No mention of "Rumble" by Link Wray, which is as metal as the 50s got (so metal in fact that despite being an instrumental, it was banned in 1958 simply because it "sounded" dangerous)? How about "You Really Got Me" or "All Day and All of the Night" by the Kinks, "Shapes of Things" by the Yardbirds, "Born to Be Wild" by Steppenwolf (which even mentions "heavy metal" in the lyrics), "Sunshine of Your Love" by Cream, or "Summertime Blues" by Blue Cheer? I think you've got a great topic here, but you could have taken it much deeper. Hope you have a Part Two at some point!
“Rumble” by Link Wray is worth a mention. Pete Townshend is known to be a fan & it was a big influence on him, in turn helping shape the sound of the WHO. The WHO are not metal - granted - but they were one of the midwives of the metal movement, along with the Kinks, Cream and the Jimi Hendrix Experience
Rumble - Link Wray, one of the heaviest sounding songs of the 50's , it sounded so menacing that many radio stations round the world banned it, they feared it would incite people to go out and riot. The kinks You really got me , for 1964 that was a very heavy sound , that Dave Davis got by cutting his amp to bits with a razor. Surprisingly it still worked and when he strummed his guitar this sound came out that some believe was the foundation and the start of heavy rock. Also Coven's !st album 1969 Witchcraft destroys minds and reaps souls has some certainly heavy and dark themes running through the album not massively heavy but its a scary sounding album, it even has a track called Black sabbath, before The British band had the name, Wicked Women is probaby my favourite track.
Eddie Cochran also had quite a few heavy (for the time) songs, I always thought his music had a darker, more subversive (even more sinister) edge to it than most of his contemporaries. I suspect that (had he lived longer and had something approaching a relatively normal lifespan) he would have got frustrated with the limitations of 3-chord rockabilly & rock’n’roll, and would have gone garage-rock or even punk-rock in the 60’s and 70’s.
Blue Cheer - Summertime Blues and Pachment Farm from 1968 LP Vincebus Eruptum Gun - Race With the Devil 1968 Jeff Beck's cover of Jailhouse Rock on his second LP Beck-Ola from 1969 with Rod Stewart on vocals and Ron Wood (Rolling Stones) on bas. There are many to choose from.......
Miserlou- Dick Dale and Blues Theme -Ronny and the Daytona's, both instrumental's but had that vibe to them, I also think California dreaming and 2525 are worth mentioning.
Hello and thank you for this entertaining video. Here are a few picks which could extend your list, in my opinion: - Kinks "You really got" me (already mentionned in the comments) - Cream: "White room" and "Sunshine of your love" - as far as the Who are concerned, I'd pick "My Generation", heavier than 'I cna see for miles" as far as I am concerned. Cheers. Pierre
I just KNEW Helter Skelter was going to be here. As a footnote, the fade back in you mentioned is only present on the stereo version. The mono version omits this, making it about a minute shorter.
@@Jamiehorsleydml l have both stereo and mono versions of the Beatles albums. There's loads of differences between the two throughout their albums. It's great fun spotting them.
i remember the first time i heard beatles revolution , those first few bars i was thinking wow some new thrash metal type thing , grab your weapons boys the revolution has arrived , then suddenly it all cuts out and there's a kind of country walking bassline thing and "so you say you waant a revolution well you know '...'' i was SOOOO disappointed :)
The doors,jimi hendrix and floyd were heavier for the times than people retrospectively think now. And i actually think those 3 bands were actually heavier than Zeppelin ever was. People constantly get caught up in familiarity and repetition, but was it truelly heavy.
1967 one in a million, careful with that axe Eugene, astronomy domine (is heavy, just spacey),lucifer sam, interstellar overdrive, 1969 the Nile song. All pink Floyd
hush is a brilliant song but i don't think of it as particularly heavy . in fact it has a kind of shuffly/dancey /non 4 beats rhythm that makes it sound more like stone roses or inspiral carpets or everything kula shaker ever did
Tutti Frutti by Little Richard is the first heavy ass hit song. It set the template for all the white folk music too. Heavy Edgy naughty and unapologetic.
Not bad - but what about songs from earlier decades - and earlier centuries. Metal can be traced all the way back to AT LEAST the 1730s when J S Bach wrote 'Toccata And Fugue in D Minor'. Also, the style of singling associated with black metal (called 'vox diaboli') can be traced even further back - to the Mystery Playes of the 14th Century - when the character of the Devil was portrayed with a deep gruff voice.
i know when the sex pistols came out all the 'hard lads' at school or down the pub who always thought they were cool cos they listened to the rolling stones and the who (thinking they were badass rock'n'roll bands) had a damascene conversion upon hearing 'anarchy in the uk' for the 1st time
Everyone skips over Demolicion by Los Saicos ua-cam.com/video/bIwDtPErh-M/v-deo.html It's like someone took a heavy metal voice and sent it in a time machine back to Peru in 1964.
