| 1 | [floatboxright: |
| 2 | Primary Stylistic Influences: |
| 3 | + BluesRock, PsychedelicRock |
| 4 | ] |
| 5 | [floatboxright: |
| 6 | Secondary Stylistic Influences: |
| 7 | + RockAndRoll, GarageRock, UsefulNotes/TheBritishInvasion (mostly harder-edged bands like Music/TheKinks, Music/{{The Rolling Stones|Band}} and Music/TheWho) |
| 8 | ] |
| 9 | |
| 10 | -> ''[[Music/{{ACDC}} The Young Brothers]] [=[AC/DC]=] began playing at a time recognised as the Australian music scene's lowest ebb. Outdoor festivals like Sunbury were all but finished. But pubs and RSL clubs all over the country were opening their doors to the blues bands that had thrived in the elements. Here, there was plenty of heat, no mud, and unlimited supplies of beer - just the environment for a new generation of angry young men to work up a fine mist of sweat with a frontal assault of volume, and an enthusiasm to join the fray. The crowd they played to was male, volatile, and working class. They demanded to be deafened by bass, drums, and guitar. It became known as pub rock - music to drink by.'' |
| 11 | -->-- ''Long Way to the Top: Stories of Australian Rock & Roll'' |
| 12 | |
| 13 | Hard rock is a SubGenre of {{rock}}, developing in the late 1960s on both sides of the Atlantic. In America, it was popularized by bands like Music/{{Steppenwolf}} and Music/{{Iron Butterfly|Band}}, while in Britain it grew out of the late 60s {{Blues}}. Generally, it's rooted in BluesRock and PsychedelicRock. Its main definition is that it is considerably harder than conventional rock music, which means that guitars have an edgier snarl of distortion and the drumming is louder and more emphatic. It is characterized by a heavy use of distorted electric guitars played through big speaker stacks, bass guitar, drums, pianos and other keyboards (especially Hammond organ, but also synthesizers in the 1980s and beyond), and powerful vocals, making it near-indistinguishable from some of the lighter HeavyMetal bands. Many heavy metal debates are about where the dividing line is between "hard rock" and "heavy metal". (The dividing line is difficult to draw, since a band considered to be "shockingly hard" in TheSeventies is going to sound quite normal in the 2020s, in the era of extreme metal.) |
| 14 | |
| 15 | That's the only definition you need, really. Hard rock doesn't have as much of a "scene" or subculture like HeavyMetal, though it was most popular back in TheSeventies. Nowadays, hard rock is rarer, having been effectively replaced officially by [[HeavyMetal a few]] [[PostGrunge similar genres]]. Still, there are some bands, more "retro" in focus, who could still be classified as hard rock, such as Music/{{Wolfmother}} and Music/TheDarkness. The term 'hard rock' persists both as a catch-all term for hard-hitting music that isn't full-fledged metal, and as an umbrella term for all hard-edged rock music from DeathMetal to HardcorePunk to {{Grunge}}, so it still comes up a lot. |
