Whisk 236, 30th Oct 2011
Birth of British pop and rock:
The 1960's from beat and mod to psychedelic.
A mono mix and overview by Mister Mixup
01 The Beatles - She loves you - 1963 - The Beatles launched modern popular music and were the catalyst for
youth culture as we know it today
02 The Rolling Stones - I Wanna be your man - 1963 - Rivals to the Beatles with a rougher sound and a bad
boy image but this first hit was written by Lennon/McCartney
03 The Kinks - You really got me - 1964 - First rock riff maybe from another early beat group
04 The Who - Anyway, anyhow, anywhere - 1965 - Mod pioneers with attitude. First feedback on a guitar solo
05 The Pretty Things - Rosalyn - 1965 Another bad boy band similar to the Stones. Later made great psychedelia
06 The Animals - We gotta get out of this place - 1965 Geordie band famous for "House of the rising sun" led
by Eric Burdon
07 The Rolling Stones - The last time - 1965 The Stones find their own sound
08 Manfred Mann - Pretty Flamingo - 1966 Another of the early beat groups with jazz leanings
09 The Small Faces - I got mine - 1965 Another pioneering mod group
10 The Beatles - Paperback writer - 1966 The Beatles could do anything and a year after this made Sgt Pepper
11 The Who - Substitute - 1966 Classic song writing and one of the best guitarists Pete Townsend
12 The Rolling Stones - (I Can't get no) Satisfaction - 1966 One of their own youth anthems
13 The Yardbirds - Shapes of things - 1966 First hints of rock featuring famous guitarists Eric Clapton, Jimmy Page
and Jeff Beck
14 Spencer Davis Group - Gimme some lovin' - 1966 Another successful beat group from Birmingham featuring
Steve Windwood who went on to form Traffic
15 Cream - I Feel free - 1966 Eric Clapton, Jack Bruce and Ginger Baker in what could be considered the first rock group with
another classic youth anthem
16 Jimi Hendrix - Purple haze - 1967 An American adopted by Britain who burst onto the scene in 1967 with psychedelic rock
17 Pink Floyd - See Emily play - 1967 Psychedelic music is born featuring the great Syd Barrett
18 Donovan - Sunshine Superman - Britains answer to Bob Dylan also went electric and, as with everyone else, went psychedelic
19 Traffic - Hole in my shoe - 1967 Classic psychedelic flower power
20 The Small Faces - Itchycoo park - 1967 Some mod groups turned to soul music others embraced the psychedelic scene.
The Small Faces culminated with the classic psychedelic 1968 album "Ogdens Nut Gone Flake"
21 Procol Harum - A Whiter shade of pale - 1967 - Classical sounding pop with surreal lyrics
22 The Move - I can hear the grass grow - Many new artists broke through in 1967. The Move, from Birmingham, made
great pop songs
23 The Kinks - Waterloo Sunset - 1967 Ray Davies was now an acclaimed English songwriter
24 Jeff Beck - Hi ho silver lining - 1967 The guitarists guitarist. After the Yardbirds he stayed solo and made this massive hit in '67
25 The Who - I Can see for miles - 1967 One of the "heaviest" songs heard at the time. This was not pop. It was rock music
26 The Moody Blues - Nights in white satin - 1967 - Justin Hayward sings on this classical sounding music using the Mellotron
instrument
27 Arthur Brown - Fire - 1968 - Keyboard led rock madness. Hippies at No.1 in the charts