Singles
Elvis Presley – Hound Dog – 1956
Chuck Berry – Maybelline – 1955
Chuck Berry – Johnny Be Goode – 1958
Jerry Lee Lewis – Great Balls Of Fire – 1958
Little Richard – Tutti Frutti – 1956
Little Richard – Long Tall Sally – 1956
Elvis Presley – That’s All Right – 1954
Buddy Holly – Oh Boy – 1955
Carl Perkins – Blue Suede Shoes – 1956
Elvis Presley – Don’t be Cruel – 1956
Elvis Presley – Heartbreak Hotel – 1956
Bill Haley – Rock Around The Clock - 1952
Elvis Presley – Jailhouse Rock – 1957
Albums
Elvis Presley – Elvis Presley – 1956
Little Richard – Here’s Little Richard – 1956
Buddy Holly – The Chirping Crickets - 1957
Sources
www.wikipedia.com/Elvis_presley
www.wikipedia.com/buddy_holly
www.wikipedia.com/bill_haley
www.wikipedia.com/little_richardwww.wikipedia.com/rock_n_roll
Wednesday, 24 June 2009
Motown
The beginning of Motown began in Detroit, America in the late 50’s. The genre was named after Detroit ‘motor city’. Ben Gordy came up with the idea of starting up a record label to make money, however he started by gathering a group of jazz musicians. He chose jazz musicians based of their natural abilities to improvise, read sheet music and just generally pick things up quick. Also at the time lots of cars were being built in Detroit so people wanted jobs and therefore people were willing to work, so he didn’t have to pay the musicians very highly because they were desparate.
During the 60’s and 70’s some of the greatest songs ever written were recorded by the Motown band. ‘Baby love’ by The Supremes, ‘Heard it through the grapevine’ by Marvin Gaye and most of the Jackson 5’s hits are all songs recorded by the motown musicians. The music itself is mainly jazz and blues ther
e is nothing unique about the sound except it’s all the same musicians. Here is an example of 'The Motown Sound',
As for influences there wasn’t many because the music was nothing new it was just blues and jazz.
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Sources:- detroit picture: http://www.stadiumtravelguide.com/baseball/images/comericamain.jpg
Motown band picture: http://www.hotpep.com/Hot%20Peppers/Assets/band%20photos/mcm_motown3.jpg
Marvin Gaye-Heard it through the grapevine video:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hajBdDM2qdg
Monday, 30 March 2009
Punk
Punk as a genre was devoloped around the mid 70's and brought and entire new sound, image and look to the music industry. England, America and even Austrailia was were punk began to form. Around the same time in the 70's there was glam rock which punk fans happened to hate, as a result they rebelled against the glam rock scene and created there own style which became known as punk.
The sound of punk was very angry and in your face. They took the rock guitar riffs from glam rock bands and sped them up, added some fast drums and a mixture of anti-policital angry lyrics and you have yourself a punk song! Some of punks earlier influences would be the stooges, until then no one had seen anything like the stooges before with iggy pops attitude of not caring and some of his strange costumes he wore on stage, for example leather trousers with a horses tail on them was much like punk.
Heres an example of the sound of punk this is one of the Sex Pistols most famour hits, 'god save the queen'.

Punk went on to influence many other genres such as, Alternative rock, pop-punk and some 'Emo' music. also some new punk bands such as Green Day, Blink 182 and The Offspring are all influenced by punk and the punk movement.
Sources used:
David Bowie pic: http://www.hotpot.se/Bowie.jpg
The Stooges clip: YOUTUBE
Sex Pistols link: YOUTUBE
Sex Pistols picture:http://www.rockheap.com/news/wp-content/uploads/2008/09/pistols.jpg
Punk men picture: http://www.artistdirect.com/Images/artd/amg/music/bio/434802_gbh_200x200.jpg
The sound of punk was very angry and in your face. They took the rock guitar riffs from glam rock bands and sped them up, added some fast drums and a mixture of anti-policital angry lyrics and you have yourself a punk song! Some of punks earlier influences would be the stooges, until then no one had seen anything like the stooges before with iggy pops attitude of not caring and some of his strange costumes he wore on stage, for example leather trousers with a horses tail on them was much like punk.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y4hPnZUMBwAy4hPnZUMBwA THE STOOGES LIVE
Another imfluence on punk was Alice Cooper he started his act with white make-up and boa constricters on stage in the early 7
0's. It was an example of the outrageousness that was to become of punk. A massive influence on punk was David Bowie and his newly created act 'Ziggy Stardust' his crazy make-up and different music influenced punk to be different and outrageous. All these artists could be classed as 'post-punk' and basically stated that the reason for all this was borden with the music industry.
