"I Want You (She's So Heavy)" is a minimalist-blues mindblower of the highest order, while also being groovy as a mother, much of which is due to Paul's killer bass playing. The final part of the song its guitar parts are sound like the start of Black Sabbath.
Helter Skelter it's modal tonality and tight midpace are quintessentially metal characteristics that the likes of Zeppelin didn't really go for. How much metal in the last few decades has used blues scales? Whether by influence or design or neither, it's proto-metal.
Yeah I totally agree - LZ were never metal, just hard rock (arguably the first as far as that goes since the Jeff Beck Group were basically just "harder" blues-rock). Not metal mostly because they were too bluesy and didn't go for the palm muting thing (they did that on Communication Breakdown but that was too rock-and-roll-ish/punkish). Blue Cheer were blusier than Helter Skelter yet even closer to metal at least in the "ugly heaviness" aspect.
I think Everybody's Got Something To Hide was the Beatles most punkish song. Helter Skelter is to complicated to be punk. The guitar sound is interesting it's very grungy. Nirvana owes more to Helter Skelter than I would say Led Zeppelin or the Who.
I see what you're saying about Nirvana, but only a little bit and only if you compare guitar sounds alone (when there's definitely more to Nirvana's sound than that).
I'd agree about Everbody's - that and Polythene Pam - as far as simple fast rock on the stripped down and raw end of the spectrum goes.
is MOR a genre?
that's my choice
"I Want You (She's So Heavy)" is a minimalist-blues mindblower of the highest order, while also being groovy as a mother, much of which is due to Paul's killer bass playing. The final part of the song its guitar parts are sound like the start of Black Sabbath.
Helter Skelter it's modal tonality and tight midpace are quintessentially metal characteristics that the likes of Zeppelin didn't really go for. How much metal in the last few decades has used blues scales? Whether by influence or design or neither, it's proto-metal.
Yeah I totally agree - LZ were never metal, just hard rock (arguably the first as far as that goes since the Jeff Beck Group were basically just "harder" blues-rock). Not metal mostly because they were too bluesy and didn't go for the palm muting thing (they did that on Communication Breakdown but that was too rock-and-roll-ish/punkish). Blue Cheer were blusier than Helter Skelter yet even closer to metal at least in the "ugly heaviness" aspect.
I think Everybody's Got Something To Hide was the Beatles most punkish song. Helter Skelter is to complicated to be punk. The guitar sound is interesting it's very grungy. Nirvana owes more to Helter Skelter than I would say Led Zeppelin or the Who.
I see what you're saying about Nirvana, but only a little bit and only if you compare guitar sounds alone (when there's definitely more to Nirvana's sound than that).
I'd agree about Everbody's - that and Polythene Pam - as far as simple fast rock on the stripped down and raw end of the spectrum goes.