Top 10 Songs with Music-Related Lines
In this list I tried to include very diverse songs, mentioning and even discussing different music genres, trends, musicians from different decades. Songs are also from different genres. And the songs cover the entire spectrum from love to hate and everything in between.
He mentioned Rock and Roll, Heavy Metal, Punk rock, Elvis Presley, British Beatlemania,
Bob Dylan, Buddy Holly, Sergei Prokofiev, and more.
"Today's music ain't got the same soul
I like that old time rock 'n' roll
Don't try to take me to a disco"
He mentioned Rock and Roll, disco, new wave:
"Turned on the radio
Sounded like a disco
Must've turned the dial for a couple of miles
But I couldn't find no rock 'n roll
This computerized crap ain't gettin' me off
Everywhere I go the kids wanna rock
London to L.A.,
Talking' 'bout the new wave
For a couple of bucks you get a weird haircut
And waste your life away
Around the world or around the block
Everywhere I go the kids wanna rock"
'Computerized crap' wow, someone with this opinion in '84... interesting. Fortunately, after '85 most of the hit songs weren't computerized and in the '90s acoustic works were more popular than computerized ones.
It's a song of 1984 and I was surprised he said "computerized crap" - I thought that similar reactions to computerized music emerged later.
There are lines mentioning music, record, Frank Zappa.
"We all came out to Montreux
On the Lake Geneva shoreline
To make records with a mobile
We didn't have much time
Frank Zappa and the Mothers
Were at the best place around"
"You're the Phantom of the Opera, you're the devil, you're just out to scare."
Wow, I just discovered this one's missing
It's all about '50 music
How did I forget it? Thanks for adding it.
This song is originally in German but has at least 2 English versions and the lines below are a compilation of both:
He mentioned rock, punk, rock and roll, piano, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.
"He was a Punker
He had debts, for he drank
But all the women loved him
(And they shouted):
Come and rock me Amadeus
[...]
He was the first punk ever to set foot on this earth.
He was a genius from the day of his birth.
He could play the piano like a ring and a bell
[...]
His mind was on rock and roll and having fun"
He mentioned Beethoven, rhythm and blues, DJ, the blues, Tchaikovsky, rocking' rhythm record, and jukebox. But my favorite line is:
"Roll over Beethoven
And tell Tchaikovsky the news"
"Heavy metal maniac
I'm a heavy metal maniac"
The song discusses Modern rock VS Pop:
"And on the napkin silk
She weaves a manuscript with skill
An intro, outro, middle 8
A tapestry of words
A subtle gift to modern rock
She says "be popular, play pop"
And you will win my love"
You can't kill the metal
The metal will live on
Punk-Rock tried to kill the metal
But they failed, as they were smite to the ground
New-wave tried to kill the metal
But they failed, as they were stricken down to the ground
Grunge tried to kill the metal Ha,hahaaha
They failed, as they were thrown to the ground
Aargh! yeah!
No-one can destroy the metal
The metal will strike you down with a vicious blow
We are the vanquished foes of the metal
We tried to win for why we do not know
New-wave tried to destroy the metal, but the metal had its way
Grunge then tried to dethrone the metal, but metal was in the way
Punk-rock tried to destroy the metal, but metal was much too strong
Techno tried to defile the metal, but techno was proven wrong
Yea!
Metal!
It comes from hell!
They mentioned old skipping record, Frank Sinatra, radio station.
"A faintly glimmering radio station.
While Frank Sinatra sings Stormy Weather,
The flies and spiders get along together,
Cobwebs fall on an old skipping record."
There are lines mentioning record store, Eddie Vedder, Alanis Morissette, rock star, grunge, music video channel.
"Spokesman for the disaffected grunge generation"
When we're in town speakers explode
We don't attract wimps 'cause we're too loud
Just true metal people that's Manowar's crowd
"It's a pandemic
It's a metal disease"
There are lines mentioning rock and roll, juke box, musical life, guitar.
"Let me tell you what it's all about
Modern times rock and roll"
I know a whoopee spot
Where the gin is cold
But the piano's hot
It's just a noisy hall
Where there's a nightly brawl
And all that jazz
Slick your hair
And wear your buckle shoes
And all that jazz
I hear that Father Dipp
Is gonna blow the blues
And all that jazz
"Metal militia for your sacrifice"
"I shout out I am a dirty punk
Gonna rock your neighborhood"
There are lines mentioning power chords, headbanging, guitars, heavy metal.
"What do you want?
Heavy metal, heavy metal! "
Too bad the song itself hardly metal lol