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Feb 9, 2024 · The Best Rock Lyrics Of All Time. No. 1. Bob Dylan, “Subterranean Homesick Blues”. No. 30. Led Zeppelin, “Stairway to Heaven”. From: Led Zeppelin IV (1971) If there’s a bustle in your hedgerow, don’t be alarmed now – it’s just a spring clean for the May Queen.
A list of all time songs lyrics from the Rock & Roll style. Find the perfect Rock & Roll tracks from the world's best artists.
- "I Love Rock 'N Roll" (1981) — Joan Jett & the Blackhearts. So what if it's a cover? Joan Jett & the Blackhearts own this song with every ounce of their being.
- "Born to Run" (1975) — Bruce Springsteen. If "At night, we ride through the mansions of glory/In suicide machines" doesn't sound like a typical rock lyric, it's because this ode to love, cars, and unfulfilled American dreams is anything but typical.
- "Starman" (1972) — David Bowie. David Bowie's "Starman" is a soaring wonder, a sparkly tale about an alien communicating with Earth's children via radio (and phone!).
- "Once in a Lifetime" (1980) — Talking Heads. An ode to disassociation, the Talking Heads' signature song is carried by Tina Weymouth's hypnotic rubber-band bassline and (her husband) Chris Frantz's shuddery beats.
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- David Bowie – Suffragette City. “Wham Bam, Thank You Mam! 50 Of The Best Lyrical Moments In Rock And Pop Music article published on Classic RockHistory.com© 2022.
- Harry Nilsson – You’re Breakin’ My Heart. ” Your Breaking my heart, you’re tearing it apart so F#ck You.”
- The Who – Won’t Get Fooled Again’ ” Meet the new boss, same as the old boss!”
- Led Zeppelin – The Lemon Song. ” Squeeze my lemon until the juice runs down my leg”
- Bill Haley and His Comets: “
- The Killers: “Glamorous Indie Rock and Roll”
- Billy Joel: “It’s Still Rock and Roll to Me”
- Chuck Berry: “Johnny B Goode”
- Don McLean: “American Pie”
- Elton John: “Crocodile Rock”
- Grand Funk Railroad: “We’re An American Band”
- Kiss: “Detroit Rock City”
- Queen: “We Will Rock You”
- Bob Seger: “Old Time Rock and Roll”
The first No. 1 single in Billboard Hot 100 history didn’t just glorify rock’n’roll; it introduced it to the world. The term was coined in 1947, but no rock song had connected with the public close to the scale of “(We’re Gonna) Rock Around The Clock”. Prior to recording the Max Freedman- and Jimmy DeKnight-penned song, Bill Haley and his bandmates...
This song was released after rock’n’roll’s commercial peak – and was a B-side at that. The Killers were one of the biggest rock bands to emerge in the rap-dominated 00s, but that didn’t mean Brandon Flowers and company were above getting a little cheeky. On this Hot Fuss bonus track (it was formally released on their 2007 loose ends compilation, Sa...
The piano man had grown nostalgic around the early 80s, taking in the “hot funk” and “cool punk” of the new wave era, only to shrug his shoulders and spit out the title of this classic rock radio staple. Billy Joel’s been a lot of things – storied songwriter, commercial powerhouse – but he’s never quite been cool. On this ode to the doo-wop and R&B...
Chuck Berry’s signature song glorified rock’n’roll, sure, but also saluted what rock can do when you play it really well: get you paid. Chuck could riff better than anyone, and with all the duckwalkin’ stage show flair to match, he’d be the first to tell you how rock’n’roll would make him rich. Johnny is a poor, near-illiterate country boy playing ...
There’s a reason this arcane, eight-minute folk-rock song has been scrutinized like a Rosetta Stone of baby boomer lore for nearly 50 years: Don McLean had a bard’s take on what’d happened to rock’n’roll between Woodstock and the plane crash that killed Buddy Holly. But it’s not exactly a love letter to the 60s. After McLean takes in assassinations...
“Crocodile Rock” jolted listeners back to their pre-Beatles jukebox dancin’ days, with Elton’s live-wire Farfisa organ riff and whimsical falsetto guiding the way. He never took this rock’n’roll song too seriously, but it did do something previous singles “Rocket Man” and “Tiny Dancer” didn’t – reach the peak of Billboard’s Hot 100 chart, marking E...
Prior to recording their signature song, Grand Funk Railroad was embroiled in a legal battle with their recently-fired manager, six albums into a career that’d never see them break the Billboard Hot 100’s Top 20. But after thundering to No. 1 with “We’re An American Band”, the reputation (and homeland) of the rabble-rousers from Flint, Michigan, we...
“Flint Rock City”? “Detroit” just has a better ring to it. It was a live album, 1975’s Alive! that made KISSstars, and the iconic group followed it with a rock’n’roll song that captured all the fire and fury of their concerts. Its unrelenting, death-wish dual guitar attack would inspire heavy metal giants of the next decade, and a generation later,...
Boom-boom, clap. Boom-boom, clap. Guitarist Brian May wrote “We Will Rock You” to inspire incendiary crowd chants, and the result was a two-minute torpedo that’s gone on to rev up Queen crowds, football crowds, basketball crowds, cheerleading competition crowds, academic decathlon crowds… you get the idea. The whole thing is a sonic serotonin rush:...
By the end of the 70s, discowas huge and here to stay, but this grizzled heartland rocker had some complaints; unlike the boorish bulk of the “Disco Sucks” contingent, he could still get your toe-tappin’. “You’ll never even get me out on the floor,” Seger snarls on this love letter to the 60s jukebox heyday, accompanied by a bluesy, piano-rock jaun...
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May 19, 2011 · AC/DC. “ Stand up and be counted / For what you are about to receive / We are the dealers / We'll give you everything you need. ” Hell’s house band have long been the masters of delivering ...
[Verse 1] New York, New York, is everything they say. And no place that I'd rather be. Where else can you do a half a million things. All at a quarter to three. When they play their music, ooh that...
