Boogie rock, from the outside in. Each step is a genre and the single record this encyclopedia would put on first. Play them in this order and the last one should sound like a next step rather than a wall.
- 1 The way in
Rock 1954
The whole family: guitar, bass, drums and a beat borrowed from blues and rhythm and blues. Every branch below grows out of this trunk, metal included.
Sung. Melodic singing throughout.
Put on
The Beatles - Revolver, if you want to understand why everything branched so fast.
The Beatles, Revolver (1966) - 2 Then
Blues rock 1963
Electric blues played louder, longer and with improvised solos. The direct bridge between Muddy Waters and Black Sabbath.
Sung. Melodic singing throughout.
Put on
Cream - Sunshine of Your Love. The riff that showed how thick a trio could sound.
The pick names a track. This is the record the encyclopedia holds by them.
Cream, Fresh Cream (1966) - 3 What you asked about
Boogie rock 1970
One shuffle riff held until exhaustion. Simple by design and impossible to sit still to.
Sung. Melodic singing throughout.
Put on
AC/DC - Riff Raff. Boogie rock at melting point.
The pick names a track. This is the record the encyclopedia holds by them.
AC/DC, High Voltage (1975) - 4 Where to go next
Deathrock 1979
The American version, more punk and more theatrical, with tribal drums and horror-movie imagery.
Sung. Melodic singing throughout.
Put on
Christian Death - Only Theatre of Pain. Rozz Williams was nineteen when he wrote it.
Christian Death, Only Theatre of Pain (1982)
Assembled from the tree: every genre Boogie rock descends from, in order. Boogie rock has no subgenres, so the last step is the genre that rates closest to it by sound.