Cult
59-

Kick Out The Jams-MC5
58-

I Can See for Miles-The Who
57-

Search and Destroy-The Stooges
56-

Heart-Shaped Box-Nirvana
55-We’re an American Band-Grand Funk Railroad
54-London Calling-The Clash
53-

Ziggy Stardust-David Bowie
52-

The Number of the Beast-Iron Maiden
51-One-Metallica
50-Runnin’ With the Devil-Van Halen
49-

Pinball Wizard-The Who
48-Rock and Roll-Led Zeppelin
47-2112-Rush
46-Break on Through-The Doors
45-

Aqualung-Jethro Tull
44-

Welcome to the Jungle-Guns N' Roses
43-Blitzkreig Bop-Ramones
42-

Tom Sawyer-Rush
41-Black Dog-Led Zeppelin
40-You’ve Got Another Thing Coming-Judas Priest
39-

Child in Time-Deep Purple
38-

Ain't Talkin' 'Bout Love-Van Halen
37-

The Trooper-Iron Maiden
36-Panama-Van Halen
35-

Free Bird-Lynyrd Skynyrd
34-Master of Puppets-Metallica
33-Layla-Derek And The Dominoes
32-Highway To Hell-AC/DC
31-

Walk This Way-Aerosmith
30-

Paint It Black-Rolling Stones
29-Dazed and Confused-Led Zeppelin
28-

Anarchy In The UK-Sex Pistols
27-

Rock You Like a Hurricane-Scorpions
26-

Smells Like Teen Spirit-Nirvana
25-

Born to Be Wild-Steppenwolf
24-

All Along the Watchtower-Jimi Hendrix
23-

Crossroads-Cream
22-

Sweet Emotion-Aerosmith
21-We Will Rock You/We Are The Champions-Queen
20-

Ace Of Spades-Motorhead
19-

Iron Man-Black Sabbath
18-

Crazy Train-Ozzy Osbourne
17-Voodo Child (Slight Return)-Jimi Hendrix
16-Sweet Child O’ Mine-Guns N' Roses
15-

Smoke on the Water-Deep Purple
14-

Hallowed Be Thy Name-Iron Maiden
13-Back in Black-AC/DC
12-

Sunshine of Your Love-Cream
11-Kashmir-Led Zeppelin
10-Whole Lotta Love-Led Zeppelin
9-

My Generation-The Who
8-

Paranoid-Black Sabbath
7-

Bohemian Rhapsody-Queen
6-

Highway Star-Deep Purple
5-

War Pigs-Black Sabbath
4-

Purple Haze-Jimi Hendrix
3-Stairway to Heaven-Led Zeppelin
2-Won’t Get Fooled Again-The Who
1-

You Really Got Me-The Kinks

Commentaires

jirisimanovsky

is there any possibility to download? torrent rapid etc..? just send me a pm thanks

12 jan. 2009, 13h02m
DarkViperd00d

what?

12 jan. 2009, 19h22m
DarkViperd00d

Don't Fear the Reaper and Stairway to Heaven are both very much hard rock. Not as heavy as other songs on the list, but still are hard rock. BOC doesn't have any other songs that are top 100 caliber aside from maybe Burnin' for You and Godzilla.

13 jan. 2009, 20h19m
DarkViperd00d

Both songs still have a very heavy sound, though, so I consider them hard rock. Also you're just an extreme BOC fanboy. For instance, i'm an AC/DC fanboy, and they only managed to have 3 songs on my list despite my wanting to put more on it (for instance Thunderstruck and Hells Bells WERE both on there, but I replaced both with Beck's bolero and Slow Ride respectively as I felt both songs deserved spots on the list more). The same case is for BOC songs. Slow Ride is much greater and more important than anything else BOC recorded. Like I said Burnin' for You barely escaped making the list but got beat out by various other songs.

13 jan. 2009, 23h25m
Skuzzie

I don't really follow how your list would be endlessly better than VH1's. Sure, it has more of my fave's, but most artists appear in both lists. It's just that VH1 doesn't have videos for all those songs, so you can be pissed at VH1 all you want, but their hands are kindof tied.

14 jan. 2009, 14h28m
apleasant2011

the VH1 list was fucking bullishit. This one actually is good.

19 jan. 2009, 17h04m
sidewinderrt10

This list is pretty horrible actually, sure I like some of these bands, but you're not giving enough credit to any of the 5 greatest rock bands. Yes, Led Zeppelin should be in the top 3, but for Stairway? Come on man... Maybe for Kashmir or Immigrant Song. And how is Achilles Last Stand not on this list whatsoever? I also agree that Welcome to the Jungle shouldn't be on the top, but GNR is another of the greatest hard rock bands, and should have a song in the top 3 as well. Civil War should be at the top of the list IMO, but that's just my opinion right. Either Hells Bells or Back in Black should round out the top 3, then Voodoo Child (Slight Return), not Purple Haze, at 4, and the original Stones version of Sympathy for the Devil at number 5. Now that's some hard rock for you.

31 jan. 2009, 14h25m
sidewinderrt10

By the way, if you think BÖC doesn't have anything else worthy of the top 100 list, you must not have heard The Red and The Black. And I missed Black Dog when I was mentioning the Zep songs that should get a top 3 spot over Stairway, and also just noticed that Ram Jam's Black Betty is nowhere on this list. A list of the greatest rock songs without Black Betty anywhere on it isn't much of a list IMO.

31 jan. 2009, 14h34m
super_ruben09

Number one was sort of an anticlimax, but the list overall was pretty good.

5 fév. 2009, 21h01m
RettAlexis

Yeah, No.1 was a surprise, great song but I don't think You Really Got Me is hard rock at all! I think there are quite a few songs that aren't [or maybe we just have different definitions of hard rock] but it's still an awesome rockin' list! Nice variety of bands - beatles to pistols to clash to nirvana =)

21 fév. 2009, 3h10m
pclansman

I have seen several of these lists, and cannot help but wonder if people who have the compulsion to post lists are not a bit off their nut. How, I repeat, how can a Hard Rock list not include Soundgarden and Tool? This list is more like a Top 100 Hard Rock Songs That Were Played On The Radio A Lot And I Get Nostalgic About list.

26 fév. 2009, 13h38m
guntharion

Tool is metal, right? (for DarkViperd00d) And yeah, lists will always have pro's and cons... There is no perfect one. And i bet VH1 didnt take into account the taste of die hard hard rock fans, they just adapt their list to match it with the taste of all the sheep.

10 avr. 2009, 4h43m
bibliophile_95

i may be a little out of my league here by not actually being born in the time period, and by preferring classic rock, but i really don't think this list is a very good representation of hard rock

1 juin 2009, 22h49m

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