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| | Find a Song Music Encyclopedia Online by Tunecaster® |
 | | Also find a rock song by visiting our 1990s rock music top 20 charts page, or the new 1980s rock music top 20 charts page, which is the longest running rock weekly rock top 20 anywhere. | | | Tunecaster®, the pop and rock music encyclopedia, makes it easy to find a song by offering a Top Hit Songs Of The Years music page which currently lists the number one hit song of every year from 1970 through 2005. | | | The 1990s pop music charts page, 1990s rock music top 20 charts page, 1980s pop music charts page, and 1980s rock music top 20 charts page are completely finished, with every single top 20 countdown in each style--that's over one thousand top 20 countdown pages for each decade. |
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| | Encyclopedia: Jailhouse Rock (movie) |
| | Jailhouse Rock is a hit song by the American musician Elvis Presley. | | | Recording musicians: 45 rpm record cover, elvis presley, jailhouse rock This is an album cover. | | | The single was followed in October by an extended play record titled "Jailhouse Rock" that featured the four other songs from the motion picture. |
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| | progressive rock encyclopedia |
| | Yes's combination of technical proficiency, enigmatic lyrics, and large egos captured the essence of the progressive rock movement. | | | Obscured by Clouds - the progressive rock band from Portland … | | | … The Progressive Rock Encyclopedia (Germany), Sal Pichireddu "Bleed" is a beautiful album of minimalist technique, and makes one very curious about the future … |
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| | Alternative rock - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | Most alternative bands were unified by their collective debt to the style and/or ethos of punk, which laid the groundwork for underground and alternative music in the 1970s. | | | Though the genre is considered to be rock, some of its genres were influenced by folk music, reggae, techno and jazz music among other genres. | | | While "alternative" was simply an umbrella term for a diverse collection of underground rock bands, Nirvana and similar groups gave it a reputation for being a distinct style of guitar based rock which combined elements of punk and metal; their creation met with considerable commercial success. |
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| | Industrial rock - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | Industrial rock augments the guitar-based music and songwriting structure of rock with the electronic instruments and noisy production techniques of industrial. | | | Typical instrumentation for industrial rock bands centers on heavily-distorted or otherwise-effected guitars and synthesizers. | | | The term "industrial rock" most likely had its genesis in the mid-1990s as a reaction to such crossover bands being referred to as simply "industrial." The industrial rock designation called attention to the fundamental similarities with rock, as opposed to industrial. |
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| | Chinese rock - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | "Chinese shaking and rolling music") is often and inaccurately described as a style of music which combines Chinese musical instruments with techniques of Western-style rock and roll. | | | The first Chinese rock song was arguably the Northwest Wind anthem "I Have Nothing", first performed in 1986 by Cui Jian, widely recognised as the father of Chinese rock. | | | Dozens of rock bands were established and rock music was performed on a regular basis. |
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| | Soft rock - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | Soft rock mostly focuses on lyrics and vocals. | | | Soft rock, also referred to as lite rock, easy rock, and formally mellow rock, is a style of music which uses the techniques of rock and roll to compose a softer, supposedly more ear-pleasing sound for listening, often at work. | | | "Soft rock music isn't rock, and it ain't music. |
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| | Bob Rock - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | Bob Rock (born 19 April 1954) is a Canadian musician, sound engineer, and record producer. | | | Rock briefly returned to performing music in 1993, forming the band Rockhead with ex-Payola$ drummer Chris Taylor. | | | Bob Rock has also produced a track for the upcoming Britney Spears' untitled 2006 album. |
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| | Classic rock - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | Classic rock is also a term used to mean a fusion of classical and rock music, or more usually, rock music arranged for and played by a symphony orchestra and is consequently also called symphonic rock. | | | The Who's 1971 album Who's Next is one of the most often-played classic rock albums of all time. | | | Classic rock is similar to oldies radio in that the format is based upon music of the past, hence the playlist and artists featured are relatively stable in comparison to Top 40 or other contemporary formats which are based primarily on current releases. |
