Like a Rolling Stone makes the top 5 of most everyone's greatest song of all time list (#1 at Rolling Stone Magazine, of course).
Bruce Springsteen, in his speech for Dylan's inauguration into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, said that on first hearing the single, "that snare shot sounded like somebody'd kicked open the door to your mind".
Of that list, I really like the Kinks. Beach Boys and Beatles aren't terrible. I also kind of like the Turtles and the Hollies but they're not on the list. I really should listen to more Velvet Underground, what with how some podcasters I listen to praise them so much. What I enjoy more than any of these bands though is Psychedelic revival bands. Apples in Stereo, The Minders, Thee American Revolution, Dressy Bessy, Beulah, and many more that take the style of the 60's and punch it up a bit. It was kind of shocking to listen to Brian Wilson's smile album after listening to all of these modern Elephant6 bands and realizing how much better they were as musicians compared to all of those old bands even though they were doing the same kinds of songs.
@kazriko If you like the psychedelic revival, you need to listen to the album Sun Structures by Temples ASAP. Don't even read to the end of this post. Listen Now! After that, the album Lousy with Sylvianbriar by of Montreal is good too. Kevin Barnes wrote and recorded it while living in San Francisco. It's completely different than anything else he's done. It's my favorite album of his. I love his early quirkier stuff. I liked him less and less as he got more into the club sound. Why are you still reading? Go listen to Sun Structures!
@SSteve I've added that to my trial playlist. of Montreal is one that I have listened to, though not that album. I've mostly listened to their really old stuff. I've thrown that one in the trial list too. (Looking at their list, I'm thinking "The Bedside Drama" and "The Bird Who Continues to Eat the Rabbit's Flower" were the two from them I listened to.)
Yeah, the Beatles are ahead... But that's only because the rest are splitting the vote. In my opinion, which is stupid: it's the Beatles against the field, and the Beatles are overrated.
@Veloslave@Superllama7 Not to take anything away from anyone else on the list, but The Beatles are overrated only if you haven't listened to them enough. Especially in the context of what else was happening at the time.
@SSteve Sure, they were more or less the first, but I don't feel like they were the best. I've listened to all these bands quite a lot (I'm 38, not some college jabroni), and I stand by my opinion. Still, it's just an opinion :-) And the Beatles certainly helped advance the cause.
The Who FTW... by a LONG SHOT... lot of serious music missing on that list (as usual Mister Meh questionnaire maker dude) and some others are great too... Kinks, Jimmy, the Underground but nothing that comes close to a Baba O'reilly or Won't get fooled again (etc, etc, etc)
Like Elvis, the Beatles opened a door in the fabric of music through which many groups passed. Because of all who performed during these torrid years in our history, music began changing and will continue to do so. There were many great groups of those times including the Stones, CSN, the Doors and the Hendrix Experience just to name a few. Add to the groups the singers Janis Joplin, Roy Orbison, Paul Simon, and many others. Without these musical pioneers later groups such as Genesis, The Eagles and others would never have had a chance to demonstrate their talents and achieve their great successes. My experience with polls is that they seldom ever accurately demonstrate a group's or an individuals' true worth to the music arts. Polls are more popularity driven contests which are spot on if we agree with the results or terribly off base if we don't. But for the good intentions and the terribly flawed attempt to create a good discussion and a relationship of sorts among the members of our community, the staff deserve a "meh" of the first order.
How does Elvis Presley not make this list?!? You know... The King of Rock N Roll?!? Lemme guess... The guy writing the copy is under 30 years old. Sheesh.
For the record, though, I voted for the Beatles, because they are most definitely NOT overrated. (despite what SOME people might say.)
Just out of curiosity, which of their War-And-Peace-sized catalog of hit songs is overrated?
Yesterday? THE most covered song in all of history. Hey Jude? Let It Be? Blackbird? Here Comes the Sun? Come Together.... I Want to Hold Your Hand.... All You Need is Love.... Something.... Revolution... Because... You've Got to Hide Your Love Away... While My Guitar Gently Weeps... Here Comes the Sun... Birthday... I Saw Her Standing There... Can't Buy Me Love... Hard Days Night... Long and Winding Road... Back in the USSR... Imagine...
