Post "Must hear rock tunes for Rock Newbie!" (please?)

[Alocer]

OK, as many of you know I am no "well of information" as far as rock is concerened (50's, 60's, 70's and beyond) and would like to see if anyone has some "don't miss" selections. I am very comfortable in the genre's I am currently listening to and need my world shaken up a bit.

Bands or single songs from bands or both.

I am simply trying to diversify my collection and myself musically. I would like to thank anyone in advance for participating. There are tons of lists here but I'm curious what you would recommend a new ear....Look forward to the replies...
Thanks in advance.

 

[Hepcat]

Here are a few of my picks:

1. Behind Blue Eyes - Who

2. When the Music's Over - Doors

3. House of the Rising Sun - Animals

4. Do Wha Diddy Diddy - Manfred Mann

5. Sounds of Silence - Simon & Garfunkle

6. Save the Last Dance for Me - Drifters

7. Cross-Eyed Mary - Jethro Tull

8. Iko Iko - Dixie Cups

9. Set the Controls for the Heart of the Sun - Pink Floyd

10. Waiting for the Sun - Doors

11. When I Was Young - Animals

12. She's Not There - Zombies

13. Stray Cat Blues - Rolling Stones

14. Rebel Rebel - David Bowie

15. Clapping Song - Shirley Ellis

16. Will You Love Me Tomorrow? - Crystals

17. Californa Dreaming - Mamas & the Papas

18. Papa's Got a Brand New Bag - James Brown & His Famous Flames

19. Secret Agent Man - Johnny Rivers

20. No Milk Today - Herman's Hermits

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[Flower]

Fats Domino

 

[Alocer]

Nice....Thanks guys and gals! Look forward to more (I'm a bit of a sponge...)

 

[LG]

I will leave the 60's to those experts in the field, the 70's onward were more my specialty Alocer. I like all kinds of music, but especially the hard rock/metal, so I'll wait till more of our friends post some of their suggestions before adding my choices.

 

[Flower]

Irma Thomas

 

[Hepcat]

Here's a list of some of my favourite bands without any tunes on my top twenty list:

Hollies

Junior Walker & the All Stars

Kinks

Mamas & the Papas

Roxy Music

Spirit

Spooky Tooth

Traffic

T.Rex

Turtles

Vanilla Fudge

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[Magic]

Alocer,

I know you really love electronic music, so my recommendations to you would be to explore the world of Progressive Rock and Krautrock

Kraftwerk ~ Autobahn is a great album to start with. Krautrock and synthpop at its best.

another group you may like is Tangerine Dream. Start with their first release of 1970...and work your way up...you wont be sorry you did



Tangerine Dream ~ Electronic Meditation

 

[Foxhound]

I stayed up all night preparing this list for my buddy Alocer:

Amboy Dukes - Journey to the Center of Your Mind

American Breed - Bend Me, Shake Me

Animals - Don't Let Me Be Misunderstood

Animals - House of the Rising Sun

Animals - It's My Life

Archie Bell & The Drells - Tighten' Up

Beatles - A Hard Day's Night

Beatles - I'm Down

Beatles - I Saw Her Standing There

Beau Brummels - Just a Little

Beau Brummels - Laugh, Laugh

Big Brother & the Holding Company - Down on Me

Black Sabbath - Paranoid

Blue Cheer - Summertime Blues

Blues Magoos - (We Ain't Got) Nothing Yet

Bobby Boris Pickett & the Crypt Kickers - Monster Mash

Bobby Fuller Four - I Fought the Law

Booker T & the MGs - Green Onions

Cannibal & the Headhunters - Land of 1000 Dances

Castaways - Liar Liar

Chad Allan & the Expressions - Shakin' All Over

Chambers Brothers - Time Has Come

Choir - It's Cold Outside

Lou Christie - Lightnin' Strikes

Count Five - Psychotic Reaction

Cream - I'm So Glad

Cream - Spoonful

Cream - Sunshine of Your Love

Creedence Clearwater Revival - Down on the Corner

Creedence Clearwater Revival - I Heard It Through the Grapevine

Creedence Clearwater Revival - Proud Mary

Cyrkle - Red Rubber Ball

Cyrkle - Turn Down Day

Dave Clark Five - Bits and Pieces

Dave Clark Five - Glad All Over

Dave Clark Five - Over and Over

Doors - Hello, I Love You

Doors - Light My Fire

Easy Beats - Friday on My Mind

Electric Prunes - Get Me to the World on Time

Electric Prunes - I Had Too Much to Dream Last Night

Every Mother's Son - Come on Down to My Boat Baby

Freddie & the Dreamers - I'm Telling You Now

Gary Lewis & the Playboys - This Diamond Ring

Grass Roots - Let's Live for Today

Guess Who - American Woman

Herman's Hermits - Silhouettes

Hollies - Bus Stop

Hollies - Stop, Stop, Stop

Hombres - Let It All Hang Out

Human Beinz - Nobody but Me

Iron Butterfly - In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida

Jay & the Americans - Come a Little Bit Closer

Jefferson Airplane - Somebody to Love

Jimi Hendrix Experience - Fire

Jimi Hendrix Experience - Hey Joe

Jimi Hendrix Experience - Purple Haze

John Fred & His Playboy Band - Judy in Disguise (With Glasses)