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| | Modern rock - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | Generally beginning with late 1970s punk but referring especially to any rock music of the 1980s, 1990s or 2000s, the phrase "modern rock" is used to differentiate the music from "classic rock", which focuses upon music recorded in the 1960s and 1970s. | | | As alternative rock's popularity in the mainstream declined, heavy metal, nu-metal, rap metal, pop punk, emo and other commercially successful forms of rock music also became labeled as modern rock. | | | Modern rock is term commonly used to describe a rock music format found on commercial radio stations. |
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| | Hard rock - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | The term "hard rock" is often used as an umbrella term for genres such as punk, grunge, industrial rock and heavy metal, in order to distinguish them from softer, more radio friendly pop rock music. | | | Hard rock is different, for example, from punk and grunge: punk uses faster tempo and easy riffs; grunge is an "extreme" genre, while hard rock isn't. | | | The predominant instrument in hard rock is, of course, the electric guitar. |
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| | Jailhouse Rock (song) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | "Jailhouse Rock" is a song written by Lieber and Stoller which first became a hit for the American musician Elvis Presley. | | | The song was first released as a 45rpm single on September 24, 1957 to coincide with the release of Presley's motion picture, Jailhouse Rock. | | | Jailhouse Rock, along with many old rock'n'roll hits, has been performed regularly in a medley by Queen on different tours (1973-76, 1984-85), and sporadically in between. |
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| | Rock and roll - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | Rock and roll emerged as a defined musical style in America in the 1950s, though elements of rock and roll can be heard in rhythm and blues records as far back as the 1920s. | | | In 1954, Elvis Presley recorded at Sam Phillips' Sun studios in Memphis, the regional hit "That's All Right, Mama." Elvis played a rock and country and western fusion called rockabilly, which was characterized by hiccupping vocals, slapping bass and a spastic guitar style. | | | Early rock and roll combined elements of blues, boogie woogie, jazz and rhythm and blues, and is also influenced by traditional Appalachian folk music, gospel and country and western. |
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| | Rock Lobster - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | "Rock Lobster" was the B-52s' first single, released in 1978 and placed on the band's self-titled debut album one year later. | | | Rock Lobster was the band's first single to appear on Billboard's Hot 100. | | | "Rock Lobster" is among the songs released in the You're the Man Now Dog soundtrack. |
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| | Space rock - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | Space rock is a style of music; the term originally referred to a group of early mostly British 1970s progressive rock and psychedelic bands like Pink Floyd and Hawkwind, though it now tends to refer to a series of late 1980s British alternative rock bands. | | | By 1991 (see 1991 in music), though, the original space rock bands had mostly fallen apart, and the musicians had moved on to new bands or new styles. | | | The probable earliest example of something like space rock is a song written in the 1940s by Ewan MacColl and Peggy Seeger for a BBC radio show called You're Only Young Once. |
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| | rock group - definition of rock group in Encyclopedia |
| | Rock band (or rock group) is a generic name to describe a group of musicians specialising in a particular form of electronically amplified music. | | | Many early rock bands were in the vanguard of psychedelic music and the complexities arising largely led to rock music becoming a generic term broader than "rock and roll". | | | Deriving its name from the musical style which was its immediate progenitor, rock and roll, the type of music played by rock bands has its roots deeply steeped in both rock and roll, and its immediate forebear, rhythm and blues. |
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| | Online Encyclopedia and Dictionary - Punk rock |
| | To be a punk rocker and play punk rock music was to ostracize yourself from your peers and be the subject of scorn. | | | Punk rock in Britain coincided with the rise of Thatcherism, and nearly all British punk bands expressed an attitude of angry social alienation. | | | Punk rock emphasised simple musical structure and short songs, extolling a DIY ethic that insisted anyone could form a punk rock band (the early UK punk fanzine Sniffin' Glue once famously included drawings of three chord shapes, captioned, "this is a chord, this is another, this is a third. |
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| | Modern Rock Tracks - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | The Modern Rock Tracks chart is a music chart that has appeared in Billboard magazine since September 10, 1988. | | | The first number one song on the Modern Rock Tracks chart was "Peek-A-Boo" by Siouxsie and the Banshees. | | | Modern Rock Tracks is solely based on radio airplay and it is a component chart of the Hot 100. |
