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Bands Like Green Day And Pennywise
389 wordsMusic: Grunge and the Punk Revolution 1991-1994 In September of nineteen ninety-one, an album that would forever change music was released, Nirvana's Nevermind revolutionized punk rock (alternative rock). The song "Smell's Like Teen Spirit" energized the youth who had lost faith in rock and its ability to push the barriers of conservative thought. Kurt Cobain would be a revolutionary. The record company that produced and distributed the album had only expected the release to sell about 250,000 c...
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Band Led Zeppelin
1,129 wordsThe band Led Zeppelin is one of the greatest hard rock groups of all time. The band also has one of the best success stories in the history hard rock music. Led Zeppelins success in hard rock was achieved in the seventies and they even had a few hits in the late sixties. The musicians in Led Zeppelin are Jimmy Page: born on April 9, 1944, Robert Plant, born on August 24, 1948, John Paul Jones, born on January 3, 1946, and John Bonham born on May 31, 1948. Jimmy Page shredded the guitar, Robert P...
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Old Time Style Of Duke's Band
1,749 wordsDuke Ellington Duke Ellington's pre-eminence in jazz is not only because of the very high aesthetic standard of his output and not simply due to his remarkable abilities as a pianist, composer and bandleader, but also to the fact that he has extended the boundaries of jazz more than any other musician, without abandoning the true essence of the music. Perhaps no other American musician left such a massive and challenging legacy in composition and performance. Edward Kennedy "Duke" Ellington was ...
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Third Wave Ska
1,071 wordsSKA! Imagine this: spring break 1962, Jamaica. You are strolling down the streets of Kingston, enjoying the cool sea breeze and the delightful Caribbean climate. The streets are filled with many sounds. Cars' horns honking, children playing, and people shuffling by. There is one sound, however, that rises above all the hustle and bustle. Horns, guitars, organs, drums, emanating from smoke-filled clubs and bar rooms, fill you ears with a lush sound. This is the sound of ska. Ska is an old Jamaica...
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Jimi Hendrix And Led Zepplin
657 wordsThe 60's music Small coffee shops a restaurants sound of a new type of music was emerging. The new artists like The Grateful Dead, The Doors, Jimi Hendrix, and Led Zepplin were making their mark on the modern rock scene. The Grateful Dead, or the Dead as they were also know, was a band that came together in the streets of San Francisco. They spent their early years playing for free in the parks around Fairfax. Along this time they were gaining popularity with the local people and began to tour a...
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Whole Generation Of Music Listeners
1,944 wordsHard as it may be to believe, it has been twelve years since Nirvana's release of Nevermind, the album that most people who still could be referred to as Generation X-ers consider the seminal alternative rock LP of all time. Nirvana's crunching guitars and mangled lyrical styling's may not have the lasting artistic influence of, say, Bach, but for many people the band's widespread commercial and critical success marked a key turning point in radio rock n' roll. The slickly produced, monotonous a...
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Bands Following And Fans
1,347 wordsPhish Friends since high school, the members of Phish have rocked the world and its millions of fans since 1991. Many who are not familiar with Phishs music may hear the songs and consider them similar to the Greatful Dead, after all, they do have many things in common. After reading this paper, hopefully the reader will figure out for themselves the distinction, and experience a new insight into world of music featuring Phish. Trey Anastasio, the lead singer of Phish, had been writing music sin...
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Composer Of Jazz Music
997 wordsAn American jazz composer, orchestrator, bandleader, and pianist, composer of jazz music, I am all of this and probably more. I am Edward Kennedy ("Duke") Ellington. I was nicknamed "Duke" by a boyhood friend of mine who admired my royal air. And the name stuck to me. I grew up listening to black music. At that time jazz was considered low and vulgar by most respectable and sophisticated people like myself. I was born in Washington on April 29, 1899. Born to the son of James William Ellington an...
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Cross Ozzy
931 wordsOzzy's musical influence was the Beatles. He admired the Beatles and decided that he would like to try a career in music and be just like them. Ozzy got his first chance at music when he met an old friend who had just formed a band that was named Approach, and they needed a singer. Ozzy felt he was the right man for the job and persuaded his father to buy him a $50 amplifier and microphone. Approach was a rhythmic band that Ozzy didn't like so he quit. Ozzy and a friend, Terrance Butler, formed ...
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Violent Femmes
299 wordsVIOLENT FEMMES (USA) AUSTRALIAN TOUR - MARCH 2005 Feel Presents are proud to announce the return of the quintessential cult band, Milwaukee, Wisconsin trio, VIOLENT FEMMES. From their humble beginnings on the streets of Milwaukee to now, many things have changed but one thing that hasn't is the sound of the band. Their loose, improvisational, acoustic sound is timeless. They have ten albums under their belt which include a host of anthems, like; Blister In The Sun, Gone Daddy Gone and Kiss Off' ...
