10 Greatest Hard Rock Songs Of The 1990s

10. Thunderstruck - AC/DC

You don't really expect a band like AC/DC to really switch up their style all that often. Ever since reinventing themselves with a new singer on Back In Black, every other album feels like they were trying to recapture the same sort of magic. Every so often though, you get that one song that manages to get that same swagger all over again.

Arriving just before the waves of grunge really hit, the sound of Thunderstruck's opening lick was enough to get any wannabe rock fan into the genre on its own. From the opening notes, it practically feels like you're listening to the seconds before a musical bomb goes off, which gets even more exciting when the drums actually kick in. After all those years, Brian Johnson is still sounding as raw and ruthless as ever as well, with some of the best screams that he ever put onto a record at that point.

It's not like this was going to revolutionize the rock world overnight or anything. This was just the same kind of music that AC/DC was churning out, only with a lot more urgency this time around. Not all of the greatest rock songs in the world have to reinvent the wheel though. Sometimes that feeling of adrenaline is enough. There's no need to overanalyze a song like this here. It rocked...end of story.