Maybe one for weekends and two guests a week. A forum member will take us through their favourite album of all time (or one of them at any rate) where they discovered it, songs, did they see band live etc and we can all give it a listen
Nice way to push the musical envelope and discover some new music
Has to be @Fagan_ODowd to kick it off when he gets the time
I’ll kick it off but I’ll only do so on the basis that I can post here again.
Anyway I’ll start with this.
My interest in soul and funk music started I think when I first became conscious of hearing James Brown. I still remember the first time I heard Get Up I Feel Like A Sex Machine. It was after midnight on Radio Luxembourg, I was in bed. I was never the same again. The groove got into my soul and never got out.
I worked backwards into soul and discovered Otis Redding and Booker T and the MGs. Then I read a remarkable book about Stax Records and read about Isaac Hayes for the first time. This was the man who wrote the Theme from Shaft, a film I had never seen.
Some time later I found myself in a record shop in Camden Town and I saw the above album cover. It was and still is the coolest album cover I ever did see. (The gatefold cover for Black Moses runs it close)
I had to buy it regardless of what the music was like. And I did. When I played it, I found to my surprise that the music was better than the cover. Four long meandering songs over 2 sides. Two originals and two covers.
I fell in love with a beautiful woman around this time and this was our record. We generally hated each other’s music but this was the one album we were at peace over.
It spawned a load of copycat shite like Barry White, but that wasn’t Isaac Hayes’s fault. He was a black superstar- here he is at Wattstax, possibly the greatest festival ever being introduced by Jesse Jackson
He never again scaled these heights. He went bankrupt in the seventies. Then he became a Scientologist. He came back in 90s with a couple of notable albums but sadly most people remember him as chef in South Park.
No contest
Pretty straight forward for me, as I imagine it will be for a good few of my vintage.
Nirvana - Nevermind
Fairly confusing time for any chap at 13 or 14. Music was pop for the most part so when this took hold it changed everything. Grunge became cool because it could be loud but so infectious everybody moved to it.
The lyrics, the insane intensity to everything Cobain did in his performances, Kris & that bass and drums that made weekday neck ache common.
The music was king but for me it was the style too. It didn’t matter what the fuck you wore once it was accompanied with Doc Martens.
Hair styles didn’t matter, skin heads or undercuts it mattered sfa.
Great times & a truly wonderful album start to finish.
Huge John Martyn fan here. I honestly don’t think there are many artists who can match his output from 1971 to 1980. One World is my personal favorite but can’t argue with your selection.
Impossible task to name one, but in terms of an album that truly had a transformational impact on my musical taste I’d have to say Unknown Pleasures by Joy Division. A mate of mine bought the album and we listened to it very loud on his parents stereo, my first encounter with high end sound. It was absolutely shocking in terms of the visceral impact it had, the first time hearing synth drums, the bass used as a lead instrument and the utter despair of the lyrics. How the absolute lunatic Martin Hannett took this shite punk band and produced this stuff out of them is one of the great mysteries of modern music. Ian Curtis loved this album and the rest of the band hated it, a portend of where they would go after his death.
Listen on a good set of headphones, turn it up to the max, and listen to New Dawn Fades, She’s Lost Control, and Shadowplay.
I’d be afraid to put mine up here.
Your not the only one.
You’re
You should be ashamed of yourself for that
I am
There I was trying to be kind.
I know mate. It was shallow and spiteful. I apologise.
Apology accepted
Thank you kind sir.
This is one for the musical heavyweights, I’ll probably stick to the Dance choons thread
Lads will be putting hours into this.
The insecure lads are out in force this morning
