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ROCK AND ROLL! => All Them Other Guys => Topic started by: Billy Underdog on February 15, 2018, 03:09:50 PM
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This is THE best Norwegian band EVER. Didn't pay enough attention to get the first newly released 1000 pressings of a new vinyl with till now unknown recordings from Swedish radio from '72, but hoping the one online shop i found is right that there'll come a second pressing.
Could've posted loads of tunes from them, but will stick with one for now. Inspired by Beatles (obviously), Stones, Sabbath, Purple, The Band, Jethro Tull and a bunch of others...
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For you, Dozy. Their first single:
Second song: "Come join us to Copenhagen, there you'll probably get 200 grams. Come join us to Copenhagen on morphine, shit (hash) and acid, come join us"
It's an anti drugs tune, though, but still got banned from Norwegian radio for even mentioning it.
Hey, Vyn, remind me: was it you who ended up buying some Hoola Bandoola Band vinyls after i posted some tunes on BSO?
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This is THE best Norwegian band EVER. Didn't pay enough attention to get the first newly released 1000 pressings of a new vinyl with till now unknown recordings from Swedish radio from '72, but hoping the one online shop i found is right that there'll come a second pressing.
Could've posted loads of tunes from them, but will stick with one for now. Inspired by Beatles (obviously), Stones, Sabbath, Purple, The Band, Jethro Tull and a bunch of others...
Really groovy stuff, maaaaaan... lots of the rock from the Continent never made it to the USA during the seventies. Heck, there was a lot of "underground" rock from England that didn't break out of obscurity over here, stuff like Budgie and Atomic Rooster and all.
These guys have that Jethro Tull thing going in this track, but I bet a DJ heard the Norveejun accent and thought, "Pass". Damn shame, rock should be independent of language or pronunciation.
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That's right, a Polish band in 1973 doing a cover of "Smoke on the Water." Why? Deep Purple records were banned, but "official" bands could record the songs that all the kids wanted to hear in that Communist regime.
It's obvious the band did not have access to a lyrics sheet and were trying to sing what they heard. A fun twist in this tune is the horn section, 23 years before DP added one for their concerts at the Paris Olympia.
The guitar solo... yes, it skips some notes. Actually, a lot of notes. But, as we know from "Amadeus", too many notes is a bad thing, so thank you, Mr. Polish guitarist. 8)
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Cool they're starting with keyboards, and the drummer is impressive, but... meh... I'll rather listen to the original.
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Damn shame, rock should be independent of language or pronunciation.
Absolutely. They were supposed to get a shot at international release, though, but Polydor went with stablemates Popol Vuh (not the German kraut-rock band, hence:/Popol Ace, but shortly after their vocalist Jahn Teigen (zero point in Eurovision Song Contest) went on to audition for Genesis after Peter Gabriel left, but instead opted for a solo career. So no gain for anyone...
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Cool they're starting with keyboards, and the drummer is impressive, but... meh... I'll rather listen to the original.
I agree about the original. This one is of socio-historical interest, in a sort of Material Dialectical way.
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Speaking of guys that took off to solo careers that went nowhere, that reminded be of Tomas Barta of Locomotiv GT... great guitarist, defected from Hungary at the end of their US tour, and then wound up as another dime-a-dozen guitarist in the USA, eventually dying of a drug overdose.
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Can't say enough good things about this band. They're the real damn deal. I've cleaned out all their releases on Bandcamp, and I want more than just the 12 songs they've got up there. They're all gems, but this one has glittered most for me:
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Skorpio... great heavy rock combo from Hungary, 1972-1980 their best years.
This one's edited down by two minutes from the original song, but it's Hungarian TV from the Communist era, so it's interesting as a historical document.
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Hey, Vyn, remind me: was it you who ended up buying some Hoola Bandoola Band vinyls after i posted some tunes on BSO?
Yep, that was me. Excellent tunes and I was able to get minty first pressings.
