Songs That Influenced Rock

[Coloradomtnman]

Please post any songs you think played an important role in the shaping of rock and roll music (including pre-rock era i.e. Chuck Berry, Elvis, etc,) or rock and roll songs that helped shape American music (like "Penny Lane" influencing pop music).

Here are a few I think are influential:

I let these speak for themselves:

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ne6ZZTfiQAw]YouTube - The Beatles - I Want You (She's So Heavy)[/ame]

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pau8Zf7srlU]YouTube - Dazed And Confused - Led Zeppelin (Video)[/ame]

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KduxC-rafTE&feature=related]YouTube - Cream - White Room Live (Farewell Concert 1968)[/ame]

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5EoQ3GkH4Zc]YouTube - Grateful Dead - Uncle John's Band @ Radio City 10-31-80[/ame]

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EVQvuIOoG1k]YouTube - FRANK ZAPPA MOTHERS OF INVENTION "KingKong" 1968[/ame]

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xtqy4DTHGqg]YouTube - Black Sabbath - War Pigs (Live in Paris 1970)[/ame] - the birth of heavy metal!

 

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You Really Got Me - The Kinks

Released in 1964, it was essentially the ORIGINATION of power chords.

 

[Coloradomtnman]

You Really Got Me - The Kinks

Released in 1964, it was essentially the ORIGINATION of power chords.

Good one!

 

[manifold]

You Really Got Me - The Kinks

Released in 1964, it was essentially the ORIGINATION of power chords.

Good one!

Hey check it out, wikipedia agrees with me!

"You Really Got Me" was an early hit song built around power chords (parallel 5ths and octaves), and was heavily influential on later rock and roll musicians, particularly in the heavy metal genre. One critic wrote that it is, "the track which invented heavy metal" while critic Denise Sullivan of Allmusic writes, "'You Really Got Me' remains a blueprint song in the hard rock and heavy metal arsenal."

 

[Coloradomtnman]

You Really Got Me - The Kinks

Released in 1964, it was essentially the ORIGINATION of power chords.

Good one!

Hey check it out, wikipedia agrees with me!

"You Really Got Me" was an early hit song built around power chords (parallel 5ths and octaves), and was heavily influential on later rock and roll musicians, particularly in the heavy metal genre. One critic wrote that it is, "the track which invented heavy metal" while critic Denise Sullivan of Allmusic writes, "'You Really Got Me' remains a blueprint song in the hard rock and heavy metal arsenal."

Well, they make a good point. I knew you'd proposed an excellent example.

 

[strollingbones]

rock was well on its way when most of those songs came out....lets try jerry lee lewis..great balls of fire...


buddy holly and the crickets...that will be the day....

in a gadda vilda,,,iron butterfly


elvis...jailhouse rock

yall are too young to even discuss this topic

 

[Coloradomtnman]

rock was well on its way when most of those songs came out....lets try jerry lee lewis..great balls of fire...

buddy holly and the crickets...that will be the day....

in a gadda vilda,,,iron butterfly

elvis...jailhouse rock

yall are too young to even discuss this topic

Hey! I listen to that era of music! I said songs that influenced rock and roll and influential rock and roll songs.

Just cause you have to put the paper on the player piano to listen to the songs you know doesn't mean you're an authority!

Those songs are certainly influential, but you were supposed to post the links so that we "young'uns" could hear them first hand and not have to go through all the effort to search for them on Youtube. Duh, this is the Millenium Generation! You Baby Boomers have to think and work for us!

 

[Meister]

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XeolH-kzx4c]YouTube - 96 TEARS--- ? and The MYSTERIANS ![/ame]

? And The Mysterians....96 Tears influenced a lot of bands including the Rolling Stones

 

[Coloradomtnman]

Great one, Meister. I've heard a lot of the musicians from the early era of rock talk about this song.

 

[strollingbones]

early ear of roll....996 tears was what....65 or so?

i am not searching for a bunch of you tube vids...

