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04:56
Iron Maiden - The Number of the Beast
"The Number of the Beast" is Iron Maiden's seventh single and the second single from Iron Maiden's 1982 album of the same name. The song is inspired by a nightmare bandleader and bassist Steve Harris had after watching the movie "Damien: Omen II". "The Number of The Beast" is one of Iron Maiden's greatest hits, and is almost always performed during concert. It reached 18 in the UK charts. The track is known for a fairly high-pitched scream by Bruce Dickinson at the end of the intro. In the documentary on the album of the same name, as part of the Classic Albums series by the BBC, Dickinson said this was due to producer Martin Birch forcing Bruce to sing the first four lines for several hours, over and over again. The frustration of this culminated in this scream, the pitch of which Dickinson has not managed to re-create live since the early days.
02:43
Motorhead - Ace of Spades
"Ace of Spades" is a song by the heavy metal band Motörhead. It was released as a single on October 27, 1980 as a preview to the album Ace of Spades and autumn tour. In November it reached #15 in the UK Singles Chart and has since become the most famous of all of Motörhead's songs. For the lyrics, Lemmy said he "used gambling metaphors, mostly cards and dice - when it comes to that sort of thing, I'm more into the slot machines actually, but you can't really sing about spinning fruit, and the wheels coming down"
03:59
Depeche Mode - Everything Counts
"Everything Counts" is Depeche Mode's eighth UK single (released on July 11, 1983) and third US single (released on November 2, 1983), from the then upcoming album Construction Time Again. The single is a pivotal release in the band's career, as the members attempted to transition from the pop numbers of their early years to a more sophisticated sound; it would be the first single of the transition period to hit the Top 10 on the UK Singles Chart. It was the first in a long line of industrial-inspired singles released by the band, and has been referred to as "arguably...the first English-language industrial pop hit." The single was re-released (in live format) on February 13, 1989 (March 25, 1989 in the US) to support the live album 101.
05:11
Guns N' Roses - Sweet Child O Mine
"Sweet Child O' Mine" is a song by the hard rock band Guns N' Roses. It was released on their debut album Appetite for Destruction on August 21, 1987. "Sweet Child O' Mine" was Guns N' Roses' first number-one single on the Billboard Hot 100, spending two weeks at the top spot in the summer of 1988. The song is credited as being written by Guns N' Roses as a band; more specifically it contains Slash's riff, Izzy's chords, Axl's lyrics, and McKagan's bass line. The subject of the song is generally thought to be lead singer Axl Rose's then-girlfriend and eventual wife, Erin Everly. Former Guns N' Roses' lead guitarist, Slash, has been quoted as having a disdain for the song due to its roots as simply a technical exercise and a joke at the time. In a VH1 special, it was stated that Slash played the riff in a jam session as a joke. Drummer Steven Adler and Slash were warming up and Slash began to play a "circus" melody while making faces at Steven. Adler asked him to play the riff again, and Izzy Stradlin came in with the chords. Axl became intrigued and started singing the poem he had written. In an interview with Hit Parader magazine in 1988, bassist Duff McKagan noted: The thing about 'Sweet Child,' it was written in five minutes. It was one of those songs, only three chords. You know that guitar lick Slash does at the beginning? It was kinda like a joke because we thought, 'What is this song? It's gonna be nothin', it'll be filler on the record.' And except that vocal-wise, it's very sweet and sincere, Slash was fuckin' around when he first wrote that lick
02:27
Ramones - I Wanna Be Sedated
"I Wanna Be Sedated" is one of the best known singles by the punk rock group the Ramones. It was released in 1978 and appeared on their fourth album, Road to Ruin. "I Wanna Be Sedated" was written by Joey Ramone when he had to go to the hospital to be treated for burns after accidentally spilling boiling water on himself. Joey was in the habit of inhaling steam from a kettle before performing, to clear his sinuses. In an interview about the song, Joey explains the chorus, "It's a road song. I wrote it in 1977, through the 78. Well, Danny Fields was our first manager and he would work us to death. We would be on the road 360 days a year, and we went over to England, and we were there at Christmas time, and in Christmas time London shuts down. There's nothing to do, nowhere to go. Here we were in London for the first time in our lives, and me and Dee Dee Ramone were sharing a room in the hotel, and we were watching The Guns of Navarone. So there was nothing to do, I mean, here we are in London finally, and this is what we are doing, watching American movies in the hotel room".
03:39
Blondie - Heart Of Glass
"Heart of Glass" was originally recorded in 1975 under the name "Once I Had a Love (also known as The Disco Song)", and was much slower with a blues/reggae vibe to it. The song was frequently performed on tours, then was re-recorded with the same title in 1978, when the song was made a bit more rock-oriented. When Blondie recorded the album Parallel Lines, disco was big on the music scene, and producer Mike Chapman decided to give the song the disco twist that made the song what it is today, and probably one of the best-known Blondie songs ever. The song was released in January 1979 and reached number one in both the United States and the United Kingdom. The B-side to this single was "Rifle Range" from Blondie's debut self titled album. There was also an instrumental version of the song, available on the 12" version of the single.
