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Post by nonrabbit on Jan 7, 2017 19:19:59 GMT
"... just as there's a critical period for learning a language, so too is there a critical period for learning your musical tastes: It starts at 14 and peaks at 24..." So says a study hereI've been clearing out the cellar in the house where I grew up and I found my old 45 rpm's. I was going to shove this into the Guilty Secrets however some of them aren't half bad Given the dates on the records some of them I must have asked my mother to buy and others were my very early, pre Tull, toe dipping adventures in sound! Eclectic to say the very least. The "obvious" ones; She Loves You ..... Beatles Baby Love ........ The Supremes Ob-La-De- Ob-La-Da Marmalade Maggie May......... Rod Stewart A Little Bit Me.... The Monkees and Green Green Grass Of Home ..Tom Jones The ones I'm surprised at (now); Coz I Luv You ...... Slade Sunshine Girl....... Herman's Hermits Your Holiday German. Embassy records Meet Me On The Corner. Lindisfarne and Indiana Wants Me.....R Dean Taylor The ones that I've thoroughly enjoyed listening to again; Lady Eleanor....... Lindisfarne He's Gonna Step On You Again...John Kongos Double Barrell... Dave and Ansel Collins Scarborough Fair... Sergio Mendes & Brasil 66 Hey Willy... The Hollies and
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Post by nonrabbit on Jan 7, 2017 19:30:53 GMT
This is brilliant. Love the change at 1.40
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Post by maddogfagin on Jan 8, 2017 8:56:10 GMT
I've been clearing out the cellar in the house where I grew up and . . . .
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Post by Deleted on Jan 23, 2017 0:36:05 GMT
It has also been shown that the average age when a person stops listening to popular music is 33. www.avclub.com/article/new-study-shows-people-stop-listening-new-music-33-218752I was around 34 years of age when I stopped listening to FM radio, around the time "grunge" music was popular, in the early 1990's. Most of my favourite albums of all time were released around 1972- give or take a couple of years- when I would have been 14. I was heavily influenced, as many people are, by what my older siblings listened to.
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Post by maddogfagin on Jan 23, 2017 10:33:56 GMT
It has also been shown that the average age when a person stops listening to popular music is 33. www.avclub.com/article/new-study-shows-people-stop-listening-new-music-33-218752I was around 34 years of age when I stopped listening to FM radio, around the time "grunge" music was popular, in the early 1990's. Most of my favourite albums of all time were released around 1972- give or take a couple of years- when I would have been 14. I was heavily influenced, as many people are, by what my older siblings listened to. We had the family around for afternoon tea yesterday (a quaint English custom where you drink from a tea cup with raised little finger) and I happened to mention that in '64/'65 I used to frequent a coffee bar in Croydon called "Under The Olive Tree". It was the haunt of many Croydon based artists such as Wizz Jones, Ralph McTell, Peter Sarstedt (RIP) et al and it was the first place I heard Paul Simon's "I Am A Rock" which was his first solo single in the UK back in August 1965. He would go on to re-record the song with Art Garfunkel but Paul's first album of solo work, "The Paul Simon Songbook" is outstanding.
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Post by nonrabbit on Jan 23, 2017 10:50:41 GMT
It has also been shown that the average age when a person stops listening to popular music is 33. www.avclub.com/article/new-study-shows-people-stop-listening-new-music-33-218752I was around 34 years of age when I stopped listening to FM radio, around the time "grunge" music was popular, in the early 1990's. Most of my favourite albums of all time were released around 1972- give or take a couple of years- when I would have been 14. I was heavily influenced, as many people are, by what my older siblings listened to. We had the family around for afternoon tea yesterday (a quaint English custom where you drink from a tea cup with raised little finger) and I happened to mention that in '64/'65 I used to frequent a coffee bar in Croydon called "Under The Olive Tree". It was the haunt of many Croydon based artists such as Wizz Jones, Ralph McTell, Peter Sarstedt (RIP) et al and it was the first place I heard Paul Simon's "I Am A Rock" which was his first solo single in the UK back in August 1965. He would go on to re-record the song with Art Garfunkel but Paul's first album of solo work, "The Paul Simon Songbook" is outstanding. Some chat here about it too www.facebook.com/BygoneCroydon/?fref=nfDid you also go to the basement ( with the pungent smell) at The Swiss Cottage?
