06-12-2020, 03:23 PM
(This post was last modified: 06-12-2020, 07:22 PM by Eric the Green.)
For you and others of discriminating taste, I keep trying to share the inspiration that so moved me in the mid/late 1960s and early 1970s in pop and folk/rock music. It is something to explore, and it is a musical peak.
Mozart and Beethoven, especially in their final symphonies, achieved the summit in orchestral music that will probably never be equalled. Before that, Bach and Handel were the summit of earlier music. The hits of the Big Band era were artistically produced and performed. Glenn Miller's In the Mood and Moonlight Serenade captured the mood of the era on the eve of world war, and were probably the two best tunes of the time.
The 1960s and 70s contained the usual abundance of mediocre pop drivel as has been given us since the Big Band era. But it was unique because some artists of that time aspired to the heights that Mozart achieved in his 41 finale on the eve of the Revolution, the peak of classical music which may never be equaled. But the spiritual and psychedelic awakening put amazing experiences into the music in the sixties and inspired the artists to create a new electronic sound. Much wizardry was expressed, and heart-stilling, profound moments of transcendence put into sound.
You can hear some of this in my top 10 rock and folk-rock pieces from the era. If the Who may rock too hard for you, it was they who created the rock opera form and made it a vehicle of music with classical quality. This is a countdown with #10 first.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GFB4rsAy...8WXtIToaiV
Further down on my list of top 400-plus you can hear such amazing classics as Classical Gas by Mason Williams, Gimme Shelter by the Rolling Stones, Blowin in the Wind by Peter Paul and Mary (Bob Dylan song), A Hard Rain's a Gonna Fall and Mr. Tambourine Man by Bob Dylan, Suzanne by Judy Collins (Leonard Cohen song), Dock of the Bay by Otis Redding, What's Goin On by Marvin Gaye, Baby Love by the Supremes, Dancing in the Street by Martha and the Vandellas (Marvin Gaye song), My Guy by Mary Wells (Smokey Robinson tune), Celeste by Donovan, Song is Over by The Who, I Couldn't Live Without Your Love by Petula Clark, the exploits of early Pink Floyd, the Quadrophenia and Tommy instrumentals by The Who, Here There and Everywhere by The Beatles (spellbinding ballad by Paul McCartney) and so many more.
http://philosopherswheel.com/ericrock.html
Mozart and Beethoven, especially in their final symphonies, achieved the summit in orchestral music that will probably never be equalled. Before that, Bach and Handel were the summit of earlier music. The hits of the Big Band era were artistically produced and performed. Glenn Miller's In the Mood and Moonlight Serenade captured the mood of the era on the eve of world war, and were probably the two best tunes of the time.
The 1960s and 70s contained the usual abundance of mediocre pop drivel as has been given us since the Big Band era. But it was unique because some artists of that time aspired to the heights that Mozart achieved in his 41 finale on the eve of the Revolution, the peak of classical music which may never be equaled. But the spiritual and psychedelic awakening put amazing experiences into the music in the sixties and inspired the artists to create a new electronic sound. Much wizardry was expressed, and heart-stilling, profound moments of transcendence put into sound.
You can hear some of this in my top 10 rock and folk-rock pieces from the era. If the Who may rock too hard for you, it was they who created the rock opera form and made it a vehicle of music with classical quality. This is a countdown with #10 first.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GFB4rsAy...8WXtIToaiV
Further down on my list of top 400-plus you can hear such amazing classics as Classical Gas by Mason Williams, Gimme Shelter by the Rolling Stones, Blowin in the Wind by Peter Paul and Mary (Bob Dylan song), A Hard Rain's a Gonna Fall and Mr. Tambourine Man by Bob Dylan, Suzanne by Judy Collins (Leonard Cohen song), Dock of the Bay by Otis Redding, What's Goin On by Marvin Gaye, Baby Love by the Supremes, Dancing in the Street by Martha and the Vandellas (Marvin Gaye song), My Guy by Mary Wells (Smokey Robinson tune), Celeste by Donovan, Song is Over by The Who, I Couldn't Live Without Your Love by Petula Clark, the exploits of early Pink Floyd, the Quadrophenia and Tommy instrumentals by The Who, Here There and Everywhere by The Beatles (spellbinding ballad by Paul McCartney) and so many more.
http://philosopherswheel.com/ericrock.html
