Watch, listen and smell the atmosphere and attitude of the past.
It´s all about energy.
Wish i was there.
Tracklisting:
1. Nina Simone - Four Women (1969)
2. Mungo Jerry - In the summertime (1971)
3. Patti Smith - Horses (1975)
4 Magma - De Futura (high quality) (1977)
5. The Passenger - Iggy Pop and The Stooges (1977)
6. Gil Scott-Heron - The Bottle (1978)
7. Wendy O William and the Plasmatics - Butcher baby, Live (1980)
8. The Birthday Party - Nick The Stripper (1981)
9. Suicidal Tendencies - Institutionalized (1983)
10. Run DMC /Public Enemy - Sucker MCs (1984)
11. Afrika Bambaatta - Planet Rock (1984)
12. Fugazi - Waiting Room (1988)
13. Unsane - Alleged (1989)
Bonus:
14. "The Revolution Will Not Be Televised" - Gil Scott-Heron (2010)
Curated by Sandra Passaro
http://www.stars-and-heroes.com/1. Nina Simone -Four Women (1969)Protest singer, jazz singer, pianist, arranger and composer, Nina Simone is a great artist who defies easy classification. She is all of these: a jazz-rock-pop-folk-black musician. In fact, we can find her biography in jazz, rock, pop, black and soul literature.
Civil rights message was standard in Simone's recording repertoire, becoming a part of her live performances and spoke at many civil rights meetings, Simone advocated violent revolution during the civil rights period, rather than Martin Luther King's non-violent approach. She hoped that African Americans could, by armed combat, form a separate state. Nevertheless, she wrote in her autobiography that she and her family regarded all races as equal. Embittered by racism, Nina renounced her homeland in 1969 and became a wanderer, roaming the world.
2. Mungo Jerry - In the summertime (1971)"Father of Beatboxing"
In 1970, British band Mungo Jerry released In the Summertime, eventually selling 23 million copies worldwide. An interesting quirk of the track is that no traditional percussion is used, with all rhythmic and incidental percussion generated by the vocalist(s).
John Lennonsaid: „If we were still together the Beatles would be recording either with lot’s of orchestration as they had been doing and sounding like ELO, or more to my roots with skiffle and great honest sounds like Mungo Jerry“.
You Don’t Have to Be in the Army and the single You Don’t Have to Be in the Army to Fight in the War. Countless radiostations rejected to play the song, because of the political content. Nevertheless the single reached the charts.
3. Patti Smith Horses (1975)
My Queen!
"Life is filled with holes, Johnny's laying there, his sperm coffin
Angel looks down at him and says, “Oh, pretty boy,
Can't you show me nothing but surrender ?”
Johnny gets up, takes off his leather jacket,
Taped to his chest there's the answer,
You got pen knives and jack knives and
Switchblades preferred, switchblades preferred
Then he cries, then he screams, saying
Life is full of pain, I'm cruisin' through my brain
And I fill my nose with snow and go Rimbaud,
Go Rimbaud, go Rimbaud,
And go Johnny go, and do the watusi, oh do the watusi"
Patti Smith
4. Magma - De Futura (high quality) (1977)
"Father of Zeuhl"
Zeuhl means celestial in Kobaïan,the constructed language created by Christian Vander. Originally solely applied to the music of Vander's band, Magma, the term zeuhl was eventually used to describe the similar music produced by French bands, beginning in the mid-1970s. Although primarily a French phenomenon, zeuhl has influenced recent avant-garde Japanese bands.
5. The Passenger - Iggy Pop and The Stooges (1977)
Nothing to ad to the "Godfather of Punk"!
6. Gil Scott-Heron - The Bottle (1978)
Scott-Heron acknowledged as influences John Coltrane, Billie Holiday, Langston Hughes, Malcolm X, Huey and Nina Simone.
He released his new album I'm New Here on independent label XL Recordings on February 9, 2010. It´s his first studio album in sixteen years.
The album's remix, We're New Here, was released in 2011, featuring reworking by English music producer Jamie xx of material from the original album.
In 1972 the published his book: The Nigger Factory.
Renown poet, writer and musician, Gil Scott-Heron is best known to the hip hop nation for his statement ‘the revolution will not be televised’. It was this political militancy that inspired the likes of Public Enemy and other conscious rappers. But Scott’s indirect influence on hip hop goes even further with him being an artists, just like the Last Poets were, the at pioneered paths, that later were used for the progression of hip hop. And this might be something that can draw the hip hop crowd's attention to Scott’s work.