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Post by maddogfagin on Jan 23, 2017 11:00:23 GMT
We had the family around for afternoon tea yesterday (a quaint English custom where you drink from a tea cup with raised little finger) and I happened to mention that in '64/'65 I used to frequent a coffee bar in Croydon called "Under The Olive Tree". It was the haunt of many Croydon based artists such as Wizz Jones, Ralph McTell, Peter Sarstedt (RIP) et al and it was the first place I heard Paul Simon's "I Am A Rock" which was his first solo single in the UK back in August 1965. He would go on to re-record the song with Art Garfunkel but Paul's first album of solo work, "The Paul Simon Songbook" is outstanding. Some chat here about it too www.facebook.com/BygoneCroydon/?fref=nfDid you also go to the basement ( with the pungent smell) at The Swiss Cottage? I don't remember going to the Swiss Cottage but the juke box at the Olive Tree was in the basement along with a small live area for sessions. Many happy memories of the Olive Tree and as it used to wind up people over a certain age (35 +) it just seemed to be the place to go.
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Post by Budding Stately Hero on Jan 23, 2017 18:54:04 GMT
It has also been shown that the average age when a person stops listening to popular music is 33. www.avclub.com/article/new-study-shows-people-stop-listening-new-music-33-218752I was around 34 years of age when I stopped listening to FM radio, around the time "grunge" music was popular, in the early 1990's. Most of my favourite albums of all time were released around 1972- give or take a couple of years- when I would have been 14. I was heavily influenced, as many people are, by what my older siblings listened to. I fall into this category, definitely. 12 or 13 when rock music creeped it's way into my soul (SFTW, LITP, Heavy Horses, TAAB, White Album, Hot Rocks, A New World Record, Herman's Hermits Greatest Hits, Meaty Beaty Big and Bouncy, Physical Graffiti, Selling England by the Pound, Paranoid, ChangesOneBowie, Live At The Tower, Hunky Dory, Tumbleweed Connection, and the list goes on... When grunge hit, I stopped tuning in to FM. I had all my albums. My older Brother got me into rock radio. His albums and his favorites became my favorites. Ain't that the way it goes?
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Post by maddogfagin on Jan 24, 2017 8:54:00 GMT
It has also been shown that the average age when a person stops listening to popular music is 33. www.avclub.com/article/new-study-shows-people-stop-listening-new-music-33-218752I was around 34 years of age when I stopped listening to FM radio, around the time "grunge" music was popular, in the early 1990's. Most of my favourite albums of all time were released around 1972- give or take a couple of years- when I would have been 14. I was heavily influenced, as many people are, by what my older siblings listened to. I fall into this category, definitely. 12 or 13 when rock music creeped it's way into my soul (SFTW, LITP, Heavy Horses, TAAB, White Album, Hot Rocks, A New World Record, Herman's Hermits Greatest Hits, Meaty Beaty Big and Bouncy, Physical Graffiti, Selling England by the Pound, Paranoid, ChangesOneBowie, Live At The Tower, Hunky Dory, Tumbleweed Connection, and the list goes on... When grunge hit, I stopped tuning in to FM. I had all my albums. My older Brother got me into rock radio. His albums and his favorites became my favorites. Ain't that the way it goes?
Its always been one of my gripes that radio developed differently here in the UK as opposed to the States. We began in the 1920s with the population being told what to listen to by the BBC, to continental stations such as Luxembourg and AFN in the 50s and early 60s, the offshore stations showing us how it could be done, to the BBC finally waking up with the advent of commercial radio in the UK. Trouble is there are so many automated stations now in the UK that you just get what the programme controller's think the population should hear so we seem to have turned full circle. The internet abounds with on line stations of all genres of music and on a world wide basis and there's still good old BBC 6 Music who seem to cater for grown up listeners - they even play Tull on the odd occasion.
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Post by Budding Stately Hero on Jan 24, 2017 13:53:40 GMT
I fall into this category, definitely. 12 or 13 when rock music creeped it's way into my soul (SFTW, LITP, Heavy Horses, TAAB, White Album, Hot Rocks, A New World Record, Herman's Hermits Greatest Hits, Meaty Beaty Big and Bouncy, Physical Graffiti, Selling England by the Pound, Paranoid, ChangesOneBowie, Live At The Tower, Hunky Dory, Tumbleweed Connection, and the list goes on... When grunge hit, I stopped tuning in to FM. I had all my albums. My older Brother got me into rock radio. His albums and his favorites became my favorites. Ain't that the way it goes?
