Most Misleading and Inaccurate Number One Items On TheTopTens
As it goes without saying, this will be an incredibly subjective list. There are lists where the authors, voters or both, got it wrong and put at #1 extremely inappropriate items. This happens for many reasons: limited knowledge on the subject, personal biases, unpopular opinions, poor voting tastes and the "effect of popularity". The "effect of popularity" appears when people vote for items they know or believe that the most popular is the best.Voting is very subjective and certain variations are normal, but don't mean that. I mean number one items that scream "wrong".
Format: The #1 item (List Title)
I started with #1 music items but you can add items from every category.
Nice list and forget about metal, Kurt Cobain isn't even a good hard-rock vocalist
He's not even the best grunge or alternative singer he's so overrated
Kurt Cobain isn't a metal singer. Nirvana are not a metal band.
Great rock singer but ain't metal.
Due to Led Zeppelin plagiarism this album can't even be called their album:
1. I Can't Quit You Baby - uncredited cover of W. Dixon's I Can't Quit You Baby (the song was credited back to him)
2. You Shook Me - uncredited cover of W. Dixon' You Shook Me (credited back to him)
3. Dazed and Confused - uncredited cover of Jake Holme's Dazed and Confused
4. Babe I'm Gonna Leave You - uncredited cover of Joan Baez's Babe I'm Gonna Leave You, originally by A. Bredon
5. How Many More Times - a ripoff of Howlin’ Wolf's How Many More Years and Albert King's The Hunter
This is one of the most OVERrated bands. They even won a Grammy for best metal performance! Their Grammy winning metal song isn't impressive at all from a metal viewpoint - guitar work, vox, drumming. This is a very simple song and easy to play. On the other hand, bands like Megadeth never won a metal Grammy...
Update: I made this list in 2016 but in 2017 Megadeth won a Grammy. Yeah, after 11 nominations since the early 90s. RATM got a metal Grammy in the 90s.
Really? I guess millions of people in real life who bought their songs and were at their shows... never heard of them.
Thankfully, Iron Maiden are at no. 10 now on the list. This is still not ideal, but certainly a big improvement.
This list is about musicians whose headbanging is good. Stay with Me, the #1 item (45%), is a song by The Faces - Rod Stewart's band before his solo career.
Item #2 is also a song (18%). And then you can see the relevant items - Tom Araya (9%), Joey Jordison, Jason Newsted,...
This happened due to spam voting when the spam voter didn't even get the idea of the list but is still voting blindly for items #1 and #2. And the user votes every day!
This deserves to be higher because it completely ruined the original purpose of the list. The top four items are now songs instead of people.
Nirvana are not a hard rock band. The entire list is a mess - in the current top 10 only Guns N Roses are hard rock.
Nirvana were alternatives not hard rock
Lol hard rock?
Zxm Eruption ain't the hardest, once you have tapping it's easy. Metal Meltdown by Judas Priest or Altitudes by Jason Becker however...
No, it’s not the hardest.
How about Double Guitar Solo by Michael Angelo Batio, or Capricci Di Diablo by Yngwie, or Miles of Machines by Jeff Loomis? And there are probably at least 50 solos that are more difficult than the Afterlife’s.
I think the hardest is eruption by eddie Van Halen
He is a good singer but definitely not the singer with the Best Talent/Voice of All Time.
But Painkiller, Bohemian Rhapsody, Abigail, and many other songs that are obviously more difficult, weren't on the list.
It's a great album but definitely not the heaviest - Metallica are not even the heaviest thrash band. Besides, you have death metal, black metal and other forms of extreme metal that are way heavier.
Kreator's Pleasure to Kill is more heavier.
Breaking Benjamin are neither metal nor underrated.
ZP De Villiers Theart is a South African singer, songwriter, and the lead vocalist for Skid Row. Theart first garnered attention as the original singer of British power metal band DragonForce.
Roderick David "Rod" Stewart is a British rock singer-songwriter. Born and raised in London, he is of Scottish and English ancestry. He probably influenced a few people but claiming he was more influential than Bob Dylan or David Bowie is pretty silly.
But Mozart is at #15, Freddie Mercury at #16, and so on.
There are many far better rock bands in my opinion.
Hmm... No. There are more deserving bands.
Should be the Beatles.
Haha, Babylon was in Asia and not Africa. It was a city in Mesopotamia. In modern days in this region are located mostly Iraq and Kuwait, and parts of Eastern Syria and Southeastern Turkey.
Items #5 (Fire On Babylon) and #7 (Lebanon) are also problematic because Lebanon is again, in Asia.
Oh geography...
@visitor: RE "they are often credited as being one of the original heavy metal bands". Led Zeppelin are credited by pseudo-experts who don't know what metal is. Led Zeppelin have never been a metal band and never tried to be(come) a metal band. Thank God Led Zeppelin themselves don't see their music as metal.
You can write your opinion as many times and ways that you want to but that doesn't make it accurate. You appear far too obsessed with the "plagiarism" issues. Even though the band used unoriginal material that does Not make them untalented.
Fact is, they were/are extremely talented musicians/singer
No, numerous blatant ripoffs don't speak talent - I made 2 lists about that just to avoid listing many song titles and writing explanations every time I want to give facts in support of my point:
Top 10 Songs That Led Zeppelin Ripped Off
Top 10 Led Zeppelin Songs That Were Ripped Off From Another Artist
@visitor: RE "You can write your opinion as many times..." - my opinion is based on accurate facts. You can live in denial by the end of your life but this won't change the facts and your blind faith won't make them better.
There’s absolutely nothing unique in their sound. But bands with really unique sound were not on the list - Pink Floyd, Blind Guardian, Jethro Tull, Rush, Metallica, Type O Negative, and many more that would be more relevant than Three Days Grace.
I have added this cause I never heard he sang.In fact I never saw him singing backing vocals
Roderick David "Rod" Stewart is a British rock singer-songwriter. Born and raised in London, he is of Scottish and English ancestry. Spam Voting= anything getting a lot of votes that you don't like.
First of all, this song isn’t metal at all. If this simple, poppy and cheesy song is the Greatest Metal Song of the 2000s, I don't wanna call myself a metalhead anymore.
Pay attention to the vocal line and especially the chorus - it would be a perfect chorus to a children song. How is this metal? Moreover, the Greatest Metal Song of the 2000s?!? Playing children or/and poppy songs spiced with some loud guitars and drums doesn’t mean metal.
By the way the whole list is awful (Greatest Metal Songs of the 2000s) - most of the songs are not really metal songs.
No Metallica song should be at 1.
He's an OK singer but not the best, come on. He's not even the best metal singer from Finland. One year ago the top 10 of this list looked even worse.
How do I know it's an Avenged Sevenfold song?
It sounds just like all the other Avenged Sevenfold songs. Which sound like each other.
No, there are hundreds of better rock solos (especially solos by metal bands).