I'm thinking and I could be wrong, others would know better and the nuances that for a time: American records were better, and engineers had more experience with, and could capture a pop orchestra better than, a rock rhythm section.
Location: a mile east of Token Creek. I feel like he's in the room with me. Recording tape? Better microphones? Engineers who really knew what they were doing? I kind of don't want to know because it would spoil the magic for me.
I don't think what they accomplished that day will ever be surpassed. BeSteVenn , Jan 22, Blimpboy and Bevok like this. Location: Millarville, Alberta. Today, everything is a bit of a compressed mess with no definition.
The clarity you heard in those 50s recordings is not being emulated today, unfortunately. Perhaps you meant that the recording is so immediate that it sounds like the band is in your living room, or something like that? Chemguy , Jan 22, Kingsley Fats likes this. Dave Bartholomew, the New Orleans trumpeter, bandleader, songwriter and record producer, whose musicians powered most of the hits by Fats Domino and Little Richard. Sam Phillips was as significant for his ingenious engineering, his feel for echo and ambience, as for his talent spotting and genre mixing.
What could be more outrageous, more threatening to the social and sexual order subsumed by the ingenuous phrase traditional American values , than a full-tilt Little Richard show? There he was, camping it up androgynously one minute, then ripping off his clothes to display for a packed house of screaming teenage white girls his finely muscled black body. At the same time a combination of economic forces and the gradual takeover of record-distribution networks by major labels made running a small label more and more difficult.
The indie labels that had launched the music and sustained it during the two or three years when it ravaged the land either caved in to the pressure and quietly wound down their operations, like Sun and Specialty, or diversified and became corporate giants themselves, like Atlantic.
The army and Colonel Parker conspired to make Elvis safe. Chuck Berry was busted and spent time in jail. Little Richard quit at the peak of his powers to preach the gospel. Jerry Lee Lewis married his barely pubescent cousin and was blackballed. Holly, Valens and the Big Bopper went down in an Iowa field.
Viewed with hindsight, the whole affair turns out to have been the cultural vanguard of a movement toward racial, social and sexual equality that was then only beginning to assume an explicitly political form. Not only has it proved more than a passing fad or an episode of youthful folly, it has provided the model, the template, the jumping-off point for virtually every subsequent wave of pop-music innovation.
Newswire Powered by. Close the menu. Rolling Stone. Log In. The words were about the local teenage culture. The group sang about riding surfboards on the ocean waves. The words became as important as the music.
Bob Dylan began writing folk rock songs that many young people considered to be poetry. Dylan was influenced by folk singers and songwriters like Woody Guthrie. Dylan's early songs were about serious social issues. He wrote about war and racial injustice. Some of his songs were used as protest songs for the anti-war and civil rights movements in America. Later, Dylan wrote more personal songs. The Beatles were very popular.
They completely shaped the sixties pop era along with the Rolling Stones. They were icons, and still to this day could be considered icons. Reggae 2. The shift from rocksteady to reggae was illustrated by the organ shuffle pioneered by Jamaican musicians like Jackie Mittooand Winston Wright.
The Wailers, a band started by Bob Marley, Peter Tosh and Bunny Wailer in , is perhaps the most recognized band that made the transition through all three stages of early Jamaican popular music: ska, rocksteady and reggae. Though the film achieved cult status its limited appeal meant that it had a smaller impact than Eric Clapton's cover of Bob Marley's "I Shot the Sheriff" which made it onto the playlists of mainstream rock and pop radio stations worldwide.
One of the most easily recognizable elements is offbeat rhythms; staccato chords played by a guitar or piano or both on the offbeats of the measure, often referred to as the skank. This rhythmic pattern accents the second and fourth beats in each bar and combines with the drum's emphasis on beat three to create a unique sense of phrasing.
The reggae offbeat can be counted so that it falls between each count as an "and" example: 1 and 2 and 3 and 4 and etc. This is in contrast to the way most other popular genres focus on beat one, the "downbeat". In the s, rock music bands such as Led Zeppelin, Aerosmith and the Rolling Stones played huge, loud concerts in outdoor stadiums.
Rock music from the s was usually louder and harder than the rock and roll from the s. In the early s, many rock bands played psychedelic rock, a type of rock music which had words that described the use of legal drugs.
Psychedelic rock described the experiences of taking illegal drugs such as marijuana and LSD and often encouraged people to take illegal drugs. Progressive rock Another type of rock music from the s was progressive rock. Some progressive rock bands used strange instruments, or created music that sounded weird.
Disco In the late s, groups such as Donna Summer, K. Disco was dance music with a strong beat. Punk rock Another rock music style from the s was punk rock. Punk rock was crude, loud, simple music. Many punk rock songs were rude or used bad words. Punk rock musicians often dressed in ripped or torn clothes, leather jackets, and black leather boots.
Punk rock musicians sometimes had strange hairstyles, such as hair "spiked" with hair gel or shaved off. New wave In the late s, another type of rock called New wave music became popular. These bands used the synthesizer keyboard a lot in their songs. Hip hop uses a style of singing called rapping. Rapping is a style of singing in which a singer chants or says words with a rhythm and rhymes. The lyrics of hip hop songs are often about the life of urban people in the big cities. Some hip hop song lyrics words are about gangs, violence, and illegal drugs.
Hip hop music also uses musical styles from pop music such as disco and reggae. The rap and hip hop music industry has become one of the most successful music genres. Hip hop as a culture involves the music as well as a style of dressing called "urban" clothes baggy pants, Timberland leather work boots, and oversize shirts ; a dancing style called breakdancing or "B-Boying"; and graffiti, a street art in which people paint pictures or words on walls.
In the s, hip hop music and hip hop culture are very popular in the United States and Canada. Hip hop musicians usually use nicknames. Rap Rapping is a form of singing. It's a mix between singing and talking. The words are spoken with rhythm and in the text there are rhymes. The beat in the background is a simple loop that is sometimes made by the rapper themself or sometimes copied from a sample CD. The simple loop carries out through the entire song usually, except for the chorus.
It developed in the ethnic minority urban city areas, as an American form of Jamaican "toasting" chanting and rhyming with a microphone. When rappers began to use violent language and gestures, it became a very popular music genre for gangsters.
This kind of music was called "gangsta rap". Gangsta rap often has lyrics which are about guns, drug dealing and life as a thug on the street. This genre of music was very popular from the s on and is still produced today.
Rap is produced in almost every nation of the world. Glam metal rock bands mixed pop music with heavy metal music.
Glam metal rock bands had long hair and the men wore make up and leather pants and boots. Many glam metal songs were about sex, illegal drug use, and drinking alcohol.
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