The best foreign hard rock. Bands, hard rock

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1. Sammy Hagar— "I Can't Drive 55"
2. Grand Funk Railroad— "We"re An American Bandv
3. Buckcherry— "Lit Up"
4. The Edgar Winter Group— "Frankenstein"
5. Kansas— "Carry On Wayward Son"
6. Creed- "Higher"
7. The Darkness— "I Believe In A Thing Called Love"
8. Autograph- "Turn Up The Radio"
9. Night Ranger- "Don't Tell Me You Love Me"
10. Smashing Pumpkins— "Bullet With Butterfly Wings"
11. Jethro Tull— "Aqualung"
12. Andrew W.K.— "Party Hard"
13. Alice In Chains- "Would you?"
14. Winger— "Seventeen"
15. Marilyn Manson — "The Beautiful People"
16. Velvet Revolver— "Slither"
17. W.A.S.P.— "I Wanna Be Somebody"
18. — "Bring Me To Life"
19. Rainbow— "Since You've Been Gone"
20. Black Sabbath — "Heaven And Hell"
21. Journey— "Any Way You Want It"
22. Billy Idol— "Rebel Yell"
23. Bad Company— "Feel Like Making Love"
24. Soundgarden— "Black Hole Sun"
25. Lita Ford— "Kiss Me Deadly"
26. The White Stripes— "Seven Nation Army"
27. The Cult— "Love Removal Machine"
28. Thin Lizzy— "Jailbreak"
29. Pat Benetar— "Heartbreaker"
30. Jane's Addiction— "Mountain Song"
31. Foreigner— "Hot Blooded"
32. Living Color— "Cult Of Personality"
33. White Zombie— "More Human Than Human"
34. ZZ Top— "Tush"
35. Europe— "The Final Countdown"
36. MC5— "Kick Out the Jams"
37. Rollins Band— "Liar"
38. Survivor- "Eye Of" The Tiger"
39. Dokken— "Breaking The Chains"
40. Ratt— "Round And Round"
41. Skid Row— "18 And Life"
42. Billy Squier— "The Stroke"
43. Stone Temple Pilots— "Interstate Love Song"
44. The Kinks— "You Really Got Me"
45. Warrant— "Cherry Pie"
46. Blue Oyster Cult- "Don't Fear The Reaper"
47. Faith No More— "Epic"
48. Steppenwolf— "Born To Be Wild"
49. The Runaways— "Cherry Bomb"
50. Megadeth— "Peace Sells"
51. Red Hot Chili Peppers— "Give It Away"
52. The Stooges— "Search And Destroy"
53. Korn- "Freak On A Leash"
54. Kid Rock— "Bawitdaba"
55. Anthrax— "Madhouse"
56. Foghat— "Slow Ride"
57. Cream— "Sunshine Of Your Love"
58. Dio— "Holy Diver"
59. The Clash— "Should I Stay Or Should I Go"
60. Quiet Riot— "Cum On Feel The Noize"
61. Poison— "Talk Dirty To Me"
62. Boston— "More Than A Feeling"
63. Queen— "Stone Cold Crazy"
64. The Who— "My Generation"
65. Van Halen— "Hot For Teacher"
66. Alice Cooper— "School's Out"
67. Heart— "Barracuda"
68. Green Day— "Basket Case"
69. Ted Nugent— "Cat Scratch Fever"
70. AC/DC— "Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap"
71. Pearl Jam— "Even Flow"
72. Joan Jett— "Bad Reputation"
73. Foo Fighters— "Everlong"
74. Whitesnake— "Still Of The Night"
75. Lynyrd Skynyrd— "Free Bird"
76. The Ramones— "Blitzkrieg Bop"
77. Iron Butterfly- "In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida"
78. Ozzy Osbourne— "Crazy Train"
79. Jimi Hendrix Experience— "Hey Joe"
80. Led Zeppelin— "Kashmir"
81. Bon Jovi— "You Give Love A Bad Name"
82. Rush— "Tom Sawyer"
83. Scorpions- "Rock You Like A Hurricane"
84. Twisted Sister— "I Wanna Rock"
85. Kiss- "Rock And Roll All Nite"
86. Motley Crue— "Dr. Feelgood"
87. Iron Maiden- "Run To The Hills"
88. Def Leppard— "Photograph"
89. Judas Priest— "Breaking The Law"
90. Deep Purple — "Smoke On The Water"

And finally, the top ten:

10 Motorhead- "Ace Of Spades"

Motorhead- one of the most charismatic British bands, which had a huge influence on the development of all heavy music, in particular on the emergence of speed metal.

09Van Halen- "Running With The Devil"

Van Halen- American hard rock () band, founded in the distant 1972 in Pasadena, California Brothers Edward and Alex Van Halen formed a rock band called Mammoth. In 1974, the team received its current name “ Van Halen».

08 Aerosmith— "Walk This Way"

Aerosmith- were formed in 1970 and exist to this day. During this time, the guys released only 15 studio albums, there is still plenty live albums and collections.

