100 Rock n Blues

Cool !!  

some kinda got lost over the last 40 years!

TRUTH by Jeff Beck, THE END OF THE GAME by Peter Green and COULDN'T STAND THE WEATHER by Stevie Ray Vaughan.

Teaflax wrote: Wow, except for the stuff that's neither Blues nor Rock (Booker T, Sly and War) there's not a thing on there I would listen to even if I was paid to do it; it's pretty much my list of music to avoid. Quite an accomplishment, if you think about it.

I agree with The Wizard, except on the quoting and sighing point. There is some good stuff in there.

However, I also agree with Teaflax to a certain extent. I mean, Lynyrd Skynyrd, for example, is one of the most boring bands ever. They're a joke really. The deeper I get into prog, the more I start to share Teaflax's opinions on blues and bluesrock. It's starting to bore me.

Maybe it's being a studio and live sound engineer in my late teens and hearing one Blues/Rock band after another come in and do the same chords in the same order in the same way, night in and night out. The preponderance of bands who keep themselves within that very limited idiom is staggering once you have to deal with the onslaught - I'd say 4 out of 5 bands I've ever dealt with were in that category, albeit with some internal differences such as being Metal inspired or Clash wannabees.

It got to the point where even a Folk troubadour was a welcome change (easier to mike and mix, too), but it ended up being a thrill when a band could surprise me with even one chord sequence or just a single non-predictable aspect. It didn't happen much - one was a Simple Minds-style band who did an excellent cover of Genesis Back in New York City. The first 7/8 I'd heard live in months at that point, and an unexpected choice for a Pop band.

Sweden has a thriving and active music scene (and I assure you that neither Yngwie nor PoS are even close to being its biggest exports) the likes of which you can only really see in England. And though it's probably changed since the 80's, so that the majority is somewhat smaller, I'm willing to bet that at least 51% of all bands playing gigs around town and rehearsing at Fryshuset (the subsidized rehearsal space where many Stockholm bands started out) are still firmly within Rock/Blues parameters.

It may not be the #1 Radio format, but as far as bands out there playing, there's really nothing more mainstream than a twelve-bar and its offshoots.

Actually, I rushed a bit looking through the list. The Doors' debut is a fine album indeed, and Curtis Mayfield is usually good, even I'm sure he's turned out something better than that 1997 album.

^The list is alphabetical

I would say that 7,15,24,50,61,66,75,80,82,95 represent some of the best that may have been lost through the years, so much so as they are as good or superior to many others on the list!

Edited by DallasBryan - July 06 2006 at 12:25

My picks (where I haven't commented, the chosen album gets my vote!):

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12
16 I prefer 5th Dimension, but that might be just me!
30
35 Interesting that you miss out Dire Straits' debut - but Makin' Movies is a better album all round.
36
37
39 Can't go wrong with the Doors - any of their albums would have been good picks.
41 I would pick "Highway 61 Revisited".
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67
69
71 *Good album, but there are so many good albums by Mayall/Bluesbreakers. My picks would have been "Turning Point" and "Bare Wires" - or even the "Bluesbreakers" album.
78 "Let It Bleed" is my favourite of all the Stones albums, with "Satanic Majesties" a close 2nd (mainly for the humour).
81 *Again, good album, but I would pick the debut.
82 *Quality - I'm a big fan of Savoy Brown, and Raw Sienna is a superb album. Gotta mention "Looking In", "Blue Matter" and "Hellbound Train".
83 "Dance to the Music" and "There's a Riot Going On" are better, IMHO.
89 I would pick "Ssssh!" or "Stonehenge" by TYA.
91 "Couldn't Stand the Weather", of course!