Its always been one of my gripes that radio developed differently here in the UK as opposed to the States. We began in the 1920s with the population being told what to listen to by the BBC, to continental stations such as Luxembourg and AFN in the 50s and early 60s, the offshore stations showing us how it could be done, to the BBC finally waking up with the advent of commercial radio in the UK. Trouble is there are so many automated stations now in the UK that you just get what the programme controller's think the population should hear so we seem to have turned full circle. The internet abounds with on line stations of all genres of music and on a world wide basis and there's still good old BBC 6 Music who seem to cater for grown up listeners - they even play Tull on the odd occasion. Spin me back down the years and the days of my youth, specifically when Elvis died. I was on my bike riding up the street, when my parents told me as I rode up to the house. Years later, when I was older, I read the Lester Bangs obituary, to which I could not agree more. If you recall, this is how he winded it up, "If love truly is going out of fashion forever, which I do not believe, then along with our nurtured indifference to each other will be an even more contemptuous indifference to each others' objects of reverence. I thought it was Iggy Stooge, you thought it was Joni Mitchell or whoever else seemed to speak for your own private, entirely circumscribed situation's many pains and few ecstasies. We will continue to fragment in this manner, because solipsism holds all the cards at present; it is a king whose domain engulfs even Elvis's. But I can guarantee you one thing: we will never again agree on anything as we agreed on Elvis. So I won't bother saying good-bye to his corpse. I will say good-bye to you.
Bangs turned out to be right. We once shared a common music way back in the day. Now, I have mine, you have yours, the guy down the street has his/hers. Of course, you'd have to be certified loony not to get goosebumps down your arms with the beginning piano of Locomotive Breath. But, that's another story altogether.
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Post by maddogfagin on Jan 24, 2017 16:48:38 GMT
Its always been one of my gripes that radio developed differently here in the UK as opposed to the States. We began in the 1920s with the population being told what to listen to by the BBC, to continental stations such as Luxembourg and AFN in the 50s and early 60s, the offshore stations showing us how it could be done, to the BBC finally waking up with the advent of commercial radio in the UK. Trouble is there are so many automated stations now in the UK that you just get what the programme controller's think the population should hear so we seem to have turned full circle. The internet abounds with on line stations of all genres of music and on a world wide basis and there's still good old BBC 6 Music who seem to cater for grown up listeners - they even play Tull on the odd occasion. Spin me back down the years and the days of my youth, specifically when Elvis died. I was on my bike riding up the street, when my parents told me as I rode up to the house. Years later, when I was older, I read the Lester Bangs obituary, to which I could not agree more. If you recall, this is how he winded it up, "If love truly is going out of fashion forever, which I do not believe, then along with our nurtured indifference to each other will be an even more contemptuous indifference to each others' objects of reverence. I thought it was Iggy Stooge, you thought it was Joni Mitchell or whoever else seemed to speak for your own private, entirely circumscribed situation's many pains and few ecstasies. We will continue to fragment in this manner, because solipsism holds all the cards at present; it is a king whose domain engulfs even Elvis's. But I can guarantee you one thing: we will never again agree on anything as we agreed on Elvis. So I won't bother saying good-bye to his corpse. I will say good-bye to you.
Bangs turned out to be right. We once shared a common music way back in the day. Now, I have mine, you have yours, the guy down the street has his/hers. Of course, you'd have to be certified loony not to get goosebumps down your arms with the beginning piano of Locomotive Breath. But, that's another story altogether.
But since you mention it, those early Presley songs such as That's All Right, Heartbreak Hotel etc were the bees knees imo as were the early Crickets' songs. The Chirping Crickets album was the first album I ever bought. Saved up my hard earned paper round money and spare cash begged and borrowed off Mum and Dad and . . . . I've still got it Side 1 1. "Oh, Boy!" 2. "Not Fade Away" 3. "You've Got Love" 4. "Maybe Baby" 5. "It's Too Late" 6. "Tell Me How" Side 2 1. "That'll Be the Day" 2. "I'm Looking for Someone to Love" 3. "An Empty Cup (And a Broken Date)" 4. "Send Me Some Lovin'" 5. "Last Night" 6. "Rock Me My Baby" Buddy Holly – lead vocals, lead guitar, acoustic guitar on 5, backing vocals on 2 Jerry Allison – drums, card-box percussion and backing vocals on 2 Joe B. Mauldin – contrabass, except on 7 and 8 Niki Sullivan – rhythm guitar, except on 1, 2, 5, 7, 8 and 11, backing vocals on 2, 7 and 8
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Post by bunkerfan on Jan 24, 2017 20:39:23 GMT
Spin me back down the years and the days of my youth, specifically when Elvis died. I was on my bike riding up the street, when my parents told me as I rode up to the house. Years later, when I was older, I read the Lester Bangs obituary, to which I could not agree more. If you recall, this is how he winded it up, "If love truly is going out of fashion forever, which I do not believe, then along with our nurtured indifference to each other will be an even more contemptuous indifference to each others' objects of reverence. I thought it was Iggy Stooge, you thought it was Joni Mitchell or whoever else seemed to speak for your own private, entirely circumscribed situation's many pains and few ecstasies. We will continue to fragment in this manner, because solipsism holds all the cards at present; it is a king whose domain engulfs even Elvis's. But I can guarantee you one thing: we will never again agree on anything as we agreed on Elvis. So I won't bother saying good-bye to his corpse. I will say good-bye to you.