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Yep, that was me. Excellent tunes and I was able to get minty first pressings.
Did you ever get translations to the highly leftist lyrics then? :D C:-)
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A few more Prudence tunes. One of the lead singers have had two of his biggest hits from songs he've written to his newborn children, once in the band and once solo. This is ofcourse the one with the band...
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They finally got the Norwegian "grammy" Spellemansprisen for their fourth album (first sung in Norwegian), finally getting recognition two months after they had broken up. And they were forced to wear suit jackets to be "proper" on television, much to their horror.
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Last one. Today... :think:
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Did you ever get translations to the highly leftist lyrics then? :D C:-)
I did indeed. Researched the band and its members, the whole shebang.
Unrelated, there is a raccoon staring at me through my back door as I type this.
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I did indeed. Researched the band and its members, the whole shebang.
Unrelated, there is a raccoon staring at me through my back door as I type this.
Give him my best regards
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Last one O:-)
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Quiz:
Which other band have a SG playing lead guitarist who also started out on accordion?
Doing both in a band is more a hassle, though. "Should this song have a guitar solo or accordion..?"
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Quiz:
Which other band have a SG playing lead guitarist who also started out on accordion?
Doing both in a band is more a hassle, though. "Should this song have a guitar solo or accordion..?"
Most Tejano bands with that situation usually use Fender guitars, so it's not one of them.
But I think I know. :smug: I'm assuming this guitarist played with the fingers that were *left*. :)
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Most Tejano bands with that situation usually use Fender guitars, so it's not one of them.
But I think I know. :smug: I'm assuming this guitarist played with the fingers that were *left*. :)
You're not far off, but he did actually play a white Strat once... ;)
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Prudence of the day isn't Prudence, but Ruphus.
Started out as prog/blues, went into jazz-fusion.
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Most Tejano bands with that situation usually use Fender guitars, so it's not one of them.
But I think I know. :smug: I'm assuming this guitarist played with the fingers that were *left*. :)
You're not far off, but he did actually play a white Strat once... ;)
That's what I thought. I'm liking the Ruphus stuff, BTW...
I'mma post another Skorpio, now...
This one has a very strong DP Mk3 feel to it with that Hammond steaming along. Love this track.
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To complete the Hungarian Rock top trio, I gotta post something from Omega...
"Gyöngyhajú lány", music written by Gabor Presser, who later split to go to Locomotiv GT. Scorpions did a version of it called "White Dove" and Kanye sampled it in "New Slaves", which got him a lawsuit from Mr. Presser... also used in the game "This War of Mine". Pretty little song, I think, although it's sort of the "Listen to the Flower People" phase of the otherwise hard-rocking Omega.
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Speaking of guys that took off to solo careers that went nowhere, that reminded be of Tomas Barta of Locomotiv GT... great guitarist, defected from Hungary at the end of their US tour, and then wound up as another dime-a-dozen guitarist in the USA, eventually dying of a drug overdose.
And the winner of this thread is Tomas Barta! I love this video, right up there with Ram Jam's "Black Betty". Thanks for sharing!
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This is THE best Norwegian band EVER. Didn't pay enough attention to get the first newly released 1000 pressings of a new vinyl with till now unknown recordings from Swedish radio from '72, but hoping the one online shop i found is right that there'll come a second pressing.
Could've posted loads of tunes from them, but will stick with one for now. Inspired by Beatles (obviously), Stones, Sabbath, Purple, The Band, Jethro Tull and a bunch of others...
Nice, thank you!
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Another great band from behind the Iron Curtain... Puhdys! My favorite album of theirs is Perlenfischer and my favorite song from that album is "Wilde Jahre". I really like how it sort of combines UFO, Scorpions, and Allman Brothers in its sound.
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Here's a great doom metal band from Finland I bet most people never heard of...they only did 2 albums in the late 90s here's an awesome track from the first one:
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Billy's wannabe girl friend here?
Not bad actually...she's got a lovely voice.
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Billy's wannabe girl friend here?
