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]
| 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 |
| 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 |