What did angsty kids listen to before heavy metal and punk rock and stuff like that was invented
What did angsty kids listen to before heavy metal and punk rock and stuff like that was invented
this is darker than most metal songs
they listened to jazz
folk
Rock music like The Beatles, Kinks, Who, and Stones.
There's nothing angsty about this album though?
Yeah it's dark but it's not energetic. What did angry young guys with lots of pent up energy listen to before rock and metal
they did sports, fist-fought, jerked off
skiffle
the blues
Prolly Stravinsky
Literally the gayest, most effeminate bullshit I've ever heard
music like edgard varese and rnb
>inb4 le smug Christgau reviews
Why exactly did all the critics shit on Black Sabbath back then anyway?
Because it was a new genre
Because they were all a bunch of effeminate hippie faggots and Jews behind the times
I think at least some of it was that Sabbath were working class boys from Birmingham and most professional music critics were upper middle class liberal hipsters from NYC who completely failed to "get" them.
Most of these guys didn't get Devo either for similar reasons--they were from Ohio and New Yorker critics missed a lot of the context of their music. For comparison, guys like Lou Reed could be every bit as esoteric as Sabbath or Devo, but because they were New Yorkers, Christgau et al understood their message a lot better.
Basically what I said
The thing about critics and punk is that punk rock has always had a bit of an artsy, Bohemian side to it, it's not really working class music in the same way metal is.
Black Sabbath is GOAT [spoiler]Ozzy = best era[/spoiler]
Is it even fair to compare Ozzy and Dio Sabbaths? They're like 2 different bands that happen to share the same name and half the band members.
We can probably just consider those first 3 Dio-Sabbath albums as Heaven & Hell
Devo's cover of Satisfaction is better than the original anyway since these dudes were betamax nerds, the idea that they can't get laid is entirely believable. I mean, nobody thinks a macho rock god like Mick Jagger is sexually deprived.
Heaven & Hell still had Butler, Iommi, and Ward playing on it. Only Ozzy was changed. The Mob Rules was when Vinny Appice replaced Bill Ward on the skins because he quit halfway through the 1980 tour due to alcohol problems and disliking the direction Dio was taking the band.
Ward actually came back in 1983 after Dio left. He played on Born Again and for the whole 83-84 tour. So that's two of the post-Ozzy albums that still had three of the original four guys on them.
In fact, Trashed was actually about a drunken road race that Ian Gillan challenged Bill Ward to while they were outside the studio one day during the recording of Born Again.
Christgau is like...sometimes he's spot-on about an album, other times he just writes a one sentence insult that tells you nothing useful.
Have you fucking listened to any folk/blues/country? It's all about murdering women and such. Much darker than any Black Sabbath. And back then, when they were in the middle of World Wars and Great Depressions, stuff like Black Sabbath or Sex Pistols would have been laughable.
Was Mick Jagger a sex god in 1965? I think not...if anything, that song would have made him one, before that they were just a generic Beatles cover band
Anyway, the only essential version of that song is by Otis Redding
Hard Bop
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Because Deep Purple was sorta around back then, so they drew heavy comparisons between them
Most of the critics in 1970 thought rock music should be sped-up country.
Protip: A lot of the stereotypical metal themes about Satan and evil women came from the blues
They listened to rock and roll.
what are good folk music to listen to?
Heaven and Hell album was Dio, Iommi, Appice and bassist Craig Gruber
Swing. watch swing kids. shit movie
The sound of a shotgun going off.
Ah yes, Christgau had said that Woodie Guthrie was darker than anything 60s folkies like Joan Baez could dream of and that country music is where the truest singer-songwriters are found, and there's more honesty in one Hank Williams song than Jackson Browne's entire discography.
Tear in your beer Country?