:think:
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More Prudence:
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More Norwegian 70's
Met the lead guitarist/flautist before the show when i saw them a couple of years ago, ended up talking to him for half an hour about music in general, guitars (ofcourse), their albums so on, and he brought my vinyl cover backstage so i got it signed by 5 out of 6 original members. Nice evening out :)
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That was some cool, fun stuff, Billy! :thankyou:
Now for some lads on the other side of the world... Argentina's Riff:
They have a NWOBHM sound because the guitarist, Pappo, had spent some time in England, heard those bands, and thought, "Hey! I gotta bring that stuff back home to Argentina!"
The band, Riff, got into trouble with the government for protesting stuff like military dictatorships, which isn't what military dictatorships want their citizens to do.
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Yesterdays Norwegian 70's:
Saft. This band got together as the backing band for the first Norwegian staging of the musical Hair (wonder why), and found their common proggish interest there, but as many others they followed the trail into the connections between North/Western European Folk and American Folk, Country and Rock.
(don't really like Beatles covers..)
Banned in Norwegian radio and BBC because of that one word...
A love song centered around the smell of barnyards.
Them playing with revered folk musician Sigbjørn Osa caused a big uproar. "Mixing Rock with Culture? WYF?!!!"
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Popol Vuh: probably the biggest of the lot, as they were basically a blueprint of Genesis. Which is why the vocalist got invited to audition for them after Gabriel left. But; as good as Genesis are, they're boring. And a boring copy of a boring band... :think:
I've seen all bands i've posted here live the last years (with more to come), exept these and Prudence. These have done some without me really caring, Prudence just don't wanna do it... (please come out an play for me...)
Anyway, their most atypical tune, the "hit". (Jahn Teigen doing flowers as a mic 12-13 yrs before Morresey on Top Of The Pops)
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More Prudence:
Both good tunes, but the one starts at 2.05
They did a couple of tunes some years ago for a special occation. Notice the original bass player who had to quit before their fourth and last album because he got his fingers chopped off in a sawmill accident, still fully capable to do his shit with the fingers he've got left.
And Vocalist/Flautist Per Erik "Prikken" Wallum having died in 1990, they'brought in his son and daughter to do his respective oarts. It's cinda scary how similar the two looks and sound (son, vocalvize). Stian & Kine Wallum.
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Todays 70's Norwegain is really 60's, as you can hear from the clear Procol Harum wannabe. After having a hit with this in '67 they split in '69 and got back together in '74 to do their first album and got a hit with it again. Was at one time voted Norways alltime top pop-song.
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More Prudence:
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I love this! Mashup of "Easy (Like a Sunday Morning)" and "Rock and Roll All Night"
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6VEcAXzEERg
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nxRXI0xR6wo
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Vårsøg (searching for springtime) was a poem written by Hans Hyldbakk in april '45, spring being a metaphor for the awaited liberation.
The song was written in the late 60's by renowned all-round keyboard musician Henning Sommerro, then in a progish pop-band named after the poem itself.
The melody is so beautiful itself i want to post a newer, stringbased version first:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-yxaOP1ckjw
The original is a bit corny, esp. the rythm in the chorus, but just listen to the beautiful words... Edit: It's an isolated north-western dialect that migh be a bit difficult to understand. There's some words even i've got problems with.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xu9t5ii0yJk
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The original is a bit corny, esp. the rythm in the chorus, but just listen to the beautiful words... Edit: It's an isolated north-western dialect that migh be a bit difficult to understand. There's even some words i've got problems with.
Edit edit: It's in friggin' Norwegian, so I have no clue what he's saying. :lol:
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zVf7SG1-DGg
Love this track...
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The original is a bit corny, esp. the rythm in the chorus, but just listen to the beautiful words... Edit: It's an isolated north-western dialect that migh be a bit difficult to understand. There's even some words i've got problems with.
