Bowie's last really good album--though, to be fair, I haven't heard the last few.

hmmmmm

mostly I listen to the following:

Joy Division
Nico
Dead Can Dance
Chris and Cosey
Brian Eno
The Cure
Dave Brubeck
Mozart
Sisters of Mercy
Patti Smith
Bowie

|smooch|

No shit I`d love to hear a new Tool cd come out! The first A Perfect Circle was pretty bad ass too have`nt heard much from the new one though.

JanTM which Korn did you just get?

Gimme anything but country and opera!

Yep, that tingle down the spine feeling you got when listening to a great album, especially for the first time, seems to get less and less these days for me.... although I'm sure there is loads of good shit out there ... and I'm just out of touch...

There are some albums I can listen too that still have same effect for me like they did back in the 80's... Joshua Tree.. Lou Reed's New York, REM's Green... those were the days!!! Don't know about there being more drugs back then.... but damn it - the quality was better

:D

Music for me has come full circle.

When I was very young I would go by the record store and pickup a 45 rpm single and add this to the stack on my phonograph where I would play them over and over again until I either got sick of the tune or wore out the vinyl.

Then came the days of 8 tracks, LPs, then CDs and making casettes of my favorite tunes, but most of the time just listening to albums as making up cassettes was such a pain in the ass and anyway you pretty much couldn't buy single tracks anyway.

Now we have MP3s and I find myself back to buying single tracks, often in the morning while sipping coffee, - and listening to playlists that I make just by drag and drop in a few seconds that are also automatically copied to my iPod when I drop it in its charger. It is kind of strange to be carrying every piece of music that I own always with me and I find myself often just listening to random play from my whole music collection.

hehe!! 45's... I remember them - just ;-) the first single I ever owned was Let's Dance by Chris Montez a little later than when it came out in 62' around 69'. I aquired it from my mum along with a copy of the West Side Story soundtrack, which was the first album I owned. I was 8 years old at the time and had just been given the old family radiogram when it was replaced with a HI-FI. Don't know if anyone else remembers those - big fuckers they were, made of solid wood and valves, but they sounded great - when I got older it doubled as a hiding place for my porn mag collection! Bet you can't do that with no ipod :D

The first album I ever bought myself was Sheer Heart Attack by Queen.

Vacuum tubes, last great devices to play real music, memories of days gone by…









Yeah right, I'm a music junk music junky, just a mood drug to me, whatever makes me feel good at the moment. Give me modern electronics and music files on a drive any day. :D

Dayum! You have no idea how close that sounds to my childhood.. just at the other end of the globe from you :p

I used to think the radiogram record stacker part was just sooooo high-tech LOL

The version of "Lets Dance" I first remember was by Chris Rea though (same song?)....... and the first album I got was "Rock Around The Clock" by Bill Haley and the Comets. I gave Mum my money and trusted her to buy the "Howzat" album by Sherbet, but she said she couldnt find it and came home with that! It was a bright pink album cover and I thought it was very very gay. (years later it did get played though)

I dont really get into much of the current contemporary music.. grunge was the last good period for radio music imho.

I have tortured my brains and tried to remember if I got my first record player 1970 or 1971, but I can't remember.

Anyway, some of the albums I bought back then was:

Who's Next - The Who
Abraxas - Santana
Master of Reality - Black Sabbath
Band of Gypsys - Jimi Hendrix
Creedence Clearwater Revival - Cosmo's Factory
Janis Joplin - Pearl
Doors - Absolutely Live
Simon & Garfunkel - Bridge Over Troubled Water

etc.

I was 13 or 14 so I was in a mercy of my parents. They let me buy one album per month. At 15 I was old enough to work and after that I bought my albums myself.

At those days you could buy old jukebox 45's from 1FIM per single. At that times 1FIM was 25 american cents. After some years I had tons of old used 45's.

After army I started my career as DJ but that's another story. It meant more singles, 7" and 12", lol!

Guess what? My ears peep like Neil Young's and I don't hear anything after 10,000 hertz, just silence.

[quote]Originally posted by Opti
[b]Dayum! You have no idea how close that sounds to my childhood.. just at the other end of the globe from you :p
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Haha!! Same generation mate more or less.... I remember the first CD player I bought - 1986 - it was Sony or a Sanyo brand, can't remember exactly which - but it was small and had a flip top lid.

I bought my first 3 compact discs too on the day I got it.


True Stories - Taliking Heads
Brothers In Arms - Dire Straits
and Press To Play by Paul MCartney (Choice was limited back then) :D

Sabbath!!! |headbang| |headbang| |headbang| |headbang|

'You'll burn in fucking hell listening to that shit' said my old man years ago... Parents ehh!!! Sheesh

That really would be funny, if not so ironic eh PP ;-)


You bloody HIPPY Finbear :P

Did I hear someone mention Dave Brubeck a little way back? time to search the mp3 CDs i think :)

Damn right mate |thumb

Damn Finnbear 10k! What did you do run sound for ManOWar?!

The first album I remember actually owning was Beatles A Hard Days Night I got second hand in about `71. I was 6 yrs old. Funny I was playing guitar and piano before I had a record player!

