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* Andrew WK's [[https://youtu.be/WccfbPQNMbg "Party Hard"]].

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[[https://youtu.be/WccfbPQNMbg "Party Hard"]]. So much fun energy that in the 2000s [[https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/party-hard everyone]] had to get in on the action.
** "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tlu1ZfYr6vA Ready to Die]]." Listen with caution, because this song will make you feel like you can take on an army -- no, a ''planet'' singlehanded.
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** 'Machine Gun' is possibly the angriest song made by Hendrix. A powerful, 12-minute masterpiece that includes possibly the best guitar solo of Hendrix's career.

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** 'Machine Gun' is possibly the angriest song made by Hendrix. A powerful, 12-minute masterpiece that includes possibly the best guitar solo of Hendrix's career.
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** 'Machine Gun' is possibly the angriest song made by Hendrix. A powerful, 12-minute masterpiece that includes possibly the best guitar solo of Hendrix's career.
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** ''The Crossing'' is made of awesome. From the opener [[https://youtu.be/9RJyuLs0EgQ "In A Big Country"]] to the [[EpicRocking epic]] closer [[https://youtu.be/PMXodwZnrqY "Porrohman"]].
** This list would be incomplete without mention of [[https://youtu.be/hT255v-evw8 "Fields Of Fire"]], which is perhaps their best-known song. {{Epic Riff}}s abound.

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** ''The Crossing'' is made of awesome. From the opener (and the band's [[SignatureSong signature]]) [[https://youtu.be/9RJyuLs0EgQ "In A Big Country"]] to the [[EpicRocking epic]] closer [[https://youtu.be/PMXodwZnrqY "Porrohman"]].
** This list would be incomplete without mention of [[https://youtu.be/hT255v-evw8 "Fields Of Fire"]], which is perhaps their best-known next-best known song. {{Epic Riff}}s abound.
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* Music/{{Bread}} are more known for producing inoffensive soft-rock than awesome music, but they absolutely have their moments.

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* Music/{{Bread}} Music/{{Bread|Band}} are more known for producing inoffensive soft-rock than awesome music, but they absolutely have their moments.
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*** Charlie Daniels collaborated with violinist Mark O'Connor on an official sequel, [[http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x7qrz_the-devil-comes-back-to-georgia_music "The Devil Comes Back to Georgia"]], with Music/TravisTritt as the Devil and Marty Stuart as Johnny. Adding to the awesome is the narration by Johnny Cash in full preacher-mode. [[spoiler:Oh, and final score; Johnny 2, Satan 0]]

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*** Charlie Daniels collaborated with violinist Mark O'Connor on an official sequel, [[http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x7qrz_the-devil-comes-back-to-georgia_music "The Devil Comes Back to Georgia"]], with Music/TravisTritt as the Devil and Marty Stuart as Johnny. Adding to the awesome is the narration by Johnny Cash in full preacher-mode. [[spoiler:Oh, Oh, and final score; Johnny 2, Satan 0]]0.



* Music/{{Asia}}: Looking back, "Heat of the Moment" sounds like the opening DancingTheme of the 1980s as a whole; a blood-pumping arena rock song, it's strangely tinged with doubt that only gets you excited about what's coming next.

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* Music/{{Asia}}: Looking back, Music/{{Asia}}'s "Heat of the Moment" sounds like the opening DancingTheme of the 1980s as a whole; a blood-pumping arena rock song, it's strangely tinged with doubt that only gets you excited about what's coming next.
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* Music/{{Asia}}: "Heat of the Moment" sounds like the opening DancingTheme of the 1980s as a whole.

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* Music/{{Asia}}: Looking back, "Heat of the Moment" sounds like the opening DancingTheme of the 1980s as a whole.whole; a blood-pumping arena rock song, it's strangely tinged with doubt that only gets you excited about what's coming next.

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* Music/BobDylan. ''Music/TheFreewheelinBobDylan'' is the album that proved he was a songwriting genius. Even Rolling Stone says "the most optimistic Dylan fans underestimated this album."

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''Music/TheFreewheelinBobDylan'' is the album that proved he was a songwriting genius. Even Rolling Stone says "the most optimistic Dylan fans underestimated this album.""
** "[[Music/Highway61Revisited Like a Rolling Stone]]." A gorgeous song, and a personal revolution for Dylan himself, it doesn't deliver a message but a question that resonates with any sense of confusion you have about who you are and where you're going.



** Sure, it's overplayed all to hell and covered by everyone from Rolf Harris to Music/FrankZappa - but "Stairway to Heaven" is flat out amazing. EpicRocking at its finest.

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** Sure, it's overplayed all to hell and covered by everyone from Rolf Harris to Music/FrankZappa - -- but "Stairway to Heaven" is flat out flat-out amazing. EpicRocking at its finest.



