tegs07

I don’t know. Are Greenday a punk band? We’re Generation X a punk band? It’s just music to my ears. Well possibly not Cliff but those Shadows blokes were pretty cool.

Indeed. It’s semantics though. There was a discussion not long ago about if Judas Priest were Heavy Metal. They were classed as that when I was a teenager and were notable at least to my ears as being distinctively less rooted in the blues than their predecessors.

Dazed and confused- led zep

And does it all begin when Muddy Waters first plugged in a guitar? Prior to this you would have had acoustic country blues, then the resonator guitar could provide amplification to compete with banjos and the like. I’m sure the first time a crowd heard blues licks on an electric guitar it would have been pretty heavy. As has been said it’s all just evolution. Label it whatever you like.

Girlfriend in a coma - The Smiths

Days - Kinks

My thoughts on this is that unless artists want to end up as sad parodies of themselves endlessly repeating a tired old formula they need to break the mould and do something different. If they don’t they become the musical equivalent of “Top Gear”.

10.15 Saturday night- The Cure

Venus as a boy - Bjork

Starman - Bowie

Yesterday- The Beatles

Dickie Davies eyes - half man half biscuit

Ride a white swan - T Rex

Wolves - Phosphorescent

Tangled up in blue - Dylan

Riders on the storm - The Doors

These boots are made for walking- Nancy Sinatra

Fixed the above

The walkin’ blues - snooks eaglin

Eye of the tiger - Survivor

Brown Eyed Girl - Captain Grumpy Pants

Misery is the river of the world - Tom Waits

Land of confusion - Genesis

Mardy Bum - Arctic Monkeys

Disintegration - The Cure