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| My "Pre-Rock" Era
I have been doing an exercise where I compile, rank order, and write up something for my 100(ish) favorite songs of all time. It is tedious but fun, and provides some cool perspective that I don't always think about when I'm just listening to my favorite tunes. I have been doing some fun data analysis and it's showing some interesting taste-related things. One of the most jarring is that I have a veritable grand canyon with a lack of picks during what most people and pop-culture considered the heyday of Rock music (mid-60s-80s). For context, of the 100 songs, I only have a handful of tracks from the 60's & 70's, and nearly all of them are folk or country (Dave Van Ronk, Townes VanZandt, etc), but I have nearly 30 from before the early 60's. I've been calling this the "Pre-Rock" era, which is a bit of a misnomer because obviously Rock & Roll started much earlier, and many of the tracks that I have are definitely R&B leaning early rock&roll, but it symbolizes a pre-Beatles pre-classicrock time period that I adore. It's a lot of jazz, jump blues, and country/folk. I've decided to add all of those tracks here if you want to get a picture of my taste. Descriptions are the rank I have them in my all-time top tracks and the year of release. | | 1 | Dave Van Ronk
Tell Old Bill
#2, 1961, Folk | | 2 | Billie Holiday
I'll Be Seeing You
#5, 1944, Jazz | | 3 | Tennessee Ernie Ford
Shenandoah
#7, 1959, Country | | 4 | The Mills Brothers
Paper Doll
#13, 1942, Jazz / Quartet | | 5 | Marty Robbins
They're Hanging Me Tonight
#14, 1957, Country | | 6 | The Louvin Brothers
Satan Is Real
#16, 1960, Country | | 7 | Carl Perkins
Sure to Fall
#24, 1957, Country / Rockabilly | | 8 | Fats Waller
Ain't Misbehaivin'
#27, 1929, Jazz | | 9 | Nat King Cole
It's Only a Paper Moon
#30, 1956, Jazz | | 10 | Billie Holiday
Easy Living
#32, 1937, Jazz | | 11 | Wynonie Harris
Bloodshot Eyes
#34, 1951, Jump Blues | | 12 | Dave Van Ronk
Hang Me, Oh Hang Me
#38, 1962, Folk | | 13 | Hank Williams
I'll Never Get Out of This World Alive
#40, 1952, Country | | 14 | Louis Jordan
Salt Pork, West Virginia
#45, 1946, Jazz/Blues | | 15 | Wynonie Harris
Lovin' Machine
#48, 1954, Jump-Blues | | 16 | The Louvin Brothers
The Great Atomic Power
#50, 1962, Country | | 17 | Guy Mitchell
Heartaches By The Number
#52, 1959, Country | | 18 | Johnny Long
We'll Build a Bungalow
54, 1950, Jazz | | 19 | Hank Williams
Ramblin' Man
#58, 1951, Country | | 20 | Louis Jordan
Is You Is Or Is You Ain't My Baby
#69, 1946, Jazz/Blues | | 21 | Eddie Arnold
It's a Sin
#71, 1949, Country | | 22 | Bill Monroe & His Blue Grass Boys
Blue Moon of Kentucky
#78, 1945, Country/Bluegrass | | 23 | The Ink Spots
We Three (My Echo, My Shadow, & Me)
#79, 1946, Jazz / Quartet | | 24 | Roy Brown
Hard Luck Blues
#98, 1950, Jazz/Blues | | 25 | The Songs That Are Just a Little Late
Like, mid-60s directly competing with the British Invasion
Johnny Cash - Cocaine Blues (1968), Phil Ochs - I'm Not Marching Anymore (1965), Twones Van Zandt - Waiting Around to Die (1969) | |
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