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Played our School dance 1970. I was only a first year though .Forgot to mention these. What a band. Very enlightening to listen to back in the day when on acid and blow.
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Played our School dance 1970. I was only a first year though .Forgot to mention these. What a band. Very enlightening to listen to back in the day when on acid and blow.
Yeah, love Bob Seger too.Just read this after I posted mine. We have similar tastes. Forgot the ones highlighted above - and Bob Seger
Thought prevoking Artwork you could hold rather than just observe on a screen.I liked the album cover of warrior on the edge of time.
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Honestly?Played our School dance 1970. I was only a first year though .
http://www.45worlds.com/live/venue/nunthorpe-schoolThought prevoking Artwork you could hold rather than just observe on a screen.
Honestly?
Love Easy Listening music like fuck. Driving the car tonight going home after dropping of my daughters and this came on the radio, I was buzzing like fuck!!!1st The Beatles
Beach Boys
Cat Stevens
Glen Miller
Lindisfarne
ABBA
Steve Gibbons Band
Thin Lizzy
ELO
Supertramp
Queen
Pink Floyd
Rainbow
Status Quo
Uriah Heep
Juluka/ Johnny Clegg
Hotline
REM
Stranglers
Prince
Afro Celt Sound System
Katie Melua
That's my musical journey as far as my memory serves me.
Still got an ear out for something different.
Rock n roll, Rock, Folk and easy listening have held me over the years
The samples in Hip Hop and House music introduced me to loads of the originals along with discovering who were the influences to the artists that that I love. The more I have went forward in music, the more it has took me to the past music. I've grown a lot more fonder of really old music pre 50's that paved the way for the musical revolutions afterwards.Born in '67 so early influences were Cliff and Bobby Vee (Mam) and Beatles, Stones, Kinks (dad) then by mid seventies found Elvis, ELO, Bowie and Queen and actually influenced my parents to like them, then like most loved The Clash, Squeeze, Blondie and Boomtown Rats then along came Wham! , Duran Duran and Japan which was short-lived apart from George Michael, always thought he was quality, after that I can't say i followed any real trends, I actually went back over to see who influenced who i liked, now I'm more inclined to listen to country music more than anything but never lost the love of early sixties pop/rock n roll, I never got rap, hip hop or souless electronic stuff and even stuff I liked in the 80's does little for me now, I'm basically living in 1979 as apart from 'new' country everything I listen to was made then or in the years previous!
Hope you ditched him for that!And a boyfriend got me into Suzanne Vega ! ...
I still like her! Another ex got me into Rufus Wainwright. I went to one of his gigs only to find my friend and I were sitting in the same row as him and his now ex wife. He waved and she scowled.Hope you ditched him for that!
Love Rufus Wainwright. I know SV was popular but i found her to be too dirgy.I still like her! Another ex got me into Rufus Wainwright. I went to one of his gigs only to find my friend and I were sitting in the same row as him and his now ex wife. He waved and she scowled.
The more I have went forward in music, the more it has took me to the past
I swung to that back in the day.
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It didnt mention puerile flatulence japes so the duckies will not be interested.The first tune I ever remember liking was 'Mr Postman' by The Carpenters, I was about 3 or 4 years old.
I then remember when my dad was out I went digging into my dad's box of 7" singles which mostly consisted of Rock 'n' Roll songs. The song that I played the most was 'The Wanderer' by Dion.
As I got older my dad got into Country and Western, so the likes of Hank Williams, Patsy Cline and Johnny Cash filled my young ears and shaped my thinking.
I was still into Rock 'n' Roll in my very early teens and learn't how to do The Bop'
My first teen disco's was at 'The Alexandra' in Grangetown and in the church hall at St' Aidan's Church. The 'Alex Disco' influenced me massively with it's eclectic range of music such as Ska, Rock 'n' Roll disco and Soul along with the current tunes of the day. St Aidan's disco had The Mods going there so I heard some of the music that catered for their taste.
I was then drawn to New Wave and the New Romantics music and became very obsessed with the likes of Depeche Mode and The Human League.
I then became a Skinhead and got into Ska music. I'll never forget seeing 'The Station Skins' pogoing and nutting each other on the floor as the Sunderland band 'Zone 57' were playing in the YWCA.
Then It was 'Gens'. What place, got me into disco and soul music big style and and after watching on Top of the Pops Lionel Richies video 'All Night Long' it was here that I started doing 'The Robot' dance as early Hip Hop emerged.
I then became a Break Dancer and got into Hip Hop and Electro music. I went to Tiffanys in Newcastle every Saturday afternoon to listen to electro and Hip Hop and battle other crews. My life was changed forever.
