I recently viewed VH1s Top Greatest Hard Rock Songs. I loved it. Great interviews. Great "where are they now" and best of all - updated. As for he list itself, I was pretty impressed. There were a few hit and misses:
Misses:
1. #100 Sammy Hagar: I can't drive 55. - There's only one way to rock! Come on.
2. #96 Kansas: Carry On Wayward Son - Top 10 worst songs ever.
3. #90 Jethro Tull: Aqualung - After Metallica getting dished????
4. #63 Survivor: Eye of the Tiger - No Rocky Songs Please
5. #40 Poison: Talk Dirty to Me - No Pop Metal or Poison (which I'll get to later)
6. #89 Journey: Any Way You Want It - Love Journey, wrong list
Hidden Gems:
1. #54 Faith No More: Epic - a song that started the whole Metal/Rap. There were made fun of at the time.
2. #34 Heart: Barracuda - Glad to see the early Heart here.
3. #52 The Runnaways: Cherry Bomb
4. #49 Iggy Pop: Search and Destroy
5. #44 Cream: Sunshine of your love
As for the top 10, I also enjoyed. I'm not sure i would have put Welcome to the Jungle at #1. I would have dropped them down to 6 or 7. You could have put all 10 in a bag and shake them up and any order would have been fine. My personal #1 Paranoid.
Now for the only thing I didn't like at all.....Bret Michaels as host. Shameless promotions for his new release. Or his t-shirt that said "Bret Michaels Rock On". He thinks he's more popular than he really was. Like he was Robert Plant or David Lee Roth or even Vince Neil.
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
1 comment:
overall wasn't a bad list. dont wanna talk about the tull song and soo the wrong list for journey, you're right on those two. I'm not sure that bret and his boys belong on the list (hard for me to admit) either – but i'm not sure what list they'd go on other than the 'flat out fun' list.
now - your hidden gems... 100% right on. barracuda is fantastic and faith no more - flat out rocked hard.
others that wouldnt be on my list:
#89 - andrew wk - party hard
#39 - boston - more than a feeling
#95 - creed - higher
#91 - pumpkins - bullet with butterfly wings
#05 - metallica - enter sandman
glad to see included:
#88 - aic - would?
#86 - marilyn manson - beautiful people
#73 - thin lizzy - jailbreak
#64 - rollins - liar
#46 - anthrax - madhouse
i liked the fact that they have some that they picked some of the deep cuts off albums, not the main radio pick. some like zombie, metallica, korn and living colour i would have liked to see a different tune picked.
other notes: can't ever listen to final countdown after the youtube clip, crazy train still f'n rocks, billy squire needs to go away and if you havent listened to alice in chains' entire catalog - you should.
Post a Comment