1957 jerry lee lewis...whole lotta shaking going on

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8yRdDnrB5kM&feature=related]YouTube - Jerry Lee Lewis - Whole Lotta Shakin' Going On (1957)[/ame]


1957 jailhouse rock...consider the first music video:

[ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tpzV_0l5ILI[/ame]

rave on...buddy holly:

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Y9gb3NUGkk]YouTube - Buddy Holly - Rave On[/ame]

 

[strollingbones]

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6TcC_ni0ojo]YouTube - Big Bopper - Chantilly Lace[/ame]

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B26ORjxQdNA&feature=PlayList&p=1C96628608C4F167&playnext=1&playnext_from=PL&index=42]YouTube - Sam & Dave - Soul Man[/ame]

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cwadE3IyhQ4]YouTube - OTIS REDDING-you send me-1965-[/ame]

this song will get you laid...lol...

 

[strollingbones]

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hBbv2v0xOlA]YouTube - Iron Butterfly - In a Gadda Da Vida 1999 live[/ame]

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M_yWyBjDEaU]YouTube - Light My Fire - The Doors[/ame]

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ER-9F7MYQ1c&feature=related]YouTube - Black Magic Woman by Carlos Santana[/ame]

 

[strollingbones]

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tTBI8GacJKA]YouTube - LAST DANCE AT THE DILLO PART 12[/ame]

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hmTYJRbUrvI&feature=related]YouTube - Original Texas Playboys-Take me back to Tulsa[/ame]

dont ever forget texas swing.....

 

[strollingbones]

you must remember rock and roll borrowed from a lot of musical styles.

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ez5izCf2DLI]YouTube - Muddy Waters-hoochie coochie man Newport 1960[/ame]

now here is someone you may not know:

he is not old but damned good:

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NPkTzWyCSs4&feature=related]YouTube - Redbone - Witch queen of New Orleans 1971[/ame]


one more child:

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AEwkS57P4eE&feature=related]YouTube - Guy Mitchell - Singing The Blues (Live!)[/ame]

 

[strollingbones]

one more:

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dl73rGXh3zA&feature=related]YouTube - Little Richard - Good Golly Miss Molly[/ame]



now listen to all those and tell me what you think

 

[eots]

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3COVVERjg1k&feature=related]YouTube - Iggy Pop & The Stooges - NO Fun (2006)[/ame]

 

[eots]

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YdRXRJSCm_U&feature=related]YouTube - LOU REED "Dirty Blvd " " WL/WH "[/ame]

 

[editec]

The theme song for American Bandstand, "Bandstand Boogie", composed by Charles Albertine.

(and you're damned right I had to look THAT up!)

[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D9fQVGUIM2Y"]YouTube - Les Elgart, Dick Clark, & The Diamonds - Bandstand Boogie & The Stroll[/ame]

Since TV show was undoubtably the most influential RnR show in history, Bandstand Boogie was probably heard by more Rock and Rollers more often than any music of its time.

Not the most popular or the best, but the most often heard.

After that it's probably Rock around the Clock.

But ya know a LOT of what we used to call rock and roll isn't RnR as most of you kiddies understand it.

Was the Philly sound really RnR?

How about MoTown?

I didn't think of those sounds as RnR when I was listening to it. Some of it was, undoubably but a lot of it was just ballads and didn't rock at ALL!

RnR is in the ear of the beholder, I suppose.

 

[strollingbones]

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lyyFLYNbQpg&feature=related]YouTube - Tom Waits-The Heart Of Saturday Night 1975[/ame]

tom waits

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xrCMlSWlDX8]YouTube - Little Feat - Willin'[/ame]

lowell george is and always will be one of the greatest song writers and singers...

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VDp3Grz28mE&feature=related]YouTube - Little Feat - Fat Man in the Bathtub[/ame]

 

[editec]

You Really Got Me - The Kinks

Released in 1964, it was essentially the ORIGINATION of power chords.

Yeah.

Definitely a rockin song, that one.

WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAy ahead of its time.

Remember Gloria?

Who did that one?

Just looked it up... a band called "THEM"

[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uuY1umk4R8s"]YouTube - Them, Gloria[/ame]

For a real whoot, listen to Hendix's version of this Van Morrison classic (No I didn't know VM wrote this tune either until I looked it up)