Top 10 Music Artists of the 1960s

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always good. We are here in this special episode.

I mentioned that it is a countdown episode. We're

going to be counting down our top ten favorite

artists or bands of the 1960s. Now, Dave and

I have not seen each other's lists. It's going

to be a complete surprise to the both of us of

what we talk about. The way that we're going

to do this is... When we get to number 10, either

Dave will start or I will start. When we get

to number 9, vice versa, we'll each give our

opinion. So that's how the countdowns work here

at GCRN. And this is for the 1960s. So let's

get to the countdown. What is your number ten?

My number ten for this countdown is The Animals.

Reactions, I guess? Interesting choice. What

song? What famous song did they sing? They're

basically known for three major hits and the

main one is House of the Rising Sun. That was

like a huge number one hit. Everyone knows that

song. we've got to get out of this place was

another one and Don't let me be misunderstood

Those are basically all three of those songs

are in the Rolling Stone top 500 songs They've

had other songs and other albums as well But

those are the main ones are known for I think

this list will basically go from the bands I

know the least about to like the top five are

the ones I think I know the most about but So

I don't really know that much about the animals,

but I just like them because they were kind of

a bluesy rock band they had sort of a like darker

more intense sound then kind of the like Happy

more more poppy Beatles ripoffs that were Happening

at the time. So they were definitely a different

kind of band for the 60s, which was a very very

like light lovey -dovey era and yeah And for

this countdown specifically for me when we mentioned

artists or anything like that or bands I'm probably

gonna ask for a for a famous song because a lot

of the stuff in the 60s I know the song but I

don't know the artist you know how that is like

you yeah You remember that song that you really

really love from the 60s, but you don't who the

hell sings that Google? Let's find this out.

You know, yeah There's a there's a lot of like

one -hit wonders in the 60s. You know and Yeah,

stuff like that So yeah, that's basically my

number ten My number ten is the Rolling Stones

these guys have been around for Well decades.

I mean these guys are still rocking out today

they Were one of the bands that really revolutionized

rock and roll at least back in the 60s anyway

Yeah, and their staying power is pretty incredible

because they were still having hits way into

the late 70s, early 80s. So it's not like they

just faded out. The Rolling Stones have pretty

much stayed consistently popular for the last

40 years. And I believe they're still touring

today. I think they're taking a break right now.

Right, but I could have sworn they either had

a tour already this year or they did a tour last

year. Think their last one was 2010 if I'm not

mistaken. Yeah, but knowing the Rolling Stones.

They'll probably gear up for another tour Sometime

next year and they'll keep touring until they're

all dead pretty much The way they are but you

know great great songs from them Yeah, like I

can't get no satisfaction. It's like yeah again

everyone everyone knows that song and it's a

great song I think a lot of the Rolling Stone

song is I really like her from the 70s But they

did have a lot of really good songs from the

60s. I think jumping jack flash was from the

60s, too 19th nervous breakdown might have been

from the 60s, but yeah, they they're just I think

one thing I would recommend to anyone listening

to this is go out and get the album 40 Licks,

which just came out 2005, 2006, to support one

of their tours. But anyways, basically it's two

discs, like 20 songs on each disc, and it's their

top 40 hits. And the fact that they have this

many hits, and it's not like some of them are

really great, some of them are obscure, like

90 % of the songs on there are recognizable hits,

so. Yeah. Well, you know for a band that's been

around, you know 40 50 years, of course, they're

gonna have yeah, you know, I mean Like I said,

they pretty much revolutionized rock and roll

back then and they They're they're a band who

has evolved over the decades, but there's they

still stay true to what their roots are and That's

pretty awesome So moving on what is your number

nine? My number nine is a band some people might

not have heard of called Love. You're gonna have

to elaborate. I didn't know who these guys were

until I downloaded a torrent of the Rolling...

I shouldn't be saying this because it's technically

illegal, but it was the Rolling Stone top 100

albums of all time according to Rolling Stone

magazine. And one of them is an album called

Forever Changes by Love. And I was like, I don't

know who this band is, but I guess I'll give

this album a chance. And it was fantastic. Love

was basically one of the major... They weren't

really popular at the time, but their influences

lasted, I guess you could say. And they were

one of the more important psychedelic bands of

the time. They incorporated a lot of weird stuff

in their music, like harpsichords and trumpets

and stuff like that. I think the only song by

them that's really recognizable is called Alone

Again Or. Kind of a weird name for the song,

but also one weird thing about them that's kind

of cool is that... They were one of the first

major racially mixed bands. They had black people

and white people in the same band, which you

didn't see a lot of in the 60s. No, you didn't.

