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The History of Rock Part Two

Week 1

Overview of the 1970s

• The rise of musically ambitious bands
• More specilized style of music
• The rise of coporate conglomerates
• The hippie aesthetic

British-Based Blues Rock

• Based on interest in 60s blues rock
• Led Zeppelin
  • Roots in the Yardbirds
  • First two albums in 1969 - late 1960s psychedelia influence
  • Influenced by blues, folk, psychedelia
    • "Whole Lotta Love" - center part atmopheric psychedelia
    • "Stairway to Heaven" - beginning cosmic, folk; end to blues
• Deep Purple
  • "Hush"
  • Bridge from psychedelia to heavy metal at the end of 1970s
  • "Machine Head" - "Smoke on the water", "Lazy", "Highway Star"
  • Blues-based, more on classical music influence
• Black Sabbath
  • Blues-based group when started
  • Specialized in scary, gothic horry
  • "Paranoid" - "Iron Man", "War Pigs"

American-Based Blues Rock and Southern Rock

• Influenced by British Bands
• Southern rock
  • Most blues based type
  • Southern - southern imaging in the minds of northern people
• Allman Brothers Band
  • "At Fillmore East"
  • Blues and extended soloing
  • More improvisatory group, jam oriented
  • "Brothers and Sisters" - "Ramblin Man"
• Lynyrd Skynyrd
  • "Free Bird"
  • "Sweet Home Alabama"
  • Song oriented
• Charlie Daniels Band
  • "The Devil Went Down to Georgia"
• The Marshall Tucker Band
  • "Can't You See"
• ZZ Top
  • "La Grange"
  • "Tush"
• Santana
  • Latin influence (Mexico)
  • "Black Magic Woman"
  • "Evil Ways"
• Steppenwolf
  • "Born to Be Wild"
  • First mention of heavy metal in lyrics
• Three Dog Night
  • "Mama Told Me (Not to Come)"
• Grand Funk Railroad
  • Blues and orchestral elements
  • "I am Your Caption (Closer to Home)"
  • "We are A American Band"
• Aerosmith
  • "Walk This Way"

Progressive Rock

• Mostly in Britain
• Obssesion with concept album
• Lyrics about philosophy
• Classical, Jazz, long, virtuosic display
• Proto-prog
  • Procol Harum
    • "A White Shade of Pale"
    • "A Salty Dog"
  • The Moody Blues
    • Days of Future Past
  • The Nice
  • The Who
    • Tommy - the first rock opera
    • Who's Next
    • Quadrophenia
• King Crimson
  • In the Court of the Crimson King
• Emerson, Lake and Palmer
  • Approprating classical music
  • Pictures at An exhibition
• Jethro Tull
  • Aqualung
  • Thick as A Brick
• Yes
  • Close to the Edge
• Genisis
  • The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway - rock show
• Pink Floyd
  • Dark Side of The Moon
  • The Wall - elaborate rock show, end of hippies, last concept album of the decade

Jazz Rock

• Improvising
• Virtuocity from Jazz
• Studio musician - Jazz fed into this
• Miles Davis
  • Bithces Brew
• Mahavishnu Orchestra
  • The Inner Mounting Flame
• Herbie Hancok
  • Fuse Funck into
  • Head Hunters
• Return to Forever
• Weather Report
• Frank Zappa
  • Serious music
  • Satriral Lyrics
  • Over Night Sensation
    • "Dinah-Moe Humm"
• Traffic
  • "Paper Sun"
  • The Low Spark of High Heeled Boys
• Steely Dan
  • "Reeling in the Years"
  • Aja
  • Well recorded
• Horn-Based Groups
  • Blood, Sweat and Tears
    • Child is Father to the Man
    • "Spinning Wheel"
  • Chicago
    • Chicago Transit Authority
      • "Does Anybody Really Know What Time It is"
      • "Beginnings"

Theatrical Rock

• Album comes with on stage rock show
• Play roles on stage
• Daive Bowie
  • "Space Oddity"
  • Challenge gender identity
  • Ziggy Stardust
  • The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars
    • "Suffragate City"
  • Aladdin Sane
  • Dimond Dogs
  • Young Americans
    • "Fame"
• Alice Cooper
  • Gothic stage show which ends with Alice Cooper dead
  • Welcome to My Nightmares
  • Love It to Death
    • "I am Eighteen"
  • Killer
    • "Be My Lover"
  • School's Out
    • "School's Out"
• KISS
  • Very heavy makeup
  • Dramatic stage effects
  • First huge success came with a live album
  • Alive!
    • "Rock and Roll All Nite"