How could you ignore 'Don't Bring Me Down' (1964) by The Pretty Things? MC5 formed in 1965. Status Quo in 1962? Early Stones? Even The Kinks? I could go on. There's just so much and you clearly know very little. I'm so disappointed in this video it qualifies as click bait.
You missed Dave Clark 5. "Any way you want it" and "Glad all over" definitely a precursor to the driving heavy Metal sound.
Link Wray's 'Rumble', The Kinks 'You Really Got Me', The Creation 'How Does It Feel'.
Blue Cheer's cover of Summertime Blues is real heavy.
Originally written by Eddie Cochran, who Jamie also mentioned for his song 'Somethin Else'.. 👍
@cbn6635 ironically I only heard covers of both those songs. The other covered by Sex Pistols.
Will have to hear Summertime Blues by Blue Cheers I’ve heard Eddie Cochran’s version and that was great
TRES Heavy!!!!
But not very good!
King Crimson closed out the 60's with one of the heaviest songs of the entire decade with '21st Century Schizoid Man' in '69.. 👌😎
@@cbn6635 Correct. Killer cover by Rorshach as well.
@benng4376 Entombed also made a great, stripped down cover version.. 😎 I also believed the tech thrash legends in Forbidden covered it? 🤔
Silly me forgot King Crimson I should have known haha
@@Jamiehorsleydml Well, at least you didn't forget Iron Butterfly.. 🤗 'In-a-Gadda-da-Vida' is a proto-metal masterpiece.. 👌
No mention of "Rumble" by Link Wray, which is as metal as the 50s got (so metal in fact that despite being an instrumental, it was banned in 1958 simply because it "sounded" dangerous)? How about "You Really Got Me" or "All Day and All of the Night" by the Kinks, "Shapes of Things" by the Yardbirds, "Born to Be Wild" by Steppenwolf (which even mentions "heavy metal" in the lyrics), "Sunshine of Your Love" by Cream, or "Summertime Blues" by Blue Cheer? I think you've got a great topic here, but you could have taken it much deeper. Hope you have a Part Two at some point!
“Rumble” by Link Wray is worth a mention.
Pete Townshend is known to be a fan & it was a big influence on him, in turn helping shape the sound of the WHO.
The WHO are not metal - granted - but they were one of the midwives of the metal movement, along with the Kinks, Cream and the Jimi Hendrix Experience
Pink Floyd - The Nile Song
Rumble - Link Wray, one of the heaviest sounding songs of the 50's , it sounded so menacing that many radio stations round the world banned it, they feared it would incite people to go out and riot.
The kinks You really got me , for 1964 that was a very heavy sound , that Dave Davis got by cutting his amp to bits with a razor. Surprisingly it still worked and when he strummed his guitar this sound came out that some believe was the foundation and the start of heavy rock.
Also Coven's !st album 1969 Witchcraft destroys minds and reaps souls has some certainly heavy and dark themes running through the album not massively heavy but its a scary sounding album, it even has a track called Black sabbath, before The British band had the name, Wicked Women is probaby my favourite track.
You mentioned songs that I was going to put in the vid but I didn’t want to make it too long, great picks
Johnny Kidd and the Pirates!!
Oh yeah that’s a great pick
Eddie Cochran also had quite a few heavy (for the time) songs, I always thought his music had a darker, more subversive (even more sinister) edge to it than most of his contemporaries.
I suspect that (had he lived longer and had something approaching a relatively normal lifespan) he would have got frustrated with the limitations of 3-chord rockabilly & rock’n’roll, and would have gone garage-rock or even punk-rock in the 60’s and 70’s.
The whole 1968 album Sea Shanties by High Tide with really heavy violin riffs, yes really.
High Tide is Doom Metal!!
I am surprised you did not mention Heavy Jelly, their 1968 single "I Keep Singing That Same Old Song" being the most well known probably.
Eddie Cochran isn't a precursor to metal. If he'd lived, PUNK would've happened a decade earlier.
He definitely influenced it
Golden Earring - Everydays Torture, the blueprint for slow heavy metal riffs
The Dave Clark Five's "Anyway You Want It" from 1964 is unrelentingly heavy. If you don't know it, check it out! Superb song.
You Really got Me. Even Van Halen had to cover it to get recognised.
That song is great I agree can’t believe I forgot that
It was a hit for the original by The Kinks before VH
Blue Cheer - Summertime Blues and Pachment Farm from 1968 LP Vincebus Eruptum
Gun - Race With the Devil 1968
Jeff Beck's cover of Jailhouse Rock on his second LP Beck-Ola from 1969 with Rod Stewart on vocals and Ron Wood (Rolling Stones) on bas.