Awesome. Yeah. My number nine is, and I solely

blame this on the season of summer, my number

nine is The Lovin' Spoonful. Are they the ones

that did hot fun in the summertime or summer

in the city summer in the city, okay? Yeah summer

in the city. They also did I don't know if this

was their original song or if it was a cover

They did do you believe in magic? Okay, like

they're one of those bands. I sort of I know

the name, but I didn't know any of the songs

that they've done So that's good to know Yeah

And I mainly love them for those two songs. You

mentioned earlier that the 60s is full of one

-hit wonders. They had two really great songs.

I'm sure they have more, but those are the main

two songs. Do You Believe in Magic and Summer

in the City? Those are the two that I remember

listening to the most as a kid. My mom would

always play them. I still listen to them now.

I've got them in my iTunes. And I just love them

for that. So moving on to your number eight My

number eight is the doors, which I'm sure will

probably show up a little bit higher on your

list Yeah Yeah, I mean, I'm not I don't think

the doors are Amazing per se. I don't know. I

find other people like them more than I do But

I like them enough that I have respect for them

I especially have respect for Jim Morrison as

the lyricist and a lead singer I think he was

one of the best front man of all time And they

definitely weren't a unique band they they used

a lot of organs they had kind of a bluesy sound

And the end is still one of my favorite songs

of all time. So Yeah, yeah definitely worthy

of that number eight spot. I wish I could have

put them higher, but I think There were too many

other bands that I wanted to put higher up So

that was that was as high as I could get them

on the list Yeah the doors are We're an awesome,

awesome band. They had really, really great music.

And as you said, I will be talking about them

later. My number eight is that woman that you

just have to respect, Aretha Franklin. That's

actually, I feel kind of bad because I don't

really have a lot of like black Motown artists

on my list. I mainly put her on here simply for

the The song respect because that's pretty much

all I I mean, I know I know the lady has an amazing

voice I've heard her sing the national anthem.

I've heard her sing other things, but I mean

respected You know when you when you hear Aretha

Franklin the first thing that pops in anyone's

mind is the song respect. Yeah Yeah, I think

chain of fools is probably the second song if

you have to name two But that was basically her

all -time biggest hit. Yeah It's kind of like

this is a random reference, but Beck is one of

my favorite artists. But as soon as you say Beck,

all anyone thinks of is Loser. And he has so

many other great songs, but the one song everyone

knows him for is Loser. And it's kind of the

same thing with Aretha Franklin. But yeah, she's

a great artist with amazing vocal talents. Just

a very I don't know like a very commanding artists

like she sort of like took over the microphone

I guess oh Yeah, had a great mic presence So

what is your number seven? My number seven is

the Beach Boys Definitely one of the most prolific

bands of the time and One of the few on this

list that is not British, actually, because this

was during the big British invasion. And the

Beach Boys is one of the biggest, if not the

biggest, American band at the time. Oh yeah.

If anyone hasn't heard Pet Sounds yet, that's

one of my favorite albums. It's a beautiful album.

But yeah, they had tons of great songs. I don't

think I really need to even say that much about

the Beach Boys. Everyone knows them, everyone

knows their songs, and they're one of those bands

that are kind of hard to hate. I don't think

I've ever met anyone who hates the Beach Boys.

I don't think so either. And again, they are

someone who, they're a band who has had a very

lasting career, even though I believe, didn't

one of them die? Didn't one of them pass away?

Not recently, but I don't know, I seem to remember

there's only like one or two of them left. Yeah,

Brian Wilson died, well not that long ago, like

in the 90s I think. Yeah. And I think another

one of them died recently, like in the 2000s.

So I think there's two or three of them left.

I think there was five Beach Boys, if I'm not

mistaken. Yeah, I think so. So I think there's

three of them left. I don't know, I'd have to

confirm that later. Yeah, we'll look that up

after we're done. Yeah. I should have done that

research beforehand. I apologize. I didn't know

we'd be talking about which ones of these bands.

Well, you know, I knew one of them passed away.

I wasn't sure if any of the others had. For my

number seven, it's simply because of Marty McFly.

