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1. Marilyn Manson – “The Dope Show”
Ideal Rebellion Scenario: Hanging out at the mall on a Saturday trying to shock as many families as you can with your massive, reflective baggy pants, long black hair and oversized Orange Julius cup.
2. Rage Against The Machine – “Killing In The Name”
Ideal Rebellion Scenario: Telling the man, “Fuck you, I won’t do what you tell me!” before buying a $200 ticket to see Rage at Lollapalooza.
3. Limp Bizkit – “Break Stuff”
Ideal Rebellion Scenario: Walking into your local Wal-Mart and threatening to break stuff.
4. Public Enemy – “Fight The Power”
Ideal Rebellion Scenario: Fighting the power by wearing an oversized clock around your neck to gym class.
5. The Sex Pistols – “Anarchy in the U.K.”
Ideal Rebellion Scenario: Writing “Anarchy in the U.K.” on your Trapper Keeper despite never actually visiting the U.K.
6. Korn – “Falling Away From Me”
Ideal Rebellion Scenario: Complaining to the school administration that you were being discriminated against because the marching band wouldn’t let you play bagpipes.
7. Tool – “Schism”
Ideal Rebellion Scenario: Taking “interesting” black-and-white photos of bugs with your mom’s digital camera.
8. The Prodigy – “Firestarter”
Ideal Rebellion Scenario: Upsetting your parents by threatening to go to a rave.
9. N.W.A. – “Fuck Tha Police”
Ideal Rebellion Scenario: Considering yelling “fuck the police” at your school lunchroom police officer, but deciding against it.
10. Slipknot – “Duality”
Ideal Rebellion Scenario: Knocking over a trash can for no reason in particular. Bonus points if the trash can is located somewhere in Iowa.
11. Rancid – “Ruby Soho”
Ideal Rebellion Scenario: Affixing an unnecessay safety pin to your clothing.
12. DMX – “What My Name”
Ideal Rebellion Scenario: Begging your parents for a pitbull puppy so you could name it “Mimi.”
13. Good Charlotte – “The Anthem”
Ideal Rebellion Scenario: Quitting the school basketball team because it was full of “conformists.” (Also, you didn’t make the cut.)
14. Cannibal Corpse – “Hammer Smashed Face”
Ideal Rebellion Scenario: Looking up naughty words in the dictionary.
15. Eminem – “The Way I Am”
Ideal Rebellion Scenario: Swearing at your parents for the first time.
16. NOFX – “The Separation of Church and Skate”
Ideal Rebellion Scenario: Reminding your friends that George W. Bush wasn’t your president, despite you not being of legal voting age.
17. Bad Religion – “American Jesus”
Ideal Rebellion Scenario: Announcing to your family that you wouldn’t be going to church this Sunday.
18. Anti-Flag – “Turncoat”
Ideal Rebellion Scenario: Interrupting Thanksgiving dinner to give statistics about pollution.
19. Rise Against – “Give It All”
Ideal Rebellion Scenario: Refusing to partake in the class field trip to the zoo because the animals are likely very unhappy.
20. Evanescence – “Bring Me to Life”
Ideal Rebellion Scenario: Writing a damning LiveJournal screed about your teacher’s unfair treatment toward you because of your lack of conformity.
21. Deftones – “Change (In the House of Flies)”
Ideal Rebellion Scenario: Whittling down your wardrobe to exclusively black t-shirts.
22. Fiona Apple – “Criminal”
Ideal Rebellion Scenario: Using your graduation speech as an opportunity to remind the gathered parents, teachers and students that, “The world is bullshit.”
23. Rammestein – “Du Hast”
Ideal Rebellion Scenario: Telling people you know “some” German in order to freak them out. (It doesn’t work.)
24. Tori Amos – “Cornflake Girl”
Ideal Rebellion Scenario: Really bringing down the mood in your creative writing class.
25. Nine Inch Nails – “Closer”
Ideal Rebellion Scenario: Pulling the school fire alarm so you and your girlfriend can go make out in the parking lot.
26. The Smashing Pumpkins – “Bullet with Butterfly Wings”
Ideal Rebellion Scenario: Starting a rock band with your friends, then kicking all of your friends out of the band and and replacing them with yourself
27. Green Day – “Longview”
Ideal Rebellion Scenario: Skipping the pep rally to go smoke weed in the faculty parking lot instead.
1957– American Bandstand first aired on US TV. Dick Clark had replaced Bob Horn the previous year when the show was still called Bandstand, Clark went on to host the show until 1989. Countless acts appeared on the show over the years, including Abba, The Doors, Talking Heads, Madonna, Otis Redding, R.E.M. and Pink Floyd.
1975 – The first all-female hard-rock band is formed when producer Kim Fowley puts together The Runaways, featuring Joan Jett, future Bangle Michael Steele, and Lita Ford.
2007- DNA tests prove that at least two of the twelve claimants to the estate and fortune of recently deceased soul legend James Brown are found to be legitimate. His will had already named six known children.
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