There are many to choose from.......
Miserlou- Dick Dale and Blues Theme -Ronny and the Daytona's, both instrumental's but had that vibe to them, I also think California dreaming and 2525 are worth mentioning.
Awesome cheers, will have to check them out
Original version of Allman Brothers "Whipping Post " was heavy for its time!
Hello and thank you for this entertaining video.
Here are a few picks which could extend your list, in my opinion:
- Kinks "You really got" me (already mentionned in the comments)
- Cream: "White room" and "Sunshine of your love"
- as far as the Who are concerned, I'd pick "My Generation", heavier than 'I cna see for miles" as far as I am concerned.
Cheers.
Pierre
I just KNEW Helter Skelter was going to be here. As a footnote, the fade back in you mentioned is only present on the stereo version. The mono version omits this, making it about a minute shorter.
I just love the fade out but it’s interesting they had different versions of the song
@@Jamiehorsleydml l have both stereo and mono versions of the Beatles albums. There's loads of differences between the two throughout their albums. It's great fun spotting them.
i remember the first time i heard beatles revolution , those first few bars i was thinking wow some new thrash metal type thing , grab your weapons boys the revolution has arrived , then suddenly it all cuts out and there's a kind of country walking bassline thing and "so you say you waant a revolution well you know '...'' i was SOOOO disappointed :)
Run For Your Life - The Beatles
John Lennon's lyrics here are pretty wicked
He'd get cancelled for those lyrics now.😊
Just started listening, hope you have 'Something Else' by Eddie Cochran.
The heavy song of the 50's.
Buddy Holly = Rave On, Litte Richard = I Hear you Knockin but You Can't Come In, Pink Floyd = The Nile Song
The beatles have a few for sure, also King Crimson for sure. definitely paved the way for Black sabbath and Led zeppelin a bit later
Yeah for sure I can’t believe I forgot King Crimson lol
@ good reason to make a part I guess
Talk Talk - The Music Machine (1966)
The Move - Brontosaurus
The doors,jimi hendrix and floyd were heavier for the times than people retrospectively think now.
And i actually think those 3 bands were actually heavier than Zeppelin ever was. People constantly get caught up in familiarity and repetition, but was it truelly heavy.
John Burnett had some gems..
Yeah and some heavy ones
Mechanical World - Spirit (1968)
1967 one in a million, careful with that axe Eugene, astronomy domine (is heavy, just spacey),lucifer sam, interstellar overdrive, 1969 the Nile song. All pink Floyd
Pink Floyd did have some heavy song I agree
WTH? Steppenwolf Born To Be Wild!, or Whole Lotta Love?
Yeah Steppenwolf would definitely be on this I agree, I was meant to put Born to be Wild but I forgot
Jake Holmes...good enough for Zep to 'copy'😂
Vanilla Fudge=you keep me hangnig on!
Great song
hush is a brilliant song but i don't think of it as particularly heavy . in fact it has a kind of shuffly/dancey /non 4 beats rhythm that makes it sound more like stone roses or inspiral carpets or everything kula shaker ever did
Tutti Frutti by Little Richard is the first heavy ass hit song. It set the template for all the white folk music too. Heavy Edgy naughty and unapologetic.
Love that song
Not bad - but what about songs from earlier decades - and earlier centuries. Metal can be traced all the way back to AT LEAST the 1730s when J S Bach wrote 'Toccata And Fugue in D Minor'.
Also, the style of singling associated with black metal (called 'vox diaboli') can be traced even further back - to the Mystery Playes of the 14th Century - when the character of the Devil was portrayed with a deep gruff voice.
i know when the sex pistols came out all the 'hard lads' at school or down the pub who always thought they were cool cos they listened to the rolling stones and the who (thinking they were badass rock'n'roll bands) had a damascene conversion upon hearing 'anarchy in the uk' for the 1st time
Psychotic Reaction - Count Five
All the F bombs were a little odd
Everyone skips over Demolicion by Los Saicos ua-cam.com/video/bIwDtPErh-M/v-deo.html
It's like someone took a heavy metal voice and sent it in a time machine back to Peru in 1964.
That was fantastic
How could you ignore 'Don't Bring Me Down' (1964) by The Pretty Things? MC5 formed in 1965. Status Quo in 1962? Early Stones? Even The Kinks? I could go on. There's just so much and you clearly know very little. I'm so disappointed in this video it qualifies as click bait.
Thumbs down. Must every other word start with an "f" and end with a "uck"? Learn how to express yourself without vulgarity.
I’m Aussie can’t help swearing
My Generation
You Really Got Me
IMO Metal arrived when Hendrix invented the electric guitar.
Hendrix a legend
Les Paul is credited with inventing the solid-body electric guitar - but they have been around since at least the 1930s.