The Power of Rock: Difference between revisions

[[File:Yngwiecropadjust.png|link=Yngwie Malmsteen|frame| [[Rush (band)|A modern day warrior, mean mean stride Today's Tom Sawyer, mean mean pride!]]]]

Not to be confused with [[Power Crystal|Rocks With Powers]], or [[Green Rocks|Rocks That Grant Powers]], [[Dishing Out Dirt|Power Over Rocks]] or [[Discworld/Soul Music (novel)|Music With Rocks In]]. Possibly beaten by [[Paper Master|The Power of Paper]], though [[Elemental Powers|the Power of Scissors]] hasn't made its appearance. This is also not [[Poor Predictable Rock|the kind of rock that is poor and predictable]], or [[Overly Long Gag|Rachmaninoff.]]

* Douglas Sangnoir of Robert Schroeck's ''[[Drunkard's Walk]]'' saga gains various magic powers from different songs, usually lasting as long as the song does: for example, Billy Joel's "We Didn't Start The Fire" lets him (and anyone else in the vicinity) relive the second half of his world's twentieth century; "Konya Wa Hurricane" from ''[[Bubblegum Crisis]]'', unsurprisingly, lets him summon and control a powerful cyclonic storm; and "I'm a Pioneer" from ''[[Tenchi Muyo!]]'' makes him impervious to vacuum and capable of superluminal flight. In order to make him an example of this trope, he often plays the music through external speakers mounted on his helmet.

* Terry Pratchett. [[Discworld]].* ''[[Discworld/Soul Music (novel)|Soul Music]]''. However, although it saves the day at the end, ''Soul Music'' is more or less about something for which the Disc isn't quite ready.

** In a non-rock variant, Sybil's timely rendition of a venerated dwarfish aria in ''[[Discworld/The Fifth Elephant|The Fifth Elephant]]'' persuades every dwarf in Bonk that Vimes is entitled a hearing with the Low King. Not supernatural Powerpower in this case, just a ''very'' potent cultural precedent.

== Other Media ==

* Used in the student film [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o44_NA3syKA God Slayer]; in the end, the title superhero, driven mad by self-doubt and an evil talking moon, [[Earthshattering Kaboom|shatters the earthEarth]] with a high note.

* This trope has found purchase in quite a few internet meme macros, such as a .gif taken from ''[[Star Wars|The Empire Strikes Back]]'' with Darth Vader clenching his fist, captioned with "I wanna ROCK!"; a photoshop of [[The Lord of the Rings|Gimli]] holding his axe backwards, the weapon itself turned into an instrument, captioned "And you shall have my axe!"; a screencap of Boromir from the extended edition of ''The Two Towers'' during his speech to the troops at Osgiliath, altered so he's holding a guitar and throwing up the horns, subtitled, "[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o5rtT29AHTU One does not simply ROCK into Mordor][http://i382.photobucket.com/albums/oo265/Blossom_Morphine/rockintomordor.jpg "]; and a picture of [[Doctor Strange]] firing a blast of magical energy, photoshopped so it's being shot from the neck of a guitar.

* A [https://web.archive.org/web/20140913055251/http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/discoblog/2009/04/27/townspeople-thwart-cricket-invasion-by-blasting-led-zeppelin/ town in Nevada] repels cricket invasions by blasting the music of [[Led Zeppelin]] and [[The Rolling Stones]] at the marauding insects.

* In the Battle Ofof Mogadishu (of which the ''[[Black Hawk Down]]'' book and movie is based), the Black Hawk Down pilot Micheal Durant was saved through the power of Rock 'N' Roll. AC/DC's Hells Bells from their album Back In Black was used to rescue him from his captors. Brian Johnson, the lead singer of AC/DC, in an interview with Q magazine said "That was the best one. He was shoved in prison, his back was broken. They were kicking him, shooting bullets into him and he was terrified. His pals knew that AC/DC was his favorite band so they hooked up a speaker to the skid of one of the Black Hawks and they were playing Hells Bells over the rooftops. He took his shirt off and- 'Cause his legs were broken- he crawled up to the windows and waved his shirt. That's how they got him out. Ain't that amazing!"