Unit 11 Flashcards
(42 cards)
Late 1970s
Commercial rock
Punk and new wave in opposition of main stream rock
Early 1970’s
New style Psycadellic emerged
Punk and new wave
Highly rejected hippy bands
In favor to pre hippy rock
Fm radio stations
From late 1960 to AOR
Broadcasting rock music
Focusing on album charts
Fm radio changed from free form to AOR (album oriented rock)
AOR stations were heavily formatted with
Program directors
Commercial tendencies of am
Shorter more radio friend songs
Large selling albums draw corporate interest
500 000 records sold = gold
1000 000 = platinum
Rock in early 70s
Bands
Easy to distinguish Rolling Stones Kiss Wings Steve miller band Doobie brothers
New arrivals in the late 70s
Boston Foreigner Cheap trick Journey Van Halen
2 American bands prominent in revamping progressive rock in late 70s
Kansas
Styx
In late 1970s british bands reworking progressive rock
Alan parsons project
Electric light orchestra
Queen
Alan parsons project
Recording engineer for Beetles and Pink Floyd
Electric light orchestra
Formed from the band the move
Queen
Bohemian rhapsody
Inspired by Beatles
Thought he was gay, encouraged sexual stereotypes
Aids
Mid 70s
Singer song writer popular
Soul searching lyric
Explored harder rock styles
Example of singer song writer
Elton John Bob Dylan Paul Simon Billy Joel Jackson Browne Bob seggar Bruce Springsteen
Ways that bands adapted from older styles of rock
Compound aaba forms
Blending instrument techniques from multiple styles
Synthesis homogenization interpretation
In 1997 America rock fans began to hear about a movement in the uk called
Punk
Ex: sex pistols, clash
Punk had
Aggressive and dangerous images
US tones down this style
Punks most important roots in America
Detroit
Newyork
Punk reemerged UK from US as
New wave
Early influential bands of punk
Velvet underground
Iggy pop and the stooges
Mc 5
New York punk
Country blue grass blues
Patty smith group
First band to sign a record deal
Television
Ramones
Punk fashion
Radical clothing Ripped jeans leather jackets and safety pins Crazy hair colors and Mohawks "Do it yourself" esthetics/ mantra Recording promo album all done yourself
Rise of punk 74-77
Linked to economies recession
Punk represented this