American Singer-Songwriters

• Singer connects directly with audience
• No extended solo, synthetic sound, that kind of thing
• Renosant with audience
• James Taylor
  • James Taylor
    • "Carolina on My Mind"
    • "Something in the way She Moves"
  • "Fire and Rain"
  • "You've Got A Friend"
• Carole King
  • Tapestry
    • "It's Too Late/I Feel the Earth Move"
• Paul Simon
  • "Kodachrome"
  • "American Tune" <- use classical music
  • "Still Crazy After All These Years"
• Carly Simon
  • "Anticipation"
  • "You're So Vain"
• Harry Chapin
  • "Taxi"
• Don McLean
  • "American Pie"
  • "Vincent"
• Jim Croce
  • "Bad Bad Leroy Brown"
  • "Time in a Bottle"

British and Canadian Singer-Songwriters

• Van Morrison
  • "Glora"
  • Astral Weeks
  • Moondance
  • Tupelo Honey
• Cat Stevens
  • Tea for the Tillerman
    • "Wild World"
  • Teaser and Firecat
    • "Morning Has Broken"
• Elton John
  • Empty Sky
  • Elton John
    • "Your Song"
  • Goodbye Yellowbrick Road
• Joni Mitchell
  • Ladies of the Canyon
    • "Woodstock"
  • Blue
    • "River"
  • Court and Spark
    • "Help Me"
• Neil Young
  • After the Gold Rush
    • "Southern Man"
  • Harvast

Country Rock

• Song oriented music
• Polished vocal
• Rich vocal harmony
• Lots of country touch
• Precusors:
  • Creedence Clearwater Revival
  • Linda Ronstadt and the Stone Poneys
• The Eagles
  • Emphsize vocal, lush harmony vocals
  • Eagles
    • "Take It Easy"
    • "Witchy Woman"
    • "Peaceful Easy Feelings"
  • Desperado
    • Concept album
    • "Desperado"
    • "Tequila Sunrise"
  • On the Border
    • "Best of My Love"
  • One of These Nights

Week 2

Black Pop

• Separation from White Rock (AM Radio)
• But share a lot with White Rock

Sly Stone and the Rise of Funk

-Sly and Family Stone - Psychedelic Soul - Set up a Groove - Catchy lyric - "Dance to the Music" - "Stand/I Want to Take You Higher"

• Ohio Players
  • "Funky Worm"
  • "Fire"
  • "Love Rollercoaster"
• Kool and the Gang
  • Wile and Peaceful
    • "Jungle Boogie"
    • "Hollywood Swinging"
    • "Ladies Night"
    • "Celebration"
• Earth, Wind and FIre
  • Sophisticated horn arrangement
  • That's the Way of the World
    • "Shinning Star"
  • "Got to Get You into My Life"
• Tower of Power
  • Tower of Power
    • "What is Hip?"
• War
  • Eric Burdon Declares War
    • "Spill the Wine"
  • The World is a Ghetto
    • "Cisco Kid"
    • "Low Rider"

Motown

• Mostly in LA
• Artists take more control
• The Temptations
  • Relate a lot to urban life
  • "Cloud Nine"
  • "Pshchedelic Shack"
  • "Papa Was A Rolling Stone"
• Commandores
  • Roots in funck music
    • "Brick House"
  • Ballad tune
    • "Easy"
    • "Three Times a Lady"
• The Jackson 5 / The Jacksons
  • "ABC"
  • "I'll Be There"
  • "Shake Your Body (Down to the Ground"
• Michael Jackson
  • Off the Wall - (Disco album)
• Marvin Gaye
  • What's Going On - (Concept album)
• Stevie Wonder
  • Use of synthesizers
  • Talking Book
  • Innervisons
    • "Living for the City"
  • Songs in the Key of Life

Philadelphia Sound

• Started from Kenny Gamble, Leon Huff
• Lyrical vocals
• Driving rhythm sections
• Elegant string arrangements
• Roots in sweet soul
• Harold Melvin and the Blue Notes
  • "If You Don't Love Me By Now"
• Billy Paul
  • "Me and Mrs. Jones"
• Lou Rawls
  • "You'll Never Find a Another Love Like Mine"
• O'Jays
  • "Back Stabbers"
  • "Love Train"
• MFSB
  • Play as a back band on a lot of records
  • "TSOP"
• Thom Bell also produced some groups
• The Spinners
  • "I'll Be Around"
• The Stylistics
  • Avco
• Soul Train - TV Show
  • Target at black audience
  • American bandstand

