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Post by Barrington on Nov 7, 2015 19:03:02 GMT
As mine is fairly main stream a brief and easy cryptic path. First memories had me twisting and shouting right up till I met Tommy. Whos next ? Well it was when I went to an exhibition of pictures , lucky man , yes , as I was walking across the sitting room. It was one o'clock and time for lunch and I really did fall asleep on that garden bench but it wasn't two little love birds that woke me up... In the City , it was 1977 and bang! down the sewer , looking at the peaches , get a grip and then as most did I hit the wall. The 80's  , marriage . mortgage 15%  , music  , a brief garden party and I saw the whole of the moon. Achtung baby , use your illusion its the 90's , nevermind about blood , sex , sugar , magic I was finally amused to death. And that was where my journey ended really , I listened very rarely to my records bought a couple of Oasis albums and lost interest. That was until I joined Hi-Fi forums and now I'm buying and listening to all sorts of stuff  |
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Post by Deleted on Nov 7, 2015 22:29:44 GMT
A progger at heart then eh Barrington.. Me too, i even got called a Prog/Psych expert on a few occassions but ive been an Underground Trance fanatic since the early 90's which till coming out the closet with it recently no one ever knew  [as with prog i avoid the mainstream stuff like the plague] I could never again listern to prog on vinyl tho, but quite happy to do so on lossless files, with Prog/Psych im extremely selective, so much it's painfull. |
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Post by John on Nov 8, 2015 5:41:26 GMT
I always liked music
I started to get really into msic when I saw Blue Oyster Cult play Dont Fear the Reaper. Started buying albums like Some Enchanted Evening Then stuff like In Rock Van Halen 1 All the worlds a Stage and Strangers In the Night
I started going to concerts got into watching bands like Diamond Head live and going to the Marquee I used to average two to three gigs a week I tended to prefer the smaller clubs as the intimacy and energy was better for me
The next decade was mostly going to concerts I had a very simple Trio set up at the time.Latter my taste started to move into Prog metal bands like Dream Theater Zero Hour and Pain of Salvation and Jazz rock like Larry Carlton, Gamalon and AL DiMeola and slowly started to get better HIFI equipment
Musical taste also started to move more into world fusion/music Surinder Sandhu Dhafer Yousef etc.
In the last year I started to get more into Jazz I always liked Gypsy Jazz and Fusion but started listening to a lot more Jazz
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Post by jandl100 on Nov 8, 2015 7:11:52 GMT
My parents had won a set of classical LPs in a competition. I was about 5 - they didn't listen to them much at all, but I did!
Classical has been my main love ever since.
Oh, I picked up a taste for prog rock when I was at school, mainly because that's what all my friends were listening to.
And I still love it for its energy and balls-to-the-wall excitement, as well as its more introspective moments a la Pink Floyd.
At a hifi show about 20 (?) years ago the Absolute Sounds room was filled with a glorious solo female vocal with oriental / folky backing that just had me entranced from the get-go. And so my love for Loreena McKennitt's music was born. Sad old geezer that I am, I now have all her albums as well as the fabulous DVD concert recording of her and her band in the glorious setting of Spain's Al Hambra palace.
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Post by Tim on Nov 8, 2015 11:31:58 GMT
ELP, Yes, Floyd, Sabbath and Zeppelin were the roots . . . . then pretty much all so called 70s 'supergroups' If they were in the front few pages of Melody Maker I probably liked them. I loved classical at that time too and all my original likes are still in my playlists - but I like so much more now, my tastes are ever widening. Music has never left me at any point in my life, I like a very wide range of music, jazz, blues, folk, acoustic, rock, country, alt-country and americana. Rap, Hip Hop, pop and pretty much all 'mainstream' music I don't like. If it's popular and playing the main radio stations it's probably not for me. I really enjoy good singer-songwriter's and stripped back and bare is more often than not my go to music. There's no-where to hide if you're shite with just a guitar/piano, voice and lyrics, and lyrics are really an integral part of a good song. I'm constantly discovering new music and that's what keeps me going. I often feel my tastes have developed in tandem with Bob Harris, as I have followed and enjoyed just about everything he does, for around 40+ years now. Also followed John Peel and Tommy Vance. Been going to live shows since 14 and have never stopped that either - live is the holy grail, especially small intimate shows. Top current likes: Ryan Adams, Jimmy LaFave, Dylan, Jackson Browne, Jason Isbell, Lucinda Williams, Lori McKenna, Sinatra, Mary Gauthier, Rosanne Cash, John Hiatt & Steven Wilson Top dislikes: Adele & Lana Del Ray  www.last.fm/user/sharkreef |
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Post by MartinT on Nov 8, 2015 12:41:03 GMT
When I was on board the ship taking us to Australia, the music played whenever we were in port was soft jazz like Dave Brubeck and Acker Bilk. I still associate that music with being in a port somewhere foreign.
While I was living in Australia my aunt had a copy of Simon & Garfunkel's Bridge Over Troubled Waters and I took to playing it a lot on their stereogram. No-one else ever used it! Many years later, I fulfilled an ambition to hear a concert at the Sydney Opera House with my late wife.
