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     Matthias Treml Member Username: Matthias Post Number: 181 Registered: 05-2005 |
We love to discuss U2 and a few other influences. And LK mentioned how many of us had similiar tastes but we've never actually listed the essential influences by album and chronologically. Here's what I mean: 1) Age now 2) Date, age and album that meant something 3) What did it mean to you For example, 1) I'm 35 years old. 2) & 3) 1970 Simon and Garfunkel, Neil Diamond, PP&M - my dad's stuff 1981 the Police on the Radio 1982 ~ Van Halen - Diver Down at Camp Dearborn's Cantina in the summer ~ Happy Trails... then buying the rest of their albums to date 1982-83 the Clash - Combat Rock then buying the rest of the records. I didn't understand a lot of the politics but I loved the music. Amzing how some of their poloitics still apply today. 1984 U2 ~ Unforgettable Fire was amazing to me. Still is. I love the sounds and I love the expansiveness and the meandering nature of most of the songs. Daniel Lanois and Brian Eno revolutionized their sound like George Martin did for the Beatles. Then I bought the rest of their albums to date. 1984 the Smiths - Louder than Bombs then Queen is Dead. I started driving my sister's yellow fiesta to work in HS and she had a mixed tape of Hatful of Hollow and Louder Than Bombs songs by the Smiths and it was all over at that point. I thought Morrissey could do no wrong, his wit, intellect, and irreverence really struck a chord. Marr's musicianship was something to dream about. 1985-1989 a string of Australian/New Zealand, English and Irish bands (Cactus World News, Hothouse Flowers, The Church, Crowded House, Lloyd Cole, etc.) 1990 ~ the Go-Betweens - 16 Lovers Lane plus a best of from a friend of the rest of their catalog. They really had (and still have) a major impact on my own songwriting as it was developing at this point. 1989-1992 ~ Machester & Shoegazer bands - Stone Roses, Ride, Catherine Wheel, House of Love 1996-7 ~ Dave Matthews Band, Sarah McLachlan, Duncan Sheik 1998-2000 ~ Jazz - Diana Krall, Sarah Vaughn, Diane Shore, Ella Fitzgerald, Miles, etc. 2001-2004 ~ Motown 2005 ~ the Killers more like retro-post-punk that I started this list with. OK, your turn. | ||
| Little Keith Member Username: Manosludge Post Number: 1285 Registered: 03-2006 |
But, what's your sign? And what are your measurements? | ||
| spence Member Username: Spence Post Number: 1072 Registered: 05-2005 |
Wihout thinking about it too much, for today here goes: 1. 38 2 & 3. Early 70's, my sister played many artists in the house, Alvin Stardust, Bowie, T.Rex, Roxy et al. I remember these songs/sounds at a very young age. I remember all the parephinalia. Mid 70's, Bowie again, Bryan Ferry, Evis P was big onour radiogram at this point, never off the decks. Late 70's '78 onwards, punk stuff I heard of through school friends, Clash, SLF, Stranglers etc Sparks the Number one song in heaven was a massive influence on me, for years I'd watch the weird one with the moustche on TOTP then this song with its pulsing sequencer and ghostly vocals just amazed me. Blondie was really doing it for me too! 1980 - OMD were a fave, I remeber hearing and liking Michael Jackson Off the wall, but I was big into all the ska/mod stuff like The Beat, SPecials, Selcter etc etc this stuff was fun and fast and I loved it. The Jam and The Police were big faves too. 1981, '82 and '83: was Orange Juice, and Postcard, a mate's brother did me a tape that changed my life at 12/13 years of age it had The Assocites, Bowie, Scott Walker, Tuxedo Moon and Grace Jones amongst others. Along with Orange Juice and I suppose Haircut 100 this was starting to help me shape my musical route. Carried on in simillar vein, Malcolm Ross' wife Syuzen who I'd known since '81 got me into Magazine and Television, Go Betweens. Josef K had supported MAgazine and Syuzen was a big fan! She had her hair cut like Howard Devoto too!! The Farmers Boys were a great group, I use to write to Frog their keyboard player, but '83 for me was The Smiths. First heard this Charming Man and that was it. thanks Mr Peel. '84 and '85 became a big Del Amitri