Yesterday Let It Be While My Guitar Gently Weeps Hey Jude The Long and Winding Road Come Together Something "She Came In Through the Bathroom Window" through "The End" on Abbey Road (which all sort of flow together) Across the Universe The Fool On the Hill Norwegian Wood With a Little Help From My Friends
Given this and some of your other comments, how do you define rock, anyway? I'm with Chris: for me the distinction between rock and pop is extremely blurry, especially over time -- the amount that both of them have changed over the past 40 or 50 years is considerably greater than the average difference between them.
Light up My Room--Barenaked Ladies MmMmMmMm--Crash Test Dummies Moxie Fruvous: Independence Day, Horseshoes, Nuits de Rève Ziggy Stardust--David Bowie
Peter Gabriel- Family Snapshot Peter Gabriel- Mercy Street Peter Gabriel- Here Comes The Flood Soul Coughing- True Dreams Of Wichita Soul Coughing- Screenwriter's Blues Cake- Daria Cake- Open Book Weezer- Undone (The Sweater Song) Weezer- Only In Dreams Weezer- Across The Sea Radiohead- Wish You Were Here Radiohead- Hey You Radiohead- Nobody Home Radiohead- Comfortably Numb Radiohead- Dark Side Of The Moon Pink Floyd- The Bends Pink Floyd- OK Computer (these three albums are, with the occasional exception, entirely comprised of rock songs that are both slow and good) Ben Folds Five- Alice Childress Ben Folds Five- Fair Ben Folds Five- Selfless, Cold, and Composed Ben Folds Five- Missing The War Ben Folds- Carrying Cathy Ben Folds- Fired Billy Joel- Piano Man The Police- Don't Stand So Close To Me Elvis Costello- Alison Elvis Costello- Good Year For The Roses Bruce Springsteen- Thunder Road Bruce Springsteen- Jungleland Bruce Springsteen- The River Bruce Springsteen- Lost In The Flood Bob Dylan- Just Like A Woman Bob Dylan- Blood On The Tracks (anotheer album of mostly slow and excellent songs) Bob Dylan- Not Dead Yet Rolling Stones- Midnight Rambler The Band- Tears Of Rage The Band- Stage Fright The Band- Acadian Driftwood Fastball- Out Of My Head Warren Zevon- Looking For The Next Best Thing Warren Zevon- Roland The Headless Thompson Gunner Led Zeppelin- The Rain Song Led Zeppelin- Stairway To Heaven The Who- Behind Blue Eyes Cream- Badge Derek And The Dominoes- I Looked Away Derek And The Dominoes- Bell Bottom Blues Derek And The Dominoes- Have You Ever Loved A Woman Derek And The Dominoes- Thorn Tree In The Garden\ Eric Clapton- Tears In Heaven George Harrison- The Balllad of Sir Frankie Crisp (Let It Roll) Simon And Garfunkel- So Long, Frank Lloyd Wright Simon And Garfunkel- The Sound Of Silence Simon And Garfunkel- America Simon And Garfunkel- Bridge Over Troubled Water Simon And Garfunkel- A Poem On The Underground Wall Paul Simon- Duncan Paul Simon- Armistice Day Paul Simon- Still Crazy After All These Years Paul Simon- American Tune Paul Simon- Rene And Georgette Magritte With Their Dog After The War Paul Simon- The Late Great Johnny Ace Paul Simon- Homeless Paul Simon- Darling Lorraine Talking Heads- This Is The Place (Naive Melody) Talking Heads- Sax And Violins The Kinks- Waterloo Sunset
(A bunch of Beatles songs have already been covered, so I won't bother adding another 10 to the list here)
This is just off the top of my head, and limiting myself only to songs I have on CD (depending on what the cutoff is for "slow", some more could be added and a couple might be taken off). There are- obviously- many, many more.
I would slash a lot of these for not being slow or not being rock.
You got a few of those albums at the top backwards. But it'd be kinda cool to hear Radiohead doing Dark Side of the Moon and Pink Floyd doing OK Computer, but maybe that's just me.
Folk-rock is still rock. I'll grant that Homeless isn't particularly rock, but stuff like Armistice Day certainly is.
And sure, it's a judgment call for "slow" or not, there were a bunch I didn't count that you might, and vice versa. As for "rock" or not, I suspect I just have a more inclusive definition, one that acknowledges the difficulty of pinning down genres in popular music.
How do "monster ballads" count? Undeniably the products of rock bands, but are they rock?
Poison: Every Rose Has Its Thorn Billy Idol: Eyes Without a Face Extreme: More Than Words The GnR version of Knockin on Heaven's Door Bon Jovi: I'll Be There For You
etc.
I'd say that if any of these don't count in your book, then the answer is that they don't exist.
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Date: 2005-12-17 05:52 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-12-17 06:17 pm (UTC)Drive
Nightswimming
Try Not To Breathe
Chorus and the Ring
I'll Take the Rain
Falls To Climb
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Date: 2005-12-17 06:29 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-12-17 06:12 pm (UTC)Let It Be
While My Guitar Gently Weeps
Hey Jude
The Long and Winding Road
Come Together
Something
"She Came In Through the Bathroom Window" through "The End" on Abbey Road (which all sort of flow together)
Across the Universe
The Fool On the Hill
Norwegian Wood
With a Little Help From My Friends
... all by the Beatles, of course.
