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ROCK AND ROLL! => All Them Other Guys => Topic started by: KiloDeltaCharlie on September 26, 2024, 05:26:29 PM
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Ok folks!
Let's go for another Top 10 rundown.
This time post you favourite short songs, indeed, anything over 3:00 minutes in length is not allowed.
I'm not ready to start posting my picks just yet, but let that not stop you starting yours list!
BTW Instrumentals are ok to include!
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Whispering Bells by The Del-Vikings
I play this at the start of my radio show every week because my mom played it at the start of the show when she was doing it because it's the best Rock and Roll song ever done. OK, so that's my mom and me doing the list, but it's true when the radio show is on. :smug:
The late 50s/early 60s were a gold mine of songs clocking in close to 2:30, and this one's an excellent example of the period. I have loved this song all my life, and it never, ever, EVER gets old.
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Number 10:
Yep. The Ramones kicked off 1976 with this neckbreaker of a song:
Whispering Bells (which is a great tune) caused me to bounce in an equal and opposite direction musically for this pick :)
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Well alright! This is going to require some research as it's hard to remember if a song clocks over 3 minutes or not...most of metal's short songs still tend to be over 3 minutes...and what makes it even more difficult is the 2 second gap between songs...some cds count that to the song's over all length and some do not...so a song that might be 2:59 actually comes up as 3:01 on the cd! So this will be quite the fun little task of detective work! :)
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^ Charger's post made me think of Mötorhead, and then that got me to lookin' at their catalog... and then I found a giant of a song, popular through the ages!
THE TRAIN KEPT A-ROLLIN'
Starts off in 1951 with Tiny Bradshaw doing a jump blues proto-rock number:
We recognize the words, but the music seems a bit laid-back. No worries, the rockabilly Johnny Burnette will get ahold of it and make it much more frantic:
That's the one that slams! 1956 getting dangerously close to heavy metal there... and then the song jumped the pond, so to speak, and got picked up by The Yardbirds:
The scene is longer than 3 mins, but the song itself is 2:57... the band used different lyrics to avoid lawsuit in the film, but kept Burnette's manic riff. Great scene from the film, Page and Beck playing on stage until Beck gets pissed off at his guitar...
That tune where there's a coda got Aerosmith inspired to do their version that starts off slow and then goes manic, but that's over 3 mins, so not featuring it here.
But no worries, Mötorhead fixed it up nice and proper, because THEY PLAYED ROCK AND ROLL!!!
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I'm gonna start with a really short one.
#10
BLACK SABBATH - EMBRYO
This is just a 30 second piece but it just touches my soul. This has to be my favourite of all Iommi instrumental shorts. It's just short and sweet. The melody is catchy as hell and works perfectly as an intro to the heavy piece that is Children Of The Grave.
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I'm gonna start with a really short one.
#10
BLACK SABBATH - EMBRYO
This is just a 30 second piece but it just touches my soul. This has to be my favourite of all Iommi instrumental shorts. It's just short and sweet. The melody is catchy as hell and works perfectly as an intro to the heavy piece that is Children Of The Grave.
Good call, it *is* a nice little tune!
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My word you lot have been busy!
My first pick (not ranked!)
Rush - Malignant Narcissism
A short instrumental off the Snakes and Arrows album.
This one passed me bye at first, parlty because it was one of their weaker albums. But I've given all the later albums a good listen to in recent years and this track has struck home.
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Had not heard that Rush tune before - it's damn good!
No. 9.
1969 reaches out from the past offers up Communication Breakdown from Led Zeppelin's debut long player. I've never been a big fan of their stuff, but do enjoy a few songs, this being one of them.
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That was on my radar, it might have made my list but I can choose something else now!
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That was on my radar, it might have made my list but I can choose something else now!
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All of my remaining picks actually turned out to be non instrumentals although I do belive few other good instrumentals are out there...
My number 9 is
ALICE COOPER - UNDER MY WHEELS
There were few options from Alice to fill this slot...I'm Eighteen (which may or may not be under the 3 minute mark), Is It My Body and so on but I think this is one of those Alice classics that needs a shout out here!
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Good one, for sure. And that made me think of "Witch for a Night" by Sugar Pie DeSanto, an awesome heavy tune from the 60s...
She shreds the microphone and the swell pedal on that organ does its job perfectly. It's not metal, no, but it's a heavy tune and it rocks hard as anything from that day.
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..."Witch for a Night" by Sugar Pie DeSanto, an awesome heavy tune from the 60s...
One of the best parts of these "top 10" threads is that I always come away with a few I hadn't discovered yet. So far, this thread has given me two, both excellent to my ears.