fan, Monochrome Set too. Hung around with the Dels a lot, saw them play many times. Heard Momus in '85 for the first time, his album Circus Maximus the following year was great, by this time I was getting into Birmingham England seeing bands all the time, playing in bands through '87, right up to '96. Music I loved in this period, (86-89) to wrap up my post, The Wolfhounds, Julian Cope, Momus, Jaques Brel, Beach Boys, Kinks, Dave Graney, The Moodists come to think of it, the label Les Disques Du Crepuscule, House of Love, Felt, McCarthy, then into the 90's, Happy Mondays were a fave I must admit, Blue Aeroplanes, supported them nay times from 88 onwards, they were to be the single biggest musical influence on me throughout the 90's. Could go on, but you get the gist, you must all be bored bynow! I've probably missed loads, old age y'know! | ||
| kevin Member Username: Kevin Post Number: 1236 Registered: 05-2005 |
I'm a bit lost here - do we love to discuss U2? | ||
| Kurt Stephan Member Username: Slothbert Post Number: 1044 Registered: 04-2005 |
Kevin, we need to get you some sort of filter for your browser so that all references to U2 are deleted from other people's posts. I'm worried your dislike for them might be turning into an obsession!  Matthias, this is like the end-of-term essay for a music appreciation class! I'd really have to sink some time into this to write a thorough reply, and I guarantee that if I did, I'd bore everybody--including myself. But it is a good question. | ||
| Geoff Holmes Member Username: Geoff Post Number: 182 Registered: 05-2005 |
..and the Beatles! | ||
| Rob Brookman Member Username: Rob_b Post Number: 183 Registered: 08-2006 |
I think this should be named the "Let's Egg Kevin On" thread. C'mon, all you closet Fall haters, pile on! (kidding, Kev - don't know how to operate the emoticons) This is a good question, Matthias. Tonight, though, my fingers have requested the night off. They'll return refreshed tomorrow. | ||
| kevin Member Username: Kevin Post Number: 1237 Registered: 05-2005 |
Really though, all joking aside, I dont think we do discuss U2 all that often on here. And Matthias did say "we love to discuss U2". To be honest Kurt, I wouldnt actually say I dislike U2, I am so indifferent to them that I have no real feelings about them at all. Now James Blunt, Coldplay, Phil Collins, any heavy metal, or screechy female vocalists, well that is a different kettle of fish | ||
| kevin Member Username: Kevin Post Number: 1238 Registered: 05-2005 |
Sorry Matthias, I didnt mean to hijack your thread and take it in a different tangent, its a great topic and like Rob I will consider your question and give a hopefully reasonable answer tomorrow - 0235am in the morning is not a good time for this, time for bed I think | ||
| Kurt Stephan Member Username: Slothbert Post Number: 1046 Registered: 04-2005 |
I guess Matthias needed the sarcastic emoticon (eyes rolling) after writing "we love to discuss U2." Ah, the limitations of online communication. | ||
| kevin Member Username: Kevin Post Number: 1239 Registered: 05-2005 |
I'm not so sure about that Kurt, only Matthias knows for sure. And I really am going to bed now, before I dig myself further into a hole | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 829 Registered: 03-2005 |
I simply cannot be as organized as Matthias' question requests. I'll try to follow Spence's template. 1. 50. Just let that horrifying statistic soak in for a moment. 2 & 3. My oldest brother is seven years my senior. While his tastes narrowed drastically much later, he originally was pretty much into the entire range of mid-60s AM radio rock from the Beach Boys to the Beatles to the Yardbirds to the Rolling Stones to the Kinks to Lovin' Spoonful to--most of all--the Byrds. He bought all these records and fortunately was very indulgent in letting me play them to my heart's content from about age 8 forward. This early period forms the foundation for all of my musical tastes. A neighbor friend's older sister turned me onto the Rolling Stones in a bigger way than my brother ever would have and they were my favorite band until about the time they set up their