crüt otm with that video. Was just recommending that movie and trying to describe that very scene.
― Bee Traven Thousand (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 1 May 2014 00:44 (ten years ago) link
James Redd, I don't know what to say. You've probably heard those artists more than me. I know "Mother-in-Law" and "Lipstick Traces" and "It Will Stand" and "I Like It Like That." I don't perceive a world where Fats Domino is not top drawer.
― timellison, Thursday, 1 May 2014 02:09 (ten years ago) link
(Not to say those other records are not also top drawer, naturally.)
― timellison, Thursday, 1 May 2014 02:13 (ten years ago) link
Bria's Elvis photo says it all, but I'm sure there are Berry and Little Richard fans who think they were more important to Rock's birth than Elvis. But I would have voted Elvis every time.
― jetfan, Thursday, 1 May 2014 02:45 (ten years ago) link
bo diddley just barely over chuck berry and fats domino. woulda voted elvis pretty easily.
― balls, Thursday, 1 May 2014 02:49 (ten years ago) link
http://www.geni.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/birthcertificate_original-600x489.jpg
― ▴▲ ▴TH3CR()$BY$H()W▴▲ ▴ (Adam Bruneau), Thursday, 1 May 2014 02:52 (ten years ago) link
http://www.elvisinfonet.com/image-files/Elvis_Presley_grave.jpg
― ▴▲ ▴TH3CR()$BY$H()W▴▲ ▴ (Adam Bruneau), Thursday, 1 May 2014 02:53 (ten years ago) link
Don't think I knew or forgot that
― Bee Traven Thousand (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 1 May 2014 02:57 (ten years ago) link
Sorry *middle* name was Love.
― Bee Traven Thousand (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 1 May 2014 02:58 (ten years ago) link
I'm glad Elvis isn't among the options, even though, like MBJ, I'm a much bigger fan of his work starting with From Elvis in Memphis. The '50s stuff is undeniably great, but doesn't have the twitchy, bug-eyed insanity that also-rans like Charlie Feathers and Sonny Burgess had. Anyway, still definitely voting for Chuck Berry. I really need to get those Hip-O boxes of his complete Chess recordings one of these days when I've got a few hundred bucks to spare.
― Humorist (horse) (誤訳侮辱), Thursday, 1 May 2014 03:12 (ten years ago) link
xpost according to that document, you were right the first time.
― Mark G, Thursday, 1 May 2014 04:11 (ten years ago) link
BO DIDDLEY has won my heart and I can never give it to another.
― Hinklepicker, Thursday, 1 May 2014 04:53 (ten years ago) link
Interesting point on the rockabilly also-rans over Sun-era Elvis - much like how the wildest 60's rock n roll came from the garage bands, not the Beatles and Stones. Not necessarily "better" but definitely more bug-eyed, twitchy and insane. Been listening to Sonny Burgess a lot lately, and Ain't Got a Thing and Red-headed Woman definitely hold their own with any of the best of the guys in this poll.
― brio, Thursday, 1 May 2014 14:52 (ten years ago) link
Poll is too difficult
― A frenzied geologist (Tom D.), Thursday, 1 May 2014 14:54 (ten years ago) link
these guys are all great, I guess for pure impact Bo, CB, Rich and JLL are the kings
― images of war violence and historical smoking (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 1 May 2014 14:54 (ten years ago) link
Love Sonny Burgess. Ald although he didn't record much, every Joe Clay song I've heard is incredible.
― A Perfect Ratio of Choogle to Jam (Dan Peterson), Thursday, 1 May 2014 14:56 (ten years ago) link
http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-UP93tRdP89g/Uz2_3uH4UVI/AAAAAAAABeY/BdcG7B-Lyug/s1600/genevincent1958_Yakima_Washington_2Small.jpg
Gene Vincent, people!
― Iago Galdston, Thursday, 1 May 2014 15:31 (ten years ago) link
Hard to believe we made it this deep into a 50's rock convo without a Link Wray mention. I'm really only familiar with "Rumble", but he's got to have his fans around these parts.
― DavidLeeRoth, Thursday, 1 May 2014 15:34 (ten years ago) link
Yeah Link Wray's a genius.
― ▴▲ ▴TH3CR()$BY$H()W▴▲ ▴ (Adam Bruneau), Thursday, 1 May 2014 15:35 (ten years ago) link
I think that's one of those cases where "genius" is a term way too easily thrown around. Genius implies intellect to me, and I think Wray's greatness comes from an instinctive, almost subconscious zone.
― Alvarius B. Goode (WilliamC), Thursday, 1 May 2014 15:45 (ten years ago) link
ie. he's a genius
― ▴▲ ▴TH3CR()$BY$H()W▴▲ ▴ (Adam Bruneau), Thursday, 1 May 2014 15:46 (ten years ago) link
But yeah it's a shame he never learned calculus and theoretical physics and ended up designing rockets for the military industrial complex. You know, genius stuff.
― ▴▲ ▴TH3CR()$BY$H()W▴▲ ▴ (Adam Bruneau), Thursday, 1 May 2014 15:51 (ten years ago) link
is that some kind of jokey reference to Skunk Baxter
― PLATYPUS OF DOOM (Shakey Mo Collier), Thursday, 1 May 2014 15:52 (ten years ago) link
Baxter Stockman
― ▴▲ ▴TH3CR()$BY$H()W▴▲ ▴ (Adam Bruneau), Thursday, 1 May 2014 15:54 (ten years ago) link
But yeah it's a shame he never learned calculus and theoretical physics and ended up designing rockets for the military industrial complex. You know, genius stuff.― ▴▲ ▴TH3CR()$BY$H()W▴▲ ▴ (Adam Bruneau), Thursday, May 1, 2014 11:51 AM (3 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
http://pixel.nymag.com/content/dam/daily/vulture/2013/08/23/23-thomas-pynchon.jpg
― Iago Galdston, Thursday, 1 May 2014 15:55 (ten years ago) link
oops, sorry about the size (thomas pynchon)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8de10hR6Xho
Sorry for continuing to derail this.
