VH1 List Greatest Metal Song of All Time Top 10

[kutulu 1,660]

The top 10 greatest metal songs of all time are:

 

01. BLACK SABBATH - "Iron Man" (1971)

02. GUNS N' ROSES - "Welcome to the Jungle" (1987)

03. METALLICA - "Master of Puppets" (1986)

04. AC/DC - "Back in Black" (1980)

05. JUDAS PRIEST - "You've Got Another Thing Coming" (1982)

06. KISS - 'Detroit Rock City" (1976)

07. IRON MAIDEN - "The Number of the Beast" (1982)

08. SLAYER - 'Raining Blood" (1986)

09. OZZY OSBOURNE - "Crazy Train" (1980)

10. MOTÖRHEAD - "Ace Of Spades" (1980)

 

[Q.Lazzarus 0]

That's not too bad. I expected it to be much worse.

[Big Blue 06 195]

That's not too bad. I expected it to be much worse.

 

As did I. The problem I have is that they're all over the place in terms of genre.

[SmartassBoiler 0]

GNR, AC/DC, and KISS are metal?

[kutulu 1,660]

FROM A LACERATED SKY!!!!!!

 

 

[Electric Mayhem 35]

That's not too bad. I expected it to be much worse.

 

Agreed

 

I'm happy to see something from Number of the Beast on there - but I think it should have been Hallowed Be Thy Name.

[davebg 0]

W-WH-WHAAAAT!!! No Jethro Tull!?!

[kutulu 1,660]

W-WH-WHAAAAT!!! No Jethro Tull!?!

 

 

[Electric Mayhem 35]

Also, Welcome to the Jungle should be replaced with something from Pantera (Cowboys, I'm Broken, Cemetery Gates), and KISS should be replaced with Megadeth (Symphony, Hook in Mouth, Peace Sells)

[Juniper 0]

It's better than most VH1 lists as far as artists are concerned; but I would choose a few different songs. My tastes tend to run more towards the Power Pop/Rock And Roll school of Heavy Metal:

 

I'd select War Pigs to represent Black Sabbath and Enter Sandman for Metallica. AC/DC and KISS are more straight ahead R&R. Fvck Judas Priest. I'd don't know enough about Ozzy's solo work to choose his best song. And the VH1 "Greatest Heavy Metal Band Of All Time" doesn't have anything on the list? I guess they couldn't agree on a Led Zeppelin song.

[jerryskids 6,596]

Agreed

 

I'm happy to see something from Number of the Beast on there - but I think it should have been Hallowed Be Thy Name.

Not sure if that was known enough to make such a list. But I agree, anything from that album rocks.

 

I was never a huge metal fan but "You got another thing coming" was a pop sellout IMO.

 

I actually thought "Iron Man" when I read the title. I always thought Randy Johnson should have come out to the mound glaring into the opposing dugout while the intro to this song played.

[SUXBNME 1,458]

Electric Mayhem seems to know his metal

 

 

[Electric Mayhem 35]

Electric Mayhem seems to know his metal

 

I'm not as hard core as kutulu. Never got into the REALLY hard stuff like Slayer / Cannibal Corpse etc, but I know what I like, and I likes me some Megadeth, Maiden and Pantera.

[Mark Buffington 3]

No Poison or Bon Jovi?

 

Okay. Whatever.

[kutulu 1,660]

I'm not as hard core as kutulu. Never got into the REALLY hard stuff like Slayer / Cannibal Corpse etc, but I know what I like, and I likes me some Megadeth, Maiden and Pantera.

 

Actually, we are pretty close. Was into early Megadeth, Pantera...not a big Maiden fan, but still like em. Course I do like some heavier stuff like Slayer, but not into every death metal band out there screaming......

[ocramfan 0]

Actually, we are pretty close. Was into early Megadeth, Pantera...not a big Maiden fan, but still like em. Course I do like some heavier stuff like Slayer, but not into every death metal band out there screaming......

 

 

Yeah, the early Maiden,Slayer,Megadeth,Anthrax,Testament,Exodus,Savatage,Mettallica....good stuff

 

not into the death/goth "my singer sounds more like cookie monster than your singer" metal.

