60's Rock
Trying to break down Rock by decade doesn't really work. The Beatles hit the scene in the early 60's so there are some bands I always thought of as 50's Rock and Roll that were really 60's bands but I always put them with bobbi socks and Elvis. So rather than 50's Rock and 60's rock it should be before the Beatles and after the Beatles. Another natural division is Punk/New Wave which began making an impact on popular music in the mid to late 70's. However there is no clear dividing line between Punk and Rock like there was before the British invasion and after. Grunge was probably the last form of rock music that "spoke for a generation". I know that most Grunge followers cringe whenever someone says something like that but Nirvana was probably the last Rock group I can think of that reached the same level of Rock Star Fame.
Anyway.
Here's the discography for the 60's CD's I purchased for the collection. Get out your Tie Dye, lava lamps and light up that incense.
Animals:Retrospective. One of the primary British Invasion bands, the animals were almost as important in creating rock as the Beatles and the Rolling Stones. Don't miss House of the Rising Sun.
Beatles:White Album, Let it be, Magical Mystery Tour, Help, Sgt.Peppers lonely Hearts club Band, Revolver, Abbey Road, and With the Beatles. They were the most important Rock band. They changed Rock & Roll and kept changing Rock as long as they were together.
Byrds: Mr. Tambourine Man, Turn Turn Turn, Younger than yesterday. From 67 to 70 produced some of the most fresh and innovative music. Surpassed only by the Beatles in creativity.
Cream: Fresh Cream, Disraeli Gears. A British band that along with Jimi Hendrix created Hard Rock.
Creedence Clearwater Revival: Chronicle (1&2), Bayou Country, Willy and the Poor Boys, and Cosmo's Factory. West Coast San Francisco Band that was America's top band.
Doors: Doors, Strange Days. Early California Rock band, Jim Morrison is one of the 60's premier icons. Riders of the Storm and Light My Fire have become Rock standards.
Grateful Dead: Workingmans Dead. The Original San Francisco Acid Rock Band.
Jimi Hendrix Experience: Axis: Bold as Love, Electric Ladyland, and Are you Experienced. One of Rock Music's most influential musicians, he brought electric guitar playing to new heights.
Jefferson Airplane: Surrealistic Pillow. 60's San Francisco Folk/Rock Band, Surrealistic Pillow is one of the major albums that define the West coast sound.
Janis Joplin: Pearl. Made Famous at the Monterey Pop Festival she was another of the tragic 60's Icons.
Kinks: The Kinks are the Village Green Preservation Society and Ultimate Collection. Part of the British Invasion, they were a simple powerful band that inspired the Punk movement in the 70's.
Rolling Stones: Aftermath, Begger's Banquet, and Singles Collection-the London ABKCO Records. After the Beatles the Rolling Stones were the single most important Rock Band.
Simon & Garfunkel: Parsley Sage Rosmary and Thyme. Highly successful folk duo with four gold records, Sounds of Silence, Mrs. Robinson, Bridge over Troubled Waters, and Celia.
Who:Tommy, Who's Next, The Who: The ultimate Collection. A major British Invasion band and one of the early bad boys of rock. The Rock opera, Tommy, has since become a movie and a musical stage play.
Anyway.
Here's the discography for the 60's CD's I purchased for the collection. Get out your Tie Dye, lava lamps and light up that incense.
Animals:Retrospective. One of the primary British Invasion bands, the animals were almost as important in creating rock as the Beatles and the Rolling Stones. Don't miss House of the Rising Sun.
Beatles:White Album, Let it be, Magical Mystery Tour, Help, Sgt.Peppers lonely Hearts club Band, Revolver, Abbey Road, and With the Beatles. They were the most important Rock band. They changed Rock & Roll and kept changing Rock as long as they were together.
Byrds: Mr. Tambourine Man, Turn Turn Turn, Younger than yesterday. From 67 to 70 produced some of the most fresh and innovative music. Surpassed only by the Beatles in creativity.
Cream: Fresh Cream, Disraeli Gears. A British band that along with Jimi Hendrix created Hard Rock.
Creedence Clearwater Revival: Chronicle (1&2), Bayou Country, Willy and the Poor Boys, and Cosmo's Factory. West Coast San Francisco Band that was America's top band.
Doors: Doors, Strange Days. Early California Rock band, Jim Morrison is one of the 60's premier icons. Riders of the Storm and Light My Fire have become Rock standards.
Grateful Dead: Workingmans Dead. The Original San Francisco Acid Rock Band.
Jimi Hendrix Experience: Axis: Bold as Love, Electric Ladyland, and Are you Experienced. One of Rock Music's most influential musicians, he brought electric guitar playing to new heights.
Jefferson Airplane: Surrealistic Pillow. 60's San Francisco Folk/Rock Band, Surrealistic Pillow is one of the major albums that define the West coast sound.
Janis Joplin: Pearl. Made Famous at the Monterey Pop Festival she was another of the tragic 60's Icons.
Kinks: The Kinks are the Village Green Preservation Society and Ultimate Collection. Part of the British Invasion, they were a simple powerful band that inspired the Punk movement in the 70's.
Rolling Stones: Aftermath, Begger's Banquet, and Singles Collection-the London ABKCO Records. After the Beatles the Rolling Stones were the single most important Rock Band.
Simon & Garfunkel: Parsley Sage Rosmary and Thyme. Highly successful folk duo with four gold records, Sounds of Silence, Mrs. Robinson, Bridge over Troubled Waters, and Celia.
Who:Tommy, Who's Next, The Who: The ultimate Collection. A major British Invasion band and one of the early bad boys of rock. The Rock opera, Tommy, has since become a movie and a musical stage play.
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