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| | Rock and roll - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | Early rock and roll combined elements of blues, boogie woogie, jazz and rhythm and blues, and is also influenced by traditional Appalachian folk music, gospel and country and western. | | | In 1954, Elvis Presley recorded at Sam Phillips' Sun studios in Memphis, Tenn., the regional hit "That's All Right, Mama." Elvis played a rock and country and western fusion called rockabilly, which was characterized by hiccupping vocals, slapping bass and a spastic guitar style. | | | Rocking was a term first used by gospel singers in the American South to mean something akin to spiritual rapture. |
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| | A History of Japanese Rock Music |
| | Japanese space-rock was born with Hadaka no Rallizes (also known as Les Rallizes Denudes), who drew inspiration from the Velvet Underground's Exploding Plastic Inevitable light and sound shows and from Blue Cheer's heavily amplified sound. | | | Psychedelic-rock had been imported into Japan by countless cover bands and by original bands such as the Jacks, whose Vacant World (1968) was an early classic. | | | Japanese bands excelled at this parodistic and futuristic approach to kitsch and muzak. |
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| | Southern rock - definition of Southern rock in Encyclopedia |
| | Southern rock is a style of rock music that was very popular in the 1970s, and retains a fan base to the present. | | | While the Allman Brothers explored the jazzier components of southern music in long blues jams, by the early 1970s a new wave of hard rock southern groups emerged that emphasized stripped down boogie rhythms, fast guitar leads derived from heavy metal and lyrical themes borrowed from the concurrent outlaw country movement. | | | Southern rock's use of Southern imagery, in particular the Confederate Rebel Flag, and lyrics seemingly extolling redneck values drew considerable criticism and derision. |
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| | Music of Ireland - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | Dancing school enrollments skyrocketed, Irish sessions found their numbers swelling with new musicians wishing to take part, and interest in Irish arts are at an all time high. | | | The fashionability of Irish folk music at this time may be judged from the huge success that non-Irish band The Waterboys enjoyed with their albums Fisherman's Blues and Room to Roam, both of which are full of Irish folk influences. | | | Singer and songwriter Phil Lynott is often said to be a modern incarnation of the Irish poetry tradition. |
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| | Rock and roll - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | Rock and roll emerged as a defined musical style in America in the 1950s, though elements of rock and roll can be heard in rhythm and blues records as far back as the 1920s. | | | Early rock and roll combined elements of blues, boogie woogie, jazz and rhythm and blues, and is also influenced by traditional Appalachian folk music, gospel and country and western. | | | Rock and roll (also spelled rock 'n' roll, especially in its first decade), is a genre of music that emerged as a defined musical style in America in the 1950s. |
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| | Heavy metal music - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | Later styles of heavy rock music in the 1990s, such as grunge (the typical example being Seattle's Nirvana), show influences of heavy metal but are typically not labelled sub-genres of heavy metal, as opposed to thrash metal and hair metal. | | | Heavy metal is a form of music characterized by aggressive, driving rhythms and highly amplified distorted guitars, generally with grandiose lyrics and virtuosic instrumentation. | | | Whereas a painting is experienced visually, a symphony experienced audibly, a heavy metal band's "image" and the common theme that binds all their music is expressed in the artwork on the album, the set of the stage, the tone of the lyrics, in addition to the sound of the music. |
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| | MSN Encarta - Rock Music |
| | Rock music began in the United States, but it has influenced and in turn been shaped by a broad field of cultures and musical traditions, including gospel music, the blues, country-and-western music, classical music (see Music, Western), folk music, electronic music, and the popular music of Asia, Africa, and Latin America (see Worldbeat). | | | Rock Music, group of related music styles that have dominated popular music in the West since about 1955. | | | Rock and roll was a combination of the R&B (rhythm-and-blues music) style known as jump blues, the gospel-influenced vocal-group style known as doo wop, the piano-blues style known as boogie-woogie (or barrelhouse), and the country-music style known as honky tonk. |
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| | Garage rock - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | Bands playing garage punk differed from the garage rock revival bands in that they were less cartoonish caricatures of '60s garage bands and their overall sound was even more loud, obnoxious, and raw, often infusing elements of proto punk and 1970s punk rock (hence the "garage punk" term). | | | Garage rock and garage punk coexisted throughout the 1990s and into the 2000s with many independent record labels releasing thousands of records by bands playing various styles of primitive rock and roll all around the world. | | | Several of the "punk" bands that emerged in the later seventies, notably The Ramones, were heavily influenced by the sixties garage acts, as were proto punk bands of the early '70s like Iggy and The Stooges and The New York Dolls. |
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