VH1 Greatest Rock Songs of ALL TIME

[elnutsmalljaws]

I recorded and have watched VH1's 100 Greatest Rock Songs of ALL TIME. It was 5 different 1 hour shows and took a couple of days to watch them all. It proves once again that Opinions are like Sphincter's, everybody has one and most of them STINK. Lynyrd Skynyrd's Freebird is #26 on the list just ahead of Whitesnake's Still of the Night and just behind The Ramones Blitzkrieg Bop. Jimi Hendrix, Hey Joe was #22. The number 1 Rock Song of ALL TIME, Welcome to the Jungle by Guns N Roses???? I like GNR, the original GNR, and think they could have been one of the best of all time if they stayed together but Welcome to the Jungle #1???? It beat out AC/DC, Back in Black at #2 and Led Zeppelin Whole Lotta Love at #3 and Black Sabbath Paranoid at #4. Welcome to the Jungle is a great song but take your pick with #2, #3, or #4 because each of these are better. I knew Freebird would be in the top 5 before I started watching and after it was so injustly put in at #26 I just about deleted them all but wanted to see the garbage to follow. Sort of like watching Nascar racing waiting for the car crashes. No way Freebird and Hey Joe are not in the top 10 and no way Welcome to the Jungle is #1.

[DJD]

Yeah that is crazy! Free Bird must be too old or the folks who decided were too young. Make you wonder what the criteria was??? Where were some of the Beatles and Stones??

[Bobby Headrick]

I agree elnut, I do not think welcome to the jungle should be #1. there are extremaly better songs out there, actually Rock around the Clock should be # 1 as it started rock and roll, lol lol. Free Bird, it was not really a big hit outside the south, but should be top 25 at least. I am a musican and it is hard for me to judge what should be the best song of all time, I dont feel that there is a best of all as all songs have different meanings for the musicans and the listener.

[elnutsmalljaws]

Yeah that is crazy! Free Bird must be too old or the folks who decided were too young. Make you wonder what the criteria was??? Where were some of the Beatles and Stones??

The Beatles and Stones were not in the top 40 that I can remember. There was no criteria. The put it on the net and over a million votes came in for their top 10 and the 100 list was comprised of all the votes. I don't think the folks that voted were too old because Sabbath, Judas Priest, Zeppelin, Kiss and other groups that were popular in the 70's and 80's were well represented. Not sure if people thought it was a given that Freebird would be there and did not vote or what.


For me:

Freebird, Lynyrd Skynyrd
Stairway to Heaven, Led Zeppelin
Hotel California, Eagles
Hey Jude, The Beatles
Another Brick in the Wall, Pink Floyd
Back in Black, AC/DC
Hey Joe, Jimi Hendrix
Won't Get Fooled Again, The Who
Sweet Home Alabama, Lynyrd Skynyrd
Tom Sawyer, Rush

in no particular oder and I probably could put a few others in if I thought about it a while.

[BassMasterMikeD]

Metallica Rules! lol

[elnutsmalljaws]

Metallica Rules! lol

Sandman is certainly in my top 20 songs of all time

[RoadToad]

It must have been some kind of poll of current VH1 viewers. If it had been based on radio play, Freebird would have to be in the top 5, if not #1, because when it came out it seemed like for months you heard nothing else.

[HURRICANEBOB]

Metallica Rules! lol

"Enter Sandman" Now that's head knocking! You want to drive mice out of your house? 500 watts of this song will do it!

[DJD]

Yeah it sounds jacked up. Oh well I guess its like any poll they can be made to report anything if needed. I would think sales would be one indicator of what was great.

[artcarney_agr]

Did "Strokin'" by Clarence Carter make the list? I love that song!

[elnutsmalljaws]

Did "Strokin'" by Clarence Carter make the list? I love that song!

I did not see. Here is the list. I just realized that The Beatles did not have a single song on the list. They must have just put every song ever written and put them in a hat and drew out a 100 of them because even the most tone deaf person in the world will have MANY Beatles songs in the top 100

http://music.spreadit.org/vh1-top-100-hard-rock-songs/

[Bobby Headrick]

If the heading is correct it is "hard rock songs", the Beatles do not fit in the hard rock genre. Neither does Pink Floyd, The Dead, the Eagles. I love the Beatles, they changed the face and sound of music, Probally the greatest band in music history as they were pioners of music, not mant could take a 4 track and record 62 tracks with it like they did with Sgt Pepper album, incredible.If it were not for the Beatles we would not have hard rock.