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Post by Confessor on Oct 8, 2024 5:55:13 GMT -5
I'll have to think if I can come up with ten. There's lots of music I was introduced to through my parents' general musical tastes but neither of them were great album-buyers themselves so I'm not sure there are that many specific records I could list. Love the idea of this, but while I enjoyed going through my parents’ vinyl a lot as a kid, similar to Berkley I can only think of 5 albums that ended up shaping my musical tastes. If I added in the 5 most important albums I got myself early on, that would actually tell more the full story. I did listen to a lot of my dad's records, but perhaps influenced by only a handful. I may be able to come up with 10. I know I can come up with at least 5. I like the idea, but I don't know if I can come up with 10 albums. Definitely a few that got me going in the direction I went, though. OK, so since most folks seems to be struggling to come up with more than five albums that were discovered via your parents' record collection, I think we'll need to expand the parameters a little bit. I kinda like supercat's suggestion of including the most important albums we bought ourselves early on. So, perhaps we could do a Top 10 run down of albums that you encountered young and which greatly influenced your musical taste, starting with 5 albums from your parents' record collection (and compilation albums are allowed), followed by 5 albums that you yourself picked up early in your musical journey that influenced your tastes. What do we think? if the rules could be loosened to allow representative albums of artists we were introduced to by our parents, directly or indirectly (which would probably be a greatest hits or best of compilation in many cases). I always assumed that Greatest Hits-type albums would absolutely be eligible. A compilation album is still an album, after all. |
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Post by impulse on Oct 8, 2024 8:45:52 GMT -5
That amended proposal sounds great. I'm in.
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Post by Slam_Bradley on Oct 8, 2024 10:09:57 GMT -5
I'll have to think if I can come up with ten. There's lots of music I was introduced to through my parents' general musical tastes but neither of them were great album-buyers themselves so I'm not sure there are that many specific records I could list. Love the idea of this, but while I enjoyed going through my parents’ vinyl a lot as a kid, similar to Berkley I can only think of 5 albums that ended up shaping my musical tastes. If I added in the 5 most important albums I got myself early on, that would actually tell more the full story. I did listen to a lot of my dad's records, but perhaps influenced by only a handful. I may be able to come up with 10. I know I can come up with at least 5. I like the idea, but I don't know if I can come up with 10 albums. Definitely a few that got me going in the direction I went, though. OK, so since most folks seems to be struggling to come up with more than five albums that were discovered via your parents' record collection, I think we'll need to expand the parameters a little bit. I kinda like supercat's suggestion of including the most important albums we bought ourselves early on. So, perhaps we could do a Top 10 run down of albums that you encountered young and which greatly influenced your musical taste, starting with 5 albums from your parents' record collection (and compilation albums are allowed), followed by 5 albums that you yourself picked up early in your musical journey that influenced your tastes. What do we think? if the rules could be loosened to allow representative albums of artists we were introduced to by our parents, directly or indirectly (which would probably be a greatest hits or best of compilation in many cases). I always assumed that Greatest Hits-type albums would absolutely be eligible. A compilation album is still an album, after all. Sounds good. When do we want to start. Keeping in mind a number of Americans have a three day weekend coming up. |
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Post by Confessor on Oct 8, 2024 10:25:19 GMT -5
Sounds good. When do we want to start. Keeping in mind a number of Americans have a three day weekend coming up. When do you suggest would be a good time, with that in mind? I'm pretty easy really. |
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Post by impulse on Oct 8, 2024 10:47:54 GMT -5
Is this a drop them all at once thing, or a drip it once a day etc?
