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Post by Mr Whippy on Jun 12, 2021 22:16:52 GMT
Great stereo construct here:
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Post by Slinger on Jun 13, 2021 13:45:14 GMT
Hmmm. Significant? A Whiter Shade of Pale, Nights in White Satin, The whole of the Moody Blues' "Days of Future Passed," the first Hendrix track I ever heard, although I can only remember being mindblown, not which track it actually was. Pink Floyd, and in particular a track called "Embryo," whaich was only avaialble (at the time) on the Harvest sampler album "Picnic, A Breath Of Fresh Air," and which I had been lucky enough to hear them play live in 1970. Those are the ones that stand out without me actually having to think much about the question. I think Embryo would be the most significant to me. This was the original(?) 1968 recording. and this would have been the version I saw/heard them play two years later,although the sound is a bit better here. There is a recording on YouTube of the concert I was at, but the sound is not great. I'll add it below purely for completeness. It's the opening track. It's significant to me because at the time I was a budding (though decidedly amateur) musician, and this one song showed me that nothing need be set in stone, songs can have a life of their own. Even after you think you've done with them they are still, often, just in an embryonic stage, still waiting to be born. For more pretentious twaddle please contact...
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Post by MartinT on Jun 13, 2021 14:32:47 GMT
Early influences?
Black Sabbath - Black Sabbath
Pink Floyd - Interstellar Overdrive
Tangerine Dream - Ricochet
Climax - Amerita/Sense of Direction
Simon & Garfunkel - The Sound of Silence
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Post by Mr Whippy on Jun 13, 2021 20:07:42 GMT
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Post by Slinger on Jun 14, 2021 15:34:09 GMT
I've explained mine, so what was significant about all the others? Without explanations it's just a list of songs people liked, not what made them a significant part of their lives when they were young, which I assumed was the idea of the thread.
Maybe I'm the one getting it wrong?
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Post by MikeMusic on Jun 14, 2021 16:25:38 GMT
I have so many They sounded wonderful.
Some influenced me off in a direction I hadn't thought about previously My first record was an album and I mostly bought albums anyway
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Post by Mr Whippy on Jun 14, 2021 17:49:09 GMT
I've explained mine, so what was significant about all the others? Without explanations it's just a list of songs people liked, not what made them a significant part of their lives when they were young, which I assumed was the idea of the thread. Maybe I'm the one getting it wrong? Doesn't need an explanation for me. To me, significant in the sense that they stood out in particular for me. Not simply a question of just liking them. You can like tons of tracks, but that doesn't make them significant. I was just curious as to what others might come out with. Wasn't looking for an explanation as to why, just that they were. The thread can be be deleted for me.
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Post by MartinT on Jun 14, 2021 18:45:24 GMT
Black Sabbath - one of my first gigs at the Lewisham Odeon. Very loud, very influential. Interstellar Overdrive - listened to early PF with a friend on days at his house on his AR speakers. Ricochet - Discovered by me, bought from Branson's first Virgin shop, served by him (or maybe Phaedra). Amerita - played with same friend as above, loved the Sense of Direction album. The Sound of Silence - played S&G in my aunt's house in Melbourne when I thought we had a new life there.
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Post by ChrisB on Jun 15, 2021 8:12:48 GMT
I agree with Slinger. And we're not going to delete the thread. Put your reasons if you want to, or don't if you prefer.