own record label. I actually had a copy of the Beatles' butcher-cover version of "Yesterday and Today," purchased for me by my brother when it was a new release as a birthday gift. He peeled off the tame re-cover to reveal the glory (or should I say gorey) of the naughty original. What a great brother, hey? I played the hell out of it but I was already more interested in "Aftermath." Natch, I traded it away decades ago. My brother followed the Byrds into their more country-oriented direction and though I never was a big Byrds fan I always loved the Gene Clark songs and later solo records and also went for the Great Speckled Bird-era Ian and Sylvia, the post-Monkees Michael Nesmith and even Joan Baez' countrified offerings and Judy Collins' "Who Knows Where the Time Goes." I owe a permanent debt to my oldest brother for sowing the early seeds of my taste for folk and a certain amount of country which would lie fallow for a long time but proves very useful now. Around 1970 I started to drift into British blues, particularly John Mayall (who I still rate) and also a lot of dreadful people like Ten Years After and Keef Hartley Band and Savoy Brown. But my 60s pop instincts never died and so I also started digging deeply into the Hollies who really had two parallel recorded legacies: their all-too-familiar hit singles and their albums and b-sides which is where the real interest always was with them. I also picked up on the mellotron-era Moody Blues and faithfully bought each new album up until the 1974 album, by which time I was realized that they had become pretty dull. Around 1973 or 1974, I purged all of the British blues (even the Mayall) and refocused on my first love, the 60s. This was aided by my best friend who adopted my Rolling Stones thing carrying it much further than I ever did and turned me onto Captain Beefheart and the Flamin' Groovies. Yes, there were two high school kids in Fresno, California listening to Captain Beefheart; "Safe As Milk" and "Spotlight Kid" and "Clear Spot" were all easy to digest. He also tried to turn me onto Django Rhinehardt and Robert Johnson but at that time I wasn't interested, too oldy moldy. Probably because of a certain, ahem, substance we indulged in we got very deep into the already-defunct Thirteenth Floor Elevators whose amphetamine-driven single "You're Gonna Miss Me" had coincidentally been bought by my prolific oldest brother back in 1966. The Easybeats also entered the radar around this time. I actually sort-of studied for school while my best friend didn't and spent all his time hunting down these awesome rare albums in the bargain bins of drug stores in small towns in central California. Being his best friend, I freeloaded on him shamelessly and soaked them all up. I graduated from high school in 1974 and around that time my best friend tried to turn me onto the New York Dolls but they didn't click for me but, oh boy, VU sure did! And before you knew it there were the Modern Lovers. The first reggae I ever heard and actually paid attention to was the soundtrack to "The Harder They Come." Specifically, it was "Pressure Drop" which totally blew me away. That record was released in about 1973 and I think I first heard it in 74 or 75. It starts to get really jumbled for me in the 1976-1979 period. Radio Birdman and "Never Mind the Bollocks" seem to have arrived for me at about the same time. Then in the last year before I moved to Los Angeles a longtime friend of mine who had never shown any special musical interest suddenly started mopping up every import punk album he could find so I was turned onto X-Ray Spex, 999, the Damned and the Stranglers in 1979. Only X-Ray Spex really stuck with me. I can't keep going. The snoring is disturbing me. Ok, I'll speed it up. I discovered Magazine in 1982, Cocteau Twins in 85, the Fall in 86, Nick Cave in 86, the Saints in 86. I had Marianne Faithfull records since at least 1971. I discovered the Go Betweens in 90 or 91 and Joe Meek I think in 93 or so. And then you folks started turning me onto all sorts of great things. | ||
| joe Member Username: Dogmansuede Post Number: 65 Registered: 07-2006 |
