August 28, 2024

ROCK MUSIC IS BACK! 

Rock & Roll (“Rock”) was a form of music that was popular in the 20th Century, characterized by use of the “Guitar”.  The Guitar was an instrument that was held against the player’s body, while strumming or picking the strings, with the sound projecting acoustically off a hollow chamber of the Guitar.  Often, the Guitar was amplified with an electronic pickup and an amplifier; then called an Electric Guitar, which was generally played with considerable vigor and volume, inspiring great enthusiasm from music listeners from that period.

While this playlist starts out with a song employing our familiar digital audio workstations, drum machines, keyboards, synthesizers, samples and autotune vocals, later songs on this playlist robustly employ this relic, the Guitar, and in fact, several endangered species of Rock; 1960’s “Psychedelia” (The Heavy Heavy), 1970’s “Folk” or “Country Rock” (Post Malone and Lainey Wilson), 1990’s “Grunge Rock” (Nilufer Yanya and beabedoobee) or “Indie” (Sabrina Carpenter).  Given the foreign sounds, please keep an open mind when listening.

Keeping with the "Rock" theme, the UK LP charts are presently dominated by a 20th Century British group Oasis, who just released remasters of their most popular LP's and announced a reunion tour upon the 30th anniversary of their first LP. If you buy tickets to their tour, given their combustible past, event insurance is recommended.

A special callout to Neuphorian Paddybear who turned me on to two of the songs on this playlist.