| 16 | |
| 17 | Contrast with SoftRock, rock music that goes in the ''opposite'' direction of Hard rock. |
| 18 | |
| 19 | ---- |
| 20 | !Bands/artists typically classified as hard rock include: |
| 21 | [[index]] |
| 22 | * Music/{{ACDC}} (possibly the TropeCodifier) |
| 23 | ** 1975 - ''Music/HighVoltage'' |
| 24 | ** 1975 - ''Music/TNT1975'' |
| 25 | ** 1976 - ''Music/DirtyDeedsDoneDirtCheap'' |
| 26 | ** 1979 - ''Music/HighwayToHell'' |
| 27 | ** 1980 - ''Music/BackInBlack'' |
| 28 | * Music/{{Adema}} |
| 29 | * Music/{{Aerosmith}} |
| 30 | ** 1987 - ''Music/PermanentVacation'' |
| 31 | ** 1989 - ''Music/{{Pump}}'' |
| 32 | ** 1993 - ''Music/GetAGrip'' |
| 33 | * Music/{{Airbourne}} |
| 34 | * Music/AliceCooper |
| 35 | * Music/AlterBridge |
| 36 | * Music/{{Argent}} |
| 37 | * [[Music/BachmanTurnerOverdrive Bachman-Turner Overdrive]] |
| 38 | * Music/BadCompany |
| 39 | * Music/BandMaid (they ''look'' like a poppy GirlGroup but they're not) |
| 40 | * Music/JeffBeck (his early albums were a TropeMaker for the genre) |
| 41 | * Music/PatBenatar |
| 42 | * Music/BiffyClyro |
| 43 | * Music/TheBlackCrowes |
| 44 | * Music/BlackSabbath |
| 45 | * Music/BlackVeilBrides |
| 46 | * Music/BloodGood (also HeavyMetal) |
| 47 | * Music/BlueCheer |
| 48 | * Music/BlueOysterCult |
| 49 | * Music/BreakingBenjamin |
| 50 | * Music/BonJovi |
| 51 | ** 1986 - ''Music/SlipperyWhenWet'' |
| 52 | * Music/TylerBryantAndTheShakedown |
| 53 | * Music/{{Buckcherry}} |
| 54 | * Music/{{Bz}} |
| 55 | * Music/CheapTrick (also PowerPop) |
| 56 | * Music/{{Chevelle}} |
| 57 | * Music/{{Chickenfoot}} |
| 58 | * Gilby Clarke |
| 59 | ** 1994 - ''Music/PawnshopGuitars'' |
| 60 | * Music/{{Clutch}} |
| 61 | * Music/ColdChisel |
| 62 | * Music/{{Cream}} |
| 63 | * Music/{{Creed|Band}} |
| 64 | * Music/Crush40 |
| 65 | * Music/TheCult |
| 66 | * [[Music/DADBand D-A-D]] |
| 67 | * Music/DaliVanGogh |
| 68 | * Music/DamnYankees |
| 69 | * Music/TheDarkness |
| 70 | * Music/DeadSara |
| 71 | * Music/DeepPurple |
| 72 | ** 1969 - ''Music/ConcertoForGroupAndOrchestra'' |
| 73 | ** 1970 - ''Music/DeepPurpleInRock'' |
| 74 | ** 1972 - ''Music/MachineHeadAlbum'' |
| 75 | * Music/DefLeppard |
| 76 | ** 1983 - ''Music/{{Pyromania}}'' |
| 77 | ** 1987 - ''[[Music/HysteriaAlbum Hysteria]]'' |
| 78 | * Music/BruceDickinson |
| 79 | * Music/{{Disturbed}} (also AlternativeMetal) |
| 80 | * Music/{{Dokken}} |
| 81 | * Music/DollSkin |
| 82 | * Music/{{DOROTHY}} |
| 83 | * Music/DoubleExperience |
| 84 | * Music/JamesDurbin |
| 85 | * Music/EaglesOfDeathMetal |
| 86 | * Music/{{Europe}} |
| 87 | * Music/EvansBlue |
| 88 | * Music/{{Faces}} |
| 89 | * Music/{{Fanny}} |
| 90 | * Music/{{Filter}} |
| 91 | * Music/TheFirm |
| 92 | * Music/{{Foghat}} |
| 93 | * Music/PeterFrampton |
| 94 | * Music/FreeBand |