 

[BiPolarBear 483]

The first Grammy for a Heavy Metal Album was won by Jetro Tull. Those music industry insiders really know there stuff.

[mulletia 0]

you metal fags into mastodon?

[hoytdwow 202]

he top 10 greatest metal songs of all time are:

 

01. BLACK SABBATH - "Iron Man" (1971) METAL

02. GUNS N' ROSES - "Welcome to the Jungle" (1987) NOT METAL

03. METALLICA - "Master of Puppets" (1986) METAL

04. AC/DC - "Back in Black" (1980) NOT METAL

05. JUDAS PRIEST - "You've Got Another Thing Coming" (1982) NOT METAL

06. KISS - 'Detroit Rock City" (1976) NOT METAL

07. IRON MAIDEN - "The Number of the Beast" (1982) METAL

08. SLAYER - 'Raining Blood" (1986) METAL

09. OZZY OSBOURNE - "Crazy Train" (1980) NOT METAL

10. MOTÖRHEAD - "Ace Of Spades" (1980) METAL

 

HTH

[skins1967 0]

Heavy metal is typically characterized by a distorted guitar-led sound, morbid themes and lyrics, straightfoward rhythms and classical or symphonic styles. However, heavy metal subgenres have their own stylistic variations on the original form that often omit many of these characteristics.

 

According to Allmusic.com, "Of all rock & roll's myriad forms, heavy metal is the most extreme in terms of volume, machismo, and theatricality. There are numerous stylistic variations on heavy metal's core sound, but they're all tied together by a reliance on loud, distorted guitars (usually playing repeated riffs) and simple, pounding rhythms."

 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heavy_metal_(music)

 

Sounds like each of the bands represented in the top 10 to me !

[ZeroTolerance 584]

Detroit Rock City - no f'in way

Crazy Train - couldve picked better just from Ozzy...

 

Master of Puppets was definetly the correct choice from Metallica, and fitting since MoP is hands down the greatest metal album ever. Personally I would've leaned toward Hells Bells for an AC/DC pick.

[kutulu 1,660]

"But we've done a lot of touring, we've had a lot of opportunities come up. And, I'm not going to lie to you, it was all about money. Money and opportunities, and not only that, they were high-profile opportunities so we figured, 'Fock it, we'll do this since no one was in any real hurry."

[Eagles Green 34]

Top 10 metal songs are:

1. Metallica-Master of puppets

2. Metallica-One

3. Metallica-For Whom the Bell Tolls

4. Metallica-seek and destroy

5. Metallica-Sanitarium

6. Metallica-fade to black

7. Metallica-Battery

8. Metallica-creeping death

9. Metallica-harvester of sorrow

10. Slayer-Seasons in the abyss

 

 

 

HTH

 

[pimptastic69 0]

I didn't see "Skull Full of Maggots" by Cannibal Corpse.

 

Must be a typo.

[phillybear 366]

The top 10 greatest hard rock/pop songs of all time are:

 

Fixed.

[Guest Black Label Society]

One should be the top Metallica choice.

Enter Sandman and Master are both good tunes, but One really rocks IMO.

 

Also, IMO, Judas Priest is definately metal. They were doing it long before most of those bands.

GnR doesn't belong in the Metal genre at all.

[kutulu 1,660]

Fixed.

 

I'll give you most of them as being borderline metal, but Black Sabbath pretty much created metal, Motorhead kept it alive and Slayer perfected it.

[Ilov80s 0]

Ive always been partial to Snap Your Fingers, Snap Your Neck

[Timinator 0]

Not a bad list and always open to disagreement. Metal has a pretty broad base from Power Pop to Thrash and Death.

 

My favorites were when a hard rock band went a touch heavier: Skid Row "Slave to the Grind", Motley Crue "Motley Crue" and KISS "Carnial of Souls". I'm also one of the who like Metallica "ReLoad" much better than "And Justice..." My favorite all-time band is the original Van Halen, then Metallica. I listen to Pantera and I listen to Ratt and I'll try anything in between. I wish System of a Down wasn't so mideastern. And I wish TOOL wasn't so dam self-important. Thank God for Buck Cherry's one good song evey five years or so.

