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SteveG
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triptych
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Good one SteveG Here are mine: - Steppenwolf double live. - Son of Dracula, Harry Nilsson s/t. - Cheap Thrills, Janis Joplin. - Jefferson Airplane, Surrealistic Pillows. - Deep Purple, In Rock - Led Zeppelin, debut. - Jimi Hendrix: Bold as Love. - Sparks, Kimono My House. - Skyhooks, Living in the '70s (Aussie rock band). - Grateful Dead, debut.
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Oh yeah, I still like all this stuff.
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Metallica - the 80s
Queen - II/ANATO/Jazz/The Game Queensryche - Empire King Diamond - Fatal Portrait/Abigail/Conspiracy Iron Maiden - debut to Fear of the Dark Deep Purple - In Rock/Machine Head/Stormbringer/and a compilation - Deepest Purple, perfect place to start exploring this band Black Sabbath - debut/Paranoid/Vol IV/Master of Reality Helloween - the Kiske years Kreator - Pleasure to Kill/Terrible Certainty/Coma of Souls Testament - PWYP/SoB/The Ritual and many others
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AlanB
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Argus - Wishbone Ash, still my all time favourite album
The Slider - T Rex, one of the first albums I bought Mirage - Camel, released when I was a teenager but I didn't hear it until later The Yes Album - likewise Machine Head - Deep Purple Dark Side of the Moon That's probably about it for me
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BrufordFreak
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Mt biggest influences in my pre-teen years was the music my parents loved: The Beatles, Sergio Mendez & Brazil 66, Herb Albert, The Carpenters & Burt Bacharach. Then I became an AM (and later, FM) radio addict, listening to hours of CKLW Top 30 hits and early 1970s soul/R&B. Then my brother came home from school with tons of new music, of which Uriah Heep Demons and Wizards really cracked wide open the door to my prog sensibilities.
The 10 albums from my teen years that probably formed my musical sensibilities more than any others: Uriah Heep Demons and Wizards America America Marvin Gaye What's Going On Carly Simon Greatest Hits Steely Dan Pretzel Logic Yes Relayer Nektar Remember the Future Genesis A Trick of the Tail Supertramp Even in the Quietest Moments Pink Floyd Dark Side of the Moon Edited by BrufordFreak - January 20 2021 at 11:28 |
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rogerthat
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I tend not to set too much store to that or similar theories as I only began to literally gorge on rock and related music (and, thereafter, jazz) in my twenties. It wasn't until three years back or so that I finally began to listen to hip hop. Of course, it's possible the internet has upended such theories because it's just easier to know now what the possibilities of music are at the click of a mouse. That would have been harder back in the day and would have also cost money. You can also find 'genre experts' to recommend the right albums to get into a genre/sub genre...such as on this website.
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nick_h_nz
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For sure! I don’t hold to the theory at all. My own musical life doesn’t fi with the theory, and nor it seems do the musical lives of most who have posted in this thread. It is only in trispect, when making my list, that I realised how influential the albums I listed were. And definitely not all of them were favourites, and have never become so. I do think it’s important to recognise that, though not mutually exclusive by any means, a list of favourite albums can (and probably will be quite different from a list of influential albums. It was definitely years after my teens that I started getting really into certain genres, and exploring beyond the mainstream, the theory that what you listen to in your twenties is what you listen to from then on is definitely not true for me, either. My tastes have become broader and broader with age. I’m listening to extreme metal that I wouldn’t have touched with a barge pole in my twenties, and ambient music that would have bored me silly (as just two examples). And while I agree with your observation that the internet has made it easier to broaden ones horizons, I wonder if the theory does still hold some water when it comes to the general populous. No one on this forum has “normal” music tastes, a s we are very much outliers. If I look at almost everyone I know (friends, families and acquaintances), I suspect the theory would fit them perfectly. They are all listening to the same sort of music they were listening to in their 20s. For some, it’s not just this SMW music, but the same artists. Others area still finding new artists to listen to, but they fall in the same range of what they were already listen to. |
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rogerthat
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^^^
So this is interesting, I had a roughly similar conversation elsewhere couple of days back. My point then too was that well, we musophiles may be a minority but there are many of us in absolute numbers. So the fact that a lot of people keep going back to the same music mat also indicate a lack of engagement with other curiosity about music in general. That they associate music strongly with their own personality and therefore go back to what they heard in their formative years as these hold important life memories for them. People like us OTOH have listened to so much music by now that we are no longer able to pinpoint just what was going on in our life when we discovered XYZ album. |
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nick_h_nz
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That’s definitely true to a certain extent, and yet there are notable exceptions. I couldn’t tell you when or where I first heard most of the music in my collection, but there are certain albums I can. They tend to be the ones I’ve listed here (or in my corollary pre-teens) thread, and most of them are far from being favourite albums, but damn if I can’t deny how influential they were. But as I write that, I realise that it is really only those early years where I can remember exactly when and where I discovered an album. Again, there are exceptions, but they seem to become fewer as the years go by. I can remember the first hip hop album I bought, because it was such a different thing to be in my collection. I didn’t consider it a guilty pleasure as such, but I did almost feel guilty for liking it, as if I shouldn’t be allowed to enjoy it (sort of a feeling of cultural appropriation,if that makes sense), because none of my friends or family liked hip hop. I was kind of a generation out from it being a universal thing, so while it was popular in NZ, it was largely within the Māori and Pacific Island communities. Now, of course, everyone listens to hip hop. Similarly, I can remember buying my first Opeth album (Ghost Reveries) because it was a bit of an achievement of sorts. For years I had been trying to get past my aversion (and sometimes almost disgust) of harsh vocals. I had friends who loved a lot of extreme metal who kept assuring me I would like a lot of it, if I didn’t keep turning off because of the vocals. And the truth is, I knew they were right, because whenever I got into their car or walked into their home and the music was playing, I’d often think it was awesome - until someone started singing/growling. I’m not going to lie and say I enjoy harsh vocals now, but I can definitely tolerate them, and I now have quite a lot of extreme metal in my collection. Opeth was my gateway drug, so it makes sense I remember when I bought it. But all the hundreds of other bands and albums I have loved and bought? No idea what was going on when I discovered them..... |
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geekfreak
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Incredibly interesting concept of finding out the verification process of the teenage years of the members here. As it is a sound bite of my musical teenage influences, I’ll have to give it some deep thinking and returning to. Post!!!!
