40 Greatest Metal Songs.

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Calihan

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I was channel surfing at 1:30am and saw the end of this list, me being a metal fan went on to the VH1 website and found the entire list.

#40 Breaking the Law: Judas Priest

#39 I'm Eighteen: Alice Cooper

#38 Balls to the Wall: Accept

#37 Smoke on the Water: Deep Purple

#36 Wait and Bleed: Slipknot

#35 Metal Health: Quiet Riot

#34 Paranoid: Black Sabbath

#33 High 'N' Dry (Saturday Night): Def Leppard

#32 Thunder Kiss '65: White Zombie

#31 Rock You Like a Hurricane: Scorpions

#30 Epic: Faith No More

#29 Caught in a Mosh: Anthrax

#28 The Beautiful People: Marilyn Manson

#27 Run to the Hills: Iron Maiden

#26 Refuse/Resist: Sepultura

#25 Cowboys From Hell: Pantera

#24 Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap: AC/DC

#23 Freak on a Leash: Korn

#22 Enter Sandman: Metallica

#21 Paradise City: Guns N' Roses

#20 I Wanna Rock: Twisted Sister

#19 Man in the Box: Alice in Chains

#18 Slave to the Grind: Skid Row

#17 Live Wire [Kick Ass '91 Remix] [Mix]: Mötley Crüe

#16 Walk: Pantera

#15 Bulls on Parade: Rage Against the Machine

#14 Toxicity: System of a Down

#13 Rainbow in the Dark: Dio

#12 Bring the Noise: Anthrax

#11 Peace Sells: Megadeth

#10 Ace of Spades: Motörhead

#9 Crazy Train: Ozzy Osbourne

#8 Raining Blood: Slayer

#7 The Number of the Beast: Iron Maiden

#6 Detroit Rock City: Kiss

#5 You've Got Another Thing Comin': Judas Priest

#4 Back in Black : AC/DC

#3 Master of Puppets: Metallica

#2 Welcome to the Jungle: Guns N' Roses

#1 Iron Man: Black Sabbath

What‘s your opinion about the lsit would you say it‘s pretty accurate, not at all accurate or somewhat accurate.

Personally, I don’t think Alice Cooper should be considered metal, he’s a good artist but not consistently hard enough to be considered metal.
 
Deep Purple? Huh, I had them always listed under rock, not metal. Oh well.
Ah, the list seems quite accurate. Though I wish "She's Like Heroin" or "Violent Pornography" was up there, by System of a Down. And, must admit, I thought "Paranoid" by Black Sabbath would be higher on the list, but it all seems fair.

Although, "Welcome to the Jungle" by Guns 'N Roses does makes me raise an eyebrow. I guess because I've never considered them Metal...
 
I agree with Deep Purple, but a lot of people consider them to be metal.

As for Guns N Roses being considered metal, it really depends on the album. I don't think that Appetite for Destruction is metal, the Use Your Illusion albums are wothout a doubt metal. I'm not sure whether G'N'R Lies would be considered metal or rock, the first half is metal but the second half is accoustic. Finally we get to The Spaghetti Incident, I don't even know what you would call this album, it's so bad I can hardly listen to it.
 
Personally, I don’t think Alice Cooper should be considered metal, he’s a good artist but not consistently hard enough to be considered metal.
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As much as i adore Alice Cooper, i might have to agree. Although i do think songs like Brutal Planet and Feed My Frankenstein are heavier and could be considered metal. Most of his early stuff i would consider rock, not metal. He's still amazing though, and i'm glad to see him on this list. :D
 
I only have this Alice Cooper compilation, what albums of his do you recomend for the best stuff of his.

I just thought of a couple things that should have made the list:

1. We're Not Gonna Take It by Twisted Sister
2. Early Aerosmith is great metal as well.
 
needmorecsi said:
I agree with Deep Purple, but a lot of people consider them to be metal.