Blaxploitation Soundtracks

• Movies: important step for film making for black actors / directors
• Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song
• Frequently has soundtracks produced by Black Pop artists
• Issac Hayes
  • Roots at Stax
  • Presenting Issac Hayes
  • Hot Buttered Soul
    • "By the Time I got to Phoenix"
    • "Walk on By"
  • Shaft
    • "Theme from Shaft"
• Curtis Mayfield
  • Constantly on TV
  • Super Fly
    • "Freddy's Dead"
    • "Super Fly"

James Brown George Clinton and Parliament Funkadelic

• James Brown
  • Groove
  • Serious Lyrics
  • Guitar, bass and drum interlocked inside sophisticated structure
  • "Super Bad"
  • "The Payback"
  • Black Caesear
• George Clinton
  • Style elements from James Brown
  • Bussiness approach
  • "I Wanna Testify"
  • Osmium
  • Up for the Down Stroke
  • Mothership Conncetion
    • "Tear the Roof off the Sucker"
• Average White Band
  • AWB
    • "Pick Up the Pieces"
  • Cut the Cake

The Rise of Reggae

• Jamaica could receive radio from New Orlen
• The Harder They Come
  • Through soundtrack American audience were exposed to reggae
• Eric Clapton
  • 461 Ocean Boulevard
    • "I Shot the Sheriff" - first raggae hit white rockers heard
• The Sound System Men
  • Scratch songs from record
• The Wailers - Bob Marley and ...
  • Catch a Fire
  • Burning
    • "I Shot the Sheriff"
  • Rastaman Vibration
  • Exodus

Disco

• Not liked by white rockers
  • Dance craze
  • misunderstanding of black pop
  • not hippie aesthetic
• For dance
• Sometimes no guitar, bass, drum players
  • In early days, gay club needed to play music for dancing, but bands were not willing to play the gigs
• Saturday Night Fever - a film
  • Disco became the major deal for disco
• The return of producers - control records
• Donna Summer
  • "Love to Love You Baby"
  • Bad Girls - concept album
• Village People
  • "YMCA"
  • "In the Navy"
• Backlash against Disco
  • Anti disco rally
  • Reaction against promiscuity - not good reason
  • Homophobia - not good reason
  • Racism
  • Assult on the hippie asethetic

Week 3

• Push back against hippie aesthetic
• The rise of big album
• Development of FM radio
• Gigantic stadium shows = tremendous profits

Mainstream Rock in 1975-1980

• FM radion changes
  • Construct play list so that more people will listen
  • In order to sell ads
  • Highly-formatted
• Concert circuit moves
• Mega album
• Peter Frampton
  • Frampton Comes Alive!
  • First mega album
  • Famous for using talk box
• Eagles
  • Hotel California
    • "New Kid in Town"
    • "Hotel California"
    • "Life in the Fast Lane"
  • The Long Run
• Fleetwood Mac
  • "Albatross"
  • Fleetwood Mac
    • "Over My Head"
    • "Rhiannon"
    • "Say You Love Me"
  • Rumours
    • "Dreams"
    • "Go Your Own Way"
    • "Don't Stop"

Continuities

• The Roling Stones
  • Still top on the charts
  • Black and Blue
    • "Fool to Cry"
  • Some Girls
    • "Beast of Burden"
    • "Miss You"
  • Emotional Rescue
• John Lennon
  • Double Fantasy
    • "Just Like Starting Over"
• Paul McCarty and Wings
  • Band on the Run
    • "Band on the Run"
  • Wings at the Speed of Sound
    • "Silly Love Songs"
  • London Town
    • "With Little Luck"
• Steve Miller Band
  • The Joker
  • Fly Like an Eagle
    • "Rock 'n' Me"
• Doobie Brothers
  • Taknin' It to the Street
  • Minute by Minute
• Boston
  • Boston
    • "More Than a Feeling"
    • "Foreplay / Long Time"
• Foreigner
  • Feels Like the First Time
    • "Cold as Ice"
• Journey
  • Infinity
    • "Lights"
    • "Feelin that Ways"
  • Differently marketed towards women
• Cheap Trick
  • Cheap Trick at Budokan
    • "I Want You to Want Me"
• Van Halen
  • Van Halen
    • "Runnin' with the Devil"
    • Pop sensitivity underneath

