"It's got to be rock and roll music...."

[Distilled Waters Run Deep]

It's really difficult to keep it to 5 (for now...)

Jihem -thanks for taking me back into the darkness with Nick Cave -loved the collaboration with PJ Harvey, Henry Lee

 

Also thanks for ChickenShack's I'd Rather Go Blind - Yeah but I still prefer Etta James doing it -have you heard Paul Weller's cracking version? Now there' s singing with feeling... also check out his Sunflower, & Wildwood

 

OK I'll start with him...

 

Paul Weller Sunflower

 

Tom Waits (Looking for the) Heart of Saturday Night -this has a totally inappropriate video but the song's the thing (Looking for the) Heart of Saturday Night

-or this live one from 1975 has a great introduction: -http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=hiW0PmjWdxM

 

Ry Cooder - I Think It's Going To Work Out Fine

 

Edwyn Collins -A Girl Like You

 

The Cardigans - My Favourite Game

[belfastguzzi]

Focus: Progrock (& Roll)

Who decides what is R&R? Dave, you are the last one I suspected of thinking within boundaries!

Yes, just joking. In the past year I have, at different times, both downloaded some Focus from iTunes and dug out the old vinyl.

 

But at first (when nobody was responding in the thread, I did think that GS was looking for conservative, old-time, rock and roll (is that a contradiction in terms?). So even though my Starter list was quite conservative, I thought that even it might have been outside the bounds! I see now that people are thinking quite widely.

 

So here we go. The Intermediate selection:

 

 

1) Current 93, Black Ships Ate The Sky

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=F9q1FomLSkw

 

2) John Zorn, Lonely Woman

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=vZ6PnFRQnN4

 

interlude) Frank Zappa interview

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=xamf2O9-39s

 

3) Chip Taylor, Wild Thing

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=uftwyJP6Ees

 

4) Prince Buster, A Change Is Gonna Come

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=C6362e0lBv0

 

5) Bill Frisell etc, Sugar Baby

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=L7qsHSvHlP0

 

Bonus track:

The Turtles, Buzz Saw

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=bZm96qtzePY

[dlaing]

Here's a great song/video from Sigur Ros

http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x7g2oa_si...d-8-heima_music

Starts out slow, but well worth the 12+ minutes

[jihem]

The Intermediate selection:

 

 

1) Current 93, Black Ships Ate The Sky

 

 

 

 

And that's the INTERMEDIATE list ? :-) Now we're talking !

 

 

(love the Sigur Ros track btw)

[gavo]

I really like Stones, and especially Exile... and Keefs solo albums. But they dont rattle my cage as much anymore.

My other thing is jazz, but jazz and Guzzis dont mix well.

 

If thats the case you should have or get charlie watts quintet "a tribute to charlie parker" a great album

A rolling stone and jazz all in one

[gstallons]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E372fuerleM

Do any of you remember this group?

My cousins from Jackson, Mi. turned me on to them. This was a LONG time ago...I don't think they were ever on Ed Sullivan, David Cavett, Mike Douglas for obvious reasons...

[jihem]

Do any of you remember this group?

 

very important band, the MC5: they were among the hard-rock pioneers...

[gstallons]

very important band, the MC5: they were among the hard-rock pioneers...

I don't think these guys are up to a 40th anniversary tour. They could not duplicate the power they "transmitted"?

These people made The Who look like a church quartet with stage fright...

[jihem]

These people made The Who look like a church quartet with stage fright...

 

you can really hear The Stooges in the MC5.

[belfastguzzi]

1) Princess of RocknRoll

Patti

 

2) Properbad RocknRoll

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=_7VsoxT_FUY

 

3) Preposterous RocknRoll

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=s3_4-4uyF4I

 

4) Plasticene RocknRoll

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=-9DAIkAWR-I

 

5) Paralytic RocknRoll

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=MVbG2ItihYI

 

...

and then there's Chuck Berry (and George and SRV)

Prancing and Rockin' n Rollin'

[belfastguzzi]

My Dutch Rock & Roll Top 5:

 

60's: Cuby & the Blizzards - Windows of my Eyes

 

70's: Focus - Hocus Pocus

 

80's:

(I know it's a cover, but it brings back a lot of memories!)

 

90's:

 

00's: Anouk - Modern World

 

The 50s – classic Dutch RocknRoll:

Tielman Bros

[Greg Field]

Loved that MC5 clip.

[gstallons]

I still wonder what my (our) parents thought while we were playing this music?

Probably the same thoughts I have listening to my kids music?

[jihem]

Probably the same thoughts I have listening to my kids music?

 

i'm not sure the generation gap really does exist when you're still involved in things that needs passion and you can "let go". I do point my kids to emerging tendencies sometimes, i think it's only a matter of wanting to stay informed or not. i do have no "problems" with most forms of new art being made, and actually lots of new music is very very exciting, except the notable exception of techtonic (which is only the bastard son of old skool rap mixed in with some Daft Punk and Electro Funk).

 

To come back to rock n roll, these girls (even if it's basically funk) can really, really rock:

 

http://fr.youtube.com/watch?v=k2FM4qPr6e0

[gstallons]

The early rock&roll that I like the most was the firstborn of folk,country,rock-a- billy, black gospel,blues,etc. and the best inspiration of all opression. No good music can be performed without some form of liberation. This is what I experienced with 60s rock. Everyone (musically) was doing their "own thing" and it worked. You heard an amalgam of music and zeitgeist that cannot be duplicated. Woodstock 99 proved that. Walt Whitman said "You can't go home again". This is never MORE true...

The unfortunate result of some of this is that the peace loving hippies became the BMW driving,Brinks secuity cocooning pricks that hate everyone.Yuck! I didn't want to get on that tangent.

Any how, I had a conversation a few years ago with Kermit from "Kermit's chairs" about Bob Dylan and started to listening to him (Dylan) with a more adult appreciation. This really opened my eyes about the content of some rock songs. Consider Steppenwolf's Monster,Suicide,America (yes that's the title).Much of their songs were about recognizing problems and changes hopefully for the better.

I hope our kids understand "it doesn't have to be this way and you can change it".