By the mid 70's punk had took off and early punk bands like the clash, the ramones and most famously the sex pistals had emeraged on the music scene and were like nothing anyone had seen before. Anti-social behavior and angry attitude towards people, politics and generally other music was outrageous and started a massive punk movement all across the world. The sex pistols are probably the most significant band of punk. When someone mensions punk people think of the sex pistols, They were one of the few punk bands to achieve worldwide success and be mainstream with their music.
Punk's image was just crazy and outrageous and on fashion terms the stranger the better. Things like studded leather jackets, dock martin boots, ripped blue jeans spikey belts and crazy spiked and multi-coloured hair was all part of the punk fashion. People did it mainly to be different from everyone else and to get a reaction from people and it worked.
Punk went on to influence many other genres such as, Alternative rock, pop-punk and some 'Emo' music. also some new punk bands such as Green Day, Blink 182 and The Offspring are all influenced by punk and the punk movement.
Sources used:
David Bowie pic: http://www.hotpot.se/Bowie.jpg
The Stooges clip: YOUTUBE
Sex Pistols link: YOUTUBE
Sex Pistols picture:http://www.rockheap.com/news/wp-content/uploads/2008/09/pistols.jpg
Punk men picture: http://www.artistdirect.com/Images/artd/amg/music/bio/434802_gbh_200x200.jpg
Monday, 23 February 2009
Glam Metal
Usually the lyrics of these songs were mainly about sex, drugs and rock 'n' roll, because at the time this is what the 'rockstars' lifestlye was portrayed to be like. One of the most significant artists of this era were Motley Crue, still at the present day they are still together and touring. Their 1989 album 'Dr. Feelgood' sold over 7 million copies worldwide and managed to top the US charts. Bands such as Bon Jovi, Metallica and Nirvana were all influenced by Motley crue
As for the image of Glam Metal is was very bright and extravagant. Big hair, ripped jeans and make-up on boys all played a part in the fashion of Glam Metal. Once again its noticeable that some of the fashion aspects of Glam Metal were taking from Punk, for example the chains and spikes. Heres and example of punk fashion and glam metal clothing, u will notice many similarities.
Denim, spikes and leather are obvious connections.
As the 80's countinued, other glam metal bands emerged, but they wernt as hard rock they were softer, bands like bon jovi, def lepard, van halen and whitesnake spawned the birth of the 'Rock Ballard'. A rock ballard being a love song with a loud chorus woth huge sounding drums and quiet verses, and usually a very long blazing guitar solo, most bands had at least one rock ballard on their album. The band poison released 'Every rose has its thorn' which was a very big rock ballard in 1988. Not many more glam metal bands came after the 80's only bands that were unfluenced by them, some examples of these bands would be Nickelback or Alter Bridge etc... The Darkness were a band massively influenced by Glam Metal they made and appearance in 2003 but were short lived due to the poor market for glam metal.
Here is a track from the Darkness called 'i believe in a thing called love'.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2xBZ3kjeG-A&feature=related. U can notice alot of apects from clasica glam metal, for example 'cheesy' guitar riffs, big guitar solos and really high pitched male vocals.
PHOTO OF MOTLEY CRUE IN 1980-http://images.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://gamesnet.vo.llnwd.net/o1/gamestar/objects/141395_main.jpg&imgrefurl=http://www.sucksorrules.com/battles/detail/people/316494/battle-of-glam-metal/&usg=__8RBVAqtcdqLlBW_LdyXRTaPUW3s=&h=320&w=320&sz=94&hl=en&start=2&um=1&tbnid=rVGW4I11Vd_iGM:&tbnh=118&tbnw=118&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dmotley%2Bcrue%2B1980%26um%3D1%26hl%3Den%26safe%3Doff%26ie%3DUTF-8
LINK TO LIVEWIRE-MOTLEY CRUE VIDEO-http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6xZBp8TLG20
GLAM METAL PHOTO-http://www.deesnider.com/CMS/images/stories/ts/posed_01.jpg
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