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Author:	dolcevita [ Wed Apr 06, 2005 1:07 pm ]
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Its getting a wee bit old, I ofund it on a search database, and I thought it was pretty cute though: Rank 100 BAUHAUS RELEASES `BELA LUGOSI'S DEAD' 9/3/79 Guitarist Daniel Ash has no idea how the single "Bela Lugosi's Dead" sparked "this whole Goth nonsense." Bauhaus cut the dirge for $35 in a cozy, sunny den in the English town of Wellingborough. "We wrote it instantly," says Ash. "It was one of those magic moments." But as the single crept out, thousands of teens used it to conjure up the Nosferatu chic (black nails, porcupine hair, powdered skin, Count Dracula capes) of Goth, a movement that would cast a spell on performers like Trent Reznor and Marilyn Manson for two decades to come. Rank 99 JETHRO TULL Wins the Grammy... for HEAVY METAL! 2/22/89 Was America finally embracing those dudes in Judas Priest jean jackets down at the 7-Eleven? It sure seemed like it. The famously uncool Grammys had added a long-overdue Best Hard Rock/Metal category, and uncompromising headbangers Metallica (fronted by guitarist James Hetfield, right) were invited to perform their intense epic "One" at the glitzy ceremony. "We never felt like, 'What the f--- are we doing here?' " says drummer Lars Ulrich. "We were like, 'If they want us, we'll f---ing do it and we'll f---ing step up to the plate and f---in' kick them in the head a little bit harder than anybody else.' " D'oh! Soon after the band's thundering performance, the Grammy went to washed-up proggers Jethro Tull, solidifying metal's status as rock's most undeservedly disrespected genre. Rank 98 Green Day's Woodstock II Mud Melee 8/14/94 By Sunday the ground was a wet, gray brown pudding, and after three days of slogging through it, the pilgrims at Woodstock '94 were feeling punchy. So when Green Day took the stage--armed with an arsenal of punk-pop anthems--fans struck upon a clever way to vent their frustration and glee: They threw mud. Green Day threw back. Within seconds, the gooey clumps set off a Gen-X turf war. The winner? Rock & roll. Rank 97 JIM MORRISON "Flashes" Audience 3/1/69 It was already overheated at Miami's Dinner Key Auditorium. Then, as the Doors played "Touch Me," a drunk, half-naked Jim Morrison taunted the crowd with the promise of exposing more. A near riot ensued, the stage collapsed, and the Lizard King was later convicted of using profane language and indecent exposure. What really happened? "Mass hallucination," contends keyboardist Ray Manzarek. "At the trial there were hundreds of concert photos--and not one of Jim's ivory shaft." Rank 96 The BIG CHILL Soundtrack Peaks At No. 17 on The Billboard 200 1/21/84 Like the '60s, it started innocently enough. While Lawrence Kasdan directed Hollywood's ode to wilting flower power, The Big Chill, his wife, Meg, stockpiled homemade cassettes full of chestnuts by the Temptations and Marvin Gaye--songs that might sound nice in the movie. "It was very casual," she says. Once Meg's Motown mix exploded on the charts, however, baby boom "counterculture" became a Madison Avenue code word for "comfort." Thereafter, the oldies would sell laxatives, not love. Rank 95 Ginger Quits The Spice Girls 5/31/98 As rock entered its fifth decade, the old rules--substance over flash, rock over pop--crumbled like so many post-MTV VJ careers. Nothing captured this transitoriness more than Geri Halliwell's announcement she was exiting the Spice Girls at the peak of their fame. "I was running at this high level of energy," says Halliwell. "I had to put it into something else, or God knows what I would have done." Like become a Backstreet Girl? Rank 94 ELVIS' Aloha From Hawaii Via Satellite 1/14/73 It was the beginning of the end: the moment an enormous TV audience (a billion-plus viewers) discovered that the King was living large. Though hardly the obese caricature he would later become--Elvis had lost 25 pounds on a diet that reportedly required daily injections of urine from a pregnant woman--it was, says singer and Elvis historian Mojo Nixon, "the last great gasp before the pills, panties, and pudginess took over." Decades later, the appeal of Fat Elvis versus Young Elvis would be debated by many, including the U.S. Postal Service. Rank 93 MASSIVE ATTACK Releases Blue Lines 7/22/91 A long time ago, bands played instruments, made music rooted in blues and country, and had stable lineups with recognizable members. With its first album, this Bristol, England-based collective of DJs and producers subverted those rules forever. Their blend of rap, reggae, heavy-lidded R&B singing, and multi-textured samples--dubbed trip-hop and epitomized by "Unfinished Sympathy"--influenced everyone from Tricky to Portishead and rerouted the sound of pop. Blue Lines was such a harbinger that it could have been called Blue Print. Rank 92 MICHAEL JACKSON Heats Up 1/27/84 How hot was Jacko in early '84? While shooting a Pepsi TV spot, the newly crowned King of Pop actually caught fire when a special-effects mishap ignited his glossy locks, giving him third-degree burns. It was the beginning of 15 years of bad karma, as his increasingly freakish behavior invited derision and eventually a lawsuit alleging the sexual abuse of a child (later settled out of court). Though far from extinguished, today his career burns significantly less brightly. Rank 91 THE REPLACEMENTS Sign to Sire 5/7/85 The first time Sire Records chief Seymour Stein (the man who signed Madonna) caught a Replacements show at a Manhattan club, he decided to bring the indie darlings into his fold. "I'd heard they could be awful live, or really great," he says. "That night they were great." Purists called the Minneapolis quartet's defection to the major label "rock's great sellout." Some sellout. Tim, the band's first Sire album, was recorded without label interference and sold fewer than 100,000 copies, according to lead singer Paul Westerberg: "If anyone got rich off the deal, it's news to me." Rank 90 New Wave Swells When The THE POLICE Play Shea 8/18/83 Though the new-wave craze is often remembered not for its musical merits but for the fashion bloopers it inspired--skinny ties, bug-eyed spectacles, and silly haircuts--the Police's innovative pop excursions lent the genre some old-school respect. In 1983, Synchronicity (featuring the chart-topping "Every Breath You Take") held the No. 1 album spot for 17 weeks. The album was the band's last, but that night at Shea Stadium, the Police both defined and transcended new wave. Drummer Stewart Copeland recalls: "Those 70,000 people were not 'new wavers,' they were everybody." *************************************************************************** That's pretty low ranking for Aloha IMO. And I don't know how Ginger leaving the Girls made it up there. Everyone knew they were falling out by then. Most likely, if I'd given something to the PSice Girls it would have been for their first hit and music video, because that was HUGE.

