Is Rock 'n' Roll the most self-referential of all music genres? There are dozens of songs invoking or praising Rock 'n' Roll, but few if any in other genres. There are plenty of blues songs with "Blues" in the title, but the reference is almost always to having the blues, not to the music itself. Anyhow, here are a few Rock songs about Rock music.
There is also this, of course:
Comments are open for more entries.
How about a Blues song that was about the Blues … and about Rock and Roll (and Soul to boot!): Muddy Waters, The Blues Had a Baby and They Named it Rock and Roll.
Some more songs:
Bill Haley & the Comets Rock Around the Clock – reputedly the first rock song
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZgdufzXvjqw&list=RDZgdufzXvjqw&start_radio=1
Danny & the Juniors Rock ‘n Roll is Here to Stay
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LNEj5FUHStE&list=RDLNEj5FUHStE&start_radio=1
Who Long Live Rock
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=maD5k-vUI4o&list=RDmaD5k-vUI4o&start_radio=1
Grand Funk We’re an American Band
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9F69etVKuUs
Johnny Winter Rock and Roll Hootchie Koo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oFhnatkQ2b8&list=RDoFhnatkQ2b8&start_radio=1
Creedence Travelin’ Band
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZXLqECpHW2o&list=RDZXLqECpHW2o&start_radio=1
BTO Taking Care of Business
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0y-_WGjZgD8&list=RD0y-_WGjZgD8&start_radio=1
Bachman and Kevin O’Leary at 5:00 – Who knew that O’Leary was not just a Shark
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AHBLPW2m_Tc
Wings Band on the Run
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5P_VfLun96o&list=RD5P_VfLun96o&start_radio=1
Led Zeppelin Rock and Roll
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D2lSwosw9xY&list=RDD2lSwosw9xY&start_radio=1
Doors When the Music’s Over " The Scream of the Butterfly"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Zzzt_r6wj8&list=RD7Zzzt_r6wj8&start_radio=1
The Moody Blues – I'm Just A Singer (In A Rock And Roll Band)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N_J-hmyAS6c&list=RDN_J-hmyAS6c&start_radio=1
Mountain For Yasgur’s farm – about Woodstock ‘69
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jcQoIm20sfA&list=RDjcQoIm20sfA&start_radio=1
Why I Sing the Blues:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UOnzDKvn7YI
We Built This City on Rock and Roll
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Diroq2sYMOw
Curious: a website that features a mixture of a frivolous and self-indulgent (but ultimately harmless in its banality) focus on nostalgia for the music scene fifty years ago with a morbid and sort of disturbing and unsettling seeming delight in discussing the desperately poor trying to sell their organs and their bodies (which would seem to satisfy some law professor's notion of "freedom" in an academic bizzarro world), and now, believe it or not, a seemingly even more disturbing cavalier nod to cannibalism (eating humans, yes, eating human body parts, as unbelievable as this may seem).
Curiouser and curiouser.