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Military Band Music
304 wordsJohn Philip Sousa In all the years that I have been involved with band, I have a certain love for the music of Mr. John Philip Sousa. His marches have been an inspiration to myself and marching bands all over the world. He's managed to touch the hearts of many, both young and old. He was a very patriotic composer and most of his work came from the love of his country. He was born in Washington D.C. on November 6, 1854. His parents were John Antonio Sousa (born in Spain of Portuguese parents) and...
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Korn's Success
569 words"Family Values Tour", and their relation to teen suicide and narcotic abuse are some further aspects to look into. The first issue that is brought to one's attention would be how Korn's success has not had to depend on frequent radio and TV airplay. In true fact KORN has had barely any radio play at all, not to mention the fact that most of their videos can appear only after twelve o'clock at night. Even after the lack of airplay, KORN always appears to get their message across. Their dedicated ...
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First Album Led Zeppelin
1,308 wordsA Brief History of Led Zeppelin and ITs Musical Impact Tell someone to name a band from the 1960's and '70's and you could probably listen to a dozen answers before hearing the same one twice. The overwhelming amount of talent squeezed into these two decades has produced some of the most popular, most powerful, and in some cases, the most bizarre music ever. Led Zeppelin, The Beatles, Jimi Hendrix, The Rolling Stones, The Yardbirds, Janis Joplin, Bob Dylan, Elvis Presley, Queen, Aerosmith, Crosb...
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Alternative Rock Music Alternative
798 wordsMusic in the nineties can be simply described as diverse. Diverse meaning that music has been segregated into hundreds of groups. This report will refer in detail to three genres of music: Alternative Country, Rap, Alternative Rock. It will also cover certain aspects indicative of the 90's. Alternative Country Music In 1990, a band called Uncle Tupelo from Belleville, Illinois, released their debut album. Titled No Depression, it featured a rough mixture of punk-rock songs, but it also added som...
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Culture Music Bands
589 wordsWhen Eddie Vedder and Ms. di Franco stood together on that stage, supporting the year's self-proclaimed non-corporate presidential candidate, they represented two prongs of a shared belief organization. Independent artists like Eddie Vedder live anti-corporate lives and, of course, feel connected to anti-corporate politics. Major label stars like Mr. Vedder try to undermine from within, using their authority in struggles like the fight his band, Pearl Jam, waged throughout the 1990's to limit wh...
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Nick Hexum Of 311 17 September 2003
1,128 wordsIt was aural sensory overload as I collapsed on the floor of my best friend's living room. My eyes were completely useless in the pitch black of the room, but my ears were alert. I could imagine the sound swirling around my head. It was beautiful; like sirens calling to a restless voyager. I had found the music that I had unknowingly been searching for. I had landed on its shores and planted my flag. The sound I was hearing was exciting me to the point that sleep was impossible. It was the first...
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One Example Of A Band
1,044 wordsPopular music today has been greatly enhanced by modern technology and is much different from say the music fifty years ago. From my own experience I have discovered that pop music is highly popular among young teenagers or old children whereas I have found that punk rock or heavy metal is usually the older teenagers choice. But of coarse there are exceptions to my beliefs. When we talk about charts we must understand that now-days there are an infinite number of charts around and we must not ge...
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Late 1940's The Venue For Country Music
854 wordsEarly Country: Early commercial country music was a direct descendant of the ballad and folk tradition brought to the American South by immigrants from the British Isles in the 18th and 19th centuries. When not carrying on the oral tradition of storytelling through song, old-time country music featured instrumentals with the fiddle usually taking the melodic role of the voice. Fiddlin' John Carson combined the two traditions by singing and playing simultaneously on a 1923 two-song "78", consider...
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Boy Bands And Singers
874 wordsNot Music To My Ears Today's current music scene has steadily become filled with pre-packaged assembly line bands and singers. This teen oriented pop phenomenon is repulsive. I see the so-called bands and singers for what they really are. They are passing trends made special, just for the teens, with all image and no real talent. For their own good, I can only hope these brainwashed teens will grow out of this horrible phase. Fabricated bands such as O-Town, N Sync, and The Backstreet Boys exhib...
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Most Significant Things Music
1,798 wordsThroughout my life, music has always been a major influence. It has the power to change my mood when I'm feeling down. So, what better way to write a personal essay than to talk about one of my hobbies that has influenced nearly everything in my life up until now. I've decided to reflect on how music has changed my life from the smallest to the largest things that are a part of who I am today. The main genre of music I am interested in is rock and rap music. I feel these give me all the things I...
