SONGS WITH WHISTLES
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(Sittin' On) The Dock Of The Bay - Otis Redding
Centerfold - The J. Geils Band
Don't Worry Be Happy - Bobby McFerrin
Eastwood - Brad Paisley
Games Without Frontiers - Peter Gabriel
Good Life - OneRepublic
I Like How It Feels - Enrique Iglesias
I Wanna Go - Britney Spears
Jealous Guy - John Lennon
Joyride - Roxette
Let's Go Surfing - The Drums
Magic Moments - Perry Como
Montego Bay - Bobby Bloom
Moves Like Jagger - Maroon 5
Oh No - Andrew Bird
Only Love Can Break A Heart - Gene Pitney
Patience - Guns N' Roses
People Are Crazy - Billy Currington
Pumped Up Kicks - Foster the People
Rewrite - Paul Simon
Roter Sand - Rammstein
Singing The Blues - Guy Mitchell
Sorry - Guns N' Roses
That Smell - Lynyrd Skynyrd
The Big Bang - Rock Mafia
The End Of The End - Paul McCartney
The Fishin' Hole (theme to The Andy Griffith Show) - Andy
Griffith
The Stranger - Billy Joel
Two Of Us - The Beatles
Walk Like An Egyptian - The Bangles
Walkin' My Baby Back Home - James Taylor
Wind Of Change - Scorpions
Young Folks - Peter Bjorn and John
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CHILDREN SONGS1
Music history event of the day
Incidents
1991 : The world's ost valuable golf glove - the
original, crystal-studded one Michael Jackson wore - is stolen from the Motown
Museum in Detroit. Police recovered the glove two days later. MC Hammer set up
a phone line and offered a $50,000 reward for the glove's return.
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1. Revolver - The Beatles
Released in the Summer of 1966, with a disturbing art cover
by Klaus Voorman, Revolver showed the rising of a new style. A first step into
psychedelia.
An album with sounds from India melting with Motown style, a
childish melody or a nice enchanting tune, tabla and harsh electric guitar,
piano or maracas, simple love songs or tripping lines, Revolver told the world
pop music was going to take a deep turn only one year later. ~ Edna
2. Elvis Presley - Elvis Presley
Released by RCA Victor, the album Elvis Presley popped on the
scene in 1956. At that time it was called "Rockabilly." Elvis had
been around on Sun Records, but RCA really promoted him when they took over his
contract, and when the Elvis Presley album was released people really sat up
and took notice. I think that, more than the album, it was Elvis himself who
was the groundbreaking factor. I remember that, along with his voice and the
songs, we liked to watch his wild gyrations, which were considered obscene at
the time. It isn't any big deal now but it sure was back then.
Everything about the album and the artist was different than
anything done before. Although there were others who recorded in the style
called Rockabilly, this album was,in my opinion, groundbreaking because of the
artist. ~ Karm
3. Tommy - The Who
Tommy may not have been the first, but it was without a doubt
the most influential rock opera. To this day, it is still gaining The Who fans,
while its rock opera precursors are slowly gathering dust in collectors'
forgotten basements. At a time when most of The Who's contemporaries were still
riding the psychedelic wave and adding one more distorted jangly riff and one
more tambourine to their songs, in terms of music they delivered one of the
most sober and purest albums of the time.
Arguably, Pete Townshend got too caught up in his own
brilliance to really get the story across, but while it may take a few listens
to understand just what he is on about, there's a lot more to it than you might
think. Townshend himself described it as "a metaphorical story of
different states of consciousness." And it is precisely this story which
makes Tommy so ground-breaking - an entire album used as a story-telling
device. Narrating a young man's journey filled with spiritual, moral, and
fantastical elements had never before garnered such a vast amount of attention,
or even meant this much to a band. And even if you want to argue that the
Pretty Things and Small Faces were a couple of months faster - they themselves
only rode on the coattails of The Who's mini-opera, "A Quick One, While
He's Away." ~ The Seeker
4. Are You Experienced? - The Jimi Hendrix Experience
Are You Experienced? is one of the most ear-catching debut
albums in the history of rock music, and one of the ultimate albums of the
psychedelic era. On Are You Experienced? Jimi Hendrix blended a variety of
elements of 1960s rock into music that sounded both ahead of its time and
embedded in the best backgrounds of rock, blues, pop, and soul. It was his
unbelievably talented guitar work, of course, that inspired a whole new
generation of guitarists to alter their feedback and distortion to imitate
Jimi's style. Most of the album's tracks are amongst Jimi Hendrix's very best;
it may be debated that he would continue to develop at a fast pace throughout
the rest of his short career, but Jimi would never exceed Are You Experienced?
