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re: Most influential rock songs
Posted on 1/20/15 at 12:02 pm to Tigerwaffe
Posted on 1/20/15 at 12:02 pm to Tigerwaffe
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"Like A Rolling Stone"/Dylan--Showed the world that thinking persons' music could actually come from amplified instruments as well as acoustic guitars.
I definitely wouldn't say this is wrong, but The Byrds' cover of his Mr. Tambourine Man did the same thing a couple of months earlier. They don't always get their due. That record was a huge influence on the direction Dylan took for the rest of his career. And even though Byrds were basically folk + Beatles, their sound was a big influence on the Beatles too. It's definitely there in Rubber Soul.
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Posted on 1/20/15 at 12:36 pm to kizomich
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I definitely wouldn't say this is wrong, but The Byrds' cover of his Mr. Tambourine Man did the same thing a couple of months earlier. They don't always get their due. That record was a huge influence on the direction Dylan took for the rest of his career.
Huge Byrds fan here. You mean to say their version of a song Dylan wrote had a huge influence on Dylan's decision to go electric? I'd never heard that before. You sure? Interesting story, regardless.
Posted on 1/20/15 at 12:48 pm to TigerPanzer
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You sure? Interesting story, regardless.
I've read that he was amazed that they had made one of his songs danceable. I don't have any documentation or anything, but Dylan was a folkie until that single and folk-rock afterwards. I don't think there's any doubt they pioneered that style, but maybe I'm mistaken. Is there an earlier example?
Posted on 1/20/15 at 2:23 pm to Tigerwaffe
"I'm Your Captain" Grand Funk Railroad,
In the small world that was my hometown during high school, this was the anthem of 1970-72.
In the small world that was my hometown during high school, this was the anthem of 1970-72.
Posted on 1/20/15 at 2:31 pm to kizomich
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Is there an earlier example?
I don't know. Both records came out in 1965 I believe, but "MTM" might've pre-dated "Rolling Stone" by a few weeks or months. I can say that for me personally, "Tambourine Man" was a life changer. The first time I heard it--on good old KRLA in the summer of '65--my little 12-year-old mind was blown far, far away. I turned the up volume and never looked back.
I think "Rolling Stone" is generally conceded to be the song that married cerebral lyrics and electric guitars, in a way that only folk music had done before. That's my recollection. But "Tambourine Man" absolutely deserves equal mention here, since it too combined abstruse lyrics with electric instrumentation. And a Dylan song to boot.
Posted on 1/20/15 at 2:32 pm to Tigerwaffe
Cliche also but Steppenwolf's Born to be wild turned so many people on back in the day.
Posted on 1/20/15 at 2:48 pm to Tigerwaffe
Free Bird
Smells Like Teen Spirit
Smells Like Teen Spirit
Posted on 1/20/15 at 8:41 pm to Srbtiger06
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I don't see Smoke on the Water there.
Not released until 1972. I was referring to the early to mid 60's when I said "that era".
Posted on 1/29/15 at 11:41 pm to Srbtiger06
These songs grabbed my attention from it's first note.
Smoke on the Water. Deep Purple.( Power chords, made me want to take up guitar)
Frankenstein. ?. Edgar Winter and White Trash ( Edgar later said had no idea how to play synthesizer and was playing around getting weird sounds)
Bang a Gong ( Get it On).. T-Rex ( just a toe tappin kick arse song loved it the first time I heard it and some 40 or so years later still has my foot tappin.)
Smoke on the Water. Deep Purple.( Power chords, made me want to take up guitar)
Frankenstein. ?. Edgar Winter and White Trash ( Edgar later said had no idea how to play synthesizer and was playing around getting weird sounds)
Bang a Gong ( Get it On).. T-Rex ( just a toe tappin kick arse song loved it the first time I heard it and some 40 or so years later still has my foot tappin.)
Posted on 1/29/15 at 11:45 pm to TigerPanzer
Byrds influence the Beatles.
Dylan and The Byrds did influence the Beatles, but it was Dylan hearing the beatles that influenced him to go electric.
This post was edited on 1/29/15 at 11:48 pm
Posted on 1/30/15 at 12:08 am to Douglas Green
Ziggy Stardust. At maximum volumn, of course.
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