So many classic tunes came out of this magical time in music that it's almost impossible to pick the very best, but that's what the staff of Ultimate Classic Rock did when they voted on the "Top 50 Hard Rock Songs of the '70s" earlier this year — and it's pretty tough to argue with which song was crowned number one.
As for the top 5, a mix of unsurprising favorites battled it out for the winning spot. AC/DC's "Highway to Hell" took the number 5 slot, with "Smoke on the Water" by Deep Purple coming in at #4. The #3 position was nabbed by Led Zeppelin's masterpiece "Kashmir," with Aerosmith's "Sweet Emotion" — from 1975's Toys in the Attic — taking #2.
"Is there a more exciting or fitting moment in hard rock than the opening seconds of Led Zeppelin's fourth album?" wrote UCR's Michael Gallucci, before going on to rave about the rest of the tune.
Naturally, this list from UCR is far from the only one to award "Black Dog" with high, hard-rocking honors. In 2007, Q magazine ranked the song as #1 on a list of "20 Greatest Guitar Tracks," while Rolling Stone included the track on two separate lists of the "Greatest Songs of All Time" (at 294 and 300) and Classic Rock placed the tune at #18 on the "Top 50 Classic Rock Songs of All Time" (just to name a few).
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