As for Guns N Roses being considered metal, it really depends on the album. I don't think that Appetite for Destruction is metal, the Use Your Illusion albums are wothout a doubt metal. I'm not sure whether G'N'R Lies would be considered metal or rock, the first half is metal but the second half is accoustic. Finally we get to The Spaghetti Incident, I don't even know what you would call this album, it's so bad I can hardly listen to it.
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I dont think that Gun N'Roses could accurately be called metal, Gun N'Roses are much too quiet for it to be considered metal, if at most, they're hard rock but that's the maximum they could be considered as. I dont think you can even call yourself a metal fan, just a hard rock fan judging from what I know of you. :rolleyes:

What god, what gave you the idea that Aerosmith was even metal?! :p Only a few songs on the list could even be called metal...anyway. :p


IF YOUR NOT INTO METAL..YOU ARE NOT MY FRIEND..
WIMPS AND POSER...LEAVE THE HALLLLLL
HEAVY METAL, OR NO METAL AT ALLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLL
 
Mostly what kazzy said.

Paranoid should have got higher :rolleyes:

Not metal bands: Deep Purple, Alice Cooper, Scorpions
and LMFAO for Aerosmith being metal! Almost Mountain Dew came out of my nose!
Go to Scorpions website and read their history. It's not metal, it's hard rock.

Where were these songs?
Iron Maiden: Aces High, The Trooper
AC/DC: Hard as a Rock, Thunder

There's a few bands I hate (Korn, Slipknot) and I'm more into Nordic metal (because that's where we are the best ;) ) of course not forgetting that Iron Maiden simply kicks ass. Same with Metallica.
 
Deep Purple are/were old school metal - leaning on a lot of outside influences like blues and classical. The metal of the 70's sounds nothing like the metal happening now. In the 70's I was into DP, Black Sabbath, Uriah Heep...in the 80's metal got a little shiny-happy-commercial for my tastes (ironic, since I later worked for Dokken :lol: ) but metal, like all forms of music that survive, from folk to classical to jazz to rap, evolves.

I agree about "The Trooper" though. A band my husband used to be in covered that once. One of my faves. :cool:
 
korbjaeger said:
I agree about "The Trooper" though. A band my husband used to be in covered that once.
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What band was he in.

I thought of another song that should have been on the list. I can't believe they left off In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida. That song was the first heavy metal song.

What's the actual difference betwwen hard rock and heavy metal. I always learned that there was no difference, and we only got the phrase heavy metal from the song Born To Be Wild.
 
What band was he in.
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A Sacramento-based band called Glitched.

I've heard musicologists differ on what was the "first" metal song. One said he felt that "You Really Got Me" by the Kinks was it because of the use of artificially induced distortion over a traditional blues base. I don't know if that's an accurate barometer of genre, but it shows that even the "experts" (and not just us folks who spend our lives playing it) don't always agree on the lines between hard rock, metal, and even punk. Take Guns & Roses, Poison and Jet. All hard rock (metal in the opinions of some fans, not necessarily mine) bands with significant punk influence - so where do you pigeonhole them? Body Count is constantly referred to as a "rap" band because Ice-T is their lead singer. In actual fact they're punk-metal, and Ice sings as much as he raps in that band. Let's use an extreme example - Level 42? Metal guitarist, jazz drummer, funk bassist and classical keyboardist - I think everyone gave up on categorizing those guys. :lol: Who dictates the criteria? To me it comes down to influence, as long as you're second-generation on down, and fan base overlay. Yes, that's vague. I admit it. But the whole "Quien es mas metal/punk?" arguments have been raging for years and will be raging after we've all gone on to the Big Mosh Pit In The Sky (or points much further south, depending on your preference...:devil:).

To quote a well-known non-metal band, "It's evolution, baby!" Adapt and survive. And music always has.
 
It is difficult. Just like some people say it was Black Sabbath that created heavy metal.

Good example our lovely Eurovision winner Lordi. Some say it's heavy metal, some (like me) say it's hard rock (or then "monster rock")
 
Some of them totally aren't metal, like other people have stated, but that's a list of great classic tunes right there!
 
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