03:27
John Lennon - Imagine
"Imagine" is a utopian song performed by John Lennon, which appears on his 1971 album, Imagine. Although originally credited solely to Lennon, in recent years Yoko Ono's contribution to the song has become more widely acknowledged. The song was produced by Phil Spector. "Imagine" is widely considered as one of the greatest songs of all time. In 2004, Rolling Stone magazine voted "Imagine" the third greatest song of all time. Former U.S. president Jimmy Carter said, "In many countries around the world — my wife and I have visited about 125 countries — you hear John Lennon's song 'Imagine' used almost equally with national anthems." In the book Lennon in America, written by Geoffrey Giuliano, Lennon commented that the song was "an anti-religious, anti-nationalistic, anti-conventional, anti-capitalistic song, but because it's sugar-coated, it's accepted."
11:11
Led Zeppelin - Stairway to Heaven
"Stairway to Heaven" is a song by the English rock group Led Zeppelin, composed by guitarist Jimmy Page and vocalist Robert Plant, and recorded on their fourth studio album, Led Zeppelin IV (Led Zeppelin IV). It is cited as the most played song on FM radio stations in the United States, despite never being released as a single there.
04:18
Pet Shop Boys - What Have I Done
What Have I Done to Deserve This? is a 1987 collaboration between two UK recording artists, the Pet Shop Boys.
03:34
The Cure - Friday I'm In Love
"Friday I'm in Love" is the second single taken from the album Wish (1992) from The Cure. It is among the band's most well-known songs. "Friday I'm in Love" was nominated for a Grammy Award and won the best Music Video from MTV. The song was written to be a slower number than its upbeat final rendition. Interestingly, while the track was recorded in D major, the tape speed in the mastering process was slightly askew, resulting in the commercially released version sounding halfway between D major and E-flat major, a semitone higher.
04:12
AC/DC - Jailbreak
"Jailbreak" is a song by Australian hard rock band AC/DC. It is the ninth and final track of their Australian album Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap, released in September 1976, and was written by Angus Young, Malcolm Young, and Bon Scott. It was also released as a single, with a B-side of "Fling Thing", in 1976. "Jailbreak" was dropped from the running order for the international version of Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap. It was not released in the United States, Canada, and Japan until October 1984, as part of AC/DC's '74 Jailbreak album.
02:14
The Doors - People are Strange
The second Doors LP, Strange Days, was more subdued and less spontaneous than their debut, but the album was notable for its evocative lyrics and atmosphere. The closing track, "When the Music's Over", was, like "The End," lengthy and dramatic, and helped establish Morrison's reputation as the wild shaman of rock. Yet the album was also strongly commercial, and featured now-classic Doors songs such as "People Are Strange" and "Love Me Two Times." As a result of their success, The Doors forfeited their status as underground heroes. They allowed Sixteen magazine to portray them as teen idols and their "spontaneous" stage-show was exposed as not-so-spontaneous. An article by Jerry Hopkins in the February 10, 1968 edition of Rolling Stone typified the fall from grace:
03:31
Alphaville - Forever Young
Forever Young was the title track from West German rock/synthpop group Alphaville's 1984 debut album. Though it was not Alphaville's highest-charting European hit ("Big In Japan" was), and despite its failure to even once crack the American Top 40 in three separate U.S. single releases, "Forever Young" quickly became something of a modern day pop standard, and has been covered by numerous artists since its 1984 debut. The song was also very popular in the 1980s as a prom theme. "Forever Young" glorifies youth by expressing a fear of aging and death. Written during the Cold War, its swooping and hopeful chorus stands in relief against the verses' "hoping for the best, but expecting the worst; are you gonna drop the bomb or not?" The song is known for its closing quasi-fugue of synthesized trumpets
04:39
Led Zeppelin - Black Dog
"Black Dog" is a song by English rock band Led Zeppelin, which was released as the lead-off track of their untitled fourth album in 1971. It was released as a single in the US and Australia with Misty Mountain Hop on the B-side, and reached #15 on Billboard and #11 in Australia. The sounds at the beginning are those of Jimmy Page warming up his electric guitar. He called it "waking up the army of guitars"—which are multitrack recorded in unison with electric bass guitar to provide the song's signature riff. Led Zeppelin bass player John Paul Jones, who is credited with writing the main riff, got the idea for "Black Dog" after hearing Muddy Waters' experimental psychedelic-blues album, Electric Mud. He wanted to try "electric blues with a rolling bass part." The start-and-stop a cappella verses were inspired by Fleetwood Mac's 1969 song "Oh Well."