| 95 | * [[Music/GhostBand Ghost]] (skirt lines between Hard Rock and DoomMetal) |
| 96 | * Music/{{Girlschool}} |
| 97 | * Music/{{Godsmack}} |
| 98 | * Music/GoldenEarring |
| 99 | * Music/GrandFunkRailroad |
| 100 | * Music/{{GRANRODEO}} |
| 101 | * Music/GretaVanFleet |
| 102 | * Music/TheGuessWho |
| 103 | * Music/GunsNRoses |
| 104 | ** 1987 - ''Music/AppetiteForDestruction'' |
| 105 | ** 1988 - ''Music/GNRLies'' |
| 106 | ** 1991 - ''Music/UseYourIllusion'' |
| 107 | ** 2008 - ''Music/ChineseDemocracy'' |
| 108 | * Music/{{Halestorm}} |
| 109 | * Music/{{Hardline}} |
| 110 | * Music/{{Heart|Band}} |
| 111 | * Music/JimiHendrix |
| 112 | * Music/GlennHughes |
| 113 | * Music/{{Hurt}} |
| 114 | * Music/BillyIdol |
| 115 | * Music/IronBunny |
| 116 | * Music/{{Iron Butterfly|Band}} |
| 117 | * Music/EricJohnson |
| 118 | * Music/{{JORN}} |
| 119 | * Music/{{Kansas}} (combined with ProgressiveRock) |
| 120 | * Music/KingsX (also ProgressiveMetal, AlternativeMetal and FunkMetal) |
| 121 | * Music/TheKinks (UrExample, along with Music/{{The Rolling Stones|Band}}) |
| 122 | ** 1967 - ''Music/SomethingElseByTheKinks'' |
| 123 | ** 1968 - ''Music/TheKinksAreTheVillageGreenPreservationSociety'' |
| 124 | ** 1970 - ''Music/LolaVersusPowermanAndTheMoneygoroundPartOne'' |
| 125 | ** 1971 - ''Music/MuswellHillbillies'' |
| 126 | * Music/{{KISS}} |
| 127 | ** 1974 - ''Music/{{KISS|Album}}'' |
| 128 | ** 1974 - ''Music/HotterThanHell'' |
| 129 | ** 1975 - ''Music/DressedToKill'' |
| 130 | ** 1976 - ''Music/{{Destroyer|Album}}'' |
| 131 | ** 1976 - ''Music/RockAndRollOver'' |
| 132 | ** 1977 - ''Music/LoveGun'' |
| 133 | ** 1977 - ''[[Music/KISSAliveII Alive II]]'' |
| 134 | ** 1978 - Music/KISSSoloAlbums |
| 135 | ** 1979 - ''Music/{{Dynasty|Album}}'' |
| 136 | ** 1980 - ''Music/{{Unmasked}}'' |
| 137 | ** 1981 - ''Music/MusicFromTheElder'' |
| 138 | ** 1982 - ''Music/CreaturesOfTheNight'' |
| 139 | ** 1983 - ''Music/LickItUp'' |
| 140 | ** 1984 - ''Music/{{Animalize}}'' |
| 141 | ** 1985 - ''Music/{{Asylum|KissAlbum}}'' |
| 142 | ** 1987 - ''Music/CrazyNights'' |
| 143 | ** 1989 - ''Music/HotInTheShade'' |
| 144 | ** 1992 - ''Music/{{Revenge|KISSAlbum}}'' |
| 145 | ** 1997 - ''Music/CarnivalOfSoulsTheFinalSessions'' |
| 146 | ** 1998 - ''Music/PsychoCircus'' |
| 147 | ** 2009 - ''Music/SonicBoom'' |
| 148 | ** 2012 - ''Music/{{Monster|KISSAlbum}}'' |
| 149 | * Music/LennyKravitz |
| 150 | * Music/{{KXM}} |
| 151 | * Music/{{L7}} |
| 152 | * Music/LedZeppelin (widely considered the TropeMaker) |
| 153 | ** 1969 - ''[[Music/LedZeppelin1969 Led Zeppelin]]'' |
| 154 | ** 1969 - ''Music/LedZeppelinII'' |
| 155 | ** 1970 - ''Music/LedZeppelinIII'' |
| 156 | ** 1971 - ''Music/LedZeppelinIV'' |
| 157 | ** 1973 - ''Music/HousesOfTheHoly'' |
| 158 | ** 1975 - ''Music/PhysicalGraffiti'' |
| 159 | * Music/LeningradCowboys |
| 160 | * Music/LivingColour |