*** Charlie Daniels collaborated with violinist Mark O'Connor on an official sequel, [[http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x7qrz_the-devil-comes-back-to-georgia_music "The Devil Comes Back to Georgia"]], with Music/TravisTritt as the Devil and Marty Stuart as Johnny. Adding to the awesome is the narration by Johnny Cash in full preacher-mode. [[spoiler: Oh, and final score; Johnny 2, Satan 0]]

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*** Charlie Daniels collaborated with violinist Mark O'Connor on an official sequel, [[http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x7qrz_the-devil-comes-back-to-georgia_music "The Devil Comes Back to Georgia"]], with Music/TravisTritt as the Devil and Marty Stuart as Johnny. Adding to the awesome is the narration by Johnny Cash in full preacher-mode. [[spoiler: Oh, [[spoiler:Oh, and final score; Johnny 2, Satan 0]]



** Just to further back up how good "Mr. Brightside" is - this song is played at all social events, and everyone, regardless of their musical tastes, knows all the words. That's how big it is, at least over in the UK.

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** Just to further back up how good "Mr. Brightside" is - -- this song is played at all social events, and everyone, regardless of their musical tastes, knows all the words. That's how big it is, at least over in the UK.



** The other songs off ''Darkness on the Edge of Town'' aren't half bad either – especially the live radio broadcasted performances from the Darkness Tour. "[[https://youtu.be/IrxKkELQJiQ Racing in the Street]]" has got to be the most poignant song ever about car racing, "[[https://youtu.be/esKch643aYY The Promised Land]]" is a defiant roar in the face of adversity and the live version of "[[https://youtu.be/_Xab-th4ltU Prove It All Night]]" is, as one youtuber put it, "pull me off of the ceiling" euphoric.

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** The other songs off ''Darkness on the Edge of Town'' aren't half bad either -– especially the live radio broadcasted performances from the Darkness Tour. "[[https://youtu.be/IrxKkELQJiQ Racing in the Street]]" has got to be the most poignant song ever about car racing, "[[https://youtu.be/esKch643aYY The Promised Land]]" is a defiant roar in the face of adversity and the live version of "[[https://youtu.be/_Xab-th4ltU Prove It All Night]]" is, as one youtuber put it, "pull me off of the ceiling" euphoric.



* Jefferson Airplane's follow-up band, Music/JeffersonStarship, had some rather awesome music too - cheesy, but awesome. The most (in)famous was "We Built This City", but "[[https://youtu.be/UUW_Y0wYNMs Nothing's Gonna Stop Us Now]]" is a high point.

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* Jefferson Airplane's follow-up band, Music/JeffersonStarship, had some rather awesome music too - -- cheesy, but awesome. The most (in)famous was "We Built This City", but "[[https://youtu.be/UUW_Y0wYNMs Nothing's Gonna Stop Us Now]]" is a high point.



* Music/{{REM}}. Their BreakthroughHit [[https://youtu.be/gteuTLhO7N0 "The One I Love"]], [[https://youtu.be/uS21CbjOYIU "Me in Honey"]], [[https://youtu.be/-fxfDRYGtjw "What's the Frequency, Kenneth?"]], and - on a completely different level - the [[https://youtu.be/zlYCqi9G66g eleventh untitled song]] from ''Green'' are all utterly triumphant moments in the history of music.

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* Music/{{REM}}. Their BreakthroughHit [[https://youtu.be/gteuTLhO7N0 "The One I Love"]], [[https://youtu.be/uS21CbjOYIU "Me in Honey"]], [[https://youtu.be/-fxfDRYGtjw "What's the Frequency, Kenneth?"]], and - -- on a completely different level - -- the [[https://youtu.be/zlYCqi9G66g eleventh untitled song]] from ''Green'' are all utterly triumphant moments in the history of music.



* Music/{{Buckethead}}. [[https://youtu.be/OTcg9JybEp8 "Jordan"]] is a classic, as are [[https://youtu.be/QeEFgVCC1w8 "Nottingham Lace"]] and [[https://youtu.be/dgmf0iSWflA "King James"]]. [[https://youtu.be/adV8-_hgL4g "Soothsayer"]] can be both this and a TearJerker at the same time. There's just something about listening to someone with a near-complete mastery of the guitar that's incredible - even if said person is an insanely creepy, impossibly tall man with a KFC bucket on his head.

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* Music/{{Buckethead}}. [[https://youtu.be/OTcg9JybEp8 "Jordan"]] is a classic, as are [[https://youtu.be/QeEFgVCC1w8 "Nottingham Lace"]] and [[https://youtu.be/dgmf0iSWflA "King James"]]. [[https://youtu.be/adV8-_hgL4g "Soothsayer"]] can be both this and a TearJerker at the same time. There's just something about listening to someone with a near-complete mastery of the guitar that's incredible - -- even if said person is an insanely creepy, impossibly tall man with a KFC bucket on his head.



