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#1 - Guns N' Roses - Welcome to the Jungle
WTTJ is the greatest rock song of all time  : ok:

show just ended so the full list will probably be on vh1.com soon

the funyn thing is i had been watching this show off and on... My roomie and I were flippin back n forth between this finale and the sugar bowl... he wanted me to go back to the game and i told him i wanted to wait and see what it was.. he then asked me what i would do if GNR were #1.. I laughed at him and said it wasnt gonna happen... then it was.. totally made my night! : ok:

I watched the show the last two nights, so I saw all the songs in the top 40. When there was only one spot remaining, I knew it had to be "WTTJ." It's good to see GNR get the respect they deserve.

On the show Sebastian Bach said Axl is "the greatest singer that ever lived."

yeah pretty much after seeing Led Zeppelin take the #2 spot i knew gnr would be #1  :beer:

I was watching. Made me really really happy. I like that kind of vindication. When a huge media outlet says "Your favorite band is the best band ever".

I turned it on when they were at #9.  9-2, no GNR, thought they might have been 11 or 10.   Was pretty psyched when it was number 1.

FINALLY GNR is ahead of Nirvana on these lists.  About time.

When it got down to the last song it was all or nothing.  I'm surprised they only had ONE song in the top 100, but I guess you can't be too picky.  Only a couple bands had multiple entries (Van Halen, ACDC, The Who, Led Zeppelin).

Word on that.

 : ok: Nice to see VH1 finally getting over their Kurt Cobain hard-on.  Only reason these fucking suicide cowards are turned into martyrs is so the leeches can cash in.  If Eddie Vedder had killed himself we'd see Jeremy at the top of all these lists. 

I agree. It is about time GNR beat out Nirvana.  WTTJ will always be a classic!

i also switched over to the sugar bowl....damn, i hope they replay!!  awesome to gee axl & co. at the top of the list!!!!!

here in Philly the entire countdown is being shown again today ( saturday ), starting at 4 with the final 20 songs from 8 to 9.  So if you just want to see Axl, turn it on at 8:50   ;D

Just for curiosity's sake, where were "Sweet Child O' Mine" and "Paradise City"?

http://music.spreadit.org/vh1-top-100-hard-rock-songs/

Neither is listed

It's possible they didn't view "Sweet Child O' Mine" as hard enough to be on the list, though you could certainly argue with some of the other songs on there.  "Paradise City" was just given the shaft straight up.  I thought for sure it would've been somewhere on there.

Congrats to Steven,Slash,Izzy,Duff and Axl!!!!!!!!!


Song is timeless and my great great grandkids will rock out to it I am sure.

Congrats to Guns N' Roses!!!!

Fortunately soon WTTJ will be 15th and Sorry will be first, Prostitute 2nd and so on ... you got the picture!






-velimir

I watched this and by the time they got to #20, I was pissed that there was not one GNR song.  :rant:  On to #10 and still nothing...

I was quite happy that they got the #1 spot!  ;D

Just giving some credit to the guys who wrote it. Nothing wrong with that! : ok:

Oh please. Just another one of your "tricks".

Did you post the same kind of messages in those threads where Chinese Democracy or songs from it were praised by "outsiders"?

 ::)





/jarmo

After watching numbers 20 through 2, I knew it had to be WTTJ. FINALLY, a list of list with truth. But we already knew this, right?  : ok:

As there should always be homage to groups like Sab, Zep, Maiden, Priest, etc, there comes a time when there has to be updating in what constitutes a 'best' or 'greatest'. Yes, "Paranoid" and "Whole Lotta Love" WERE amazing. REPEAT "WERE". Thankfully, there's now acknowledgement of something that came after the 60s and 70s.

Now, if only the other mainstream lists would get a clue. Isn't it time for the Beatles, et al, to start going down on every list? Let someone else get a chance?

Totally awesome. WELCOME TO THE JUNGLE is my all time favorite song! I love it especially at a GNR concert. It's after Midnight, you hear the first strains of muic and then Uncle Axl screams "DO YOU KNOW WHERE THE F*** YOU ARE? YOU'RE IN THE JUNGLE BABY!'

I watched the whole series all week and before it even started I said to my friend "Back in Black and WTTJ should be the top 2."

Yeah I love WTTJ is in my top 5 fav GnR songs of all time !

In case u didn't see my review, I heeped tons of praise onto CD.

Yes, you truly love the current band.

Always pointing out how much you love them.  :D




/jarmo

I always have said I can love both bands and all that.

I give props to the old when due and I give props to the current when due.

What is wrong with that?

if CD has a number 1 all time song, I'll be the first to congratulate the authors of said song.

One band with different line-ups.

I  :love: GN'R.





/jarmo

me too  :love: it

i wouldn't wait for others recognition to appreciate something this great.

Welcome To The Jungle is the song that got me involved in this mess.

VH1 finally got it somewhat right. After only putting Guns N' Roses 9th on their Greatest Artists of Hard Rock list, they definately had to redeem themselves. I thought it was a little odd last time around, but hey maybe Im just biased.  ;D Good to see the boys at the top.

Obviously everyone here is happy that "Welcome to the Jungle" won the top spot, and deservedly so.  I also thought that VH1 did a pretty good job with the rest of the list, too, and that gives the fact that GNR placed first a little more meaning in my book.  Maybe you can argue about the particular songs chosen, but they got most of the bands right, and I thought this was the best one of these list programs I've seen.

Yeah it was a pretty good list.  My only complaint is how can a song like "Sweet Child O' Mine" not be on there?  Not to mention Paradise City.  You could argue that it doesn't fall under the "hard rock song" category, but try to tell me how "Kiss Me Deadly" by Lita Ford or "Interstate Love Song" by STP is a) a better song than SCOM or b) more "hard rock"?

Even aside from SCOM, there were many ballad type or slower rock songs that could've been on the list.  "Stairway To Heaven"?

I agree with you, Faldor, it just seems like they tried to stay away from multiple songs by the same artist for the most part.  I didn't see anything but the top 20, so I might be wrong, but that was my take anyway.

Yeah that's true, there were some bands that had 2 songs on the list, but not many (ACDC, Van Halen, Led Zeppelin, The Who).  None that I remember had 3 songs.  So in a sense I guess they were trying to stay away from having multiple songs from bands.

If there was a formal award reception for VH11 Greatest Rock Songs, the guys D mentions would be the natural recipients. Would you bitch on VH1 as well if that happened?

VH1 isn't a person claiming to be a fan while constantly having trouble giving the (current) band credit.





/jarmo

Well it only took 20 years!





Actually the guys who recorded it. Axl and Slash wrote it.
AND, I think when you list the original band members to congratulate them you should always list Axl first and Steven last, not the other way around!  :hihi:




It'd be fun to see who would show up to recieve the award.