History Awesome / Music

* TheMonkees, a fictitious bubblegum pop band created for a TV show in TheSixties, a group often deliberate overlooked by the hipster [[CausticCritic]]s for having any influence or importance in popular music in spite of "bringing long hair into America's living rooms", is the first ever band to have a successful hit record in pop music using a synthesizer when Micky Dolenz uses a Moog modular synth on the track "Daily Nightly" (from the album ''Pisces, Aquarius, Capircorn And Jones, Ltd.'' and its [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YXmcweS2cnQ promotional video]]. In 1967. Ahead of TheByrds, TheBeatles, TheRollingStones, TheWho and other pop innovators. Ahead of even Wendy Carlos' "Switched-On-Bach" a year later. In fact, one story goes that JohnLennon was up all night visiting Dolenz in California making space noises on Dolenz's Moog. TheBeatles wouldn't use a Moog until 1969's ''Abbey Road''. Micky Dolenz helped to usher in much of the next forty-something years of musical innovation on a slapstick teenybopper TV sitcom on NBC.
** Oh yeah, and JimiHendrix opened up for them earlier that same year, when he was an unknown in America. So the Monkees had a hand in popularizing electronic music ''and'' heavy metal/hard rock.

* TheMonkees, a fictitious bubblegum pop band created for a TV show in TheSixties, a group often deliberate overlooked by the hipster CausticCritics for having any influence or importance in popular music in spite of "bringing long hair into America's living rooms", is the first ever band to have a successful hit record in pop music using a synthesizer when Micky Dolenz uses a Moog modular synth on the track "Daily Nightly" (from the album ''Pisces, Aquarius, Capircorn And Jones, Ltd.'' and its [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YXmcweS2cnQ promotional video]]. In 1967. Ahead of TheByrds, TheBeatles, TheRollingStones, TheWho and other pop innovators. Ahead of even Wendy Carlos' "Switched-On-Bach" a year later. In fact, one story goes that JohnLennon was up all night visiting Dolenz in California making space noises on Dolenz's Moog. TheBeatles wouldn't use a Moog until 1969's ''Abbey Road''. Micky Dolenz helped to usher in much of the next forty-something years of musical innovation on a slapstick teenybopper TV sitcom on NBC.
** Oh yeah, and JimiHendrix opened up for them earlier that same year, when he was an unknown in America. So the Monkees had a hand in popularizing electronic music ''and'' heavy metal/hard rock.

** [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QKpJg7dV8NU Marnie Stern]] doesn't just rock like the men, she outplays a vast majority of the male guitarists out there right now. But the moment would probably be when New York Times called her album [[http://www.nytimes.com/2007/02/26/arts/music/26choi.html?_r=1&ref=music&pagewanted=all "the year’s most exciting rock ’n’ roll album."]] From a girl? Impossible!

* On January 18th 2009 just about a half a million people from around the US braved the freezing cold to gather on the National Mall in front of the Lincoln Memorial. Why? To rock out to people like Mary J. Blige, Beyonce, U2, Neil Young, Bruce Springsteen, Renee Fleming, Stevie Wonder, Bon Jovi, Usher and just about everyone else ever, right along side Obama. Did I mention they were all introduced by the likes of Jamie Fox, Tom Hanks and Samuel L. Jackson? [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QpwAPfidN5s Pure, undiluted awesome and then some.]]

* Melissa Ethridge, at the 2005 Grammys, managing to rock the HELL out of Janis Joplin's "Piece of My Heart" [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R_j3TDhc8vY even though she was on chemo.]]

* On December 2, 2010, after ''yet another'' set of rumors involving BritneySpears, this time from Star magazine (with input by her first husband for two days Jason Alexander (no, not [[{{Seinfeld}} that one]]), about her boyfriend allegedly physically abusing her and her keeping silent to the police on the matter, Britney personally makes five posts on her {{Twitter}} account. The first two for congratulating her fans for wishing her a happy 29th birthday, the next one announcing that the release date of her new album will be in March 2011, the fourth one to announce she will be enjoying a romantic vacation for the weekend, [[TakeThat and the last one...]] [[http://twitter.com/#!/britneyspears/status/10465543475691520 well, you can see it for yourself]]. BewareTheNiceOnes, indeed.

** [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QKpJg7dV8NU Marnie Stern]] doesn't just rock like the men, she outplays a vast majority of the male guitarists out there right now. But the moment would probably be when New York Times called her album [[http://www.nytimes.com/2007/02/26/arts/music/26choi.html?_r=1&ref=music&pagewanted=all "the year’s most exciting rock ’n’ roll album."]] From a girl? Impossible!

* Regardless of how you feel about Gorillaz's musical output (which is very much in [[YourMileageMayVary YMMV]] territory), the fact that an animated band started by two bored flatmates has become one of the most influential, critically acclaimed bands of the past decade is a CMoA all its own.

* On December 2, 2010, after ''yet another'' set of rumors involving BritneySpears, this time from Star magazine (with input by her first husband for two days Jason Alexander [no, not [[{{Seinfeld}} that one]]), about her boyfriend allegedly physically abusing her and her keeping silent to the police on the matter, Britney personally makes five posts on her {{Twitter}} account. The first two for congratulating her fans for wishing her a happy 29th birthday, the next one announcing that the release date of her new album will be in March 2011, the fourth one to announce she will be enjoying a romantic vacation for the weekend, [[TakeThat and the last one...]] [[http://twitter.com/#!/britneyspears/status/10465543475691520 well, you can see it for yourself]]. BewareTheNiceOnes, indeed.

