Enervated/listless/unconvincing songs about how awesome it is too rock, boy i'm really rockin' now, rock'n'roll is the best, remember how we used to rock?

"It's Only Rock and Roll" is the most enervated song about rock ever recorded. A recent entry in this category: Wilco's "Heavy Metal Drummer."

^^^ so sayeth Soto on another thread

oops "to rock" obv

He's wrong about both of those imho. "ever recorded"!!!

Travis had a terrible song called "All I Wanna Do Is Rock".

this isn't the version i'm familiar with but mcguinn/byrds recorded this 3 times!!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XYDTQOsk6e8

He's wrong about both of those imho. "ever recorded"!!!

ILM is built on overstatement.

YOU ALWAYS SAY THAT.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U8py1wRTli8
The Bay City Rollers, 'Shang-a-Lang'

what are the least rockin' songs about rockin'?

"ILM is a disease. Meet the cure."

the system gave me several threads that could possibly overlap but not that one : (

Queen's 'Rock It (Prime Jive)' immediately springs to mind for me. Never liked it!

Travis had a terrible song called "All I Wanna Do Is Rock".

― Alexandre Dumbass (dog latin), Tuesday, 28 February 2012 16:30 (38 minutes ago)

Distressingly, this was originally titled "All I Wanna Do Is Fuck"

Let's get the ROCK outta here!

Michael Damian's cover of Rock On

^^^ don't mind it

Travis had a terrible song called "All I Wanna Do Is Rock".

― Alexandre Dumbass (dog latin), Tuesday, 28 February 2012 16:30 (38 minutes ago)

Distressingly, this was originally titled "All I Wanna Do Is Fuck"

― Number None, Tuesday, February 28, 2012 12:10 PM (16 minutes ago)

I'm actually a fan of this song. ;_;

Fountains of Wayne took this to its obvious conclusion:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K4__wvRHGIs

I suppose a rock's put of the question?

Sick Mouthy otm.

Doesn't have the word "Rock" in the title but mismatch of song title and rockingness of "I Will Dare" by The Replacement seems to qualify.

no

You're saying that it rocks or that of course it doesn't qualify because it doesn't talk about rockin'?

It's not trying to rock and it doesn't have anything to do with this thread

It was one of the least rocking songs in the catalog of a band that rocked hard. At least until Bob left and the fancy engineers showed up. I don't think it should make the official list of this thread, no, but it never fails to underwhelm.

It's an amazing song and i'm not sure what you're trying to do here

Ruin your day.

j/k. Buying time until I can think of a proper example. Well, there is The Coasters song "That is Rock and Roll" that sounds more like pre-Rock and Roll and features a banjo, which didn't seem like a rock instrument until The Monks came along. But it is kind of fun and upbeat song so maybe not that either.

"i will dare" is a song about daring, not rocking. does not qualify. as far as establishing the target, bob seger owns this shit, right? "old time rock and roll", "rock and roll never forgets", probably more along those lines. only problem being that those songs aren't at all enervated, listless or unconvincing. hmmm...

actually having trouble coming up w good answers for this. all the songs that immediately sprang to mind (william joel's "still rock and roll to me", the moody blue's "i'm just a singer in a rock and roll band") actually rock okay.

yello's "rock stop" does not rock at all, is entirely enervated listless & unconvincing, but i suspect that's the point:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MpfLUsKzQ58

"I Dig Rock and Roll Music" is a song recorded in 1967 by the folk group Peter, Paul and Mary.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BHkl8FJ7uvI

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t4Y1wDdMYH4

my my, hey hey
rock and roll is here to stay...

http://www.discogs.com/Amor-Fati-Rock-N-Roll/release/1392314

find it at

http://shardsofbeauty.blogspot.com/2006/09/amor-fati-aka-amaury-perez-was.html

this tune says it all imo

Rock Me - Great White. It doesn't rock and it isn't great.

billy joel is the winner imo

that black rebel motorcycle club song is kinda lame

a lot of these don't seem to actually be about the rocking power of rock, they're just chilled out songs that mention rock and roll

like are people supposed to listen to "my my hey hey" and feel the transformative history of rock n roll totally pulsing through their veins? neil sounds mad cynical/ironic there imo

also i think every single song about the transformative power + importance of rock and roll might belong here

would "crocodile rock" belong here? i don't think elton is very committed to rocking on that song.

crocodile rock totally rocks and is 100% committed to this in mind, body & spirit

all punk consists of variations on crocodile rock

Ha, afraid to post again on this thread for fear of raising the question Why Does Blecch People Never Want To Rock? but I agree with JBR. That song, which I actually like fine, is in the suspect genre of faux-fifties songs decades after the fact, thereby not rocking nearly as hard as a real fifties song or a real seventies song, such as "Saturday Night's All Right For FIghting," for example.

this at 0:41

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T8jvEJngh4M

I always laugh when I hear Kiss sing about rocking and rolling all night and "partying" every day. These guys were well-known teetotalers - no drugs and very little drink. What did the party entail, exactly? Pinatas and a clown?

ace was a massive alcoholic way back to whenever and had problems w other substances, too. then again, paul and gene lived p clean by all accounts, and yeah, they wrote the song.

I think the rocking and the partying involved sexual intercourse with Cher and Diana Ross.

In the "remember how we used to rock" category, this Eurovision winner:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1x_9JnCGXFY

"We were the rock'n'roll kids, and rock and roll was all we did" indeed.

I WANNA ROCK RIGHT NOW

But that one actually does kinda rock