HARDROCKSAMPLER (1968-75) was invented by Julian Cope for the purposes of this article.
1. Aynsley Dunbar (1967) Warning
2. Jake Holmes (1967) Dazed & Confused
3. Up (1968) Together
4. Flowers (1969) How Many More Times?
5. Litter (1969) Blue Ice
6. Helpful Soul (1969) Peace For Fools
7. The Move (1970) Don’t Make My Baby Blue
8. David Bowie (1970) She Shook Me Cold
9. Love (1970) Love is More than Words
10. Bloodrock (1970) D.O.A.
11. Sir Lord Baltimore (1971) Caesar ’71
12. Hairy Chapter (1971) Only an Officer’s Daughter
13. Speed, Glue & Shinki (1971) Sniffin’ and Snortin’
14. Budgie (1971) Crash Course in Brain Surgery
15. UFO (1971) Timothy
16. The Mops (1971) Town Where I was Born
17. Bang (1972) Future Shock
18. Tiger B. Smith (1972) These Days
19. The Troggs (1972) Feels Like a Woman
20. Thin Lizzy (1973) The Rocker
21. Granicus (1973) You’re In America
22. Kiss (1974) Parasite
23. Mott (1975) The Great White Wail
Note 1: As a heathen motherfucker who wants to bid ‘Bad Riddance!’ to organized religion, it does my heart good to know that some loon somewhere, even as I write this, is currently wailing up an electric storm from hell on a loud and distorted solid-bodied guitar, mercilessly wringing the neck of some poor axe in the righteous service of dissing the Sky Gods.
Note 2: As Unsung is mainly read by Sonic Navigators of the first order, on HARDROCKSAMPLER, I’ve included no Sabs, no Zep, no MC5, no Grand Funk, no Blue Cheer, no Pentagram, no Blue Oyster Cult nor anything else that might have already been discussed here in detail. Instead, I’ve tried to include a few class obscurities that many will have heard about but not actually heard, plus some heavy stuff that mighta been overlooked because the artists in question were better known for other styles of music.
That's some playlist.
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