# Best Songs That Reference "Rock And Roll" **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [October 5, 2013, 4:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-songs-that-reference-rock-and-roll/670419 "2013-10-05T04:21:06Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Meurglys](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/258eb7/32.png) [@Meurglys](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Meurglys)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2013, 2:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-songs-that-reference-rock-and-roll/670419/21 "2013-10-05T14:12:40Z")
Ray Manzarek’s [The Whole Thing Started With Rock & Roll](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oi2-3J2_qEc&list=PL9B93F88A092A3E82&index=1) (now it’s out of control) ---
**Author:** ![WordMan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/e8c25b/32.png) [@WordMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WordMan)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2013, 2:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-songs-that-reference-rock-and-roll/670419/22 "2013-10-05T14:37:07Z")
> [@Fear\_Itself](#): > > I didn’t notice that in the OP. I didn’t check; I’m just being silly. ---
**Author:** ![Sir\_Prize](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d2c977/32.png) [@Sir\_Prize](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sir_Prize)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2013, 2:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-songs-that-reference-rock-and-roll/670419/23 "2013-10-05T14:54:28Z")
> [@Son\_of\_a\_Rich](#): > > I don’t know about the best, but I’m sure of the [worst.](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TrXXx9706tc) Nothing wrong with a little sarcasm in music now and then. That’s a GREAT song and maybe the only anti rock song listed so far. ---
**Author:** ![blondebear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blondebear/32/1022_2.png) [@blondebear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/blondebear)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2013, 3:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-songs-that-reference-rock-and-roll/670419/24 "2013-10-05T15:09:40Z")
> [@FoieGrasIsEvil](#): > > Many, many songs that reference rock and roll after a certain time are so cliched, or dead.] Rock is dead, you say?[Long Live Rock](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=maD5k-vUI4o)! Other choices: _Long Live Rock And Roll Rock And Roll Outlaw Let Me Go, Rock And Roll Rock And Roll All Night_ ---
**Author:** ![bunyupp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/7cd45c/32.png) [@bunyupp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bunyupp)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2013, 3:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-songs-that-reference-rock-and-roll/670419/25 "2013-10-05T15:10:38Z")
[Heavy Metal Rock ‘n’ Roll](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jLwnoScjnQU) by Rock Goddess ---
**Author:** ![Crafter\_Man](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/crafter_man/32/458_2.png) [@Crafter\_Man](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crafter_Man)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2013, 3:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-songs-that-reference-rock-and-roll/670419/26 "2013-10-05T15:27:09Z")
Fairly obscure one: [Rock School](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4DDWwSbpKe8) by [Heaven](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heaven_(Australian_band)) ---
**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2013, 3:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-songs-that-reference-rock-and-roll/670419/27 "2013-10-05T15:34:34Z")
[Old Time Rock & Roll](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SsSVcRYh8dE)–Bob Segeer ---
**Author:** ![I\_Made\_French\_Toast\_For\_You](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/858c86/32.png) [@I\_Made\_French\_Toast\_For\_You](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/I_Made_French_Toast_For_You)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2013, 3:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-songs-that-reference-rock-and-roll/670419/28 "2013-10-05T15:37:10Z")
Best: David Bowie, [Rock n Roll Suicide](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9jg4ekLG9Zo) Worth mentioning: Patti Smith, [Rock n Roll N\*\*\*\*r](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DLIkM4wvcC8) ---
**Author:** ![Just\_Ed](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e19b73/32.png) [@Just\_Ed](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Just_Ed)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2013, 3:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-songs-that-reference-rock-and-roll/670419/29 "2013-10-05T15:38:41Z")
There’s a _lot_ of songs in this category, isn’t there? Hell, you could generate a healthy list just from AC/DC’s catalogue. But yeah, a little deeper:[ul][_]Bad Company: “Rock Steady”, “Rock ‘n’ Roll Fantasy”[_]Blue Oyster Cult: “Cities on Flame with Rock and Roll”[_]Boston: “Rock and Roll Band”[_]The Byrds: “So You Want to Be a Rock and Roll Star”[_]Eric Clapton: “I’ve Got a Rock and Roll Heart”[_]Def Leppard: “Let’s Get Rocked”; “Rock of Ages”[_]The Kinks: “A Rock ‘n’ Roll Fantasy”[_]Kiss: “Detroit Rock City”; Rock and Roll All Nite"[_]Nick Lowe: “7 Nights to Rock”; “I Knew the Bride (When She Used to Rock and Roll)”[_]Lynyrd Skynyrd: “Whiskey Rock-a-Roller”[_]John Mellencamp: “R.O.C.K. in the U.S.A.”[_]The Moody Blues: “I’m Just a Singer (in a Rock and Roll Band)”[_]Queen: “We Will Rock You”; “Rock It (Prime Jive)”[_]Ramones: “Do You Remember Rock ‘n’ Roll Radio?”[_]Traffic: “Rock and Roll Stew”[_]UFO: “Only You Can Rock Me”[_]Edgar Winter: “Keep Playin’ That Rock ‘n’ Roll”[_]Neil Young: “Rockin’ in the Free World”[\*][/ul]Special mention to Roy Brown’s “[Good Rocking Tonight](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Good_Rocking_Tonight)”, a song that predates Rock and Roll but was covered by any number of Rock artists, including Elvis Presley and Robert Plant’s The Honeydrippers (as “Rockin’ at Midnight”). ---