Leaner Progressive, Louder Singer-Songwriters

• Genesis
  • A Trick of the Tail
• Emerson, Lake & Palmer
  • Works, Vol 1 and 2
• Jethro Tull
  • Songs from the Wood
• Yes
  • Going for the One
• Other groups take the prog leaner, more radio-friendly, blend in some blues-rock
• Kansas
  • Leftoverture
  • Point of No Return
    • "Dust in the Wind"
• Styx
  • The Grand Illusion
    • "Come Sail Away"
• Rush
  • Biggest group to push progressive rock on to the scene
  • "Fly By Night"
  • 2112 - concept album
  • "The Spirt of Radio"
  • "Tom Sawyer"
• The Alan Parsons Project
  • I, Robot
• Electric Light Orchestra
  • Eldorado
    • "Can't Get It off My Head"
• Queen
  • A Night at the Opera
    • "Bohemian Rhapsody"
• Bob Dylan
  • Blood on the Tracks
    • "Tangled up in the Blue"
• Elton John
  • Captain Fantastic and the Brown Dirt Cowboy
    • "Someone Saved My Life Tonight"
    • "Lucy in the Sky With Diamonds"
    • "Philadelphia Freedom"
• Paul Simon
  • His Greatest Hits, etc.
    • "Slip Sliding Away"
  • One Trick Pony
    • "Late in the Evening"
• Billy Joel
  • "The Piano Man"
  • The Stranger
    • "Just the Way You Are"
• Jackson Brown
  • Running on Empty
• Bod Seger
  • Night Moves
    • "Main Street"
• Bruce Springsteen
  • Born to Run

US Punk

• Return to simplicity
• Rejections of hippie aesthetics
• Music about confrontation
• The Velvet Underground
  • Lead a way to punk scene
  • Exploding Plastic Inevitable
  • The Velvet Underground and Nico
    • "Heroin"
    • "Venus in Furs"
    • Darker side of the world
• Iggy Pop
  • Fun House
• The MC5
  • Kick Out the Jams
• New York Dolls
  • New York Dolls
  • Too Much Too Soon
• New York Punk Scene - CBGB
  • Sunday night booked by a band
• Patti Smith Group
  • Horses
    • "Gloria"
• Television
  • Marquee Moon
• Ramones
  • Ramones
    • "Blitzkreig Bop"
  • Not much commerical success
• Blondie
  • Parallel Lines
• The New York scence is still pretty unknown

UK Punk

• UK in financial trouble
• A culture expression that is part of the life of the young person
• Malcom MaLaren
  • Saw the New York Dolls, wanted to get involved, but too late
  • Renamed his shop to be SEX and sold fetish wear and leather clothing
  • Puts up Sex Pistols
• Sex Pistols
  • Famous for notorious punk behavior
  • No respect for any authority
  • Never Mind the Bullucks, Here's the Sex Pistols
    • "Anarchy in the UK"
    • "God Save the Queen"
  • Relatively short career
  • Set up the punk approach
• The Clash
  • Political protestors
  • The Clash
    • "White Riot"
  • London Calling
    • "Train in the Vain (Standing by Me)"
• The Buzzcocks
  • Another Musci in a Different Kitchen
• The Jam
  • This is the Modern World
  • All Mod Cons
• Women groups
  • Siouxsie and the Banshees
  • The X-Ray Spex
  • The Slits

American New Wave

• Take the punk form and the danger out of it
• Blondie
• Talking Heads
  • Talking Heads 77
    • "Psycho Killer"
  • More Songs About Building and Foods
    • "Take Me to the River"
• The Cars
  • The Cars
    • "My Best Friend's Girl"
    • "Just What I Needed"
• Tom Petty
  • "American Girl"
  • Damn the Torpedos
    • "Don't Do Me Like That"
• Devo
  • Q: Are We Not Men? A: We're Devo
    • "I Can't Get Enough Satisfaction"
• B-52s
  • B-52s
    • "Rock Lobster"
• The Knack
  • Get the Knack
    • "My Sharona"

British New Wave

• Elvis Costello
  • Appeared on Saturday Night Live; a lot of rock fans first saw new wave / punk from UK
  • My Aim Is True
  • This Year's Model
    • "Pump it Up"
    • "Radio Radio"
• The Police
  • Outlandos d'Amour
    • "Roxanne"
    • "Can't Stand Losing You"
• Use ironic references to the past
• Used to critique the present

Summary Week 1 - 3

• "The Hippie Aesthetic"
• Rejection of the hippie aesthetic - disco and punk

Week 4

The Rise of MTV

• Influenced by cabel TV industry
• The lack of promo videos
  • Put band on the tour instead of making a video
• Hard to convince labels to make video in U.S.
• Audience conceived by MTV
  • Middle class white young mid western people
• Michael Jackson
  • "Billie Jean"
    • MTV not willing to put the video
    • CBS insisted on it
    • Became popular
• Pros
  • Open up new opportunities to music a video
  • Music becomes a part of multimedia experience
• Cons
  • Too literal, restrict imagination
  • Too dependent on image and look, not enough on music