| 161 | * Music/{{Lordi}} |
| 162 | * Music/{{Lostprophets}} |
| 163 | * Music/LoveHate |
| 164 | * Music/{{Loverboy|Band}} |
| 165 | * Music/LynyrdSkynyrd |
| 166 | * Music/Lyube |
| 167 | * Music/{{Maneskin}} |
| 168 | * Music/BrianMay |
| 169 | ** 1983 - ''Music/StarFleetProject'' |
| 170 | * Music/{{MC5}} |
| 171 | ** 1969 - ''Music/KickOutTheJams'' |
| 172 | * Music/MeatLoaf |
| 173 | * Music/{{Metallica}} (Mainly on ''Load'' and ''ReLoad'') |
| 174 | ** 1996/7 - ''Music/LoadAndReLoad'' |
| 175 | * Music/MidnightOil |
| 176 | * Music/MonsterMagnet |
| 177 | * Music/{{Montrose}} |
| 178 | * Music/MothersFinest |
| 179 | * Music/MotleyCrue |
| 180 | * Music/{{Motorhead}} |
| 181 | ** 1980 - ''Music/AceofSpades'' |
| 182 | ** 1991 - ''Music/Nineteen16'' |
| 183 | * Music/MottTheHoople (also GlamRock) |
| 184 | * Music/{{Mountain}} |
| 185 | * Music/MrBig |
| 186 | * Music/{{Muse}} |
| 187 | ** 1999 - ''Music/{{Showbiz}}'' |
| 188 | ** 2001 - ''Music/OriginOfSymmetry'' |
| 189 | ** 2003 - ''[[Music/AbsolutionAlbum Absolution]]'' |
| 190 | ** 2006 - ''Music/BlackHolesAndRevelations'' |
| 191 | *** "Music/KnightsOfCydonia" |
| 192 | ** 2009 - ''[[Music/TheResistanceAlbum The Resistance]]'' |
| 193 | ** 2012 - ''[[Music/The2ndLaw The 2nd Law]]'' |
| 194 | ** 2015 - ''Music/{{Drones}}'' |
| 195 | ** 2018 - ''Music/SimulationTheory'' |
| 196 | ** 2022 - ''Music/WillOfThePeople'' |
| 197 | * Music/{{Nazareth}} |
| 198 | * Music/{{Nickelback}} |
| 199 | * Music/TheNightFlightOrchestra |
| 200 | * Music/NightRanger |
| 201 | * Music/{{Northward}} |
| 202 | * Music/TedNugent |
| 203 | * Music/OzzyOsbourne |
| 204 | * Music/{{Pappo}} |
| 205 | * Music/{{Petra}} |
| 206 | * Music/PinkCream69 |
| 207 | * Music/PinnPanelle |
| 208 | * Music/{{Poison}} |
| 209 | * Music/{{Powerman 5000}} |
| 210 | * Music/ThePrettyReckless |
| 211 | * Music/PrettyMaids |
| 212 | * Music/{{Queen|Band}} |
| 213 | ** 1973 - ''Music/{{Queen|1973}}'' |
| 214 | ** 1974 - ''Music/QueenII'' |
| 215 | ** 1974 - ''Music/SheerHeartAttack'' |
| 216 | ** 1975 - ''Music/{{A Night at the Opera|1975}}'' |
| 217 | ** 1976 - ''Music/{{A Day at the Races|Album}}'' |
| 218 | ** 1977 - ''Music/NewsOfTheWorldQueen'' |
| 219 | ** 1978 - ''Music/{{Jazz|1978}}'' |
| 220 | ** 1980 - ''Music/TheGameQueen'' |
| 221 | ** 1982 - ''Music/HotSpace'' |
| 222 | ** 1984 - ''Music/TheWorks'' |
| 223 | ** 1986 - ''Music/{{A Kind of Magic|1986}}'' |
| 224 | ** 1989 - ''Music/TheMiracle'' |
| 225 | ** 1991 - ''Music/{{Innuendo}}'' |
| 226 | ** 1995 - ''Music/MadeInHeaven'' |
| 227 | * Music/{{Rainbow}} |
| 228 | * Music/RataBlanca |
| 229 | * Music/{{Ratt}} |
| 230 | * Music/LaRenga |
| 231 | * Music/REOSpeedwagon |
| 232 | * Music/ResurrectionBand |
| 233 | * Music/{{Riff}} |
| 234 | * Music/RivalSons |
| 235 | * Music/{{The Rolling Stones|Band}} (the UrExample) |
| 236 | * Music/RoyalBlood |
| 237 | * Music/TheRunaways |
