Rock Music I – MUS 1013
Dr. Scott D. Lipscomb Listening Journal University of Minnesota
Listening Journal
Please complete all of the following information:
Student Name: / Group:Semester: / Year:
Listening Journal Check #: 2
Instructions: On the following pages, simply double-click in the space below a song title and begin typing your entry into the area. Carefully read the instructions about Listening Journal entries in the course syllabus to ensure that you are fulfilling the requirements and learning objectives associated with this assignment.
IMPORTANT: The purpose of this Listening Journal is to allow you to reflect upon, write about, and integrate your developing musical vocabulary into entries as you listen to musical examples representing many style periods of rock music from its precursors in the late 1940s/early 1950s to around 1970. Over the course of the semester, your entries should reveal a growth in your ability to communicate about music and to listen more critically to a vast array of musical styles. Please note that these entries are intended to be relatively brief (see syllabus for specifics). Therefore, do not - in any circumstances – write more than will fit into the textbox provided for each musical example … that said, there should be plenty of room to record your thoughts.
If you choose to submit EXTRA CREDIT entries, please either append them to the end of this document or submit as a separate document; do NOT integrate the extra credit entries in between required examples or they will not be counted.
Chapter 5 – Transition: The Early 60s
Vestiges of the 50s
Roy Orbison's "Only the Lonely"
Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons' "Sherry"
Urban Folk Trend
The Kingston Trio's "Tom Dooley"
Peter, Paul, and Mary’s
"If I Had a Hammer"
"Blowin' In the Wind"
Surf Music
Dick Dale and His Del-Tones' "Let's Go Trippin'"
Beach Boys
"Surfin'"
"Surfin' U.S.A."
"Surfer Girl"
"Fun, Fun, Fun"
"Good Vibrations"
"Heroes and Villains"
Dance Craze
Chubby Checker's "The Twist"
Chapter 6 – The Beatles
Early Beatles (a.k.a. The Beat Brothers)
"My Bonnie"
"Love Me Do"
"Please, Please Me"
“From Me to You”
"She Loves You"
Middle Period (Experimentation)
“Yesterday”
“Nowhere Man”
“I’m Only Sleeping”
“Tomorrow Never Knows”
“Penny Lane”
“Strawberry Fields”
Late Period (Revolution)
“Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds”
“Within You Without You”
“When I’m 64”
“All You Need is Love”
“Back in the USSR”
“Rocky Raccoon”
“Why Don’t We Do It in the Road”
“Let It Be”
Chapter 7 – The British Invasion
The Rolling Stones
"19th Nervous Breakdown"
"Get Off My Cloud"
"Satisfaction"
"Sympathy for the Devil"
Others in the Early British Invasion
Searchers' "Needles and Pins"
Gerry and the Pacemakers' "Ferry Cross the Mersey"
Freddy and the Dreamers' "I'm Telling You Now"
John Mayall and the Bluesbreakers'
“Double Trouble”
“Stormy Monday”
The Animals' "Don't Let Me Be Misunderstood"
The Kinks' "You Really Got Me"
The Yardbirds'
“Shapes of Things”
“For Your Love”
Chapter 8 – Folk Music & Folk Rock
Bob Dylan
"You're No Good"
"Masters of War"
"Lay Lady Lay"
"Blowin' in the Wind"
"Don't Think Twice, It’s Alright"
"The Times They Are a-Changin'"
"Like a Rolling Stone"
"Mr. Tambourine Man"
The Byrds
"Mr. Tambourine Man"
"Draft Morning"
"Tribal Gathering"
The Mamas and the Papas
"California Dreamin'"
"Monday, Monday"
Simon and Garfunkel
"Sounds of Silence" (original compared to revised version)
"Voices of Old People/Old Friends/Bookends"
Chapter 9 – Soul & Motown
Soul
Sam Cooke
"You Send Me"
"Wonderful" and "You Send Me" (excerpts)
Ray Charles – "I Got a Woman"
Aretha Franklin’s
"What a Friend" (4 excerpts)
"Respect"
James Brown’s
“Sex Machine”
"I Got You (I Feel Good)"
Motown Records
Smokey Robinson and the Miracles' "Shop Around"
The Marvelettes' "Mr. Postman"
Marvin Gaye's "I Heard It Through the Grapevine"
Motown's Second Wave
The Four Tops' "Reach Out, I’ll Be There"
The Temptations' "My Girl"
Little Steve Wonder's "Fingertips pt. 2"
The Supremes' "Where Did Our Love Go"
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