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Post #122,431
by jb4
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10/22/03 7:31:45 PM
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New BeeP's list
Thanks for your feedback. And thanks for the paragraph on the back of each one...it's clear you gave this some thought.

As to the content:

1) Cocaine: I prefer the original version...perhaps only because I'm a bass player, and it takes more than one hand to count the errors in the recording by the bassist. Obviously they were playing with a "little helper" from the title track!

2) Beatles: Gotta have something from them in there somewhere. Actually, "Hey Jude" is a superb choice; debating that with "Lucy" and the medley from the back side of Abbey Road.

3) My Generation. On the bubble. What's better, in you opinion, as the "starting" point for Rock: My Generation or the Kingsmen's "Louie Louie"?

4) Purple haze. Fine, but eclipsed by "Watchtower", IMHO
jb4
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Post #122,489
by bepatient
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10/23/03 8:11:45 AM
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New Well...I've been trying to get to...
...a top 10 of the origination...influences of the influences as it were.

On that list would be items like Louie Louie - Kingsmen, Thats Alright - Elvis, At the hop, Lucille, La Bamba, Peggy Sue...

These were the songs that had the term Rock and Roll pegged. The first couple of MoTown recordings are also huge because of the recording methods, use of (or abuse of if you read the stories) studio musicians.

Half of Peter's list wouldn't have been possible without Black Sabbath creating the path for "dark rock"...soon to become the heavy metal genre...and even Judas Priest went very early into that presentation. Kiss was hugely influential because of the live aspects of the show...turning concerts into spectacles.

You've given me the opportunity to exercise my radio muscles with this topic. Don't get to do that very often anymore.
If you push something hard enough, it will fall over. Fudd's First Law of Opposition

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     10 greatest Rock and Roll songs of all time - (jb4) - (46) - Oct. 21, 2003, 06:10:26 PM EDT
         Re: 10 greatest Rock and Roll songs of all time - (Nightowl) - (5) - Oct. 21, 2003, 06:15:42 PM EDT
             Nightowl's list - (jb4) - (4) - Oct. 22, 2003, 11:41:12 AM EDT
                 Re: Nightowl's list - (Nightowl) - Oct. 22, 2003, 12:00:49 PM EDT
                 Saw it live - News of the World Tour - (tuberculosis) - (2) - Oct. 22, 2003, 06:10:32 PM EDT
                     You can do anything with a sequencer... -NT - (jb4) - (1) - Oct. 22, 2003, 07:20:36 PM EDT
                         That tour was in 1975 - musta been tape - (tuberculosis) - Oct. 22, 2003, 10:13:20 PM EDT
         Pull! - (Yendor) - (2) - Oct. 21, 2003, 06:37:30 PM EDT
             Yendor's list - (jb4) - (1) - Oct. 22, 2003, 11:53:37 AM EDT
                 Re: Yendor's list - (Nightowl) - Oct. 22, 2003, 12:03:03 PM EDT
         Reminds of the book (& film) High Fidelity... - (Meerkat) - Oct. 21, 2003, 09:20:33 PM EDT
         If you're going to record - (lincoln) - (1) - Oct. 21, 2003, 10:56:11 PM EDT
             ABSO-Lutely! - (jb4) - Oct. 22, 2003, 07:25:29 PM EDT
         Re: 10 greatest Rock and Roll songs of all time - (gdaustin) - (4) - Oct. 21, 2003, 11:06:27 PM EDT
             Let me guess... - (bepatient) - (3) - Oct. 21, 2003, 11:03:34 PM EDT
                 ELO - (gdaustin) - (2) - Oct. 21, 2003, 11:14:37 PM EDT
                     Mark Knopfler - (bepatient) - (1) - Oct. 21, 2003, 11:28:54 PM EDT
                         Duran Duran - (gdaustin) - Oct. 21, 2003, 11:42:13 PM EDT
         You have to be joking. - (bepatient) - (6) - Oct. 21, 2003, 10:57:27 PM EDT
             Robert Palmer - (gdaustin) - (1) - Oct. 21, 2003, 11:29:06 PM EDT
                 Matter of scale. - (bepatient) - Oct. 21, 2003, 11:36:37 PM EDT
             Satisfaction - (gdaustin) - (1) - Oct. 22, 2003, 12:27:09 AM EDT
                 Saw it on SNL - (tuberculosis) - Oct. 22, 2003, 06:33:57 PM EDT
             BeeP's list - (jb4) - (1) - Oct. 22, 2003, 07:31:45 PM EDT
                 Well...I've been trying to get to... - (bepatient) - Oct. 23, 2003, 08:11:45 AM EDT
         Re: 10 greatest Rock and Roll songs of all time - (pwhysall) - (6) - Oct. 22, 2003, 02:43:36 AM EDT
             The only good version of Stairway to Heaven... - (Meerkat) - (3) - Oct. 22, 2003, 05:19:34 AM EDT
                 No, no. - (Another Scott) - (2) - Oct. 22, 2003, 09:39:11 AM EDT
                     Wrong - (jake123) - (1) - Oct. 27, 2003, 11:19:00 PM EST
                         They're good too. :-) The Led is dead. - (Another Scott) - Oct. 27, 2003, 11:28:50 PM EST
             No complaints about this list.. - (bepatient) - (1) - Oct. 22, 2003, 08:09:02 AM EDT
                 Best version of In A Gadda Da Vida... - (pwhysall) - Oct. 22, 2003, 08:25:39 AM EDT
         Holy Cow People! I simply cannot belive - (tuberculosis) - (7) - Oct. 22, 2003, 06:33:12 PM EDT
             Todd Blanchard's diatribe - (jb4) - (1) - Oct. 22, 2003, 07:19:32 PM EDT
                 Had the Police... - (gdaustin) - Oct. 22, 2003, 09:51:07 PM EDT
             Doh - should have been "Schools Out" - (tuberculosis) - Oct. 22, 2003, 10:11:24 PM EDT
             No Neil Young? (Powderfinger etc.) -NT - (deSitter) - (2) - Oct. 23, 2003, 01:20:42 AM EDT
                 Can't stand him -NT - (tuberculosis) - (1) - Oct. 23, 2003, 01:41:06 AM EDT
                     my sympathies on your condition -NT - (deSitter) - Oct. 23, 2003, 01:42:33 AM EDT
             Couple of good ones... - (bepatient) - Oct. 23, 2003, 08:19:13 AM EDT
         Lots of good stuff mentioned - (Steve Lowe) - Oct. 22, 2003, 06:56:25 PM EDT
         A few of my nominations. - (Another Scott) - Oct. 22, 2003, 10:31:20 PM EDT
         only 10? - (boxley) - (4) - Oct. 22, 2003, 10:59:42 PM EDT
             On Zappa... - (screamer) - (3) - Oct. 23, 2003, 02:47:01 PM EDT
                 There are just too many... - (bepatient) - (2) - Oct. 23, 2003, 04:05:10 PM EDT
                     Amen, bruthah - (Ashton) - Oct. 23, 2003, 10:30:47 PM EDT
                     I think of Trouble - (tuberculosis) - Oct. 23, 2003, 11:16:00 PM EDT

I don't know who thought this up, but it certainly wasn't a bird.
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