I mean, JESUS!
Like them or not, that's certainly an opinion everyone's entitled to. But to say theyre overrated is just ignorance talking. Claiming the Beatles are overrated sounds like something somebody who's trying too hard to be irreverent would say. Fuckin' Hipsters.
Not to mention Paul McCartney is pretty much one of the nicest human beings to walk the planet. For a guy who's pretty much a living icon, a national treasure, he's humble and friendly, not at all full of himself (despite having very much so earned the right to be a pompous douche), and he's a very, very cool dude.
Stones if we look only at the 60s, Beatles if we look at the whole of each bands' existence, and almost anyone else if it'll get aunt Betty to shut the heck up.
@simplersimon Do you have that backwards? All Beatles' music was recorded in 60's (though some was released later) . The Stones were prolific in the 70's: "Satisfaction" "Brown Sugar" "Tumbling Dice" "Angie" "It's Only Rock 'n Roll (But I Like It)" "Miss You " "Beast of Burden". Or are you arguing that the Stones get "down-graded" for their post-60 music being of lesser quality?
People tend to think of them as a 70s band, but they were formed in '68 and transformed rock, blues, folk, world and psychedelic into their own unique hybrids to become the biggest and most influential band of the decade.
Led Zeppelin.
Total transcendence.
There's really nothing more that needs to be said.
Is this something that you assume I am not aware of? Remember the old adage: Good artist borrow, great artists steal. Zeppelin borrowed, stole and assimilated lots, and usually, if not always, took the material and raised it to a higher level creating something transcendental. I will not excuse them for not crediting the original artists, however there were plenty of times that they did credit when their work shared little more than a title (example: Robert Johnson's Travelin' Riverside Blues). Burt Jaunch was ripped off, as it was clearly his arrangement for Black Mountain Side and Page credited it as a traditional folk song. (more>>)
Led Zeppelin rarely just copied or created covers of other musicians' music. They morphed it into something new. And often times lyrics taken from other bluesmen are lyrics that had been used over and over again in countless songs. Whole Lotta Love was based on a reworked Women You Need Love. Check out the video of Jeff Beck: Live At Ronnie Scott's (a hugly worthwhile watch). Clapton joins Beck for a short set, and they play Woman You Need Love. Page and Plant are both in the audience. I am convinced that Jeff and Eric are trying to rub Jimmy and Percy's nose in it by performing the number (but the backstory for that will have to wait for another time). Despite the "remixes", I still love Zeppelin's music, and believe they elevated and metamorphasized that which they incorporated from others.
Let's not forget that the vast majority of Led Zeppelin's music consisted of original compositions that spanned a wide range of gendres. "Since I've Been Loving You" may be their greatest original blues composition (and on most days my favorite Led Zeppelin song). Jump ahead a few years to the band's immersion in "World Music" and their creation of Kashmir. I could give scores of other examples, but I believe the body of work speaks for itself. The filmmaker seems to want to classify Zep as a "heavy metal band", but they were anything but. It's an undeserved label that ignorant critics often slap on the band. Zeppelin's music is as ecclectic as it comes.
@eyewerks The adage you reference was twisted over the years (by many) from an essay written in The Gentleman’s Magazine in 1892. The author was W. H. Davenport. Davenport was extolling Tennyson and said:
"Of Tennyson’s assimilative method, when he adopts an image or a suggestion from a predecessor, and works it up into his own glittering fabric, I shall give a few instances, offering as the result and summing up of the preceding inquiries a modest canon: “That great poets imitate and improve, whereas small ones steal and spoil.”
Of course, I had no way to know whether or not you were familiar with the assertions made in the video essay. I simply shared it because I thought it might be of interest.
As with Pink Floyd and others, I would argue that Zeppelin's influence was upon the 1970's, their formation in 1968 as the "New Yardbirds".
