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Post by MartinT on Feb 16, 2021 20:09:47 GMT
Jean Michel Jarre - Oxygene Pt.4
I remember first playing this album in my very small room with my Cambridge R40 transmission line speakers. The walls shook, my bed shook and the neighbour upstairs complained. I loved it. My friend commented that "this is not music, it's an experience" and it was not standard sixth form woffle so much as the plain truth. I played this experience so many times, immersing myself in it. I remember playing it to my classical loving mentor and he pointed out all the influences in it. That bonded modern and classical in my mind forever more. I've always had an ear for long flowing developing music and it shows even now in my playing choices.
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Post by Slinger on Feb 16, 2021 20:41:03 GMT
Skid Row – An Awful Lot Of Woman
This was track 5 on the final side of a double-vinyl comp called Rockbuster, which was the first "proper" album I bought with my own money, in 1970. There were 26 tracks on the album, but this was the one I kept going back to. Of course, in 1970 I'd never heard of Gary Moore, because, along with bass guitarist Brendan "Brush" Shiels and drummer Noel "Nollaig" Bridgeman that's who Skid Row was. Phil Lynott and Eric Bell also spent some time in Skid Row. Back to the track though, I'd never heard guitar playing like it. As I said, I'd never heard of Gary Moore at the time, but even without knowing his name I was in awe of him.
Here's the track itself, and, oh yeah, Gary Moore was 17-years-old when it was recorded, and I was 16-years-old listening to it, although as guitarists the gulf between us was probably closer to a hundred years than just one.
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Post by John on Feb 16, 2021 21:02:47 GMT
Blue Oyster Cult Don't Fear The Reaper
I remember when it was in the charts I kind of liked it a bit to polished for me, even back then. But then I saw them play it on Top of the Pops from a live concert with the Laser show. I got the album and liked it and then started listening to bands like Rush UFO and Deep Purple. It started my first music rabbit hole. I started reading Sounds and Melody Maker I started buying albums and I started going to concerts.
Ironically I think these days the song is Okay but nothing special
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Post by julesd68 on Feb 16, 2021 22:18:02 GMT
Looking back to 1980, one of the very first tracks that got me into Metal was Saxon's '747 (Strangers in the Night) on the Wheels of Steel album. Great title track too. Happy memories thinking back to The Friday Night Rock Show and Kerrang magazine where I got to learn about all the new bands back then.
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Post by daytona600 on Feb 16, 2021 23:15:52 GMT
Kraftwerk Autobahn
Big cousin used on make me tapes as a kid 12 i think popped headphones on shut eyes and transported
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Post by jandl100 on Feb 17, 2021 5:08:46 GMT
The opening section (or song, as Spotify calls it) of Richard Strauss' Also Sprach Zarathustra. Otherwise known from 2001 A Space Odyssey. I heard it at the age of 12 when the film came out. Totally blown away.
I rushed out to the local record store to buy it, and was really disappointed to find it wasn't on the LP I bought. For reasons fairly understandable to my young and uneducated brain, I thought the music came from Holst's The Planets.
I got it sorted out in the end, and I think that started me off rattling down the classical tracks for ever more.
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Post by karatestu on Feb 17, 2021 7:01:58 GMT
The Wurzels - Combine Harvester. I was very young, my dad was a farmer and a god to me. Combine Harvesters were cool. I didn't realise what the line "I drove my tractor through your haystack last night really meant until decades later  |
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Post by MartinT on Feb 17, 2021 7:50:30 GMT
Beethoven - Symphony No.7 Allegretto (2nd movement)
Back in the mid 1970s I saw the bonkers SF film Zardoz and was struck by the incidental music used. Back in those days, there was no internet to look up things so it took me a long time to find out that it was the 2nd movement of Beethoven's 7th. Lo and behold, I had the 7th as part of a Readers Digest set of LPs that my Dad had bought (this is the person who didn't like music). On went the headphones 'borrowed' from his metal detector and I was in a new world. I still love one of the most wonderful pieces for largely string orchestra ever composed.
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Post by petea on Feb 17, 2021 8:38:54 GMT
See, there's 2 of your 10 right here, Martin. It can be done!  |
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