| 238 | ** Music/JoanJett |
| 239 | ** Music/LitaFord |
| 240 | * Music/{{Rush|Band}} (also ProgressiveRock) |
| 241 | ** 1974 - ''Music/{{Rush|Album}}'' |
| 242 | ** 1975 - ''Music/FlyByNight'' |
| 243 | ** 1975 - ''Music/CaressOfSteel'' |
| 244 | ** 1976 - ''[[Music/TwentyOneTwelve 2112]]'' |
| 245 | ** 1977 - ''Music/AFarewellToKings'' |
| 246 | ** 1978 - ''Music/{{Hemispheres}}'' |
| 247 | ** 1980 - ''Music/PermanentWaves'' |
| 248 | ** 1981 - ''Music/{{Moving Pictures|Album}}'' |
| 249 | ** 1982 - ''Music/{{Signals}}'' |
| 250 | ** 1984 - ''Music/GraceUnderPressure'' |
| 251 | ** 1985 - ''Music/PowerWindows'' |
| 252 | ** 1987 - ''Music/HoldYourFire'' |
| 253 | ** 1989 - ''Music/{{Presto|Album}}'' |
| 254 | ** 1991 - ''Music/RollTheBones'' |
| 255 | ** 1993 - ''Music/{{Counterparts}}'' |
| 256 | ** 1996 - ''Music/TestForEcho'' |
| 257 | ** 2002 - ''Music/VaporTrails'' |
| 258 | ** 2007 - ''Music/SnakesAndArrows'' |
| 259 | ** 2012 - ''Music/ClockworkAngels'' |
| 260 | * Music/SavingAbel |
| 261 | * Music/{{Scorpions|Band}} |
| 262 | * Music/BobSeger |
| 263 | * Music/{{Seraph}} |
| 264 | * Music/SixxAM |
| 265 | * Music/{{Shinedown}} |
| 266 | * Music/SkidRow |
| 267 | * Music/{{Slade}} |
| 268 | * Music/{{Slash|Musician}} |
| 269 | * Music/IndioSolari |
| 270 | * Music/BruceSpringsteen (Dipped into this genre on the album ''Darkness On The Edge Of Town'' which emphasized a stronger guitar-based sound.His pre-recording career bands such as Steel Mill also fit) |
| 271 | * Music/BillySquier |
| 272 | * Music/StatusQuo |
| 273 | * Music/SteelPanther |
| 274 | * Music/{{Steppenwolf}} |
| 275 | * Music/{{Stryper}} (also HairMetal and HeavyMetal) |
| 276 | * Music/TheStrypes |
| 277 | * Music/{{Survivor|Band}} |
| 278 | * Music/{{Sweet}} |
| 279 | * Music/{{Tankcsapda}} |
| 280 | * Creator/CoreyTaylor |
| 281 | * Music/TheTeaParty |
| 282 | * Music/{{Tesla}} |
| 283 | * Music/ThemCrookedVultures |
| 284 | * Music/ThinLizzy |
| 285 | * Music/{{Thunder}} |
| 286 | * [[Music/DavidBowie Tin Machine]] |
| 287 | ** 1989 - ''Music/{{Tin Machine|Album}}'' |
| 288 | * Music/{{Turbonegro}} |
| 289 | * Music/TwistedSister |
| 290 | * Music/{{UFO|Band}} |
| 291 | * Music/UglyKidJoe |
| 292 | * Music/{{Unsung}} |
| 293 | * Music/UriahHeep |
| 294 | * Music/SteveVai |
| 295 | * Music/VanHalen |
| 296 | ** Music/DavidLeeRoth |
| 297 | ** 1984 - ''Music/{{MCMLXXXIV}}'' |
| 298 | ** Music/SammyHagar |
| 299 | ** 1986 - ''Music/FiftyOneFifty'' |
| 300 | * Music/AndrewWK |
| 301 | * Music/TheWarning |
| 302 | * Music/{{Warrant}} |
| 303 | * Music/{{Whitesnake}} |
| 304 | * Music/TheWho |
| 305 | * Music/TheWildhearts |
| 306 | * Music/TheWineryDogs |
| 307 | * Music/{{Wolfmother}} |
| 308 | * Music/ZZTop |
| 309 | ** 1983 - ''Music/{{Eliminator|ZZTopAlbum}}'' |
| 310 | * Music/ZugIzland |
| 311 | [[/index]] |
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