# Your Favorite Hard Rock/Metal Songs **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [November 10, 2001, 5:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-hard-rock-metal-songs/92590 "2001-11-10T05:55:25Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![hardygrrl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/a3d4f5/32.png) [@hardygrrl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hardygrrl)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2001, 5:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-hard-rock-metal-songs/92590/1 "2001-11-10T05:55:25Z")
A short list: Anything off of **Appetite for Destruction** by Guns N Roses Back in Black, TNT, Shook Me All Night Long and Thunderstruck\*\* by AC/DC One, Master of Puppets and Enter Sandman by **Metallica** Youth Gone Wild by **Skid Row** Bad Reputation and Damn Yankees by **Damn Yankees** Running with the Devil, Unchained and Jaime’s Crying by **Van Halen** Higher Ground, Stone Cold Bush, Suck My Kiss, and Knock Me Down by **the Red Hot Chili Peppers** Rock of Ages, Foolin, Bringing on the Heartache, and Animal by **Def Leppard**. [sub]And I know I’m playing fast and loose with the thread title [/sub] ---
**Author:** ![Genseric](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Genseric](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Genseric)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2001, 7:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-hard-rock-metal-songs/92590/2 "2001-11-10T07:13:31Z")
Crazy Train - Ozzy Osbourne Disposable Heroes - Metallica Woman From Tokyo - Deep Purple Won’t Get Fooled Again - The Who Many, many others… ---
**Author:** ![RocknRoll\_Killing\_Machine](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/5daacb/32.png) [@RocknRoll\_Killing\_Machine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RocknRoll_Killing_Machine)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2001, 10:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-hard-rock-metal-songs/92590/3 "2001-11-10T10:56:52Z")
Refused - New Noise Drowningman - Busy Signal At The Suicide Hotline Converge - The Saddest Day Botch - C. Thomas Howell as The “Soul Man” Coalesce - You Can’t Kill Us All Botch - O Fortuna The Dillinger Escape Plan - Sugar Coated Sour ---
**Author:** ![Caprese](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a9a28c/32.png) [@Caprese](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Caprese)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2001, 11:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-hard-rock-metal-songs/92590/4 "2001-11-10T11:36:04Z")
\*\*Hash Pipe \*\* by Weezer **Slow Ride** by Foghat **Happy Jack** by the Who (the uptempo parts) **Locomotive Breath** by Jethro Tull **La Grange** by Z Z Top ---
**Author:** ![Living\_Dead\_Girl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/ecb155/32.png) [@Living\_Dead\_Girl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Living_Dead_Girl)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2001, 12:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-hard-rock-metal-songs/92590/5 "2001-11-10T12:33:09Z")
Reflection, Third Eye, and Sober - _Tool_. Hell, almost everything Tool. It’s hard to choose. Besides them, I’m not really a huge Metal fan. 🙂 **Caprese:** Weezer, _hard rock_?! Please tell me that was some sick joke. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![hardygrrl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/a3d4f5/32.png) [@hardygrrl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hardygrrl)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2001, 12:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-hard-rock-metal-songs/92590/6 "2001-11-10T12:42:26Z")
Forgot one… Cherry Bomb by **the Runaways**. ---
**Author:** ![Caprese](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a9a28c/32.png) [@Caprese](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Caprese)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2001, 1:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-hard-rock-metal-songs/92590/7 "2001-11-10T13:25:47Z")
**Livingdeadgirl** Go listen to Hash Pipe and get back to me. That song kicks butt. Not talking about any other Weezer stuff. ---
**Author:** ![galen\_ubal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/galen_ubal/32/4440_2.png) [@galen\_ubal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/galen_ubal)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2001, 2:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-hard-rock-metal-songs/92590/8 "2001-11-10T14:23:16Z")
**War Child** - Jethro Tull **Kashmir** - Led Zeppelin **Wherever I May Roam** & The Unforgiven\*\* - Metallica **Back In Black & Hell’s Bells** - AC/DC Many, many more. ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2001, 4:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-hard-rock-metal-songs/92590/9 "2001-11-10T16:31:09Z")
Oh,I could come up with loads of alternate lists, but… In alpha order by band, and limiting myself to one song per band, my top ten list is: “Girls Got Rhythm” by AC/DC “Sick as a Dog” by Aerosmith “Hole in the Sky” by Black Sabbath “Stairway to the Stars” by Blue Oyster Cult “Flight of the Rat” by Deep Purple “Electric Eye” by Judas Priest “Custard Pie” by Led Zeppelin “No More Tears” by Ozzy Osbourne “Kil the King” by Ritchie Blackmore’s Rainbow "Come Along by Salty Dog ---
**Author:** ![ultrafilter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/3d9bf3/32.png) [@ultrafilter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ultrafilter)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2001, 4:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-hard-rock-metal-songs/92590/10 "2001-11-10T16:48:31Z")
Pretty much anything by Sabbath or Megadeth. It’s tough to choose. ---
**Author:** ![VeraGemini](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/e9bcb4/32.png) [@VeraGemini](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VeraGemini)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2001, 5:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-hard-rock-metal-songs/92590/11 "2001-11-10T17:06:32Z")
I could come up with hundreds. In the interest of bandwidth conservation, I’ll stick to twenty, in no particular order: _Balls to the Wall_ - Accept _Good Mourning/Black Friday_ - Megadeth _Godzilla_ - Blue Oyster Cult _Mother_ - Danzig _The Needle Lies_ - Queensryche _Ace of Spades_ - Motorhead _The Ballad of TV Violence (a/k/a The Ballad of Richard Speck)_ - Cheap Trick _Black No. 1_ - Type O Negative _Barracuda_ - Heart _Smoke on the Water_ - Deep Purple _Paranoid_ - Black Sabbath _Am I Evil_ - Diamondhead _Live Wire_ - Motley Crue _It’s So Easy_ - Guns ‘N’ Roses _Detroit Rock City_ - KISS _Hell’s Bells_ - AC/DC _Lights Out_ - UFO _the Zoo_ - the Scorpions _Yeah, Right_ - Girlschool _Sheer Heart Attack_ - Queen ---
**Author:** ![mighty\_maxx](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/2acd7d/32.png) [@mighty\_maxx](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mighty_maxx)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2001, 8:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-hard-rock-metal-songs/92590/12 "2001-11-10T20:36:09Z")
For shame, nowhere on this page do I see the name Pantera…shame shame shame. I would have to throw in Pantera’s Cemetary Gate for one of my all time fav. metal song ---
**Author:** ![Dirty\_Earthworm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/3ec8ea/32.png) [@Dirty\_Earthworm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dirty_Earthworm)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2001, 8:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-hard-rock-metal-songs/92590/13 "2001-11-10T20:37:53Z")
…marry me! I love this thread and I love your choices! 😉 Right off the bat, I have to list “Sir Psycho Sexy” by the Red Hot Chili Peppers. (although they are hard to categorize as anything, I’ll take the plunge and call them “hard rock.”) Actually, any RHCP song pre-“One Hot Minute” is good, but again, might not be considered hard rock. I have to agree with astorian about “No More Tears.” For the longest time I wanted to get Ozzy’s name tattooed across my fingers, like he does. Pretty much anything by Black Sabbath kicks the ass of anything out there today, but “Iron Man” and “War Pigs” stick out in my mind. “Sweet Child O’ Mine” by Guns N’ Roses, if for nothing else than the opening guitar riff. “One,” “Master of Puppets,” “Seek and Destroy,” and “Enter Sandman” by Metallica, and pretty much anything off “the black album” or before. Living Dead Girl hit the nail on the head with her “anything by Tool” comment. (Oh man, I didn’t realize that I just made a horrible pun - “nail on the head” - Tool … Jeez…), but particularly “Sober” and “Prison Sex.” And finally, “Snap Your Fingers, Snap Your Neck” by Prong and “Walk” by Pantera are usually played on the radio one right after the other (it’s a rock-n-wrestling radio program and there are two wrestlers who use those as entrance music [for those who care or are curious, Justin Credible and Rob Van Dam, respectively]) and it could possibly be my favorite ten minutes of radio during the day I know I’ll be back, cuz I know I’ll think of more, but I’m drawing a blank right now. -Syko “My cat’s breath smells like cat food.” - Ralph Wiggum ---
