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So here's some sloppy pop-cult theorizing, with a kind of point to it at the end (trust me). I reckon that there are, broadly speaking, two strains in the history of rock'n'roll. There's the chugging Chuck Berry-type pub thrashing that every garage and punk band ever rips off. Then there's the minimal Stockhausen-type drone that a lot of krautrock and no-wave groups plundered. But can anyone think of any records that successfully combine these two seperate traditions? Some freakbeat, I guess, and the first Velvets album, the first Can LP, the United States Of America, but what else? Or am I oversimplifying things? I'm on a quest to unite the two sides of the brain and achieve TOTAL ENLIGHTENMENT through music and weapons-grade hydroponic skunk, y'see. Cheers.

Rock Chimp, Friday, 28 November 2003 10:43 (twenty-two years ago)

Chuck Berry - Concerto in b goode

mark grout (mark grout), Friday, 28 November 2003 10:53 (twenty-two years ago)

Wow, I always meant to check out that album. Is it actually any good(e)?

Rock Chimp, Friday, 28 November 2003 11:04 (twenty-two years ago)

Hawkwind.

Nom De Plume (Nom De Plume), Saturday, 29 November 2003 00:14 (twenty-two years ago)

Lots of crazy psychedelic music combines the two--Skullflower, Comets on Fire, Acid Mothers Temple, Les Rallizes Denudes, The Dead C, etc.

Ian Johnson (orion), Saturday, 29 November 2003 08:27 (twenty-two years ago)

six years pass...

Simply Saucer might fit the bill.

ImprovSpirit, Friday, 14 May 2010 19:04 (fifteen years ago)


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