Author:	rusty [ Wed Apr 06, 2005 10:03 pm ]
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I've seen the tv show about 100 times The number 1 is obvious and everyone should know it.

Author:	Maverikk [ Wed Apr 06, 2005 10:05 pm ]
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#1 will be... The Beatles play the Ed Sullivan show for the first time, guaranteed!

Author:	rusty [ Wed Apr 06, 2005 10:13 pm ]
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Maverikk wrote: #1 will be... The Beatles play the Ed Sullivan show for the first time, guaranteed! Wouldn't it be a different beatles incident?

Author:	torrino [ Wed Apr 06, 2005 10:24 pm ]
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rusty wrote: Maverikk wrote: #1 will be... The Beatles play the Ed Sullivan show for the first time, guaranteed! Wouldn't it be a different beatles incident? Like what? Honestly, I don't think John Lennon's death counts as a "great" moment in rock and roll history.

Author:	dolcevita [ Wed Apr 06, 2005 11:03 pm ]
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:razz: I saw this ones eons ago, and stumbled upon a print list. Guys...you are going to ruin the fun for anyone that doesn't know. Or is like me, and has such a bad memory they forgot years ago.

Author:	rusty [ Wed Apr 06, 2005 11:21 pm ]
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torrino wrote: rusty wrote: Maverikk wrote: #1 will be... The Beatles play the Ed Sullivan show for the first time, guaranteed! Wouldn't it be a different beatles incident? Like what? Honestly, I don't think John Lennon's death counts as a "great" moment in rock and roll history. ahh, I must be thinking of vh1's 100 most shocking moments in rock n' roll. But seriously, we all know that the top 2 are gonna have to be something with the beatles and michael jackson.

