Viral Video department…how can i help you???
Oh, you want to know, without taking up your precious time and exerting all that effort and trouble to find out which are the most popular blues-rock and straight blues songs of the past 50 years?
Hey, i got nothin’ to do for the next 22 hours…. Hang loose, i’ll be right back…oops, this is the 21st century, isn’t it? So what i meant was, “brb”.
Okay, here’s the list I’ve compiled:
In textspeak the above line would read: kkhlc
bridge over troubled water
you really got me going
in my life
light my fire
hit the road jack
smells like teen spirit
we will rock you
push it
travelin’ riverside blues
piece of my heart
on the road again (canned heat)
sunshine of your love
voodoo chile
brown sugar
rock & roll ain’t noise pollution
la grange
i drink alone
pride & joy
bad to the bone
layla
going up country
bring it on home
statesboro blues
good vibrations
hotel california
my generation
yesterday
like a rolling stone
i can’t get no satisfaction
johnny b. goode
hey jude
bohemian rhapsody
stairway to heaven
imagine
smoke on the water
paranoid
shine on crazy diamond
pretty woman
ironman
i feel good now
i can see for miles
house of the rising sun
sympathy for the devil
superstition
let it be
jailhouse rock
respect
i wanna hold your hand
free bird
no woman no cry
comfortably numb
purple haze
catfish blues
roadhouse blues
in my chair blues
heartbreaker blues
memphis blues
crazy blues
pinetop’s boogie
dust my broom
boogie chillun
mannish boy
stormy monday
hellhound on my trail
spoonful
the thrill is gone
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I know you didn’t ask, but this list is the result of over 20 hours of research and compilation, comparing over fifty different lists from fifty different viewpoints and, yes, i realize that these songs are complex, far more complex than anything we normally tackle; however, take into account that some of these songs have been solidly on the charts for half a century now, and some for almost a hundred years, dating back to W.C. Handy days, and these rock and blues standards show no sign of faltering in the public attention.
My thought was to use these songs strictly on youtube, unless it’s so special it deserves to be in an album — which today means “collection of soundbytes” and nothing more, sometimes in an organized list, more commonly randomly triggered.
Music has in general been corrupted into a brain-massage that sells product and services while appearing to be entertainment. that’s in fact the future of all entertainment.
For a geezer band like ours, some of these very popular songs might just possibly fall under the category of “impossible to play”… however, with guest guitarists, we should have the charts for these ready at hand to send to the copy machine and onto the music stands.
In addition to these pop culture standards, i have in mind a number of original songs that we can maneuver into some sort of interesting musical experience for our limited audience.
I say “limited”, but actually some of our tunes get as many as just under a million hits, so it’s possible to get a “youtube hit” and even a runaway viral song, if it’s connected with a powerful video.
Producing a viral video — or trying to — is actually an exercise that i mean to introduce in this next upcoming Halloween Mini-Workshop.
The “problem” of producing any “winning” video on youtube is an interesting and spirit-provocative experience, one that cannot be duplicated anywhere else, even on another vid network, because of the peculiar cross-connected environment that exists on youtube.
It’s a combination of social and economic conditions that produces the effect.
When an intentional “essential self exercise” is added to the mix, the result can be quite startling; you can reference a suprisingly large number of my videos to ascertain the veracity of that statement.
If you need a webster’s to figure out what i just said, you need more than a spiritual re-education, you need to repeat English 101 maybe several times in a row.
Creating a viral video sets up several important problems, creates issues that weren’t there before, and provides an opportunity to perform at least six impossible things before breakfast, and you can do that every doggone day!
The Bodhisattva potential here is enormous, and the possible internal evolutionary process can be very powerfully provoked by the high spark of “mass necessity”, which adds an amount of work-force that cannot be calculated.
You want to help? Really help?
Get some spirit power.
Take my spirit power workshop, but be warned — it’s all about creating a viral video on youtube, so if you don’t plan to invest the time and effort, don’t bother with the workshop…without the hands-on experience of creating a viral video, it’d be just more information, and you already have far too much of that with nothing personally experienced on which to hang it.
In order to understand anything — to really, really understand a thing — you have to touch it, use it, move it, play with it, ride it around, hang it over your shoulders, carry it everywhere awhile, until it becomes part of your aura matrix.
There really is no other way to do it than to do it.
Reading about it, talking about it, thinking about it does nothing, and leaves you back on square one at the end of the day.
You gotta do it to do it.
Get on the Freedom Road, the one that Pete Seeger and Bob Dylan and Peter, Paul & Mary sang about!
See You At The Top!!!
gorby