Wild Style
Wild Style puts early Bronx hip-hop, graffiti, and break crews on screen before the culture had a finished product to sell.
Gang Of Four – Damaged Goods
Gang of Four issued Damaged Goods on Fast Product in 1978: Leeds funk-punk, Gill’s gaps, Allen’s bass first, romance treated as inventory.
Blondie – Cool enough for both rooms
Blondie moved from a Bowery loft and CBGB bills to Parallel Lines and a worldwide pop pulse without sanding off the dirt.
Michael Jackson – Billie Jean
Michael Jackson’s Billie Jean (Thriller, 1982): bass first, Ndugu, Quincy Jones.
1999 – Party apocalypse from Kiowa Trail
On 27 October 1982 Warner Bros. released 1999, a double album Prince cut mostly alone at his Kiowa Trail home studio in Chanhassen with heavy use of the Linn LM-1.
The Kinks – Waterloo Sunset
The Kinks’ Waterloo Sunset (1967): Ray Davies Thames sketch, invented Terry and Julie.
Monterey 1967 – Otis Redding
Late on 17 June 1967 Otis Redding asked the Monterey Pop Festival if this was the love crowd, then sang I've Been Loving You Too Long as if the answer had to be earned.
British Invasion or American scene: who invented modern rock?
Transatlantic credit for the sound that still fills stadiums.
Daft Punk – Something About Us
After the filter-house rush of One More Time and Aerodynamic, Discovery (2001) drops into a slower lane and refuses to apologise for it. Soft electric piano, a muted beat, and a vocoder vocal that reads like a.
Afterlife Interview with Joe Strummer
Riffs and Beats finds Joe Strummer in a West London alley under cold neon, leather jacket and Telecaster, treating the afterlife like another Clash call time.