I love rock and roll...put another dime in the jukebox, baby.

It's been a long time since I rock and rolled. It's been a long time since I did the Stroll.

Do you remember rock and roll radio?

Jenny said, when she was just five years old, "You know there's nothin' happening at all". Every time she put on the radio there was nothin' goin' down at all. Not at all

One fine mornin', she puts on a New York station and she couldn't believe what she heard at all. She started dancin' to that fine-fine-fine-fine music. Ooohhh, her life was saved by rock 'n' roll.

Hey baby, rock 'n' roll.

Despite all the amputations you could dance to a rock 'n' roll station. And it was all right.

Drugs, sex, and rock & roll, man! Yyyeeeeaaaaah!

When I think rock, it's Elvis, Chuck Berry, The Eagles and other stuff that was really before "my time." Otherwise, it's Aerosmith or Rolling Stones or AC/DC.

I grew up on "grunge," "alternative," or metal (and "classical," "jazz," "house," "electronica," "dub," and "esoteric," &c.) (and what do The Doors, Black Sabath, Janis Joplin, Pink Floyd fall into?)

Does anything new, these days, still count as rock and roll?

Hoochie coo!

Does anything new, these days, still count as rock and roll?

Yes. Yes it does.

Examples? OK, off the top of my head (and I'm very tired): Black Mountain, Kinski, The Dirtbombs, The Turpentine Brothers, Sleater-Kinney, Comets On Fire, Detroit Cobras, Reigning Sound...

Don't get too caught up in labels, though. As far as I'm concerned, there are really only three types of music: music I like, music I don't like, and music I haven't heard yet.

Ironboss is rock and roll. This track is grand NSFW fun; I only wish they had "My Jesus" up on the page.)

*puts another dime in the jukebox, baby*

Darn it, I wish I'd remembered this for the hand-claps thread in the green.

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