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A History of Rock Music in 500 Songs
Personal blog · 500songs.com/podcastculturehistory
A History of Rock Music in 500 Songs is a personal blog at 500songs.com about culture and history. Since 2023, 7 different Hacker News readers have linked it 9 times, most often “A History of Rock Music in 500 Songs”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2024-12-10, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (7) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
The 'A History of Rock Music in 500 Songs' podcast and site, which tells the story of rock through individual songs. HN commenters cite its episodes on Sly Stone, Sun Records and Elvis, and the Marshall amp history.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 7 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Most-linked posts?
- /podcast/song-175-everyday-people-by-sly-and-the-family-stone-part-1-different-strokes-for-different-folks/2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2025-06-10
- A History of Rock Music in 500 Songs2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2024-02-08
What Hacker News says?
https://500songs.com/podcast/song-175-everyday-people-by-sly... Is a great podcast and a very good introduction to Sly’s genius and burdens. Hope he rests easy now.
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on “Sly Stone has died”Submitted A History of Rock Music in 500 Songs as a story · 3 points
HN discussionThere's a wonderfully made two-part podcast documentary about Sly Stone and the Family; the documentary focuses on one song but is really a well-told story about the world around Sly Stone: https://500songs.com/podcast/song-175-everyday-people-by-sly... Sly wasn't just a brilliant performer, singer, and accomplished multi-instrumentalist but a fantastic songwriter and hugely influential producer. He knew his way aro…
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on “Sly Stone has died”Submitted An Alert: Someone Plagiarising Me as a story · 2 points
HN discussionLearned about this from a huge intro in an episode of this amazing podcast. https://500songs.com/podcast/episode-146-good-vibrations-by-...
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on “Eye of Sauron: Long-Range Hidden Spy Camera Detection (2024)”The podcast "History of Rock in 500 Songs" (full disclosure: I am a devout, slavering fan) provides these on the regular. I was actually smiling when I heard a fairly new song that attempts a really flat, fuzzed out sound because it made me think, "Buddy Holly invented that by accident with a broken speaker". One of the episodes on The Who goes into the Marshall behind Marshall amps in similar detail. I suppose if I…
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on “Jimi Hendrix was a systems engineer”The Web Site for A History of Rock Music in 500 Songs https://500songs.com/
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on “A Podcast Unlike Any Other”More on Phillips and Elvis: https://500songs.com/podcast/thats-all-right-mama-by-elvis-p... Notably this is episode 19 of that podcast / book, indicating the "Birth of Rock 'N' Roll" goes much further back.
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on “The Birth of Rock 'N' Roll Is Found at Sam Phillips's Sun Records”One of my favourite podcasts is A History Of Rock Music In Five Hundred Songs https://500songs.com - it emphasises over and over, with played examples, that there isn't a clear first anything . Sun did get three or four episodes, though - it was extremely important.
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on “The Birth of Rock 'N' Roll Is Found at Sam Phillips's Sun Records”