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The who: Iron Maiden
The when: February, 1981
The where: London, United Kingdom
The what: Wrathchild
The why: I did not hear, nor was I aware of, the Metal for Muthas compilation until sometime in the late 1980s, maybe early 1990s. Therefore, my introduction to Wrathchild was sometime in the fall of 1981 while listening to Iron Maiden's new LP Killers on my stereo. I immediately liked it, feeling that it stood out even among the collection of excellent metal it was part of. Up the irons, indeed!
No. 8
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No video there
But WrathChild nearly made it to my list as well but I went with another Maiden track tba ;)
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Found a different video and replaced the other one, hopefully that one does the job.
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I forgot about Wrathchild! But I had remembered their other short song, but was leaving that to Charger anyway!
Pick No. 9
The Stranglers - Tank
The first track on their Black and White album from 1978. They don't often do short tracks, but this album had a bunch of them. I toyed with going with Hey! Rise of the Robots but that's a little quirky!
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Pick No. 8
Jello Biafra with NoMeansNo - Ride the Flume
Jello Biafra, once of The Dead Kennedys and subsequently involved with a mixture of projects. Hooked up with the band NoMeansNo for the album The Sky Is Falling and I Want My Mommy. It's a mixed bag but has some good stuff on it including this little ditty about riding a log down a water coarse!
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Oooh I really like that Tank track! Need to +1 KDC's awesomeness for that. It's got a strong Hawkwind vibe to it.
And then there's the whole Subgenius vibe with the Jello Biafra album cover. Nice. :smug: Totally not surprised to see plenty of punk and power pop making the lists.
Speaking of power pop, this one's from an expert in the field, Todd Rundgren and his Utopia project, this one "Take It Home":
100% music to wear a skinny tie to.
And if you wants your punk rock with a Mötorhead twist, there's always The Stripp with Ain't No Crime (To Rock and Roll):
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I shall listen to the tracks when I have the time...now I just came in to post mine...
NUMBER 8 we have
YEAH YEAH YEAHs - HONEYBEAR
YYYs have a few short tracks on their first album but Show Your Bones is the one I dig more and this song is just rockin' little tune...starts off soft and then blasts out!
Fun lyrics as well.
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No 7 finds the King telling his jailhouse story for two minutes and twenty-eight seconds.
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Choice No. 7
Iced Earth - Seven Headed Whore
Technically this is 3.00 dead on the CD, but the YT video ends at 2:59 so I'm going to include it anyway! Another of my favourites from Incorruptible their last and I guess final album.
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That's a pretty rocking tune! I think I really need to get that album!
My # 7 is going to be some SLAYER!
Slayer has quite a few songs that could have made it on the list...Threshold from God Hates Us All, Hate Worldwide from World Painted Blood, Sex Murder Art from Divine Intervention but in the end the struggle was between Reborn and this one...
And Jesus Saves wins clearly because they managed to fit a whole lot of stuff in just 2 minutes and 55 seconds! There's a clear intro the ultra fast verses with solos and bit lower tempo choruses...This is thrash metal right here people!
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No 7 finds the King telling his jailhouse story for two minutes and twenty-eight seconds.
Fun fact, that was a hit this week in 1957 along with Little Richard's Keep A-Knockin'.
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I enjoyed the Yeah Yeah Yeahs there so +1 awesome for Charger on that count!
I'm going to 1966 for my next pick, a great soul tune by The Capitols, Cool Jerk:
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My 6th pick
Siouxsie & The Banshees - Mirage
From their debut album Scream, 2:48, quite commercial for them.
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You jumped one! ;D
My # 6 MOTÖRHEAD!
Motörhead would have several to fit this topic! In fact a shit ton of songs to choose from...but I though I'd go with RUNAROUND MAN because...well...I just fuckin' LOVE it! The shotgun vocals and the killer riff with the fast drumming this song just screams fast rocker in every single note!
Not the most complex song but doesn't need to be...this is in your face rock 'n roll at it's absolute finest!
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No. 6
The tune that introduced the world to The Clash, back in 1977...
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@Charger
Right choice... wrong number!
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2:59 ooooh they get under the wire with a second to spare!
Rainbow - Do You Close Your Eyes
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^ Just wanna say it is not easy finding a sub-3:00 song in the progressive 70s.
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That Rainbow song is just NOT one I would have chosen, the weakest song on the album IMO.
Option 5
The Cure - Jumping Someone Else's Train
The album track is 2:55, the video is only 2:49 (I think it might be the London to Brighton line)! Quite possibly my favourite song by the Cure, a song criticising people who try to take credit for new fads and fashions they had nothing to do with.
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^ Just wanna say it is not easy finding a sub-3:00 song in the progressive 70s.
I know what you mean, but Yes had several on "Fragile", and Emerson, Lake and Palmer had 3 sub 3-minute tracks on Brain Salad Surgery, I toyed with "Still... You Turn Me On" for this list, but it just missed the 10.
