Wholeheartedly agree with your no.1 Sid, the whole of Let It Bleed is such a brilliant album really IMO even half a century on.
Very clever song, Gimme Shelter. I remember years ago trying to work out the chords. It took me ages until I realised that Richards had tuned down his guitar to, I think, it's F#m. Downtuning was a trick he subsequently used a lot on other songs. Start me up, being an example.
50's 1 Great balls of fire jerry Lee lewis 2 Tutti fruitti Little Richard 3 Route 66 Chuck Berry 4 Summertime Blues Eddie Cochran 5 Lucille Little Richard 6 Come on everybody Eddie Cochran 7 Elvis Blue Shade Shoes 8 Everyday Buddy Holly 9 You're Sixteen Johnny Burnett 10 Unchained Melody. Al Hibbert (spelling)
60's 1 You can't always get what you want. stones 2 Born to be Wild Steppenwolf 3 Bernadette Four Tops 4 Little wing Hendrix 5 Respect Areatha Franklin 6 I feel free Cream 7 My Generation Who 8 Monkey Man Stones 9 Sunny Afternoon Kinks 10 Nut Rocker B Bumble and the Stingers
Duane Eddy deserves a mention as a big influence from the early days of rock'n'roll. Many have stolen his riffs. '60s - The Beatles, The Stones, The Who obviously - Manfred Mann, The Small Faces, Dave Clark Five, The Hollies From the U.S- The Beach Boys, The Monkees, Dylan, Ronettes, Crystals, The Byrds, Velvet Underground, Roy Orbison, The Doors '70s- Ramones, Blondie, The Clash, Buzzcocks, David Bowie, T.Rex, The Sex Pistols. A lot of big groups some might rate, but are not my cup of tea (Pink Floyd, Fleetwood Mac)
60s 1.) Gimme Shelter, Rolling Stones 2.) Sympathy For The Devil, Rolling Stones 3.) Break On Through (to the Other Side), The Doors 4.) Pleasant Valley Sunday, The Monkees 5.) Wild Thing, The Troggs 6.) My Generation, The Who 7.) All Day and All of the Night, The Kinks 8.) Tomorrow Never Knows, some band that aren't as great as people say they are 9.) Happy Together, The Turtles 10.) Have Love Will Travel, The Sonics 70s 1.) Iron Man, Black Sabbath 2.) Riders on the Storm, The Doors 3.) Anarchy in the UK, Sex Pistols 4.) Baba O'Reilly, The Who 5.) When The Levee Breaks, Led Zeppelin 6.) I Wanna Be Sedated, Ramones 7.) The Guns of Brixton, The Clash 8.) Brown Sugar, Rolling Stones 9.) Everybody's Happy Nowadays, Buzzcocks 10.) Sweet Emotion, Aerosmith
The best of the best Rolling Stones to me is the sequence of "Stray Cat Blues" and "Prodigal Son" on Beggars' Banquet. I absolutely love "Prodigal Son." I should listen to the original version some time. "Jigsaw Puzzle" is probably my next favorite RS song, though I really enjoy the social comment period, especially "Nineteenth Nervous Breakdown." But they did so much great music until, what, '73 or '74, when they made me lose all interest very rapidly.
50's to me is a little odd in the sense that the really good stuff was never a hit or never realised in Britain till the late 70's or 80's and many times on bootlegs. This was Americas golden age while Britain was a dark place with national service , colonial disputes and Just coming out of rationing . 1) Mystery Train, Junior Parker, the original southern Rockin blues . 2) Race with the Devil, Gene Vincent , Ian Dury's all time fav. 3) The girl can't help it, Little Richard , over the top , full of camp, a wall of sound before Spector . 4) Sixteen Chicks , Joe Clay, raw and wild . 5) lLove me , The Phantom , a nutter in costume but nothing else like it. 6) Brand New Cadillac , Vince Taylor , Britain's best RNR record , went truly mad in France . 7) Rumble, Link Wray , Surf before Surf , Que Dick Dale . 8) Folsom Prison blues , Johnny Cash , the man in black, bad boy of country. 9) That's all right mama , Elvis Presley , the hillbilly cat, first and best on the mythical Sun label. 10) Bear Cat, Rufus Thomas, the blues answer to hound dog.