[RLLD 4,154]

ANY list that does not in some way incorporate Kip Winger or David Cassidy is simply invalid

[Ilov80s 0]

Not a bad list and always open to disagreement. Metal has a pretty broad base from Power Pop to Thrash and Death.

 

My favorites were when a hard rock band went a touch heavier: Skid Row "Slave to the Grind", Motley Crue "Motley Crue" and KISS "Carnial of Souls". I'm also one of the who like Metallica "ReLoad" much better than "And Justice..." My favorite all-time band is the original Van Halen, then Metallica. I listen to Pantera and I listen to Ratt and I'll try anything in between. I wish System of a Down wasn't so mideastern. And I wish TOOL wasn't so dam self-important. Thank God for Buck Cherry's one good song evey five years or so.

 

 

But if Tool wasn't so self-important, they wouldn't be Tool and SOAD wasn't so mid-eastern they wouldn't be SOAD. Its that uniqueness that makes them special.

[mozzy84 0]

anybody got the 11-20 rankings. Good to see slayer in the top ten.

[Franknbeans 46]

Priest has at least 10 songs better than that one

[RLLD 4,154]

But if Tool wasn't so self-important, they wouldn't be Tool and SOAD wasn't so mid-eastern they wouldn't be SOAD. Its that uniqueness that makes them special.

 

Sober is top notch.....

[kutulu 1,660]

Sorry about the format, but if I'm nothing else, I'm lazy.

 

Breaking the Law 		Judas Priest 	
#40			
		
I'm Eighteen 		Alice Cooper 	
#39			
		
Balls to the Wall 		Accept 	
#38			
		
Smoke on the Water 		Deep Purple 	
#37			
		
Wait and Bleed 		Slipknot 	
#36			
		
Metal Health 		Quiet Riot 	
#35			
		
Paranoid 		Black Sabbath 	
#34			
		
High 'N' Dry (Saturday Night) 		Def Leppard 	
#33			
		
Thunder Kiss '65 		White Zombie 	
#32			
		
Rock You Like a Hurricane 		Scorpions 	
#31			
		
Epic 		Faith No More 	
#30			
		
Caught in a Mosh 		Anthrax 	
#29			
		
The Beautiful People 		Marilyn Manson 	
#28			
		
Run to the Hills 		Iron Maiden 	
#27			
		
Refuse/Resist 		Sepultura 	
#26			
		
Cowboys From Hell 		Pantera 	
#25			
		
Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap 		AC/DC 	
#24			
		
Freak on a Leash 		Korn 	
#23			
		
Enter Sandman 		Metallica 	
#22			
		
Paradise City 		Guns N' Roses 	
#21			
		
I Wanna Rock 		Twisted Sister 	
#20			
		
Man in the Box 		Alice in Chains 	
#19			
		
Slave to the Grind 		Skid Row 	
#18			
		
Live Wire [Kick A** '91 Remix] [Mix] 		Mötley Crüe 	
#17			
		
Walk 		Pantera 	
#16			
		
Bulls on Parade 		Rage Against the Machine 	
#15			
		
Toxicity 		System of a Down 	
#14			
		
Rainbow in the Dark 		Dio 	
#13			
		
Bring the Noise 		Anthrax 	
#12			
		
Peace Sells 		Megadeth 	
#11

[hoytdwow 202]

Metallica-harvester of sorrow

 

 

[Dr. Octopus 0]

That's not too bad. I expected it to be much worse.

 

 

Agreed. Obviously it is subjective but there are strong arguments muscially and culturally (impact-relevance) for all those songs.

[kutulu 1,660]

Agreed. Obviously it is subjective but there are strong arguments muscially and culturally (impact-relevance) for all those songs.

 

11-40 has much worse selections, IMO.

[Franknbeans 46]

Agreed. Obviously it is subjective but there are strong arguments muscially and culturally (impact-relevance) for all those songs.

obviously you missed the Priest selection

[mozzy84 0]

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