Let's Rock

[lovecraft68]

If Iron Maiden took on Abba
This is funny, but also....damn good.

 

[Comshaw]

What? No Skynard yet? Well let's just take care of that.

More Queen. Never enough Queen.

JJ. One of the icons of my generation. Talent, pure and unfettered.

I wouldn't classify this as rock, but I do love the song and the artist. He was with us for way too short of a time.

Comshaw

 

[pink_silk_glove]

Whole album rocks but if you check out track 11 "Joker Express" has a line that I'm sure would excite a lot of people around here.

You think you're so bad you should own your own personal army
but you know your Daddeh's gonna spank yer nekkid bee-hind!

 

[Rustyoznail]

After nearly 50 years, this still stands as a great rock song. This video was done the same day as the more famous back of the truck version, and I wonder if any of the audience standing around realised where the band was heading.

AC/DC -It's a long way to the top

 

[SimonDoom]

After nearly 50 years, this still stands as a great rock song. This video was done the same day as the more famous back of the truck version, and I wonder if any of the audience standing around realised where the band was heading.

AC/DC -It's a long way to the top

It holds up well. Very high energy song and Scott's vocal is great. 3d time it's been posted in this thread! I posted it earlier.

 

[Rustyoznail]

It holds up well. Very high energy song and Scott's vocal is great. 3d time it's been posted in this thread! I posted it earlier.

Damn. And I did a search... Shows how popular they are, and how poor my searching abilities are.

 

[SimonDoom]

Damn. And I did a search... Shows how popular they are, and how poor my searching abilities are.

It's OK. Yours is a different performance of the song.

Watching all these great old videos makes me wonder: what happened to rock? There's no equivalent to AC/DC today. There are rock bands, but they don't have the same stature or sales that they used to.

 

[cadeauxxx]

It's cold and therefore time to break out this gem by the Stones.

 

[Plathfan]

 

[cadeauxxx]

3 months from now will mark 9 years since David Bowie's passing. The hardest celebrity death I ever went through. He was more than a hero. Someone who convinced me that art had more power to change the world than religion or politics. He left us with so many great albums and work that will stand the test of time.

Lately I've been digging into his 2003 album Reality. It was supposed to be his final work before he got inspired again while dealing with cancer.

Reality is a pretty good album where it sounds like Bowie was having fun at the time.

This song jams.

 

[pink_silk_glove]

This song jams.

That's a Jonathan Richman cover. Seen him perform if live a few times.

 

[cadeauxxx]

That's a Jonathan Richman cover. Seen him perform if live a few times.

I think it was the last cover Bowie did. Many of the Reality songs sounded better live IMO.

 

[gunhilltrain]

Was I ever fourteen?

 

[Comshaw]

A WTF moment for me when I finally figured out the lyrics to this one from the Stones:

The juxtaposition of the soul-gripping beat and the dark message is so confusing that most never understood what the song was about.

And last but by no means least, not rock but such musical ear candy I couldn't pass it up:

Comshaw

 

[Comshaw]

All of these were from my 18th year on the planet. Starting with Steppenwolf

Big Brother and the holding company with a fabulous JJ

And you can't have a late sixties list without a war protest song. Personally, I think this is the best of the lot.

Comshaw

 

[gunhilltrain]

A WTF moment for me when I finally figured out the lyrics to this one from the Stones:


The juxtaposition of the soul-gripping beat and the dark message is so confusing that most never understood what the song was about.

Comshaw

So the album was recorded between 23 February and 2 November 1969. Yes, I remember that time well; I entered high school in that September.

So what does it mean to you? It obviously is referring to Vietnam in places.

see the fire is sweepin'
Our very street today
Burns like a red coal carpet
Mad bull lost your way.

Is that about urban riots? Did they slip the Manson Family in there too?

 

[MadeleineSinha]

 

[MadeleineSinha]

 

[MadeleineSinha]

Some Caro Emerald

 

[gunhilltrain]

Somebody on here liked Ministry a while back. This is their cover of a Golden Earring song.

 

[cadeauxxx]

Somebody on here liked Ministry a while back. This is their cover of a Golden Earring song.

Jesus built my car. It's a love affair. Mainly Jesus and my hot rod.

 

[gunhilltrain]

Jesus built my car. It's a love affair. Mainly Jesus and my hot rod.

I wonder what Lit category that would fit into?

 

[XerXesXu]

 

[Comshaw]

So the album was recorded between 23 February and 2 November 1969. Yes, I remember that time well; I entered high school in that September.

So what does it mean to you? It obviously is referring to Vietnam in places.

see the fire is sweepin'
Our very street today
Burns like a red coal carpet
Mad bull lost your way.

Is that about urban riots? Did they slip the Manson Family in there too?

I don't think it had much to do with Vietnam specifically. It was war in general. The other thing is the Stones were from England and a lot closer to the Middle East. So while the Vietnam conflict so completely engulfed the thoughts of our nation (because we were hip-deep in it) the conflicts going on in the middle East were on British minds because it was so close to them. Add that to the fact that their parents had survived the bombings and V rocket attacks of WWII which I'm sure was passed on to their children in fits and starts and the passing down of history. I didn't have time to think about it much back then (mainly because I was hip-deep in it and was thinking of only one thing...okay maybe two with sex being the first.), but in retrospect, I believe that a lot of people felt the whole god damn world was at war, again.

Comshaw

 

[cadeauxxx]

I wonder what Lit category that would fit into?

We're just gonna call it Psalm 69