[Hulk01]

I still think the following is the most remarkable rock song ever produced.

For context,  it’s sweet little 1962.  You have Chubby Checker and the Twist and Bobby Vinton singing Roses are Red and a top 100 peppered with names like Brenda Lee, Nat King Cole, and Rick Nelson.  You are two years from hearing She Loves You and I Want To Hold Your Hand, much less Pet Sounds or Dylan.  Phil Spector is producing Connie Francis and not The Wall of Sound.  Most songs are foreground and midground vocals with a little beat behind it and almost Scotch-tape thin. 

So you are listening to these crooners and twist tunes on your transistor radio.  And all of a big sudden Joe Meek hits you with this:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YuA-fqKCiAE

Nineteen. Sixty.  Two.  Are you ***** kidding me?

[Hulk01]

I still think the following is the most remarkable rock song ever produced.

For context,  it’s sweet little 1962.  You have Chubby Checker and the Twist and Bobby Vinton singing Roses are Red and a top 100 peppered with names like Brenda Lee, Nat King Cole, and Rick Nelson.  You are two years from hearing She Loves You and I Want To Hold Your Hand, much less Pet Sounds or Dylan.  Phil Spector is producing Connie Francis and not The Wall of Sound.  Most songs are foreground and midground vocals with a little beat behind it and almost Scotch-tape thin. 

So you are listening to these crooners and twist tunes on your transistor radio.  And all of a big sudden Joe Meek hits you with this:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YuA-fqKCiAE

Nineteen. Sixty.  Two.  Are you ***** kidding me?