The Rock's annual Rock 1000 kicks off on the 31st of August. It runs for two weeks and counts down the top 1000 rock songs of all time. Last years winner was Enter Sandman by Metallica

If you want to vote check out the link, you can vote for up to 10 songs.

http://www.therock.net.nz/Music/Countdowns/TheRock1000/tabid/728/Default.aspx

Oh and for you Aussies if you want to listen to this epic countdown you can online!

1000. Joan Jett - I Love Rock And Roll
999. Pearl Jam - Given To Fly
998. Phantom Planet - California
997. Hootie and the Blow Fish - Let Her Cry
996. Velvet Revolver - Slither
995. Travis - Why Does It Always Rain On Me
994. White Stripes - Blue Orchid
993. U2 - Sometimes You Can't Make It On Your Own
992. Weta - Let It Go
991. The Offspring - Hammerhead
990. Wallflowers - One Headlight
989. Live - Turn My Head
988. Zed - Renegade Fighter
987. Red Hot Chili Peppers - Can't Stop
986. Guns 'N' Roses - Better
985. The Panic Channel - Teahouse Of The Spirits
984. The Refreshments - Banditos
983. The Killers - Bones
982. The Doors - Touch Me
981. Weezer - Hash Pipe
980. Talking Heads - Once In A Lifetime
979. The Calling - Wherever You Will Go
978. Peter Frampton - Do You Feel Like We Do
977. Thirsty Merc - In The Summertime
976. Led Zeppelin - Heartbreaker
965. Weta - Calling On
964. The Cars - Drive
963. Weezer - Buddy Holly
962. Phantom, Rocker and Slick - Men Without Shame
961. The Verve - Sonnet
960. Steriogram - Walkie Talkie Man
959. Pearl Jam - Dissident
958. Train - Drops of Jupiter
957. The Chills - I Love My Leather Jacket
956. Garbage - Only Happy When It Rains
955. The Exies - Ugly
954. David Bowie - Let's Dance
953. The Feelers - As Good As It Gets
952. The Feelers - Fishing For Lisa
951. Tom Petty - Don't Come Around Here No More
950. Dandy Warhols - We Used To Be Friends
949. Crowded House - Locked Out
948. Airbourne - Too Much, Too Young, Too Fast
947. Mile High - Now
966. Barenaked Ladies - One Week
965. The Darkness - I Believe In A Thing Called Love
964. The Red Hot Chili Peppers - Love Rollercoaster
963. Men at Work - Overkill
962. Lost Prophets - Rooftops
961. Bon Jovi - Have A Nice Day
960. Stellar - Violent
959. Keane - Somewhere Only We Know
958. The Angles - The Dogs Are Talking
957. Steriophonics - Dakota
956. Tom Cochrane - Life Is A Highway
955. The Dastuns - Stuck Here For Days
954. Tom Petty - Running Down a Dream
953. Kings of Leon - Revelry
952. Aerosmith - The Otherside
951. Lifehouse - Hanging By A Moment
950. ZZ Top - Gimme All Your Loving?


The First 50, some absolute shockers so far, I've bolded the songs I think are shit.

How much would an alltime list change every year...?

Actually quite a bit, idiots seem to vote for new songs too. Top 10 is generally pretty similar to previous years but the rest is a bit different.

There's ten songs still to go but via satellite we have a spoiler for everyone. The number one Black Hole Sun by Soundgarden!!!!

U taking the piss, Hot555... Black Hole Sun was 70. Stairway 3 Thunderstruck 2 which only leaves Metallica One.

I was listening to a bit in this gym this afternoon. what the fuk was greenday 21 guns doing in the entire list let alone top 50!

yea that song is fukn shit!

Was a pretty decent top 5 though, would of liked to seen a little Pearl Jam up there but oh well atleast we got Stairway!

Is there a full list somewhere?

http://www.therock.net.nz/Music/Countdowns/TheRock1000/tabid/728/Default.aspx

you wont find many if any Beatles on that Feldy, but I know Imagine made it on

I don't usually expect the Beatles to poll well in these things anyway. Mainly because unlike other legendary bands that have a clear greatest song (Led Zep's Stairway, Deep Purple's Smoke on the Water, The Kinks' Lola), no Beatles fan can ever agree which Beatles song is best, so there's never a song which really polls well, except occasionally "Hey Jude" or "A Day In The Life"

A hefty supply of fail in that list, but calling Keane shit was the low point ITT.

Keane is sooooooooooooooooo shit

Rubbish.

They're terribly underrated, and absolutely thrash the likes of Coldplay.

I saw/heard Keane for the first time on the Jools Holland show last Friday night on ABC2... I wouldn't say they're shit by any means, they were definitely one of the best on the show that night (three-way tie on that show with Bloc Party and Jakob Dylan IMO).. but I don't think they've got anything on Coldplay, whom I think have been the best artist of the last decade

There are a plethora of much better artists than Coldplay to emerge this decade. They haven't brought anything new, or overly interesting, to the table that other artists haven't already implemented with a better end product. And their blatant theft from Joe Satriani, for an average song that received Grammy nominations, is a disgrace.

I'll wait until later in the year to do a decade in review thread. But it should make for some interesting reading, and might remind me of some awesome albums I have gathering dust.

No way are coldplay the best artist of the last decade. Boring, boring, repetitive music.

Any other decade, Coldplay would have been nowhere near the best artist of the decade in my eyes... even in the 80's and 90's, they still had the Traveling Wilburys, Oasis, Nirvana, U2, KISS, Wacko Jacko etc in those decades....

But this decade, for someone who isn't a fan of dance, electronica, hip-hop, rap, hardcore genres, but of rock, this decade has been piss weak. Many bands have come out with one good album, some old hands of the business have released some rippers (Paul McCartney, George Harrison, Eric Clapton, Bob Dylan, Bruce Springsteen, even Ringo released a few good songs), but both Parachutes and A Rush of Blood to the Head have joined my favourites for the decade, which is enough to make them best this decade.

It's just been an overall shit decade really, dominated by the Idol franchise

I'll also post a musical review of the decade at the end of the year