Aged about 17 I heard the track 'You Sure Love To Ball' by Marvin Gaye and this converted me into a true 'Soul head' and since then up to this present day I obsessively seek out soul songs, constantly!
Then there was the shit 'Rick Ashley' years, that was barren as fuck but suddenly 'Acid House' music rescued us. From that point I got into House music and lived life to the full in the 88-91 Rave scene. Went to the likes of Back 2 Basics, Club Havana, Chambers etc. I felt privileged to also witness and be a part of the emergence of 'Brit Pop' which was born from these places. Also at this time I ended up smoking loads of Joints and Bongs in bedsits and such with Hippies and forward thinking people. I fell endlessly in love with folk music.
The later House scene I follow passionately and went to The Arena, Hard Times, Cream. Got disillusioned with the whole scene when the 'Super Club' and the 'Look at me, look at me' culture bled in.
Got into Drum and Bass and Jungle music.
Fuck all happened after that due to no new genre coming along and making such an impact on society as the genres above had done. I have witnessed the death of the passionate 'Youth Culture' and their music shaping society for the better, writing songs that shape the world and telling the world 'We are sick of the shit around us'.
But today due to the internet making the world smaller their are new artist who are just as good as the old one's and change and dream's are still being formed though not as visible and prominent. I'm finding new music that restores my faith in it's creativity. I dream of a day a new grene will come along and have the impact of the past genres in everyday life and the shaping of it.
I now listen to everything and anything as long as it is good shit. The influences of the genres of music have now gone into one big cooking pot and I feast on this lovely broth on a daily basis.
If you think this opening post is too long then you are thick as fuck.
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Took me four hours to read it!In 2001, aged 26, I graduated Uni and started work at the local college for the Music Technology and Performing Arts departments. Got introduced to loads of brand new music by the college kids; muso-metal bands like Incubus and Dillinger Escape Plan, loads of electronica from trance to techno to happy hardcore... abstract sonic art, post-rock, and in my spare time I discovered a load of historical gems that I'd missed or hadn't appreciated the first time around, like KLF, Tony Christie, all the Beastie Boys stuff that came after Licence To Ill (which I knew from the hip-hop years), Gordon Lightfoot, Hank Williams. For a time I even found a few things in the charts that I liked, (which had been a massive rarity since about age 12), such as Shakira's Laundry Service album and the Geri Halliwell single Look At Me. Got into some more interesting jazz-influenced electronica like St. Germain and some well-produced-but-not-really-that-good stuff like Mr. Scruff.
Wrote loads of bad electronic music (and one fairly decent progressive techno track) that spanned pretty much all subgenres of electronica after discovering the pseudo-studio PC app Reason.
Got stabbed by the punky-covers band's drummer. Left that band.
Had an argument with the band-leader of the disco-soul band. Left that band.
Started a new female-fronted funk/soul/jazz/rock band with a couple of guys from the college and a vocalist we'd found who sounded like Michelle Pfeifer in The Fabulous Baker Boys when she wanted to. Had an amazing 6 months gigging intensively then everyone moved away from the area to go to their various uni choices / year-out destinations. One of my favourite bands I've ever been in.
In 2004 I got a "dream" job in London working for EMI at Olympic Studios and Abbey Road Studios as a technical engineer. Despite being surrounded by bad pop and modern derivative UK indie music, was introduced to loads of amazing alternative/underground/historically superb music from PJ Harvey, Tom Waits, Jeff Buckley by the guys I worked with.
Wrote loads of hard rock / prog rock/ metal music and a bit of industrial stuff solo, and did a bit of writing with a few different studio-based projects but didn't have the spare time to get into a proper gigging band. Guys I was writing with introduced me to a load of well-produced modern hip-hop and electronica but I don't really remember many of the names. I remember one guy gushing about The Grey Album by Danger Mouse, which is a mashup of Jay-Z's The Black Album with The Beatles' White Album., but if I recall correctly I was unmoved by it except for the production quality.
One of the people I lived in a flatshare with was French and into loads of interesting music I'd never heard but grew to love, from folk-indie band Tryo to jazz legend Serge Gainsbourg, house band Down To The Bone, and crazy DJ gymnastics stuff like C2C and Birdy Nam Nam.
In 2008 I was made redundant by EMI and moved back to my uni town to live with my lodger, also a Frenchman but with tastes much more based in jazz and hip-hop but also bits of electronica, rock, metal, funk, and to be fair happy to listen to music of any genre from any country in the world. Almost every Friday and most Saturday nights since then until last month (when he moved back to France) were TV, take-away and music nights where we played each other our most recent music discoveries during ludicrously eclectic playlists that had no rules other than "don't stick with one genre for too long".