The early 1970s were a bleak time for black America. So much hope had died with the assassination of Martin Luther King. When Malcolm X was, in turn, shot dead, the leadership of the struggle for equality was seized by the paramilitary Black Panthers, and violence became its hallmark. There were riots in cities across the United States, and brutal encounters with the police. By 1971, Richard Nixon was president, the student movement was in disarray and the Black Panthers had been exposed for corruption and thuggery. It was into that moment that Gil Scott-Heron erupted with a string of albums that described with passion and purpose what life for black Americans was actually like.
Scott-Heron died on the afternoon of May 27, 2011, at St. Luke's Hospital, New York City, after becoming ill upon returning from a European tour. In response, Public Enemy's Chuck D stated "RIP GSH...and we do what we do and how we do because of you." on his Twitter account.
7. Wendy O William and the Plasmatics - Butcher baby, Live (1980)
"The Queen of Shock Rock"
Dubbed "The Queen of Shock Rock," Williams was widely considered the most controversial and radical female singer of her day.[1] She often sported a Mohawk haircut.
In January 1981, Milwaukee police arrested her for simulating sex on stage. Also charged with battery to an officer and obscene conduct, she was later cleared. Later that same year in Cleveland, Ohio, Williams was acquitted of an obscenity charge for simulating sex on stage wearing only shaving cream (she subsequently covered her nipples with electrical tape to avoid arrest).[5][6] Then, in November, an Illinois judge sentenced her to one year supervision and fined her $35 for roughing up a freelance photographer who had attempted to take her picture as she jogged along the Chicago lakefront.
Meanwhile, the Plasmatics toured the world, having a concert in London cancelled on safety grounds, where the press dubbed them "anarchists." During shooting of an appearance on NBC's SCTV comedy program in 1981, studio heads said they would not air Williams unless she changed out of a stage costume that revealed her nipples. Williams refused.
"I don't believe that people should take their own lives without deep and thoughtful reflection over a considerable period of time. I do believe strongly, however, that the right to do so is one of the most fundamental rights that anyone in a free society should have. For me, much of the world makes no sense, but my feelings about what I am doing ring loud and clear to an inner ear and a place where there is no self, only calm."
Wendy Williams suicide note
8. The Birthday Party - Nick The Stripper (1981)
"most challenging post-punk group"
The Birthday Party (originally known as The Boys Next Door) were an Australian rock band, active from 1973 to 1983.
Despite being championed by John Peel, The Birthday Party found little commercial success during their career. Though often indirect, their influence has been far-reaching, and have been called one of "the darkest and most challenging post-punk groups to emerge in the early '80s."
Above the barely-controlled racket, Cave's vocals ranged from desperate to simply menacing and demented. Critics have written that "neither John Cale nor Alfred Hitchcock was ever this scary," and that Cave "doesn't so much sing his vocals as expel them from his gut". Though Cave drew on earlier rock and roll shriekers; especially Iggy Pop and Suicide's Alan Vega, his singing with the Birthday Party remains powerful and distinct.
9. Suicidal Tendencies"Institutionalized" (1983)
"best-selling hardcore punk/skate punk albums at the time"
Suicidal Tendencies is the self-titled debut studio album by the American hardcore punk band Suicidal Tendencies. It was released on July 5, 1983 through Frontier Records. The album became one of the best-selling hardcore punk/skate punk albums at the time and launched the band into its future success.
Critic Ira Robbins writes that "Half-sung, half-recited and built on repeated sudden tempo changes, 'Institutionalized' is a unique, devastating centerpiece. One of the era's quintessential expressions of teen dislocation, it converts generation gap misunderstandings into a complete communications breakdown, encapsulating all the punk sociology of such films as Repo Man and Suburbia in four minutes."
"I Shot the Devil" was originally entitled "I Shot Reagan". The band is rumored to have been approached by the FBI to change the name of the song. The group eventually used the original title of the song on the lyrics sheet.
So you're gonna be institutionalized.
You'll come out brainwashed with bloodshot eyes.
You won't have anything to say.
They'll brainwash you until you see their way.
Refrain
They say they're gonna fix my brain.
Alleviate my suffering and my pain.
But by the time they fix my head,
Mentally I'll be dead.
10. Run DMC/Public Enemy - Sucker MCs (Live in 1984)
Vincent Gallo introducing them!
Run-D.M.C. took hardcore hip-hop from an underground street sensation to a pop-culture phenomenon.
"King of Rock" released 1985 defines their fusion of hip-hop with rock with more varied beats and a sharper guitar.
Following the success of Notorious, it has been announced that a Run–D.M.C. biopic is in production. The film is rumored to depict the life and story of the group beginning from their inception in Hollis, Queens, and leading up to the 2002 murder of Jam-Master Jay.
Though the group itself was never signed to the label, they were managed by Russell Simmons, produced by Rick Rubin (who was co-founder of Def Jam, along with Simmons), and often shared concert tour spotlight with acts on the label's roster. One of those acts was the political rap group Public Enemy, who had been signed to Def Jam since 1986.
