What MUSIC are you listening to?

[eman]

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 ....

<edit> Blimey, forgot The Who (Live At Leeds, Tommy, Who's Next) </edit>

<edit> 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 ... </edit>