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Post by Mr Whippy on Jun 15, 2021 19:59:34 GMT
I agree with Slinger. And we're not going to delete the thread. Put your reasons if you want to, or don't if you prefer. Well, at the risk of repeating myself, I've already said, mine are tracks that stood out (in particular. In some way shape or form) for me, at that particular time, rather than being simply liked. Again, at the risk of repeating myself, when the idea for the thread entered my head, I wasn't curious enough to want to know why others' tracks might be significant for them, just that they were. Billy Preston & Syreeta's "With You I'm Born Again" might be significant to someone as its what they like to listen to during a night of passion. Not really something that I'd be that interested in learning of. Sufficient enough, (for me), for it to be simply listed. Wasn't really expecting The Spanish Inquisition when the thread came to mind. But, if explanations have to be extricated, they have to be extricated. Halfway To Paradise. 1961 it came out. I was 4 at the time. I don't remember it from that age of course. I might have been 7 or 8 when it made an impression on me. It did so for it's use of tympani, which Id never heard on a pop record before. My knowledge of musical instruments was pretty limited, but I knew what a tympani looked and sounded like. I knew that from watching a clown act on TV who were part of a circus routine. I think there was 5 in the act and each played and utilized a musical instrument in the act. One had a tympani. Telestar. The first pop instrumental I heard, I think. 1962, apparently. That made me 5. Significant as I'd heard nothing like it, including it's use of sound effects. Danger Man Theme. Not the Bob Leaper version, but the Edwin Astley one. Significant for the intro & instrument sound. Never discovered if it was a spinnet or not. Think it probably was. Introduced me to Edwin A's work. The Prisoner Theme. Significant for it's opening (I have a bit of a thing about intro's) and it use of sound effects. The week couldn't come fast enough so I could get to hear it again, and follow the next episode. Tin Soldier. Again, significant to my mind for it's opening. I'll limit myself to that. All Or Nothing. Again, it's the intro - and Kenny Jones' drumming. Out Of Time. Yet again, the intro. But there's more. 1966 it came out. I was 9. It was the first time I ever thought that there was some disparity between the vocals I was hearing and the visual image I got to see of Chris Farlowe on TV. For some reason, there seemed a certain incongruity between the two, to my mind. Couldn't really explain it. I just found it hard to equate one with the other. So, there you have it. There are others of course: Richard Harris' MacArthur Park. Significant as it was unlike anything I'd heard from a pop record, ditto Barry Ryan's Eloise. Mission Impossible Theme as it introduced me Lalo Schifrin. Vendetta Theme and John Barry. Moody Blues Go Now significant for it's use of piano, ditto The Beatles Not A Second Time. Loads more. Significant, rather than being just liked.
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Post by Mr Whippy on Jun 16, 2021 17:37:50 GMT
I agree with Slinger. And we're not going to delete the thread. Put your reasons if you want to, or don't if you prefer. Well, at the risk of repeating myself, I've already said, mine are tracks that stood out (in particular. In some way shape or form) for me, at that particular time, rather than being simply liked. Again, at the risk of repeating myself, when the idea for the thread entered my head, I wasn't curious enough to want to know why others' tracks might be significant for them, just that they were. Billy Preston & Syreeta's "With You I'm Born Again" might be significant to someone as its what they like to listen to during a night of passion. Not really something that I'd be that interested in learning of. Sufficient enough, (for me), for it to be simply listed. Wasn't really expecting The Spanish Inquisition when the thread came to mind. But, if explanations have to be extricated, they have to be extricated. Halfway To Paradise. 1961 it came out. I was 4 at the time. I don't remember it from that age of course. I might have been 7 or 8 when it made an impression on me. It did so for it's use of tympani, which Id never heard on a pop record before. My knowledge of musical instruments was pretty limited, but I knew what a tympani looked and sounded like. I knew that from watching a clown act on TV who were part of a circus routine. I think there was 5 in the act and each played and utilized a musical instrument in the act. One had a tympani. Telestar. The first pop instrumental I heard, I think. 