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Hi peeps,
I need a bit of help from some fellow researchers in finding suitable tracks for a project of rebel youth from the 50's thru the 70's any suggestions?
Thanks in advance,

Z.

Got no idea about Punk, But I could supplyy some old Goth (http://www.bbc.co.uk/h2g2/guide/A473924) stuff...
Bands like
Joy Division (http://www.bbc.co.uk/h2g2/guide/A569513)
X-Mal Deutschland
Bauhaus
...

Other eras: Rolling Stones, Hendrix, Black Sabbath, Led Zepplin, Deep Purple ...

But you asked for tracks... what would you consider suitable for your project?

Are you looking for world wide music, or just UK?

Are you looking for songs belonging to rebel movements (ie Revolutionary / insurgent / insurrectionary movements) Or more Camu-esque teenage rebellion type things?

The first place i'd direct you is Jon Savage's "Englands Dreaming" (Faber and Faber) - a book on the Sex Pistols and Punk Rock, basicaly a sociological study, which deals extensively with the roots of rebel music that inluenced and informed the punk movement.

My first thoughts:
The US Folk movement: Woody Guthrie; Harry Smith; Phil Ochs; Bob Dylan;
Rock n Roll: Chuck Berry; Eddie Cochran; Elvis Presley
UK Folk: Ewan McColl; Ralph McTell
Brit pop: Beatles; Stones;
Hippie: Janis Joplin; Hendrix
Glam: Velvet Underground; Bowie; Stooges
Punk: Sex Pistols; Stiff Little Fingers; CRASS

For my money possibly the best, and most rebellious track ever recorded: Dancing in the Streets by Martha Reeves and the Vandellas - three black women, travelling across white man's America in a van, spreading the word: "Every guy, every girl, everywhere around the world, will be dancin', dancin' in the street" - that's what MY revolution will be like.

My project is to supply specific tracks that will remind adults from the age of 30 - 65 that when they were young there was a bad perception of youth culture and therby challenge the hypocrisy they have now looking down at rebelious youth today!

perfect example from punk
'when the kid's are united'

any clearer?

Z.

"My Generation" - The Who stands out.

You'd have to mention some Acid House stuff from the late 80's. All those evil, pill-popping and strangely friendly youthzz dancing and gurning like they were possesed. Music? Er, 808 state, maybe, Orbital, yes. Mention some DJs instead of bands. You get the picture.

Ste

you might want to put some reggae or ska music in there too.

there are far too many punk bands for me to name, but start with the sex pistols, the clash, sham 69, the ramones and any other mainstreamish bands of the day.

I see no one has mentioned The Pogues or Billy Bragg yet.

The Doors! any thing by the doors screems rebelion.... well when u put it the context of the time it was recorded and the effect it had on anyone over the age of 25

Yeah!
The Doors sound like a possible contender, but which 1?
Th Who - Talking about my generationis a definite, what a perfect example!

Anything punk I've got an abundance of, anything after that is too late, Anyone give me an example of the 50's?

Z.

Hmm, with the fifties your probably looking at Jazz and Blues. Maybe Screamin' Jay Hawkins would be somebody to look at, or Lightnin' Hopkins.

The man with the swivelling hips, 1956, Heartbreak Hotel, Elvis Presley, truly a landmark in music and teenage rebellion, inspired John Lennon to play music. Or Eddie Cochran, Chuck Berry, Jerry lee-lewis playing piano with his boots. That sort of thing, I'd say.

Rock Around the Clock by Bill Hailey and the Commets - at the time it was VERY dangerous, and the accompanying film "Blackboard Jungle" was once of those moments that invented the notion of 'the Teenager'.

Very early Elvis (have you heard the way he wails on Lawdy Miss Clawdy).

Woody Guthrie - try and find the 'full' version of This Land is My Land.

don't know either of those tracks autist!

I'll have to search them down!

Any others?