― ▴▲ ▴TH3CR()$BY$H()W▴▲ ▴ (Adam Bruneau), Thursday, 1 May 2014 16:00 (ten years ago) link
Thought it was Ray Charles who was known as The Genius.
lol at Pynchon photo.
― Bee Traven Thousand (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 1 May 2014 16:06 (ten years ago) link
Genius is pain-Bob MarleyKurt VonnegutDr. Winston O'Boogie
― Bee Traven Thousand (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 1 May 2014 16:07 (ten years ago) link
― DavidLeeRoth, Thursday, May 1, 2014 11:34 AM (35 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
Was just listening to Link's version of "Ain't That Lovin' You Babe" and thinking hey, he should be in this thread!
I mean, ffs, in the midst of all the hysteria and pearl-clutching over "juvenile delinquency," he managed to get an instrumental song of his banned.
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Thursday, 1 May 2014 16:18 (ten years ago) link
Did he do the vocals on "Ain't That Lovin' You Babe"?
― ▴▲ ▴TH3CR()$BY$H()W▴▲ ▴ (Adam Bruneau), Thursday, 1 May 2014 16:19 (ten years ago) link
Did you think I was disparaging Wray because I thought you were misusing the term "genius"?
― Alvarius B. Goode (WilliamC), Thursday, 1 May 2014 16:24 (ten years ago) link
Saw Link Wray live in 1997 and it was completely awesome. Meanwhile, "Let's go, cats!"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Eqk2sPcF5r8
― Bee Traven Thousand (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 1 May 2014 16:25 (ten years ago) link
Hidden Charms is the Link vocal face-melter for mehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gBAl52LTiAE&feature=kp
― brio, Thursday, 1 May 2014 16:27 (ten years ago) link
xpost WilliamC, no not at all. I just think we have two different definitions for the word.
― ▴▲ ▴TH3CR()$BY$H()W▴▲ ▴ (Adam Bruneau), Thursday, 1 May 2014 16:40 (ten years ago) link
Thought it was Ray Charles who was known as The Genius.lol at Pynchon photo.― Bee Traven Thousand (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, May 1, 2014
LOL at the B. Traven screen name...(Pynchon worked for Boeing before his writing career took off)
― Iago Galdston, Thursday, 1 May 2014 17:08 (ten years ago) link
Speaking of which, surely Ray Charles is the massive omission here...?
― Drugs A. Money, Thursday, 1 May 2014 17:29 (ten years ago) link
(Also: Johnnie Ray)
― Drugs A. Money, Thursday, 1 May 2014 17:32 (ten years ago) link
http://www.slate.com/content/dam/slate/articles/arts/culturebox/2014/04/140501_CBOX_LRonHubbard.jpg.CROP.original-original.jpg
L Ron Hubbard
― idontknowanythingabouttechnlolgeez (waterface), Thursday, 1 May 2014 17:33 (ten years ago) link
I don't know about Ray Charles, he's like Johnny Cash - related and important to Rock N Roll but outside it
― brio, Thursday, 1 May 2014 17:46 (ten years ago) link
Another omission, seriously. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ttMt9SHRwsMIf you don't believe me, ask John Fogerty or Greil Marcus.
― Bee Traven Thousand (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 1 May 2014 17:58 (ten years ago) link
where's Hasil Adkins
― images of war violence and historical smoking (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 1 May 2014 18:00 (ten years ago) link
Sorry I dont mean to belabor the whole "...but who got left OUT???" angle. I've v recently been getting into a lot of this stuff, and it is absolutely great.
Tempted to go w Fats bcz The Fat Man is v possibly the first rock song (though Louis Jordan's Saturday Night Fish Fry gives it a run for its money imo)
― Drugs A. Money, Thursday, 1 May 2014 18:03 (ten years ago) link
Listening to "Fujiyama Mama" by Wanda Jackson right now. I hate to keep tossing names into the thread especially when they aren't more important than the poll choices, but there's so many great early rockers.
― DavidLeeRoth, Thursday, 1 May 2014 18:25 (ten years ago) link
0:45https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r7Q-CGSPaso
― PLATYPUS OF DOOM (Shakey Mo Collier), Thursday, 1 May 2014 18:27 (ten years ago) link
Woah.
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Thursday, 1 May 2014 18:31 (ten years ago) link
Nobody cuts the Killer.
― Jazzbo, Thursday, 1 May 2014 18:32 (ten years ago) link
I dunno who the high school marching band in that clip is but lol
― PLATYPUS OF DOOM (Shakey Mo Collier), Thursday, 1 May 2014 18:35 (ten years ago) link
i don't know enough about post-50s bo, but is JLL the only one here who might actually have done most of his best stuff after the 50s? sun era's great of course but his later country stuff is incredible.
― (The Other) J.D. (J.D.), Thursday, 1 May 2014 18:40 (ten years ago) link
yeah I dig JLL's country shit, he does a beautiful version of I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry
― PLATYPUS OF DOOM (Shakey Mo Collier), Thursday, 1 May 2014 18:44 (ten years ago) link