Certain songs, melodies, and even only four-to-five-note motifs can define entire peer groups, childhoods, and even generations. The whistled opening line of "Wind of Change" from Scorpions' 1990 album, "Crazy World," captured the precise historical sentiment following the fall of the Berlin Wall the year prior. Nothing as historically momentous as that has happened since 2015, but the zeitgeist and its fractured pockets of unshared interests have more or less taken notice of certain songs, particularly of the rock variety.

That being said, "rock" nowadays isn't the same thing as it was half a century ago. Long gone are the days of Led Zeppelin, Bob Seger, and Creedence Clearwater Revival, all the way through Nickelback in the early '00s. Also absent from 2015 to 2025 are a slew of earl

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