* On December 2, 2010, after ''yet another'' set of rumors involving BritneySpears, this time from Star magazine, about her boyfriend allegedly physically abusing her and her keeping silent on the matter, Britney personally makes six posts on her {{Twitter}} account. The first two for congratulating her fans for wishing her a happy 29th birthday, the second two announcing that the release date of her new album will be in March 2011, the next one to announce she will be enjoying a romantic vacation for the weekend, [[TakeThat and the last one...]] [[http://twitter.com/#!/britneyspears/status/10465543475691520 well, you can see it for yourself.]] BewareTheNiceOnes, indeed.

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* How did Snoop Dogg respond to MoralGuardians going all TheNewRockAndRoll on gangsta rap and publicly destroying hundreds of various rappers' CDs? By telling them that just because you destroyed them doesn't mean ''he (or the record label) didn'td make money off the sale of them.''

* [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aopK2A8MCd4 This fan-made video]] for Dashboard Confessional's "Thick as Thieves." [[TheOner One long, unbroken chain of card tricks]] that was entered in a contest against dozens of standard "relationship" videos that took the song literally. And when the fan discovered that he'd gotten a single word of the lyrics wrong, he ''redid the whole thing''. Kudos not only to him for thinking outside the box and having the balls to do it, but to DashboardConfessional for showing that they, too, enjoy creativity.
** While on the subject of DashboardConfessional,take their song Vindicated as an example.While an epic track on it's own,the story behind it is quite awesome too.Chris was to write a song for the Spiderman2 soundtrack.He wrote a song,but then watched a screening of the movie.He then scrapped the previous song,sat down and wrote Vindicated...in 15 minutes!

* Van Canto's cover of Metallica's "Battery" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BEwNrjvNiYs

* Susan Boyle from ''Britains Got Talent 2009''. When she walks into the stage she's making a complete fool out of herself. Every member of the audience treats her as a bad ugly joke. And then she starts to sing, [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RxPZh4AnWyk and it's all magic!]].

* IronMaiden in 2008 playing in India, 30,000 people packed the stadium for the first big metal band to ever play in the 2nd most populated country in the world. History was made when the devil horns were thrown up in the whole crowd rocked out.
** To be honest, anytime IronMaiden appears on a stage is a CMOA. The band is thrice-distilled, pure awesome. Want proof? Watch Flight 666. There is a priest out there, who bases his sermons on their lyrics.

* The Sex Pistols renting a barge and following Queen Elizabeth's Silver Jubilee parade while blasting "God Save the Queen" deified them in the minds of the [[UsefulNotesOnPunk Punk]] community. Even after the group utterly failed in the U.S. and fell apart, they are still remembered for having the cast-iron balls to actually do it.

* Iron Maiden in 2008 playing in India, 30,000 people packed the stadium for the first big metal band to ever play in the 2nd most populated country in the world. History was made when the devil horns were thrown up in the whole crowd rocked out.
** To be honest, anytime Iron Maiden appears on a stage is a CMOA. The band is thrice-distilled, pure awesome. Want proof? Watch Flight 666. There is a priest out there, who bases his sermons on their lyrics.

* French electronica group DaftPunk had worked their way into a bit of a spot in 2005 with the release of an album that didn't quite live up to their previous work. Some fans found the album, "Human After All" so bad, they claimed the duo was done. Daft Punk changed EVERYONE'S minds in 2006 with an appearance at the Coachella Music Festival, playing their first live show in 10 years, dressed in robot costumes, standing inside a glowing LCD pyramid, mixing and mashing up all their best songs from all their albums, awesomeing it up to the point that doubting fans found themselves loving even Human After All's songs in the live mixes. [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hyJjOGYOsGU See for]][[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DmX--GQttTU yourself!]]

* Rick Astley hijacking the 82nd Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade and lip-snycing to Never Gonna Give You Up. Yes, the guy who performed the song in the first place effectively ''Rickrolled all of America''.

* The Cure's "[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MHgBb3GWhys Robert Palmer Version]]" of "A Forest" at the 1981 Werchter Festival in Belgium. Performed only when the band was threatened with being booted off the stage if they didn't stop after the next song so Robert Palmer could play and thus played a nearly ten minute, extremely overlong and slower version of the song. You can practically hear Robert Palmer getting more and more annoyed with each additional minute The Cure are on stage.
* Jeff Beck, Jimmy Page and Eric Clapton. Stairway to Heaven. Need I say more?

* Kobe Bryant, Micheal Phelps, Tony Hawk and Alex Rodriguez covering Bob Seger's "Old Time Rock & Roll" for a GuitarHero commercial. C'mon how could you not like that!!

* When Garth Brooks won the 1996 American Music Award for Artist Of The Year (his third win in a row), he ''refused to accept it and left it on the podium''. He stated that Hootie & The Blowfish should have won because they had sold more records and done more for music than he did that year.
* Just watch the live version of Sigur Ros' Hoppipola on their [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=avCJTTw2VOk live Heima DVD]]... The thing that makes it so Awesome is the whole crowd. From what I gathered, it's some kinda National Holyday and the band just plays there in a field for the benefit of everyone, no rock crowd headbanging (though you won't headbang much for a Sigur Ros concert), no fans screaming, just families in a field listening to music and having a nice time...

* For non-song moments with DreamTheater we have bassist John Myung tackling singer James Labrie on a dare in the middle of a concert, and drummer Mike Portnoy playing catch with a stagehand, ''while playing "Erotomania"''.
** The entire "Live Scenes from New York" concert: they played the entirety of ''ScenesFromAMemory'', another full concerts worth of music after that (including all three parts of "A Mind Beside Itself"), and they for the encore, they played the [[EpicRocking 23 minute long]] "A Change Of Seasons". The icing on the cake is at the very end when James Labrie apologizes for having such a short set. Even more impressive, Mike Portnoy was suffering from food poisoning the entire time, and was hospitalized after the concert. And it still sounded awesome.