Music – What was the first metal song ? Blue Cheer ?Electric Prunes ?What do you think ? I have always thought that the MC5's "Kick Out The Jams" was the first real metal song,loud guitars,good stage show,fast and with attitude. I am curious of what other people would consider the first "Metal" song,thanks.
Here is one by Blue Cheer,1968,"Come and Get It".
These are both good picks baddad , but what about The Who ? They were a rowdy bunch from the get go . And Keith Moons antics at the end of a show definitly [ well Townshend also ] spell attitude . How about Cream as well . They were pretty heavy in 1968 . Unless of course you are looking for less known acts .
Good comment BM. I originally wrote a huge opening comment to this thread which stretched beyond 1,000 words, but I then cut it right back to "standard" length. I referred to the Who who'd been blasting away audiences and smashing equipment since 1965! They had raw energy to burn, and wrote all their own material! Must've had some influence.
"Unless of course you are looking for less known acts ."..oh no,not necessarily obscure or lesser known bands,just what you might think as the first metal song.Some of the first Who songs were a little on the heavy side.Cream definately but did they predate the Blue Cheer or mc5?lol.
Well I'm pretty sure they started out in 1967 after Clapton left the Yardbirds . I don't think Clapton was involved with the Little Faces , I think that was Jeff Beck , so I'd say 1967 .
Pssst, BM. Didn't Clapton join John Mayall's Bluesbreakers after the Yardbirds, thereby giving Jimmy Page a chance at the limelight, and himself a better chance to develop a purer approach to the blues. (This from memory, so may not be gospel) Then from Mayall to Cream?
Cream broke up in 1968, bd, unsure when Blue Cheer formed/recorded.
Let's not forget Hendrix and Lead Zeppelin.
I agree also Chuck , [ however it's Led Zepplin ] .[ picky , picky picky . Aren't we all with our favourite things ] .
I think Chuck meant "Lead".
I thought Led Zeppelin and Iron Butterfly where wear the term heavy "metal" came from.
Could be wrong.
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This is a great choice, bd and a great challenge, "the first "Metal" song. There's some rich intellectual(?) discourse possible, here, for sure.
MC5's "Kick out the Jams" certainly has to be up there with the "loud guitars, good stage show, fast and with attitude" (just love the audience on this film clip -- most look bemused at the stage antics!), but these guys were surely borrowing a lot from Zeppelin, across the Atlantic? The latter's "Communication Breakdown" (1969) had all the necessary ingredients for a metal song and Plant had attitude by the truckload!!
As a musician I'd have to say the lead guitar in this song or Communication Breakdown were standard Riffs and still are .
I think MC5 first recorded Break Out The Jams in 67 or 68,which was before Communication Breakdown if i remember right.
Would be interesting to compare the timelines, bd.
If you listen to some of Hendrix's early work, such as "Spanish Castle Magic" ('67) it surely has a metal edge to it?
Yes it does.The hard thing is defining what is metal?
The first time I heard my older brother playing Black Sabbath's 'Ironman" I was certain he was holding a satanic ritual in his room!
I consider that my inauguration to metal.
That would have been a great way to be broken in..lol.
Sounds of AC/DC in there. I always heard innagodadavida was the first Heavy Metal song. Also the Kinks "you really got me".
Yes I was gonna say Iron Butterfly , but that was 1969 [?] , i'm pretty sure .
I think both were 1968 and both could be defined as early metal.Both are excellent songs.I just read that it was released in sept.1968.
Here is Iron Butterfly's Inagodadav... 1.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eUlIFpUuQY8
and here is part 2.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AS_JvIelxbA
Thanks Baddad. I think it likes you say
Born to be Wild coined the phrase. I think it should get the credit as the first HM song.
"I like smoke and lightning
Heavy metal thunder
Racin' with the wind
And the feelin' that I'm under"
imopinion, I agree, but Inna-Godda-Da-Vida was still considered psychedelic, according to several musicians I know. I had posted Communication Breakdown earlier as my own idea of the first "totally" metal song.
And I think you're right on the Kinks, they were at least prototypical metal.