1962, apparently. That made me 5. Significant as I'd heard nothing like it, including it's use of sound effects. Danger Man Theme. Not the Bob Leaper version, but the Edwin Astley one. Significant for the intro & instrument sound. Never discovered if it was a spinnet or not. Think it probably was. Introduced me to Edwin A's work. The Prisoner Theme. Significant for it's opening (I have a bit of a thing about intro's) and it use of sound effects. The week couldn't come fast enough so I could get to hear it again, and follow the next episode. Tin Soldier. Again, significant to my mind for it's opening. I'll limit myself to that. All Or Nothing. Again, it's the intro - and Kenny Jones' drumming. Out Of Time. Yet again, the intro. But there's more. 1966 it came out. I was 9. It was the first time I ever thought that there was some disparity between the vocals I was hearing and the visual image I got to see of Chris Farlowe on TV. For some reason, there seemed a certain incongruity between the two, to my mind. Couldn't really explain it. I just found it hard to equate one with the other. So, there you have it. There are others of course: Richard Harris' MacArthur Park. Significant as it was unlike anything I'd heard from a pop record, ditto Barry Ryan's Eloise. Mission Impossible Theme as it introduced me Lalo Schifrin. Vendetta Theme and John Barry. Moody Blues Go Now significant for it's use of piano, ditto The Beatles Not A Second Time. Loads more. Significant, rather than being just liked. Forgot. I'm Only Dreaming: B Side of Itchycoo Park. Could say that Itchycoo Park was more significant as it was the first record I heard that used phasing. A significant B Side then, due to Steve Marriott's vocal delivery, ranging from soft and dulcid to being on the verge of unhinged. Preferred the mono mix to the stereo version.
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Post by John on Jun 17, 2021 18:52:52 GMT
Sorry to be late with this. Here are tracks that were part of my early music foundation. I think for me it was getting me into discovering music and I just wanted to absorb more I think I will have to start off with 7 Screaming Diz Busters by the Blue Oyster Cult from On your feet and knees
Next up would be Boston the first album is a classic and my favourite track is Longtime/Foreplay I remember the first time hearing it when I got on tape it was something I liked playing loud
Rush of course played a big part and loved All the Worlds A Stage I just loved Neil Peart drumming and yet again was part of all thoses live albums I was getting to introduce me to bands. My first Rush album
UFO Strangers In the Night would be next up with the great Rock Bottom I loved the guitar solo and Phil vocals Diamond Head were a massive influence I go for Sucking My love as always will remember with fondness due to them blowing of April Wine and after playing this I became a fan! I saw them about 20 times
Y&T Earthshaker. Back when it came out they were considered pretty heavy tracks like Hurricane and Squeeze demonstrated this however just loved was I believe in you I saw them at the Marquee and that introduced me to going to small clubs in London
Last but no means least is the Mr Crowly with Randy blistering second guitar solo. First classical influenced solo I liked
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Post by ChrisB on Jun 18, 2021 6:24:23 GMT
The title track from the first Black Sabbath album made me think this was something I ought to be getting into. It's that riff coming out of the sound of the rain, with the bell tolling. Just brilliant.
Another opening album track: David Bowie - 'Five years'. The first time I heard the Ziggy album, and heard the lyrics to this, I had a realisation that music could be serious and that it really could be worth listening to what the writer was saying.
Eddie Boyd with Fleetwood Mac - 'The big boat'. First hearing of this track made me serious about the blues and gave me the push to look into the history of the music and the conditions that created it. A real big moment in my life.
Another Sabbath track - 'Hole in the sky'. I had never heard anything as heavy as this before and I just loved it. I also loved the way it ended with a sudden, unexpected dead stop.
Hendrix - 'Purple haze'. Listening to this glorious, chaotic but beautiful mess of noise made me fall in love with guitar music for life.
Looking at the list, it's striking that none of it was music of the time I was in.
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Post by jandl100 on Jun 18, 2021 7:18:23 GMT
For me it's mostly about classical music. The main reason I listened to any rock or pop music was because my school friends did.
The significant pieces that started me off down the classical road...
Tchaikovsky Nutcracker Suite, just great tunes.
The opening of 2001 A Space Odyssey, Also Sprach Zarathustra by Richard Strauss. Gosh, it just blew me away.