Author:	dolcevita [ Thu Apr 07, 2005 12:43 am ]
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Rank 89 MILLI VANILLI IS EXPOSED 11/14/90 The rumor had circulated, but more than girls knew it was true when about a year after an onstage lip-synch slipup, producer Frank Farian confessed to the press that Rob Pilatus and Fab Morvan were the world's most sophisticated ventriloquist act. ("Sure, they have a voice, but that's not really what I want to use on my records," Farian said.) Some shock waves were immediate: The humiliated duo had to return their Best New Artist Grammy. Others--a backlash against dance pop that paved the way for the Unplugged fad--unfolded over time. Besides, where would Behind the Music be without Rob and Fab's disgrace? Rank 88 Maurice Starr Meets NEW EDITION JANUARY '82 It was a less-than-swinging start: One winter day in the projects of Roxbury, Mass., a group of kids auditioned unsuccessfully for producer-songwriter Maurice Starr. But "to get rid of them," Starr says, he let them sing for him again--when suddenly the power of Ralph Tresvant's pipes kicked in. "The kid had a sellable voice," Starr says, "and I knew I could sell it." The hit-bound association of Starr and that quintet--New Edition--proved to be earthshaking. After New Edition disbanded, members Bobby Brown, Johnny Gill, and Bell Biv DeVoe pioneered new jack swing, a hip-hop-rooted style of R&B crooning and fashion that dominated '90s pop (from Jodeci and Boyz II Men to TLC and Brandy), while Starr and one of his former employees, Johnny Wright, separately steered the boy-band renaissance, working with such acts as New Kids on the Block, 'N Sync, and the Backstreet Boys. They could sell it indeed. Rank 87 KCRW PLAYS `LOSER' 7/13/93 When Chris Douridas, then music director at L.A. radio station KCRW, first spun a little ditty consisting of a Dr. John sample, a nasty slide-guitar lick, and the lyric "I'm a loser, baby, so why don't you kill me," alternative rock met its future. Within weeks, Beck's club shows became standing-room-only affairs and Geffen Records won a furious bidding war. "At a time when everybody was chasing grunge," Douridas says, "it felt like the next big step." Beck was less impressed: "I was kind of embarrassed about 'Loser,' because it was already a couple of years old and I felt the moment had passed." Rank 86 'AUTOBAHN' ENTERS THE U.S. CHARTS 3/15/75 It came from Germany, but when heard alongside hit singles by Elton John and Olivia Newton-John, Kraftwerk's "Autobahn" seemed to emanate from another galaxy. Recorded entirely with synthesizers, the quartet's ode to the European superhighway had an addictive, otherworldly blankness. Although it peaked at No. 25, "Autobahn" was electronica's first incursion into the mainstream, and Kraftwerk would inspire future knob twiddlers from Afrika Bambaataa to the Chemical Brothers. "Kraftwerk was the first German band I accepted as a guideline," says guitarist Richard Kruspe of electro-metallists Rammstein. "They were leaders." Rank 85 GARTH BROOKS TOPS THE POP AND COUNTRY CHARTS 9/28/91 Who knew there were as many citybillies plunking down urban cowbucks on Garth Brooks as there were country fans in them thar hills? Everybody--after Ropin' the Wind became the first album to debut simultaneously atop Billboard's pop and country charts. One factor giving Garth enough rope to achieve this feat was the advent of SoundScan, a more accurate tabulation process that ensured the big sales enjoyed by country, rap, and other "niches" would no longer be an industry secret. The downside of SoundScan was "the onset of the box office mentality we have now in music," as ex-A&M Records CEO Al Cafaro puts it--with Brooks the poster boy for artists' growing obsession with opening-week tallies. Rank 84 PAUL SIMON GOES GLOBAL NOVEMBER '71 Flying down to Kingston, Jamaica, Simon--sans Garfunkel for the first time--had one goal: to record a ska version of a new song, "Mother and Child Reunion." The locals, Simon recalls, had other ideas: "They said, 'We play reggae now.' I said, 'What's reggae?' " The resulting collaboration and hit single broke ground for the Anglo-worldbeat of Talking Heads, Sting, Joni Mitchell, and Simon's 1986 Graceland. Says Simon of his own expedition: "You walked out the back door of the studio and there were goats grazing. It was a bit of an adventure." Rank 83 Kiss See the New York Dolls 5/29/72 It was the dawn of glitter rock, and the New York Dolls, tarted up like transvestite hookers, were the darlings of the scene. To pre-makeup-wearing future Kiss members Gene Simmons and Paul Stanley, watching David Johansen (right) and the Dolls perform at New York's Diplomat Hotel provided crucial inspiration. "Paul and I looked at each other and said, 'Wow, they look like real rock stars," says Simmons. "Then we said, We'll kill 'em.' " Kiss went on to handily trump the Dolls, commercially and sartorially. Rank 82 PINK FLOYD Unveil Dark Side of the Moon 2/17/72 "One of the best ways to find out if something is working," recalls bassist Roger Waters, "is to perform it," preferably before an audience. The idea never seemed better as Pink Floyd toiled away in a rehearsal hall on an ambitious song cycle. So, over four nights at London's Rainbow Theatre, the band let fans hear the nascent Dark Side of the Moon months before it was recorded (and eventually sold a staggering 15 million copies). "These were the days when people would sit and listen instead of yelling 'rock & roll!' " says Waters. "This was more like a night at the theater." Rank 81 THE HARDER THEY COME Opens in America 2/9/73 When director Perry Henzell's film The Harder They Come debuted in the U.S., reggae was only slightly more common in Stateside record collections than Ukrainian folk music. That quickly changed: The gritty drama of a Jamaican musician on the lam (and its accompanying soundtrack) was most Americans' first taste of pure reggae, paving the way for the likes of Bob Marley. "The music was new--it was expressing the things of the time," says star Jimmy Cliff. "It had the same effect that rap is having on people today." Rank 80 The MOTHERSHIP Lands 10/29/76 With what seemed like a hundred outlandishly costumed star children on stage, Parliament's '70s shows were the ultimate party spectacle. And that was before they landed the mothership. The set, which first touched down at the New Orleans Municipal Auditorium, sealed the band's rep as funk's master showmen. "The first time we opened the show with it landing," recalls George Clinton (below), "we couldn't [top] it! We said, 'Wait a minute, forget this.' So we put it at the end of the show, and after that, [the show] was on." *************************************************************** I love when Paul Simon went "ethnic." Graceland and Obvious Child are two of his best albums.