Black Sabbath are a British rock band formed in Birmingham, England, in 1969 and have had a significant influence on the development of rock music, primarily heavy metal.

03 Led Zeppelin— "Whole Lotta Love"

Led Zeppelin are a British rock band formed in September 1968 in London, England, and recognized as one of the most successful, innovative and influential in modern history took an honorable third place in this TOP.

Creating their own sound, characterized by a heavy guitar drive, a deafening rhythm section and shrill vocals, Led Zeppelin became one of the leading hard rock bands, playing a fundamental role in the development of heavy metal, according to Wikipedia, freely interpreting folk and blues -classics and enriching the style with elements of other musical genres (reggae, soul, funk,). It is Led Zeppelin ( according to Allmusic), refusing to release singles, laid the foundation for the concept of “album rock”.

02 AC/DC- "Back In Black"

AC/DC gets the silver of this top.

Together with groups such as Led Zeppelin, Deep Purple, Iron Maiden, Scorpions, Black Sabbath, Uriah Heep, Judas Priest, Motorhead.AC/DC is often regarded as the pioneers of hard rock and heavy metal. The musicians themselves classified their music as, since it is based on the highly distorted sound of rhythmic and lead guitars.

01 Guns N' Roses— "Welcome To The Jungle"

And they get gold Guns N' Roses!

The track "Welcome To The Jungle", which opened Appetite For Destruction, had a music video shot and was released as a single in the US. The album and single were initially unsuccessful until David Geffen, founder of Geffen Records, convinced MTV executives to include the "Welcome To The Jungle" video on their nightly broadcast.

And although the video clip was shown at an unattractive time, around 5 a.m., viewers noticed it and began calling and ordering it. And now it ranks first in the top songs according to VH1.

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Hard rock (the first word translates as “heavy”) - musical style, which appeared in the 60s and gained greatest popularity in the 70s of the last century. What distinctive qualities does he have? Firstly, they are heavy and secondly, a fairly calm tempo, which cannot be said about heavy metal, which appeared a little later.

The origin of the style

It is believed that this style was founded by The Kinks, who released the simple song “You Really Got Me” in 1964. However, it was interesting because the musicians played fuzzed guitars. Just imagine: we might not have known anything about this style if it were not for the contribution of this group. Hard rock appeared precisely thanks to this band. Around the same time, there was an activity that performed music in the same style. But there was a hint of psychedelia in it. Also, teams that played blues began to come to the newly created style, for example, “Yardbirds”, as well as “Cream”.

early 70s

It should be noted that this direction developed most actively in the UK, and soon Black Sabbath, Deep Purple and Led Zeppelin were formed. Soon such all-time hits as “Paranoid” and “In Rock” appeared.

The most successful album in the hard rock style was "Machine Head", which included a song that absolutely everyone knows now, it was called "Smoke On The Water". At the same time, a rather gloomy band from Birmingham, calling themselves "Black Sabbath", worked alongside their famous colleagues. This team also laid the foundation for a style called doom, which began to develop only ten years later. The 70s had barely begun when new hard rock bands appeared - “Uriah Heep”, “Free”, “Nazareth”, “Atomic Rooster”, “UFO”, “Budgie”, “Thin Lizzy”, “Black Widow” ", "Status Quo", "Foghat". And these are not all the groups founded at this time. There were also groups among them that flirted with other styles (for example, “Atomic Rooster” and “Uriah Heep” did not shy away from progressive, “Foghat” and “Status Quo” played boogie, and “Free” gravitated towards blues-rock) .

But, be that as it may, they all played hard. In the USA, too, many people paid attention to this style. The groups "Bloodrock", "Blue Cheer", and also "Grand Funk Railroad" appeared there. The groups were not bad at all, but they did not achieve wide fame. But many still loved these groups. The hard rock they played set the hearts of their fans on fire.

Mid to late 70s

In the mid-70s, such wonderful bands as Montrose, Kiss and Aerosmith were founded. In addition, Alice Cooper, who performed shock rock, and Ted Nugent began to gain popularity. Followers of the style also began to appear from other countries: Australia brought to the stage the kings of hard rock and roll called “AC/DC”, Canada gave us “April Wine”, the rather melodic group “Scorpions” was born in Germany, and “Scorpions” were formed in Switzerland. Krokus".

But things weren't going very well for Deep Purple - they were going through a difficult period in their lives. Soon the group ceased to exist, but after this two wonderful groups were formed - "Rainbow", founded by R. Blackmore (later he gave birth to "Dio"), and "Whitesnake" - the brainchild of D. Coverdale. However, the end of the 70s could not be called a prosperous time for hard rock, since then they began to gain popularity new wave and punk. It is also important that the kings of style began to lose ground - “Deep Purple” no longer existed, “Black Sabbath” lost their leader and were unsuccessfully looking for a new one, nothing was heard about “Led Zeppelin” either, after he died

90s

The 90s were marked by widespread interest in alternative music, including grunge, and hard rock was relegated to the background at that time, although good bands occasionally appeared. Most Interest was called by the group "Guns N" Roses, which shocked the world with their song "Use Your Illusion", and the European groups "Gotthard" (Switzerland) and "Axel Rudi Pell" (Germany) were not far behind them.