The 60's. In no particular order. The times they are 'a changing Gimme shelter House of the rising sun Crying All day and all of the night Crossroads Apache While my guitar gently weeps Light my fire White rabbit
'60s Get Off My Cloud - The Rolling Stones Sha La La La La La La La La La La La La La Lee- The Small Faces Leader of the Pack - The Shangri-Las Little Deuce Coupe -The Beach Boys My Generation - The Who With A Girl Like You - The Troggs Heroin- The Velvet Underground I Wanna Be Your Dog - The Stooges You Really Got Me - The Kinks The Mighty Quinn- Manfred Mann Ask me tomorrow and I'd choose a different ten Anything which lends itself to a good cover version [video=youtube;VgWuIdo-pK4]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VgWuIdo-pK4[/video]
Being honest my lists could change like passing wind . In the spirit of the thread , I am dressing all in black , with a dashing beret , goatee , a copy of "on the road " underarm . I'm off to our village pub to knock out a little poetry on a micro pair of bongos with the vicar .
60,s,Help,beatles Al Capone, prince Buster,Purple Haze,Jimmy Hendrix,Heard it through the Grapevine,Marvin Gaye,Same old Song,four Tops,Honky tonk Woman,Stones,Man of the world,Fleetwood Mac,I was made to love her,Stevie Wonder,Madness,prince Buster.Get Ready,Temptations
Tots forgot about all the Ska stuff, good call . I always loved the Iseralites by Des Decker. Croydon , Symphony for the devil , should be on my list. I remember watching a documentary on the making of it . Makes me want to watch "Performance " just for Anita Pallenburg .
70s Blitzkrieg Bop -Ramones Saturday's Kids -The Jam Oh Oh I Love Her So - Ramones Denis- Blondie Garageland - The Clash Cum On Feel The Noize -Slade (you need some Glam rock) Rockaway Beach - Ramones Here Comes The Summer - The Undertones I Don't Mind - Buzzcocks Pretty Vacant - The Sex Pistols Ask me tomorrow and I'll give you another ten [video=youtube;f8HxnhD4c6k]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f8HxnhD4c6k[/video]
My all-time Top 10 Rock Hits Agadoo - Black Lace Ernie - Benny Hill Oh, What An Atmosphere - Russ Abbott The Birdie Song - The Tweets Remember You're A Womble - The Wombles Long Haired Lover From Liverpool - Jimmy Osmond Grandad - Clive Dunn There's No One Quite Like Grandma - St Winifreds School Choir You Need Hands - Max Bygraves The Funky Gibbon - The Goodies Don't tell me I don't know my rock.
70's list , as Luke it could change by next week. 1) London Calling, The Clash , a call to arms. 2) Sound and vision , David Bowie , kraut electro influence with the style of the man who fell to earth. 3) Oliver's army , Elvis Costello , a little word in Mr Churchill's ear. 4) Children of the revolution , T Rex , glam but even better , what a title. 5) Eton Rifles, The Jam, Toffs rugby Boys hand out a beating . 6) Wishing Well, Free, a guilty pleasure . 7) Up the junction , Squeeze , a piece of South London poetry . 8) One nation under the Groove, Funkadelic , George's master class. 9) Working Class Hero , John Lennon , lyrical brilliance . 10) A family affair , Sly and the family stone ,groove with truth .
For some reason it's much easier for me to organize my thoughts by band rather than decade. I love the Ramones, and would be tempted to say "I wanna be sedated" or "Blitzkrieg Bop" but would go for "Sheena is a Punk Rocker." For Elvis I'd go for "Jailhouse Rock", maybe because I heard a band rip into it right after a fight which resulted in two guys sitting in the back of squad cars. Much as I love "Panic in Detroit' and the whole Ziggy Stardust album, my favorite Bowie song is "Life on Mars" with an honorable mention for "Kooks" and maybe even "Andy Warhol." Andy Warhol amuses me because there was never anyone with harder core Pittsburgh roots. The ultimate Pittsburgher has ancestors on both sides who came over from Eastern Europe due to Carnegie's plan to disrupt unionization in general and Irish steelworkers in particular. Warhol was Carpatho-Ruthenian, an Eastern European ethnicity so Pittsburgh it doesn't even exist anywhere else. (No one else distinguishes it separately.) He kept his mother near and spoke to her in her native language all his life, I think--even after running as far from Pittsburgh and all it stood for as it was possible to do.
Saw Desmond Decker do Iseralites and a couple of others live,at a P/A at a dancehall in Cheam,called the South twentyclub.got lots of Ska and Reggae Favs,due to my younger days as a skinhead,back in the late 60's,early 70's
Again, can't organise my thoughts by decade but my music is Kate Bush (78- ) Peter Gabriel (75 - )/Genesis (71 - 75) Roy Harper (66 - ) Al Stewart (73 - ) Steely Dan (73 - 85) ish REM (80 - 96) Tears for Fears (80 - 86) The Beatles (62 - 70) In no particular order. The complete works of each and I am happy. Edit: HIAG reminds me I need to add Pink Floyd.
