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     skulldisco Member Username: Skulldisco Post Number: 1889 Registered: 10-2008 |
Pitchfork do this thing where they ask an artist to say what their favourite records were at different stages of life. Here's mine. Can be albums or singles, in my case I chose records I liked in the particular year that I was 5 (1965) and 10 (1970), not records that I have discovered were released in that particular year when I got older. If nothing else it lets us know roughly what age everybody is! 5 - The Rolling Stones, Its All Over Now 10 - T Rex , Ride A white Swan 15 - David Bowie , Young Americans (album) 20 - Joy Division, Closer 25 - REM , Fables Of The Reconstruction 30 - The Fall, Extricate 35 - Teenage Fanclub, Grand Prix 40 - Radiohead , Kid A 45 - LCD Soundsystem, LCD Soundsystem 50 - Ariel Pink’s Haunted Graffiti ,Before Today This might be a bit of fun on a boring Sunday, especially if you dont like bloody tennis! | ||
| Jeff Whiteaker Member Username: Jeff_whiteaker Post Number: 2457 Registered: 10-2004 |
I'm going to bend the rules a bit and start with age 8, because at age 5 my favorite record was probably something from Sesame Street (although at age 6 I got hooked on Monkees re-runs, but didn't have any of their albums). So, like Kevin, these are records that were my favorites at each age (and in all cases, records I discovered at that age): 8 (the year was 1983): Duran Duran - Rio (my very first album) 10: Metallica - Ride The Lightning 15: Joy Division - Closer 20: Go-Betweens - Liberty Belle & the Black Diamond Express 25: Felt - Strange Idols Pattern 30: Sad Lovers & Giants - Feeding the Flame 35: Wayne Shorter - Juju Given that I'm currently 37, that's all I can list! | ||
| skulldisco Member Username: Skulldisco Post Number: 1890 Registered: 10-2008 |
I should state here that I wasnt some uber cool 5 year old by listing the Stones. It was simply a case of we only owned 2 singles in our house. That was one of them , the other was by Adam Faith. The very first record I ever remember hearing was She Loves You by The Beatles. | ||
| skulldisco Member Username: Skulldisco Post Number: 1891 Registered: 10-2008 |
Here is the link to 5-10-15-20 that Pitchfork do. Includes people such as Johnny Marr and Robert Wyatt and Edwyn Collins http://pitchfork.com/features/5-10-15-20 / | ||
| Michael Bachman Member Username: Michael_bachman Post Number: 2394 Registered: 01-2005 |
I'm going to start at 10 with my favorite album that I was listening to a lot at the time that were released that year, and not something I've discovered since: 10: Beach Boys - Surfer Girl 15: The Beatles - White Album 20: Allman Brothers Band - Brothers and Sisters 25: Bruce Springsteen - Darkness on the Edge of Town 30: REM - Murmur 35: Robyn Hitchcock and The Egyptians - Globe of Frogs 40: Aimee Mann - Whatever 45:Lucinda Williams - Car Wheels on a Gravel Road 50: The Decemberists - Her Majesty The Decemberists 55: Fleet Foxes – Fleet Foxes | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 4695 Registered: 05-2005 |
Way to make us feel old Kevin! (By the way, did you get my email?). I'm going to have to bend the rules slightly for the first couple of entries. 5(ish): Rolf Harris - A best of compilation. It had Tie Me Kangaroo Down, Sport; Jake The Peg; Sun Arise (which was world music decades before the term was invented); and, my favourite, The Court Of King Caractacus. 11: Buzzcocks - Noise Annoys. It was the b-side of Love You More, but for some reason it was played a lot on Irish radio. It was only many, many years later when I bought Singles Going Steady that I heard the song again and realised it was a Buzzcocks song I used to run around the kitchen singing all those years earlier. 15: The Jam - The Gift. A great way to end it all for the band that were my first love. 20: U2 - The Joshua Tree. As with everything mentioned above, I still love this album too. 25: The Chills - Soft Bomb. My favourite ever album. It means so much to me in terms of time and place (Sydney, 1992), but that wouldn't last if the music was not incredible. 30: Spiritualized - Ladies And Gentlemen We Are Floating In Space. I adored it at the time. I haven't played it in years though. 35: Paul Westerberg – Stereo/Mono. I preferred Mono. But Stereo was mostly great too. 40: The Panics - Cruel Guard. A truly aweseome pop and soul record. 45 (my age now): Japandroids - Celebration Rock. Interesting to note that my interest in Australian music was there right from the start! Three English records, two Australian, one Irish, one New Zealand, one Canadian and one American. | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 2980 Registered: 03-2005 |
Great concept. I cannot remember what I was responding to at age 5 which would have been late 1961. Probably my parents' copy of Harry Belafonte Live at Carnegie Hall, which I loved but actually dates from 1959, or maybe Kenny Ball's "Midnight in Moscow" which was a big hit in the U.S. in early 1962. It is typical of me to come to records well after they've been released. I have no way of remembering what was my favorite late-discovered record of these various years, so these are the records that I loved that I know I got when they were new. 10: Rolling Stones -- Aftermath 15. Hollies -- Distant Light 20. Modern Lovers -- s/t 25. Magazine -- After the Fact. Establishing a tradition of my discovering great bands as soon as they had hung it up. 30. Fall -- Bend Sinister 35. Fall -- Shiftwork 40. Fall -- Light User Syndrome 45. Nick Cave -- No More Shall We Part 50. Neko Case -- Fox Confessor Brings the Flood 55. Dominique A -- Vers Les Lueurs | ||