this thread is truly something beautiful. i don't know if i have a whole lot to offer. i don't listen to anything pre-77 that isn't abba and i really haven't bothered much with anything new since since "is this it" came out in what, 1990 if you buy into it's write up and subsequent 'infuluence'. 1. i'm 24. 2. someone showed me how to cue up the family turntable onto which i started listening to mum's copy of abba's arrival as often as my shambolic family would put up with. i would've been about four at the time. with four older sisters and not a brother to be seen, as well as one pathetic father - voila! my second older sister has always been a big madonna fan. it rubbed off bigtime and i've swooned over crazy for you and burning up for almost as long as i have over knowing me knowing you. to this day madge remains one of my favourite artists. like a prayer and her debut are obvious stand outs. don't think she's really done anything half as interesting since vogue. the immaculate collection was the first cd i ever got and i love it to this day. cut to 1996 (possibly 97) and in honour of their tour, mtv australia had six straight hours devoted to pulp. i'd never heard of them. i know i know. seriously though, in the outer northern suburbs of melbourne a 15 year old had no chance or access to this stuff. saw the video to common people....completely wigged out....went out and found a copy of different class the next week and i was lost forever. i couldn't believe the lyrics as i read them out of the booklet, in spite of jarvis' explicit instructions not to do so. nothing has overwhelmed me in quite the same way. with the possible exception of... a friend online a year later pointing me in the direction of suede. the melodramatics of their first couple of albums...brett's yelps and hair that could do no wrong and bernard's guitar was not the smashing pumpkins that my friends were so into, nor were they the jon bon my oldest sister played relentlessly. somewhere along here i came into contact with the pixies and spend an alcoholic summer with a couple of friends in a bungalow listening to doolittle. one of the weirdest, catchiest and strangely uplifting records ever. by this point i would have been 17 or something. high school wasn't all that bad...my friends kept me entertained and comforted, etc but i still had no one to talk about music much with. my politics teacher remedied this. he showed up on the first day wearing a bossanova t shirt and we took to eachother like peanut butter to chocolate. i loaned him pulp's his n hers (i had all of four cds at this point) and he loaned me, amongst other things (barry adamson, dj shadow), the trainspotting soundtrack. christ almighty! walked home listening to elastica's 2:1 and born slippy for quite some time. i met one of my best friends, current housemate and possibly most influential person in my life via a britpop mailing list i joined for no particular reason. she took me out to the couple of indie clubs pretty much every weekend for three years. we didn't seem to be listening to the same music anymore for a really long time...recently though, we seem to have found some sort of curious middle ground which is kind of exciting. anyway, i soon got into new order in a big way. technique remains my favourite album ever. obviously there was a big smiths/moz infatuation early on...i slept under a bona drag promo poster from 2000-2003. next to was one for the manics' holy bible....which i'm not sure who or what got me into. again, no following in australia at all. i was definitely in uni, so 2001...18 and a bit i guess. i would've spent about a year listening almost soley to those two records. so in short, either exceptionally self-pitiful or very very angry. one night out, possibly late 2001, i was out at a club...exhausted, casually talking to a friend slumped in the corner and almost certainly sweating profusely when ye random dj cued up "always on my mind". suddenly this radio staple sounded completely overhauled and pure majesty. i was working the shittest job in the world, listening to very, discography and technique on repeat and writing angst ridden emails all day about my first and seriously unrequited fuck-off