Arrange the songs in a rough chronological order just as you would like the new listener to hear them for the first time.

 

Can either be your favourite records from the 50's to the 90's, or just 12 songs that represent the whole history of rock and roll through the ages.

 

I will start............

 

Bill Haley & The Comets - Rock Around The Clock

Chuck Berry - Johnny B. Goode

Buddy Holly & The Crickets - That'll Be The Day

Elvis Presley - Jailhouse Rock

The Beatles - I Want To Hold Your Hand

The Rolling Stones - Get off my cloud

The Kinks - You Really Got Me

David Bowie - Life on Mars

Blondie - Hanging on the Telephone

Human League - Don't you want me

U2 - Where the streets have no name

Oasis - Wonderwall

interesting idea bri... will think about this tomoz :)

this is actually a 'my album of.... pop history'

 

 

1 elvis presley - heartbreak hotel

2 buddy holly - rave on

3 beatles - she loves you

4 who - my generation

5 sweet - ballroom blitz

6 sex pistols - pretty vacant

7 madness - one step beyond

8 visage - fade to grey

9 frankie goes to hollywood - relax

10 kylie minogue - i should be so lucky

11 oasis - dont look back in anger

12 busted - thats what i go to school for

 

its very hard to try to reprisent all the main cultural fashions there has been, and obviously ive concentrated on the main 'mod' trends. but theres no place for disco, dance, motown, soul, and many more.

...i must add to avoid any confusion

 

the tracks i chose, i chose because they reprisent a chart era. many i dont even like, but they are examples of the style of music that was around. nor am i saying that these tracks are 'the greatest', just reprisentitive of a particular era.

 

i chose busted for this centuary as imho they typify the kind of pop music the charts are full of. i could just as easily have chosen steps, or the spice girls, or even westlife!!!

hmm..

 

1. Chuck Berry - Johnny B Goode

2. Elvis Presley - Hound Dog

3. Jerry Lee Lewis - Great Balls of Fire

4. Jimi Hendrix - Purple Haze

5. Cream - Strange Brew

6. The Beatles - Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds

7. Electric Light Orchestra - Mr Blue Sky

8. The Jam - Eton Rifles

9. The Kinks - Waterloo Sunset

10. The Who - Pinball Wizard

11. Pink Floyd - Money

12. Queen - Another One Bites The Dust

1. Jimi Hendrix - Purple Haze

2. AC/DC - Back In Black

3. The Kinks - Lola

4. The Beatles - Hey Jude

5. Led Zeppelin - Whole Lotta Love

6. Elvis Presley - Jailhouse Rock

7. David Bowie - Ziggy Stardust

8. Bob Dylan - Like A Rolling Stone

9. Aretha Franklin - Respect

10. Black Sabbath - Paranoid

11. Blondie - Heart Of Glass

12. Michael Jackson - Billie Jean

 

Not many of them are either Rock N Roll, but songs/artists that define 'Rock' and how it's progressed over the last 50 years.. Oh and I wouldn't personally put in Aretha's 'Respect', but it's been noted in many lists as an all time great. :lol:

This would just be my history of rock album. A Pop album would be completely different and include dance soul and disco tracks!

 

1. Elvis Presley - That's Alright Mama

2. The Beatles - She Loves You

3. Jimi Hendrix - Purple Haze

4. Black Sabbath - Paranoid

5. David Bowie - Suffragette City

6. Sex Pistols - Anarchy in the UK

7. The Specials - Ghost Town

8. MARRS - Pump Up the Volume

9. Public Enemy - Rebel Without a Pause

10. Nirvana - Smells Like Teen Spirit

11. Oasis - Cigarettes and Alcohol

12. Radiohead - Paranoid Android

this is thisispops nominations, i should have edited out his personal and incorrect jibe instead of deleting the whole post.

 

Here is mine for an alien visiting the planet:

 

1. Elvis Presley - Heartbreak Hotel

2. Chuck Berry - Johnny B. Goode

3. The Beatles - Strawberry Fields Forever

4. Aretha Franklin - Respect

5. Led Zeppelin - Stairway To Heaven

6. Queen - Bohemian Rhapsody

7. Sex Pistols - Anarchy In The UK

8. Donna Summer - I Feel Love

9. Michael Jackson - Billie Jean

10. Madonna - Like A Prayer

11. Nirvana - Smells Like Teen Spirit

12. Oasis - Wonderwall