Michael Jackson and Madonna

• Shape the early MTV
• Michael Jackson
  • Off the Wall
    • "Rock with Me"
  • Thriller
    • "Billie Jean"
    • "Human Nature"
    • "Wanna be Starting Something"
    • "P.Y.T."
    • "The Girl is Mine"
    • "Beat It"
    • "Thriller"
      • Ambitious video
    • Reach across to white audience
  • Bad
    • "Man in the Mirror"
• Madonna
  • Madonna
    • "Holiday"
    • "Lucky Star"
  • Like a Virgin
    • "Material Girl"
    • "Angel"
    • "Dress You Up"
    • Performance at MTV Video Music Awards (1984)
      • Shock people, controversy
  • True Blue
  • Like a Prayer
  • Cast a long shadow on women
    • Women can take control of their career

Prince and Janet Jackson

• Prince
  • Prolifiric
  • Prince
    • "I Wanna be Your Love"
  • Dirty Mind
  • Controversary
  • 1999
    • "1999"
  • Purple Rain
    • "When Doves Cry"
    • "Let's Go Crazy"
    • "Purple Rain"
  • Other successful albums
• Janet Jackson
  • Janet Jackson
  • Dream Street
  • Control
    • Breaks with family, not under their management
    • "When I Think of You"
    • "Let's Wait Awhile"
    • "Control"
      • Open declaration of independence
    • "Nasty"
      • Break with teenage idol
  • Janet Jackson's Rhythem Nation 1814
  • Continuation of Madonna sexuality and rebellion

MTV Success Stories

• Duran Duran
• "Hungry Like a Wolf"
• Culture Club
  • "Do You Really Want to Hit Me"
• Eurythmics
  • "Sweet Dreams (Are Made of This)"
• Tears for Fears
  • Songs from the Big Chair
    • "Everybody Wants to Rule the World"
• All female artists, a lot of women participating in music
• The Go-Gos
  • Beauty and the Beat
    • "We Got the Beat"
• The Bangles
  • Different Light
    • "Manic Monday"
    • "Walk Like Egyptian"
• Cyndi Lauper
  • She's so Unusual
  • True Colors

New Traditionalists and New Wave

• Blend into the mainstream rock
• Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers
  • Hard Promises
  • Southern Accents
  • Full Moon Fever
    • "Free Fallin"
• Bruce Springsteen
  • The River
  • Born in the USA
• John Mellencamp
  • "I Need a Lover"
  • American Fool
    • "Hurts So Good"
    • "Jack and Diana"
• Dire Straits
  • "Sultans of Swing"
  • Brothers and Arms
    • "Money for Nothing"
• The Police
  • Synchronicity
    • "Every Breath You Take"
• U2
  • The Joshua Tree
    • "With or Without You"

New Acts Old Styles and Blue-Eyed Soul

• Based their sound on earlier styles
• AC/DC
  • Highway to Hell
  • Back in Black
• Huey Lewis and the News
  • "Hip to be Square"
  • "The Power of Love"
• Hall and Oates
  • "Sara Smile"
  • "Rich Girl"
  • Private Eyes
• George Michael
  • Make It Big
  • Faith
• Michael Bolton
  • "When a Man Loves a Woman"
  • Soul Provider

Dinosaurs Adapt and Thrive

• Lot of 70s Band continue to have success in 80s
• Genesis
  • Invisable Touch
• Phil Collisons
  • No Jacket Required
• Peter Gabriel
  • So
    • "Sledgehammer"
    • "Big Time"
• Mike and Mechanics
  • The Living Years
• Yes
  • 90125
    • "Owner of a Lonely Heart"
• Asia
  • Asia
    • "Heat of the Moment"
• Foreigner
  • Agent Provocateur
• Styx
  • Kilory Was Here
• Boston
  • Third Stage
• David Bowie
  • Let's Dance
• Billie Joe
  • An Innocent Man
• Paul MacCartney
  • Tug of War
• The Rolling Stones
  • Steel Wheels

Conclusion

• Do the visual challenge the music
• Extend hippie aesthetic
• Musicians enjoy longer period of success