Janis Joplin, man. Who can forget an album like Pearl? Also, the Mamas and the Papas just for the fact that they were a successful four-singer band that wasn't about traditionals, art song, or religious music.
@mick My favorite wax, CD, and download, are all the white Orbison Greatest Hits. I bet I play it at least once a week. I can really clean house while singing along........you do not want to hear that!
Wow, who left The Doors off the list? Also Allman Bros., Elvis, Cream, The Moody Blues, Dylan, Grateful Dead, Janis Joplin, Jefferson Airplane with Grace Slick, and The Mamas and The Papas.
You seem to have left Duran Duran, The Cure, Howard Jones, Pet Shop Boys, Joy Division, New Order, and Spandau Ballet off the list. It's like I don't even know who you are any more.
@lisaviolet After this osng came out every teenage girl in America and England vowed that Mrs. Browen's Lovely Daughter was an evil, heartless bitch! Poor Peter.......
@Teripie I just pulled out my 45s (I have a little over a hundred disks). The first one listed is Herman's Hermits, Mrs. Brown. Geez, looking at the names of the artists...5th Dimension, The Byrds, Marianne Faithful, Dave Clark Five, Lovin' Spoonful, Tom Jones, the Association, Spanky and our Gang, 4 Seasons...I have this urge to start up my old Technics turntable...there's even a 7 inch 33rmp special product...Rowan and Martin that was in a Saturday Evening Post magazine...
@lisaviolet Sirius radio has ruined my ability to listen to anything new. Not good. I have it on all the time, skipping from one decade to another. It's weird when I hear a song I don't recognize, but then start singing along with it!
@Teripie My husband has no interest whatsoever in this stuff. Seriously, he'd be happy with a 12" television screen, rabbit ears and an am radio. I've got a lot of CDs, all of my albums I got before we were married (I was 32). He's finally kind of understanding how to switch the television between the Roku and cable box.
@lisaviolet The four albums Floyd released in the 60's were nothing like their sound in the 70's (plus the last album they released in the 60's was October '69, which might as well have been 1970 with as slow as distribution moved back then). See Emily Play sounded more like a Beatles song on acid (to me) than what most people would think of when they think of Pink Floyd. Personally, I attribute their core / main / true influence more upon the 70's.
@Pavlov 70s sounds about right. The first time I paid attention to PF was the soundtrack for "Zabriskie Point" . I know I have the above song on a 33, but I'm not sure which album it is and I'm too lazy to pull all of the things away from the sliding closet door that has all of my 33s stored in alphabetical order. I was still in high school at that time, living at Edwards Air Force base and the drug of choice for the kids in my clique were whites (I loved those little white amphetamines) and alcohol, the sweeter, the better. Listening to the music flowing from left to right was awesome, it was almost as if it went right through my skull and back again...Fast forward to my father retiring down here to San Diego and I started going to concerts. The band "Yes" had the same effect on me. I saw Yes in concert and I don't remember a whole lot (the nasty marijuana), but I do know they were one of my favorites.
It is according to what age I am when you asked the question.
I was the perfect age for The Monkees. Davy Jones was my first crush!
I was at the concert that Hendrix opened for them.
Who thought that up???
Didn't they know it was going to be preteen girls???
My friend and I didn't boo. We were confused by him. Really? Play the guitar with your teeth?
I would have killed to see him 5 years later!
My friends dad took us to the concert and waited in the stadium for us.
He was very young, had my friend when he was 15...so he was 27 or so.
He said "Well the Monkees were OK, but that opening act was great!"
As for now...gotta say Pink Floyd, but a word of advice...don't go see them straight. It is just not right. Some things are only meant to be seen stoned.