infatuation who, in spite of also being a great big fag, also had a fantastic appreciation of all things pop. ride's vapour trail caught my attention soon after (see self-involvement above) and went through my nutters shoegazer phase hand in hand with psb. listened to "going blank again" a hundred thousand times...leave them all behind still picks me up by the throat and pounds me into the wall for eight and a bit minutes whenever i hear it. curve, mbv and slowdive all featuring intermittedly. a few months later cocteaus (heaven or las vegas, treasure, bbk), house of love, kate bush, the sundays. you know the drill. it all went pop a few years ago. possibly on account of aforementioned strokes record...i just stopped caring about the next saviour of rock, quiet is the new loud, indie, electro or whatever the fuck was being bandied about. i went back to madonna. erasure. blondie. abc. omd. diana ross. human league's dare!/heaven 17. soft cell (non stop erotic cabaret - fuck me!). unapologetic bananarama fan. the go-go's. fleetwood mac officially puts me in mid-late 70s. i was warned i'd hit a wall when i got to 1981 or so, but i've proved them wrong. next stop prog? i guess that's where i am now. throw a lot of go-b's into the mix over the past couple of years. i never knew anything about them ever, other than their name thrown about on triple j every now and again. haven't listened to the radio since i got my first job (and thus, kick arse discman) in 2001. ok, i'm exhausted and actually sweaty from this vinyl couch. i guess it is 39 degrees outside or something. going to find something to listen to! and maybe shower. if you're still with me, i'd love to read more about your fave records/memories thereof. and if anyone has any recommendations as to how one might approach the sixties and seventies i'd be mostly appreciative. i have the velvet underground and, in spite of the very cool banana, i don't get it at all. cheers. | ||
| jerry hann Member Username: Jerry_h Post Number: 337 Registered: 07-2005 |
Oh guys, I'm not sure I have the time to analyse it all like that,but could try. Age now 42,first musical memories are repeatedly listening to my Mum's Frank sinatra single of My Way, around 1972 can't be certain of the date. The first single I bough when young was the Osmonds "Crazy Horses",after that in my pre teens listened to Queen and Supertramp before getting in to the Punk/New wave stuff around 1977/78 with firstly the JAm, Clash and Elvis Costello.a around this time and a bit later a brother of a friend of mine let me borrow some of his LPs which on the hole were more west coast stuff but in that was Bruce Springsteen. Buying Born to Run and listening to the oprning of Thunder Road was a revelation and progressed my listrening, since then have remained a massive Springsteen fan.also at around this time love the Specials/Beat/Blondie, but the CLash and Jam remained my favourite bands. The nest step was as SPence said hearing "This Charming Man" and also the beautiful "Reel Around the Fountain" and like alot of people in my circle of friends got heavily into the Smiths.At this time I'd moved to London and was going to gigs regularly and spending all my money on LPs (and more_nothing changes) From then there was a spiral of discovery I loved LLoyd Cole.,Billy Bragg,Tom Waits REM, Bob Dylan and The Go-betweens buying Libery Belle when it came out. During these college years and medical school (1983-1992) I followed alot of indie stuff and particularly Costello's work. Also Andy Kershaw was an influence so started listening to african, world and country music ( The Flatlanders, Butch Hancock, Guy Clark,Lyle Lovett,Oschestra Baobab, Zwibabwian guitar music etc). When I started work some artist I'd overlooked I got to love which I still love more and more NIck Cave and Neil Young. Since then not much has changed there have been new bands/singers but a constant thread runs through my musical life the old favourites are still there, particlalry EC, Waits, GBs, Cave,Neil Young. Smiths and Clash. Old favourites resurface e.g the triffids and new artists come in to focus. musical exploration continues. This year for me has been about exploring things I've been meaning to get round too:Bert Jancsh, John Cale and TVZ. I've left alot out nad can think of artists i've not included but it is a start | ||
