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VH1's 40 Most Metal Songs Ever....


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Cool to see alot of these bands mentioned again... just wish it was more than a fricken half hour show. I am glad they are doing a whole "Metal Month". I also had forgotten what a great movie "Rockstar" was... I think I may have to pick that up on DVD. It's kind of a modern day Spinal Tap...just not as funny [;)]

Here's the whole list in case you wondered...

40. Judas Priest - Breakin' The Law
39. Alice Cooper - I'm Eighteen
38. Accept - Balls To The Wall
37. Deep Purple - Smoke On The Water
36. Slipknot - Wait And Bleed
35. Quiet Riot - Metal Health
34. Black Sabbath - Paranoid
33. Def Leppard - High 'N' Dry
32. White Zombie - Thunderkiss '65
31. Scorpions - Rock You Like A Hurricane
30. Faith No More - Epic
29. Anthrax - Caught In A Mosh
28. Marilyn Manson - The Beautiful People
27. Iron Maiden - Run To The Hills
26. Sepultura - Refuse Resist
25. Pantera - Cowboys From Hell
24. AC/DC - Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap
23. Korn - Freak On A Leash
22. Metallica - Enter Sandman
21. Guns N' Roses - Paradise City
20. Twisted Sister - I Wanna Rock
19. Alice In Chains - Man In The Box
18. Skid Row - Slave To The Grind
17. Motley Crue - Live Wire
16. Pantera - Walk
15. Rage Against The Machine - Bulls On Parade
14. System Of A Down - Toxicity
13. Dio - Rainbow In The Dark
12. Anthrax w/Public Enemy - Bring The Noise
11. Megadeth - Peace Sells
10. Motorhead - Ace Of Spades
09. Ozzy Osbourne - Crazy Train
08. Slayer - Raining Blood
07. Iron Maiden - Number Of The Beast
06. KISS - Detroit Rock City
05. Judas Priest - You Got Another Thing Coming
04. AC/DC - Back In Black
03. Metallica - Master Of Puppets
02. Guns N' Roses - Welcome To The Jungle
01. Black Sabbath - Iron Man

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Not a Zeppelin in the bunch- sad.

They don't belong on that list, they are so high up on the mountain, those other bands could only WISH they were that good. Really, alot of phonies and pretenders on that list, but that's TV for you. Who needs VH1 or MTV to tell me who is top Metal Band, not me for sure.....

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I agree, I guess everyone has their own list. I don't think Kiss, Def Leppard, or Guns N Roses should have been on that list either. I guess maybe they should have certain criteria listed, so as to not get Metal/hard rock/rock all mixed up?

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I agree, I guess everyone has their own list. I don't think Kiss, Def Leppard, or Guns N Roses should have been on that list either. I guess maybe they should have certain criteria listed, so as to not get Metal/hard rock/rock all mixed up?

Metal/Hard rock/Rock have been mixed for a long time. I agree with you on Kiss and Leppard, I'll argue GnR. Kiss is all SHOW not much GO, Leppard at best,is Introduction to metal, Guns should have been one of the best, but Rockstar ego's again rears it's ugly head. They had the Stud Guitarist, a great Lead singer, great drummer, what went wrong? Lazy, overindulged, too much hype, and the next day it's over, what a waste of talent.

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yeah. Metal is very subjective. I have to laugh at most of them. To me, Slayer is metal. "Reign in blood" , old megadeth, old metallica. It has alot of 80's metal, like Judas Priest. Most people have never even heard a slayer song. Then you have G n R with paradise city which is played on most all stations. I wouldn't call that metal. I remember when welcome to the jungle came out. I was in the army, it was a new sound. Heavy. I really dug it. Motorhead is metal. Again, most average listeners couldn't tell you a motorhead song. Balls to the wall. Oh yeah. Iron Maiden ,,, oh yeah again. Pantara. Yep. Skid row. Dead hair band. Faith no more. Not. Although I like the song. Sepultura. Good angry metal. [:@]

