History of Rock and Pop - Final Exam Notes

Hard Rock & Heavy Metal

  • White Room - Cream (Genre: Hard Rock)
  • Born to Be Wild - Steppenwolf (Genre: Rock)
  • Barracuda - Heart (Genre: Rock)
  • Immigrant Song - Led Zeppelin (Genre: Rock)
  • Iron Man - Black Sabbath (Genre: Heavy Metal)
  • Highway to Hell - AC/DC (Genre: Metal Rock)
  • Schools Out - Alice Cooper (Genre: Glam Rock)
  • Rock and Roll All Nite - KISS (Genre: Glam Rock)
  • We're Not Gonna Take It - Twisted Sister (Genre: Glam Rock)
  • Caught in a Mosh - Anthrax (Genre: Groove Metal)
  • Indians - Anthrax (Genre: Metal Rock)
  • Enter Sandman - Metallica (Genre: Heavy Metal)

Progressive Rock & Glam

  • Nights in White Satin - The Moody Blues (Genre: Progressive Rock)
  • Roundabout - YES (Genre: Progressive Rock)
  • Tom Sawyer - RUSH (Genre: Progressive Rock)
  • Bohemian Rhapsody - Queen (Genre: Progressive Rock)
  • Comfortably Numb - Pink Floyd (Genre: Progressive Rock)
  • Space Oddity - David Bowie (Genre: Glam Rock)
  • Don't Eat the Yellow Snow - Frank Zappa and the Mothers of Invention (Genre: Progressive Rock)

Ska & Reggae

  • Guns of Navarone - The Skatalites (Genre: Ska)
  • Get Up, Stand Up - Bob Marley & The Wailers (Genre: Reggae)

Punk & New Wave

  • Sweet Jane - The Velvet Underground (Genre: Proto-Punk Rock)
  • Personality Crisis - New York Dolls (Genre: Punk Rock)
  • Blitzkrieg Bop - Ramones (Genre: Punk Rock)
  • Anarchy in the UK - The Sex Pistols (Genre: Punk Rock)
  • Whip It - Devo (Genre: New Wave)

Funk & Disco

  • Everyday People - Sly and the Family Stone (Genre: Funk)
  • Give Up the Funk - Parliament Funkadelic (Genre: Funk)
  • Bad Girls - Donna Summer (Genre: Disco)
  • Stayin' Alive - Bee Gees (Genre: Disco)
  • Le Freak - Chic (Genre: Disco)

Hip-Hop & Rap

  • Rapper's Delight - The Sugarhill Gang (Genre: Hip-Hop) - Hip-hop also sounds like Jackson 5
  • The Message - Grandmaster Flash & The Furious Five (Genre: Hip-Hop)
  • Walk This Way - Run-D.M.C. (Genre: Hip-Hop/Rap)
  • Fight the Power - Public Enemy (Genre: Hip-Hop/Rap)
  • Straight Outta Compton - N.W.A. (Genre: Hip-Hop/Rap)
  • Changes - Tupac Shakur (Genre: Gangsta Rap)
  • Juicy - The Notorious B.I.G. (Genre: Gangsta Rap)

Pop & New Romanticism

  • Thriller - Michael Jackson (Genre: Pop)
  • Billie Jean - Michael Jackson (Genre: Pop)
  • Kiss - Prince (Genre: Pop)
  • Like a Virgin - Madonna (Genre: Pop)
  • Do You Really Want to Hurt Me - Culture Club (Genre: New Romanticism)
  • Losing My Religion - R.E.M. (Genre: Alternative Rock)
  • With or Without You - U2 (Genre: Pop Rock)

Grunge & Alt Rock

  • Smells Like Teen Spirit - Nirvana (Genre: Grunge)
  • Basket Case - Green Day (Genre: Pop-Punk)
  • Just a Girl - No Doubt (Genre: Ska Punk)
  • Paranoid Android - Radiohead (Genre: Progressive Rock)
  • Californication - Red Hot Chili Peppers (Genre: Alternative/Indie)
  • Killing in the Name - Rage Against the Machine (Genre: Rap Metal)
  • Freak on a Leash - Korn (Genre: Nu Metal)