Stylish Rock Set
- Brent Miller
- 6 days ago
- 3 min read
Updated: 6 days ago
*** All of our favourite rock songs to bring energy to everything from Cocktails to Reception ->
Photography by Gillian Foster Photography @ The Gladstone Hotel
There is a magic found in Rock Music that just can't be found anywhere else.
From breaking the ice at Cocktail Hour to lighting up your Reception Dance, rock classics from the 1960s to now remain so amazing in their ability to bring life to any gathering.
Classics like DON'T STOP BELIEVING, LET IT BE and CROCODILE ROCK reliably unite the room with an excitement that spreads to guests both old and young. For younger groups, more charged-up rock songs like MR. BRIGHTSIDE, DAMMIT and WONDERWALL make people sing along with every single word along as if they were at a summer concert at Toronto's Rogers Stadium or Skydome.
If you have read this far into this week's article, I have to assume that you are also one of our rock-and-rolling friends who shares a love for albums, concerts and $100 band t-shirts. It is in knowing this that we begin our deep dive into our 75 favourite rock songs from the 1960s to the 2000s, those magic 5 decades when rock ruled the world, from newest back to oldest in true time machine fashion.
And as always, we take these songs and add our Live Event Style to fit into any upscale atmosphere, creating a fun fusion that is entertaining for guests of all music tastes. Time to rock on!
2000s
MR. BRIGHTSIDE - The Killers
LAST NITE - The Strokes
THE MIDDLE - Jimmy Eat World
SEVEN NATION ARMY - The White Stripes
TAKE ME OUT - Franz Ferdinand
STARLIGHT - Muse
DRIVE - Incubus
DEAD DISCO - Metric
FAT LIP - Sum 41
SK8ER BOI - Avril Lavigne
REBELLION (LIES!) - Arcade Fire
TEENAGE DIRTBAG - Wheetus
SHOW ME HOW TO LIVE - Audioslave
IN THE END - Linkin Park
USE SOMEBODY - Kings of Leon
CAN'T STOP - Red Hot Chili Peppers
ISLAND IN THE SUN - Weezer
TIMES LIKE THESE - Foo Fighters
1990s
DAMMIT - Blink-182
500 MILES - The Proclaimers
MR. JONES - Counting Crows
WONDERWALL - Oasis
3AM - MATCHBOX TWENTY ALLSTAR - Smashmouth EVERY MORNING - Sugar Ray BASKET CASE - Green Day SUNDAY MORNING - No Doubt ALIVE - Pearl Jam TODAY - The Smashing Pumpkins YOU LEARN - Alanis Morissette IN THE MEANTIME - Spacehog SELF ESTEEM - The Offspring ONE HEADLIGHT - The Wallflowers GET WHAT YOU GIVE - The New Radicals
BOBCAYGEON - The Tragically Hip
CLOSING TIME - Semi-Sonic
1980s
JUMP - Van Halen
DONT STOP BELIEVEING - Journey
LIVING ON A PRAYER - Bon Jovi
SWEET CHILD O MINE - Guns n Roses
WITH OR WITHOUT YOU - U2
POUR SOME SUGAR ON ME - Def Leppard
EVERY BREATH YOU TAKE - The Police
YOUR LOVE - The Outfiled
DANCING WITH MYSELF - Billy Idol
BLISTER IN THE SUN - Violent Femmes
YOU CAN CALL ME AL - Paul Simon
DANCING IN THE DARK - Bruce Springsteen
JACK & DIANE - John Mellencamp
FREE FALLIN - Tom Petty
UNDER PRESSURE - David Bowie & Queen
1970s
BEAST OF BURDEN - The Rolling Stones
WALK THIS WAY - Aerosmith
HIGHWAY TO HELL - AC/DC
I WANT YOU TO WANT ME - Cheap Trick
WONT GET FOOLED AGAIN - The Who
ONE WAY OR ANOTHER - Blondie
JUST WHAT I NEEDED - The Cars
I WANT YOU TO WANT ME -
ME AND BOBBY MCGEE - Janis Joplin
JOY TO THE WORLD - Three Dog Night
MORE THAN A FEELING - Boston
HERE FOR A GOOD TIME - Trooper
HOTEL CALIFORNIA - The Eagles
DREAMS - Fleetwood Mac
1960s
SAW HER STANDING THERE - The Beatles
BROWN EYED GIRL - Van Morrison
PRETTY WOMAN - Roy Orbison
ALL SHOOK UP - Elvis Presley
BAD MOON RISING - CCR
JUMPIN JACK FLASH - The Rolling Stones
MIDNIGHT CONFESSIONS - The Grass Roots
SPINNING WHEEL - Blood, Sweat & Tears
MUSTANG SALLY - The Commitments
LIGHT MY FIRE - The Doors
RAMBLE ON - Led Zepplin
FOXY LADY - Jimi Hendrix
RUNAROUND SUE - Dion
