Alice Cooper...when I was young my sister loved him, and as we hated each other like you do when your kids, when that hate sub-sided as you get sensible, then I started to like him.
Bluegrass music Some years ago I watched the film Oh Brother Where Art Though. I really enjoyed the music from the film, and I decided to investigate it more.
From this I went along to a local pub where a band performed a weekly Bluegrass session. Now I am learning the Bluegrass Banjo, and for the past 5 summers I have attended a fair few Bluegrass weekends all over the country.
i have met a lot of good people and made a number of friends.
Music is so evocative. Depends on my mood a lot of the time. When I was young I was such a music fascist! Now I listen to classical probably more than anything else. I can however go from Greig or Vivaldi to the Sex Pistols and Strangler's in the blink of an eye lid!
Brought up on Dylan and Miles Davis by my dad. My dad also drew my attention to Elvis Costello, David Bowie, Ian Dury and the Sex Pistols in around 1977.
Discovered John Martyn in 1980 when I was 15 and then branched into folk music (The Bothy Band a particular favourite). Then late 1980s, got into US punk (Pixies, Dinosaur Jr, Sonic Youth, Husker Du). Discovered Kevin Coyne in 1989, and then PJ Harvey, Radiohead, Vic Chesnutt, Sparklehorse, John Cale and Gillian Welch.
Then in 2003, a friend did me all the Beatles stuff and Neil Young, which blew my mind. Always thought I hated The Fabs. Didn’t realise that the seeds of the US punk stuff I liked were sown by The Beatles (really enjoyed the White Album) and Neil Young was also a revelation.
Meanwhile having always dismissed Elvis Presley, my brother did me a tape, and my mind was blown again (I’ve got over 60 of his albums now).
Later discoveries include Yo La Tengo, and Arctic Monkeys. I had a blues phase (Blind Willie Johnson a favourite) and a Kinks phase.
Then I got introduced to the world of Robert Pollard and Guided by Voices in around 2009 and didn’t listen to much else for a number of years (Pollard has released and recorded over 100 LPs since 1986.)
Most recently, I’ve been enjoying Joy Division and Siouxsie and the Banshees.
What you realise is there is a hell of a lot of good stuff out there!!
Music is so evocative. Depends on my mood a lot of the time. When I was young I was such a music fascist! Now I listen to classical probably more than anything else. I can however go from Greig or Vivaldi to the Sex Pistols and Strangler's in the blink of an eye lid!
Yeh very true.
I think it also surrounds where the mind travels and vague memories we all have or reminders of past experiences.
I very much enjoy slow songs by rock bands that don't usually go down that route.
My teenage years were in the 90's so I was an indie kid, Oasis, blur, Pulp etc with the Beatles & Kinks thrown in. Now I'm in my 40's I've definitely grown to appreciate the blues like Muddy Waters, Junior Wells but the stuff I hated which I like now is 70's - 80's rock like Black Sabbath, AC/DC. Also one I couldn't stand which I like now, Bruce Springsteen!!!
My Dad was a tradjazz fan and tried to force me down that path, but loud guitars was my thing at that time and I just found it funny old stuff for strange people, however if I hear a George Melly tune now by christ it takes me back.
Brought up on Dylan and Miles Davis by my dad. My dad also drew my attention to Elvis Costello, David Bowie, Ian Dury and the Sex Pistols in around 1977.
Discovered John Martyn in 1980 when I was 15 and then branched into folk music (The Bothy Band a particular favourite). Then late 1980s, got into US punk (Pixies, Dinosaur Jr, Sonic Youth, Husker Du). Discovered Kevin Coyne in 1989, and then PJ Harvey, Radiohead, Vic Chesnutt, Sparklehorse, John Cale and Gillian Welch.
Then in 2003, a friend did me all the Beatles stuff and Neil Young, which blew my mind. Always thought I hated The Fabs. Didn’t realise that the seeds of the US punk stuff I liked were sown by The Beatles (really enjoyed the White Album) and Neil Young was also a revelation.
Meanwhile having always dismissed Elvis Presley, my brother did me a tape, and my mind was blown again (I’ve got over 60 of his albums now).
Later discoveries include Yo La Tengo, and Arctic Monkeys. I had a blues phase (Blind Willie Johnson a favourite) and a Kinks phase.
Then I got introduced to the world of Robert Pollard and Guided by Voices in around 2009 and didn’t listen to much else for a number of years (Pollard has released and recorded over 100 LPs since 1986.)
Most recently, I’ve been enjoying Joy Division and Siouxsie and the Banshees.
What you realise is there is a hell of a lot of good stuff out there!!