Chuck Berry and Johnny B Good. I was going to

say it was Huey Lewis in the news making. Music

back at the 60s Chuck Berry is amazing actually

now that you mention it I I should have put Chuck

Berry on my list and I didn't and I think I just

sort of completely forgot and Yeah, now I feel

bad. Yeah Chuck Chuck Berry is amazing There's

a that's another guy that if you can go out pick

up I think it's called like 20 26 group or the

great 28 i think is what it's called it's one

of his greatest hits albums that has pretty much

all the chuck berry songs that you should ever

listen to like johnny b good maybeline um can't

think of the other ones those are like the two

those are the two main songs that everyone knows

them for i'm actually gonna pull up my itunes

But I don't know, why don't you talk a little

bit about Chuck Berry and why you like him? Mainly,

like I said, it's mainly because of Back to the

Future, honestly. When I saw that movie as a

kid, and I learned about him then. And like you

said, Maybelline and Johnny B. Gooder are his

two biggest hits. But I mean, talk about an amazing

guitarist. Yeah, yeah, definitely. And the stuff...

he did on stage where he did that like uh the

splits and the jumps and the kicks and just an

amazing amazing stage performer before there

really was stage performing i mean yeah there

i'm sure there was i'm not saying that there

isn't stage shows in the 60s but really when

i see Like, whether it's concert footage or whether

it's, you know, footage of artists and bands

from the 60s and 70s. Well, maybe not the 70s,

but the 60s specifically. They're not doing these,

you know, high -end stage performances. They're

just there with the microphone and they're singing.

Chuck Berry brought the stage performance to

life. Yeah, exactly. They were just... When other

bands were playing, they were sort of just swinging

back and forth with their instruments to the

beat. That's about it. But Chuck Berry definitely

revolutionized the idea of turning a concert

into a performance and actually really getting

the crowd going. And that's pretty awesome. So

again, I feel bad that I didn't have him on my

list. So I guess moving on to number six six

now, okay I just want to make sure my number

six is the Rolling Stones, which you already

talked about as your number ten Yeah, I don't

know if there's much else to say about them that

we already kind of talked about them for about

five minutes there So yeah, the Rolling Stones

are awesome again. Go pick up 40 licks and It'll

remind you of how many great songs the Rolling

Stones have that you've Forgotten were Rolling

Stone songs. You'll be like, oh man. I remember

that song. I used to listen to that all the time

Yeah, it's the Rolling Stones are like that.

They have so many hits that you forget about

them. Yep And I you know, I'm sure there are

plenty of Rolling Stone songs that I've heard

before That I just either didn't know it was

them or didn't even realize it at the time. But

yeah Just amazing amazing man. So my number six

is Let's all go down to Kokomo the Beach Boys

Which again we already talked about as my number

so that's kind of close actually like this is

probably the closest We've had two bands in our

lists. Yeah Now when you mentioned the Beach

Boys, I kind of like snickered and I was like,

oh, yeah Cuz I knew they were on my list and

I was like, okay Well, I'll let Dave have his

say and when I get to my number that they're

at I'll have my say and honestly before I hate

to say this but before the movie cocktail with

Tom Cruise in 1988 and and Kokomo I did not I

do not remember even knowing about the Beach

Boys I do not remember any of their other songs

before I heard Kokomo and then obviously I went

back and I listened to all the great songs that

they have but yeah as a kid that's what I knew

them for at the time was was the song Kokomo

from Cocktail uh and they've got so many great

songs there's uh Surfing USA and uh Bob O 'Ran

California Girls uh Sloop John B is one of my

favorites wouldn't it be nice yeah wouldn't it

be nice yeah just Yeah, I mean just an amazing

amazing, you know band great, you know Like again,

as you've said, you know sixties was kind of

like the happy era And I don't mean that in air

quotes I mean it in just you know, happy flowery

type, you know flower power era and There are

plenty of artists and bands in the 60s that do

the darker music the darker tones But the Beach

Boys were always though those upbeat songs those

songs that you could really party with And just

amazing amazing stuff and they were weirdly conservative

too for an era where everyone was progressing

into Like free love and stuff like that. They

were singing songs about waiting until you got

married to have sex like Kind of going against

the grain in that sense. Oh, yeah. But anyways.

What is your number five? My number five is The

Who, another band that has had quite a bit of

staying power. I mean, they just released a new

album in like 2007, I think, or at least the

two members that are still alive did. But yeah,

The Who is one of those bands, kind of like Led

Zeppelin, where every single member, it was four

members, it was the singer, guitarist, bassist,

and drummer, and every single one of them was

just amazing at what they did. Like their drummer

was Keith Moon, who's one of the best rock drummers

of all time. John Entwistle, if you can listen

to a Who song and just sort of focus on the bass.

His bass lines are so intricate and so detailed.

It's amazing and of course Pete Townsend and

Roger adultery the lead guitarist and lead singer

respect respectively Are just both amazing. They're

just one of those bands where all the musicians

were incredible and they came together to make

brilliant brilliant music and I think my generation

was one of the most like It's one of those songs

that just defines what the 60s was all about

basically. So yeah, The Who is definitely a band

worthy of being on this list and they were a

band that was still great in the 70s and even

a little bit into the 80s. Oh yeah, I mean, and

honestly even the 90s in today because look at

what... What and and any of these bands doesn't

matter if it's the 60s countdown the 70s countdown

the 80s 90s of the 2000s countdown Any of the

bands that will eventually bring up or talk about

throughout this music spotlight? they've always

had endorsement deals and You know the who I?

