[Music] Your greatest Rock and Roll vocal ever.

[Mancgull]

A lot of metal or heavy rock comes from rock n roll roots. It is difficult to define where one starts and the other stops. Rock n Roll itself came from Blues roots and how do you define Blues? Technically it could be classified as the predominant use of the Blues scale. Music evolves and then a new genre is created. Eg Pantera with ‘Groove Metal’. Anyway this is going off topic.

 

[Herr Tubthumper]

Pigeonholing music is impossible, and futile.

Were the Clash new wave, rock, punk, pop, all or none of the above? WHO CARES?

I kind of understand where you’re coming from but, and it’s a big but, genres play a huge part in music. I recently pondered the difference between shoegaze and post-rock....the level of detail and nerdism I discovered from a few Google searches on this subject was both astonishing and wonderful....and at times very academic. Which was the first heavy metal band is a great discussion. First punk band? There’s plenty more.

Long live genres.

 

[WATFORD zero]

Rock as in 'raaaakh' vocal? Hmm....I'll try to stay on topic...but there is so much, so many shiny things...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1tWNZUfS5uM

Roger Chapman always reminded me of a goat getting castrated. In a good way, obviously

 

[Surf's Up]

Thread seems to be in danger of morphing into an arcane debate about the meaning of rock and roll and when is rock and roll not rock and roll - lets keep it simple.....
https://youtu.be/h90cfSZ65sg

 

[METALMICKY]

Difficult to pin down particular songs but happy to name my Top 5 vocalists.

Bruce Dickinson
Ronnie James Dio
Chester Bennington
Dolores O'riordan
Nat King Cole

 

[Harry Wilson's tackle]

I liked that. One of the most listenable clips you have posted! But after all, John Cale is a bit of a genius.

Seen him do it live, twice, once at Brighton Poly (with Chris Spedding on guitar) around 1975, and ten years later in Vancouver

 

[Robinjakarta]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4b-by5e4saI

 

[Robinjakarta]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r7kIK8jRYOQ

 

[Robinjakarta]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hqyd6koQr_I

 

[jakarta]

I kind of understand where you’re coming from but, and it’s a big but, genres play a huge part in music. I recently pondered the difference between shoegaze and post-rock....the level of detail and nerdism I discovered from a few Google searches on this subject was both astonishing and wonderful....and at times very academic. Which was the first heavy metal band is a great discussion. First punk band? There’s plenty more.

Long live genres.

First Heavy Metal Band - photo finish between Jimi Hendrix Experience & Cream in 1967?

First Punk Band - the MC5?

And which genre does the Bonzo Dog Doo Dah Band come into?

Any excuse to post a track with Sir Kenneth Clarke and General de Gaulle on it...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hcrUuCDFLOQ

 

[AK74]

Noddy Holder:

 

[Herr Tubthumper]

First Heavy Metal Band - photo finish between Jimi Hendrix Experience & Cream in 1967?

Fans of Black Sabbath might say different! But this is my point, without genres boring musos like us would have far less to discuss

 

[Harry Wilson's tackle]

Fans of Black Sabbath might say different! But this is my point, without genres boring musos like us would have far less to discuss

Indeed. Hendrix and Cream were heavy blues rock.

I saw Handsome Dick Manatoba down the Top Rank. MC5 were not a punk band. The first punk rock as we know it was The Ramones.

The NYD and Heartbreakers were glam rock. Early garage bands were sometimes called 'punks' (way back to the 60s, Rokie Erikson, Love...) but the music is very different from Ramones.

Personally, despite Anarchy in the UK, the Pistols weren't really a typical punk band (musically). Until Stuart the DJ cermonially smashed his copy (and it was worth a fair bit) one night, the Hungry Years regularly played Anarchy in the UK in late 76 and early 77. Steve Jones was a fantastic guitarist and invented the one octave lower bass sound (he played bass on the album). After the Ramones, the Brits melded MacLaren's 'fashion' with their own stuff.

Johnny Moped was proper punk. He sounds nothing like the Pistols or Ramones:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LdKoBplMLaI

So, for me, the first punk rock record, as I felt it at the time, and still feel it now, every time I hear it, was English (or course - **** the Americans) and it was this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TUxFQ5QBiYk

What a song. What a performance.

First Heavy metal? These lovelies. They predate Black Sabbath's first album by a year. Heavy metal began as a non blues, messy, dirgy, riffy, English racket. Listen to this and weep

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DHIQkfp0s68

This album was going for £500 20 years ago. Only £200 now owing to things like youtube. Obviously I have a copy

 

[jakarta]

Fans of Black Sabbath might say different! But this is my point, without genres boring musos like us would have far less to discuss

First Sabbath Album was 1970 so a bit late on the scene, as you say who really cares?

By the way the Pink Fairies were probably the link between heavy metal and punk - Up the Pinks!

 

[Worried Man Blues]

David Coverdale Stormbringer..........wonderful

https://youtu.be/iHUn7D2_UBY

 

[zefarelly]

Favourite lyricist for me is Ian Dury. one of the best backing bands as well in the blockheads. First few albums are masterpieces.

 

[Boroseagull]

Another vote for CCR and John Fogerty, the man who 'wrote' his pension with this song. Still performing along with his family and some of his remakes published on Youtube this year are worth a listen.

https://youtu.be/JDvAQl2sKU4

 

[Deportivo Seagull]

Rob Tyner - MC5. kick out the Jams


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[seagully]

When Andrew Wood, lead singer of Mother Love Bone, died of an overdose in 1990 his friend Chris Cornell (him wot was in Soundgarden) put together a one album supergroup called Temple of the Dog featuring the future members of Pearl Jam.

It's an incredible album. The opener features an amazing, heartbreaking vocal from Cornell essentially saying goodbye to his friend. Unbelievable.

One of my all time favourites

 

[zefarelly]

Rob Tyner - MC5. kick out the Jams


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I still struggle to comprehend this happened . . . .

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phun_City