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100 songs that changed history
Posted by super8J on 8 September 2011 - 8:25pm.
I know this content is provided by a rival publication, but I'm sure members of the Massive would be interested in reviewing and commenting on Time Out's "100 songs that changed history" ... including a competition for Premium Spotify accounts and a free minimix!
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J.
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I love lists
I noticed Cop Killer by Body Count was in there. I always preferred the version by The Four Kinsmen. The bloke with the moustache is Rob Sitch who directed (and co-wrote) two films on the enormous "Greatest Films No One's Ever Heard of" blog. Namely The Castle and The Dish.
Cop Killer- The Four Kinsmen
A River Somewhere
He also made A River Somewhere, which is the only TV programme about fly fishing I've ever managed to persuade Mrs Y to watch.
I loved The Dish, although I had no idea that was one of his too.
The one in the
blonde wig is Tony Martin, possibly the greatest living New Zealander (certainly the funniest). The one with the black hair is his erstwhile partner in comedy Mick Molloy.
Although he doesn’t really come across as such in that clip, Mick is a self-confessed Aussie ocker who is also very, very funny, a rare combination indeed.
Uriah Heep???
Barney???
I think I've lived through someone else's history.
some of this is laughable
Why is David "Baywatch" Hasselhof in the top ten? and why Van Halen's "Panama". They're not exactly Bach or Dylan.
and you call yourself a rocker?
As pretty much any guitarist will tell you, Eddie van Halen popularized the double handed tapping technique making him one of the most influential guitarists since hendrix. He may not have changed the world but he certainly changed music for a while at least.
Panama
was on Van Halen's '1984' album, so by that time Eddie had already influeneced a million shredders, got bored and moved on to playing keyboards all over the record. Including 'Eruption' would have made more sense. Oh, and Panama smells of bananas.
exactly
thank you.
no honestly, really? did he do that?
yes, he was originally trained on classical piano and only started playing guitar when big brother Alex stole his drum kit.
Some thoughts
01 - Time Out made its music critic redundant last year and got the work experience person to do this list? Just asking...
02 - JaguarSkills sounds like the kind of name that David Brent would use if he got an evening DJing at some club in Slough
03 - Whoever put that list together plainly mistook 'songs that were on in the background while history was happening' with 'songs that changed history'
04 - Some of these choices are clearly not 'songs'." And for our next number, the Iliad, one, two, three-a four..."
05 - American Idiot? Gedouttahere
06 - Comparing Martin Luther to J-Lo? Bootylicious Protestantism now officially sexier than Popery shock!
"Errrr...
...can I have some scrambled egg in there please...and some smoked salmon as well...?"
Records don't change history.
They can become part of it, usually as a footnote, or method of social interaction, criticism, even organisation.
The record as a physical object, like television, changed history, but hardly in the way the Thirty Years War did.
If there is a parallel universe without The Beatles it would not be vastly different from today, apart from the fact most of you would be talking about something else, which may be a good thing.
The same can be said for any singers, actors, even painters. They may revolutionalise their chosen idiom, but it is fundamentally a distraction, an entertainment, propaganda even. No matter how profound their work may be regarded, it has a minimal sting on the arse of the beomoth of history.
Of course.
As Nik Cohn once observed, pop music is 'all about Coca Cola'.
And how right he was.
That list is a joke, yeah?
Ah, 'Time Out', that explains it.
And, oh good, it's been made into something called 'a mix'.
Cosmic.
Agree with the Nik Cohn line about Coca Cola.....I've seen the future of rock 'n' roll and it is two minute twenty second pop songs from people called Bobby. Fact.
I'll throw in Little Richard's first 45 for one of the hundred, 'Rip It Up' and 'Ready Teddy'.
Joe Brown described hearing it round a mate's house in East London as like being visited by aliens from another planet.