Wow, what a debate you sparked Meh! Would you look at all the flannel and rolled up skinny jeans in here?! You're hipsters not hippies... Stop talking!!! Fact is, no one can beet the Beatles on hits. Why would the Kinks, Velvet Underground, Beach Boys or the Monkeys even make this list. Even The Who is stretching it. Although, I did vote Velvet Underground just cause they are who I prefer to listen to now that the Beatles, Stones and Hendrix have been played out. But be honest with yourselves people... Do you honestly believe there are any other choices besides the Beatles and the Stones?
All this talk of 60's music and not a peep about soul music. Of course I don't know if that counts as I read the topic to be about rock. But Little Stevie Wonder could sure as hell rock it!
7 out of 8 - Can't choose just one!
@KDemo Why choose if you can have them all?
How does Bob Dylan not make this list?
Like a Rolling Stone makes the top 5 of most everyone's greatest song of all time list (#1 at Rolling Stone Magazine, of course).
Bruce Springsteen, in his speech for Dylan's inauguration into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, said that on first hearing the single, "that snare shot sounded like somebody'd kicked open the door to your mind".
Of that list, I really like the Kinks. Beach Boys and Beatles aren't terrible. I also kind of like the Turtles and the Hollies but they're not on the list. I really should listen to more Velvet Underground, what with how some podcasters I listen to praise them so much. What I enjoy more than any of these bands though is Psychedelic revival bands. Apples in Stereo, The Minders, Thee American Revolution, Dressy Bessy, Beulah, and many more that take the style of the 60's and punch it up a bit. It was kind of shocking to listen to Brian Wilson's smile album after listening to all of these modern Elephant6 bands and realizing how much better they were as musicians compared to all of those old bands even though they were doing the same kinds of songs.
@kazriko If you like the psychedelic revival, you need to listen to the album Sun Structures by Temples ASAP. Don't even read to the end of this post. Listen Now! After that, the album Lousy with Sylvianbriar by of Montreal is good too. Kevin Barnes wrote and recorded it while living in San Francisco. It's completely different than anything else he's done. It's my favorite album of his. I love his early quirkier stuff. I liked him less and less as he got more into the club sound. Why are you still reading? Go listen to Sun Structures!
@SSteve I've added that to my trial playlist. of Montreal is one that I have listened to, though not that album. I've mostly listened to their really old stuff. I've thrown that one in the trial list too. (Looking at their list, I'm thinking "The Bedside Drama" and "The Bird Who Continues to Eat the Rabbit's Flower" were the two from them I listened to.)
@thismyusername Moody Blues are pretty good too. I always forget about them.
@thismyusername my friend Christina would agree... Uber fan.
Yeah, the Beatles are ahead... But that's only because the rest are splitting the vote. In my opinion, which is stupid: it's the Beatles against the field, and the Beatles are overrated.
@Superllama7 (Nice deal on headphones, though)
@Superllama7 Overrated... Yup!
@Veloslave @Superllama7 Not to take anything away from anyone else on the list, but The Beatles are overrated only if you haven't listened to them enough. Especially in the context of what else was happening at the time.
@Superllama7 They get points for being the first -good- small guitar rock band.
@SSteve Sure, they were more or less the first, but I don't feel like they were the best. I've listened to all these bands quite a lot (I'm 38, not some college jabroni), and I stand by my opinion. Still, it's just an opinion :-) And the Beatles certainly helped advance the cause.
Dead?
Jefferson Airplane?
Allman Bros?
CSN?
@belowi Nice list!
Flo and Eddie
@nadroj aka the Turtles...opened up for them a while back...nice guys and way underrated, BTW Howard Kaylan would have voted for Dylan.
@nadroj www.youtube.com/watch?v=EAWUNMIoGR4
@margot
@nadroj I love these guys...their New Years Eve shows in NY are said to be fantastic. Thanks for the video!
The Who FTW... by a LONG SHOT... lot of serious music missing on that list (as usual Mister Meh questionnaire maker dude) and some others are great too... Kinks, Jimmy, the Underground but nothing that comes close to a Baba O'reilly or Won't get fooled again (etc, etc, etc)
@Veloslave Those were 70's era Who songs, though.
The Monkees weren’t about music, Meh, they were about rebellion! About political and social upheaval!
