Hard Rock - Seriously, define it for me please [View All]

[LynneSin]

I was able to get to sleep and I watched this show on VH1 - the 100 greatest Hard Rock bands of all times. And I was shocked to see what they considered their top 20 because some of these bands I wouldn't really consider "Hard Rock"

75% of the people they interviewed for this show was from some hair band or thrasher band. So how the hell did they come up with this list.


20: Alice Cooper
19: The Clash
18: Ozzy Osbourne
17: The Ramones
16: Cream
15: Pink Floyd
14: Soundgarden
13: Queen
12: The Sex Pistols
11: Aerosmith
10: Kiss
9 : Guns N' Roses
8 : The Who
7 : Van Halen
6 : Nirvana
5 : Metallica
4 : AC/DC
3 : Jimi Hendrix
2 : Black Sabbath
1 : Led Zeppelin

My problem with this list is it seems so ill defined and there seems to be some really obvious names missing from the top 20 (I have not looked at the other 80). My most obvious one - where are the Rolling Stones or Bruce Springsteen and the E Street band. Plus, I love Queen but what the hell are they doing on that list, I hardly define them in the same category that would include AC/DC, Van Halen, Kiss & Mettalica. You can't tell me that Motley Crue doesn't break the top 20 even though Soundgarden does. And with all due respect to Punk Rock, I just feel that bands like The Sex Pistols, The Ramones and The Clash to be a completely different genre. And yes, U2 should have been in that top 20 too - or do they not rock hard enough. (BTW, I found the Rolling Stones - they were #67. You're telling me that Faith No More (a band which I saw open for the Stones) is actually better than the Stones?? FNM came in the 40s).

Also, as I perused through the list there seems to be an absense of southern rock. Did southern rock not rock hard enough. I mean Lynard Skynard was on there around 71, but I didn't see Neil Young on there anywhere along with a few other Southern Rock bands.

So who seriously, based on that list - what the hell defines Hard Rock.

http://www.vh1.com/shows/dyn/the_greatest/62184/episode_wildcard.jhtml?wildcard=/shows/dynamic/includes/wildcards/the_greatest/hardrock_list_full.jhtml&event_id=862711&start=1