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Post by EdoBosnar on Oct 21, 2024 14:54:57 GMT -5
I really LOVE the Doors, but it took be a little time to get into them back in the early 90s, when I first heard their music. I was into a lot of other West Coast psychedelic bands before the Doors properly clicked with me. And it was this debut album in its entirety that finally won me over. These days I have all of their albums, and I think they never really made a bad one while Jim Morrison was in the band (even The Soft Parade is pretty damn good really). When it comes to my favourite Doors LP though, it's always a battle between this and the follow-up, Strange Days, which is at least every bit as good as The Doors, even if it doesn't quite have that reputation, generally speaking. Yeah, I love them, too, ever since my pre-teens when I heard "Riders on the Storm" on the radio and asked my older brother who it was and he said, "Some sixties band called the Doors." When I got a little older and started buying music, I got a 'best of' cassette but then quickly moved on to the individual albums. Had 'em all plus Absolutely Live on cassette (and now on cd) and listened to them over and over. Can't really say which is my favorite; the debut album is killer (and used to be my favorite when I was in my teens), and yes, Strange Days is excellent, too, but then again so are Waiting for the Sun and Morrison Hotel. Heck, even The Soft Parade is solid. And then there's LA Woman. Damn, still can't decide... |
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Post by Ish Kabbible on Oct 21, 2024 15:06:23 GMT -5
I really LOVE the Doors, but it took be a little time to get into them back in the early 90s, when I first heard their music. I was into a lot of other West Coast psychedelic bands before the Doors properly clicked with me. And it was this debut album in its entirety that finally won me over. These days I have all of their albums, and I think they never really made a bad one while Jim Morrison was in the band (even The Soft Parade is pretty damn good really). When it comes to my favourite Doors LP though, it's always a battle between this and the follow-up, Strange Days, which is at least every bit as good as The Doors, even if it doesn't quite have that reputation, generally speaking. Yeah, I love them, too, ever since my pre-teens when I heard "Riders on the Storm" on the radio and asked my older brother who it was and he said, "Some sixties band called the Doors." When I got a little older and started buying music, I got a 'best of' cassette but then quickly moved on to the individual albums. Had 'em all plus Absolutely Live on cassette (and now on cd) and listened to them over and over. Can't really say which is my favorite; the debut album is killer (and used to be my favorite when I was in my teens), and yes, Strange Days is excellent, too, but then again so are Waiting for the Sun and Morrison Hotel. Heck, even The Soft Parade is solid. And then there's LA Woman. Damn, still can't decide... I recommend checking out The Doors album which came out after Jim Morrison's death. Titled Other Voices (1971) it had some killer tracks. Keyboardist Ray Manzarek supplied most of the lead vocals but it is easy to imagine Jim Morrison belting these out. The song Tightrope Ride was a top 40 single. Ships With Sails was a great extended Doors Jam Their final album, Full Circle (1972) was not as good but had a weird, catchy song, The Mosquito |
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Post by Slam_Bradley on Oct 21, 2024 15:41:07 GMT -5
#4 - Hatful of Hollow by The Smiths (1984) I never got The Smiths. They just weren't a big thing where I grew up (I was in high school in '84). So, I got nothin'. King Crimson-In The Court Of The Crimson King (1969) I had some roommates in college who played this album incessantly, so I've heard it a lot. I've not listened to it since college. 4. Aerosmith: Big Ones (1993) I was a reasonably big fan of Aerosmith in high school and college. If I never had to hear Aerosmith again it would be too soon. |
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Post by impulse on Oct 21, 2024 16:23:46 GMT -5
#4 - Hatful of Hollow by The Smiths (1984) #4 - Same Train, Different Time by Merle Haggard (Capitol 1969) King Crimson-In The Court Of The Crimson King (1969) All three of these are names I'm familiar with that I've never gotten around to really diving into, but I know I should. I am going to try and make a Spotify playlist of all of the suggestions after this is done so I can absorb some of this stuff. Yeah, I love them, too, ever since my pre-teens when I heard "Riders on the Storm" on the radio and asked my older brother who it was and he said, "Some sixties band called the Doors." This was one of my other favorite Doors songs, and it's one of the only ones I still listen to anymore. I was a reasonably big fan of Aerosmith in high school and college. If I never had to hear Aerosmith again it would be too soon. I don't listen to them as often as I used to, but they somehow slipped past my "sick of it from exposure" filter like most other classic rock bands, so I do sometime find myself in the mood and still enjoy them a lot when I do. It was a lot of fun listening to that album again after selecting it. They probably just got in on my early impressionable years on what cool music sounded like. In the 90s, I thought Joe Perry and Steven Tyler were the two coolest mother f*****s on the planet. That sentiment has certainly cooled over time, though. |