Author:	are-why-a-en [ Thu Apr 07, 2005 1:09 am ]
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Britney Spears OOps I did it again performance must be somewhere here, and/or the Madonna-Spears kiss... Those were great..and...."erotic" grrowl! But I agree with Mav. I think the day that the Beatles performed on the Ed Sullivan show, is the day where music changed forever. The Beatles were finally in America, for the first time, and everything thereafter, was history.

Author:	dolcevita [ Thu Apr 07, 2005 2:17 pm ]
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Ryan, I think this list is too old for that. Geri dirching Posh might be the most recent event it covers. I don't know yet, I haven't read the list ahead of time. Rank 79 THE EAGLES DEBUT AT DISNEYLAND 6/12/71 For once, Tomorrowland really lived up to its name. Disneyland wasn't the likeliest place for the four founding Eagles to play together for the first time: They all knew each other from weekly "hoot nights" up at West Hollywood's Troubadour, where all the young talents of SoCal country rock, including Linda Ronstadt and Jackson Browne, used to hang out. "We were sort of like neighborhood buddies," says Bernie Leadon. But--speaking of small worlds after all--Don Henley, Glenn Frey, and Randy Meisner were acting as Ronstadt's backing band for a balmy Date Nite gig on the Tomorrowland Stage when mutual pal Leadon got up to join them for a couple of tunes, allowing a few hundred unwitting teens a glimpse into the E-ticket fast lane of the future. Rank 78 Tapers' Choice for Best DEAD Gig 5/8/77 Getting Deadheads to agree on the band's best show is harder than getting bong water out of the carpet, but few fans disagree that this Cornell University gig was a classic. One of the most popular of the many tapes still in circulation, the bootleg recording is a prime showcase for the band's expansive jams. "We were very nearly the only band who was leaving stuff up to chance," says singer-guitarist Bob Weir. "We were trying to reinvent songs every time we played them, and I think that set us apart." Rank 77 PAT BOONE's 'Ain't That A Shame' Enters The Charts 7/9/55 Breaking down racial barriers? Or whitey rippin' off the black man? Pat Boone's sanitized cover versions of black hits are controversial to this day. "At that moment, pop stations were not playing rhythm & blues, and it didn't look like they were ever going to," Boone says. "But after I had a No. 1 pop record with 'Ain't That a Shame,' the Fats [Domino original] version started getting played on pop stations. It was probably the song that in crossing over helped establish R&B--though we were calling it rock & roll--as an acceptable form for millions of people." And black music would never again fail to find Caucasian "early adopters"--from Ricky Nelson to Vanilla Ice. Rank 76 JERRY LEE LEWIS Weds His Teen Cousin 12/12/57 Fulfilling every parent's worst rock & roll nightmare, hell-raisin' piano pounder Jerry Lee Lewis, 22, drove from Memphis to Mississippi and got hitched for a third time--to his 13-year-old second cousin, Myra Gale Brown. It took five months for the Killer's breathless act to become public. As the man many were calling "the next Elvis" began a U.K. tour, a media feeding frenzy ensued when Myra's age and kinship (and Lewis' still-valid marriage to wife No. 2) were disclosed. Overnight, the singer with three top 10 hits was banned by many radio stations and American Bandstand, never to reach the pop top 10 again. Rank 75 'HAIR' OPENS ON BROADWAY 4/29/68 If you're going to the Great White Way, be sure to wear a flower in your hair.... That was the implicit message upon the opening of the rock musical Hair, which transformed San Francisco's Summer of Love into springtime for hippies on Broadway, complete with nekkid dancers