Best Rock Songs of the 1960s

Not unexpectantly, Three Days Grace and Shinedown continued their battle for the most #1s on the Mainstream Rock Songs chart but Rock really got a shot in the arm when Rapper turned Rocker MG Kelly scored two #1 albums (“Tickets To My Downfall” and “Mainstream Sellout”). New bands like Greta Van Fleet, Dirty Honey, Royal…

The 70s had it all… singer/songwriters (Elton John, Billy Joel and Bruce Springsteen), Glam Rock (David Bowie, KISS, T-Rex), Shock Rock (Alice Cooper, Plasmatics), Corporate Rock (Boston) which led to a Punk backlash (The Clash, Sex Pistols and The Ramones). Disco landed but eventually lost its dominant position to New Wave (Talking Heads, Police and…

Both Metallica and the Red Hot Chili Peppers had success in the 90s but they came into their own in this decade. Also, from the 90s Nu Metal (Slipknot, Godsmack, Linkin Park, Nine Inch Nails) made its mark. Still, Green Day’s protest album “American Idiot” not only revived the band’s career it proved Rock still…

The decade began innocently with the Beach Boys, The Beatles and the British invasion and ended with Hard Rock from Jefferson Airplane, Cream, Jimi Hendrix, The Doors and Steppenwolf. Solos kept getting longer with the Iron Butterfly putting a capper on it with their 17-minute epic, “In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida.” “If you remember the 1960’s you weren’t there.”…

Hair Metal might have gone on forever had it not been obliterated by Grunge (Nirvana, Soundgarden, Pearl Jam, Alice In Chains, and Smashing Pumpkins). The passing of Nirvana’s Kurt Cobain took the wind out of Grunge giving way to Post-Punk Power Pop (Green Day, Stone Temple Pilots, Blink 182). From the ashes, Nirvana’s drummer Dave…