31.   The import of rock songs often lies in the gaps between the words, inviting the guesswork and reflection and temporary epiphany that are the richest part of listening.

32.   The guitar chords for half the rock songs ever written can be learned within hours, and reading music is strictly optional.

33.   The list is supposed to be the most influential songs, not the most popular and not just rock songs.

34.   There are rock songs that sound great, but there are rock songs that sound a little over the top.

35.   They put on a CD of karaoke versions of rock songs by the Beatles, and joined by members of the Funerals began a strange jam session.

36.   They wrote and played smart, concise, harmony-based rock songs.

37.   With a bar-band Beatle voice and an unpretentious, utilitarian imagination, Kenny Siegal writes perfect little agonized rock songs.

38.   As the leader of the Pretenders, Hynde has been making tough, melodic rock songs for two decades.

39.   As they outgrew rock songs, Leiber and Stoller started writing for adults.

40.   Even in Latin-dominated Miami, FM stations resist playing rock en Espanol songs amid their diet of salsa, merengue and romantic ballads.