Top Ten Extreme Songs Before the 1980s

The Top Ten

1 Your Pretty Face is Going to Hell - The Stooges

It's heavier than any of the '70s punk rock songs for sure...

2 Children of the Grave - Black Sabbath

Those riffs makes earthquakes.

3 Kill the King - Rainbow

I think this song is pretty extreme - very aggressive, fast and loud, esp. when Dio screams " Oh, kill
Oh, kill".

4 Kick Out the Jams - Mc5

One of the songs that started it all...

5 Dissident Aggressor - Judas Priest

6 Highway Star - Deep Purple

One of the earliest speed metal songs with really heavy vocals by Ian Gillan.

7 I Got a Right - The Stooges

Raw hardcore punk from 1972 (released in 1977)

8 Demolición - Los Saicos

Not really extreme by today's standards, but extreme for 1964.

9 No Feelings - Sex Pistols

Really raw, wild & extreme punk rock

10 Damned Flame - Blast

The Contenders

11 Black Night - Deep Purple

The beginning riff is bluesy, but you can hear a thrashy riff under the lyrics. And the vocals are really agressive on this.

12 California Uber Alles - Dead Kennedys

Late '70s hardcore punk

13 Into the Void - Black Sabbath

14 Earthquake - Uli Jon Roth & Electric Sun

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