Time To Rock...

There have been number of musical minded men who have been making good music for men like me. There are 'N' of genres of music and ROCK MUSIC is one of'em.

Rock music is a form of popular music with a prominent vocal melody, accompanied by guitar, drums, and bass. Rock music has its roots in 1940s and 1950s rock and roll and rockabilly, which evolved from blues, country music and other influences.


Rock music had evolved and changed a lot over decades. There has been numerous ages of Rock Music. Let's have a little peak into the Rock history...



The mid-1950s-early 1960s

Early British rock-- Popularised by "John Lennon(Beatles), Rolling Stones"
Garage rock-- Bands like The Sonics, Question Mark & the Mysterians
Surf music-- The rockabilly sound influenced a wild, mostly instrumental sound.
Bands like The Shadows and The Beach Boys.

Folk rock-- made up of folk music lovers who liked acoustic instruments, traditional
songs, and blues music with a socially progressive message.
Popularized by BOB DYLAN, JONI MITCHELL, JOAN BAEZ.

Psychedelic rock--Psychedelia began in the folk scene, with the Holy Modal Rounders
introducing the term in 1964.
The creators-- Pink Floyd(The piper at the gates of down), The cream(eric clapton),
The Doors and Jefferson Airplane's surrealistic Pillow became really popular.
And my favourite Jimi Hendrix announced his arrival to the mainstream.

Soft rock-- Barry Manilow, Neil Diamond, Olivia Newton-John, Elton John, Billy Joel.



The mid to late 70s

Hard rock and heavy metal
A second wave of British and American rock bands became popular during the early 1970s the largest being Led Zeppelin. Bands such as Grand Funk Railroad, The Rolling Stones, Led Zeppelin, Deep Purple, Queen, Alice Cooper, Judas Priest, Status Quo, Aerosmith, Black Sabbath, The Who, and Uriah Hee played highly amplified, guitar-driven hard rock.

Punk rock
Early punk borrowed heavily from the garage band ethic: played by bands for which expert musicianship was not a requirement, punk was stripped-down, three-chord music that could be played easily.
Artists-- Tommy Ramone(Ramones), British Band Sex Pistols(songs-Anarchy in the U.K, God Save the Queen).


Rock diversifies in the 1980s

In the 1980s, popular rock diversified. This period also saw the New Wave of British Heavy Metal with bands such as Iron Maiden and Def Leppard gaining popularity.


One of my personal favourite AC/DC a hard rock band formed in Sydney, Australia in 1973 by brothers Angus and Malcolm Young. Although the band are considered pioneers of hard rock and heavy metal its members have always classified their music as "rock 'n' roll".

American heartland rock gained a strong following, exemplified by Bruce Springsteen, Bob Seger, Donnie Iris, John (Cougar) Mellencamp and others.


Thrash Metal attracted large underground audiences and a few bands, including Metallica and Megadeth, went on for mainstream success.


Glam metal
Widely popular in the 1980s Mötley Crüe, W.A.S.P., Ratt and Quiet Riot were the notable names in glam metal. Their songs were bombastic and often defiantly macho, with lyrics focused on sex, drinking, drugs, and the occult.
In 1987 a second wave of glam metal acts emerged including Bon Jovi, L.A. Guns and Faster Pussycat.



Alternative goes mainstream (Early-mid 1990s)

Grunge
By the 1990s, rock was dominated by slick and commercial glam metal, hair metal and arena rock artists. MTV had arrived and promoted this excessive focus on image and style.

Bands such as Green River, Soundgarden, the Melvins and Skin Yard pioneered the genre, with Mudhoney becoming the most successful by the end of the decade.

In 1991 Nirvana broke into the mainstream with album NEVERMIND. Pearljam came out with their album TEN. In early April 1994, grunge took a sudden shift in popularity with the death of Nirvana's frontman Kurt Cobain.




Post-grunge
In the wake of Cobain's death a new style of music called post-grunge evolved.
Former Nirvana drummer Dave Grohl's new band the Foo Fighters helped further popularize the genre, and other bands such as Bush, Seether, Creed, Collective Soul, Everclear and Live helped cement post-grunge as one of the most commercially viable sub-genres of the late nineties.

Nu metal and Rap Rock

Bands-- Faith No More, Linkin Park, P.O.D

With all this info. at your hand about Rock Music you might be feeling like listening to some good Rock and if your like me you'd do something about it.

But being a new and true rock lover i have made some arrangements for you.
So sit back and relax and enjoy some good Rock Music.

Starting with ACDC

The man himself.... Kurt Cobain

Smoke it up....with Deep Purple

Last but definitely not the least, Bon Jovi...

I hope you enjoyed this small and personal collection and would appreciate your valuble comments.

And yeah be back soon as there is much more to come.

Till then Keep Rockin......!