Forget which sign I know I know I know people

are screaming at their iPods and iPhones I forget

which song it is but one of their songs is the

theme song for CSI Las Vegas That's actually

all all three of the CSI's have who songs as

I Count is the one with Grissom Okay, well the

other two. I don't like the other two TV series

I don't I don't know what songs are in those

but the one I know is from the one with with

Grissom That's the one most people know that

was that song is who are you? That's basically

what it's called it's yeah, but From CSI New

York is Bob O 'Reilly, which is probably their

most famous song actually besides my generation

I guess and from CSI Miami. It's won't get fooled

again, which is another great song Yes, all right,

so what's your number five That left -handed

guitarist Jimi Hendrix Nice I actually have I'll

get to Jimi Hendrix much later. Okay Honestly,

Jimmy I mainly know For his being a left -handed

guitarist and and his amazing guitar playing

as far as songs Purple Haze is probably the only

one I really know You'd probably recognize a

few other ones like his cover of all along the

watchtowers pretty well -known, and Foxy Lady

is another one. Oh yeah, okay, right, yeah. See,

that's the thing, it's like, a lot of these,

like I said before, a lot of these things, sometimes

I may know the artist and I may know one song,

but I'm sure there's other stuff, so like, as

you're bringing these up, yes, I do remember

those, but talk about a guy who really revolutionized

music, I mean. Yeah, because Jimi Hendrix was

not only one of the best guitar players of all

time, and I guess I'll be able to talk more about

him later. So I won't I won't steal your or anything.

I just love the way that he. For me, because

I am also a left handed person, you don't see

a lot of left handed guitar players. Yeah, and

he actually had to. They didn't make left handed

guitars really back then, or if they did, they

were really expensive. So he actually just took

a regular guitar, flipped it around, and then

re -strung all the strings upside down. He also

played with his thumb a lot, which is a weird

thing. He had really long, skinny spaghetti fingers,

and he would reach his thumb over to the top

of the fretboard and play the top string with

his thumb, which is something that's a big no

-no for most guitar teachers. hey you know if

you have to improvise you have to improvise i

mean you you have to go with what works for you

as in any art form yeah i mean you know in anything

it doesn't matter what it is if if if the norm

if the norm practice isn't what works for you

change it to make it to work for yourself And

yeah, he was just amazing amazing amazing good

person and a great artist. So what is your number

four? My number four is the Beatles I know people

would probably expect that to be a little bit

higher on the list I I was kind of torn between

putting them at number three and number four

and then eventually I the other artists who I'll

talk about next one out But yeah, the Beatles

were great they had so many great songs that

there are literally entire radio stations that

play nothing but Beatles music. So for a band

that only existed for eight years to release

that many albums and that many songs was incredible.

And the way they just changed music. We talked

about this a lot on the 60s and 70s episode that

we did. But they basically they stopped touring

and they just sort of made albums for the fun

of making albums so they were doing things on

their albums that they could never do if they

performed the songs live and so people were listening

to these incredible albums like revolver and

sergeant pepper and Abbey Road and Just brilliant

works of art that they had put together and the

idea of creating an album that was almost like

a picture on a canvas like a work of art that

they have made Was something that was really

a new idea at the time and so they really did

change the face of music I I do think in some

ways they're kind of overrated Look, I mean people

are obsessed with the Beatles and I love the

Beatles, but I don't think They're not they're

definitely not my favorite band I just think

they're a really great band and they did a lot

of amazing stuff for music. So yeah I'll talk

about them later. My number four is the doors.

You mentioned them earlier. Jim Morrison, for

his time, I would say that Jim Morrison and Kurt

Cobain are almost very similar. Like in terms

of personality, you mean? No, as far as their

lyrics, as far as lyrics out there that just

knock you on your ass. Yeah. Yeah, he could really

write a song that really kind of got right into

your soul. Yep. You know, and in the Doors, just

great, great, great music. I'm trying to think

off the top of my head. I know Doors songs and

I can't think of any. Well the the biggest one

that most people know is What's it called light

my fire light my fire? Yeah, that's yeah, that's

that's what I was trying to think of break on

through to the other side is the other one La

woman, I don't know they they had a Quite a few

hits. Yeah, but yeah, Jim Jim Morrison is kind

of fascinating. I've never actually seen the

movie The Doors. I should go and rent that after

this now that I think of it. But yeah, like you

were saying, kind of similar to Kurt Cobain in

terms of the way he saw the world and stuff.