**Author:** ![El\_Kabong](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/el_kabong/32/496_2.png) [@El\_Kabong](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/El_Kabong)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2013, 3:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-songs-that-reference-rock-and-roll/670419/30 "2013-10-05T15:42:21Z")
Another one by [Neil Young](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0O1v_7T6p8U) …and [Huey Lewis](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M7JVlpm0eRs) ---
**Author:** ![LC\_Strawhouse](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e19adc/32.png) [@LC\_Strawhouse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LC_Strawhouse)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2013, 3:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-songs-that-reference-rock-and-roll/670419/31 "2013-10-05T15:44:14Z")
> [@Sir\_Prize](#): > > Nothing wrong with a little sarcasm in music now and then. That’s a GREAT song and maybe the only anti rock song listed so far. Here’s an awesome song:[I Can’t Stand Rock & Roll](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gfDCTys7b2w) The dopiest one is [The Heart of Rock & Roll](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M7JVlpm0eRs). Just painful, and the video makes it even worse. ---
**Author:** ![Crafter\_Man](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/crafter_man/32/458_2.png) [@Crafter\_Man](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crafter_Man)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2013, 3:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-songs-that-reference-rock-and-roll/670419/32 "2013-10-05T15:52:22Z")
> [@MEBuckner](#): > > “I Love Rock ‘n’ Roll”, most famously done by Joan Jett & The Blackhearts right at the start of the 80’s. [This](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=beTsDOBRs8I) version is the best. ---
**Author:** ![blondebear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blondebear/32/1022_2.png) [@blondebear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/blondebear)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2013, 4:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-songs-that-reference-rock-and-roll/670419/33 "2013-10-05T16:08:07Z")
[The Majesty of Rock](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RsOxgwF9LlM) ---
**Author:** ![Ranger\_Jeff](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ranger_jeff/32/2065_2.png) [@Ranger\_Jeff](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ranger_Jeff)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2013, 4:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-songs-that-reference-rock-and-roll/670419/34 "2013-10-05T16:15:42Z")
I liked Jeff Beck’s “Rock My Plimsoul” from Truth. ---
**Author:** ![casdave](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c6cbf5/32.png) [@casdave](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/casdave)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2013, 5:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-songs-that-reference-rock-and-roll/670419/35 "2013-10-05T17:21:20Z")
The Original version ‘I love Rock and roll’ [![]( " - YouTube") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uuEZBX9W210) I doubt this is what you are looking for Rock and roll baby [ROCKIN' ROLL BABY / THE STYLISTICS - YouTube](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7WCZEwagEXs) Danny & the Juniors - Rock and roll is here to stay [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/Yf503ChwxW8/maxresdefault.jpg "Danny and The Juniors - Rock and Roll is Here to Stay [HD]") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yf503ChwxW8) Dave Clark Five - Good Old Rock and Roll [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/BYqo50cQwTI/hqdefault.jpg "The Dave Clark Five, Good old rock n roll parts 1 and 2") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BYqo50cQwTI) ---
**Author:** ![EmilyG](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/emilyg/32/364_2.png) [@EmilyG](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EmilyG)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2013, 5:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-songs-that-reference-rock-and-roll/670419/36 "2013-10-05T17:30:19Z")
The song [“Them Kids”](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vhCNvmLRoTo) by Sam Roberts contains the line, “The kids don’t know how to dance to rock and roll.” It’s from 2008. ---
**Author:** ![Enginerd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/bcef8e/32.png) [@Enginerd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enginerd)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2013, 5:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-songs-that-reference-rock-and-roll/670419/37 "2013-10-05T17:50:56Z")
> [@FoieGrasIsEvil](#): > > Many, many songs that reference rock and roll after a certain time are so cliched, or dead. Cake expands the cliched idea beyond songs to the whole [Rock and Roll Lifestyle](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xUYh9z2efHY). ---
**Author:** ![cochrane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cochrane/32/10441_2.png) [@cochrane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cochrane)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2013, 7:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-songs-that-reference-rock-and-roll/670419/38 "2013-10-05T19:31:27Z")
Ramones - Do You Remember Rock and Roll Radio? Joe Walsh - I Can Play That Rock and Roll. Ian Hunter - Cleveland Rocks. It’s a tribute to Allen Freed. ---
**Author:** ![tomcar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/7993a0/32.png) [@tomcar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tomcar)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2013, 7:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-songs-that-reference-rock-and-roll/670419/39 "2013-10-05T19:31:47Z")
The Ramones singing about Alan Freed, John Lennon and T.Rex… Produced by Phil Spector. Rock and Roll Radio ---
**Author:** ![Spoke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a88e57/32.png) [@Spoke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoke)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2013, 7:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-songs-that-reference-rock-and-roll/670419/40 "2013-10-05T19:36:18Z")
Speaking of the **Stones** , there’s also [Little T & A](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wg2ZtSHoKY0) [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-songs-that-reference-rock-and-roll/670419.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-songs-that-reference-rock-and-roll/670419.md?page=3)