There are certain hard rock and metal songs, that friends and neighbours always ask me to to play, knowing that I have a huuuuuuge collection of early hard rock, heavy rock and metal. These are the kind of uber-popular tracks that everyone knows, and in fact sometimes the only metal or hard rock tracks that any given person without any metal albums at home might know.
From the requests I've had as a DJ at parties etc. I'd say these would probably be the top 20. 1 to 5 are solid, the rest vary due to who is at the party, how old they are and how pissed they are.
1. Fear of the Dark - Maiden
2. Nothing Else Matters - Metallica
3. Run to the Hills - Maiden
4. The Trooper - Maiden
5. Enter Sandman - Metallica
Breakin' the Law - Priest
Paranoid - Sabbath
The Boys Are Back in Town - Lizzy
War Pigs - Sabbath
Ace of Spades- Motorhead
Smoke on the Water - DP
Jailbreak - Lizzy
Stairway - Zeppelin
Kashmir - Zeppelin
Don't Fear the Reaper - BOC
Man on the Silver Mountain - Rainbow
Holy Diver - Dio
Wheels of Steel - Saxon
Bad Bad Boy - Nazareth
Rock You Like A Hurricane - Scorpions
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