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“Bangarang”

Skrillex | 2011

The title track off this Grammy-winning dubstepper's fourth EP, full of violent blips and rubbery bursts, is for total dance floor bliss. On it, DJ-producer Sonny Moore, aka Skrillex, ends with, "And yo I'm eatin' fun dip right now, not giving a fuck," which sums up how he rolls: as the ultimate party host. "A few hundred people might be bitching on a message board, but you can go to a festival right now and find 100,000 people dancing to my music," he told Rolling Stone. "No one gives a fuck," he added, as if chanting his own song's mantra.

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“Is It True”

Brenda Lee | 1964

As the British Invasion reached its peak in 1964, Brenda Lee went from Nashville to London to record one of her hardest-rocking hits, her perky vocal backed by a stuttering, squalling guitar. That guitar was played by session musician Jimmy Page, yet to skyrocket to fame with first the Yardbirds and then Led Zeppelin. "She said to me, 'I've come here to make a record with the British sound,'" remembered producer Mickie Most. "She felt she wouldn't get the same sound in Nashville because they're only just catching up on the British beat group sound of about six months ago."

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