Public Enemy started out as opening acts for the Beastie Boys during the latter's Licensed to Ill popularity, and in 1987 released their debut album Yo! Bum Rush The Show.
Around 1986, Bill Stephney, the former Program Director at WBAU, was approached by Sam the Assassin and offered a position with the label. Stephney accepted, and his first assignment was to help fledgling producer Rick Rubin sign Chuck D, whose song "Public Enemy Number One" Rubin had heard from Andre "Doctor Dré" Brown. According to the book The History of Rap Music by Cookie Lommel, "Stephney thought it was time to mesh the hard-hitting style of Run DMC with politics that addressed black youth.
In 1989, in an interview with Public Enemy for the Washington Times, the interviewing journalist, David Mills, lifted some quotations from a UK magazine in which the band were asked their opinion on the Arab-Israeli conflict. Professor Griff’s comments apparently sympathized with the Palestinians and was accused of anti-Semitism. According to Rap Attack 2, he suggested that "Jews are responsible for the majority of the wickedness in the world"
According to Chuck, The S1W, which stands for Security of the First World, "represents that the black man can be just as intelligent as he is strong. It stands for the fact that we're not third-world people, we're first-world people; we're the original people of the earth."
11. Afrika Bambaatta - Planet Rock (1984)
Bam was called the "Master of Records," and was acclaimed for the wide variety of music and break records he presented to the Hip-Hop crowd.
Durch sein Hip-Hop-internes Wirken kam er zu dem Titel “Godfather of Hip Hop”
Bam also made a landmark recording with James Brown, titled "Unity." It was admirably billed in music industry circles as "the Godfather of Soul meets the Godfather of Hip Hop."
During long music segments when Bam was deejaying, he would sometimes mix in recorded speeches from Malcolm X, Martin Luther King, Jr., and, later, Louis Farrakhan.
Afrika Bambaataa is one of the three main originators of break-beat deejaying, and is respectfully known as the "Grandfather" and "Godfather" of Hip Hop Culture as well as The Father of The Electro Funk Sound. Through his co-opting of the street gang the Black Spades into the music and culture-oriented Zulu Nation against war and apartheid, he is responsible for spreading rap and hip-hop culture throughout the world.
Around 1982 Hip-Hop artist Fab 5 Freddy was putting together music packages in the largely white downtown Manhattan New-Wave clubs, and invited Bam to perform at one of them, called the Mudd Club. It was the first time Bam had performed before a predominantly white crowd, making it the first time Hip Hop fused with White culture. Attendance for Bam's parties downtown became so large that he had to move to larger venues, first to the Ritz, with Malcolm McLaren's group, Bow Wow Wow.
In 1982 Bam had an idea for a record revolving around Kraftwerk's piece "Trans-Europe Express." Bam soon met John Robie, who brought Bam a techno-pop oriented record titled "Vena Carva" that he was trying to release. Bam then introduced Robie to Arthur Baker, and the three of them, along with Silverman and the Soul Sonic Force (#2), worked on the "Trans-Europe Express" idea, resulting in the piece "Planet Rock"-one of the most influential records in music. Bam called the sound of the record "Electro Funk,, or the "Electro-Sound," and he cited James Brown, Parliament, and Sly and the Family Stone as the building blocks of its composition. Planet Rock is the most sample record ever in Hip Hop.
Due to his early use of drum machines and computer sounds, Bam (as he is affectionately known) was instrumental in changing the way R&B and other forms of Black music were recorded. His creation of Electro Funk, beginning with his piece "Planet Rock," helped fuel the development of other musical genres such as Freestyle or Latin Freestyle, Miami Bass, Electronica, House, Hip House, and early Techno.
Around October 1985 Bam and other music stars worked on the antiapartheid album Sun City with Little Steven Van Zandt and Run-D.M.C.
12. Fugazi - Waiting Room (1988)
After the hardcore punk group Minor Threat dissolved, Ian MacKaye (vocals and guitar) was active with a few short-lived groups, most notably Embrace. MacKaye decided he wanted a project that was "like the Stooges with reggae," but was wary about forming another band after Embrace's break up. MacKaye recalled, "My interests were not necessarily to be in a band [per se], but to be with people who wanted to play music with me."
The group still needed a name, so MacKaye chose the word "fugazi" from Mark Baker's Nam, a compilation of stories of Vietnam War veterans, where it was used as slang for "fucked up", or, to be precise, "Fucked Up, Got Ambushed, Zipped In [into a body bag]".
13. Unsane - Alleged (1989)
Worlds best Noise Rock Band! NYH
14. "The Revolution Will Not Be Televised" - Gil Scott-Heron (2010)
R.I.P. Gil Scott Heron
Nothing left to say.
