Is Bret Michaels a magician?

In addition to his campy rock prowess, the Poison vocalist is host of a new VH1 five-part special titled “The 100 Greatest Hard Rock Songs.”

The final episode — the Top 20 — airs tonight at 10 p.m.

I’m curious to learn how Michaels will shoehorn the following 30 songs into the grid:

Led Zeppelin, “Whole Lotta Love”
Led Zeppelin, “Black Dog”
Led Zeppelin, “Stairway to Heaven”
AC/DC, “Back in Black”
AC/DC, “You Shook Me All Night Long”
Metallica, “One”
Metallica, “Enter Sandman”
Guns N’ Roses, “Welcome to the Jungle”
Guns N’ Roses, “Paradise City”
Aerosmith, “Sweet Emotion”
Aerosmith, “Dream On”
Black Sabbath, “Paranoid”
Black Sabbath, “Iron Man”
Motley Crue, “Looks That Kill”
Motley Crue, “Girls, Girls, Girls”
Van Halen, “Runnin’ with the Devil”
Van Halen, “Panama”
Iron Maiden, “Run to the Hills”
Judas Priest, “Living After Midnight”
Kiss, “Rock and Roll All Nite”
Deep Purple, “Smoke on the Water”
Queen, “We Will Rock You”
Nirvana, “Smells Like Teen Spirit”
Jimi Hendrix, “Purple Haze”
Thin Lizzy, “The Boys Are Back in Town”
Rage Against the Machine, “Killing in the Name”
Pantera, “Walk”
Slayer, “Raining Blood”
Tool, “Sober”
Blue Cheer, “Summertime Blues”

None have appeared so far, and wouldn’t the list be a travesty without them?

Because visitors to VH1’s Web site voted on what songs would appear where, the entire exercise isn’t one to be taken that seriously.

So far, I’ve been happy to see Megadeth’s “Peace Sells,” Foo Fighters’ “Everlong,” the Stooges’ “Search and Destroy,” Living Colour’s “Cult of Personality,” the Cult’s “Love Removal Machine,” the White Stripes’ “Seven Nation Army” and Night Ranger’s “Don’t Tell Me You Love Me” make the cut as unexpected gems.

Here’s the list as revealed so far (numbers 21 through 100):

21. Led Zeppelin, “Kashmir”
22. The Jimi Hendrix Experience, “Hey Joe”
23. Ozzy Osbourne, “Crazy Train”
24. Iron Butterfly, “In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida”
25. The Ramones, “Blitzkrieg Bop”
26. Lynyrd Skynyrd, “Freebird”
27. Whitesnake, “Still of the Night”
28. Foo Fighters, “Everlong”
29. Joan Jett, “Bad Reputation”
30. Pearl Jam, “Even Flow”

31. AC/DC, “Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap”
32. Ted Nugent, “Cat Scratch Fever”
33. Green Day, “Basket Case”
34. Heart, “Barracuda”
35. Alice Cooper, “School’s Out”
36. Van Halen, “Hot for Teacher”
37. The Who, “My Generation”
38. Queen, “Stone Cold Crazy”
39. Boston, “More Than a Feeling”
40. Poison, “Talk Dirty to Me”

41. Quiet Riot, “Cum on Feel the Noize”
42. The Clash, “Should I Stay or Should I Go”
43. Dio, “Holy Diver”
44. Cream, “Sunshine of Your Love”
45. Foghat, “Slow Ride”
46. Anthrax, “Madhouse”
47. Kid Rock, “Bawitdaba”
48. Korn, “Freak on a Leash”
49. Iggy and the Stooges, “Search and Destroy”
50. Red Hot Chili Peppers, “Give It Away”

51. Megadeth, “Peace Sells”
52. The Runaways, “Cherry Bomb”
53. Steppenwolf, “Born to Be Wild”
54. Faith No More, “Epic”
55. Blue Oyster Cult, “Don’t Fear the Reaper”
56. Warrant, “Cherry Pie”
57. The Kinks, “You Really Got Me”
58. Stone Temple Pilots, “Interstate Love Song”
59. Billy Squier, “The Stroke”
60. Skid Row, “18 and Life”

61. Ratt, “Round and Round”
62. Dokken, “Breaking the Chains”
63. Survivor, “Eye of the Tiger”
64. Rollins Band, “Liar”
65. MC5, “Kick Out the Jams”
66. Europe, “The Final Countdown”
67. ZZ Top, “Tush”
68. White Zombie, “More Human Than Human”
69. Living Colour, “Cult of Personality”
70. Foreigner, “Hot Blooded”

71. Jane’s Addiction, “Mountain Song”
72. Pat Benatar, “Heartbreaker”
73. Thin Lizzy, “Jailbreak”
74. The Cult, “Love Removal Machine”
75. The White Stripes, “Seven Nation Army”
76. Lita Ford, “Kiss Me Deadly”
77. Soundgarden, “Black Hole Sun”
78. Bad Company, “Feel Like Making Love”
79. Billy Idol, “Rebel Yell”
80. Journey, “Any Way You Want It”

81. Black Sabbath, “Heaven and Hell”
82. Rainbow, “Since You Been Gone”
83. Evanescence, “Bring Me Back to Life”
84. W.A.S.P, “I Wanna Be Somebody”
85. Velvet Revolver, “Slither”
86. Marilyn Manson, “The Beautiful People”
87. Winger, “Seventeen”
88. Alice in Chains, “Would?”
89. Andrew W.K., “Party Hard”
90. Jethro Tull, “Aqualung”

91. Smashing Pumpkins, “Bullet With Butterfly Wings”
92. Night Ranger, “Don’t Tell Me You Love Me”
93. Autograph, “Turn Up the Radio”
94. The Darkness, “I Believe in a Thing Called Love”
95. Creed, “Higher”
96. Kansas, “Carry On My Wayward Son”
97. The Edgar Winter Group, “Frankenstein”
98. Buckcherry, “Lit Up”
99. Grand Funk Railroad, “We’re An American Band”
100. Sammy Hagar, “I Can’t Drive 55”