As 100 mellores cancións de rock segundo VH1

As 100 mellores cancións de rock foi un programa especial de televisión da canle musical de cable VH1, o cal presentaba unha listaxe de temas de música rock que este realizou entre 700 persoas vinculadas á industria da música nos Estados Unidos. Entre os músicos que votaron figuraron Bono do grupo U2, Johnny Cash, Art Garfunkel, Bonnie Raitt e Lou Reed.

A canción de The Rolling Stones, ''(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction'' foi seleccionada como o mellor tema xamais interpretado na historia do rock, segundo unha sondaxe realizada en Nova York.

The Beatles estiveron representados na lista co maior número de temas dun mesmo intérprete ou grupo de intérpretes: nove cancións. A primeira delas, "Hey Jude", quedou en noveno posto.

Na lista aparecen cinco cortes de The Rolling Stones e catro de Elvis Presley e Led Zeppelin respectivamente. Bob Dylan estivo representado con tres, ademais da súa composición "All Along the Watchtower", que os enquisados preferiron na versión de Jimi Hendrix.

O tema máis antigo da lista é "Rock Around the Clock" de Bill Haley e as súas Cometas, publicado en 1955, e o máis recente foi "Smells Like Teen Spirit", da banda Nirvana, publicado en 1991.

 Controversia 
Unha importante cantidade de público ficou descontento polas fortes ausencias de cancións como "I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For" de U2, "Losing My Religion" de REM, "Sultans of Swing" de Dire Straits, "Help!" de The Beatles, "Tutti Frutti" de Little Richard, a lendaria "Smoke on the Water" de Deep Purple ou os éxitos de Black Sabbath "Iron Man" e "Paranoid". O público tamén definiu como "vergoñoso" editar unha listaxe sen incluír nada de Pink Floyd, Ramones, Sex Pistols, The Stooges, Pearl Jam, The Byrds ou Guns N' Roses, xa que son consideradas como algunhas das mellores bandas de rock da historia.

 Lista 
   Cancións
  Artistas 1 (I Can't Get No) Satisfaction  The Rolling Stones 2 Respect  Aretha Franklin 3 Stairway to heaven  Led Zeppelin 4  Like a Rolling Stone  Bob Dylan 5  Born To Run  Bruce Springsteen 6  Hotel California  Eagles 7  Light My Fire  The Doors 8  Good Vibrations  The Beach Boys 9  Hey Jude  The Beatles 10  Imagine  John Lennon 11  Louie Louie  The Kingsmen 12  Yesterday  The Beatles 13  My Generation  The Who 14  What's Going On  Marvin Gaye 15  Johnny B. Goode  Chuck Berry 16  Layla  Derek and the Dominos 17  Won't Get Fooled Again  The Who 18  Jailhouse Rock  Elvis Presley 19  American Pie  Don McLean 20  A Day in the Life  The Beatles 21  I Got You (I Feel Good)  James Brown 22  Superstition  Stevie Wonder 23  I Want to Hold Your Hand  The Beatles 24  Brown Sugar  The Rolling Stones 25  Purple Haze  The Jimi Hendrix Experience 26  Sympathy for the Devil  The Rolling Stones 27  Bohemian Rhapsody  Queen 28  You Really Got Me  The Kinks 29  Oh, Pretty Woman  Roy Orbison 30  Bridge over Troubled Water  Simon and Garfunkel 31  Hound Dog  Elvis Presley 32  Let It Be  The Beatles 33  (Sittin' On) The Dock of the Bay  Otis Redding 34  All Along the Watchtower  Jimi Hendrix Experience 35  Walk This Way  Aerosmith 36  My Girl  The Temptations 37  Rock Around the Clock  Bill Haley and His Comets 38  I Heard I Through The Grapevine  Marvin Gaye 39  Proud Mary  Creedence Clearwater Revival 40  Born to Be Wild  Steppenwolf 41  Smells Like Teen Spirit  Nirvana 42  Every breath you take  The Police 43  What'd I say  Ray Charles 44  Free Bird  Lynyrd Skynyrd 45  That'll Be the Day  Buddy Holly 46  Whole Lotta Love  Led Zeppelin 47  Dream On  Aerosmith 48  California Dreamin'  The Mamas & the Papas 49  Brown Eyed Girl  Van Morrison 50  Wild Things  The Troggs 51  Suite: Judy Blue Eyes  Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young 52  Beat It  Michael Jackson 53  Great Balls of Fire!  Jerry Lee Lewis 54  Stayin' Alive  The Bee Gees 55  For What It's Worth  Buffalo Springfield 56  Blowin' in the Wind  Bob Dylan 57  Twist and Shout  The Beatles 58  Piano Man  Billy Joel 59  She Loves You  The Beatles 60  Space Oddity  David Bowie 61  Strawberry Fields Forever  The Beatles 62  Kashmir  Led Zeppelin 63  Crazy  Patsy Cline 64  London Calling  The Clash 65  Jumpin' Jack Flash The Rolling Stones 66  Rock and Roll  Led Zeppelin 67  Let's Stay Together  Al Green 68  All Shook Up  Elvis Presley 69  Maggie May  Rod Stewart 70  Your Song  Elton John 71  Heartbreak Hotel  Elvis Presley 72  God Only Knows  The Beach Boys 73  The Twist  Chubby Checker 74  Good Golly, Miss Molly  Little Richard 75  Sunshine of Your Love  Cream 76  California Girls  The Beach Boys 77  Summertime Blues  Eddie Cochran 78  Blue Suede Shoes  Carl Perkins 79  A Hard Day's Night  The Beatles 80  Fire and Rain  James Taylor 81  Gloria  Them 82  Sexual Healing  Marvin Gaye 83  Start Me Up  The Rolling Stones 84  More Than a Feeling  Boston 85  Roxanne  The Police 86  We Are the Champions  Queen 87  Tangled Up in Blue  Bob Dylan 88  Somebody to Love  Jefferson Airplane 89  Stand by Me  Ben E. King 90  Whole Lotta Shakin' Going On  Jerry Lee Lewis 91  You Shook Me All Night Long  AC/DC 92  When Doves Cry  Prince 93  In The Midnight Hour  Wilson Pickett 94  Gimme Some Lovin'  Spencer Davis Group 95  Jump  Van Halen 96  Thunder Road  Bruce Springsteen 97  No Woman, No Cry  Bob Marley & The Wailers 98  La bamba  Ritchie Valens 99  We've Only Just Begun  The Carpenters 100  Papa Was a Rollin' Stone  The Temptations

 Véxase tamén 
 Outros artigos 
 Os 100 mellores artistas de todos os tempos segundo VH1
Ligazóns externas
 A lista en Dave Tompkins Music Database

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