@Jervas $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$
Cream ... Badge and Politician are in heavy rotation on my 8-track
Like Elvis, the Beatles opened a door in the fabric of music through which many groups passed. Because of all who performed during these torrid years in our history, music began changing and will continue to do so. There were many great groups of those times including the Stones, CSN, the Doors and the Hendrix Experience just to name a few. Add to the groups the singers Janis Joplin, Roy Orbison, Paul Simon, and many others. Without these musical pioneers later groups such as Genesis, The Eagles and others would never have had a chance to demonstrate their talents and achieve their great successes. My experience with polls is that they seldom ever accurately demonstrate a group's or an individuals' true worth to the music arts. Polls are more popularity driven contests which are spot on if we agree with the results or terribly off base if we don't. But for the good intentions and the terribly flawed attempt to create a good discussion and a relationship of sorts among the members of our community, the staff deserve a "meh" of the first order.
How does Elvis Presley not make this list?!?
You know... The King of Rock N Roll?!?
Lemme guess... The guy writing the copy is under 30 years old.
Sheesh.
For the record, though, I voted for the Beatles, because they are most definitely NOT overrated. (despite what SOME people might say.)
Just out of curiosity, which of their War-And-Peace-sized catalog of hit songs is overrated?
Yesterday? THE most covered song in all of history.
Hey Jude?
Let It Be?
Blackbird?
Here Comes the Sun?
Come Together.... I Want to Hold Your Hand.... All You Need is Love.... Something.... Revolution... Because... You've Got to Hide Your Love Away... While My Guitar Gently Weeps... Here Comes the Sun... Birthday... I Saw Her Standing There... Can't Buy Me Love... Hard Days Night... Long and Winding Road... Back in the USSR... Imagine...
I mean, JESUS!
Like them or not, that's certainly an opinion everyone's entitled to. But to say theyre overrated is just ignorance talking. Claiming the Beatles are overrated sounds like something somebody who's trying too hard to be irreverent would say.
Fuckin' Hipsters.
Not to mention Paul McCartney is pretty much one of the nicest human beings to walk the planet. For a guy who's pretty much a living icon, a national treasure, he's humble and friendly, not at all full of himself (despite having very much so earned the right to be a pompous douche), and he's a very, very cool dude.
I got your back, Paul. ;)
@pepsiwine Personally, I can only hope that someday my grandchildren will access an internet that's free of hipsters and their irrelevant opinions...
@pepsiwine I originally read irreverent as irrelevant; the previous comment will not be edited as it is equally stupid either way.
Jimi Hendrix played guitar like he had six hands with ten fingers each. Pure genius.
@PocketBrain Man had unbelievable skills, but he was a crap musician. Give him a guitar and he just masturbates with it in friggin' minute-long solos.
@brumagem like "Little Wing"?
@margot My favorite version of Little Wing is Stevie Ray Vaughan's live instrumental.
@eyewerks A great version by a guitarist with both chops and feel in a unique balance.
"AW, WHO THE FUCK ARE YOU!?"
Stones if we look only at the 60s, Beatles if we look at the whole of each bands' existence, and almost anyone else if it'll get aunt Betty to shut the heck up.
@simplersimon Do you have that backwards? All Beatles' music was recorded in 60's (though some was released later) . The Stones were prolific in the 70's: "Satisfaction" "Brown Sugar" "Tumbling Dice" "Angie" "It's Only Rock 'n Roll (But I Like It)" "Miss You " "Beast of Burden". Or are you arguing that the Stones get "down-graded" for their post-60 music being of lesser quality?
People tend to think of them as a 70s band, but they were formed in '68 and transformed rock, blues, folk, world and psychedelic into their own unique hybrids to become the biggest and most influential band of the decade.
Led Zeppelin.
Total transcendence.
There's really nothing more that needs to be said.
@eyewerks
Watch it through or skip ahead to 1:40 - you'll probably never listen to Led Zeppelin the same way again.
