Check this out! Rare stuff you might not have heard

[Billy Underdog]

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.

It's World Music...

Time to learn, the world would be a much better place if everyone spoke Norwegian.

[Zzzptm]

Norwegian certainly is the most comical of the Scandinavian languages...

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

[Billy Underdog]

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?

[Zzzptm]

The fact that the Norwegians *have* comedy rock bands is your first clue.

[Zzzptm]

Back to stuff you really gotta check out...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IlkaxyYDBI8

[Billy Underdog]

The fact that the Norwegians *have* comedy rock bands is your first clue.

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?

[Zzzptm]

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

[Axefiend]

^^^ Made me think of this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HYInwCz5yl8

Billy Squier before he went solo.

[Zzzptm]

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

[Axefiend]

^^^ 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?

[Billy Underdog]

^^^ There sure were a lot of heavy bands coming out around 1970

One could almost think it was some kinda trend...

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.

[Axefiend]

One could almost think it was some kinda trend...

A trend that would have occurred, even without the existence of Sabbath perhaps?

[Zzzptm]

One could almost think it was some kinda trend...

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".

[Zzzptm]

^^^ 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".



EDIT: To be fair, that track itself rips off parts of "Speed King" and "Flight of the Rat", so maybe fair's fair...

[Billy Underdog]

One could almost think it was some kinda trend...

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.