Kind of a dark outlook, but an outlook you could

relate to, though. It was kind of like the opposite

of The Beatles, where their music was very...

At least the early music was very kind of light

and pop chart friendly and all about love and

whatnot. And the Doors was, I don't know, kind

of more about death, I guess, and the difficulties

and hardships of life, which people could relate

to. Yeah, just... again I you know there isn't

a bad thing you can say about them just revolutionized

what they were doing at the time and you know

you still have all those songs that you mentioned

that are used today in anything yeah and you

still see people walking around with Doris t

-shirts all the time yep and you You know, I

mean, heck, just look at the actor who played

him in Wayne's World too. I mean, there are people

that really can emulate Morrison. Obviously no

one can replace him, but just amazing. So moving

on, what is your number three? My number three

is a band that is very near to my heart, and

that's Simon and Garfunkel. I was hoping you

were going to put them on the list. Yeah, they're

definitely a different kind of band. They didn't

really make straight -up rock music as much as

very folk -ish music, but they were brilliant

songwriters and great musicians, and both of

them had amazing voices, and their voices just

went so well together. The way they could harmonize

in certain songs is just beautiful. Scarborough

Fair, Bridge Over Troubled Water, stuff like

that. It's hard to listen to without a little

bit of a tear coming to your eye, I have to say.

They could just write very emotional songs, I

guess. And also, I think the main reason they're

on this list is because Bookends, one of their

albums from 1969, I think, 68, 69, around there,

is my second favorite album of all time. So just

a wonderfully put together little album Yeah,

it had like mrs. Robinson America is one of my

favorite songs ever and that's on there So yeah

might though if I had to make one album recommendation

out of all these artists If if anyone listening

to this has not listened to bookends yet go and

do that. It's just a beautiful beautiful album,

so now I'm sure Paul Simon himself will come

up in a later episode because, well, I do know

all the songs you just mentioned and I remember

listening to them as a kid. The main song that

I love and I will still put on to this day is

Paul Simon's, You Can Call Me Al. But that's

more of the 80s era. Yeah, that's from Graceland

in like 84, I think, something like that. my

number three is the temptations that's another

one i forgot to put on this list uh so all the

black people listening to this i did put love

though so yeah try not to hate me but yeah uh

mainly i remember them for the way you do the

things you do And again, it's all because of

Back to the Future, honestly. I knew who the

Temptations were, I know who Smokey Robinson

is, but I just wasn't listening to them as a

kid. I mean, as a kid I had stuff like, as bad

as this is gonna sound, Wham!, George Michael,

Billy Joel, Wang Chung, Holland Oates, You know

Paul Simon solo career, you know all this stuff

from the 80s because that's really where I grew

up Yes, I do remember my mom playing a lot of

these songs from the 60s, but Again, I'm old

my memories fuzzy Yeah, but the temptations were

awesome. They were understandable. Yeah, they

were they were a great band I think the main

song that I remember from them for the most part

is my girl Oh, yeah. Easily one of the biggest

hits of the 60s. I think this is one of those

bands. I don't really regret not putting them

as much as Chuck Berry. I think if I extended

the list to maybe top 15, they would definitely

be in there. I think they're just shy of being

in my top 10. Like, I do really like The Temptations,

but yeah, they were a great, fun little band

at the time. So, what is your number two? My

number two is Bob Dylan. The weird thing about

Bob Dylan is that he's not really a good guitar

player. He basically just plays basic, like,

minor chords in a lot of his songs. And he's

not really a good singer. The thing everyone

knows Bob Dylan for is for his kind of annoying

-ish, whiny voice. That kind of, like, it really

ain't his doom voice. But the guy could really

write music. He was a brilliant lyricist, a poet

more than anything, if I could call him that.

I think that's the main reason why he's on there,

is because he wrote a lot of songs that really

touched a lot of people, and a lot of songs that

really changed the face of music in a lot of

ways. Blowing in the wind and like a rolling

stone. Yeah Yeah, again, just an amazing amazing

musician, even though he's not really as you

said, he's more of a poet For my number two which

people are gonna kill us because they're not

number one Is the Beatles, you know all the songs

you mentioned earlier. I do like all those songs.

I remember hearing all those songs but honestly

for me they're Only own two Beatles songs Which

one is paperback writer and the other is obviously

probably one of their well actually three. I

own three sorry Paperback writer yellow submarine

and good day sunshine. Those are my three favorite

Beatles songs From their entire career. I know

that they've had plenty of other hits But those

are the ones that I can listen to at any time

the other ones not so much I actually have a

weird, because I have a top three Beatles songs

as well. Mine are kind of more obscure though.