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Post by Slam_Bradley on Oct 21, 2024 16:36:39 GMT -5
#4 - Hatful of Hollow by The Smiths (1984) #4 - Same Train, Different Time by Merle Haggard (Capitol 1969) King Crimson-In The Court Of The Crimson King (1969) All three of these are names I'm familiar with that I've never gotten around to really diving into, but I know I should. I am going to try and make a Spotify playlist of all of the suggestions after this is done so I can absorb some of this stuff. Yeah, I love them, too, ever since my pre-teens when I heard "Riders on the Storm" on the radio and asked my older brother who it was and he said, "Some sixties band called the Doors." This was one of my other favorite Doors songs, and it's one of the only ones I still listen to anymore. I was a reasonably big fan of Aerosmith in high school and college. If I never had to hear Aerosmith again it would be too soon. I don't listen to them as often as I used to, but they somehow slipped past my "sick of it from exposure" filter like most other classic rock bands, so I do sometime find myself in the mood and still enjoy them a lot when I do. It was a lot of fun listening to that album again after selecting it. They probably just got in on my early impressionable years on what cool music sounded like. In the 90s, I thought Joe Perry and Steven Tyler were the two coolest mother f*****s on the planet. That sentiment has certainly cooled over time, though. This is probably not the place to start with Haggard, as much as I love the album. I have another one coming up that's a better starting place. Or I can make some suggestions. |
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Post by Slam_Bradley on Oct 21, 2024 16:37:08 GMT -5
1965 was a ridiculously good year for jazz.
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Post by impulse on Oct 21, 2024 16:47:34 GMT -5
#5 - Kings of the Wild Frontier by Adam and the Ants (1980) I may have prematurely presupposed we would run out of musical overlap around this time. I was not familiar with this group, but I can appreciate the quirky punkiness. Or is it punky quirkiness? In any case, I like it. I wonder, if you don't know it, if you's like the collection on The Crow motion picture soundtrack. It didn't make my list, but was a runner up. It's got a similar progression from 80s-esque bands like this into the 90s with a more melancholy and alternative flavoring to it. It was my bridge into alternative, but sounds similar to a lot of things I've seen you like. Not sure it will be your cup of tea, but there might be a few songs that click with you. If you're in the market for music you (possibly?) don't know. |
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Post by berkley on Oct 21, 2024 18:52:51 GMT -5
5. The Beatles - 1962-66 (Red Album)
This album didn't come out until 1973, when I would have been 11 years old, but the Beatles had been a huge part of my musical world from as early as 1967 or 1968, possibly even earlier as I can't recall exactly how old I was when I first heard songs like I Saw her Standing There and She Loves You. So when I got this album I already knew quite a few of the songs but there was still a lot of things to discover. And whether hearing them for the first time or not, being able to play them on this record whenever I wanted was a different experience to just enjoying them when they happened to come on the radio. This is certainly one of the albums I've played and listened to the most times in my life, even though I've never owned a cd version.
It,s hard to pick out a samples but I'll go with Please, Please Me since, while I probably had heard it before, it was through listening to it repeatedly on this album that I came to really love it. It's still one of my (many, many) Beatles favourites:
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Post by berkley on Oct 21, 2024 19:00:10 GMT -5
Janis Joplin with Big Brother and the Holding Company- Cheap Thrills -Released Aug 1968This would be the next chronological album to blow my socks off. The power, the soulfulness, the vulnerability in Janis' vocal delivery is iconic. And while this album had a bunch of her early classic hits like Ball and Chain and Piece Of My Heart, I might rank her final album, Pearl , even higher But this album had some personal significance for me. I had made friends in 1969 with a couple who were into the biker lifestyle. The only music they played in their house would be this album and a few LPS from Steppenwolf. So I know who I borrowed the album from to make a copy for my tape recorder I also remember this album being played when I finally lost my virginity And that album cover by Robert Crumb, wow I chose this live 1969 video of Janis singing Summertime from Cheap Thrills. I don't think I've ever seen this video clip before I've never listened to this album though I know a few of the tracks pretty well, including Summertime. She was a big talent but I find I only like hearing her when I'm in the right mood. Did Robert Plant ever acknowledge her as an influence? It sure sounds like he took a lot from her sound.
