20 Most Underrated Hard Rock Songs Of All Time

20. Sucker Train Blues - Velvet Revolver

The idea of supergroups in hard rock has been a little bit complicated. While it makes sense for a band comprised of rock stars to make beautiful music, things often get out of hand and become more about the sales revenue than the actual music. On the other hand, when you get a band like Velvet Revolver together, the heights were nothing short of meteoric.

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On paper, the idea of pairing the glam rock stylings of Guns N Roses with the alternative feeling of Scott Weiland sounds like it could be a strange fit, but "Sucker Train Blues" showed this band to be one of the greatest supergroups of all time. Starting with Duff McKagan's bass, the song erupts with Slash's sleazy form of blues guitar as Weiland trades in his laid-back alternative voice for a hard rock howl.

The song also features some more off-the-wall experiments taken from Weiland's days in Stone Temple Pilots, like using the second segment of the verses to sing his lyrics through a bullhorn. After years of sparring sessions between the hair metal prettyboys and the rootsy grunge rockers, songs like these proved that it was OK to have the best of both worlds. It wasn't necessarily expected, but what we ended up with was better than anyone could have predicted.

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