A little bit later…

Music in this style was performed later, but some bands, for example, Velvet Revolver and White Stripes, sounded a little different, there was an admixture of alternative, it was not pure hard rock. The groups are mostly foreign and did not try to adhere to any standards.

But the most devoted followers of the style, who have not forgotten the classical traditions, can be called “Answer”, “Darkness”, and also “Roadstar”, but the last two of them soon ceased to exist.

"Gorky Park"

Of the number of Russian representatives of hard rock, this group stands out most clearly. It was popular back in the USSR, the guys sang songs in English. In the 80s, the team became known in America, and soon it became the first domestic team to be shown on MTV. Many people remember such “tricks” of this group as Soviet symbols and folk clothing.

Performance with Scorpions, new album, video shooting, popularity in America

The Gorky Park collective appeared in 1987. 12 months later, the team sang on the same stage with the Scorpions when they were in St. Petersburg.

Soon after this, the guys began to call themselves in English - “Gorky Park”, and in 1989 the song of the same name was recorded interesting design- the letters G and P were written on it, resembling a hammer and sickle in shape. The group then flew to New York to make videos called "Bang!" and "My Generation". IN Western countries at that time, many were interested in the USSR, and the team fell in love with a wide range of Americans. And it’s not surprising, because it was the best Russian hard rock. The bands playing in this style in our homeland could be counted on one hand, and Gorky Park undoubtedly beat them all. Their success was enormous.

"Music Festival of the World"

"Gorky Park" began to travel like home country, and by state. In 1989, the group performed their songs at the famous metropolitan “Music Festival of the World”, then they were heard by one hundred and fifty thousand music lovers.

Bon Jovi, Ozzy Osbourne, Motley Crue, Skid Row, Cinderella and Scorpions performed on the same stage. Of course, this was a great event for the group; the guys were happy that they were able to sing together with such legendary musicians. Later they recalled this festival as one of best events in the band's history, and they were right.

Touring Europe

Two years later, the group received the status of the most successful new international team. At the dawn of the 90s, the group successfully toured Sweden, Germany, Denmark, and Norway. These countries have not seen such a wonderful group for a long time. The hard rock they performed was simply magnificent. Each performance was sold out, people came in droves to listen good music. And no one was left disappointed, everyone was delighted with the performance of this group. Could you really expect anything else from a team where each member was truly talented? Therefore, it is not surprising that the group achieved success.

“Moscow Calling”, departure of Alexander Minkov, breakup of the group

However, after some time, Russia ceased to captivate the minds of people in the West, and they began to forget about Gorky Park in America. Soon the band released the album “Moscow Calling”, and began touring around our country.

1998 was marked by the departure of Alexander Minkov from the team, who came up with the name “Alexander Marshal” and began singing separately from the group. After this, Gorky Park began to worry about better times, and soon the team actually ceased to exist. However, Yan Yanenkov, together with Alexei Belov, continued to perform old compositions. They began to call themselves “Belov Park”.

But former members The once famous group did not forget about each other and sometimes got together to perform. Well, that's not a bad idea. Their fans were happy to see the newly assembled team and listen to their favorite songs. Each time they sang them together with their idols, wondering if this was the last performance or if they would have another opportunity to hear the legendary group.

Hard rock bands: list

To summarize, we should list the bands playing in this style. Just for ease of perception.

Jimi Hendrix, Cream, Yardbirds, Led Zeppelin, Deep Purple, Black Sabbath, Nazareth, Atomic Rooster, Uriah Heep, Free, Thin Lizzy, UFO, Black Widow, Status Quo, Foghat, Budgie, Bloodrock, Blue Cheer, Grand Funk Railroad, Montrose, Kiss, Aerosmith, AC/DC, Scorpions, April Wine, Krokus, Rainbow, Dio, Whitesnake, Guns N" Roses, Gotthard, Axel Rudi Pell, Velvet Revolver, White Stripes, Answer, Darkness, Roadstar.

Russian groups: Gorky Park, Bes of Illusions, Moby Dick, Voice of the Prophet.

In front of you is the most successful groups. Hard rock is performed by completely different and at the same time somewhat similar groups.

It is quite difficult to give a clear definition of rock, because the range of performers is incredibly wide - from the “classic” Led Zeppelin, Deep Purple and the later universally recognized Metallica to heavy music “not for everyone” like Rammstein. Perhaps this is why he is so loved and popular today. This broad direction does not have clear stylistic boundaries. The best foreign rock is imbued with the spirit of freedom, free-thinking, powerful energy and even a certain aggression. In this section of the site, you can download the site for free or listen online to your favorite mp3 collection of the best rock music, enjoy its high-quality sound and hear new releases.

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