My top three are actually Tomorrow Never Knows,

Everybody's Got Something to Hide Except Me and

My Monkey, and Here Comes the Sun. I think those

are, I don't know, I just enjoy listening to

those ones. I think I prefer the Beatles like

later career from like 1966 to 1970. But yeah,

definitely I already talked a lot about the Beatles.

Yeah, I mean it changed music You can't deny

what they did for music You know that they have

a great great legacy You know as you said they

put out all of these albums and they focused

on the album You know creation crafting more

so than the touring Which you know, I think you

know in those days you could do that nowadays

you have to go in put out a great album and then

go tour for two and a half years or whatever,

tour for six months, eight months, and just promote

it constantly. In today's music world, it's all

about promotion. As far as The Beatles' popularity,

that's really where I don't like them. It's not

really their popularity as musicians, but The

popular that everybody gravitates towards them

Yeah, it's like there's well some some people

that are Beatles fans It's it's okay, but some

people that kind of like idolize them. Yeah the

point of being Not even the idolizers, it's more

so the bandwagon jumpers Yeah, yeah, I guess

especially in the last few years a lot of people

have just jumped on to this like Beatles are

the best band ever bandwagon just so they can

kind of fit into this like hipster crowd that

thinks that the Beatles are great. I think people

should like the Beatles who are actually liking

the Beatles and I'll be the first to admit that

there are a lot of Beatles songs and Beatles

albums that I don't think are that really that

great. I know a lot of people think they're amazing

but I don't really like them that much. Most

of their early albums I don't really think are

that awesome. I just really gravitate towards

the later Beatles because I just... I love their

kind of more psychedelic, uh, drug -influenced

songs, as weird as that sounds, but that's the

stuff I enjoy listening to. Well, you are Canadian,

so it's allowed, I guess. Yeah, it's decriminalized.

And again, in today's world of promotion and

all that stuff, social networking, Twitter, Facebook,

all this and all that, it's like Beatlemania

has taken on a whole new life and it's like,

wow, why can't you just respect them for what

they did and just let it freaking die? It's like

Apple. Huge iTunes announcement. Ah! And I was

expecting something really, really huge. I hadn't

looked into what it was going to be. I didn't

want to really get spoiled. And then that Tuesday

of that day that that announcement was going

to come out, they're like, the Beatles are now

on iTunes. And I was like, really? That's the

announcement. That's the huge announcement. Well,

the only reason that was a big thing was because

The Beatles own Apple records and I guess there

was there was almost a lawsuit or something something

happened because Beatles own Apple records and

There's the Apple computing company brand. Yes,

and Yeah, they they were kind of against each

other for a while and then I guess they settled

their differences Probably because Paul McCartney

and Ringo Starr found out the amount of money

they could make by putting their music on iTunes

one of one of the best things that they ever

did in terms of That and Beatles rock band were

the two things that really brought them back

into the limelight and then they've re -released

their entire discography Well, not just on iTunes,

but they re -released like remastered versions

on CD at the same time Wow, yeah, they're So

they're really back in the public consciousness.

Oh, yes. And, you know, as you said before, for

a band that was only really around in the areas

of the 60s for like eight years, again, they

have that, they don't really have, I wouldn't

call it staying power as far, you know, when

I use the term staying power, I mean, you know,

an artist like Billy Joel, he's been around since,

I think the I don't have the facts in front of

me. I remember him from the 80s, but I think

he's been around since like the early 70s mid

70s Yeah, I think the first songs he did was

like 72 Yeah, he would have and he would have

been like my age like early probably younger

Even he would have been like 20 21 something

like yeah, you know That's a person that has

stayed that's an artist that has staying power

as far as continually releasing music The Beatles

have the staying power of just that Eight year

era because they accomplished so much like they

put out an entire music career in eight years

Yeah, they did in those eight years what most

bands took? Between yeah, like at least 20 years

to accomplish. Yeah. Yeah Because most bands

would release an album tour for a while and then

maybe a year or two later They would finally

release another album the Beatles were releasing

at least two albums every year Which is just

astonishing like I don't know how they did that

and kept their personal lives to be honest with

you Yeah But the Beatles are are really really

excellent. They are one of the top bands if not

the top band in in the 60s I just feel that,

for me personally, they're not my number one.