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I purposely left out Rainbow as well as I also think Do You Close Your Eyes is indeed the weakest track on the album and couldn't bring myself to put it on the list...or any list for that matter...
At Number 5 comes the obligatory MELANIE C song!
This starts out as pretty simple basic piano song BUT it grows a bit and has a great feel and the melody is sublime! The solo part is actually bit rocky and jazzy at the same time!
SUDDENLY MONDAY this one!
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No. 5
Link Wray's Rumble. You can just feel the subversion oozing out of that song. The way he overdrove his tube amps is a simple and direct call to action for the youth to go smoke some devil's cabbage, perhaps participate in fisticuffs, and engage in pre-marital sex. With the opposite gender, because that homo stuff is too far out there for the pearl-clutchers to even consider.
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I stand by my inclusion of "Do You Close Your Eyes", as even if it's the weakest track on Rainbow Rising, it's still a great rocker. :smug:
Mel C's song is great fun, nice bit of sunshine for the day.
Link Wray's song is Debbul Moozik! I think it's the only instrumental to ever have been banned for the lyrical content it didn't have. And, yes, it was banned, good and hard.
Of reference would be The Ventures' "2000 lb Bee" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qCsryLIIzAA which was one of the first tunes to feature guitar pedal effects, a fuzz pedal in this case. But that's not my entry for the day, just a reference.
My entry for the day is...
"Testify" by The Parliaments
Song is 2:50, the uploader padded 13 seconds I'm not responsible for. :D
Motown didn't want songs written by George Clinton, so he went and recorded them with his own group and made his own way with this tune setting the stage for his musical explorations to come.
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Now we're starting to the to the cream of the crop here...
At #4 we have some Judas Priest Style Heavy Metal
Early priest would have had a few songs that might have made it to the list, Running Wild, Hell Bent For Leather for example...but I think this is the one that needs to be mentioned here. This kind of defines a heavy metal classic and also contains surprisingly lot of song for just under 3 minutes!
It's
THE RIPPER!
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Came across this one in my musical perusings this morning and it's a banger from The Stripp with them doing cameos as Bono, Lemmy, Rob Halford, Amy Winehouse, Meatloaf, AC/DC, Guns 'n' Roses, The Ramones, KISS, Elvis, and Def Leppard. Dude! :yes:
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As a one-off listen I suppose The Stripp were ok, but man I'd get tired of that quickly!
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My choice is not for the easily offended. It's post-punk, crude yet funny...
Pick No. 4
The Macc Lads - Do You Love Me
From their debut album Beer and Sex and Chips 'n' Gravy this is 2:21 of vaguely acceptable offence!
Looking at the 5 albums the band put out, they only actually have 6-7 songs which are OVER 3-minutes in length, and none manage to make it to 4-minutes.
I chose this one because it's rather good, it's maybe less offensive than most, but is very witty and self depricating!
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^ An ever so faint reference to The Contours' "Do You Love Me" in their chorus. Reference: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l3zJZ2d4cis
My next submission is The Boys' reworking of The Hollywood Brats' "Tumble With Me":
Glam trash gone new wave punk, love it. :smug:
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Good stuff! Have never heard anything from The Boys, and it has been a long time since I caught a tune from The Macc Lads.
And The Ripper - you stole that shit right out from my number three slot, Charger lol
But, for now, here's No. 4:
The Balloon Farm and their late 1967 hit single, "A Question of Temperature". A one-hit wonder in the truest sense of the term, nothing else those guys produced came close to the right mix of musical ingredients the way they did with this song.
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And The Ripper - you stole that shit right out from my number three slot, Charger lol
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Up and onwards!
Only thing left is the TOP 3
And at third place we have
I've talked about Savage Master before! They are really great, in your face occult themed heavy rock. And this track from their SUBERB Mask Of The Devil album is the opening track and it ticks all the boxes a great opening track needs to!
BLOOD ON THE ROSE this one!
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I had several that didn't make the list by a hair's breadth, so coming up with a new number 3 was easy-peasy.
In 2018 Judas Priest released Firepower, their 18th long-player, to universal acclaim. Both fans and critics hailed it as the best JP album in years...the music for sure lives up to the implications of the album's title. Truth in advertising for once!
The second song on the second side of the second disk is, "No Surrender":
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I'll catch up on those 2 later...
Pick 3 for me is...
The Jam - Town Called Malice
Probably their last good song before they split in 1983 (I think!), this is their biggest selling song (2x platinum or about 1.2 million).
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Louis Jordan - Fat Sam From Birmingham
Just before Rock and Roll hit the big time, there was Louis Jordan cookin' up tasty jump blues, this one from 1953. The syncopated drumbeat definitely puts it in the category of early Rock and Roll and the lively, good-humored lyric makes it one of my favorite brassy early rock tunes.