letting their freak flags (and various appendages) fly. This was either the giddy triumph of the counterculture within America's seat of culture, or--if you take the cynical (i.e., easy to be hard) view--one of the first commercial co-optings of a generation's fleeting ideals. Its lasting merit is debatable, but Hair definitely put Broadway blue-hairs on notice: No genre would be safe from rock's manifest destiny. Rank 74 The Monkees Debuts 9/12/66 Hey, hey, they're the Monkees--and their TV bow paved the way for an entirely new relationship between music and the tube. TV execs were no longer satisfied with showcasing pop groups Bandstand style. The Monkees (like the Partridge Family after them) were manufactured out of thin air. The basic concept: Beatles lite. Every episode came complete with tension-free camaraderie, drug-free psychedelia, a potential radio hit, and manic music sequences--which, for the genealogy-minded, provide the missing link between A Hard Day's Night and MTV. Rank 73 Reagan Co-pts THE BOSS 9/19/84 Ronald Reagan was running for reelection, the L.A. Olympics whipped jingoism into a frenzy, and Bruce Springsteen released Born in the U.S.A. In that climate, the title song (a cri de coeur by a Vietnam vet) was misread as a patriotic anthem. At one campaign stop, Reagan declared that the Boss conveyed "hope.... Helping make those dreams come true is what this job of mine is all about." On stage a few nights later, Bruce wondered aloud if his Nebraska, a bleak portrait of an America blasted by failed promises, was Reagan's fave. The Celebrity Death Match between Presidents and rock stars was on--and the rockers won the first round hands down. Rank 72 Mockumentary THIS IS SPINAL TAP Premieres 3/2/84 Before rock was dead, it was dumb--as delineated in This Is Spinal Tap, the barely exaggerated touchstone by which all real band disasters were thereafter measured. Metal may have waned, but, says Michael McKean (a.k.a. David St. Hubbins), "there will always be teenage guys who want to do that thing with their heads. Even if music had never been invented.... Just imagine them in Renaissance times, looking at the Pieta and rocking their heads back and forth." Rank 71 The Concert For BANGLADESH 8/1/71 It sounded so simple. When Indian sitarist Ravi Shankar wanted to raise $25,000 for starving, war-torn Bangladesh, his student, George Harrison, figured, "Why not make a million dollars?" So the ex-Beatle rallied pals such as Eric Clapton and Bob Dylan to throw rock's first major "cause" fund-raiser. But while the Madison Square Garden show, and subsequent album and film, would ultimately gross more than $9 million, legal and tax-man wranglings kept most of the money from those in need until 1981, providing a cautionary lesson for Live Aid and Farm Aid. Rank 70 LOLLAPALOOZA II Opens for Business 7/18/92 The first Lollapalooza (in 1991) validated the idea of a traveling alt-rock circus. But by the time Lolla II kicked off in Mountain View, Calif., the music was hotter than an overactive mosher, and the tour, featuring Ministry, the Red Hot Chili Peppers, Soundgarden, and Pearl Jam (with Eddie Vedder, right), grossed $19.1 million, cementing the music's dominance. "It reeked of a capitalist venture," says Ministry's Al Jourgensen. "But by the end, it was all for one, one for all. I hate to sound like 'summer of luuuv, man,' but it really was cool." *************************************************************** Spinal Tap should be higher. I liked "Celebrity Death Match between Presidents and rock stars" hehe.

Author:	A. G. [ Thu Apr 07, 2005 2:33 pm ]
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I bet in the to 20 will be: Ramones playing at CBGBs, The Clash releasing London Calling.

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