Speaking of Steppenwolf, one of their albums almost made my list but I've since thought of something else that I can't leave out.
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Post by berkley on Oct 21, 2024 22:24:44 GMT -5
My next most influential album was released in October 1969. Considered the first true Prog Rock album and I certainly agree. Still sounds as fresh and innovative as it did 55 years ago. I recall being in the Record Section in a department store when the album was new. A father showed his 5 year old son the album cover. The kid started screaming in fright , forcing the father to leave. The kid's brain was permanently damaged Anyhoo, this was quite a landmark album which influenced so many musicians in the ensuing decades King Crimson-In The Court Of The Crimson King (1969)And just in case you never heard 21st Century Schizoid Man (Is there anyone here who never heard this song?), a YouTube clip This or one of the other early King Crimson albums would probably have made my top 20 or so. As it happens, though Prog has been one of my favourite sub-genres of rock music from pretty early on, I didn't get into it until a year or two after what I think will be the most recent album in my list. ELP's Brain Salad Surgery was the first prog album I really got into in a big way, but eventually Yes became my clear favourites.
Crimson were awesome, though. My favourites from this album were the title track (of course) and Epitaph.
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Post by Ish Kabbible on Oct 21, 2024 23:58:03 GMT -5
Busy day scheduled tomorrow so let me post a little early. My next chronological influential LP Neil Young - After The Gold Rush (Sept 1970) I think just about every one I knew back then had this album. A great mix of country/folk and rock. "Only Love Can Break Your Heart" and "Southern Man" got the most radio play (as well as Lynyrd Skynyrd's anger). Many songs had somber themes, perfect if your in a contemplative mood. Just as important, it was a good album to play if you got a girl over at your house. An album to help influence her This would be one of big, early albums that, in the US at least, ushered in the singer/songwriter trend in rock music. A softer sound along with the rise of James Taylor, Jackson Browne, Carol King, Elton John and more in the early 70s  As a song sample I chose a deep cut, "Don't Let It Bring You Down". It's a lyric video and I just read the lyrics for the first time. I always knew this was a dark song. I didn't realize how dark this gets |
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Post by berkley on Oct 22, 2024 0:24:19 GMT -5
4. Aerosmith: Big Ones (1993)This was a big one for me (no pun intended, but appreciated in hindsight), but I don't have a lot of time today, so will be a brief post. Aerosmith was a HUGE band for me. They were my first "serious" musical obsession after Weird Al. I was introduced to them by a friend in middle school who had Get a Grip and the Livin' on the Edge single with some 5 or 6 versions, and I recognized the song Dude Looks Like a Lady from the Mrs. Doubtfire movie. Interest was piqued, and I think this was the first album of theirs I got. it was a good mix and entry point. And then I put it on. I had never heard the first song, Walk on Water. It was one of those songs that just immediately grabs you, and you go "WHOA, what is THAT?!?!" For me, at the time, the intro was the coolest thing I had ever heard. Double snare shot and then open chugging guitar while other sounds play in the background, and then it gets into the verse and its blaring power chords, and CHUG CHUG CHUG. The chorus was silly corny 90s Aerosmith, but I was a corny nerdy comic book geek and didn't care. That was a musical canon event for me. I hadn't heard that level of loud, blaring hard chugging before, but I knew I liked it and wanted more MORE MORE MORE. Heavier, I need MORE. Aaaand we can pack up the contest for me, because that basically sums up the rest of my musical progression for the next 10 years.  But seriously, that was like opening Pandora's box. I'd get into the rest of their stuff shortly after, get live albums, tab books, saw them live, got the Tshirt, etc. Like with Al, I could have put any number of their albums, but this one best fit the influential and early tickboxes for me. Example song has to be Walk on the Water. Edited to add:It's worth noting also that my friend who introduced me to them also had the VHS tapes of the making of the Get a Grip album AND the music videos of the time. As a young teenager at the time, the music video for Crazy with Liv Tyler and Alicia Silverstone messing around on a stripper's pole certainly built a favorable association for me at the time. ...and looking back as an adult, him featuring his daughter in that way hits a lot differently than it did at the time.
