History of Rock and Roll Exam Two: '60s Genres; Sgt. Pepper and the Concept Album
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 1965 - "The Year of the Album": | -More mature artists stop recording the bubblegum, dance, pop music. --Become more sophisticated -Time of experimentation and studio work. --Album sales outsell singles for the first time. ---Wanted people to listen to their work as a unit. |
| The Beatles - "Middle Period": | Rubber Soul, 1965 -Met Bob Dylan, which led to their drug use of weed and LSD. --Their sound began to change because of Bob Dylan. --John Lennon, was inspired by Dylan's poetry involved in his songs. -Rubber Soul, greatly influenced by Bob Dylan --A lot of experimentation on this record. --Album cover was different, they didn't put their name on the front of it and only John Lennon was looking at the camera. -When the record came out it had a great effect on Brian Wilson. --He was worried about finances, the Beatles had two record labels. The Beach Boys only had one, Capitol. --Wilson had an emotional and mental breakdown during this period and stopped touring. -EMI was their producer in Britain and Capitol Records was their record label in the States |
| Brian Wilson - Came up with the concept album called "Pet Sounds" in 1966: | -Came up with the concept album called "Pet Sounds" in 1966. --No surfing music on this record. -Capitol record was their label. --Didn't want to promote it at first. -Brian would not allow them to release singles, he wanted them to listen to the whole thing. But, the label made them. -First concept album; Similar story or theme. -Still "Beach Boys" sound, thoughtful songs and lyrics; Theme was about growing up. -Unusual instruments, a lot of harmony. -Was widely praised in the UK, and by Paul McCartney. --"Pet Sounds" comes out in England at about the same time that The Beatles put an album out. He thought it was the best thing he ever listened to. -Influenced their Sargent Pepper album. |
| Brian Wilson - "Pet Sounds" Key Singles: | -"Wouldn't it be Nice" --Teenager wanting to spend the night with his girlfriend. --Starts off soft, so they would turn it up and then the music got really loud. --The soft part was the childhood and the lough part of the drum was the slap in the face of adulthood. -"God Only Knows" --First pop sound to have God in the title.; Was banned for this. --Thought to be his best song. -"Sloop John B" --Only song on the record that Brian did not write. --Fit into the theme. --Most commercially recognized song on this album. -"Caroline, No" --About his wife, his childhood sweetheart. --Comes to see that they are getting old. |
| "Here There and Everywhere" by The Beatles: | -Written by The Beatles, imitated the sound of The Beach Boys. -Record was called "Revolver" -"Tomorrow Never Knowns" the experience of the LSD trip he had. -The two keep trying to top each others album, at this time in 1966 The Beatles stop recording. --They were working on a new album that they thought would revolutionize music. |
| BBC Radiophonic Workshop: | -Modular approach, "Song Collage" -Brian was doing the same thing at this time, influenced by Delia Derbyshire's creations. -Delia Derbyshire did this for BBC: --Put together crazy sound effects for a 30 music clip. --Original theme was all electronic. -New sound |
| Brian Wilson's Single "Good Vibrations": | -November 1966 -Forced The Beatles to come out of recording. -The song was all modular --Had 5 distinct parts to it, regarded it as a symphony. --All the musicians and singers on this song was separately recorded and edited to created the final song. --Recorded in several studios, over 4 months, in 17 sessions. -Most expensive single produced to date. --It includes The Beach Boys, experimental recording, and a symphony. -The Theramin was used in the song. --Electro-theramin, portable one. -Comes out around christmas time and completely freaks The Beatles out. The Beach Boys were on top. |
| The Beatles concept album: | -Decided to pull two songs off their album in response to The Beach Boys song. -The song was called "Strawberry Fields Forever" and "Penny Lane" in 1967 --Lyric collage. --John was singing about his childhood. --Places in Britain. -"Penny Lane" --More modular. --This single has two A sides to the record, not a A side and a B side. --Was an orphanage -Sargent Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band 1 June 1967: --This was what The Beatles were up to. --It was their concept album. -After the second song it is not so much a concept album. --The went back to their roots after that. -Important album, many tried to imitate it. -It was done with great care, and no one knew when it was coming. --It was extremely different, and people didn't know what to think of it. --They went in a new direction. -All done by hand, have to create a lot of thing to create these records. -Done on analogue tape. --Each layer recorded would create a hiss, so they created the dolby noise reduction system. --Also created ABT, automatic double tracking. -Hanger was also invented and used by them. -Made use of a full orchestra -Create a wall of noise, leading up to the biggest longest cord ever recorded. -Emotional build up. --Also engineered in stereo |
| The Beatles concept album cover: | -Had them in psychedelic outfits. -Include role models. -Had 9 Beatles on the cover of the record. --They had the wax copies of themselves, showing the old and the new Beatles. -A lot of symbolism;Very expensive cover. -All their heroes but two were included, they could't include Jesus and Hitler. |
| Brian Wilson's response to the Beatles Concept Album: | -American concept album --"Smile" 1967/2005 --"Hero's and Villains" First song on "Smile" -Lyrics didn't make sense to the other Beach Boys. -This is the time that Brain Wilson went crazy. --It as an aborted project. --The finished songs were put on other albums. -2005 Brian Wilson said he was going to refinish the album. --End of this month, Capitol will release "Smile" -He does not work or perform again until the 1990s because he goes nuts. |
| A number of concept album are released by many different groups: | -The Kinks: --"Arthur" -The Small Faces -The Pretty Things |
| The Who take the concept album idea and add a new sound to it, creating "Tommy" in 1969: | -It was promoted as a rock opera. -Made into a movie, when it was more of a glam rock song, 1975. |
| New Styles/Concepts Emerge: | -Hair, 1969: --Put rock on stage, through a stage show. --Hippie play, performed on Broadway. --Not opera, just a musical. -Jesus Christ, Superstar 1970: --First rock opera. --Felt that rock and roll could be used to tell emotional stories. -Godspell, 1970: --Followed Jesus Christ, Superstar. -Othello, 1974: --Opera takes it's lyrics and story lines from different forms of literature. -Rock opera becomes more accepted in the 1970s. |
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