Music magazine Rolling Stone Indonesia discovered 100 Greatest Guitar Songs of All Time (23 rd edition, July 2008). Two of them are among this blog collections. Song (We’re Gonna) Rock Around the Clock, taken from album entitled Bill Haley and His Comets (1954), is in the 30 th rank. This song cited as the first rock and roll song which achieved Number One in the chart. Danny Cedron who played guitar in rock n roll style become role model for the next generation of rock n roll guitarists.

Other song is Beat It from album Thriller by Michael Jackson (1982). This song which is ranked in the 81 st position cited as a soul hit with heavy riff and melody. Paul Jackson jr. and Lukather played hard riff, an Eddie Van Halen played a fast tempo melody. At least, if there is a researcher for music history wish to find those two albums, this blog can show the historical albums. *

I don’t remember where I found this album — The Best of George Harrison. Since it is an album with it’s best selection concept, so what ever it must be a valuable matter. Some critics say that unfortunately this album consists mostly songs from Beatles era, not from Harrison solo years. *

Track list

1. “Something” – 3:01
2. “If I Needed Someone” – 2:22
3. “Here Comes the Sun” – 3:05
4. “Taxman” – 2:37
5. “Think for Yourself” – 2:18
6. “For You Blue” – 2:31
7. “While My Guitar Gently Weeps” – 4:45
* Tracks 1 – 7 are performed by The Beatles

8. “My Sweet Lord” – 4:38
9. “Give Me Love (Give Me Peace On Earth)” – 3:35
10. “You” – 3:41
11. “Bangla Desh” – 3:57
12. “Dark Horse” – 3:53
13. “What Is Life” – 4:17

*) All songs composed by George Harrison
Album: The Best of George Harrison
Producer: Parlopone, 1976

When I found this Beatles album in a corner of Makati Cinema Square Manila, 1996, really I did not know that this album is a very special item. Until I read the review from Wikipedia as written below. Unfortunately that I found this long playing naked without it’s cover.

Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band is the eighth album by The Beatles. It is often cited as their magnum opus and one of the most influential albums of all time by prominent critics and publications, ranking number 1 on Rolling Stone’s The 500 Greatest Albums of All Time in 2003.

Upon release, Sgt. Pepper received both popular and critical acclaim. Various reviews appearing in the mainstream press and trade publications throughout June 1967, immediately after the album’s release, were generally quite positive. In The Times, prominent critic Kenneth Tynan described Sgt. Pepper as “a decisive moment in the history of Western civilization.” Others including Richard Poirier, and Geoffrey Stokes were similarly expansive in their praise, Stokes noting, “listening to the Sgt. Pepper album one thinks not simply of the history of popular music but the history of this century.” Thank God, I have this album.*

Track list:

Side one
1.”Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band” – 2:04
2.”With a Little Help from My Friends” – 2:46
3.”Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds” – 3:30
4.”Getting Better” – 2:49
5.”Fixing a Hole” – 2:38
6.”She’s Leaving Home” – 3:37
7.”Being for the Benefit of Mr. Kite!” – 2:37

Side two
1.”Within You Without You” (George Harrison) – 5:07
2.”When I’m Sixty-Four” – 2:37
3.”Lovely Rita” – 2:44
4.”Good Morning Good Morning” – 2:43
5.”Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band (Reprise)” – 1:20
6.”A Day in the Life” – 5:33
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Rock

1. Deep Purple
Title: Fireball
Publisher: EMI (1971)

2. George Harrison
Title: Best of George Harrison
Publisher: Porlophone

3. Bill Haley and His Comets
Title: Rock Around the Clock
Publisher: Decca