| jerry hann Member Username: Jerry_h Post Number: 338 Registered: 07-2005 |
Forgot to say last 2 years the fall the fall the fall | ||
| kevin Member Username: Kevin Post Number: 1244 Registered: 05-2005 |
Ok, 46 now and like most of us 40 somethings probably feel,oh, 27? First record ever played was Its All Over Now by The Stones on my mum and dads crap record player. First album bought was a cheapo T Rex comp about 71-72. Next was Aladdin Sane, backwards to Ziggy then Hunky Dory about 73-74. After that had a lapse when I liked Queen for a year or so, miraculous recovery in time for Uncle Lou and Iggy about 75-76 Punk then took over, along with reggae, from 76-80. Then it was post punk all the way, Joy Division, Magazine, The Fall, Wire, G of 4, PIL etc. Early 80s were surely the most fallow time for music ever, even Bowie got crap. 84 onwards, and America saved the day - REM, Husker Du, Replacements , AMC, Pixies, Sonic Youth - all the way to the 90s. Things got kinda crap again - Madchester was mostly horrible, grunge was mostly over hyped. reggae got homophobic and digital - uughh. Worst of all though, REM got crap - Mike Mills took over and piano ballads were to the fore - fucking criminal! And I havent even mentioned U2 in this whole sordid,sorry decade. I guess AMC, Bob Mould/Sugar, The Go-Betweens ,The Smiths and New Order got me through most of the mid 80s-early 90s - The Fall have been magnificent for 25 years thank God. | ||
| Charles Coy Member Username: Coy Post Number: 20 Registered: 10-2006 |
Born 22/6/51,they say I am a Rod S look-alike.. ..it started with the Who-I'm a Boy, Happy Jack,Substitute,Kinks-Waterloo Sunset,Beatles- Stones-Under My Thumb, Small Faces-Itchycoo Park, Dylan...Early 70's to peaceful, then the Pistols, Joy Division-New Order, Cure..I was on the start of the road I am still on, just a lot further on. Lloyd Cole,Smiths,Butlers P'Furs-Love My Way- Heaven,Blondie,Echo and The Bunnymen, Go-Betweens, Aztec Camera, Television,Deacon-Blue,Early REM, Clash, Stranglers .. Randy...I dont feel so bad with age thanks to you.. | ||
| John B. Member Username: John_b Post Number: 71 Registered: 10-2006 |
great thread!!! Age 46, and yes, Kevin, it rather feels like 27 First memories are Beatles singles on Mum's record-player in the late 1960s and lots of other contemporary stuff on BFBS. I liked Queen as well and even Uriah Heep, but also Bowie and T-Rex. Three of my most-loved albums - the first Dire Straits, Bob Dylan's Desire and the first Steve Winwood solo album - arrived at around the same time as punk. I remember listening with friends after school to early Cure, The Clash, Joy Division, Pistols, Patti Smith, Television, Talking Heads etc - remember, it took a while until all that stuff arrived in Germany despite Mr. Peel on BFBS. The 80s (my college-years) are mainly REM and the Go-Betweens for me - listening to lots of music although it took me a long time to like The Smiths. Like Charles I liked Echo & the Bunnymen, Lloyd Cole as well, plus The Jazz Butcher and Crowded House. The 90s (now at work with far less time for music due to too much work and travel) are neither Britpop nor grunge, but rather the first three Radiohead albums, The Walkabouts and German music such as Tocotronic, Kante and Blumfeld (all from my current home town of Hamburg). But overall I didn't buy a lot of music during that time. For the last three years or so I am into music again. Now I am catching up with old stuff like early Bob Dylan, and like some of the The-Bands such as Franz Ferdinand, Interpol and The Long Blondes (I am going to see them play tonight). Of course its also still Joy Division, Go-Bees, 1980s REM, Patti Smith, Television etc, and - yes - 1980s U2 as well. And now I am wondering what my now four-year-old daughter will listen to once she has outgrown her children's music... | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 1035 Registered: 05-2005 |
I'm Pádraig, I'm 39 and I've got a buying six CDs a week habit. But this week I was weak and bought 10. | ||
