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Grammy Award for Best Rock Song
The Grammy Award for Best Rock Song has been awarded since 1992. The award is presented to the writers of the song. Years reflect the year in which the Grammy Awards were presented, for works released in the previous year. Bruce Springsteen is the category's biggest winner, at four awards.
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Layla
"Layla" is a song by rock band Derek and the Dominos and the thirteenth track from their album Layla and Other Assorted Love Songs, released in December 1970. It is considered one of rock music's definitive love songs, featuring an unmistakable...
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Runaway Train
"Runaway Train" is a song by the Minneapolis rock band Soul Asylum. The song led Soul Asylum to international status, and helped bring their album, Grave Dancers Union to a multi-platinum level.
It was the third single off the album (see Soul Asylum...
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You Oughta Know
"You Oughta Know" is a Grammy Award-winning song written by Alanis Morissette and Glen Ballard, and produced by Ballard for Morissette's first album Jagged Little Pill (1995). The song, the lyrics of which are rumored to describe Morissette's fouled...
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Give Me One Reason
"Give Me One Reason" is a song by the American singer-songwriter Tracy Chapman. It was released on her 1995 album New Beginning. It is also Chapman's biggest US hit to date, reaching #3 on the US Hot 100. Chapman also performed the song six years...
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One Headlight
"One Headlight" is the second single from The Wallflowers' 1996 album, Bringing Down the Horse. The song won Grammy Awards in 1998 in the categories Best Rock Song and Best Rock Performance by a Duo or Group. It was named "Best Video" for 1996 in a...
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Uninvited
"Uninvited" is a song written and recorded by Alanis Morissette, and co-produced by Morissette and Rob Cavallo for the soundtrack of the 1998 film City of Angels (see City of Angels: Music from the Motion Picture). Morissette's first new recording...
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Scar Tissue
"Scar Tissue" is the first single from the American alternative rock band Red Hot Chili Peppers' seventh studio album Californication, released in 1999. It is one of their most successful songs, spending a then-record 16 weeks on top of the...
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With Arms Wide Open
"With Arms Wide Open" is a song composed by the band Creed, featured on the album Human Clay. Scott Stapp wrote the lyrics when he found out that he was going to be a father. His son would be named Jagger. "With Arms Wide Open" topped the Billboard...
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Drops of Jupiter
"Drops of Jupiter (Tell Me)" (or sometimes just shortened to "Drops of Jupiter") is an alternative rock song by California rock band Train on their second album Drops of Jupiter (2001). It was their first single from the album, and hit the top 5 of...
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The Rising
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Seven Nation Army
"Seven Nation Army" is the first track on the album Elephant by American alternative rock band The White Stripes. It was released as a single in 2003. Seven Nation Army reached #1 on the Modern Rock Tracks for three weeks and won 2004's Grammy Award...
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Vertigo
"Vertigo" is the opening track and first single from U2's 2004 album, How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb. The single was released for airplay on September 24, 2004; upon release the song received extensive airplay and was an international hit, being...
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Streets of Philadelphia
"Streets of Philadelphia" is an Academy Award and Grammy-winning song written and performed by American rock musician Bruce Springsteen for the 1993 film Philadelphia. Released in 1994, the song was a hit in many countries, particularly in France,...
City of Blinding Lights
"City of Blinding Lights" is a song by rock band U2 and the fifth track from their 2004 album, How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb. The song was released as the album's third single in the United Kingdom on June 6, 2005 debuting at #2 and reaching #1 in...
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Dani California
"Dani California" is the first single from the American rock band Red Hot Chili Peppers' ninth studio album, Stadium Arcadium. The single was first made available at the iTunes Music Store and then was officially released on May 2, 2006. The...
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Radio Nowhere
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Girls in Their Summer Clothes
"Girls in Their Summer Clothes" is a 2007 song by Bruce Springsteen, from his album Magic.
Matched with a pop-oriented melody, Springsteen's full-throated singing, and a "pop-orchestral arrangement", the lyric portrays a series of warm small town...
