Top rock songs ever

[Ryanj37]

Recently NZ radio station The Rock had a countdown of the top 1000 rock songs ever. The song placings were decided on by votes from the general public. Somewhere around 60K votes were counted.

Here is the top 20:


1 AC/DC - Back in Black
2. GUNS N' ROSES - November Rain
3 METALLICA - Enter Sandman

4 NIRVANA - Smells Like Teen Spirit
5 PEARL JAM - Betterman
6 PINK FLOYD - Comfortably Numb
7 METALLICA - One
8 GUNS N' ROSES - Sweet Child of Mine

9 FOO FIGHTERS - Everlong
10 RAGE AGAINST THE MACHINE - Killing in the name of
11 LED ZEPPELIN - Stairway to Heaven
12 PEARL JAM - Black
13 QUEEN - Bohemian Rhapsody

14 SHIHAD - Home again
15 LIVE - Lightning Crashes
16 TOOL - Sober
17 THE EAGLES - Hotel California
18 U2 - Beautiful Day

19 FOO FIGHTERS - Best of You
20 RED HOT CHILI PEPPERS - Under The Bridge


Full list can be found here: Rock top 1000

Im just wondering what you guys from america (and anywhere else) think about this list.

[NT!]

this list is surprisingly bad, even for one voted on by radio listeners

[NT!]

what i find most amazing is that there are maybe three or four bands on this list whose best song is actually the song listeners picked.

[wmonfor]

2 foo fighter songs in the top 20 = rape

I agree with nt, this list bites hard

[Adebisi]

Wow. WTF kind of people have like 15 of the top 20 rock songs ever coming from the 80's and 90's. No Rolling Stones, no Beatles, but the Foo Fighters, Pearl Jam, and Metallica all have 2 songs on the list??!! I've never even heard like 4 or 5 of these songs and probably never will.

edit:

Just noticed it's from New Zealand, when I first read it, I thought it was AZ. Is David Hasselhoff a popular musician down there?

[baumer]

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4 NIRVANA - Smells Like Teen Spirit

10 RAGE AGAINST THE MACHINE - Killing in the name of

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Rofl.

Free Bird?

[NT!]

also lol at 'betterman' in particular, that whole album sucked balls and that is one of the worst pearl jam singles ever

also lol at the foo fighters obv, they don't deserve to crack the top 100

[nath]

so... New Zealand radio listeners are out of touch with us? That's what this thread is about?

WTF is #14?

[Ryanj37]

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so... New Zealand radio listeners are out of touch with us? That's what this thread is about?

WTF is #14?

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Yea its a kiwi song. Great song though.

[Ryanj37]

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4 NIRVANA - Smells Like Teen Spirit

10 RAGE AGAINST THE MACHINE - Killing in the name of

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Rofl.

Free Bird?

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Man I heard that song for the first time listening to this countdown, what a bloody awesome song it is too.

Im in agreeance with everyone here. Everlong maybe but theres no way best of you should even be in top 1000 let alone top 20.