Vh1’s Top 100 Hard Rock Songs vs.. Your Favorites: A Rock Poll

VH1′S LIST

This list might get old but since the idea is to cover all hard songs, from past to present, the list is not exactly going out of fashion. Surely this list (voted by VH1 viewers, most possibly) includes solid classics and any rock fanatic can find at least a couple of songs thay like. The problem with the list, however is that the term has been used very loosely. After all, Soundgarden and Niravana are grunge bands. Pat Benatar is more pop-rock than just rock.  Poison is a glam rock band and even though they have really decent hard rock songs, talk dirty to me is not hard by any means. So let’s call the list VH1 top 100 rock songs instead.

Who’re your favorites from the list? Do you think some songs have been left out? Do you think wrong songs have been chosen from some artists? What would you leave out? What would you add? I am tempted to make my own list but I want to know what you think first.

100. Sammy Hagar – I Can’t Drive 55  
99. Grand Funk Railroad – We’re an American Band
98. Buckcherry – Lit Up  
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