Destroy Rock & Roll (song)

"Destroy Rock & Roll"
Song

"Destroy Rock & Roll" is a dance track recorded by Mylo. The song appears on the album also entitled Destroy Rock & Roll and was released as a UK single.

The track begins with a severe sampled voice condemning "All perversions of the third eye through distorted and exaggerated images, perverted movements of the body and breakdancing and other forms of dancing." The voice calls for "the destroying of rock music directed specifically against children through the videos that were portrayed" and for "the judgement of the sacred fire of this hour before the throne of Almighty God" on certain individuals.

The song then lists figures from the history of music (almost exclusively 1980s groups). The vocal track sampled, a Church Universal and Triumphant recording, was also used by Negativland on their track "Michael Jackson," on the band's 1987 release "Escape From Noise." The vocal track also provided a key sample for Fatboy Slim's dance hit "Michael Jackson."

The artists cited in the list are as follows:

• Michael Jackson,
• Prince,
• Bruce Springsteen,
• Tina Turner,
• David Bowie (mispronounced "buoy"),
• Van Halen,
• Madonna,
• Huey Lewis & The News,
• The Cars,
• Herbie Hancock (probably for his 1983 hit "Rockit"),
• Bonnie Tyler,
• Stevie Nicks,
• Men At Work,
• ZZ Top,
• Paul McCartney & Michael Jackson (duets on "The Girl Is Mine, 1982, and "Say Say Say", 1983"),
• Weird Al Yankovic (whose recordings are almost exclusively comedic and often parodic),
• Cyndi Lauper (mispronounced as "looper"),
• Pink Floyd,
• The Pretenders,
• Billy Joel,
• Billy Idol,
• Elton John,
• Neil Young,
• Sheena Easton (a protegé of Prince, see top of list),
• Patty Smyth and Scandal,
• Fashion,
• Big Country,
• Morris Day and The Time (another band associated with Prince),
• John Lennon (mispronounced "Linen"),
• Apollonia Six (yet another band associated with Prince),
• REO Speedwagon,
• David Gilmour (vocalist with Pink Floyd, mentioned above),
• The Rolling Stones,
• Pat Benatar,
• Hall & Oates,
• Wham,
• Rebbie Jackson,
• Adam Ant,
• Bananarama,
• Christine Lavin (or Christine McVie),
• Queen,
• John Cougar Mellencamp, (mispronounced "Jack Cougar Mellencamp")
• U2,
• Spheres (to be investigated),
• Fleetwood Mac,
• The Alan Parsons Project,
• Rick Springfield,
• The Thompson Twins,
• Missing Persons, Duran Duran (this pair repeated many times),
• The Police,
• Eurythmics,
• Culture Club including Boy George,
• Band Aid (a charity supergroup whose inclusion is surprising given their philanthropic raison d'etre),
• Relax (two groups with this name, Dutch and German. Or this could refer to the Frankie Goes To Hollywood song Relax),
• Stevie Wonder

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sampled voice