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And then it's time for #2!
And surprise surprise we have BLAZE BAYLEY!
This was pretty much a battle of two songs....this one from his very first album Silicon Messiah or Immortal One from part 3 of the Infinite Entanglement Trilogy, The Redemption Of William Black...but I went with this one because...well it's just a cracking little tune about being an astronaut!
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Blaze Bayley always looks like he is having the best time when he is singing. Just exudes an aura or something.
For my number two pick, I bring you "Burned Beyond Recognition," by Rollins Band.
Released in 1987, this is the opening track on the album Lifetime, and is further testament that Henry exudes his own kind of aura...
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KISS: Rock and Roll All Nite
One of the best rock and roll songs, ever. Gets straight to the point and has a chorus that has become iconic. :guitar: :metal1: :drummer: :abbath:
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It's still Kiss :-X
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Pick No. 2
Therapy? - Screamager
From their Troublegum album of the early 90s the song Screamager is pretty typical, short, uptempo, simple and punky.
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I stayed away from Sabbath, and I stayed away from Motorhead. Motorhead was tough.
I have songs from both nocked for the number one slot.
It was a three-way. A "menage-a-trois" of music, if you will allow me the disjointed application of terminology.
But the song that immediately came to mind when Kilo recommended this list topic. A song that is under-heard by a band that is under-appreciated.
My No 1, clocking in at just under three minutes, I present, all the way from 1971, "Do It," by The Pink Faeries.
"It's Rock and Roll, and the message is - Do It!"
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Pick No. 1
The Damned - You're Gonna Realise
Note, the video is about 35 seconds longer than the song, as the first 25 seconds and the last 10 seconds are not part of the track!
This is a short song off their most recent album Darkadelic, it's a simple track which might be a little throw away but I really like it and wish it was much longer than its 2:36
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Punk, punk, punk, and now MOAR PUNK!
Death - Keep on Knocking
Lord, I love this song. Totally underplayed underrated and underappreciated like all the best punk ever done.
And I got a bonus track, it's on the strange side - sort of a pioneer of songs, one could say. Not many people dared to discuss homosexuality openly, let alone with tones of acceptance in music in 1974, but Funkadelic went and did it and this is the result:
Catchy tune, that! :smug:
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And my favourite under 3 minute song is
IRON MAIDEN - FUTUREAL!!!
Maiden I believe only have two songs that are under 3 minutes...this one and Wrathchild (not counting the intro instrumental Ides Of March)...but the winner here was quite clear.
This is fast and furious and a great opening track! It's about a life of a gamer and was quite poignant when it came out...and still is today.
Brilliant brilliant little track! And this is something that Maiden simply doesn't know how to make anymore...a fast, heavy rocker....
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I had never heard that Maiden song before. But, in my defense, there is very little Maiden I have heard after Seventh Son. And you're right, it's a fine catchy tune!
The Damned - had not heard "You're Gonna Realise" either. Was not expecting to like it, the last Damned I listed to at length was their mid-nineties release and I kind of let them go after that. In fact, didn't even realize Cpt. Sensible was still at it lol. I like the track!
And...had not heard that song from Death. Jeez, I apparently don't listen to music :) Another good track!
The space-funk song I have heard before - although I didn't recognize it. I don't have that record, but heard it at a friend's house way back in time. Once. :)
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Didn't number mine so I got one more... Chuck Berry's "Back in the USA"
Original version:
On a recent trip to St. Louis, we went to a corner cafe where the hamburgers sizzled on an open grill night and day. I was glad I was livin' in the USA that day, for sure.
Then the MC5 got their protopunk version out:
Souped-up with a bigger, louder engine, but still delivering the thrills like the original. When I come home from an international flight, this version is my anthem.
And, like any great little Rock and Roll song, Lemmy gave it a play:
OK, so he messes up the lyrics a little, but hey man, that's Rock and Roll! :rockon:
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I had never heard that Maiden song before. But, in my defense, there is very little Maiden I have heard after Seventh Son. And you're right, it's a fine catchy tune!
You are missing out on some great music there...however I can also understand...and some of their later albums have been rather poor.
That was NOT the kind of music I was expecting from a band called Death! But seems that there were two bands named Death... :D
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Shall we move on to the 10+ minute songs?
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I initially though 10-15 minutes but if you want just a 10+ I'm happy to go with that.
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Well I don't mind...there aren't that many +15 minute songs that would even be in the consideration for me... Voyage Of The Homeless Sapien, The Garden and 2112 are the only ones that come to mind actually...not counting live stuff ofcourse.
So 10-15 minutes is just fine by me.
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15 minute cap will keep me from suggesting T**** as a B****, so I'm all for it! :D