(VA) 100 Hits: Hard 'N' Heavy

I found the track listing for this mad collection on various sites along the WWW. But every Rapidshare download link which was tantalizingly provided turned out to be nothing but a tease: the link was either deleted or it had expired.

So I painstakingly gathered all the listed tracks from my own collection, while trying to find the others I didn't have, through Soulseek, through internet searches, etc. After almost a week's worth of exploring, I was finally down to the last 5-7 songs, or so.

And wouldn't you know it: just as I'm finishing my last batch of downloads to artificially complete this collection, I actually found it on some obscure blog (whose name/address/URL escapes me). So I decided to post it here, if for nothing more than to make it easier for people searching for this thing to find.

About the artist and song selection: you'll find the usual suspects here: Judas Priest, Metallica, Anthrax, Ozzy Osbourne, AC/DC, Accept...But except for a few instances, you won't necessarily find the songs with which these artists are most identified (although there are a few of those -- you know what I mean). Then there's the cheesy '80s Hair Metal contingent (Mr. Big? Great White? Enuff Z'Nuff, for crying out loud?!!!). Still, even the song selection here is not the big radio hits but harder-edged stuff, which really works. Next, you'll also find some REALLY obscure stuff -- shit I'd never heard of: Impellitteri, Kreator, Gamma Ray, etc.

However, I was surprised (and in some cases disappointed) that I didn't hear any Iron Maiden...or Venom (how can you NOT have Venom on a collection called "Hard 'N' Heavy"?). I would have also liked to see some old Van Halen from their first album, on this. But that's neither here nor there. I've been playing this like crazy over the past week.

It's been mentioned once before, about why I don't post individual files for download. Well, with 100 songs, I seriously don't plan to. I used to do that with my previous blog and was asked why I don't just zip files. Makes sense to me...it was too much of a pain in the ass to upload each file individually, anyway. Besides: how hard is it to just delete the songs you don't want?

For some reason, the track listing below is a bit out of whack, but they're all there.

(All 100 songs can be downloaded by clicking on the album cover above. If it's too slow, click on the links below.):

100 Hits 1-10

100 Hits 11-20

100 Hits 21-30

100 Hits 31-40

100 Hits 41-50

100 Hits 51-60

100 Hits 61-70

100 Hits 71-80

100 Hits 81-90

100 Hits 91-100


(VA) 100 Hits: Hard 'N' Heavy

1	AC/DC	Thunderstruck	4:52
2	Ozzy Osbourne	Crazy Train	4:50
3	Dio	We Rock	4:26
4	Deep Purple	Knocking At Your Back Door	7:04
5	King Kobra	Hunger	3:24
6	AC/DC	Highway To Hell	3:34
7	Rainbow	Tarot Woman	6:10
8	Warlock	Sign Of Satan	3:15
9	Black Sabbath	Heaven And Hell	4:25
10	Virgin Steele	I Will Come for You [Remastered]	5:43
11	Faith No More	War pigs	7:46
12	House Of Lords	Slip Of The Tongue	3:27
13	Accept	London Leatherboys	3:57
14	Metallica	Crash Course In Brain Surgery	3:10
15	Ozzy Osbourne	I Don’t Know	5:10
16	Voivod	Panorama	3:13
17	Possessed	Death Metal	3:15
18	Saxon	Princess Of The Night (live)	5:15
19	Alcatrazz	Jet To Jet	4:27
20	Night Ranger	Sentimental Street	4:10
21	Soundgarden	Come Together	5:48
22	Praying Mantis	Thirty Pieces Of Silver	3:53
23	Girlschool	Hit And Run	3:02
24	Accept	Metal Heart	5:22
25	AC/DC	Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap	4:16
26	Metallica	Astronomy	6:37
27	Krokus	Stayed A Wake All Night	4:43
28	Black Sabbath	Shock Wave	5:14
29	Deep Purple	Black And White	3:39
30	Judas Priest	Better By You, Better Than Me	2:59
31	Great White	Rock Me	7:16
32	Saxon	Wheels Of Steel	5:58
33	Bathory	Hades	2:46
34	Helloween	A Tale That Wasn't Right	4:43
35	Celtic Frost	Cherry Orchards	4:17
36	Onslaught	Lightning War	6:55
37	Joe Satriani	Ride	4:54
38	AC/DC	Let There Be Rock	6:10
39	L.A.Guns	Sex Action	3:41
40	Helloween	I Want Out	4:38
41	Ozzy Osbourne	Mr.Crowley	4:56
42	Stryper	To Hell With The Devil	4:05
43	Magnum	Invasion	3:22
44	Deep Purple	Call Of The Wild	4:50
45	Accept	Balls To The Wall	5:42
46	Rainbow	Do You Close Your Eyes	3:01
47	Blue Cheer	Nightmare	5:03
48	AC/DC	Touch Too Much	4:28
49	Night Ranger	Don't Tell Me You Love Me	4:20
50	Black Sabbath	Hard Road	6:03
51	Anthrax	Caught In A Mosh	4:58
52	Lita Ford	Blueberry	3:48
53	Deep Purple	Perfect Strangers	5:28
54	Saxon	Denim and Leather	5:26
55	Rainbow	Lost In Hollywood	4:52
56	Black Sabbath	Air Dance	5:16
57	AC/DC	Back In Black	4:16
58	Ian Gillan	Don't Want The Truth	5:40
59	W.A.S.P.	Wild Child	5:11
60	Voivod	Ravenous Medicine	4:21
61	Mr.Big	Had Enough	4:55
62	Blue Cheer	Girl Next Door	3:39
63	Saxon	Motorcycle Man	3:59
64	Kreator	Brainseed	3:17
65	Rainbow	Kill The King	4:28
66	Deep Purple	Under The Gun	4:38
67	Voivod	Voivod	4:15
68	Vow Wow	Hurricane	5:28
69	Rainbow	Stargazer	8:30
70	Impellitteri	Goodnight And Goodbye	3:12
71	Kreator	Flag Of Hate	4:38
72	Enuff Z'Nuff	New Thing	4:21
73	Motor Head & Girlschool	Please Don't Touch	2:50
74	Deep Purple	Nobody's Home	4:00
75	AC/DC	You Shook Me All Night Long	3:36
76	Mr.Big	Addicted To That Rush	4:45
77	Damn Yankees	High Enough	4:44
78	Toto	Gypsy Train	6:46
79	Gamma Ray	Rich And Famous	4:35
80	Anthrax	Got The Time	2:44
81	Guns N' Roses	Hair Of The Dog	3:54
82	AC/DC	Big Gun	4:21
83	Aerosmith	Helter Skelter	3:12
84	Deep Purple	Breakfast In Bed	5:13
85	April Wine	21st. Century Schizoid Man	5:21
86	Voivod	The Unknown Knows	5:54
87	Rainbow	All Night Long	3:50
88	W.A.S.P.	Jack Action	4:17
89	AC/DC	Meanstreak	4:09
90	Kreator	Ripping Corpse	3:38
91	Red Hot Chili Peppers	Higher Ground	3:22
92	Nirvana	School	2:42
93	Coroner	I Want You	7:14
94	Kreator	Renewal	4:35
95	Riot	Soldier	4:53
96	Great White	Face The Day	5:42
97	Coroner	Purple Haze	3:19
98	Deep Purple	The Cut Runs Deep	5:23
99	W.A.S.P.	Ballcrusher	3:25
100	Guns N' Roses	Live And Let Die	3:01