| Lawrence Mikkelsen Member Username: Simplythrilledhoney Post Number: 56 Registered: 03-2006 |
1) 31 NB: I wasn't really _into_ music up until I was 15 or 16. No dodgy teen Def Leppard phase or anything like that, thankfully. 2 & 3) 1990: "Bob Dylan's Greatest Hits". My dad bought this for me, on tape. My dad's a Vietnam veteran, and in 1990 he was sent a tape of some Australian veterans parade. Some of the footage was synched up to (I think) either "Blowing In The Wind" or "The Times Are A-Changin'". I was captivated by the song on the video and played it over and over again. After I got the tape I pretty much _only_ listened to Dylan for about two years, and found it really hard to find anything which would resonate with me the same way. 1992: The Smiths. Went to a party in 7th form when I was 17. Some guy had bought a box of records, mostly consisting of albums and 12"s by The Smiths and REM. I heard The Smiths and thought they sounded great. A friend shoplited a copy of "Bona Drag" and dubbed it for me, and I listened to it for ages, eventually copying all of The Smiths and Morrissey's albums up to that point. A few months later "Your Arsenal" came out, which generated a lot of positive press, so it was quite a good time to get into Morrissey & Marr. 1993: Suede. That first album was a huge deal for me as a first year Uni student. They were the first new/debut band I ever liked, and the first band I got really excited about in terms of singles, b-sides, bootlegs etc. The mid-to-late 90s were spent mostly listening to English guitar music - I was one of only a tiny handful of people into britpop in NZ, whilst seemingly everyone was wearing a checked shirt,growing goatee and listening to grunge. Plus, of course, a lot of other worthy stuff. 60s pop. Bowie. New Order/Joy Division etc. 1998: A chance borrowing of "The Esteemed Orange Juice" from a friend introduced me to the joys of Edwyn Collins. And, of course, the postcard records connection led me to The Go-Betweens. And here I am. Currently I'm listening to anything, really. Lots of guitar bands, still lots of 60s pop, 80s/90s shoegaze, indie, folky stuff like Jens Lekman and Belle & Sebastian, etc. Actually, if anyone else uses it, my last.fm profile is here: http://www.last.fm/user/suburban_ennui | ||
| joe Member Username: Dogmansuede Post Number: 70 Registered: 07-2006 |
lawrence, i still get so excited when i hear those early suede b sides (sci fi disc one, etc). my stay together is 12inch is one of my most prize posessions. we shall ruleth last fm! | ||
| jerry hann Member Username: Jerry_h Post Number: 341 Registered: 07-2005 |
John B, I note your reference to the Walkabouts coincidently their covers CD on last night to listen to their cover of Nick Cave's Loom of the LAnd and one of Roberts. They are great aren't they. Also notice that Mark Lanaghan sings on one of the tracks this has passed me by before. | ||
| spence Member Username: Spence Post Number: 1078 Registered: 05-2005 |
Joe/Lawrence, the b sides, My dark star, killing of a flashboy, whipsnade, when I first heard these I could not believe how strong they were as songs, why b-sides?, (however, obviously as we're talking cd's it mattered less unless you were obsessed with b sides like many vinyl junkies were/are you'd always check b side out forst!) just showed you the strength of quality of material Suede had in their cannon didn't it? They were really the band of the nineties. well, '92'96. I still think Trash is their best song, they looked really cool around this time even though they's lost old Bernard. | ||
| John B. Member Username: John_b Post Number: 72 Registered: 10-2006 |
Jerry, yes, the Mark Lanagan song is fabulous. Do you also own their other two cover-albums? The Train Leaves At Eight (European music) and Slow Days With Nina (Nina Simone covers). They are great as well. Lawrence/Joe/Spence, I bought Sci-Fi lullabies years ago and Europe is our Playground has been on heavy rotation ever since. | ||
| joe Member Username: Dogmansuede Post Number: 71 Registered: 07-2006 |
