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“The House That Heaven Built”

Japandroids | 2012

The penultimate song on the duo's sophomore album "Celebration Rock," well, rocks pretty hard. "It is, for lack of better word, the most massive thing that we've done," Brian King, Japandroids' guitarist, told Rolling Stone. "When we set out to record this record, we made a very conscious decision to not really change the formula…I think we all just felt really confident that if we went in and did basically the same thing that we did on "Post-Nothing" or on our singles, that we would inherently come out with something that was a lot bigger and better in every sort of way."

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“I Can See for Miles”

The Who | 1967

A foreboding accusation of lies and deception, "I Can See for Miles" was given a psychedelic hard-rock veneer by Pete Townshend's whiplash guitar riffs and Keith Moon's thundering drums. The song helped break the Who as stars in the United States, giving them a Top Ten hit in late 1967. "I swoon when I hear the sound," boasted Townshend in Rolling Stone. "The words, which aging senators have called 'drug oriented,' are about a jealous man with exceptionally good eyesight. Honest."

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