Things Changed : Singles (or tracks) that changed things

Random order:

1. Beatles - Please Please Me

Not "Love me do", not because it's a bad record, but all it needed was a harmonica and two (or three) voices. It could be "Liverpool Folk Music" of old. "Please Please Me" needs the instruments.

2. Sex Pistols - Anarchy in the UK

Rewrote the rule book, whether or not you liked it.

3. New Order - Blue Monday

It seems so strange that there was just over 6 years between "Anarchy in the UK" and this.

4. Black Sabbath - Black Sabbath (the song)

Music as something scary and dark. Did this have any precedent? in 1969?

Music as something scary and dark. Did this have any precedent? in 1969?

any number of Roy Orbison and Phil Spector produced girl group records?

That's a big gap to "what is this that stands before me" ..

Orgasm by Cromagnon was released in 1969, so...

Bubber, you've given me a wah wah

http://youtu.be/bBOBHB4jR8g

Maybe not the first use of plunger, but the beginning of texture trumping melody, something only really possible with recorded music.

embedding this time, The Moochie

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bBOBHB4jR8g