Best song on the Rock is dead/Rock will never die theme

[Bossy Monkey]

Reaching here on a few of these. I'm not a MM fan, but found him on the Google search; the lyrics are at least interesting.

There's a spot for an additional song; don't MAKE me put on R.O.C.K. by Garland Jeffries. (Yeah, I know; who?)

[Paragon]

1. "Rock and Roll Is Dead" - Lenny Kravitz

:D

[Bossy Monkey]

3. Dang it! I didn't check back fast enough

Well, anybody who wants to vote for #8 can consider it a vote for this.:)

[Jim Sagle]

2. "Drift Away" - Dobie Gray

[nothingshocksmeanymore]

4. I know..it's only Rock N Roll but I like it like it yes I DO!

THE STONES!!!

[supernova]

5. Keep On Rockin' in the Free World

Neil Young

[Old and In the Way]

6. Not Fade Away;Going Down the Road Feeling Bad

Granted, it never made top 40 or top 200, but, damn, you'd have been hardpressed in the late 60's/early 70's to find any better band doing kick-ass Rock and Roll and it was an American made product, too......

[Skip Intro]

7. rock and roll ain't noise pollution, rock and roll ain't gonna die

AC/DC

(All right)
Hey there, all you middle men
Throw away your fancy clothes
And while you're out there sittin' on a fence
So get off your ass and come down here
'Cause rock 'n' roll ain't no riddle man
To me it makes good, good sense
Good sense
Ow
Oooh yeah

Heavy decibels are playing on my guitar
We got vibrations coming up from the floor
We're just listening to the rock that's giving too much noise
Are you deaf, you wanna hear some more

We're just talkin' about the future
Forget about the past
It'll always be with us
It's never gonna die, never gonna die

[Screaming Lord Byron]

8. I love rock and roll and I hate rock and roll by the JAMC.

Just keeping their bases covered.

[durutti]

9. I like

"Punk is Dead" by Crass.

[mac56]

10. "Rock & Roll Is Dead (And We Don't Care)" by the Rubinoos.

nm

[southpaw]

11. Pink Floyd

"Welcome to the Machine" or "Have a Cigar" both ridicule the corporatization of rock.

[Bossy Monkey]

24. "Oh by the way, which one's Pink?"

but if we were going to get into the ones that slam the music business, I'd probably lead with "The Unheard Music" by X.

[Whitacre D_WI]

12. Do you remember lying in bed,

With the covers pulled up over your head,
Radio playing so no one can see?
We need change, and we need it fast,
Before rock's just part of the past;
'cause lately it all sounds the same to me.

WOOOAH-OOOOOHH-OOOHH!

[Richardo]

13. Rock and Roll - Led Zeppelin

Sadly to be known as the "Cadillac commercial song" by the current generation... :-(

[mac56]

14. "Radio Radio" - Elvis Costello & The Attractions

I was tuning in the shine on the light night dial
doing anything my radio advised
with every one of those late night stations
playing songs bringing tears to me eyes
I was seriously thinking about hiding the receiver
when the switch broke 'cause it's old
They're saying things that I can hardly believe
They really think we're getting out of control

Radio is a sound salvation
Radio is cleaning up the nation
They say you better listen to the voice of reason
But they don't give you any choice
'cause they think that it's treason
So you had better do as you are told
You better listen to the radio

I wanna bite the hand that feeds me
I wanna bite that hand so badly
I want to make them wish they'd never seen me

Some of my friends sit around every evening
and they worry about the times ahead
But everybody else is overwhelmed by indifference
and the promise of an early bed
You either shut up or get cut up
they don't wanna hear about it
It's only inches on the reel-to-reel
And the radio is in the hands of such a lot of fools
tryin' to anaesthetise the way that you feel

Wonderful radio
Marvelous radio
Wonderful radio
Radio, radio...

[Richardo]

15. You trumped me, mac - good one!

:thumbsup:

Elvis also predicts the rise of RW talk:

They say you better listen to the voice of reason
But they don't give you any choice
'cause they think that it's treason
So you had better do as you are told
You better listen to the radio

[mac56]

17. great minds think alike

nm

[WhoCountsTheVotes]

16. Video Killed the Radio Star

I heard you on the wireless back in Fifty Two
Lying awake intent at tuning in on you.
If I was young it didn't stop you coming through .
Oh-a oh
They took the credit for your second symphony .
Rewritten by machine and new technology ,
and now I understand the problems you can see.
Oh-a oh
I met your children
Oh-a oh
What did you tell them?
Video killed the radio star .
Video killed the radio star .
Pictures came and broke your heart .
Oh-a-a-a oh
And now we meet in an abandoned studio .
We hear the playback and it seems so long ago.
And you remember the jingles used to go.
Oh-a oh
You were the first one.
Oh-a oh
You were the last one.
Video killed the radio star .
Video killed the radio star .
In my mind and in my car, we can't rewind we've gone too far
Oh-a-aho oh,
Oh-a-aho oh
Video killed the radio star .
Video killed the radio star .
In my mind and in my car, we can't rewind we've gone too far.
Pictures came and broke your heart , put the blame on VTR.
You are a radio star .
You are a radio star .
Video killed the radio star .
Video killed the radio star .
Video killed the radio star .
Video killed the radio star .
repeat
Video killed the radio star . (You are a radio star .)

[Twillig]

18. You Can't Kill Rock and Roll

By Ozzy Osbourne with the superb Randy Rhoads playing beautifully.


And they don't really know even what they're talkin' about
And I can't imagine what empty heads can achieve.

[jus_the_facts]

21. Ahhha....ya beat me...

.....guess I shoulda read all the replies first dammit!! *slaps forehead* :D

[FunBobbyMucha]

19. "The day they knocked down the Palais,

My sister stood and cried

'They couldn't knock down the Palais!

Part of my childhood died! Just died!"

Bomp! Ba-Da-Dummm!

(The Kinks, Come Dancing)

[jus_the_facts]

20. Rock Rock TO THE TOP....Rock Rock NEVER STOP!

*LALALALALA* :D

[DinahMoeHum]

22. "Long Live Rock and Roll" - Rainbow/Ritchie Blackmore. . .

a lost classic from the 70's !!!

:bounce:

[jus_the_facts]

23. ROCK'N'ROLL MACHINE.....FASTER THAN YOU'VE EVER SEEN!!

.....one of my FAVES by TRIUMPH!!! *applause* :D