Kingsmen - Louie Louie

Kinks - All Day and All of the Night

Kinks - Lola

Kinks - Till the End of the Day

Kinks - You Really Got Me

Knickerbockers - Lies

Led Zeppelin - Good Times Bad Times

Led Zeppelin - Whole Lotta Love

Lemon Pipers - Green Tambourine

Los Bravos - Black Is Black

Mandela - Loveitis

Manfred Man - Do Wha Diddy Diddy

McCoys - Fever

McCoys - Hang on Sloopy

Mitch Ryder & the Detroit Wheels - C.C. Ryder

Mitch Ryder & the Detroit Wheels - Good Golly Miss Molly/Devil with the Blue Dress

Mitch Ryder & the Detroit Wheels - Jenny Take a Ride

Mitch Ryder & the Detroit Wheels - Sock It to Me Baby

Music Explosion - A Little Bit of Soul

Music Machine - Talk Talk

Nashville Teens - Tobacco Road

Outsiders - She's So Respectable

Outsiders - Time Won't Let Me

Paul Butterfield Blues Band - Born in Chicago

Paul Revere & the Raiders - Hungry

Paul Revere & the Raiders - Just Like Me

Paul Revere & the Raiders - Kicks

Pretty Things - Midnight to Six Man

? and the Mysterians - 96 Tears

Johnny Rivers - Memphis

Johnny Rivers - Midnight Special

Johnny Rivers - Secret Agent Man

Rhinoceros - Apricot Brandy

Rivieras - California Sun

Rolling Stones - Get off of My Cloud

Rolling Stones - It's All Over Now

Rolling Stones - The Last Time

Rolling Stones - (I Can't Get No) Satisfaction

Sam the Sham & the Pharaohs - Little Red Riding Hood

Sam the Sham & the Pharaohs - Wooly Bully

Searchers - Love Potion #9

Searchers - Needles and Pins

Seeds - Pushin' Too Hard

Shadows of Knight - Gloria
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Del Shannon - Runaway

Sir Douglas Quintet - Mendocino

Sir Douglas Quintet - She's About a Mover

Spencer Davis Group - Gimme Some Lovin'

Spencer Davis Group - I'm a Man

Spencer Davis Group - Keep on Running

Spencer Davis Group - Somebody Help Me

Standells - Dirty Water

Standells - Why Pick on Me?

Steppenwolf - Born to Be Wild

Steppenwolf - Magic Carpet Ride

Steppenwolf - Sookie Sookie

Strangeloves - I Want Candy

Strangeloves - Night Time

Strawberry Alarm Clock - Incense and Peppermints

Surfaris - Wipe Out

Swingin' Medallions - Double Shot (Of My Baby's Love)

Syndicate of Sound - Little Girl

Them - Baby Please Don't Go

Them - Here Comes the Night

Tommy James & the Shondells - Hanky Panky

Tommy James & the Shondells - Just a Mirage

Tommy James & the Shondells - Mony Mony

Trashmen - Surfin' Bird

Tremeloes - Here Comes My Baby

Troggs - I Can't Control Myself

Troggs - Wild Thing

Troggs - With a Girl Like You

Turtles - Happy Together

Turtles - Let Me Be

Turtles - She'd Rather Be with Me

Ugly Ducklings - Gaslight

Ugly Ducklings - Nothin'

Wayne Fontana & the Mind Benders - Game of Love

Who - Happy Jack

Who - I Can't Explain

Who - Pinball Wizard

Yardbirds - For Your Love

Yardbirds - Heart Full of Soul

Yardbirds - Over, Under, Sideways, Down

Zombies - She's Not There

Zombies - Tell Her No

 

[Alocer]

Alocer,

I know you really love electronic music, so my recommendations to you would be to explore the world of Progressive Rock and Krautrock

Kraftwerk ~ Autobahn is a great album to start with. Krautrock and synthpop at its best.

another group you may like is Tangerine Dream. Start with their first release of 1970...and work your way up...you wont be sorry you did



Tangerine Dream ~ Electronic Meditation

Ahh Magic, Spot on as usual! I have both of their discographies already! Love em, you got me... They were some of my first "Electronica" too.