I Wanna Rock
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"I Wanna Rock" is a song from the album Stay Hungry (1984) by American heavy metal band Twisted Sister.
The song was also covered by the pop punk band Lit on 2001 Twisted Sister tribute album, Twisted Forever. This version was also featured on the Triple Play 2002 videogame soundtrack.
Video
Like the earlier "We're Not Gonna Take It," the video features actor Mark Metcalf, best known as the sadistic Neidermeyer from the movie Animal House. Here, he plays a teacher who harasses a student for drawing the Twisted Sister logo on a book ("What kind of a man desecrates a defenseless textbook?! I've got a good mind to slap your fat face!!"). After his attempts to stop his rock-loving students fail, he crawls into the principal's office - only to be confronted by the principal, played by Stephen Furst (Flounder from Animal House). Furst even gets to reprise one of his big lines from the movie: "Oh boy, is this great!" as he squirts water at the teacher.
Other appearances in pop culture
The song has been featured in an advertisements for Avis Rent A Car System and Washington Mutual.
The song was heard in the 2000 movie Road Trip, where the characters sing along to it on a bus while it's on the radio.
In addition to Triple Play 2002, "I Wanna Rock" is the title song for the 2003 game Will Rock, and can also be heard in 2008's Burnout Paradise.
The song is a playable track on the PlayStation 2 video game Guitar Hero Encore: Rocks the 80s as a master track. However, it appears as recorded in the Stay Hungry remake album, Still Hungry, thus sounding quite different than the original. Also, strangely enough, this song and Scandal's "The Warrior"(which was also appears as a master track) are the only ones that end with fade-outs, contrary to the usual ending treatment given to them in other games.
It also feature on the radio station "VROCK" on Grand Theft Auto: Vice City
There is a SpongeBob version called "Goofy Goober Rock" in The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie.
Rapper Necro sampled the song for his song entitled "I Wanna Fuck"
Twisted Sister guitarist Jay Jay French made a political song supporting Barack Obama titled "I Want Barack" thats goes into the tune of this song.