One of those bands I always liked but never quite to the degree that I felt tempted to buy an album. I might try something one of these days
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Post by berkley on Oct 22, 2024 0:28:43 GMT -5
I'm on the run a bit today, so I've only got time to quickly post today's album. There are recent album picks from a number of other members that I want to comment on, but that'll have to wait 'til later this evening, when I have a bit more time. Anyway, moving on now to 5 influential albums that I bought myself early in my musical journey... #5 - Kings of the Wild Frontier by Adam and the Ants (1980) Adam and his dandified group of Ants were the biggest band in Britain by 1981 and were all over the television, radio and teen magazines. They were also the first contemporary band that, as a 9-year-old, had ever really mattered to me. I resolutely saved as much of my weekly pocket money as I could and, when I had enough, I purchased the band's Kings of the Wild Frontier album – the first LP I bought myself. Musically, the band are kinda hard to pigeonhole. They originally came out of the London punk scene, but by the time of this album they were a weird hybrid of new wave and '80s pop, with catchy, hook-laden songs, decorated in caterwauling backing vocals and thundering Burundi style African drums. They also took the New Romantic fondness for a bit of lip gloss and eye shadow to almost ludicrous extremes, with the band all wearing face paint and dressing themselves up in swashbuckling pirate garb. Looking back, they were pretty weird, in all honesty, but I didn't notice that as a kid. Standout tracks on this album would include the drum-heavy singles "Dog Eat Dog" and "Kings of the Wild Frontier", the self-referencing "Antmusic", and the tongue-in-cheek, Sergio Leone-inspired "Los Rancheros". But really, it's a very strong album from start to finish. I loved this album so much at the time and I played it over and over again. And you know what? I still love it today. It still very much holds up and Adam & the Ants' music still inspires and influences my own music today. In fact, I think you can even hear the influence of Adam & the Ants in the silly theme song I wrote for the Classic Comics Forum In-depth podcast. Anyway, in short, I had great taste even at the tender age of 9; what can I tell ya? Here's the opening track, "Dog Eat Dog", which was the band's breakthrough hit in the UK. It's a good representation of what the whole album sounds like…
That sounds pretty good. I only knew the Welcome to the Pleasure Dome album, which my university room-mate had. I should probably check out some of their other records one of these days.
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Post by Confessor on Oct 22, 2024 0:31:41 GMT -5
I'm on the run a bit today, so I've only got time to quickly post today's album. There are recent album picks from a number of other members that I want to comment on, but that'll have to wait 'til later this evening, when I have a bit more time. Anyway, moving on now to 5 influential albums that I bought myself early in my musical journey... #5 - Kings of the Wild Frontier by Adam and the Ants (1980) Adam and his dandified group of Ants were the biggest band in Britain by 1981 and were all over the television, radio and teen magazines. They were also the first contemporary band that, as a 9-year-old, had ever really mattered to me. I resolutely saved as much of my weekly pocket money as I could and, when I had enough, I purchased the band's Kings of the Wild Frontier album – the first LP I bought myself. Musically, the band are kinda hard to pigeonhole. They originally came out of the London punk scene, but by the time of this album they were a weird hybrid of new wave and '80s pop, with catchy, hook-laden songs, decorated in caterwauling backing vocals and thundering Burundi style African drums. They also took the New Romantic fondness for a bit of lip gloss and eye shadow to almost ludicrous extremes, with the band all wearing face paint and dressing themselves up in swashbuckling pirate garb. Looking back, they were pretty weird, in all honesty, but I didn't notice that as a kid. Standout tracks on this album would include the drum-heavy singles "Dog Eat Dog" and "Kings of the Wild Frontier", the self-referencing "Antmusic", and the tongue-in-cheek, Sergio Leone-inspired "Los Rancheros". But really, it's a very strong album from start to finish. I loved this album so much at the time and I played it over and over again. And you know what? I still love it today. It still very much holds up and Adam & the Ants' music still inspires and influences my own music today. In fact, I think you can even hear the influence of Adam & the Ants in the silly theme song I wrote for the Classic Comics Forum In-depth podcast. Anyway, in short, I had great taste even at the tender age of 9; what can I tell ya? Here's the opening track, "Dog Eat Dog", which was the band's breakthrough hit in the UK. It's a good representation of what the whole album sounds like… That sounds pretty good. I only knew the Welcome to the Pleasure Dome album, which my university room-mate had. I should probably check out some of their other records one of these days.
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Post by Confessor on Oct 22, 2024 0:32:52 GMT -5
I have a super busy day today guys, so I won't be posting til tomorrow. Feel free to go ahead without me; I'll catch up later.
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