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.[1]

Episodes

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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

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  • Producers: Jessica Capobianco, Greg Miller, Bob Pagrach
  • Editor: Michael Burshtyn

References

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  1. ^ Ryan, Andrew; Walmark, Henrietta; Ross, Cecily; March, Catherine Dawson (September 17, 2005). "Intelligent TV". The Globe and Mail.