History ThePowerOfRock / Music

* {{Music/Rush|Band}}'s ‘‘2112’’. However, the protagonist doesn't succeed by himself [[spoiler:and ends up [[DrivenToSuicide killing himself]] before seeing the Solar Federation overthrown]].

* {{Music/Rush|Band}}'s Music/2112. However, the protagonist doesn't succeed by himself [[spoiler:and ends up [[DrivenToSuicide killing himself]] before seeing the Solar Federation overthrown]].

* {{Music/Rush|Band}}'s Music/{{2112}}. However, the protagonist doesn't succeed by himself [[spoiler:and ends up [[DrivenToSuicide killing himself]] before seeing the Solar Federation overthrown]].

* {{Music/Rush|Band}}'s {{Music / 2112}}. However, the protagonist doesn't succeed by himself [[spoiler:and ends up [[DrivenToSuicide killing himself]] before seeing the Solar Federation overthrown]].

* {{Music/Rush|Band}}'s {{Music/2112}}. However, the protagonist doesn't succeed by himself [[spoiler:and ends up [[DrivenToSuicide killing himself]] before seeing the Solar Federation overthrown]].

* {{Music/Rush|Band}}'s Music/{{2112}}. However, the protagonist doesn't succeed by himself [[spoiler:and ends up [[DrivenToSuicide killing himself]] before seeing the Solar Federation overthrown]].

* {{Music/Rush|Band}}'s Music/{{''2112''}}. However, the protagonist doesn't succeed by himself [[spoiler:and ends up [[DrivenToSuicide killing himself]] before seeing the Solar Federation overthrown]].

* {{Music/Rush|Band}}'s ''2112''. However, the protagonist doesn't succeed by himself [[spoiler:and ends up [[DrivenToSuicide killing himself]] before seeing the Solar Federation overthrown]].

* {{Music/Rush}}'s ''2112''. However, the protagonist doesn't succeed by himself [[spoiler:and ends up [[DrivenToSuicide killing himself]] before seeing the Solar Federation overthrown]].

* In the video to Les Rythmes Digitales' "(Hey You) What's That Sound", Jacques Lu Cont zaps passersby with a keytar, turning them into their more-inclined-to-dance TheEighties equivalents - for instance a group of teenagers loitering by a convenience store become boombox-wielding breakdancers. This all leads up to a massive eighties dance party in the streets.

* In the video to Les Rhythmes Digitales' "(Hey You) What's That Sound", Jacques Lu Cont zaps passersby with a keytar, turning them into their more-inclined-to-dance TheEighties equivalents - for instance a group of teenagers loitering by a convenience store become boombox-wielding breakdancers. This all leads up to a massive eighties dance party in the streets.

* The band Starship once sang about building a "city from rock and roll". Not sure how that's supposed to work. [[LiteralMetaphor Can musical notes even be used as the foundation work for a building, let alone a city]]?

* In the music video for Damn Yankees' "Higher Enough," Ted Nugent repels bullets with the power of his guitar solo. Creator/PattonOswalt based a comedy bit around noting the use of this trope in the video, hoping that dumbasses would actually try it.

** ''The King Wants You'': Avatar themselves are the kingdom's propoganda machine (who are also front-and-centre in ''Statue Of The King''), the army is called to arms by way of a ''cowbell played next to a colossal horn'' and, best of all, guitarists have the [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b_cHOXYkC3U&t=3m24s power to destroy whole platoons with lasers emitted by an awesome solo]]. Those same lasers - as shown by the one fired by the King - also power a city-wide defense shield when fired into a large prism/crystal.

* Played for laughs by ''Music/{{Starbomb}}'' in ''A Wild Guitar Solo Appears''. Pikachu tries to defeat large pokemon in battle by playing rock music at them. He gets stomped repeatedly.

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* Music/{{beabadoobee}}: In the video for "I Wish I Was Stephen Malkmus", Bea's guitar skills cause the government scientists holding her captive's ears to bleed, presumably enabling her escape.

** Their [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CUh6-mtWrCQ first video]] is also an excellent example

* Music/{{Namgar}} combines FolkMusic with ThePowerOfRock.
* Music/LeetStreetBoys parody this idea in their music video for VideoGame/GuitarHero Hero.
* How sailor!Music/DriftlessPonyClub defeats the flying whale in [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4zZzYg2q9YY the "Inspectors of Inspectors" music video.]]

* Played for laughs by ''Music/{{Starbomb}}'' in ''A Wild Guitar Solo Appears''. Pikachu tries to defeat large pokemon in battle by playing rock music at them. [[RealityEnsues He gets stomped repeatedly.]]

* Irish punk rock band Stiff little fingers has a song titled guitar and drum. Generally the message is about how hard the music industry sucks, but the in the chorus, they express their belief in the power of music and the hope it can carry.

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* English folk singer’s Frank Turner’s I Still Believe is a song about this trope: “Now who'd have thought that after all,
Something as simple as rock 'n' roll would save us all.”