Vivaldi, the Four Seasons, Susanne Lautenbacher, violin, with Jorg Faerber conducting the Wurtemberger Chamber Orchestra. Wow, so exciting.
Beethoven's Pathetique piano sonata introduced me to structure in music, aided and abetted by some great tunes!
Beethoven's Pastoral Symphony, Karl Bohm and the VPO, taught me about beautiful flowing melody and, once again great tunes.
I remember, at about age 12, I guess, listening to my just bought LP of Beethoven's Emperor 5th piano concerto continuously one morning. It just seemed like random noises, but I stayed with it, then on the 5th or 6th listen it suddenly transformed into the most marvellous music I'd ever heard. Wilhelm Kempff on DG, Ferdinand Leitner conducting.
Lots of others, I'm sure - Tchaikovsky 1812 Overture and 4th symphony, Mendelssohn's Fingals Cave overture, Beethoven 5th symphony. Just all very influential and significant.
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Post by Slinger on Jun 18, 2021 14:56:30 GMT
Classical, yes, good point, Jerry. Before assembly every morning a piece of classical music would be playing at my school, with the name and the composer diaplayed. I was actually listening to classical music without actually realising, if you follow? Pieces that have stuck with me are Eine Kleine Nachtmusik, excerpts from Die Zauberflöte and Die Fledermaus... ( Alvays ve hed der korrekt Chermann spellink. I wonder now, why DID Mr Eichmann our headmaster grow that little moustache every April, and walk around whistling "Happy Birthday"?) ...and my absolute favourites at the time Kill The Wabbit Ritt der Walküren, and Night on a Bare Mountain. They all wormed their way inside my head, and waited patiently to be properly appreciated. I know I've related this tale before, but my first actual classical purchase was Pictures at an Exhibition, by Mussorgsky, simply becuase I wanted to know where Emerson, Lake, and Palmer had " got it from," so to speak. On the other side was Tchaikovsky's Romeo & Juliet. How could anyone not love the dynamics of the wonderful Fantasy Overture? That would have been some time in 1972 I should think, and those two pieces watered the seeds that had been planted ar school. I was hooked.
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Post by julesd68 on Jun 18, 2021 15:09:03 GMT
Classical, yes, good point, Jerry. Before assembly every morning a piece of classical music would be playing at my school, with the name and the composer diaplayed. I was actually listening to classical music without actually realising, if you follow? That makes me somewhat nostalgic. I can't imagine many / any schools doing that now. They would be accused of all sorts ...
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Post by MikeMusic on Jun 18, 2021 19:33:52 GMT
Makes me wonder if I would have a greater appreciation and understanding of classical if my school had done that......
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Post by nick193 on Jun 29, 2021 12:39:38 GMT
Not significant for me personally but My Chemical Romances album "the black parade" was one of those albums where it just exploded and all of a sudden all of the kids were wearing faux military coats and dying their hair. It really took the punk/emo/scene to a whole new level and people were obsessed. It's a solid album with some great tunes but the fan base made it pretty unbearable at the time. Still a great album though with a really well composed and produced set of songs.
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Post by rfan8312 on Jun 29, 2021 16:19:51 GMT
Well, in early youth it's the wonderful 70's and 80's hits (they dont make them like that anymore).
But extremely significant for me at the age of 14 - 18 was a metal band named Pantera, whose guitarist I worshipped until he was shot/killed on stage by a deranged fan.
But Pantera's cover of 'Planet Caravan' I'd listen to on repeat for hours and eventually learn to play along.
The solo is probably my favorite solo of all time @ 2:30.
And for a metal guitarist to have come up with that blew mind mind because it's a soulful beautiful thing so different from everything else in their catalogue.
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Post by Mr Whippy on Jul 2, 2021 19:32:42 GMT
This stood out for me for the opening, Tim Rice-Milton's energetic vocals, construction - and it's use of tympani:
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