2. The Kinks - You Really Got Me
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S7ffgqjcH40&feature=youtu.be It might sound a tad old-fashioned now, but You Really Got Me was a sonic breakthrough in '64. The trademark fuzztone guitar that has now been copied a million times was only made possible by Dave Davies slashing his amplifier speaker with razors and spiking it with pins. Talk about "cutting edge." The power chord progression was similarly copied or tinkered with by everyone from The Who, The Stones and pretty much every garage band that's ever existed. You Really Got Me opened doors to a new, aggressive style of music that would refined, roughed up and brutalised by all manner of uncompromising studio boffins yet to come. Fist pounding pattern: The key to optimum satisfaction here is to let the tension build, with your sweating hands tightly balled up in anticipation. Forgoing a typical verse-chorus-verse-chorus structure, the song dynamically shifts through the gears until the tension reaches breaking point, where Davies lets it go by shout-singing the song title three times. Keeping your fists sheathed until that explosive moment will ensure three maximum strength blows into the trembling aluminium.