Week 5

Heavy Metal Grows

• Prototypes
  • Iron Butterfly
  • Black Sabbath
  • Deep Purple
  • Led Zeppelin
  • Kiss / Alice Cooper
• The image of heavy metal
  • Working class
  • Headbangers
  • Unsophisticated
  • Both positive and negative
• New wave of british heavy metal
  • Guitar driven sound
  • Virtuosity
  • Heavy drum beats
• Black Sabbath
  • Heaven and Hell
  • Mob Rules
• Ozzy Osbourne
  • Blizzard of Ozz
  • Diary of a Mad Man
• Judas Priest
  • Hell Bent for Leather
  • British Steel
    • "Breaking the Law"
    • "Living after Midnight"
• Iron Maiden
  • Number of the Beast
• Def Leppard
  • High and Dry
  • Pyromania
    • "Photograph"
• MotorHead
  • Ace of Spades
• Los Angeles Metal
  • High screaming vocal
  • Big drum sound
  • Athethm kind vocal in chorus setting up for stadium
• Van Halen
  • 1984
  • 5150
    • "Why Can't This Be Love"
• Quite Riot
  • Metal Health
• Ratt
  • Out of the Cellar
• Mottey Crue
  • Shout at the Devil
  • Dr. Feelgood

Heavy Metal Hits Big Time

• Bon Jovi
  • not really conceived as heavy metal
  • Slippery When Wet
    • "You Give Love to a Bad Name"
    • "Living on a Prayer"
    • "Wanted Dead of Alive"
• Guns n' Roses
  • not really conceived as heavy metal
  • Appetite for Destruction
• L.A. Hair Bands
  • Dramatic dress up
  • Poison
    • Look What the Cat Dragged In
      • "Talk Dirty to Me"
    • Open up and Say ... Ahh
      • "Every Rose Has Its Thorn"

Heavy Metal Ambition

• Recapture hippie aesthetic
• Speed metal, thrash metal
• Metallica
  • Kill em All
  • Ride the Lighten
  • Master of Puppets
  • ... And Justice for All
    • Big Brak
    • "One"
• Megadeth
  • Killing is My Business and Business is Good
  • Peace Sells but Who's Buying
  • Countdown to Extinction
    • Commerial success
• Anthrax
  • Among the Living
• Slayer
  • Reign the Blood
• Virtuosity, long guitar solo

The Roots of Rap

• Hip hop culture
  • Rap music
  • Graffiti
  • Break dancing
  • Dress
• Early rap arises from neighbourhood parties
• Have roots from Jamaican music
• DJ Kool Herc
  • MC
  • Coke La Rock
  • Encourage young people to do a dancing which becomes break dancing
  • Tech innovation
    • Prolong break in between
• Grandmaster Flash
  • Punch phrasing
  • Scratching
• Afrika Bambaataa
  • Universal Zulu Nation
    • Unite people to stay away from bang activity
  • Come up with "Hip Hop"
• Still mostly live thing not a recording
• Sylvia Robinson
  • Micky & Sylvia
  • Heard people chanting to Chic's song "Good Time"
  • Decided to bring a record that will do this rapping
  • Sugar Hill Gang
    • "Rapper's Delight"
• Kurtis Blow
  • "The Breaks Part I"
• Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five
  • "The Message"
• These albums prove rap experience can be turned into vinyl

Rap Crosses Over

• Need to get to white to make money
• Russell Simmons and Rick Rubin
  • Def Jam Recordings
• LL Cool J
  • Radio
    • "I Can't Live Without My Radio"
  • Bigger and Deffer
    • "I Need Love"
• Run-DMC
  • Run-D.M.C.
    • "Rock Box"
  • King of Rock
  • Raising Hell
    • Breakthrough
    • Cover of "Walk This Way" with Aerosmith
• Beastie Boys
  • Licensed to Ill
    • "You Got Fight for the Right to Go to Party"

CNN for Black People

• Bad guys, more agressive
• "Gangsta Rap"
• Ice-T
  • "I'm Your Pusher"
• N.W.A.
  • Straight Outta Compton
  • EFIL4ZAGGIN
• Social and political critism
• Boggies Down Productions
  • Criminal Minded
• Public Enemy
  • It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back
    • "Don't Believe the Hype"
  • Fear of a Black Planet
    • "Fight the Power"
• Queen Latifah
  • All Hail the Queen
    • "Ladies First"
• MTV and Rap
  • Yo! MTV Rap debuts at August 1988
• Controversy over rap
  • Rock dislikes rap
    • Missing musicians like guitarist, bassist, drummer
    • Don't have the context to understand
      • Taking sound from machine has a long history