** Their versatility is just stunning. [[https://youtu.be/ousFDjPrh58 Here's]] a good example. Have you ever heard a Zeppelin cover rock so hard and sound so joyous? As an added bonus, that song that they segue into at the end - one of their originals called "Tweezer Reprise" - is in a completely different key than they normally play it in (E instead of D). They never rehearsed that or anything. It just ''happened''.

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** Their versatility is just stunning. [[https://youtu.be/ousFDjPrh58 Here's]] a good example. Have you ever heard a Zeppelin cover rock so hard and sound so joyous? As an added bonus, that song that they segue into at the end - -- one of their originals called "Tweezer Reprise" - -- is in a completely different key than they normally play it in (E instead of D). They never rehearsed that or anything. It just ''happened''.



** Another GBS example- "Gallows Pole", specifically [[https://youtu.be/8s1r_ksv2Qk the performance]] at the 2009 Junos. Sean [=McCann=] was singing this with a lung infection.

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** Another GBS example- example -- "Gallows Pole", specifically [[https://youtu.be/8s1r_ksv2Qk the performance]] at the 2009 Junos. Sean [=McCann=] was singing this with a lung infection.



* This is an obscure one, but it is one gem worth tracking down; the ''Artists United Against Apartheid'' project. It was one of the gazillion "mass-supergroup charity albums" from the '80s-- THIS one, though, was an anti-apartheid album, specifically targeting the "Sun City" resort in Johannesburg. There's one hell of a cast on board -- Little Steven started it, so he got Bruce Springsteen in easily; but he also got Run DMC, Grandmaster Flash, Joey Ramone, Eddie Ruffin (from the Temptations), Jackson Browne, Bob Dylan, Lou Reed, Ruben Blades, Peter Gabriel, Nona Hendryx, Bonnie Raitt, Miles Davis, Gil-Scott Heron, Herbie Hancock...the video for the main song was [[https://youtu.be/TlMdYpnVOGQ pretty kick-ass]] and gives an idea of the scope of artists. The album also has Bono's original SOLO version of U2's "Silver And Gold". The original features just Bono singing, Keith Richards and Ronnie Wood on guitar and slide guitar, and some random studio hand whanging on a cardboard box for the "percussion."

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* This is an obscure one, but it is one gem worth tracking down; the ''Artists United Against Apartheid'' project. It was one of the gazillion "mass-supergroup charity albums" from the '80s-- '80s -- THIS one, though, was an anti-apartheid album, specifically targeting the "Sun City" resort in Johannesburg. There's one hell of a cast on board -- Little Steven started it, so he got Bruce Springsteen in easily; but he also got Run DMC, Grandmaster Flash, Joey Ramone, Eddie Ruffin (from the Temptations), Jackson Browne, Bob Dylan, Lou Reed, Ruben Blades, Peter Gabriel, Nona Hendryx, Bonnie Raitt, Miles Davis, Gil-Scott Heron, Herbie Hancock...the video for the main song was [[https://youtu.be/TlMdYpnVOGQ pretty kick-ass]] and gives an idea of the scope of artists. The album also has Bono's original SOLO version of U2's "Silver And Gold". The original features just Bono singing, Keith Richards and Ronnie Wood on guitar and slide guitar, and some random studio hand whanging on a cardboard box for the "percussion."


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* Anything by Music/{{Sublime}}, but especially their self-titled album, which went quintuple platinum, despite the band being unable to tour, due to lead singer/lead guitarist Bradley Nowell's tragic overdose, weeks before the album came out.

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* Anything by Music/{{Sublime}}, but especially their self-titled album, which went quintuple platinum, despite the band being unable to tour, due to [[LeadSingerPlaysLeadGuitar lead singer/lead guitarist guitarist]] Bradley Nowell's tragic overdose, weeks before the album came out.
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* Music/{{Bread}} are known more for inoffesnsive soft-rock than producing awesome, but they absolutely have their moments.

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* Music/{{Bread}} are more known more for inoffesnsive producing inoffensive soft-rock than producing awesome, awesome music, but they absolutely have their moments.
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** Holy ''crap'', [[https://youtu.be/P3L6T0dfHa0 "Vampire Money"]] has to be the catchiest TakeThat to ''Literature/{{Twilight}}'' EVER.

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** Holy ''crap'', [[https://youtu.be/P3L6T0dfHa0 "Vampire Money"]] has to be the catchiest TakeThat to ''Literature/{{Twilight}}'' ''Literature/TheTwilightSaga'' EVER.

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