Why dont we talk about music from this decade like.... ever?
Why dont we talk about music from this decade like.... ever?
Alexander James
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Jeremiah Evans
it sucked
Mason Sanders
Of course we do dumbass, it’s called jazz
Jackson Reed
[Q] There are articles on your site relating your favorite albums of the 70s, 80s and 00s, and I have seen posted elsewhere your picks of the 60s and 90s. I was wondering what are your personal choices of the 50s, whether they be studio albums (obviously a rarity of the decade, except in the world of jazz) or compilations? -- Nigel, Sydney, Australia
[A] Fifties rock and roll was a singles music best appreciated on all the compilations I've reviewed. Elvis nuts swear by Elvis Is Back!, which even so was 1960, and Ned Sublette had an early Elvis album he bonded with. Chuck Berry Is on Top was 1959 but was soon superseded by the endless succession of GH albums. If someone were to find an actual Chantels album that didn't cost a zillion dollars from somebody's basement in Teaneck, I bet it would be super, but not as super as their Rhino comp. Etc. A few years ago I bought a four-CD set on the Real Gone label that included six Bo Diddley albums plus bonus tracks. Title: Bo Diddley, great. Then it cost 20 bucks or so, now I don't find it. I expect it would be worth sorting out--Diddley was very smart about such stuff. The major exception I'm aware of is Ray Charles's 1959 What'd I Say, which I bought myself as a graduation present in 1962 and played as much as my Bird my first year out of college. Now I'd call it an A minus--definitely some filler there.
And then there are the jazz albums of the '50s. Many great ones--more than I or you will ever hear.
Julian King
There's not much to talk about. We all already know what's good or not from that time.
Christopher Bailey
i love the bebop and vocal pop from that era but i guess it doesn't sit as experimental enough for the rest of Yea Forums
Adam Campbell
+bebop, hard bop, Chicago blues, rockabilly
Colton Lewis
music began with le beatles and beach boys
Josiah Cook
>If someone were to find an actual Chantels album that
They only made three, one of which is a live album and two were released in the 60s not the 50s.
Parker Allen
Yeah this board is too filled with fedora incels who can only appreciate ambient and extreme metal where it sounds like a pack of coyotes are fighting in the guy's throat.
Kevin Nelson
The rock music from that era doesn't age well. We talk about jazz all the time and the blues/soul stuff is good but not really much to talk about.
William Lewis
The rock is fine, it's the pop/doo-wop stuff that's aged like sour milk.
Liam Miller
This. I worked at Johnny Rockets for 2 years and I absolutely hated the music.
Adam Campbell
I've been listening to almost every early 50's albums, I can give you some recs on jazz and folk
9/10:
Machito - Afro-Cuban Jazz [1951]
Lester Young Trio - s/t Vol.1 [1951]
Stan Kenton - Innovations in Modern Music [1950]
Stan Kenton - Milestones [Compilation; 1950]
Charlie Mariano - With His Jazz Group [1950]
Stan Kenton - Encores [1949]
Oscar Peterson - At Carnegie [1951]
Ralph Burns - Free Forms [1952]
Oscar Peterson - Plays Pretty [1952]
Johnny Hodges - Collates No. 2 [1952]
Gene Krupa - Dance Parade [1949]
Bud Powell - Piano Solos #2 [1950]
Sonny Rollins Quartet - s/t [1952]
Woody Herman - Sequence in Jazz [1948]
Stan Kenton - Artistry In Rhythm
Duke Ellington - Liberian Suite [1949]
Harry James - Dance Parade [1950]
Benny Goodman - Benny Goodman Sextet
Charlie Barnet and His Orchestra - Hop On The Skyliner!!
>folk
Jean Ritchie - Traditional Songs of Her Kentucky Mountain Family [1952]
Various Artists - Negro Folk Music of Africa and America [1951]
Various Artists - Folk Music of Brazil: Afro-Bahian Religious Songs
>classical
The Choir of Westminster Abbey - A Festival of Chorus [1952]
Andrés Segovia - an Andrés Segovia Recital [1952]
Carolina Cardoso de Menezes - Interpreta Ernesto Nazareth [1952]
Luke Sanders
Love Russ Garcia, any recs for more of those sort of easy-listening sort of experimental lounge-y jazz records?
Also not sure if it's a 50s or 60s thing, but been listening to the Ronettes a lot, great stuff.
Jack Hughes
That's probably because you had to hear Rock Around The Clock 10x a day.
Logan Reyes
Though I'd still prefer it over mumble rap and Gr*mes.
William Young
>Grimes
>2019
Grayson Cox
>Had to hear Rock Around The Clock 10x a day
We didn't have it THAT good.
It was:
>La Bamba
>Lesley Gore - It's my party
>Peggy March - I Will Follow Him
>Aretha Franklin - Respect (which isn't the 50's)
>Little Eva - The Locomotion
>The four tops - I can't help myself
>Elvis Presley - Blue Suede Shoes
Nicholas King
Most of those are 1960s pop songs...
Jose Reed
Welcome to a franchised Johnny Rockets, where Barracuda by Heart is sometimes played.
Dylan Smith
Gabriel Edwards
Little Girl of Mine is Scarufficore.
Colton Price
Some of the doo-wop stuff is good, then there's a lot of awful crap like The Diamonds--Little Darling you never want to let enter your ears.
Jaxon Cooper
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He'd go on to greater fame though.
Ryan Torres
I don't think they have any Johnny Rockets in the Northeast.
James Young
That's because they played the boring stuff
Nathan Moore
Jesus Christ, whoever was in charge of the music at your store should've been fired for not even getting the decade right.
Thomas Collins
I'm surprised he'd rec The Chantels because he normally hates "that" kind of singing.
Joshua Gomez
Errggh...
Levi Lopez
Jordan Cruz
The Rhythm & Blues from that era is seriously underrated. You’ll see people comment how a Rock record from 1965 is “ahead of its time” for featuring a little guitar distortion while there were already Blues players cranking their shitty little amps and crunching away back in 1953.
>mfw some normie calls “Rock Around the Clock” the “first Rock & Roll record”
Check out “Hobo” by J.D. Edwards or the solo on “Sexy Ways” by the Midnighters.
Cooper Johnson
I bet they think Nevermind invented alternative rock as well.
Jace Martinez
Fever is a song I've never cared for no matter who sings it.
Jordan Wright
Wait for it. In 2050 your grandson will think Pure Heroine invented bedroom pop.