it's a pretty amazing track. every monday morning comes is one of my favourite brett vocals...in spite of it being a mk2 song! i love coming up....it's one of my favourite sunny day records. the first two are by far and away my favourites though and respective b sides. high rising...the birds....the big time. class. | ||
| Lawrence Mikkelsen Member Username: Simplythrilledhoney Post Number: 58 Registered: 03-2006 |
Spence, Joe ... yeah. There was this real rush of excitement with early Suede. Those singles from the first two albums were as exciting to me as whole albums by other bands at the time. I remember the first time I put on "Dog Man Star" and just being floored by the scope and ambition of the album. A couple of years ago, on the 10th anniversary of it's release, a friend and I put it in the car stereo and drove around all the urban, industrial parts of Auckland, lsitening to it at high volume. I saw The Tears last year on a trip to London, and there was still this amazing onstrage chemistry between Brett and Bernard. That album got pretty lukewarm reviews but I really love it, and, again, great b-sides on the singles. | ||
| joe Member Username: Dogmansuede Post Number: 72 Registered: 07-2006 |
yeah it kinda overreaches in parts (black and blue, asphalt world, daddy's speeding), but that's kind of the charm. that being said...i have almost no time for this hollywood life or the power at all. one for the ages none the less. did you ever hear the tears track "berlin"? they were doing it live just before the split or hiatus or whatever. christ i hope this makes it onto something one day. damn near perfection. | ||
| Elizabeth Robinson Member Username: Liz_the_new_listener Post Number: 42 Registered: 10-2006 |
As a 47 year old who once upon a time was a music major - for what it's worth: I learned to harmonize listening to the Beach Boys as a kindergartener, and as I have mentioned, Minneapolis-St. Paul's pride and joy were the Castaways (Liar, Liar) and the Trashmen, both of whom our local stations played. Anything that sounded remotely like their music sounded good to me. Like the late, great Grant McLennan I liked the Monkees. Had to have been those Rickenbacher guitars and Hammond organs! (Still like 'What Am I Doing Hanging Round?', 'Randy Scouse Git', 'Do I Have to Do This All Over Again?' and other songs like that) For some reason I was not into 70's music as much - was not as harmonically interesting to me at the time. I did get into high school choir, and classical music - read that 'romantic period stuff.' I did like a lot of 80's stuff - especially British New Wave. (Of course there were no Go-Betweens on American canned formats: what if 'Before Hollywood' had gotten a fair shake?) So little of the stuff I heard was 10cc or the Cure, though. 90's - Tragically Hip, Stone Temple Pilots, Dmitri Shostakovich, Russian choral music 2000's - Russian music, Radiohead, alternative rock.... 2006, Go-B's!!!! a breath of fresh air. | ||
| jerry hann Member Username: Jerry_h Post Number: 343 Registered: 07-2005 |
John B, thanks for that tip off about the Walkabouts I'd not really got anymore of there stuff as there are always so much more to get, but will track these down. | ||
| Stuart Wilson Member Username: Stuart Post Number: 35 Registered: 10-2006 |
Age: Music: 10 Rolf Harris, Davedeedozy , Roy Orbison Nice tunes, mum! 14 FOCUS, Genesis, ELP, Yes 20 minute keyboard solos?? Yes please! 16 THE VELVET UNDERGROUND Teenage poetic misery. 18 LOUREED,Clash,Buzzcocks,Rezillos (?) Progrock? Me?? 22 OPERA & classical Longterm unemployment + Radio 1 = Mindrot. Hello Radio 3! 24 THE SMITHS Young adult poetic misery. 25 REGGAE Isaacs, Spear, Culture & long Swedish nights 26 REM, Weather Prophets, Ride, Jasmine Minks, Husker Du Pale boys & indie jangle guitar stuff in general 30s + 40s VAN MORRISON, MORRISSEY, LEONARD COHEN etc. Words & music for the Mature Man 47 THE GOBETWEENS Adult poetic misery! | ||
| Stuart Wilson Member Username: Stuart Post Number: 36 Registered: 10-2006 |
nb, Elizabeth Robinson: have you heard Szymanowski's Stabat Mater? I think the most beautiful Slavic choral piece of the 20th century - if you don't know it, it would be a great Christmas present to yourself! |