Top 100 Classic Rock Songs

Partially driven by the song featured in the No. 40 position on our Top 100 Classic Rock Songs list, Fleetwood Mac's legendary 1977 record 'Rumours' has moved more than 19 million copies in the U.S. alone.

For Heart, the May 1977 arrival of their second album, ‘Little Queen,’ should’ve been an unqualified triumph. The Pacific Northwest band had become superstars in Canada and the U.S. during the previous year on the strength of their Mushroom Records-released debut, ‘Dreamboat Annie,’ and its hit singles, ‘Crazy On You’ and ‘Magic Man.’

Following the massive success of their self-titled debut record, England's Bad Company certainly had their work cut out for them when the time came around to crafting the dreaded sophomore follow-up. Fortunately for the band, that 1975 record, 'Straight Shooter' featured 'Feel Like Makin' Love,' the song that has landed on our list of Top 100 Classic Rock Songs.

Approximately one year following the release of JJ Cale's 1976 record 'Troubadour,' Eric Clapton introduced Cale's song 'Cocaine' to a much wider audience when he included the track on his album 'Slowhand,' released in November 1977.

In the spring of 1979, you couldn't escape the sounds of 'I Want You To Want Me,' the first big hit from Cheap Trick.Then again, why would you want to?

Four years after Frank Zappa realized there was something special about Alice Cooper, signing them to his record label, the title track from the band's 1972 album 'School's Out' sent the group to the head of the class. 40 years later, it still easily aces our Top 100 Classic Rock Songs entrance exam.

By 1980, more than a decade into their career, Judas Priest were ready to take on the world. With the release of their sixth album, the classic 'British Steel,' and the single 'Livin After Midnight' they were really delivering the goods.

Regardless of exactly what format the best local rock station from your teenage years favored -- the popular classics, the hard stuff, or true oldies -- odds are pretty good that Thin Lizzy's 1976 hit 'The Boys Are Back in Town' was regularly pulled out of the record stacks to accompany your evening's adventures.

Rush grab their much deserved slot on our Top 100 Classic Rock Songs list with a track that found the band once again breaking new ground artistically.

You can almost feel the warm breeze blowing in as the summery sounds of wind chimes lead into the acoustic guitar and fiddle during the opening of the next track on our Top 100 Classic Rock Songs countdown, the Doobie Brothers' 'Black Water.'