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Artists featured in the video are: john lennon, jimi hendrix, roy orbison, don mclean, american pie, music video, rockers, otis redding, freddie mercury, janis joplin, jim morrison, marc bolan, george harrison, Bon Scott, Buddy Holly, Sonny and Cher, Johnny Cash, Denny martin, Bob Marley, Elvis Presley, Ray Charles, Jeff buckley, Kelly Clarkson, The Beatles, Wendy O Williams, Rob Palmer, Sonny Bono, Kurt Cobain

Video conceived, produced, compiled and edited by Sebastian Prooth. A Melting Clock Production, August 2006. Please visit the producer’s website at www.sebrt.com

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Nirvana.

After the 1990’s grunge period rock lost alot of its "classic" sound and gained what alot of bands sound like in rock today.

Guns and roses was one of the most well known and last rock bands before grunge swept the genre. Then Nirvana hit, and every rock-geared band since has had a less instrumental feel and more about the sining. Bands like this are like Three days Grace. Rock is constantly evolving, it started with Elvis in the Sun Studios in 1957. Now i bet when the beatles came around, people were saying the same thing. Where did rock go?

nowhere, it is just making changes, like it will continue to do. I only brought up nirvana since it is in my opinion one of the biggest rock revolutions out there.

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It was music to dance to or sing along or even make a statement with groups such as the Kingston Trio. You had people like Little Richard and Chuck Berry putting on very risque shows for the times. Hip gyrations and wailing was like committing a sin. It was a liberation of music and of a generation that would go on to define the 60s counterculture movement.

Almost all popular songs of the period were about sex (but then most songs are). But the censors forced the singers and song writers to be creative in how they sang about it. Roll With Me Henry, was a very big Etta James hit that was changed to Dance With Me Henry when it was covered for white audience because it was deemed unseemly to sing about "rolling" with anyone. Pat Boone covered many popular songs toning down their sexually charged tone and beat for older white audiences.

Think Twice version X by Jackie Wilson and Lavern Baker is an example of an underground hit that shows people of the time could be just as filthy as today’s musicians with swear and such but it wasn’t the norm as it is today. And it was one of the first "hits" to have cursing and sexual phrases in it. Even Cole Porter a Broadway legend wrote very risque songs using a lot of puns and play on words to talk about sex without talking about it. Song like "Let’s Misbehave" and "Let’s Do It (Let’s Fall In Love)" are now standards in the American song book.

Then of course you had women like Wanda Jackson and Janis Martin breaking the mold for women by playing rockin’ rebellious guitar at a time when girls mostly sang sweet weepy love songs about boys. Songs like Fujiyama Mama (with is references to drinking beating up men) and and Bang Bang (with its hard rockin’ boot knockin’ drums) allowed women to play with the big boys like Elvis and Carl Perkins.

For the time being overtly sexual was so shunned upon that to have the musicians play fast loud piano and guitar moaning, and shouting, and shaking there hips and legs revolutionized the way people thought about music.

Also the 50s was when TV really took off and people all over the country were able to see the same performance and so you had the new way of marketing music to the masses on a bigger scale than ever before. With shows like American Bandstand and The Ed Sullivan Show everyone could see band like Buddy Holly and the Crickets and so it was another avenue for music makers to sell their wares. And so we saw the influence of teen buying power on music for the first time in a large way. For it was teenagers who made Elvis a legend. And because of the success Elvis recorded not just Rock ‘n’ Roll but country, and Gospel to appeal to other audiences, making him and rock ‘n’ roll more acceptable to more people. To this day musicians will often work in many genres of music in the hopes of selling more records.

That doesn’t even scratch the surface of how singer and song writers like Roy Orbison and Carole King influenced other musicians like The Beatles, or The Stones, or Heart all the way up to bands like Green Day and singer like Sarah McLachlan etc. In the 50’s it was Jazz and Blues and that gave birth to Rock ‘n’ Roll, which led to Rock and Punk, Metal, New Wave, Grunge, you name it. It is where all the roots of today’s popular music are buried. From hip-hop to country they all owe something to what happened in the 50s music scene.

Full Track List:
1. Rock ‘N’ Roll Train
2. Skies On Fire
3. Big Jack
4. Anything Goes
5. War Machine
6. Smash ‘N’ Grab
7. Spoilin’ For A Fight
8. Wheels
9. Decibel
10. Stormy May Day
11. She Likes Rock ‘N’ Roll
12. Money Made
13. Rock ‘N’ Roll Dream
14. Rocking All The Way
15. Black Ice

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