Bangs turned out to be right. We once shared a common music way back in the day. Now, I have mine, you have yours, the guy down the street has his/hers. Of course, you'd have to be certified loony not to get goosebumps down your arms with the beginning piano of Locomotive Breath. But, that's another story altogether.
But since you mention it, those early Presley songs such as That's All Right, Heartbreak Hotel etc were the bees knees imo as were the early Crickets' songs. The Chirping Crickets album was the first album I ever bought. Saved up my hard earned paper round money and spare cash begged and borrowed off Mum and Dad and . . . . I've still got it Side 1 1. "Oh, Boy!" 2. "Not Fade Away" 3. "You've Got Love" 4. "Maybe Baby" 5. "It's Too Late" 6. "Tell Me How" Side 2 1. "That'll Be the Day" 2. "I'm Looking for Someone to Love" 3. "An Empty Cup (And a Broken Date)" 4. "Send Me Some Lovin'" 5. "Last Night" 6. "Rock Me My Baby" Buddy Holly – lead vocals, lead guitar, acoustic guitar on 5, backing vocals on 2 Jerry Allison – drums, card-box percussion and backing vocals on 2 Joe B. Mauldin – contrabass, except on 7 and 8 Niki Sullivan – rhythm guitar, except on 1, 2, 5, 7, 8 and 11, backing vocals on 2, 7 and 8 That's brought back a few memories of my first record. Not bought with paper round money (never had one) but with birthday money. 'Not Fade Away' on the B side. The record broke years ago.
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Post by Budding Stately Hero on Jan 27, 2017 13:54:40 GMT
Bunker and Fagin, I regularly listen to most of Buddy's catalog. I, too, got into him very young. I'm 50, though. So, he was before my time, as they say. Still, all my first records were Holly, Presley, Orbison, Little Richard....
My favorite Buddy song is Crying, Waiting, Hoping (the overdub version with the "Doot, Doot, Doot" background vocals). I still play that song all the time. There's a longing in there that's just so sad. Makes me very sad to hear that song.
But, those were all albums my mother bought for me. When I was old enough to save my own money and walk a mile to the Sam Goody, I began buying my own music. The first one I bought was the White Album (partially because I did love their music and partially because my brother forced me to watch the Helter Skelter movie when it came to television, which I found both frightening as Hell and fascinating.
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Post by maddogfagin on Jan 28, 2017 9:10:51 GMT
Bunker and Fagin, I regularly listen to most of Buddy's catalog. I, too, got into him very young. I'm 50, though. So, he was before my time, as they say. Still, all my first records were Holly, Presley, Orbison, Little Richard.... My favorite Buddy song is Crying, Waiting, Hoping (the overdub version with the "Doot, Doot, Doot" background vocals). I still play that song all the time. There's a longing in there that's just so sad. Makes me very sad to hear that song. But, those were all albums my mother bought for me. When I was old enough to save my own money and walk a mile to the Sam Goody, I began buying my own music. The first one I bought was the White Album (partially because I did love their music and partially because my brother forced me to watch the Helter Skelter movie when it came to television, which I found both frightening as Hell and fascinating. Buddy Holly was one of my earliest musical inspirations as were Bobby Darin, Beatles, early Tamla Motown, Cream, Jimi Hendrix, Arthur Lee and then Tull. And some classical such as Vaughan Williams and Elgar. It would make an interesting Desert Island Discs.
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Post by Budding Stately Hero on Jan 28, 2017 13:53:05 GMT
What? No Arthur Brown? ;-)
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Post by maddogfagin on Jan 28, 2017 15:20:02 GMT
What? No Arthur Brown? ;-) We saw him perform on a number of occasions - once at the Saville Theatre in London he set his hair alight. I heard a day or so ago, and if it's not true it's a damn fine anecdote, that under health and safety rules nowadays he's not allowed to use his flaming headress.
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Post by Budding Stately Hero on Jan 29, 2017 19:24:59 GMT
What? No Arthur Brown? ;-) We saw him perform on a number of occasions - once at the Saville Theatre in London he set his hair alight. I heard a day or so ago, and if it's not true it's a damn fine anecdote, that under health and safety rules nowadays he's not allowed to use his flaming headress. Not allowed to use his flaming headdress? I'll tell ya. You can't do anything, anymore. ;-)
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