Edit edit: It's in friggin' Norwegian, so I have no clue what he's saying. :lol:
It's World Music...:rofl:
Time to learn, the world would be a much better place if everyone spoke Norwegian. :)
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Norwegian certainly is the most comical of the Scandinavian languages...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=diCdDIgoOwQ
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Norwegian certainly is the most comical of the Scandinavian languages...
Really? I think it sounds pretty normal, as opposed to Swedes who sound like it's a language made up for Donald Duck, or Danes who sound like they've got a potato stuck down their throath...
You don't think you listening to a comedy rock band could have something to do with it? :)
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The fact that the Norwegians *have* comedy rock bands is your first clue. :smug:
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Back to stuff you really gotta check out...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IlkaxyYDBI8
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The fact that the Norwegians *have* comedy rock bands is your first clue. :smug:
Damn, i served this as a comeback right to you, and... Nothing?
Really? I think it sounds pretty normal
Getting a bit Dozzzzzzzy, are we? :)
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This is about music, not Norway!
Here's the band Lou Gramm was with before he got picked up to sing for Foreigner... it's marginally above average, but the third track had a nice rock beat to it and the second track sounded like it was used as some lyrical source material for later work with Foreigner.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LpIxaRMJTRE
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^^^ Made me think of this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HYInwCz5yl8
Billy Squier before he went solo.
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Awesome find again, Axe!
Here's one that's pretty good from the cut-out bin at YouTube... sort of a West Coast MC5...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wDAegepb5RA
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^^^ There sure were a lot of heavy bands coming out around 1970:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eWYZW49_3m8
I think the genre was called "Acid Rock" back then, wasn't it?
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^^^ There sure were a lot of heavy bands coming out around 1970
One could almost think it was some kinda trend... :P
I think the genre was called "Acid Rock" back then, wasn't it?
I've seen that being used, but also Progressive Rock, which it is according to the words meaning, before it became the defined genre we know today.
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One could almost think it was some kinda trend... :P
A trend that would have occurred, even without the existence of Sabbath perhaps?
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One could almost think it was some kinda trend... :P
A trend that would have occurred, even without the existence of Sabbath perhaps?
I think so. Other terms for the style include "heavy rock" and "underground rock". Black Sabbath truly was head and shoulders above a lot of the bands running around at the time. There's a lot of obscure stuff from the early 70s, and most of it was average quality. Competent playing, but nothing that makes people sit up and go, "whoa."
"Helter Skelter" got my attention. So did "Paranoid", "Speed King", and "Whole Lotta Love".
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^^^ There sure were a lot of heavy bands coming out around 1970:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eWYZW49_3m8
I think the genre was called "Acid Rock" back then, wasn't it?
This one's also got the track that Deep Purple swiped and re-wrote as "Fireball".
:evillaugh:
EDIT: To be fair, that track itself rips off parts of "Speed King" and "Flight of the Rat", so maybe fair's fair...
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One could almost think it was some kinda trend... :P
A trend that would have occurred, even without the existence of Sabbath perhaps?
I'd think so too. On one side there was already Zeppelin and Purple soon to come, on the other side you had King Crimson. Not to mention all the "proto-metal" stuff. But Sabbath did ofcourse take it to a new level.
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I'd think so too. On one side there was already Zeppelin and Purple soon to come, on the other side you had King Crimson. Not to mention all the "proto-metal" stuff. But Sabbath did of course take it to a new level.
The Riffs! While most of those "Acid Rock" bands have the typical distorted guitars, menacing drums and wailing vocals, more times then not, the riffs are either not very memorable or non existent. Lot of cool stuff out there, but definitely not on the the level of "Whole Lotta Love", "Iron Man" or "Smoke On The Water", not even close!
I guess that's why bands like this never got a foothold and just kind of faded away:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MeJ5_q2pQHI
Or these guys:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fGa4C7R7ZBM
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Lots of that fuzz swirling around out there in the early 70s, like Cactus:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d_y_m0mImGw
There's a lot of competent musicianship, but I think what separates competence from brilliance is the ability for a band to play a song that makes a listener not just say, "Hey man, that's pretty good. You guys jam." but to get that listener to sit up, pay attention, and realize that... whoa... that was AWESOME, DUDE!
