Listicle Without Commentary: The 16 Greatest YouTube-Embeddable Hard Rock Songs That Are Not By Guns N' Roses Or Van Halen
16. Tesla, "Heaven's Trail (No Way Out)"
15. Electric Angels, "Rattlesnake Kisses"
14. Warrant, "Down Boys"
13. Bang Tango, "Someone Like You"
12. Ratt, "Round And Round"
11. Pretty Boy Floyd, "Rock & Roll (Is Gonna Set The Night On Fire)"
10. Faster Pussycat, "You're So Vain"
9. LA Guns, "One More Reason"
8. Electric Boys, "All Lips N' Hips"
7. Quireboys, "7 O'Clock"
6. Skid Row, "Monkey Business"
5. White Lion, "Wait"
4. Winger, "Seventeen"
3. Living Colour, "Cult Of Personality"
2. Dangerous Toys, "Scared"
1. Love/Hate, "Straightjacket"
Ha. I knew, knew, KNEW Love/Hate was going to be numero uno.
Whaaaaaaaaaaa!
http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=ac%2Fdc&search_type=&aq=f
Oh, i see what you did there….
but
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3UT8IBK_esM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bomv-6CJSfM
but
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3UT8IBK_esM
No joke.
Okay the no ac/dc thing, I'm against but whatever. I just don't know why there's no Scorps:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sxdmw4tJJ1Y
Big cats on leashes! Weirdo vaguely satanic masked men having some kind of ritual! The band in the cage instead of the girls! And they're so GERMAN.
David Lee Roth?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t0C611xMfIQ
Wait, AND no Crue?
SOS? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BXG0q0qesRw
HOME SWEET HOME?!?!? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ggvkz-bVhW0
This appears to be a list of "hard rock" songs as defined by Urban Outfitters….
No Whitesnake Here I go Again?!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i3MXiTeH_Pg
Eh. The Zoo is such a better song. That, and I really enjoy the idea of a grown man screaming like an 8 year old girl as if it were some sort of established macho rocker behavior: http://www.youtube.com/watch#v=BBfu6MORKK0
Plus, talkbox!
I have no idea what that "Urban Outfitters" crack is supposed to mean, but your list appears to be defined by Vh1. So maybe we're even?
@ pants: Indeed. As someone mentioned above, no scorpions?
@Maura: Um, VH1? They haven't played music since 2002. I know that the internet was invented, in part, so people could pointlessly argue about music; but this list (with the exception of Living Color) seems to be lacking some central players to anything that could be defined as "hard rock." "Glam Metal" maybe?
Everyone's "central players" are different, my dear. SMASH THE CANONS. AC/DC kinda bore me! So do the Scorpions! Motley Crue almost made the cut but I really didn't like any of their individual songs as much as I liked these 16!
(Also, I guess you have not watched Vh1 since 2002? Because countdowns that rehash the greatness of the Most Obvious Bands are that channel's bread and butter.)
(Also please tell me how Tesla and Love/Hate are at all "glam"? Not to split genre-based hairs, but come now.)
You're right on Tesla. Not really glam. I think that these selections are "hard rock" but all come from the same glam era is what rankles. I think this IS a hopeless case of splitting genre-hairs… maybe even generation-hairs.
And just because something is obvious and rehashed doesn't make it wrong.
I fluv this more than I can say.
Tesla, Winger, White Lion…
I saw Living Colour at Irving Plaza in Nov. 2001 and it was one of the best shows I've ever seen. Corey Glover is the shit.
I saw them in October at Angels & Kings (it was one of those "half-plugged" sets) and it was awesome!
Did they play Glamour Boys? Love that song. Always have to yell along when I hear it on the radio every 5 years. In fact, time to visit iTunes…
I remember two songs specifically:
"Open Letter (To a Landlord)", in which Corey almost couldn't make it through, because the 'you can tear a building down/but you can't erase the memories' part had the whole crowd in tears. (Shit, I'm getting misty right now.)
and a cover of Soundgarden's "The Day I Tried to Live." Damn, that was heaven.
Oh my Zeppelin, what is your definition of "hard rock??!!"
From the 80s with back-combed hair apparently.
Yeah, they mean hair-metal.
No, I don't, actually.
I guess Firehouse's "Don't Treat Me Bad" just isn't embeddable?
Did I ever tell the story about when I saw Firehouse and the drummer tried doing the "throw the drumstick and catch it" trick to show off… only he threw the stick behind his kit?
Twice?
When I was 13? 14?, I saw Firehouse on a triple bill with Slaughterhouse and Warrant. My junior high self had never heard so much swearing or seen so much tit-flashing…
Holy fuck, this is fucking BEAUTIFUL.
At least 25% of this list is on the glam metal mixtape I made in 2001 and have been listening to all week.
I saw this list and I got all OH MY GOD WHERE'S ANDREW
Dude, you know it. I'm brainstorming right now for a thing about working-class rage in the music of Skid Row, so of course this list was particularly appropriate.
My iPod wants to go out with your Listicle.
Aww shit. I can see it is gonna be one of those weeks where Sebastian Bach keeps me company a little more than I’d like.
Maura! You and I, we speak the same nostalgic language (that being the glam/hair/whateveryoucallit/L.A.-leaning metal one.) So glad you're posting about hard rock music without qualifying your enjoyment as "ironic" or labeling it all a "guilty pleasure."
My humble additions to your list:
Junkyard's Hollywood:
http://www.youtube.com/watch#v=Orh6JEjtliE
Tora Tora's Walking Shoes (and maybe Guilty, too, for that matter):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5k9UDRO43Vc
DAD's Sleeping my Day Away:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qXIR2AH9zng
Vain's Who's Watching You:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zKrx4SPYsvE
Lillian Axe's Show a Little Love:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sch7Vca5LpQ
Cats in Boots's Her Monkey:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ODLn_XyzEE
And, oh how I still love Great white's Rock Me:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EBBHE6Z9OoU
Sheesh. Forget the encroaching wrinkles – THIS whole list is a sad sign I am getting so very, very old. Sigh. Well, that, and because despite (or perhaps because of) my love for that style of music, I still do not entirely understand the what and the why of people who were briefly charmed by The Darkness*.
*Unless that was you, too, in which case I am open to reason.
I was charmed by The Darkness for a while! That first single was very British, but very fun.
One song that would have made this list if it had been expanded to say 35 places is Child's Play's "Rat Race," which nicks a bit of "Give Peace A Chance":
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lmgWrl3NmH4
Heh, Child's Play! This might be the first time I've heard that band mentioned in, like, 15 or 20 years. I think I saw them open on a bill with either Shotgun Messiah or King of the Hill – it's so long ago it's become a blur.
I concur with you on great Love/Hate was. Blackout in the Red Room is one of those few albums from that era I've actually grown to appreciate more with the passing of time: a pretty nearly perfect record.
Holy shit… this is my freshman year of high school embodied. My hard rock fascination culminated with a triple threat concert featuring LA Guns, Dangerous Toys, and Tora Tora. Pretty amazing.