Is this something that you assume I am not aware of? Remember the old adage: Good artist borrow, great artists steal. Zeppelin borrowed, stole and assimilated lots, and usually, if not always, took the material and raised it to a higher level creating something transcendental. I will not excuse them for not crediting the original artists, however there were plenty of times that they did credit when their work shared little more than a title (example: Robert Johnson's Travelin' Riverside Blues). Burt Jaunch was ripped off, as it was clearly his arrangement for Black Mountain Side and Page credited it as a traditional folk song. (more>>)
Led Zeppelin rarely just copied or created covers of other musicians' music. They morphed it into something new. And often times lyrics taken from other bluesmen are lyrics that had been used over and over again in countless songs. Whole Lotta Love was based on a reworked Women You Need Love. Check out the video of Jeff Beck: Live At Ronnie Scott's (a hugly worthwhile watch). Clapton joins Beck for a short set, and they play Woman You Need Love. Page and Plant are both in the audience. I am convinced that Jeff and Eric are trying to rub Jimmy and Percy's nose in it by performing the number (but the backstory for that will have to wait for another time). Despite the "remixes", I still love Zeppelin's music, and believe they elevated and metamorphasized that which they incorporated from others.
Let's not forget that the vast majority of Led Zeppelin's music consisted of original compositions that spanned a wide range of gendres. "Since I've Been Loving You" may be their greatest original blues composition (and on most days my favorite Led Zeppelin song). Jump ahead a few years to the band's immersion in "World Music" and their creation of Kashmir. I could give scores of other examples, but I believe the body of work speaks for itself. The filmmaker seems to want to classify Zep as a "heavy metal band", but they were anything but. It's an undeserved label that ignorant critics often slap on the band. Zeppelin's music is as ecclectic as it comes.
@eyewerks The adage you reference was twisted over the years (by many) from an essay written in The Gentleman’s Magazine in 1892. The author was W. H. Davenport. Davenport was extolling Tennyson and said:
"Of Tennyson’s assimilative method, when he adopts an image or a suggestion from a predecessor, and works it up into his own glittering fabric, I shall give a few instances, offering as the result and summing up of the preceding inquiries a modest canon: “That great poets imitate and improve, whereas small ones steal and spoil.”
Of course, I had no way to know whether or not you were familiar with the assertions made in the video essay. I simply shared it because I thought it might be of interest.
As with Pink Floyd and others, I would argue that Zeppelin's influence was upon the 1970's, their formation in 1968 as the "New Yardbirds".
Janis Joplin, man. Who can forget an album like Pearl? Also, the Mamas and the Papas just for the fact that they were a successful four-singer band that wasn't about traditionals, art song, or religious music.
@brumagem Best cover of a Bee Gees song, ever. Gal had a hell of a set of pipes.
Late 60's, Zeppelin, Doors, Moody blues and others that are mentioned. So many greats. Not a band per say, but I loved Roy Orbison, still do.
@mick My favorite wax, CD, and download, are all the white Orbison Greatest Hits. I bet I play it at least once a week. I can really clean house while singing along........you do not want to hear that!
Ten Years After.......must I lead you children around by the ears forever...
Was very hard to choose Beatles over VU. But since they say the Beatles influenced them...
Wow, who left The Doors off the list? Also Allman Bros., Elvis, Cream, The Moody Blues, Dylan, Grateful Dead, Janis Joplin, Jefferson Airplane with Grace Slick, and The Mamas and The Papas.
You seem to have left Duran Duran, The Cure, Howard Jones, Pet Shop Boys, Joy Division, New Order, and Spandau Ballet off the list.
It's like I don't even know who you are any more.
@lumpthar The poll was "best 60's rock band" . I don't think any of those qualified.
@DrWorm Don't confuse me with facts, sir. My mind is made up.
@DrWorm @lumpthar
voted the Stones
Creedence
Rascals
Paul Revere and The Raiders
Mitch Ryder
Doors
Animals
Byrds
Yardbirds
Dave Clark Five
Hollies
Ugh. I'm having a lot of flashbacks.
