That should start you off.

Guitars or GEETARS?

I mean if you were going to start anywhere, why not Segovia? ;-)

(BTW it doesn't have to be in order)

So far I've got big Mama thornton. I could do with more stuff like that, she can SING

what things have you heard that you do like? what hasn't drawn you?

its all a bit vague.

The rest is just worth a footnote really.

1989 (altern-rock style) - Nirvana - Negative Creep

oh and Mudhoney's "Good Enough" (199?)

1969 - The Band - The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down

1977 - Iggy Pop "The Passenger"

Its crazy I've never heard anything apart from the big Bowie singles.

I'm finding it really difficult to write about these these tunes, I find it difficult writing about music anyway but I guess I'm interested in the list above all. Not much British stuff has been but forward so far, no Sabbath, no Def Leppard, no Queen, no Cream, no Who, no Beatles, no Kinks

That was lame, dull major thirds all the way through. Made me feel used and manipulated like a trance anthem does. Piss poor rythmn. Its pinced some south african guitar styles but lacks the sense of fun.

Also, Sabbath = "Supernaut" ('72), Who = "Won't Get Fooled Again" ('71), Lep = "Photograph" ('83), Queen = "Dragon Attack" ('80), Cream = "SWABLR" ('67), Beatles = "She Said She Said" ('66), Kinks = "Tired of Waiting For You" ('65)

I'm getting tracks as fast as I can.

Better, but lacking sonic depth, but that could be due to the very revealing headphones I'm using. I'll crank it out on the speakers once people in my block have gone to work. Great hook, great rythmn, but the bass drops off through the song.

Second listen with a bit more bass from the EQ, OK that's better, great rythmn driving the track forward. OK I like this one.

(PS trying to regain my writing skills from dissertation hell)

1953 Howlin’ Wolf: “How Many More Years”
1954 Young John Watson: “Space Guitar”
1955 Chuck Berry: “Maybellene”
1956 Bo Diddley: “Who Do You Love”
1957 The Everly Brothers: “Wake Up Little Susie”
1958 Link Wray: “Rumble”
1959 Chan Romero: “Hippy Hippy Shake”
1960 The Shadows: “Apache”
1961 Freddy King: “Hide Away”
1962 Little Eva: “The Loco-Motion”
1963 The Beatles: “Please Please Me”
1964 The Kinks: “You Really Got Me”
1965 The Rolling Stones: “(I Can’t Get No) Satisfaction”
1966 The Byrds: “Eight Miles High”
1967 The Who: “I Can See for Miles”
1968 Jimi Hendrix Experience: “Voodoo Child (Slight Return)”
1969 The Velvet Underground: “What Goes On”
1970 Derek & the Dominos: “Layla”
1971 Funkadelic: “Super Stupid”
1972 Led Zeppelin: “Black Dog”
1973 Iggy & the Stooges: “Death Trip”
1974 Bachman-Turner Overdrive: “You Ain’t Seen Nothin’ Yet”
1975 Aerosmith: “Walk This Way”
1976 Ramones: “Blitzkrieg Bop”
1977 Television: “Marquee Moon”
1978 The Clash: “(White Man) In Hammersmith Palais”
1979 AC/DC: “Highway to Hell”
1980 Bad Brains: “Pay to Cum”
1981 X: “We’re Desperate”
1982 Joan Jett & the Blackhearts: “I Love Rock & Roll”
1983 Marshall Crenshaw: “Whenever You’re on My Mind”
1984 Prince & the Revolution: “Let’s Go Crazy”
1985 Husker Du: “Makes No Sense at All”
1986 Elvis Costello & the Attractions: “I Hope You’re Happy Now”
1987 Guns N’ Roses: “Welcome to the Jungle”
1988 Sonic Youth: “Silver Rocket”
1989 The Mekons: “Memphis, Egypt”
1990 Neil Young & Crazy Horse: “Over and Over”
1991 My Bloody Valentine: “Only Shallow”
1992 PJ Harvey: “Sheela-Na-Gig”
1993 Nirvana: “Frances Farmer Will Have Her Revenge on Seattle”
1994 Archers of Loaf: “Harnessed in Slums”
1995 Oasis: “Some Might Say”
1996 Sleater-Kinney: “Little Mouth”
1997 Lifter Puller: “To Live and Die in LBI”
1998 Local H: “All Right, Oh Yeah”
1999 Built to Spill: “Carry the Zero”
2000 The Hives: “Hate to Say I Told You So”
2001 The Strokes: “Last Nite”
2002 Queens of the Stone Age: “No One Knows”
2003 Ted Leo/Pharmacists: “Where Have All the Rude Boys Gone”

Again it has that irksome 'anthemic' quality, particularly the middle 8 which has a really cop out pop quality to it. I think its the synths and the middle 8 which let this track down. The beat doesn't drive, its not dragging, it just marks time. That middle 8 just makes it sound like something that belongs over the credits or training sequence of some early 80s sports film, you know one of those films where the kid with spirit trains himself to beat the bullies or make the team or something.

This one is kind of easy I've always liked this record. The solo section is a bit naff, but it epitomises what a rock record out to be for me. The filter sweeps across the electric piano hook kicks this off in such a great way. The drums aren't far from being a time keeper but a part of the tune in their own right. The bass is inspired and has depth. This has energy, drive and fucking great lyrics. The key section in the middle of the tune before Roger Daltrey's Scream is one of the great moments in music I recon.

this is another record that's 'how its meant to sound'. which is interesting because its piano led, which very little rock is. It plays up to my jazz sensibilities having a solid deep rythmn, little richard's hands, bass, drums and a guitar sax, A whole band as a rythmn section for one voice. Everything goes into supporting a strong voice driving the song forward. A real dance track.

1965 The Sorrows - Take A Heart
1966 The Fleur De Lys - Circles
1967 The Living Daylights - Let's Live For Today
1968 The Factory - Path Through A Forest
1969 The Open Mind - Cast A Spell

..and also

1974 Dr.Feelgood - Roxette
1978 The Saints - This Perfect Day

Now This IS a jazz record and don't anyone try and tell me otherwise. The Drumming is Jazz, Jimi's guitar is jazz. It's a great record.

I pulled this one out of Matos' list because I really ought to have heard the ramones by now. Stripped out and reduced to its most basic components. Clipped to a mimimum its still got a richness and fullness.

The trade of for spacemen 3 is nothing but Chain Reaction, Trapez and SND records.

Ed with reviewing skills like yours you could write for Q magazine!

(Er)

Ed, I can't believe you don't like Surrender, it's like one of the best song of all time! I guarantee that you would like Alice Cooper's "Teenage Lament".

This is the direct ancestor of detroit rock city and also in a way the ramones. The snare drum is punk as fuck. It does lack something, though it isn't the lyrics and it may be the dodgy encoding I got.

By the way, detroit rock city has grown on me during the day. It's much better than I first gave it credit. No Kiss before 9:00AM.

mmmm...yummy...

1982 - Joan Jett & the Blackhearts - I Love Rock & Roll

BATTLE CRY

(wonder if there's a helium hardcore version of this, if not they're ought to be)

Another road tune, strong but simple rythmn, in fact this track is all rythmn, almost. The solos kind of let it down when they depart too far from the rythmn.

Is someone going to explain to me why Jimi Hendrix is classified as Rock and not Jazz.

1988 - the pixies - bone machine
1991 - the pixies - subbacultcha