Even though I dislike their music... I would think the Beach Boys deserve to be included as a band that with their "California sound" flipped the script
I can get to that. I don't dislike their music, but have never bought any of their records. Still, I love some of their songs. I think one of their finest early and super inspired and worked over singles was Help Me Rhonda, will look over their stuff, and may include a track. They were enormously popular in England, I heard.Even though I dislike their music... I would think the Beach Boys deserve to be included as a band that with their "California sound" flipped the script
Ehh, this is pure opinion, and maybe im biased here ...I could play Black Sabbath for sure. I think Led Zep sort of were on the leading edge of creating metal too. Didn't they preceed Black Sabbath?
Edit: Looking it up, pretty much the same time... 1968.
"OG?" Please demystify that characterization.Ehh, this is pure opinion, and maybe im biased here ...
To me, Led Zep was indeed influential for metal. but were really much more "rock" than Metal IMO.
On the other hand, Black Sabbath is pretty much pure unadulterated, undiluted OG of Heavy Metal. They were, more or less the first Metal band. Their whole catalog is more or less metal.
And yes, I know there has always been heavy sounding music going back as far as humans have recorded or written music.
Yup, I've played all of those on my shows at times. That Public Enemy album, I have. I heard it was their signature album. I've always super loved their super tough masculine high energy sound. They remind me of The Disposable Heroes of Hiphoprisy, Michael Franti's vocals have the same great strength, political punch, great lyrics.White Stripes - the first time i heard them was in 2000-2001 and nothing sounded like them
Rage Against The Machine - there where plenty of rock/rap cross overs before but this changed it, the raw energy and anger of that first album was amazing
Public Enemy - It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold us back
sorry, OG = slang for Original Gangster ... essentially its 80s slang for old school ..."OG?" Please demystify that characterization.
Well, Led Zep were way way more successful. And way more spectacular. And probably way more influential because of those things. Black Sabbath to my thinking is way more a cult following. Led Zep were pervasive. Nothing like the Beatles who were just spectacular success defined when it comes to bands. Everybody was into the Beatles. If you weren't you were just a weirdo, I guess.
Yeah, actually I forgot. A black guy called me OG one time in the gym and told me it was very much a compliment. Must be 3-4 years ago and I forgot.Also, if you want stuff thats really really really "out there" ... with no co
sorry, OG = slang for Original Gangster ... essentially its 80s slang for old school ...
That's not what it means.Yeah, actually I forgot. A black guy called me OG one time in the gym and told me it was very much a compliment. Must be 3-4 years ago and I forgot.
No, in the context, it was a compliment. Anyway, don't remember, but I knew it was a compliment under the circumstances.That's not what it means.
Actually, TBH, I'm guessing Sabbath gets a lot more airplay on our station than Zep, much more respect. Not that we abhor Zep, we have their stuff in the library. However I've played Zep 39 times and Sabbath 12 times.Zep had great songwriting, great musicianship, and were fantasticly successful indeed.
Black Sabbath more or less didnt know what they were doing at first, and in their figuring out what they were doing, they sort of fell into a new genre of music that was a bit louder, a bit brasher, and a bit darker than what came before. They stood on the shoulders of giants. but, they were the bridge from hard rock to heavy metal.
So I had an idea: play special music, very special music. Music that flipped the script. Music that blew minds. Music that changed the course of music history, music that presaged a sea-change in artistic thought and creativity.
Yeah, Mozart's 20th piano concerto is my favorite. Deeply spiritual feeling, his minor key piano concertos are the greatest. Tchaikowsky's reverence for Mozart's Don Giovanni is just out of this world. You have to read what he wrote to understand. The Mozart works you mention are among my favorites.Mozart has his 20th Piano Concerto, final movement of his 41st symphony, first and second movement of his Haffner Symphony. The Don Giovanni overture certainly kept the attention of people during the Romantic period even though the rest of his body of work fell into a deep slumber. Also, his Clarinet Concerto is well paired with Mariah Carey's singing.
Beethoven's Eroica symphony was one of the many that began the transition to Romaticism. The recordings by Roger Norrington have a less Romantic, speedier take.
Gershwin's Rhapsody in Blue.
Bon Jovi's Slippery When Wet
Brahms' Wiegenlied
Rachmaninoff's Piano Concerto 2.
Loads of Elvis and Beatles tracks
Loads of Tchaikovsky(many familiar melodies, such as Nutcracker, Swan Lake, Sleeping Beauty)
OST music from Chrono Trigger and Chrono Cross, especially the ending music for the respective games, "To Far Away Times" and "Radical Dreamers.
Mariah Carey's "Always Be My Baby". "Vision of Love" spawned and inspired many female singers afterwards, including Beyonce and Kelly Clarkson, even though I have yet to hear the track.
All Britney Spears' singles from her first two albums.
Backstreet Boys' Millenium
Everything Mutt Lange put his hands on(80s rock, Shania's Twain records).
Music from Joanna Levesque(short for JoJo) is amazing. Her latest album "Good to Know" has no bad tracks.
Bee Gees' Staylin' Alive.
Olivia Newton-John's Physical album, especially "Landslide" and the titular track.
The Go-Gos and The Bangles. Belinda Carlisle's got some gems from her solo career. Circle in the Sand, Heaven is a Place on Earth.