We found so much amazing music in the last 8 or 9 years or so that it's hard to list them all, but here's a select few of my favourite new discoveries and rediscovered/newly-discovered oldies from this era of my life...
Adrien Moignard (laid-back jazz guitar)
Anglagard (scandinavian post-rock)
Babymetal (stupid fast J-pop/metal featuring the musicians from Dragonforce)
Beck (didn't really get him back in the day but love it now)
Brian Culbertson (easy-listening jazz pianist who did one amazing album, "Bringing Back The Funk", with loads of old funk stars)
Burial (kind of dark chill-out electronica with vocals)
Cake (Beck lite)
Calima (jazz-flamenco)
Choc Quib Town (Colombian hip-hop/latin jazz/electronica)
Chrome Hoof (f***ing barmy head-melting experimental rock/electronica "orchestra")
Col. Bruce Hampton & The Aquarium Rescue Unit (the "godfather" of "jam bands" and his blues/jazz/fusion band)
Aquarium Rescue Unit (same band minus the Colonel, with a much more rock-oriented fusion sound without so much of the bluesy side)
Common (rap)
Common Market (rap, no relation)
Control Machete (Mexican hardcore hip-hop)
Doigts De l'Homme (French modern "gypsy" jazz manouche)
Esperanza Spalding (young but incredibly talented female jazz bass / vocalist)
Galactic (began as jazz-funk/soul, went more hip-hop, then more electronic, but all their albums are amazing in their own way)
Gogo Penguin (jazz/electronica. some of it's pretty crazy)
Hiromi (absolutely amazing and eccentric female japanese jazz pianist)
Jacob Collier (very talented young abstract vocal jazz multi-instrumentalist. Weird but very good in a kind of Frank Zappa way.
Jazz The Roots (Ecuadorian jazz-reggae crossover band. Very interesting mix and very good musicians)
Kamasi Washington (modern sax-fronted epic jazz)
Karl Denson's Tiny Universe (mostly small-band modern jazz with bits of hip-hop and other stuff thrown in occasionally. Awesome stuff!)
La Shica (Female Spanish flamenco/hip-hop/pop artist. Her voice has this sexy gravelliness to it.)
Lonely Island (modern comedy electro-pop/rap)
Macaco (Spanish electro-flamenco-reggae-hip-hop)
Maria Pia De Vito (bizarre Italian abstract jazz vocalist)
MC Frontalot (the "godfather" of Nerdcore rap)
Nacao Zumbi (Brazilian trip hop/hip hop/latin/alt rock)
Nils Landgren (scandinavian jazz/funk)
Ninja Sex Party (comedy classic rock by an egotist vocalist and his psychotic friend Ninja Brian, who has a habit of killing almost everyone he meets)
Noir Desir (French 90's alternative band whose singer was jailed for killing his girlfriend during a drunken argument)
Ojos De Brujo (Spanish flamenco/funk/jazz/hip-hop/electronica band)
Old Gods Of Asgard (tongue-in-cheek modern classic rock from Scandinavia)
Peter Muller (German slap bassist. Listen if you like Marcus Miller)
Rock Candy Funk Party (modern funk / jazz-funk)
Sasha Masakowski (modern trad jazz vocalist)
Sélébéyone (modern ultra-produced jazz/electronica/hip hop)
Slowly Rolling Camera (interesting jazz/soul-influenced vocal electronica. mostly laid-back but then a couple of stonkers!)
Snarky Puppy (insane jazz-electronica)
Theo Croker (awesome modern jazz)
Tia Fuller (female modern jazz saxophonist whose main job is saxist for the Beyonce band and also teaches jazz at Berklee)
Tiro De Gracia (Chilean hip-hop)
Watsky (young white middle-class half-jewish "kid" doing sharp, amusing and thought-provoking yet authentic and at times very impressive rap music for nerds and hipsters. Actually very good)
Wicked Jazz Sounds Band (Dutch modern jazz-funk/soul)
Yoko Kanno (amazing Japanese jazz / anime soundtrack composer)
Youn Sun Nah (Japanese jazz, from the laid-back to the abstract to the bizarre choice of covering Ghost Riders In The Sky)
There you go @tunstall birdman
Was this what you had in mind?
Four hours. FOUR HOURS it took to write that post.
I bet nobody reads it, either.
No mate, it would take far to long to type.Fancy telling us or just bullet pointing your musical journey like Teed? You have had an interesting path I reckon.