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I've only gathered eleven songs. There are countless others. I've ignored a few good ones, and legions of bad ones.
[in chronological order]
Rock & Roll, The Velvet Underground
"Then, one fine mornin', she puts on a New York station
They know, she don't believe what she heard at all
She started shakin' to that fine, fine music
You know, her life was saved by rock'n'roll"
The story of a band putting in their dues on the way to making it big. A bit ironic, as Boston the band really didn't exist before Tom Scholz signed a contract with Epic for their first album. Scholz recorded the album in his home-built studio, doing everything but the drumming and vocals. To get a contract, he had to put a band together to support the album.
Death or Glory, The Clash
As politically strident as Joe Strummer's lyrics could be, by other turns he was also very self-effacing. Befitting its subject, it is one of the most stipped-down songs in the Clash's canon.
"And every gimmick hungry yob digging, gold from rock and roll
Grabs the mic to tell us he'll die before he's sold
But I believe in this and it's been tested by research
He who [has sex with*] nuns will later join the church"
*not the actual lyric
"Now tickets to concerts and drinking at clubs
Sometimes for music that you haven't even heard of.
And how much did you pay for your rock 'n' roll t-shirt
That proves you were there, that you heard of them first?"
The story of a band finds an angle - they refuse to actually play.
"Now to fit in on the Seattle scene, you've gotta do somethin' they ain't never seen
So thinkin' up a gimmick one day, we decided to be the only band that wouldn't play a note
Under any circumstances
Silence
Music's original alternative
Root's grunge"
The video features Johnny Depp as "Eddie", who moves to Los Angeles as a teenager to seek rock stardom, along with Gabrielle Anwar as the girl who taught him some chords, Faye Dunaway as the agent, Matt LeBlanc as the kid getting "the same tattoo, too" at the end, Terence Trent D'Arby and Chynna Phillips.
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