Hard rock (or heavy rock) is a loosely defined subgenre of rock music which has its earliest roots in mid-1960s garage rock, blues rock and psychedelic rock. It is typified by a heavy use of distorted electric guitars, bass guitar, drums, and often accompanied with pianos and keyboards.
Hard rock developed into a major form of popular music in the 1970s, with bands such as Led Zeppelin, Deep Purple, Aerosmith, AC/DC, and Van Halen, and reached a commercial peak in the mid to late 1980s. The glam metal of bands like Bon Jovi and Def Leppard and the rawer sounds of Guns N' Roses followed up with great success in the later part of that decade, before losing popularity with the commercial success of grunge and later Britpop in the 1990s. Despite this, many post-grunge bands adopted a hard rock sound and in the 2000s there came a renewed interest in established bands, attempts at a revival, and new hard rock bands that emerged from the garage rock and post-punk revival scenes.
Hard rock is a form of loud, aggressive rock music. The electric guitar is often emphasised, used with distortion and other effects, both as a rhythm instrument using repetitive riffs with a varying degree of complexity, and as a solo lead instrument. Drumming characteristically focuses on driving rhythms, strong bass drum and a backbeat on snare, sometimes using cymbals for emphasis. The bass guitar works in conjunction with the drums, occasionally playing riffs, but usually providing a backing for the rhythm and lead guitars. Vocals are often growling, raspy, or involve screaming or wailing, sometimes in a high range, or even falsetto voice. Hard rock has sometimes been labelled cock rock for its emphasis on overt masculinity and sexuality and because it has historically been predominately performed and consumed by men: in the case of its audience, particularly white, working-class adolescents.
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Michael O'Toole: I have, in my time, visited three political conventions, four sessions of congress, and two homes for the criminally insane. I have known army generals, steam doctors, vegetarians, prohibitionists, and a female suffragette. But never, even in an Orangeman's Day parade, have I seen such pure and stainless brainlessness as I now behold in you. The Almighty, in His infinite wisdom and mercy, has given the worm enough sense to turn with, and the barnacle can grasp whatever happens to be standing by. But you are equipped with a mental capacity smaller than you were born with. Here we are, benighted in the middle of a nowhere named Molly-Be-Damn - a dreary little rookery, Timothy, a squalid sty, a festering pustule on the face of the western slope. Bless the town and bless the people! Look at them - the rabble of this cantankerous community! Knaves and fools, louts and lardheads, the least of all God's creatures, without enough push to pick the fleas off each other, abiding in putrefaction and inertia, curled up comfy in it like hogs in a mud hole! And while I, of all people, fret and sweat for a way to pull these Simple Simons out of the bog, you stand around making flatulent noises for the titillation of the vulgar mob. And while he's bubbling himself, what are you doing, you pusillanimous pack of popcorn pickers? You clattered clutch of clucks? The town dilapidating around you, coasting downhill in a handcart to Hell while you stand about gaping for flies and going patty-cake with your hands!::Mayor: There now! Now just one minute you!::Michael O'Toole: All right, all right, all right! Fine! Keep it, and treasure it the way it is! For when all this trash has collapsed into one pile, and the howling wilderness has claimed its own again, I want you hicks to be happy, belching and spitting, laughing and singing, swinging from tree to tree, with your friend Soapy Sam here, the Uriah Heep of the hookworm belt, standing around below waiting to steal anything that falls to the ground. If a nut should drop and fall - leave it lying there. It's probably my little brother Timothy.::Sheriff: Is that all?::[O'Toole throws up his hands]::Sheriff: [Crowd applauds]::Sheriff: By acclamation - the winner of the cussin' contest - Michael O'Toole!
Michael O'Toole: Not a friend in the world. And that's the only thing I've got to be thankful for.
1.5 Hours of Rock n' Roll - Rock/Hard Rock Playlist
BEST OF HARD ROCK 1
Hard Rock/Metal Workout/Pump Up Music 2014 | Mix 1
Hard Rock/Metal Workout/Pump Up Music 2014 | Mix 2
Hard Rock playlist 80's best of
HEAVY METAL & HARD ROCK THE BEST OF... VOLUME II
Strip Tease Around the World – The Hard Rock Cafe Strip Tees
Hard Rock, Heavy Metal Mix (Metallica, Black Sabath, Iron Maiden, Green Day, Lordi, Nirvana i inni)
Hard Rock playlist 80's best of (vol.2)
Lordi - Hard Rock Hallelujah Special Edition
1.5 Hours of Rock n' Roll Volume II - Rock/Hard Rock Playlist
Lordi - Hard Rock Hallelujah (Finland) 2006 Eurovision Song Contest Winner
Top 10 Hard Rock Bands 2014
Hard Rock Mix by Manos
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Par derrière chez mon père
Il y a un pommier doux
Il y a un pommier doux
Les trois filles d'un prince
Sont endormies dessous
J'ai du grain de mil
J'ai du grain de paille
J'ai de l'oranger
J'ai du tri
J'ai du tricolie
J'ai des allumettes
Et j'ai des ananas
Des pierres à fusils
Des lauriers fleuris
J'ai du zi
J'ai du zounne zi
J'ai du zounne zounne
Et j'ai du zounne zo
J'ai de beaux j'ai de beaux
J'ai de beaux oiseaux
Les trois filles d'un prince sont endormies dessous
Sont endormies dessous