05:45
Queen - Radio Ga-Ga
Radio Ga Ga is a song performed and recorded by the band Queen, written by their drummer Roger Taylor. The song was a commentary of the invention of television overtaking radio's popularity, and how one would listen to radio for their favorite comedy, drama, sci-fi programs and so on as well as the advent of the music video and MTV. Taylor originally conceived it as "Radio Ca-Ca" (apparently from something his toddler son once said), a slam against radio for the decrease in variety of programming and the type of music being played. It was eventually changed to "Radio Ga Ga", because it sounded better, clearer, and rolled off the tongue easier. David Mallet's music video for the song features scenes from the film Metropolis—Freddie Mercury's solo song "Love Kills" was used in Giorgio Moroder's restored version of the film, and in exchange Queen were granted the rights to use footage from it in their "Radio Ga Ga" video. However, Queen had to buy performance rights to the film from the communist East German government, which was the copyright holder at the time. Critics said that the video looked like a "Nuremberg Rally" much to the anti-Nazi Roger Taylor's dislike. In the video there is a part where they list some of their earlier videos in a photo album, illustrating the changes and the influence videos received through the years. In filming the "clap" sequence, the extras got the beat down perfectly; the band members, however, needed some practice before they got it right. All the extras in the "clap" sequence were recruited from the band's official fan club.
03:18
New Order - Shellshock
Shellshock is a single released by British group New Order in March 1986. The song appeared on the soundtrack to the movie Pretty in Pink of the same year. Production is credited to New Order and John Robie, and is loosely inspired by the 1983 Robie produced R&B club hit, "One More Shot;" a studio project where Robie performed under the band name, C-Bank, and featured vocals by Jenny Burton. Although not considered one of New Order's great singles, Shellshock is nonetheless fairly representative of the band's trademark sound.
03:25
Sex Pistols - God Save the Queen
"God Save the Queen" (B-side "Did You No Wrong") was the second single by punk band the Sex Pistols. The single was released on May 27, 1977, and was regarded by much of the general public to be an assault on Queen Elizabeth II and the monarchy. The title is taken directly from God Save the Queen, the British national anthem. At the time it was highly controversial, firstly for its equation of the Queen with a "fascist regime", and secondly for the apparent claim that England had "no future".
03:06
Sex Pistols - Anarchy In The UK
"Anarchy in the UK" (B-side "I Wanna Be Me") was the first single by the punk band the Sex Pistols. It was released on November 26, 1976, and is often said to be the "first punk single". However, The Ramones delivered "Blitzkrieg Bop" a year earlier, The Saints released "(I'm) Stranded" in September, and The Damned put out "New Rose" in October. But Anarchy in the UK's influence is undeniable and with it the Sex Pistols may be said to have solidified the punk sound and broadened the popularity of the genre. The song's lyrics espouse a nihilistic, emotive, and violent concept of anarchy. The lyrics are however often viewed as somewhat satirical and light hearted. The lyrics mention several political/paramilitary organisations prominent at the time, comparing them to the UK: the MPLA, the UDA, and the IRA. The lyrics can be interpreted as satirical, mocking not only the government but also directionless or purely fashionable rebellion.
03:11
The Doors - Gloria (Banned from MTV)
Alive, She Cried is a live album by the American rock band The Doors; the title of the album is taken from a line in the song "When The Music's Over". The recordings are from various concerts during the period 1968-1970; they include "Gloria", originally a hit for Them, and an extended version of The Doors' best known song "Light My Fire". John Sebastian of The Lovin' Spoonful joined the band on stage to play harmonica on Willie Dixon's "Little Red Rooster". The album was discontinued as 1991 saw the release of In Concert (The Doors album), a double-album which included all of the songs from the three existing live albums: Absolutely Live, Live At The Hollywood Bowl and Alive, She Cried.
05:37
RED HOT CHILLI PEPPERS - CALIFORNICATION
"Californication" is the Red Hot Chili Peppers' 4th single from their hit album, Californication. It was released in 2000, the song only reached #61 on the Billboard Hot 100 in the USA, and #16 on the UK charts, though it remains as one of Red Hot Chili Peppers' best known songs and has been played at nearly every concert since its release. It is notable for its sparse yet haunting combination of guitar and bass notes in the intro, and its unique music video. Californication is a unique video in that it takes the form of a video game from the point of view of the player. The video itself bears resemblance to many games, including Tomb Raider, Grand Theft Auto, Crazy Taxi, SSX, Resident Evil and the railcar level of Donkey Kong 64. Guitarist John Frusciante starts off on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. He bumps into a celebrity, and jumps over three security guards, then picks up an asterisk. The action pauses and cuts to a shot of the band playing on top of a hill for a few seconds. (This happens each time a band member picks up an asterisk, which is the logo of the band.) Chad Smith, the Chili Peppers' drummer, is seen snowboarding down a hill (although he has never ridden a snowboard in real life). He falls into a ravine, but lands on a train. Lead singer Anthony Kiedis starts off swimming in an ocean, passing sharks and swimmers and picks up an asterisk. He gets out riding a shark and lands in his car. The registration plate on the car says "GERMS", which is a reference to The Germs, the band that Kiedis listened to as he grew up. Flea, the bassist, is seen in Muir Woods, and is about to pick up an asterisk, but he can't get past a bear guarding it, although he helps it out by kicking down a hunter about to shoot it. He goes on a mine-cart ride, and goes to another asterisk, but it's guarded by a pregnant teen (Dani of Dani California). He then gets surrounded by a horde of lumberjacks, but he jumps on top of a tree and sees all the other trees fall.
