Their sound expanded on the Dead Boys and Stooges, adding speed into the mix. Roaring out of OSU, the Turks played fast, catchy, sloppy garage punk like nobody else. Although I’m linking to a Pixies song, I swear I have the opening of “Cannonball” by The Breeders stuck in my head almost every day.
After a few years off, the band reformed in 2018. Matt Berninger has one of my favorite voices in music.ĭeal co-founded the seminal Pixies and, upon the band’s breakup, formed The Breeders with her sister, Kelly. Hawkins’ drunken howls and yelps made a good song an absolute classic! Hawkins then went on to create shock rock, emerging from a coffin and putting “voodoo curses” on the audience.Ĭomprised of two sets of brothers and a lead singer so tall he takes over the street, The National formed in Brooklyn after the members all moved there. When Hawkins entered the studio to record “I Put a Spell on You”, he envisioned a traditional R&B song until the producer plied him with liquor. But they weren’t! Ohio wins again! I’m linking to the song “For the Love of Money” because the way the echo drops off the bass line in the second measure is one of my favorite music things ever. With a huge string of hits in the Seventies, and being sampled in countless hip-hop songs, The O’Jays are remembered as one of the forerunners of the Philly Soul scene. The expression “America’s Sweetheart” is bandied about a lot. It’s tough deciding which song to pick, but I’ll go with:
Their influence on music from the Seventies and beyond cannot be overstated. It may be where they got the idea humans were de-evolving. Members of Devo were in the crowd the day the National Guard opened fire on the Kent State campus. It’s a shame the Players are perhaps more known for their album covers than their tightly coiled funk songs (except for the urban legends surrounding “Love Rollercoaster”). He was hit by a car in Paris, thought he was fine and died in his sleep. Their version of CSNY’s “Ohio” mixed with Hendrix’s “Machine Gun” just burns!Īfter fronting punk pioneers The Dead Boys (who sprang from Rocket From the Tombs, more on them later), Stiv formed Lords of the New Church with Brian James from The Damned and later recorded an underrated solo album influenced by Sixties garage and power pop.
Soul giants The Isley Brothers often reinterpreted pop hits in their own inimitable style along with the songs they wrote.
There are obviously a ton of bands I forgot, or did not have material available, or I have never heard – but are probably playing in a bar near you!Īfter moving to London, Hynde was a music writer, band member with future members of The Clash, and, most importantly, founder of the brilliant Pretenders. (One British rock magazine recognized this in the ’70s, offering readers a chance to visit Akron and see local bands that would one day explode.) These folks were all from our wonderful state, but contrary to what Matt said, most had to move away to make it. I don’t know why, but Ohio has spawned some amazing musical talent. That was a line from the T-Shirts, the late, lamented (by me, anyway) band from Toledo/Bowling Green. “Don’t gotta move to NYC/Wood County is the place to be, LA, too far away/There’s rusty water here, but it’s O.K.”
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