in terms of consistent excellence. ~ Mindcrime
5. The Complete Recordings - Robert Johnson
There's only 29 songs + 12 alternate takes that were recorded
at 2 sessions in 1936 and 1937, but most bands from the British Invasion and
the American bands of the 1960s used to start out covering blues songs. Some of
the rock icons that were inspired by Robert Johnson were Jimmy Page, Elvis
Presley, Keith Richards, and Eric Clapton. And their music has had a great
impact on blues, country, pop, rock and heavy metal.
As his playing partner, Johnny Shines, put it, "Some of
the things that Robert did with the guitar affected the way everybody played.
He'd do rundowns and turnbacks. He'd do repeats. None of this was being done.
In the early '30s, boogie on the guitar was rare, something to be heard.
Because of Robert, people learned to complement themselves, carrying their own
bass as their own lead with this one instrument." He remains to this day
one of the most influential progenitors of rock and blues music. ~ Bluesbo
6. After School Session - Chuck Berry
In 1957, Mr. Charles Edward Anderson "Chuck" Berry
released a little half-hour record called After School Sessions, and changed
music forever. As the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame's Web site aptly declares:
"While no individual can be said to have invented rock and roll, Chuck Berry
comes the closest of any single figure to being the one who put all the
essential pieces together." These ten little rock n' roll songs provided
the template for everything that came after. Even a few guitarists in England,
namely John Lennon and Keith Richards, managed to hear this new music, and used
the blueprint set down to launch rock and roll into the forefront, where it
never really left. So to anybody who ever picked up a guitar, or just likes
listening to one, you owe a big thank you to Chuck Berry. ~ The Lizard
7. Pet Sounds - The Beach Boys
In researching what I was going to write here, I've
discovered several things. First, that this album is almost totally Brian
Wilson, from conception to execution, with Tony Asher collaborating on the
writing. That the idea for it stemmed from Wilson's introduction to and use of
LSD, and that it is most certainly his response to The Beatles, both Revolver
and Rubber Soul (depending on the source). I've learned that although at the
time of its release it wasn't commercially successful, it has become the most
acclaimed album of all time by critics and journalists, and is #2 on the
Rolling Stone 500 Greatest Albums of All Time.
Paul McCartney, Eric Clapton, Elton John, and Bob Dylan have
all gone on record calling it a major influence, and one of the best albums of
all time. George Martin has said that Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band
would never have existed without Pet Sounds. All this acclaim is almost
entirely due to Brian Wilson, his conception, his songs, his production.
Wilson's production and his use of the studio as an instrument (a la Phil
Spector) was the final piece of the puzzle. I can't discover any one thing that
caused this to be such an influential and groundbreaking album, other than the
fact that it is a testament to the genius that is Brian Wilson. ~
cyberjudge/Lucky
8. Trans-Europe Express - Kraftwerk
It's not their first album, it wasn't even their most
commercially successful one, but I think it's Kraftwerk's most important album.
While their precursors Autobahn and Radio-activity were a bit
more experimental, this here is a round, fully electronic listening experience,
influenced by classical music, catchy repeated melodic themes, and vocoded
vocals make for a hypnotic (in a good sense) experience.
The title track is, similarly to Autobahn, made to let you
feel like you're on a train ride. From station to station / back to Dusseldorf
City / Meet Iggy Pop and David Bowie (who both lived in Berlin at that time and
were good friends of the band).
But besides these two, the record has had a tremendous
influence in the following decade's music. Without it there would be no
electronic music as we know today, from synth-pop to house and techno.
Fun fact: this is one of only 2 (!) albums by non English
speaking artists in Rolling Stone's "500 Greatest Albums of All Time"
(the other being "Buena Vista Social Club"). ~ Farin
9. Dark Side of the Moon - Pink Floyd
Dark Side of the Moon was released on 17 March 1973 in the
U.S. and 24 March 1973 in the UK. It is a concept album that portrays the human
condition from birth to death.
I chose to use Dark Side as a groundbreaking album for Pink
Floyd mainly because I feel it was their most popular groundbreaking album.
To the general public it is probably better known then Meddle
or Animals, or some of their even earlier albums DS builds upon. DS was more
polished and radio friendly then some of their earlier work. ~ Le
