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Here are some great things from the 60s (a poorly understood decade, especially as far as the music went):
Zombies Tell Her No and She's Not There
We Five You Were On My Mind
Cyrkle Red Rubber Ball and Turn Down Day
(They look like such young Republicans with their short hair)
Spiral Starecase I Love You More Today Than Yesterday
Chris Montez The More I See You and Call Me
(I love the debutante dancer chicks in the second clip)
Left Banke Walk Away Renee
The Grass Roots Midnight Confession
Here's an excellent illustration of how apparent the utter exhaustion of popular music had become by the late 60s. When Diana Ross and The Supremes sings one of their Motown songs, they were provocatively brilliant. But once they launch into a medley of older popular songs, they lose credibility and get very Las Vegas.
I'm something of a Pre-Raphaelite when it comes to 60s music and would have to draw the curtain at St Pepper's: much as I admire and enjoy later things, there was a corrosive effect on rock and roll that led down some lonely paths, indeed, sometime around 1967, when "rock and roll" turned into just "rock". That doesn't mean that all at once the "music died", but it went into a coma (for me).
It didn't really emerge until punk rock jolted all those stoners with their eight-minute drum solos off the stage and the simplicity and energy came back. The groups called post-Punk cleaned the vomit off the stage left by the nihilistic punkers and and people started dancing again, and in much the same fashion as they had in the early-mid 60s.
Acts like Lene Lovich, for instance, covered 60s pop to good effect, adding a layer of irony, of course:
I Think We're Alone Now and The Night
I'll take Patti Smith's worst over Jim Morrison's best any day, but I understand that that's a fairly unpopular opinion.
Because The Night
Frederick
Dancing Barefoot (shitty video, great audio)
If you listen to these clips, you'll see what I mean by revised energy and borrowed sources:
13th Floor Elevators You're Gonna Miss Me
X Johnny Hit and Run Pauline and Los Angeles (extra bonus: Nausea)
Zombies Tell Her No and She's Not There
We Five You Were On My Mind
Cyrkle Red Rubber Ball and Turn Down Day
(They look like such young Republicans with their short hair)
Spiral Starecase I Love You More Today Than Yesterday
Chris Montez The More I See You and Call Me
(I love the debutante dancer chicks in the second clip)
Left Banke Walk Away Renee
The Grass Roots Midnight Confession
Here's an excellent illustration of how apparent the utter exhaustion of popular music had become by the late 60s. When Diana Ross and The Supremes sings one of their Motown songs, they were provocatively brilliant. But once they launch into a medley of older popular songs, they lose credibility and get very Las Vegas.
I'm something of a Pre-Raphaelite when it comes to 60s music and would have to draw the curtain at St Pepper's: much as I admire and enjoy later things, there was a corrosive effect on rock and roll that led down some lonely paths, indeed, sometime around 1967, when "rock and roll" turned into just "rock". That doesn't mean that all at once the "music died", but it went into a coma (for me).
It didn't really emerge until punk rock jolted all those stoners with their eight-minute drum solos off the stage and the simplicity and energy came back. The groups called post-Punk cleaned the vomit off the stage left by the nihilistic punkers and and people started dancing again, and in much the same fashion as they had in the early-mid 60s.
Acts like Lene Lovich, for instance, covered 60s pop to good effect, adding a layer of irony, of course:
I Think We're Alone Now and The Night
I'll take Patti Smith's worst over Jim Morrison's best any day, but I understand that that's a fairly unpopular opinion.
Because The Night
Frederick
Dancing Barefoot (shitty video, great audio)
If you listen to these clips, you'll see what I mean by revised energy and borrowed sources:
13th Floor Elevators You're Gonna Miss Me
X Johnny Hit and Run Pauline and Los Angeles (extra bonus: Nausea)
