100 Greatest Rock Songs (80-61)

80. Any Way You Want It-Journey: Journey + hard rock = No solution (I wish I knew of a way to create the zero with the line crossing it out like they do in algebra class when a problem had no solution).

79. Rebel Yell-Billy Idol: The snarler! I would have picked “White Wedding” myself.

78. Feel Like Makin' Love-Bad Company: This song deserves to be on the list, even if I’m not too fond of it. Why the hell not?

77. Black Hole Sun-Soundgarden: “Black Hole Sun” this low on the countdown? This song would be in my Top 20.

76. Kiss Me Deadly-Lita Ford: Lita Ford had attitude, but this song was too glossy; as glossy as a 8x10 black & white wedding photo.

75. Seven Nation Army-White Stripes: I’m not sure if the White Stripes would be considered ‘hard rock’ but I guess they are in a lot of ways. A lot of their songs have pulsating beats, ballsy riffs, and a ton of passion, and send me off in a frenzy. Try to get me not to thrash around when “Fell In love With a Girl” or “Black Math” come on.

74. Love Removal Machine-The Cult: Never really got into The Cult.

73. Jailbreak-Thin Lizzy: I like a few Thin Lizzy songs. I love the riff in this song.

72. Heartbreaker-Pat Benatar: A classically-trained operatic female singer, who was about 5’1 and 98 pounds who sang “Love is a Battlefield.” Turns out, she was capable of churning out a song that flat out rocked.

71. Mountain Song-Jane's Addiction: I don’t love Jane’s Addiction, but I appreciate that they were one of the few pre-Nirvana alternative bands that somewhat broke through. This song is awesome, though.

70. Hot Blooded-Foreigner: I dunno man. I think “I Wanna Know What Love Is” eclipsed anything “hard rock” about Foreigner. Even then, I wouldn’t consider Foreigner a hard rock band anyway.

69. Cult of Personality-Living Colour: Back in 1988, an all-black metal band showed whitey how it was done! I always loved the guitar solo.

68. More Human Than Human-White Zombie: This song is in every other movie or commercial, so this song certainly has had an impact, even if I find Rob Zombie to be pretty silly.

67. Tush-ZZ Top: Not big on ZZ Top. But I guess they earned a spot on this list. Those beards!

66. The Final Countdown-Europe: OK, now this is just sad. A few years back, VH1 ranked this song as the Most Awesomely Bad Metal Song Ever, as well as naming it one of the "Least Metal Moments." Just for that, this song should be disqualified from even being a nominee for this list, even if this list ranks "hard rock" songs. That, and this song just flat out blows. The singer looks like Kylie Minogue ferchrissakes!

65. Kick Out the Jams-MC5: Now we’re talking! They were punk before punk. They were metal before metal. They were MC before MC Hammer (an actual quote from the late Rob Tyner). Who else in 1968 started off a song with “Kick out the jams, motherfuckers!”?

64. Liar-Rollins Band: Gotta love Henry Rollins. I’m not big on the Rollins Band, but he is a great writer and orator. And I love Black Flag. I’d put “Rise Above” or “Six Pack” on my list of best hard rock songs.

63. Eye of the Tiger-Survivor: Immediate disqualification because of its association with Sylvester Stallone.

62. Breaking the Chains-Dokken: You’ll never catch me rockin’ to Dokken.

61. Round and Round-RATT: Not too big on “RATT & roll” either. Enough with the 80s hair metal, already! The metal on those bands’ Aqua Net bottles were more metal than them!