| David Gagen Member Username: David_g Post Number: 388 Registered: 02-2007 |
These I listened to/liked at that age. I seemed to be always behind the times, discovering things well after their release date! 10 Marty Robbins - Gunfighter Ballads 15 Ziggy Stardust - Bowie 20 Desire - Dylan 25 Remain in Light - Talking Heads 30 Rain Dogs - Tom Waits 35 Harvest Moon - Neil Young 40 XO - Elliott Smith 45 Essence - Lucinda Williams 50 For Emma, Forever Ago - Bon Iver 54 Beachcomber's Windowsill - Stornoway Can't believe I left out Blows Against The Empire - Jefferson Airplane as I learnt all the lyrics off by heart and would sing them in a hippie haze in my early 20's and also anything by Nick Cave who I seem to have played all the time these last few years. Oh well thats a shame! | ||
| Stuart Wilson Member Username: Stuart Post Number: 607 Registered: 10-2006 |
5 – Michelle – The Beatles 10 – The legend of Xanadu – Dave Dee, Dozy, Beaky, Mick and Tich 15 – Focus - Focus 3 20 – The Velvet Underground - Third 25 – Hatful of Hollow – The Smiths 30 – Burning Spear – Man in the hills 35 - Rolling Stones – Let it bleed 40 - Lucio Battisti – Il mio canto libero 45 – The Go-Betweens – Oceans Apart 50 – Alain Bashung – Bleu pétrole Very much a trail-grazer rather than blazer...I'm always a bit suspicious of the "latest thing". Even the Smiths, who were tailor made for me, took a while to sink in, probably because on Peel on my crap little plastic transistor they just sounded tinny and moany.But I do love those moments when something in an artist just clicks with who you are at that particular time and sweeps you away into wanting to hear EVERYTHING by them. | ||
| Burgers Member Username: Burgers Post Number: 40 Registered: 05-2005 |
5 Chirpy Chirpy Cheep Cheep - Middle of the Road 10 can't think of anything. The British charts were full of shockingly bad stuff like Abba & Queen. 15 Happy Birthday - Altered Images 20 Liberty Belle & the Black Diamond Express - The Go-Betweens 25 The Great White Wonder - The Pooh Sticks 30 If You're Feeling Sinister - Belle & Sebastian 35 Biggest Bluest HiFi - Camera Obscura 40 The Trials of Van Occupanther - Midlake 45 Beer in the Breakers - Wave Pictures | ||
| Jeff Whiteaker Member Username: Jeff_whiteaker Post Number: 2458 Registered: 10-2004 |
I'm impressed that some of you had favorite records at 5 years of age. The reason I cheated and started with 8 was because I honestly wasn't interested in music at age 5. I basically didn't care much for any of the music I was exposed to at that age. It wasn't until 6-7 that I got into the Monkees via morning re-runs of their show, and then the Beatles through my mom's albums, that I discovered music that I actually liked and wanted to listen to. | ||
| Jerry Clark Member Username: Jerry Post Number: 1107 Registered: 08-2004 |
5 - Kraftwerk - Man Machine (Initially Autobahn, Radio-Activity & Trans-Europe Express. I turned 5 in 1978. I heard these records via my older brothers collection) 10 - ABC - The Lexicon Of Love 15 - U2 - The Joushua Tree 20 - Leftfield - Not Forgotten 12" 25 - Mansun - Six 30 - Stephen Jones - Almost Cured Of Sadness 35 - Fleet Foxes - Fleet Foxes/Sun Giant | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 2982 Registered: 03-2005 |
I have to comment on your great 10 year old entry, Stuart. Since Dave Dee, Dozy, Beaky, Mick & Tich didn't happen in the U.S. at all I didn't hear "The Legend of Xanadu" until maybe about 20 years ago. Joyous pop trash! | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 4696 Registered: 05-2005 |
Jeff, when I saw this thread I initially thought "I wasn't listening to music when I was five!" But then I remembered a song called Lily The Pink, which our aunt bought for us on 7". In googling that, something reminded me of the Rolf Harris record, which I genuinely loved. I don't know for sure if I was 5 at the time though, which is why I put 5-ish. I was sure I was around 10 when I heard Noise Annoys, but on googling that discovered it came out when I was 11, which is why I did 11 instead of 10. I didn't even know it was called Noise Annoys, or who it was by, until years later, and was shocked to realise how cool and ahead of my time I had been! I thought it was "naws-ah-naws", just nonsense words. That's what I used to run around singing - "Naws-ah-naws, naws-ah-naws". | ||
| Stuart Wilson Member Username: Stuart Post Number: 609 Registered: 10-2006 |
I think it was the whiplash effect that really impressed me, Randy. | ||
| Geoff Holmes Member Username: Geoff Post Number: 827 Registered: 05-2005 |
No surprises in the end here but this took a bit of thinking. 5. The Real Thing - Russel Morris. Classic Australian psychedelia via I am the Walrus! 10. Glam pop stuff like Suzi Quattro, The Sweet and T.Rex... and Band on the Run too. 15. New Wave pop with a 60's edge. Regatta de Blanc persuaded me that stuff was getting good again after listening to Beatles just about exclusively since I was 13. 20. "New" psychedelic stuff: The Church, Echo and the Bunnymen. Disappointed by the first Smiths album, I had to wait until I was 21 before Meat is Murder came out and I became a mad Smiths fanatic. 25. Younger than Yesterday and other 60's influenced psychedelic jingle jangle. I was pining for the ending of the 60's influence in alternative rock...and could "feel" that grunge was on it's way - something wasn't right. 30. Carnival of Light - Ride: Saviour! 35. Pet Sounds, Younger than Yesterday, Beatles Anthology 2 and/or Rubber Soul, Carnival of Light and the Best of Traffic on constant shuffle on my 5 play cd player. 40. The Panics (eps & 1st album) 45. Fleet Foxes (album) |