Yeah, and people need to keep in mind, even though

a lot of people will be thinking, oh, how could

you not put The Beatles' number one? Well, this

is our personal preferences. It's not the bands

that we think are the best ever. Yeah, it's not

objective. Because if I was doing an objective

list of what bands I thought were the most important

bands, or the most influential bands, then I

would probably put The Beatles' number one for

sure. But just as a personal... preference. I

don't think they're my number one. That's all

I'm saying. So what is your number one? Wow,

that's a hard Christmas vacation drum roll. Alright,

yeah, my number one is actually an artist you

talked about earlier, and that's Jimi Hendrix.

I just, I love Jimi Hendrix, and like I said,

I was gonna talk about him. I think there are

a lot of things I love about him. First off,

he was an amazing guitar player. Very few people

could play guitar like Jimi Hendrix and he was

completely self -taught He just picked up a guitar

and played with it for hours and hours and hours

I remember hearing somewhere that he would spend

up to 13 14 hours a day with a guitar sitting

on his lap like the guy was just in love with

his guitar it was his obsession basically and

So he became just an expert at playing guitar

in a very unorthodox way. Like you said, he would

flip it to the left. He played with his thumb.

He did all this stuff that were kind of big no

-nos for guitar playing. And he also, since he

didn't really have a precedent of this is the

right way to play a guitar, he would experiment

a lot with rearranging the strings on the guitar

and... One of the big major influences that Jimi

Hendrix had was basically more or less inventing

the effects pedal, which nowadays you go to a

rock concert and these guys have like eight effects

pedals in front of them and they're always like

clicking down on various ones depending on which

effects they want to get. Jimi Hendrix was one

of the first people to actually do that. distort

the guitar in various ways so that it had distortion

or flange or He didn't want the guitar to actually

sound like a guitar which was a very unique concept

at the time and I mean Jimi Hendrix and and the

Jimi Hendrix experience only had three albums

or three major albums There's a bunch of other

ones that have like unreleased material that

came out later, but I don't count them the three

major ones were Now I can't remember are you

experienced bold as love and electric lady land

and they're both Three of the best albums ever

made like the fact that he made three albums

in a row that were consistently brilliant It's

it's just too bad that he died in I think was

1970 71 and we never saw another album from the

guy because I would have liked to have seen I

almost wish I could have seen his career get

to the point where it started to suck, just to

see how long it would have taken. Because every

band kind of has the point where they're releasing

a bunch of five, four and a half star albums,

and then they get to the point where they have

some two and one star albums that aren't as good.

Wow. He created, I'm sorry to cut you off, because

I did pull up some information. He created three

of really great albums. Within probably I think

this layer four years of his career. He died

at age 27 Yeah, he's actually a member. He's

a member of what's called the 27 club of Famous

people that have died at the age of 27 which

now includes Amy Winehouse I don't know if she

serves to be in there, but she was 27 when she

died but Janis Joplin is another one that was

27, and Jim Morrison, we mentioned him too, and

I'm pretty sure he was in the 27 club. But yeah,

he wasn't old either. He was a young guy when

he was making these amazing albums and amazing

songs like Fire, Crosstown Traffic, Purple Haze,

Hey Joe, great songs and great albums. Yeah,

I don't know you just got to respect the guy

I guess Yeah, just yeah, just amazing. You know

like you said You know foxy lady purple haze

yeah All those really real. You know are you

experienced all those really really great songs?

and just someone who If he had lived past, you

know, obviously when he passed away, if he lived,

you know, longer, I'm sure we would have seen

even more awesome stuff from him. Yeah. Yeah.

So, my number one... Wait, we have to do the...

Yeah. Sorry, sorry, sorry, Clark. It's 25 ,000

twinkle lights just doesn't do it for us. My

number one is... Credence Clearwater Revival.

How did I miss this band? I just realized I didn't

put them... Then again, I think Credence... I

think they had a lot of hits in the 70s though.

I think if I had made a top 10 of the 70s, they

would have definitely been on there. But yeah,

that's another one I should... I'm gonna go back

and edit my list. Their early success was 67

-68. And then their peak success with stuff like

Proud Mary and Born on the Bayou You know stuff

like that was the the the peak success was 69

and 70 Is really where they peaked but you know

down on the corner Proud Mary Fortunate Fortunate

son, I mean You know just amazing amazing stuff

Yeah, Born on the Bayou is another one. They've

got so many great songs, Credence, and the weird

thing is they sang all these songs about sort

of Louisiana, backwoods country, but they were

actually from California, which is kind of weird.

But yeah, definitely a very influential band.

