Best Of Rock: 10 Great Rock N’ Roll Moments Of The 1980s

Best Of Rock: 10 Great Rock N' Roll Moments Of The 1980s By Ralph Greco, Jr.   Granted, for a Vintage Rock guy like me there weren’t that many great rock and roll moments...

Best Of Rock: 10 New Years Wishes

Best Of Rock: 10 New Years Wishes By Ralph Greco, Jr. I have to admit that, for me, the holidays are more about those great Rankin and Bass animated specials and eating mom’s...

Best Of Rock: 10 Of The Saddest Songs

By Ralph Greco, Jr.   There’s no accounting for what’s going to stop us cold and remind us of that long-lost ex, something that slices through our heart. For me, there...

Best Of Rock: 10 Obscure Song Openings

By Ralph Greco, Jr. There is the 'accidental' feedback at the start of the Beatles' "I Feel Fine," John Bonham's crash-and-burn iconic cymbal get-up-and-go of Led Zeppelin's "Rock & Roll,"...

Best Of Rock: 10 Songs I Really Do Like…But Don’t Need To Hear Again

By Ralph Greco, Jr.   All bands have ‘em. They are those super-duper popular tunes that either broke a group to a mainstream audience, have been co-opted for commercials or are...

Best Of Rock: 10 Songs Strippers Love To Dance To

By Ralph Greco, Jr. Of course, I wouldn't know from firsthand experience, but from watching movies and from gossip, I have heard about the ubiquitous songs that a stripper might...

Best Of Rock: 10 Covers Uncovered

By Ralph Greco, Jr. Most of us have heard (and love or like to various degrees) Elton John’s version of “Pinball Wizard,” John Lennon’s vocal-shredding on the Beatles’ “Twist &...

Best Of Rock: 10 Rock & Roll Guilty Pleasures

  By Ralph Greco, Jr. We can’t ask the church for these indulgences. If you’re human, you will find yourself sneaking away time and again to indulge in some sordid nastiness...

Best Of Rock: 10 Most Embarrassing Moments

By Ralph Greco, Jr. Not of the Ozzy –bites-the-head-off-a-bat-but-doesn’t-know-it’s-a-live-bat variety, there have been moments in rock history that have been so out-and-out silly, embarrassing, jump-the-shark insipid that I felt a...

Best Of Rock: 10 (or so) Never-Sung-About Unsung Heroes Of Rock & Roll

By Ralph Greco, Jr. There are a host of studio musicians, unknown arrangers, producers, writers, artists — gals and guys of every stripe, background and from every era — that...