@Teripie
@lisaviolet
@Teripie i have this on a 45.
@lisaviolet After this osng came out every teenage girl in America and England vowed that Mrs. Browen's Lovely Daughter was an evil, heartless bitch! Poor Peter.......
@Teripie I just pulled out my 45s (I have a little over a hundred disks). The first one listed is Herman's Hermits, Mrs. Brown. Geez, looking at the names of the artists...5th Dimension, The Byrds, Marianne Faithful, Dave Clark Five, Lovin' Spoonful, Tom Jones, the Association, Spanky and our Gang, 4 Seasons...I have this urge to start up my old Technics turntable...there's even a 7 inch 33rmp special product...Rowan and Martin that was in a Saturday Evening Post magazine...
@lisaviolet Sirius radio has ruined my ability to listen to anything new. Not good. I have it on all the time, skipping from one decade to another. It's weird when I hear a song I don't recognize, but then start singing along with it!
@lisaviolet Ex-husband got all the records.
@Teripie My husband has no interest whatsoever in this stuff. Seriously, he'd be happy with a 12" television screen, rabbit ears and an am radio. I've got a lot of CDs, all of my albums I got before we were married (I was 32). He's finally kind of understanding how to switch the television between the Roku and cable box.
Pink Floyd?
@lisaviolet The four albums Floyd released in the 60's were nothing like their sound in the 70's (plus the last album they released in the 60's was October '69, which might as well have been 1970 with as slow as distribution moved back then). See Emily Play sounded more like a Beatles song on acid (to me) than what most people would think of when they think of Pink Floyd. Personally, I attribute their core / main / true influence more upon the 70's.
@Pavlov 70s sounds about right. The first time I paid attention to PF was the soundtrack for "Zabriskie Point" . I know I have the above song on a 33, but I'm not sure which album it is and I'm too lazy to pull all of the things away from the sliding closet door that has all of my 33s stored in alphabetical order. I was still in high school at that time, living at Edwards Air Force base and the drug of choice for the kids in my clique were whites (I loved those little white amphetamines) and alcohol, the sweeter, the better. Listening to the music flowing from left to right was awesome, it was almost as if it went right through my skull and back again...Fast forward to my father retiring down here to San Diego and I started going to concerts. The band "Yes" had the same effect on me. I saw Yes in concert and I don't remember a whole lot (the nasty marijuana), but I do know they were one of my favorites.
Uh...missed the other English Atlantic powerhouse:
It is according to what age I am when you asked the question.
I was the perfect age for The Monkees. Davy Jones was my first crush!
I was at the concert that Hendrix opened for them.
Who thought that up???
Didn't they know it was going to be preteen girls???
My friend and I didn't boo. We were confused by him. Really? Play the guitar with your teeth?
I would have killed to see him 5 years later!
My friends dad took us to the concert and waited in the stadium for us.
He was very young, had my friend when he was 15...so he was 27 or so.
He said "Well the Monkees were OK, but that opening act was great!"
As for now...gotta say Pink Floyd, but a word of advice...don't go see them straight. It is just not right. Some things are only meant to be seen stoned.
Wow, what a debate you sparked Meh! Would you look at all the flannel and rolled up skinny jeans in here?! You're hipsters not hippies... Stop talking!!! Fact is, no one can beet the Beatles on hits. Why would the Kinks, Velvet Underground, Beach Boys or the Monkeys even make this list. Even The Who is stretching it. Although, I did vote Velvet Underground just cause they are who I prefer to listen to now that the Beatles, Stones and Hendrix have been played out. But be honest with yourselves people... Do you honestly believe there are any other choices besides the Beatles and the Stones?
Funny how some people confuse fact and opinion so often.
Nevertheless, relevant: going to see The Who this friday, super looking forward to it
All this talk of 60's music and not a peep about soul music. Of course I don't know if that counts as I read the topic to be about rock. But Little Stevie Wonder could sure as hell rock it!