Vaccuum tube gear still rules!!|rock|

The first LP that I remember buying was Iron Butterfly In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida. I did buy 45s before that. I was told by my mother that when I was really young that the only way she could get me to go to bed and fall asleep was to play Elvis Presley's I'm nothing but a hound dog. LOL

My mother loved Elvis! I remember going to try to catch him leaving a hotel when he came to Buffalo area years ago in the 70`s. I told her we should have went to wait by the back entrance!

Heard alot of Elvis back then supremes and stuff from my parents. But one of my best memories was listening to early Who in the back of my dads corvair on the am radio sometime late 60`s...rock and roll!

I really like this thread. It could run and run .....

The first albums I bought were Bee Gees (1st album), Spencer Davis Group (1st album), Fleetwood Mac (1st album, when Peter Green was the creative force), Mamas and Papas Deliver, Moody Blues: Days Of Future Passed, Doors (1st album) ....

OK. Some of them were a mistake. What was I doing buying the Bee Gees and The Mamas and Papas ??? That stuff just isn't me. I'm deep!

At a party one weekend in the late sixties (I remember it, so perhaps I wasn't there) somebody brought along The Velvet Underground With Nico. Wow. That album was played and played all night. It was a total revelation for me. I was spellbound. I'd suddenly discovered what I really liked. And I've loved The Velvets ever since. OK, I've made allowances for some of their later stuff (after John Cale was forced out), but there's always been something there to latch onto (particularly in the live sets - Live At Max's is just great). I've also got a whole load of Lou Reed and John Cale albums, plus a couple of Nico's and a Cale/Eno collaboration. But nothing really compares with the impact of that first Velvet's album. It contains so many great songs. Fantastic discordant music. And the lyrics are pure poetry (albeit inpenetrable). I now own The Velvet's boxed set and play it often. I think The Velvets sell more records now than they did in the 60's.

I like a lot of other music, including - Pink Floyd, Man (terrific Welsh band), Echo And The Bunnymen, Sex Pistols, John McLaughlin, Robin Trower, Stone Roses, Free, Tindersticks, Devo, Mountain, AC/DC, Beth Orton, Joy Division, New Order, Only Ones, Gong ....

Blimey, forgot The Who (Live At Leeds, Tommy, Who's Next)

I wish I'd bought Lou's Metal Machine Music when I had the chance. The sleeve notes were worth the money. I was working at a bank when it came out and when I listened to it during my lunch break I stupidly decided to reject it. OK, it might well have been pretentious crap but it was memorable pretentious crap ...

This is a topic right down my alley. If its possible to be addicted to music, I'm there. I've been so sick of the crap coming out these days that I have embraced my old school punk music once again. Dead Kennedys, Circle Jerks, Suicidal Tendencies ... I almost miss the 80's!

"Holiday In Cambodia" - great track.

My english failed with that - what it means?

"Wow, you are very deaf... How did this happen? Was this caused by working as road crew for the world's loudest band?"

I played in bands for years. Started when I was 15. I also played in discos as DJ for years, I had my own DJ company that hired many DJs to discos. I love to play, so I played lots of gigs myself. We also built audio systems to discos.

I didn't knew I'm that deaf. Music still sounds like it has sound always. One day we were testing our home theatre audio with testing DVD and when we tested how low and how high our amplifier can go, after 10,000 Htz the sound stopped. Total silence.

You youngsters who play in band or play music loud, take care of your ears. It's not nice when your ears starts to play a high voice and you can't do anything. I don't know what they call it in english, but Neil Young has it. And I.

Some great bands there eman Only Ones!!! Now where did they go? I loved their Baby's Got A Gun Album - I never considered them punk though - more power pop - but that is a cracking album.

Echo And The Bunnymen - first heard them on the John Peel Show - way, way back - another great 80's band.

Joy Division - I think Ian Curtis would still be writing great songs if he were still here today!

In fear every day, every evening
It calls here aloud from above
Carefully watched for a reason
Mistaking devotion and love
Surrendered to self-preservation
From others who care for themselves
A blindness that touches perfection
Appears just like anything else -
Isolation (3)

Mother I tried, please believe me
I'm doing the best that I can,
I'm ashamed of the things
I've been put through;
I'm ashamed of the person I am
But if you could just see the beauty,
these things I could never describe
This is my one consolation
This is my wonderful prize

Undertones - Remember them! Teenage Kicks has got to be the best (power) pop single of all time.

The Dammed - Black album is on of my faves - we went to see them again couple months back when I was in the UK - They didn't play one track off that album and the bastards never came on for the encore to play Smash It Up

Finnbear Opti had it..ManOWar is in the Guiness book of world records as the loudest band. 130 some db I believe. One time in the studio a client said "can we listen to playback at ManOWar level" and it stuck as a joke every time we cranked up the mains!

So true it is critical to protect your hearing if you value it! In the old days it was`nt thought of much but no excuses these days. I record and produce and always have earplugs handy at live shows and in the studio when you can get away with them. And I have no clue what all these poeple nowadays are thinking cranking bass in thier cars at pain threshold levels. In 10 years they will need it turned up that high. And EQ was made for tailoring a system to a room not to loosen bolts on your undercarriage! Can you say "Sounds like mud"!

Oh and tinnitus is the term here in the US for the condition your thinking of Finnbear.

I did a bit of work for Neil Young years ago and did`nt know he had it..it figures though..a long career! He never had great pitch but he always had enough vibe to make up for it. He is truly a one take guy. Strictly A.I.R. sessions...Always in record! Either that or you might not be there the next day!