Billy Haley and the Comets were the first noise rock band
 

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I just watched Rock Around The Clock for the first time.

There are points when I'm watching the Comets play, the bass is doing one thing, the drummer is doing another thing, the guitarist is doing another thing, the saxophonist is doing another thing. And all the playing is very loose. Some of the songs seem to fall apart and come back together all the sudden.
There is also a pretty cool instrumental number where the saxophonist plays out of his mind.


Tony Martinez was a pretty crazy guy too.

Quite common for music of the period to be played that loose, be it blues, rockabilly, hillbilly, certain styles of jazz and so on.

Bill Haley was doing great stuff with the Saddlemen before the Comets, and although he wasn't the inventor of rock 'n' roll as people like to claim, he made some awesome records.

I wouldn't say Noise rock.

But fuzz on the bass and it sounds like melt banana.

Maybe I guess.
I'd call the monks noise rock before I call Bill Haley noise rock, but then again, he did come first.

It's sorta cool to read about you appreciating the song, but it's known to be the first popular rock and roll song/single ever.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rock_Around_the_Clock

I kinda get what you mean about "noise"; a lot of early rock has a "jamming the note" type of guitar style going on, and overall, a primative sound recorded primatively. )oops

On a side note, Leiber and Stoller are songwriters and producers from the '50s and '60s that are pretty interesting.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerry_Leiber

bill hailey did start it all really. its amazing to think that that song invoked riots when it was played..... what kind of song could envoke a riot now?

Tokio Hotel

this is the most stupid comment i've read in a long time.


not a song exactly but the rite of spring by stravinsky and the works of luigi russolo, to name just two.

Love the way you call him Billy Haley by the way.