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Date: 2005-12-17 08:49 pm (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2005-12-17 10:07 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-12-17 10:22 pm (UTC)I'm working on the follow-up post, we'll see where things go from there.
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Date: 2005-12-17 08:34 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-12-17 08:49 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-12-17 09:04 pm (UTC)...Maybe some stuff of Queen's?
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Date: 2005-12-17 09:07 pm (UTC)MmMmMmMm--Crash Test Dummies
Moxie Fruvous: Independence Day, Horseshoes, Nuits de Rève
Ziggy Stardust--David Bowie
Curiouser and curiouser,
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Date: 2005-12-17 09:50 pm (UTC)Peter Gabriel- Mercy Street
Peter Gabriel- Here Comes The Flood
Soul Coughing- True Dreams Of Wichita
Soul Coughing- Screenwriter's Blues
Cake- Daria
Cake- Open Book
Weezer- Undone (The Sweater Song)
Weezer- Only In Dreams
Weezer- Across The Sea
Radiohead- Wish You Were Here
Radiohead- Hey You
Radiohead- Nobody Home
Radiohead- Comfortably Numb
Radiohead- Dark Side Of The Moon
Pink Floyd- The Bends
Pink Floyd- OK Computer (these three albums are, with the occasional exception, entirely comprised of rock songs that are both slow and good)
Ben Folds Five- Alice Childress
Ben Folds Five- Fair
Ben Folds Five- Selfless, Cold, and Composed
Ben Folds Five- Missing The War
Ben Folds- Carrying Cathy
Ben Folds- Fired
Billy Joel- Piano Man
The Police- Don't Stand So Close To Me
Elvis Costello- Alison
Elvis Costello- Good Year For The Roses
Bruce Springsteen- Thunder Road
Bruce Springsteen- Jungleland
Bruce Springsteen- The River
Bruce Springsteen- Lost In The Flood
Bob Dylan- Just Like A Woman
Bob Dylan- Blood On The Tracks (anotheer album of mostly slow and excellent songs)
Bob Dylan- Not Dead Yet
Rolling Stones- Midnight Rambler
The Band- Tears Of Rage
The Band- Stage Fright
The Band- Acadian Driftwood
Fastball- Out Of My Head
Warren Zevon- Looking For The Next Best Thing
Warren Zevon- Roland The Headless Thompson Gunner
Led Zeppelin- The Rain Song
Led Zeppelin- Stairway To Heaven
The Who- Behind Blue Eyes
Cream- Badge
Derek And The Dominoes- I Looked Away
Derek And The Dominoes- Bell Bottom Blues
Derek And The Dominoes- Have You Ever Loved A Woman
Derek And The Dominoes- Thorn Tree In The Garden\
Eric Clapton- Tears In Heaven
George Harrison- The Balllad of Sir Frankie Crisp (Let It Roll)
Simon And Garfunkel- So Long, Frank Lloyd Wright
Simon And Garfunkel- The Sound Of Silence
Simon And Garfunkel- America
Simon And Garfunkel- Bridge Over Troubled Water
Simon And Garfunkel- A Poem On The Underground Wall
Paul Simon- Duncan
Paul Simon- Armistice Day
Paul Simon- Still Crazy After All These Years
Paul Simon- American Tune
Paul Simon- Rene And Georgette Magritte With Their Dog After The War
Paul Simon- The Late Great Johnny Ace
Paul Simon- Homeless
Paul Simon- Darling Lorraine
Talking Heads- This Is The Place (Naive Melody)
Talking Heads- Sax And Violins
The Kinks- Waterloo Sunset
(A bunch of Beatles songs have already been covered, so I won't bother adding another 10 to the list here)
This is just off the top of my head, and limiting myself only to songs I have on CD (depending on what the cutoff is for "slow", some more could be added and a couple might be taken off). There are- obviously- many, many more.
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Date: 2005-12-17 09:58 pm (UTC)You got a few of those albums at the top backwards. But it'd be kinda cool to hear Radiohead doing Dark Side of the Moon and Pink Floyd doing OK Computer, but maybe that's just me.
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Date: 2005-12-17 10:01 pm (UTC)That was intentional. As far as I'm concerned, they're the same band.
What's "not rock"? See my comment above.
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Date: 2005-12-17 10:13 pm (UTC)They aren't the same band at all. At all.
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Date: 2005-12-19 04:49 am (UTC)And sure, it's a judgment call for "slow" or not, there were a bunch I didn't count that you might, and vice versa. As for "rock" or not, I suspect I just have a more inclusive definition, one that acknowledges the difficulty of pinning down genres in popular music.
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Date: 2005-12-20 03:44 pm (UTC)Poison: Every Rose Has Its Thorn
Billy Idol: Eyes Without a Face
Extreme: More Than Words
The GnR version of Knockin on Heaven's Door
Bon Jovi: I'll Be There For You
etc.
I'd say that if any of these don't count in your book, then the answer is that they don't exist.