Loud, Fast, and Out of Control

This is the Rock and Roll book of Genesis. This is the origin story. Play it loud.

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Rock & roll exploded in the '50s onto a cultural landscape that was so uptight and repressed as to be unrecognizable today, even to those who lived through it. Everything -- from the clothes young people wore to the music they listened to to the money they spent -- was a hard-fought statement, because no youth group before those '50s teenagers ever had that kind of freedom and did something with it. Pop music was bland, bland, bland (just like it is now) and the bigger and badder and bolder rock & roll became, the more of a threat it was to the status-quo squares who banned it every chance they got. You couldn't listen to it, you couldn't dance to it at your school, concerts in public places were banned, and artists were often jailed for performing it in public.
Make no mistake about it, this music is full of abandon and release and joy. It is far more than just the roots of today's music; this is loud, nutzo, visceral, screaming-in-the-night music that is unfortunately being killed off in order to feel-good us into buying hamburgers and pantyhose.

The tracks:

• Long Tall Sally - Little Richard
• La Bamba - Ritchie Valens
• Finger Poppin' Time - Hank Ballard and the Midnighters
• Rave On - Buddy Holly
• Race with the Devil - Gene Vincent and the Blue Caps
• Blue Suede Shoes - Carl Perkins
• Tutti Frutti - Little Richard
• Whole Lotta Shakin' - Jerry Lee Lewis
• Summertime Blues - Eddie Cochran
• Train Kept 'A Rollin' - Johnny Burnette Trio
• Sea Cruise - Frankie Ford
• I'm Ready - Fats Domino
• Good Golly, Miss Molly - Little Richard
• Stagger Lee - Lloyd Price
• Chantilly Lace - The Big Bopper
• Rock 'n Roll Music/Roll Over Beethoven - Chuck Berry
• Great Balls of Fire - Jerry Lee Lewis
• Jailhouse Rock - Elvis
• Shake, Rattle, and Roll - Big Joe Turner
• Willie and the Hand Jive - Johnny Otis
• Johnny B. Goode - Some dude
• Lucille - Little Richard