Punk Goes Hardcore

• Developed out of Sex Pistols and Ramoes
  • Loud, DIY styles
  • Underground
• Los Angeles
• The discontented youth scene
• Fear
  • "New York's Alright If You Like Saxophones" on SNL, cut the show in half
  • Anti authority
• Black Flag
  • Have own label SST
  • Nervous Breakdown
  • Damaged
• Minuteman
  • The Punch Line
• Washington, D.C.
• More intellectual debate oriented
• Alcohol, drug free life style
• Bad Brains
  • Bad Brains
• Ian Mackaye
  • Teen Idles
  • Minor Threats
• Twin Cities
• More accessible, less angry
• The Replacements
  • Signed to label Twin/Tone
  • Hootenanny
    • "Color Me Impressed"
• Husker Du
  • Zen Arcade
• Bring indie hardcore sub culture into public view
• Both featured on MTV show 120 minutes
  • Dedicated to indie

Indie Rock Underground

• College rock
  • Only received in college
  • Less restrictions
• R.E.M.
  • Document
    • "The One I Love"
  • Green
    • "Stand"
  • Out of Time
    • "Losing My Religion"
    • "Shiny Happy People"
• Dinosaur Jr.
  • Your Living All Over Me
  • Bug
  • Green Mind
• Pixies
  • Sufer Rosa
  • Doolittle
• Sonic Youth
  • Daydream Nation
  • Enigma
• The Smiths
  • From UK
  • The Smiths
    • "What Difference Does It Make"
  • Meat Is Murder
  • The Queen Is Dead

Week 6

The Rise of Alternative Rock

• Spurred by Nivana's Nevermind
• Developed out of indie, underground Punk scence
• Nirvana
  • Seattle "Grunge"
  • Bleach
  • Nevermind
    • "Smells Like Teen Spirit"
  • In Utero
• Pearl Jam
  • Ten
  • More metal influenced
  • Anti commercial
• Soundgarden
  • Superunknown
• Alice in Chains
  • Dirt
• Faith No More
  • The Real Thing
    • "Epic"
  • Angel Dust
• Red Hot Chili Peppers
  • Blood Sugar Sex Magik
    • "Under The Bridge"
    • "Give It Away"
• Stone Temple Pilots
  • Core
• Smashing Pumpkins
  • prog like influence
  • Siamese Dreams
  • Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness
• Live
  • Throwing Copper
• Creed
  • "With Arms Open Wide"
• Lifehouse
  • "Hanging By the House"
• Foo Fighters
• Weezer
  • "Buddy Holly"
• Green Day
  • Punk looking
  • Dookie
    • "When I Come Around"
• Pop punk
  • The Offspring
  • Blink 182
• Ska Revival
  • Sublime
  • The Mighty Mighty Bosstones
  • No Doubt
    • Tragic Kingdom
      • "Just a Girl"
      • "Don't Speak"
• Alternative rock has become one of the mainstream rock

Indie Rock

• More dedicated to not selling out, DIY
• Lo-Fi movement
• Label: Metador(New York)
• Pavement
  • Slanted and Enchanted
• Guided by Voices
  • Bee Thousand
• Elliot Smith
  • Roman Candle
• Label: Merge Records(Chapel Hills)
• Different styles
• Superchunk
  • No Pocky for Kitty
• Neutral Milk Hotel
  • In the Aeroplane over the Sea
• The Magnetic Fields
  • 69 Lone Songs
• Noise pop
• Yo La Tengo
  • Painful
  • I Can Hear the Heart Beating As One
    • "Moby Octopad"
• My Bloody Valentine
  • Loveless
    • "When You Sleep"
    • "Only Shallow"
• Alt-country
• Uncle Tupelo
  • No Depression
    • "Screen Door"
• Whiskytown
  • Faithless Street
• Beck
  • "Loser"
  • Mellow Gold
  • Odelay

Metal and Alternative Extensions

• Rap and rock fusion
• Rage Against the Machine
  • Rage Against the Machine
  • Evil Empire
• Korn
  • Signature 7 string guitar (bass string)
  • Life Is Peachy
  • Follow the Leader
• Limp Bizkit
  • 7 string, more screaming
  • Three Dollar Bill, You'all
  • Significant Other
• System of a Down
  • Heavy sound
  • System of a Down
  • Toxicity
• Kid Rock
  • Devil Without a Cause
• Industrial style
  • Blends electronic sources
  • Anti comformity
• Nine Inch Nails
  • The Downward Spiral
• Marilyn Manson
  • Ironic, offending to conservative people
  • Antichrist Superstar
  • Mechanical Animals

