The ABCs of Rock was a half-hour-long music program on the Canadian Music Video Channel MuchMoreMusic. The show picked a letter each episode and lists artists, albums, trivia questions and events in pop-culture, then lists them during the episode. The show leaned towards covering artists with controversial natures.
Episodes Featured Artists Where Are They Now? Featured Albums Aerosmith Apollonia Kotero Appetite for Destruction - Guns N' Roses Blondie The Bangles Back in Black - AC/DC Cher Culture Club Charmbracelet - Mariah Carey Duran Duran Devo Dookie - Green Day Eminem Erasure Elephunk - The Black Eyed Peas Foo Fighters The Fugees Fear of a Black Planet - Public Enemy Green Day The Go-Go's Girl You Know It's True - Milli Vanilli Hole MC Hammer Hysteria - Def Leppard INXS Billy Idol I Do Not Want What I Haven't Got - Sinéad O'Connor Rick James The Jesus and Mary Chain Jagged Little Pill - Alanis Morissette Kanye West Kiss Kissing to Be Clever - Culture Club Cyndi Lauper LL Cool J London Calling - The Clash Madonna Meat Loaf Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness - Smashing Pumpkins Nirvana *NSync New Jersey - Bon Jovi Oasis Ozzy Osbourne OK Computer - Radiohead Dolly Parton Pogues Purple Rain - Prince Queen Quiet Riot The Queen Is Dead - The Smiths Ramones Rick Astley Rock Steady - No Doubt Sex Pistols Salt-N-Pepa Saturday Night Fever Tina Turner Talking Heads Thriller - Michael Jackson U2 UB40 Urban Hymns - The Verve Van Halen Velvet Underground Violator - Depeche Mode The Who Wilson Phillips The Wall - Pink Floyd Xtina XTC Ten - Pearl Jam (X is the Roman Numeral for Ten) Neil Young "Weird Al" Yankovic Youthquake - Dead or Alive Led Zeppelin ZZ Top Zenyatta Mondatta - The Police
Production crew Producers: Jessica Capobianco, Greg Miller, Bob Pagrach Editor: Michael Burshtyn
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