**Author:** ![GreatKingRat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a8b319/32.png) [@GreatKingRat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GreatKingRat)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2001, 8:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-hard-rock-metal-songs/92590/14 "2001-11-10T20:45:21Z")
Stone Cold Crazy-Queen ---
**Author:** ![Jeremy\_s\_Evil\_Twin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/bbe5ce/32.png) [@Jeremy\_s\_Evil\_Twin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jeremy_s_Evil_Twin)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2001, 9:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-hard-rock-metal-songs/92590/15 "2001-11-10T21:19:36Z")
Whoa, lotta good choices already mentioned. Here are some that haven’t. **War Pigs** by Black Sabbath. The greatest heavy metal song of all time. **Photograph** by Def Leppard. The greatest POP METAL song of all time. **Under a Glass Moon** by Dream Theater. More in the progressive-metal vein but required listening none the less. If you’re too cheap to buy the album, download it from somewhere. 🙂 Fuck Metallica. **The Last in Line** by Dio. **A.I.R.** , **Caught in a Mosh** , **Indians** and **Bring the Noise** by Anthrax. (The last one is a cover of the Public Enemy song and single-handedly gave rise to rap-metal.) **Peace Sells** by Megadeth. **Chaos A.D.** by Sepultura. **Practice What You Preach** by Testament. **Stinkfist** by Tool (and just about everything else by them as well, as **LDG** said.) **N.W.O.** by Ministry (ok it’s industrial but it still rocks…might as well add everything by **Nine Inch Nails** as well.) JET ---
**Author:** ![woodstockbirdybird](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/woodstockbirdybird/32/7905_2.png) [@woodstockbirdybird](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/woodstockbirdybird)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2001, 9:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-hard-rock-metal-songs/92590/16 "2001-11-10T21:34:41Z")
In general, I’m not a fan at all of either genre (unless you include punk under “hard rock”, which I don’t). My exceptions would be “Ace Of Spades” and “Killed By Death” by **Motorhead** (Actually, most anything by Motorhead) and “Got The Time” (Joe Jackson cover) by **Anthrax**. ---
**Author:** ![hardygrrl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/a3d4f5/32.png) [@hardygrrl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hardygrrl)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2001, 11:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-hard-rock-metal-songs/92590/17 "2001-11-10T23:29:43Z")
**Syko** … And I have almost every **Nirvana** song as well. (RIP Napster) Multiple versions of the “official” songs, unreleased songs from live shows… ::Goes to listen to _Moist Vagina_:: ---
**Author:** ![Dragon\_Phoenix](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/bcef8e/32.png) [@Dragon\_Phoenix](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dragon_Phoenix)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2001, 11:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-hard-rock-metal-songs/92590/18 "2001-11-10T23:47:18Z")
Let me throw in a new name: **Uriah Heep**. Favorite songs: _July morning_ and _Easy living_. ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Blue\_Sky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d26b3c/32.png) [@Mr.Blue\_Sky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Blue_Sky)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2001, 1:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-hard-rock-metal-songs/92590/19 "2001-11-11T01:04:20Z")
“Shots” - Neil Young “Iron Man” & “Paranoid” - Black Sabbath “Smells Like Teen Spirit” - Nirvana ---
**Author:** ![Dirty\_Earthworm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/3ec8ea/32.png) [@Dirty\_Earthworm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dirty_Earthworm)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2001, 2:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-hard-rock-metal-songs/92590/20 "2001-11-11T02:46:04Z")
How can I forget “Eye for an Eye” by one of my favorite bands, Soulfly? Can’t believe nobody has mentioned them yet. Actually, I can’t believe I forgot them myself. Hardygrrl … how YOU doin’? 😉 -Syko [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-hard-rock-metal-songs/92590.md?page=2)