Hmm. Either some hard blues that the kids wouldn’t have encountered yet, or I am the Walrus.
This got me wondering what the people from fifty years from now would send to *our * time. Then my head started spinning.
“Power of Love” by Huey Lewis and the News.
GMTA, I guess. I’ve actually thought about this Very Important Question before and my answer was exactly like the OP’s: Sweet Child 'O Mine would be the song I’d play as well.
Anarchy In The UK
Well you’re all wrong.
Those 50’s kids could use a good dose of Prince.
Maybe “When Doves Cry.” Yeah. Good guitar licks, and some lyrics to shock the 50’s sensibility.
If you’re shocking the 50s kids, I think you need to play Darling Nikki.
My cow bell solo during “Don’t Fear the Reaper” would blow their minds…
I think Hey Bulldog would be pretty sweet.
That or Zappa’s Titties and Beer
Good point on them simply not getting it.
Maybe something from the sixties first to keep them from freakin’ out.
Maybe the Rolling Stones- Satisfaction. That way I get to be Mick Jagger for once. Or maybe the Jimi Hendrix version of All along the Watchtower.
Yeaaaaaaaaaah. Then I break out my best GnR!
I wonder what sort of instructions I would have to give to the band to get them to play Spirit of the Raido by Rush with me?
Alright, guys. Just try to keep up: we’re going to do a straight blues tune in E, up-tempo. A-one, a-two… oh, hang on…okay, straight blues, except every fifth measure will be in 7/8, and the chorus is in G, closer to a staggered waltz time. And actually only the first half of each measure is “straight blues.” The second half is a chromatic descending…well, I guess you can fake that bit. But the drummer, he’s going to do three-on-each-four… and… Guys? Guys?
(shakes bass player out of frothing seizure)
One last thing: when I put up my hands like this, just forget all that mush and play like this – DAH-NA-na-na-na, DAH-NA-na-na-na and just get faster and faster and faster. Cool?
With an answer like that, I’d say this thread is closed. Nice one!
I thought I was the only one who thought of crazy stuff like this. When “Pride (In the Name of Love)” came out, I always thought it would be a cool song to introduce people from the past to. What? I was a reeeeeaaaaalllllllyyyyy strange 13 year old girl.
Assuming I could somehow pull off Thom Yorke’s voice and Jonny Greenwood’s wonderfully dissonant solos (while playing drums, bass, keys, and rhythm guitar simultaneously), I’d play Radiohead’s “Paranoid Android.” No question.
Alternatively, the Trogdor song would do just fine. Getting a taste of BURNINATION ought to really blow their minds.
Hey! Do you think they would’ve been up for some head banging? Perhaps a little hair metal could have also saved the day.
So I’d pick either Come on Feel the Noise or We’re Not Gonna Take It for a little eye opening. Or maybe gapped mouth staring.
If I wanted to frighten them, Vietnow by Rage Against the Machine.
If I wanted to inspire them, maybe something like Parabola by Tool.
So does anyone else have visions of Chuck Berry playing these songs based on Marvin’s phone call