Ok... I'm done.

toodles

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Ok, I have a few things to say about this list. Number one, it does

have some really good songs on here, I'm glad they chose to put a Black

Sabbath song on the top of the list since Sabbath were the first heavy

metal band to really get recognized, and they played such a huge part

in creating the genre. For the most part they really did choose real

heavy metal bands for this list, I would have never expected them to

actually put bands like Sepultura on the list, cause not a lot of

people know about them, i know theres some negotiation. I think they

should have added a couple bands like Type O Negative, or Sentenced

since those are 2 very good Gothic Metal bands, but for some reason

many lists try to stay away from gothic music, just because of it's

name, and not many people really know what it's actually like.

Heres a few bands i don't believe should be on this list.

Marilyn Manson- He really is not very heavy metal, he's just considered

heavy because of the way he/she/it dresses, and how dark his songs are,

he's just a poser magnet.

Deep Purple- While they are a good band, they are not heavy metal.

AC/DC- They are a very good band, i like AC/DC, but they are Hard Rock,

not metal. "It's a long way to the top if you want to rock and roll"

notice how they say rock and roll.

Guns N' Roses- Another good band, but not a heavy metal band, and

Welcome to the Jungle is a good song, it could be considered metal, but

there is no way it should be number 2 on a heavy metal list.

KISS- Good band, again not heavy metal.

About the whole Led Zeppelin thing, Zeppelin is awesome, they are a

great band that has had a ton of influence on Hard Rock, but thats just

the thing, they are Hard Rock, i don't know many people that would call

Zeppelin Heavy Metal, because they aren't Heavy Metal.

I know it was stated earlier that everyone has there own list, but i

listen pretty exclusively to heavy metal, death metal, gothic

metal, thrash metal, and power metal, i know a lot of metal fans, and a

lot of fans of the bands i listed above, and any real heavy metal fan

would not consider those bands to be metal. If you listen to real heavy

metal enough, you know what metal is. If you actually listen to metal

you can tell whats metal and whats rock.

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Whoah--All those bands are heavy metal. I guess you would say that Steppenwolf, who coined the phrase, is not heavy metal, too? Because they rock? or roll?

Shoot, if that's the case, then Iron Maiden isn't heavy metal either--

At some time, those bands were harder than most anything out there. Looking back , they are not as caustic as or head exploding as Reign in Blood or death metal.

Listen to Metallica or Van Halen back when they came out, and they were hard to ears that hadn't heard them before. But now they don't sound do metal. But then--they were--

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Heavy Metal was a term given to LED ZEPPELIN, like it or not, that's the way it was. The word METAL has changed over the years, but back then it was because one minute Led Zeppelin could be kinda soft, and aqcoustic, and the next minute hammer the hell out of you with a sonic attack like no other band could do. Black Sabbath was Dark, almost demonic with their graveyard like music.Sabbath had one style, Led Zeppelin had many styles. Modern day Metal bands have nothing in common with the bands of old, it's a different style. As I stated before, Zepp don't need to be on a list, they headed that list along time ago, other bands must follow them, they set the standard.

Maybe we spend to much time putting labels on things, music included!!!!!!!

Heavy Metal, Hard Rock, Punk , Progressive, Alternative, Country , Pop, Southern Rock, Blues, Jazz, Classical, Rock n' Roll,..........Why don't we call it MUSIC...................

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No Rush? CMon! What is 2112, fairy music? If that's not metal I don't know what is. I've said it before, I'll say it again, Alex Lifeson is one of the most underrated guitarists ever. That man is phenomenal.

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I guess metal is very subjective because I consider Faith No More one of the most underappreciated metal bands ever. Have you actually heard the entire Angel Dust or The Real Thing albums?

Ditto , Faith No More was a great original American band ! I wouldn't describe them as metal though . Screamo maybe .

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