# 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:** 16\ **Page:** 4
**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 8, 2013, 8:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-songs-that-reference-rock-and-roll/670419/61 "2013-10-08T20:59:19Z")
[One Rock and Roll Too Many](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QDpS_6auAwM) from Starlight Express ---
**Author:** ![Harvey\_The\_Heavy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/c5a1d2/32.png) [@Harvey\_The\_Heavy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Harvey_The_Heavy)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2013, 12:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-songs-that-reference-rock-and-roll/670419/62 "2013-10-09T12:06:15Z")
[Rock 'n Roll Doctor](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x6a4v9ddWTw), Technically (ha!) the only song in the Black Sabbath catalogue with Rock 'n Roll in the title, unless you count [The Devil You Know](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Devil_You_Know_(Heaven_%26_Hell_album)) as a Sabbath album (I do). ---
**Author:** ![Enginerd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/bcef8e/32.png) [@Enginerd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enginerd)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2013, 12:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-songs-that-reference-rock-and-roll/670419/63 "2013-10-09T12:11:59Z")
And if you’re not a Sabbath fan, you can get a second opinion from [Little Feat](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p9QxFWnUMCI). ---
**Author:** ![scuro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a5b964/32.png) [@scuro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/scuro)\ **Post date:** [December 28, 2013, 8:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-songs-that-reference-rock-and-roll/670419/64 "2013-12-28T20:06:36Z")
[quote=“Just\_Ed, post:29, topic:670419”] 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][li]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”).[/li][/QUOTE] I’d pick Out of the blue and into the black. (My My, Hey, Hey) ---
**Author:** ![BlankSlate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blankslate/32/80_2.png) [@BlankSlate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BlankSlate)\ **Post date:** [December 28, 2013, 8:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-songs-that-reference-rock-and-roll/670419/65 "2013-12-28T20:30:27Z")
R.E.M’s [_Drive_](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xQN7A6Vl1H4) ---
**Author:** ![Fleetwood](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fleetwood/32/271_2.png) [@Fleetwood](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fleetwood)\ **Post date:** [December 28, 2013, 10:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-songs-that-reference-rock-and-roll/670419/66 "2013-12-28T22:46:04Z")
> [@scuro](#): > > I’d pick Out of the blue and into the black. (My My, Hey, Hey) Me, too. Plus Lou Reed’s Rock ‘n’ Roll. ---
**Author:** ![MadTheSwine](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/9fc29f/32.png) [@MadTheSwine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MadTheSwine)\ **Post date:** [December 28, 2013, 11:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-songs-that-reference-rock-and-roll/670419/67 "2013-12-28T23:03:14Z")
Queen: Rock It (Prime Jive) ---
**Author:** ![Toxgoddess](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/f08c70/32.png) [@Toxgoddess](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Toxgoddess)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2013, 12:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-songs-that-reference-rock-and-roll/670419/68 "2013-12-29T00:49:31Z")
Bob Seger-Rock and Roll Never Forgets. Even better than his other entry already mentioned, Old Time Rock and Roll. Shakes the house down. ---
**Author:** ![Green\_Bean](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/green_bean/32/1760_2.png) [@Green\_Bean](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Green_Bean)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2013, 1:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-songs-that-reference-rock-and-roll/670419/69 "2013-12-29T01:01:50Z")
_When in doubt, I whip it out. I got me a rock’n’roll band. It’s a free for all._ – Ted Nugent ---
**Author:** ![Leaffan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/leaffan/32/299_2.png) [@Leaffan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leaffan)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2013, 1:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-songs-that-reference-rock-and-roll/670419/70 "2013-12-29T01:54:06Z")
“Rock and Roll Ain’t Noise Pollution” AC/DC ---
**Author:** ![robardin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/43a26b/32.png) [@robardin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/robardin)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2013, 2:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-songs-that-reference-rock-and-roll/670419/71 "2013-12-29T02:54:22Z")
Did I miss seeing Argent’s anthem, “God Gave Rock and Roll To You”? It was also covered by KISS at the end of the second Bill and Ted movie. I will always remember it as the 1,000,000th song played on 102.7 WNEW-FM in NYC some time in the mid 1980s. ---
**Author:** ![Accidental\_Martyr](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ce7236/32.png) [@Accidental\_Martyr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Accidental_Martyr)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2013, 4:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-songs-that-reference-rock-and-roll/670419/72 "2013-12-29T04:19:09Z")
Pylon-“Stop It” [![](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/cgez1nZKGoM/hqdefault.jpg "Pylon - Stop It") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cgez1nZKGoM) ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Me](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d2c977/32.png) [@Mr.Me](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Me)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2013, 1:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-songs-that-reference-rock-and-roll/670419/73 "2013-12-29T13:31:38Z")
Hedwig And The Angry Inch - [Midnight Radio](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u8Y-sZ2WrfA) And you’re spinning Your new 45’s All the misfits and the losers Yeah, you know you’re rock and rollers Spinning to your rock and roll ---
**Author:** ![buddha\_david](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ee7513/32.png) [@buddha\_david](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/buddha_david)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2013, 7:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-songs-that-reference-rock-and-roll/670419/74 "2013-12-29T19:15:13Z")
AC/DC: “Rock and Roll Damnation”, “Let There Be Rock” Motorhead: “Rock and Roll” The Ramones: “Rock and Roll High School”, “Do You Remember Rock and Roll Radio?” Def Leppard: “Rock of Ages”, “Rock Brigade”, “Rock! Rock! (Til You Drop)” (I think the latter is about sex, though) Spinal Tap: “Rock and Roll Creation” ---
**Author:** ![Earl\_Snake-Hips\_Tucker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/earl_snake-hips_tucker/32/3269_2.png) [@Earl\_Snake-Hips\_Tucker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Earl_Snake-Hips_Tucker)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2013, 8:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-songs-that-reference-rock-and-roll/670419/75 "2013-12-29T20:14:47Z")
"I rock 'em, roll 'em all night long, I’m a [Sixty Minute Man](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OpQuNY3XFI0). (And you can see why “rock ‘n’ roll” was euphemistic. ---
**Author:** ![Cognoscant](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/bbe5ce/32.png) [@Cognoscant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cognoscant)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2013, 4:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-songs-that-reference-rock-and-roll/670419/76 "2013-12-31T04:34:17Z")
“Rock and roll is here to stay,” quotes the protagonist in “Thirteen” by Big Star. None better. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-songs-that-reference-rock-and-roll/670419.md?page=3)