VH1's 100 Greatest Hard Rock Songs part 1

oh shit, there are some fantastic songs here

yeah there's a bunch

ZZ Top, Andrew WK, Kinks, Billy Squier, MC5, Ratt, Megadeth, Steppenwolf = all q

quality!

82 Rainbow - "Since You Been Gone"

^weird rainbow choice

kansas obv

Started a list of songs I would rep for, got tl;dr. Assume Zep and AC/DC make the top 50.

Buckcherry is live in Rochester, NY!

actually I might vote for stp

Wow there is a lot of garbage on this list too.

on the Rainbow song, see the following thread: it's the most important poll ever

Since You've Been Polled

Wow there is a lot of garbage on this list too.

well yeah, but wait until you see the top 50

anyway I voted for "Tush", a song that rocks me so hard it makes me sweat

I swing to the left
I swing to the right
When I think about baseball
I swing all night

i mean that rainbow song is aight and all, in an 80s AOR kinda way, but it's not really prime era rainbow and how you gonna fuck around and diss "man on the silver mountain"?

xpost gives new meaning to the term "hard rock" amirite?

how you gonna fuck around and diss "man on the silver mountain"?

^Or "Stargazer

You look so fine!
Let me lay it on the line!
I wanna know
What you're doin' after the show!!!

Are you old enough???
Will you be ready when I call your bluff???

With "Feel Like Makin' Love" a close, close second.

how exactly is "you really got me" hard rock?

Van Halen covered it

also, it's hard rock because the fucking song invents hard rock.

"Lit Up" by Buckcherry feels like the last great hard rock song.

That Lita Ford song always feel tokenish when I watch VH1 classic rebroadcast this. It ain't no big thing. Probably because I never heard it on the radio.

Going with "Peace Sells," but why are Winger, Night Ranger and Autograph on this list???

http://www.mtv.com/onair/beavisandbutthead/images/flipbooks/meet_cast/stewart/stew3.jpg

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

97 The Edgar Winter Group - "Frankenstein"
96 Kansas - "Carry On Wayward Son"
90 Jethro Tull - "Aqualung"
84 W.A.S.P. - "I Wanna Be Somebody"
81 Black Sabbath - "Heaven And Hell"
75 The White Stripes - "Seven Nation Army"
73 Thin Lizzy - "Jailbreak"
72 Pat Benetar - "Heartbreaker"
65 MC5 - "Kick Out the Jams"
61 Ratt - "Round And Round"
59 Billy Squier - "The Stroke"
57 The Kinks - "You Really Got Me"
55 Blue Oyster Cult - "Don't Fear The Reaper"
53 Steppenwolf - "Born To Be Wild"
52 The Runaways - "Cherry Bomb"
51 Megadeth - "Peace Sells"

could go for any of these on the right day, but i think im going to underdog it and vote for W.A.S.P.

any votes for Evanescence are going to bring out my inner alex in NYC btw

oh shit, I registered 20 sockpuppets to vote for Evanescence

i will be sure to send an attribution to VH1 so that they can interview you when the ILX poll results bump it into the top 5 next time around

The Darkness - "I Believe In A Thing Called Love"

I liked the Darkness but this song was shit. And not really hard rock.

Andrew W.K. - "Party Hard"

This is like making favorable note of a venereal wart.

Rainbow - "Since You Been Gone"

Rainbow didn't even write this and they weren't the only ones to make it a hit. It's a Russ Ballard evergreen. If one is going to pick a 'pop song' from Rainbow, one would go for "Can't Happen Here" or, much more likely, "Man On a Silver Mountain."

Jeezus.

how you gonna fuck around and diss "man on the silver mountain"

What Bill said.

Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.

boo

Pointless kvetching about the VH1 list as both poll threads are now deader than dead since the polls closed: the most egregious omissions, in my opinion, are “Mississippi Queen” by Mountain, “All Right Now” by Free and “Rebel Rebel” (or “Suffragette City”, if not both) by David Bowie. Whoever was involved drawing up the VH1 list doesn’t seem to have listened to that much AOR in the Seventies or to very much classic rock radio in the present day. I didn’t see any Mott the Hoople or T-Rex on VH1 last either. I can’t believe that any of these groups are less worthy of inclusion than the Runaways, Autograph or Andrew W.K.

OH fuck yes the W.K. is now a triumph one yet another level.

Truth be told, I listened to the Andrew WK tune that won this poll on youtube and really dug it.