Again, kind of went against... The psychedelia

there was most of the music during the late 60s

was was psychedelic music and all about You know

expand your mind or whatever And CCR was just

making these very down -to -earth like blue -collar

tunes. I guess Oh, yes, the everyday guy could

listen to them and sing along Yeah You know and

John Fogerty went on to you know a solo career

that had really really great stuff but just them

as a band and all the songs that they put together

was just amazing amazing stuff and I just really

really loved them for it you know like I said

like I said my three favorites probably are you

know probably is Proud Mary, Down in the Corner,

Fortunate Son I know there's probably one other

one I'm gonna have to actually I'm gonna I'm

actually pulling it up in my iTunes Which why

is it not working? Maybe it's under CCR. I don't

know Anyways, yeah, they I don't know they had

tons of hits And a lot of really great albums

too And a very kind of unique likes kind of the

southern rock sound bad moon rising that was

the other one, okay Yeah, I knew there was another

one I couldn't think of it. Up around the bend,

I remember that one. Here Comes the Rain, I think

was one of them. Or no, Who Will Stop the Rain.

Who Will Stop the Rain, looking out my back door.

I'm looking at this track list in here, and just

songs that I... know the songs but I didn't probably

necessarily know it was then at the time but

it's like just you know obviously Proud Mary,

Down in the Corner, Fortunate Son, Bad Moon Rising

those are probably four of the most popular ones

but I didn't even remember you know looking out

my back door which actually probably was the

first one that I ever heard back I heard you

know You know in the in the 80s cuz they you

know, I had six that they they still today they

have 60s and 70s stations and stuff like that

and You know, I remember looking out my back

door. I remember that song and I remember listening

that song as a kid and just amazing amazing stuff

Yeah, definitely Worthy of being on this list,

even though they weren't on my list. I think

that was just sheer ignorance I think I literally

just forgot Put them on there, but if I were

to edit the edit this list I'd probably put them

in and Chuck Berry on there for sure I don't

know the only thing is I don't know who I would

take off to put them on there Yeah, so that's

the problem with making some of these lists is

once you Once you have them on there. You're

like how do I because there's a few that I That

I probably had on in my my first list that I

made and I you know Probably took them off to

add what I have on there now, but No, I mean

you know all the artists that we've talked about

today Just all of them are really really great

all of them say You know obviously what the 60s

was all about And just a lot of really great

music Yeah, definitely a good list from both

of us And I'm kind of glad that I forgot some

bands that you remembered and you didn't include

some bands that I had Yeah, because if you combine

those two lists together you get a really good

idea of some of the greatest artists of the 60s

and For people listening to us. These are all

artists. We definitely recommend going out buying

their albums downloading their albums on iTunes

or whatever and Just go and listen to their stuff

or even if you just pull it up on YouTube if

you don't want to if you just want to sample

it or whatever Yeah, I'm probably going to because

I've got a couple blog posts I have to write

up so I'm probably actually gonna rock out to

some CCR tonight Sounds like a plan. Yes, so

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here. So there you have it, folks. The top 10

favorite artists and bands of the 1960s from

myself, TF2 and Mike, and David Double D, Dennis.

Good discussion. Good talk. Yeah. You know. I

wasn't sure how it was going to go because I'm

not like a super expert on the 60s or anything,

but we definitely brought up, both of us brought

up a lot of. really good points about these bands

and why they were great and why people should

listen to them. I know this this list wasn't

that real extremely hard for me to make um because

there's only maybe about 15 bands that I kind

of had to go through the really hard one I guess

this will be a teaser for a later episode is

going to be the top 10 of the 90s I'm still deliberating

that list. I have a list of like a hundred bands

from the 90s that I love and I'm trying to like

go through them all and ugh. Yeah, you know,

for me the 80s is probably going to be hard.

The 80s and 90s are probably going to be hard

for me as well. The 2000s for me, that's easy

because it's all stuff I know I love and it's

all stuff that I listen to now. You know, stuff

like Nickelback, stuff like Theory of a Dead

Man, stuff like Saliva, I almost said Stone Temple

Pilots, Stone Sour, you know, stuff like that.

So the 2000s is probably going to be another

easy one for me, but 80s and 90s is going to

be tough. Yeah, definitely. But yeah, I guess

to wrap it up, the 60s were definitely one of

the most important, if not the most important

decade for rock and roll music. It was basically

the decade that defined what rock and roll music

was. And these bands, these like, I guess, 15

to 18 or so bands that we talked about with both

of our lists combined. Well, bands and artists,

I guess, are definitely the people that defined

not just rock, but soul and R &B and blues, southern

rock, all these different genres that basically

sprung from this decade. Yeah, I mean, the 60s

was a very defining era for music. I think almost

every era up to now has been a defining You know,

each decade has had its own defining moments.

I think each decade has sort of tweaked music

in some ways, but I think it didn't really define

it as much as the 60s did. It just sort of took

what was already defined and sort of changed

it for its own purposes, I guess. We hope you

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