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Post by Slam_Bradley on Oct 8, 2024 11:25:28 GMT -5
Sounds good. When do we want to start. Keeping in mind a number of Americans have a three day weekend coming up. When do you suggest would be a good time, with that in mind? I'm pretty easy really. I can make any time work. But I'm going to be functionally incommunicado from Friday through Monday as I'm going to Colorado to see my grandkids. Next Tuesday would work best for me. But I don't want to gum up the works. Is this a drop them all at once thing, or a drip it once a day etc? We have traditionally done one a day for ten days. |
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Post by Confessor on Oct 8, 2024 11:58:50 GMT -5
When do you suggest would be a good time, with that in mind? I'm pretty easy really. I can make any time work. But I'm going to be functionally incommunicado from Friday through Monday as I'm going to Colorado to see my grandkids. Next Tuesday would work best for me. But I don't want to gum up the works. Tuesday next week is fine with me. |
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Post by berkley on Oct 8, 2024 12:32:36 GMT -5
OK, so since most folks seems to be struggling to come up with more than five albums that were discovered via your parents' record collection, I think we'll need to expand the parameters a little bit. I kinda like supercat's suggestion of including the most important albums we bought ourselves early on. So, perhaps we could do a Top 10 run down of albums that you encountered young and which greatly influenced your musical taste, starting with 5 albums from your parents' record collection (and compilation albums are allowed), followed by 5 albums that you yourself picked up early in your musical journey that influenced your tastes. What do we think? if the rules could be loosened to allow representative albums of artists we were introduced to by our parents, directly or indirectly (which would probably be a greatest hits or best of compilation in many cases). I always assumed that Greatest Hits-type albums would absolutely be eligible. A compilation album is still an album, after all. Just to be clear, what I was thinking was, since my parents didn't buy many albums - I'm not sure they even had ten between the two of them - but did nevertheless did influence my musical tastes, I would pick a few Greatest Hits-type albums of artists that I got to know and like through them even though they didn't actually own any of the albums in most cases, if that's OK. |
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Post by Slam_Bradley on Oct 8, 2024 12:37:46 GMT -5
OK, so since most folks seems to be struggling to come up with more than five albums that were discovered via your parents' record collection, I think we'll need to expand the parameters a little bit. I kinda like supercat's suggestion of including the most important albums we bought ourselves early on. So, perhaps we could do a Top 10 run down of albums that you encountered young and which greatly influenced your musical taste, starting with 5 albums from your parents' record collection (and compilation albums are allowed), followed by 5 albums that you yourself picked up early in your musical journey that influenced your tastes. What do we think? I always assumed that Greatest Hits-type albums would absolutely be eligible. A compilation album is still an album, after all. Just to be clear, what I was thinking was, since my parents didn't buy many albums - I'm not sure they even had ten between the two of them - but did nevertheless did influence my musical tastes, I would pick a few Greatest Hits-type albums of artists that I got to know and like through them even though they didn't actually own any of the albums in most cases, if that's OK. My take is, do what makes sense to you. This is all about having fun, finding out about the members and having an opportunity to talk about the music...good or bad. |
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Post by Confessor on Oct 8, 2024 14:36:59 GMT -5
Just to be clear, what I was thinking was, since my parents didn't buy many albums - I'm not sure they even had ten between the two of them - but did nevertheless did influence my musical tastes, I would pick a few Greatest Hits-type albums of artists that I got to know and like through them even though they didn't actually own any of the albums in most cases, if that's OK. My take is, do what makes sense to you. This is all about having fun, finding out about the members and having an opportunity to talk about the music...good or bad. Yeah... what he said! |
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Post by impulse on Oct 8, 2024 15:28:48 GMT -5
This sounds great. What is already interesting to me now that I think about it is that while yes, these will be the formative albums that got me started, hoooboy are they not necessarily where I'm at now.
The got me going in the that direction, but I sure kept on going ha.
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Post by berkley on Oct 8, 2024 22:31:38 GMT -5
My take is, do what makes sense to you. This is all about having fun, finding out about the members and having an opportunity to talk about the music...good or bad. Yeah... what he said! OK, I think I'm in, then. Still not sure if I'll do all ten "parental influence" or five and five as per Supercat's suggestion. As usual, this will take some thinking! (I thought you said it was going to be fun, grumble, grumble) |
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Post by Ish Kabbible on Oct 8, 2024 23:05:30 GMT -5
I'll try to participate but can only think of 2 albums from my mother's stash that I've appreciated up until the present
As for my earliest albums I purchased, we're talking about the mid-60's for me and that list will be boring since it's just 1 group
My earliest purchases (and much more variety) was buying 45 RPM singles. Would those be allowable to list?
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Post by impulse on Oct 9, 2024 8:30:05 GMT -5
It's not my contest, but it seems the spirit is "whatever is fun for you" so I would be happy to read it.
I can probably do 5 albums of my parents, at a minimum I could do 5 of their influential bands and pick a representative example for the contest. For my 5, I will have a harder time deciding what to leave out.
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Post by Slam_Bradley on Oct 9, 2024 14:05:54 GMT -5
I had just about spaced it, but I'm going to see The Sons of the Pioneers tonight. So yay for me. First concert in far too long.
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