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rogerthat
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Yeah...on similar lines, I remember particular albums/songs that sort of represented 'breakthroughs' in my exploration of music. Like the first time I heard Ride The Lightning, completely by accident. I wasn't prepared for something so heavy, having only just been initiated into hard rock like Scorpions/Van Halen. It hit me like a ton of bricks. But I wanted more of this thing that wasn't like anything I had heard before and so began my foray into extreme metal and heavy music generally. Likewise, the first time I heard Firth of the Fifth was extremely memorable. But I couldn't tell you when I got into Canterbury bands, as much as I love those albums too, because they all happened during a three-four year phase when I explored a lot of 70s prog. I also can't pinpoint any specific inflection points with regard to jazz. It's just crept up into my system and, at this point, into my bloodstream. It feels like the most natural thing to do now to listen to jazz but I hadn't even heard REAL jazz (aka NOT Kenny G ) for a very long time so I don't even know how this happened.
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dr wu23
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Well being one of the oldest on the forum...my teenage years were from 64-69 and I and my brother didn't have much money to buy albums but we were influenced by the British Invasion bands like the Beatles, Kinks, Stones, Who, Cream, etc...but we also were into the American ones like The Doors, Jefferson Airplane, Hendrix, Credence Clearwater, Grateful Dead, Byrds, Buffalo Springfield, etc.
We mostly bought 45's back then and had a good sized stack.
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richardh
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from albums I heard for the first time between 1975 -1981
The Who - By Numbers Wings - Band On The Run ELP - Pictures at An Exhibition ELP- Tarkus ELP - BSS ELP - Live Triple Tubeway Army - Replicas Sky - Sky 2 Pink Floyd - The Wall that was enough to prime me for prog. Never cared for punk and new wave that much aside from a few odd singles. EDIT - That Rush album came out 1982 so I was probably just out of my teenage years , I could replace it with more ELP. Didn't get serious about prog until my late twenties as I vaguely remember. Until then ELP were mainly it for me.
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Ronstein
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As one 'old fart' to another (and I'm sure Steve will join in too), let me pose you a question that's always in the back of my mind when perusing these forums. We discuss and appreciate a huge amount of music that was created in the 10 years between (let's say) 1967 and 1976. Surely those of us who are post -war babies must have a different perspective on this music that the majority who were born later, simply because we were hearing this music at the point when it arrived in the world and there was nothing like it before. If you listen to progressive music from the perspective of finding the likes of Porcupine Tree, Flower Kings, Haken etc. etc. and then looking back, you're looking at the original music through the lens of those that have followed and been influenced by the original and that uniqueness is lost. Therefore it seems to me that us oldies are surely going to judge music differently.
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I turned 13 in 1982, so I'll try and restrict this to albums I heard between 1982 and 1989, although sitting just outside that top ten are three albums which I first heard in 1981, which deserve a mention, as their impact on me became more significant in the years that followed..
Architecture & Morality - OMD Tin Drum - Japan Dare - The Human League Beyond that.. The Wall - Pink Floyd Number of the beast - Iron Maiden Ace of Spades - Motorhead Script for a Jesters Tear - Marillion Exit stage Left - Rush A Trick of the tail - Genesis And then there were three - Genesis Once around the world - It Bites God's own Medicine - The Mission Kiss me Kiss me Kiss me - The Cure There's dozens more, but this'll do for now.. |
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nick_h_nz
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I agree completely about judging the music differently, but not so much with not recognising the originality and uniqueness. I was born in 1975, when the “classic” period of prog was largely over, and I still find the uniqueness and originality obvious and palpable, even though I came to the classic period years after it had happened. |
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This one took me a long time to compile (and I still had to fudge an 11th pick). The only album on my list I didn't initially play a lot was "In the Court of the Crimson King" but the influence it had on me was immense (even though I didn't get it until much later). The rest of the albums I wore out to almost unplayable condition.
Jimi Hendrix - Band of Gypsies Mahavishnu Orchestra - The Inner Mounting Flame King Crimson - In the Court of the Crimson King Curtis Mayfield - Curtis Sly and the Family Stone - Stand! Lee Michaels - Lee Michaels Joe Walsh - Barnstorm Yes - The Yes Album Emerson, Lake & Palmer - Tarkus Funkadelic - Funkadelic Pink Floyd - Meddle |
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The Anders
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I had to think a bit about it, but I think these meant the most to me: Björk - Post David Bowie - Station to Station The Clash - London Calling C.V. Jørgensen - Tidens tern Kashmir - The Good Life Pink Floyd - The Dark Side of the Moon Radiohead - OK Computer R.E.M. - Automatic for the People Sebastian - Blød lykke Talking Heads - Fear of Music The Who - Tommy
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