There's what just about any good musician can do, and then there's what only the greats are able to do.
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^^^ Absolutely awesome tune!
I love this one too:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nU5uDozoSSM
That raw production just makes it sound so heavy!
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^ That music can go in almost any heavy direction... doom, metal, stoner... but it's 100% heavy rock there, my friends.
Here's something that got the punks a-thinkin'...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UHNTGkG-YXM
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I recently found this album. I good mix of rock,metal,industrial weirdness. I bought it because Mr. Mike Patton was on the first track, but the rest of the album is pretty damn good!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B5ZtNScPrBk
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One of the few great bands from Denmark
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UY0g_SJjA6Q
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^^^ A cool tune I've never heard before! Cheers Billy.
Here's a quirky little tune by Mashmakhan:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lQKweA-FI_M
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A couple from Québécois Michel Pagliaro:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3JtmGo8rfAo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lsqv_ooI0uI
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...and a 70's Canadian band from out west:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MqdffSH6GWc
All these tunes I've posted make me think of many a Sunday afternoon, spent as a kid listening to Psychedelic Psunday on Q107 (FM radio station in Toronto).
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These were all very fun, thanks for the shares! My turn now...
Here's Enrique Guzman with the hit he had with Los Teen Tops, a reworking of Little Richard's "Lucille" titled, "La Plaga" (The Plague).
This is a later version, with Guzman as a solo artist and shows instrumentation updated after The Beatles made their mark on the scene. Guzman is a great singer and his daughter, Alejandra Guzman, is a force of nature all her own.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Om74tc48bUc
¡Rock con mas ñ! jajajajajajajajaja
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Good Golly Miss Molly! What's he singing? I've got the La Plaga? Awesome voice.
A later version:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wc_g7X7KvJg
Here's what I get when I run it through the translator:
There comes the plague, I like to dance / There comes the plague, I like to dance / And when I'm rock'and rolleando / I'm the queen of the place
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^ The translation's pretty much what the lyrics are... The music is like a plague that makes everybody dance. Back then, that was a grown-up's nightmare, all their kids turning into rock and roll zombies!
Here's another from Los Teen Tops, a direct translation of "Jailhouse Rock":
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nesyGNZjNCE
Love that voice, what a performer!
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^ The translation's pretty much what the lyrics are... The music is like a plague that makes everybody dance. Back then, that was a grown-up's nightmare, all their kids turning into rock and roll zombies!
That makes a lot more sense in that context, Cheers!!
^^^ Speaking of versiones españolas:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1jQ6wkK_Vtc
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Here's Alejandra Guzman (Enrique's daughter) belting out one of her signature tunes:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ap0h7KFsMIg
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^ The translation's pretty much what the lyrics are... The music is like a plague that makes everybody dance. Back then, that was a grown-up's nightmare, all their kids turning into rock and roll zombies!
That makes a lot more sense in that context, Cheers!!
^^^ Speaking of versiones españolas:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1jQ6wkK_Vtc
Total lolzorz, I wasn't familiar with that song, but I *was* familiar with this one:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VFyoOmhm5Jo
Don't ask me why I'm more familiar with a Chilean children's show more than David Lee Roth's solo material. I just am.
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https://youtu.be/j382J8ioCx0
Even though the spanish sounds kinda clunky in a rock song, You'd think there'd be a big market for spanish versions, considering how many people in the world speak the language (even in the USA!). Maybe spanish speaking people aren't into rock and metal as much?
Here's the only cool spanish (Actually from Spain) rock band that I know of (Although they sing in English):
https://youtu.be/-Gl6vieh_O8
They cover Sabbath quite a lot as well.
