What track or al*** got you into music ?

Does anyone remember Pop Corn by Hot Butter ? I've heard greater works since then but the melody remains amazingly listenable today. Stan Free (the dark man behind Hot Butter) is probably still laughing on his canvas chair

Cheese

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I had four of these; three in 1976, one in 1978

1. Hearing the Floyd's Shine on You Crazy Diamond Parts 1-5 on Radio Caroline (pirate station) late one night

2. Hearing Led Zeppelin (Dazed & Confused on Alkan "Fluff" Freeman's Saturday afternoon show on BBC Radio One

3. Seeing Patti Smith doing Gloria on BBC2's The Old Grey Whistle Test

4. Seeing Joy Division supporting Swell Maps at a small venue in Liverpool

Kevin

I can't remember, but the first group I really loved was The Faces, the first albums I bought too. So I owe Rod Stewart a lot, bizarrely enough.

-- Ian

Early influences include:

Simon and Garfunkel - Bridge over troubled water
Modern Jazz Quartet - Pyramid & Skating in Central Park
Elton John - Tumble Weed Connection
Talking Heads - 77
Roxy Music - early singles

Still finding new things that take me off in different directions, like a Schubert sampler found in a packing box from nearly 3 years ago found last night.

Jono

Lazy by Deep Purple (from Machine Head).

Like the drumming on 'I know, I'm losing you' by the way!

Purple Haze

SOME of my influencers:-
Buddy Holly/Wishing
The Shadows/Apache & The Savage
Buffy St Marie can't remember any titles
Rolling Stones/Little Red Rooster
Hendrix/Hey Joe & 3rd rock from the Sun
Deep Purple/Child in Time

Howard

'Move It' by Cliff and the Shads
'Right Said Fred' by Bernard Cribbins (I think)
'Please Please Me' by somebody or other

Earliest memories include Ray Charles being played on the folks' old console stereo... a few years later, it was hearing my older brother playing Uriah Heep's "Magician's Birthday" that made me want to buy records.

Ernie (the fastest milkman in the west) by Benny Hill



I'll get my coat

Nigel

Sex Pistols - Nevermind the B******s
Siouxsie & The Banshees - Scream
Xray Spex - Germfree Adolesence


Some may not class this as music..

Chaz

When I was quite young (10-12 yrs) my dad said I wouldn't like it cos it was too heavy!

----Led Zeppelin II----

Still my favourite rock album (24 now). This got me into drumming, hifi and vinyl.

Why don't they make records sound like they did with Led Zeppelins? Houses of the holy is my second favourite Zep album, and to my ears the amazing recording quality reflects the amazing music. Got a mint vinyl copy for £6 too!!!

matt

Elvis "Hound Dog" (45)
Everly Bros. "Claudette" (45)
the Champs "Limbo Rock" (78!!)
the Shadows "Apache"...still my fave guitar sound
the Beatles...altered my very DNA.

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----Led Zeppelin II----

Why don't they make records sound like they did with Led Zeppelins?

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A) It was all-tube, analogue (tape) recording gear back then, and B) the reverbs used were plate reverbs or echo chambers, pre-delayed with a bit of tape; a magical effect unobtainable with pre-programmed digital effects. A lot of studios built to-day don't have room for a dedicated real ambience room like an echo chamber. Thank goodness Abbey Road's kept theirs, so that "new" Beatles product can be properly processed.

Surely the organ and harpsichord recordings of Helmut Walcha.

It was live music of Chopin and Debussy played by my mother on her Grand Bechstein. I spent hours and days playing with my toy soldiers under the piano, and the cascading music finally sank in.
Haim

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My father was a musician (played violin on Rod Stewarts early stuff)

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I'm not worthy, I'm not worthy...

Beatles had just gone big when I was in kindergarten. Me and some lads had a Beatles "group" there, using wooden planks as guitars and a heap of wooden blocks as drum kit, we shouted "She loves you, yeah, yeah, yeah" over and over again. Got me hooked on the pop/rock "thing".

The first favourite song was "Pretty Women" with Roy O. Still on my ten best ever list!

JohanR

A live clip of Springsteen singing Roselita on The Old Grey Whistle Test, New Year's Eve (approx 1979). It really was the beginning for me. From there I went to my local library where I found Bob Dylan's Highway 61 Revisted and the Beatles White Album.

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Originally posted by Steveandkate:
My father was a musician (played violin on Rod Stewarts early stuff)

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Racking my brain for your Dad's name - put me out of my misery please (I'm away from my LPs at the mo)

Cheers

Rich

Dick Powell?

(and fantabulous playing it was, too)

I have early memories of The Beatles as my older brothers played their records and I remember really loving those songs!
My first single was "Fox On The Run" by Manred Mann.
The first piece of music that grabbed me and shook me up and changed my outlook on music was "The Gates Of Delerium" by Yes from their album "Relayer" someone musyt have played it on Radio one and I happened to have a tape recorder set up. I recorded it, starting a couple of minutes into it, I remember thinking it was the most exciting thing I'd ever heard!
I bought "Relayer" the following week and Yes became a favourite. I must have been about 12.
I never really listen to them now!

Computers are supposed to work on 1's and 0's - in other words "Yes" or "No" - why does mine frequently say "Maybe"?......

Blythe

Stick "And You and I" on the system right now - turn up the volume, ignore the lyrics and enjoy.

I bet you will.

Creeping down aged 12 one Saturday night to teenager's party in same house - the big old youngsters were playing the Beatles' singles. 7 years before I could buy them, and 1st stereo ...

Santana 4 did it for me when I was 3 or 4 years old. I also remember being heavily into Samba Pa Ti (Abraxas) when I was a kid. It caused me to learn to play the guitar too.

Dire Straits (Making Movies & Communique (sorry, don't know how to spell that!)) were a big influence, and also Steely Dan (had a thing about Aja and Gaucho). Van Morrison was in there too, by the way - loved Common One.

Now I think it's all shite and I listen to Schubert a lot!

Earwicker

Or was it Santana 3 - the one with a very strange cover, if you're into Santana...!

'I Wanna Rock' by Twisted Sister.

I am not ashamed although I probably should be.