Hip Hop in the 1990s

• Developed into many sub styles
• Development of digital sampling technologies
• Death Row Records
• Dr. Dre
  • The Chronic
• Snoop Doggy Dogg
  • 'Nuthin' But a 'G' Thang
• Bad Boy Records
• The Notorious B.I.G.
  • Life After Death
• Wu-Tang Clan
  • Enter the Wu-Tang(36 Chambers)
  • Wu Tang Forever
• Eminem
  • The Slim Shady LP
  • The Marshall Mathers LP
• Beastie Boys
  • Hello Nasty
• De La Soul
  • Art Official Interlligence: Mosaic Thump
• Fugees
  • The Score
    • "Killing Me Softly"
• Lauryn Hill
  • The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill
    • "Doo Wop (That Thing)"

Classic Rock

• Transformed to CD
• Try to talk to customers to rebuy records on CD
• Radio Consulting
  • Only pick tracks that people will listen to
  • Give people image of rock in history
• Rockumentaries
  • MTV, VH1
  • Popup Video
  • Behind the Music
  • Legends
  • PBS
  • Time-Line
  • Beatles Anthology
• Rock and Roll Hall of Fame
• Experience Music Project
• The Beatles
  • "Free as a Bird"
  • "Real Love"
• Rolling Stones
  • Voodoo Lounge
• Eric Clapton
  • Unplugged
    • "Tears in the Heaven"
• Peter Gabriel
  • Us
• Santana
  • Supernature
    • "Smooth"
• Sting
  • Ten Summoner's Tales
• Bruce Springsteen
  • Greatest Hits
• U2
  • Zooropa

New Rock Traditions

• Embrace tradition but upgrade them
• Jam bands
  • HORDE - groups together do a tour
• Dave Matthews Band
• Britpop
• Oasis
  • Very Beatles influenced
  • Definitely Maybe
  • (What's the Story) Morning Glory?
• Radiohead
  • Pink Floyd influenced
  • OK Computer
• Rock is still pop
• Sheryl Crow
  • Tuesday Night Music Club
    • "All I Want to Do"
    • "Strong Enough"
• Hootie and the Blowfish
  • Cracked Rear View
    • "Hold My Hand"
    • "Let Her Cry"
    • "Only Want to be With You"
• Counting Crows
  • August and Everything After
• The Wallflowers
  • Bringing Down the Horses
    • "One Headlight"
• Matchbox Twenty
  • You Or Someone Like You
    • "Push"
    • "3 AM"
• Third Eye Blind
  • "Semi-Charmed Life"
  • "How is it Going to Be"

Female Singer-Songwriters

• Tori Amos
  • Little Earthquakes
    • "Crusify"
  • Under the Pink
  • Boys for Pele
• The Indigo Girls
  • "Closer to Fine"
  • Swamp Ophelia
• Sarah McLachlan
  • Fumbling Towards Ecstasy
  • Surfacing
    • "Adia"
    • "Angel"
  • Lilith Fair
    • Create scene around femail singer-songwriters
• Jewel
  • Pieces of You
    • "You Were Meant for Me"
• Alanis Morissette
  • Jagged Little Pill
    • "You Ought to Know"
    • "Ironic"
• Indie Scene
• Liz Phair
  • Exile in Guyville
  • Whip-Smart
• Ani DiFranco
  • Release on own label
  • Not a Pretty Gril
  • Little Plastic Castle
• Sleater-Kinney
  • Riot grrrl movement
  • Call the Doctors
  • Dig Me Out

Teen Idols

• Artists to appeal to teen audience especially girls
• Boyz II Man
  • Ealier styles of rythme blues
  • Cooleyhighharmony
  • "End of the Road"
• Boy bands
• Backstreet Boys
  • Backstreet Boys
    • "As Long As You Love Me"
  • Millennium
• 'N Sync
  • *NSYNC
  • No Strings Attached
• Girl Band
• Spice Girls
  • "Spicemania"
  • "Wannabe"
  • Spice
  • Spice World
    • "Spice Up Your Life"
• Britney Spears
  • Baby One More Time
  • Oops ... I Did It Again
• Christina Aguilera
  • Christna Aguilera
    • "Genie in a Bottle"
    • "What A Girl Wants"

Electronic Dancing Music

• Techno
• Falls on DJ
• Larry Levan
  • "Garage Styles"
• Frankie knuckles
  • "House Style"
• Belleville Three
• UK scene
• Moby, Orbital, Prodigy
• Come back to US
• The Chemical Brothers
  • Dig Your Own Head
• The Prodigy
  • Fat of the Land
• Moby
  • Play