How I Learned To Love Rock And Roll

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

I have been spending quite a lot of time listening to rock and roll (and other music from the rock and roll 'era' c.late 50s). This was sparked by a sudden and complete infatuation w/"Chantilly Lace" by the Big BOPPER.

So I wanted to ask - what do my fellow Poptimists think about rock and roll? Do you like it? Do you listen to it? How does it stack up next to pop now (or pop from a more recent then)? Is it pop at all? Is it rock? Does the path of listening to rock and roll lead inexorably to the Stray Cats? etc. etc.

Here are some things about rock and roll which relate to other Poptimist concerns:

- The tracks are generally very short.
- They are often quite goofy.
- They sound like they were done very quickly.
- They mostly came out on single.
- There was a hell of a lot of it.
- There are a lot of boys with guitars around.
- Rock and roll is pretty old.
- Chunks of it are very revered.
- It gets revived a lot.

HMMMMMM. Over to you crazy comments box cats!

Comments

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no wave => kind of like a rock n' roll revival, but its a sukrat matter, as tunes are harder to find. But both deal in briefness, concentration of a kind of energy/force, both dealt with jazz and blues (no wave with some electronics type stuff), both kind of 'scary' (at least looking at some photos of certain no wavers), etc.

Does it get revived a lot? I get the impression of a revival in the 80s and that's about it.

As for rock n' roll I've only (kind of) discovered it this year, too, in that I started to put about 10 tracks on a loop, there's probably quite a lot of digging to be done to find more in compilations I'm sure, with a lot of golden nuggets out there waiting to be found, or not -- maybe it ws a moment, now we're left with a few artifacts, which might be very pop as well.

[carsmilesteve.livejournal.com]

Does it get revived a lot?

sound of the underground by girls aloud, obv ;)

[http://users.livejournal.com/xyzzzz__/]

oh yeah :-D

And 'Love Machine' is skiffle revival!