Great post. The bit I'm amazed at is the number Elvis Albums. That's twice as many as The Fall (my personal gauge of prolificacy), and his recording years were limited to less than 25. I'm guessing that must include a number lives, bootlegs and re-ordered best ofs.
My musical taste has got more eclectic as i have got older.
When you are young you tend to associate music with everything you experience. For me, just too young for punk, but heavily influenced by the Two Tone and Mod revival era.
Now I tend to go on what I call "A YouTube safari", where i listen to something that then leads me to anything else suggested on the right hand side. Before you know 4 or 5 hours later you have listened to virtually every type of genre of music from the last 70 years.
Brought up on Dylan and Miles Davis by my dad. My dad also drew my attention to Elvis Costello, David Bowie, Ian Dury and the Sex Pistols in around 1977.
Discovered John Martyn in 1980 when I was 15 and then branched into folk music (The Bothy Band a particular favourite). Then late 1980s, got into US punk (Pixies, Dinosaur Jr, Sonic Youth, Husker Du). Discovered Kevin Coyne in 1989, and then PJ Harvey, Radiohead, Vic Chesnutt, Sparklehorse, John Cale and Gillian Welch.
Then in 2003, a friend did me all the Beatles stuff and Neil Young, which blew my mind. Always thought I hated The Fabs. Didn’t realise that the seeds of the US punk stuff I liked were sown by The Beatles (really enjoyed the White Album) and Neil Young was also a revelation.
Meanwhile having always dismissed Elvis Presley, my brother did me a tape, and my mind was blown again (I’ve got over 60 of his albums now).
Later discoveries include Yo La Tengo, and Arctic Monkeys. I had a blues phase (Blind Willie Johnson a favourite) and a Kinks phase.
Then I got introduced to the world of Robert Pollard and Guided by Voices in around 2009 and didn’t listen to much else for a number of years (Pollard has released and recorded over 100 LPs since 1986.)
Most recently, I’ve been enjoying Joy Division and Siouxsie and the Banshees.
What you realise is there is a hell of a lot of good stuff out there!!
Great post. The bit I'm amazed at is the number Elvis Albums. That's twice as many as The Fall (my personal gauge of prolificacy), and his recording years were limited to less than 25. I'm guessing that must include a number lives, bootlegs and re-ordered best ofs.
Just checked: it’s actually 46 albums (but 63 cds) made up of 14 studio albums, 11 live albums, 9 box sets, 7 compilations and 5 others. No bootlegs though!
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Beautiful songs.
He has a lot of crap....but the good stuff is very much 10/10
Can't get enough
Some years ago I watched the film Oh Brother Where Art Though.
I really enjoyed the music from the film, and I decided to investigate it more.
From this I went along to a local pub where a band performed a weekly Bluegrass session.
Now I am learning the Bluegrass Banjo, and for the past 5 summers I have attended a fair few Bluegrass weekends all over the country.
i have met a lot of good people and made a number of friends.
Then in 2003, a friend did me all the Beatles stuff and Neil Young, which blew my mind. Always thought I hated The Fabs. Didn’t realise that the seeds of the US punk stuff I liked were sown by The Beatles (really enjoyed the White Album) and Neil Young was also a revelation.
Meanwhile having always dismissed Elvis Presley, my brother did me a tape, and my mind was blown again (I’ve got over 60 of his albums now).
Then I got introduced to the world of Robert Pollard and Guided by Voices in around 2009 and didn’t listen to much else for a number of years (Pollard has released and recorded over 100 LPs since 1986.)
Most recently, I’ve been enjoying Joy Division and Siouxsie and the Banshees.
What you realise is there is a hell of a lot of good stuff out there!!
Leonard Cohen
Also listened to a lot of Pearl Jam and Nirvana b sides and the more obscure stuff. Still don't like em!
Yeh very true.
I think it also surrounds where the mind travels and vague memories we all have or reminders of past experiences.
I very much enjoy slow songs by rock bands that don't usually go down that route.
Meaningful detailed songs with great rythm.
For example: Éliane Radigue's Trilogie De La Mort - long, slowly unfurling pieces produced using the ARP 2500 synthesiser
Country.
Abba.
I'm 61 you know.
I said I'm 61.
Classical music
Opera
Opinions on this song?
I hope I'm not the only one who has a feeling for it
When you are young you tend to associate music with everything you experience. For me, just too young for punk, but heavily influenced by the Two Tone and Mod revival era.
Now I tend to go on what I call "A YouTube safari", where i listen to something that then leads me to anything else suggested on the right hand side. Before you know 4 or 5 hours later you have listened to virtually every type of genre of music from the last 70 years.
It’s fashionable to put them down, but their songwriting is a level above pretty much anything you’d find regularly in the charts nowadays.