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Aw, dude, if you want Rock en español, just ask... I'll start a thread on it! :smug:
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Underrated band IMO
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CX5wVvPel2k
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Talk about fuzz:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b3Pu-gN9ydY
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Yeah, that second Grand Funk album really let Mel Schacher do his thang. Very very fuzzy stuff, that one.
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https://youtu.be/kXuypU4qjj8
Really odd footage of Pink Floyd miming a Syd Barrett era tune with Gilmour on guitar and Roger miming Syd's vocals.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2-DhlrMqKNk
Also posting in the Dee Snider thread, because awesome and emotional.
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^^^ :doh: I was going to say : rofl : and point out how comic and tasteless that was until the pic of the kid popped up, then it just became tasteless in a VERY bad way...
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^^^ :doh: I was going to say : rofl : and point out how comic and tasteless that was until the pic of the kid popped up, then it just became tasteless in a VERY bad way...
You must not be American. I loved it.
NOTE TO TYPHON: See? Billy and I are different!
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^^^ :doh: I was going to say : rofl : and point out how comic and tasteless that was until the pic of the kid popped up, then it just became tasteless in a VERY bad way...
You must not be American. I loved it.
Exactly! ;)
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This song just changed my life
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TpiskeEO5JU
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I thought I heard some Mike Patton in there... checked the Wiki, and I was right.
Reminded me of the soundtrack to the film "Mongol", which has some great numbers in it by Altan Urag:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jcDYB691sM4
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And this one...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UnwU4nDim6Q
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MXnTbmPxv5g
Go for a soda!
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^^^^^^
Wow! I haven't heard that song in 30 years. :)
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Yeah, I loved that song and a few years ago I finally snagged it and now it's a regular go-to for me. I think it was his only single in the USA to be a hit.
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Here's another great old one, I think this was on the first episode of The Young Ones:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ExM1vP-rhH4
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^^^^^^
Never heard that before. Kind of catchy.
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^^^^^^
Never heard that before. Kind of catchy.
Definitely pegs the "New Mod" sound of around 1981, even down to the skinny ties and suits.
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Ha ha, never heard that before either, Cool! I'll bet you never heard this one:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sUEUJmR_WAE
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Island hopping, punk rock style! :yes:
Meanwhile, here's dropping off the radar, psychobilly style:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v4-D-lXlMy0
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Pretty hard to find this gem:
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^ May not be all that hard once it makes the rounds. Released 5 April 2024.
Now, *this* one is nice and rare...
Actually from 1974, and it sounds like a Kiss record. Except it's Rick James doing hard rock.
It's a fantastic track, one of my favorite little gems.
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Pretty cool track! But, Rick James was a real person, and that song currently has 9,300 views on the Youtube. In six years. Whereas the Sticky Sweethearts is a purely AI creation with a current view count of 2,100,000. In two weeks.
All of the possibilities that AI provides, and that song is what we (as human beings) are doing with it ;)
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I thought it was either AI or a band that had no clue about musical history. It was all over the road, stylistically, and the cover photo mixes and matches with a broad range of looks. Two-tone bands from the 50s would typically NOT pose with their instruments and were more likely to be vocal groups rather than a full band.
As for AI getting 2.1 million hits... [deep sigh]
In other news, I found the original of "Ain't Nothing But a House Party" by The Showstoppers from 1968. Fun to compare with the J. Giles Band version.
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The 1951 version of "Whole Lotta Rosie"
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EPIC GRAVEDIG
Bubble Puppy were a heavy rock combo out of Texas in the late 60s, and this track sounds very similar to stuff Deep Purple and Amboy Dukes and guys like them were laying down.
This song is their hit.
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Gun - "Race with the Devil"
British band featuring Adrian Gurvitz, who would later do work with Buddy Miles and Eddie Money. Jimi Hendrix picked up the riff from this track for his "Machine Gun" piece. Bands like Girlschool and Judas Priest did covers of this track.
Come to find out that Gurvitz now does a lot of work with Disney music products. Talk about spanning multiple musical styles...