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More than that, though, Far Out reported that their gargantuan cover was the very first heavy metal song to ever break into the Top 40 on the Billboard Hot 100.
Widely recognized for its wall-of-sound volume and raw distortion, Blue Cheer’s “Summertime Blues” peaked at No. 14 on the survey. It was a feat that not only boosted its parent album, Vincebus Eruptum, to No. 11 on the Billboard 200, but also helped usher heavy metal into the mainstream.
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Cochran’s original did well for itself, too. Climbing to No. 8 on the Billboard Hot 100, “Summertime Blues” made history as the singer-songwriter’s first Top 10 hit. It seemed like just about every band who took a stab at covering it had success. The Beach Boys in 1962, The Who in 1970, and even Alan Jackson in 1994 all proved the song’s versatility and ability to define whatever era it was released in.
“Primarily, we were a loud, straight-into-you rock ‘n’ roll band, man,” Peterson told the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette in 2007, per the Los Angeles Times. “Our whole goal was to make music a physical experience as well as an audio experience.”
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When Rolling Stone then used the term “heavy metal” in a 1968 review of Blue Cheer’s album, the outlet all but cemented the band’s legacy as heavy metal pioneers. Just proves that sometimes all it takes to spark a music revolution is one teenager’s frustrations with a summer job.
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