Back in the UK I started listening to Status Quo. In the Sixth Form I began listening to more complex rock: King Crimson, Deep Purple, Pink Floyd, Black Sabbath, Uriah Heep, Yes and Genesis. Meanwhile, my friend across the road, who had a fabulous hi-fi system with big IMF Professionals, Dynavector power amps and Micro Seiki turntable with Dynavector arm, was playing me Strauss Zarathustra, Mahler 2, Walter Piston, Grofe and other heavy classical works. I went to see Pink Floyd at Knebworth on my own when I was 16.
My first girlfriend's dad loved classical music and never had anyone to go to concerts with, so we went to see quite a few Proms over a couple of years.
In my twenties I went to many gigs, rock and classical, at stadiums down to tiny venues like the Boston Arms. I bought a season's worth of tickets for the LPO at the Festival Hall, which made me a fan of Klaus Tennstedt. My musical tastes back then just morphed slowly into what I like now, greatly expanded and more eclectic than ever.
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Post by MikeMusic on Nov 8, 2015 15:17:43 GMT
Started with my mum playing things like South Pacific.
I listened, but wasn't sure
Along came The Beatles - oh this was for me !
Singles from a varied pot, such as The Animals, Otis Reading Sam & Dave, Cilla Black, Dusty, Alan Bown, Cream !
Most of my close school friends were also in to the same sort of music so off we went to concerts as well, then festivals.
Hifi came later
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Post by Slinger on Nov 8, 2015 16:24:58 GMT
I was born in '54 so I'm old enough to have been allowed to stay up "late" to watch The Beatles on Sunday Night at the London Palladium. Got into the Moody Blues and progressive rock (n.b. prog rock is a completely different thing) at school. First live gig was The Stones In The Park in '69 followed by Pink Floyd at the same venue a year later. Various free gigs and Crystal Palace Garden Parties followed plus a few Hawkwind gigs too. "Discovered" classical music via Emerson Lake & Palmer's Pictures At An Exhibition and being curious enough to wonder what the piece really sounded like. My classical education continued courtesy of a Mahler-lover at work, Naxos incredibly cheap and good CDs, Classical Music magazine's free cover discs and discovering the rather large vinyl collection owned by my then girlfriend who is now my wife. I'm still just as likely to put on a 'classical' album as I am a 'rock' album (for want of better descriptions.) At the same time as I was discovering classical I also fell in love with Emmylou Harris, and by association Gram Parsons, and that lead me to the whole American singer-songwriter genre; Warren Zevon, J.D. Souther, CSN&Y, Townes Van Zandt, etc. and on to Eagles (not THE Eagles guys, they were never THE eagles). OK. I've started rambling so it's obviously time to shut up. To sum up I like most genres that have a tune, so no rap etc. but still tend to relapse into Pink Floyd/Tangs style prog more often that any other modern style of music. I'm still discovering new music via Uncut magazine.
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Post by ChrisB on Nov 8, 2015 23:13:49 GMT
Albums that have been landmarks for me, or signposts to pastures new...
Ziggy Stardust, the first album I learrnt all of the lyrics to
We Sold Our Souls For Rock & Roll (the first album I bought with my own lolly). Three weeks later, I came home from a day at the second hand record shops in Brighton with 6 Sabbath albums!
The Doors first album
Forever Changes
Deja Vu
Ummagumma through headphones!
Led Zep 1
Machine Head -I loved it for everything except Smoke on the Water! Pictures of Home and Lazy were pure magic to me
A single... Purple Haze - firkin' hell, what's this? I love it!
Apostrophe - my first taste of Zappa. I'll never forget hearing some of the guitar playing on that record for the first time
Peter Green's Fleetwood Mac led me deep into the blues
Straight No Chaser, a tape released by the NME of Blue Note jazz, which got me tracking down Dexter Gordon, Miles, Train and Art Blakey and gigs at the Brighton Jazz Festival
Desire - the moment I clicked with Dylan
Rust Never Sleeps began an undying love for the beautiful riot that Neil Young can conjour up with Crazy Horse
The Faith Brothers - Eventide - no-one I know has ever heard of it. Very much of its time, so probably you had to be there. I went to see them at the Top Rank in Brighton and they were supporting Julian Cope. (Please refer to last month's Album Choice to see how that turned out!)
Pixies Surfer Rosa
Pat Metheny First Circle and Offramp
.....I could go on forever!
Rush Hemispheres, Teenage Fanclub Bandwagonesque, XTC Black Sea, Taj Mahal Giant Steps, Boo Radleys Giant Steps, errr...John Coltrane Giant Steps!!!
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, marriage . mortgage 15% 
, music 
, a brief garden party and I saw the whole of the moon.
[as with prog i avoid the mainstream stuff like the plague] I could never again listern to prog on vinyl tho, but quite happy to do so on lossless files, with Prog/Psych im extremely selective, so much it's painfull. 
