LP sampler influences whilst young.

Posted by: Steve J on 07 November 2012

As I am listening to a Steamhammer LP I realised that I went to it after playing Santana, another CBS LP. I then thought of a sampler I bought as a teenager called 'Fill Your Head With Rock'. Looking at the LP I realised that I have most of the LP's featured. I didn't consciously buy them but I did play the sampler album to death and obviously it had an effect.

Another sampler that I bought that heavily influenced me was Blue Horizon 'How Blue Can We Get'. Again I bought this when young and in the late '80s I decided to collect the whole BH LP collection which I achieved around 1996.

There were many other sampler albums but I don't think any of the others had as much influence on me as these two.

What were your experiences?

ATB

Steve

Posted on: 07 November 2012 by BigH47

I too have Fill Your Head,that and these were special "friends":-

I have many other samplers, as these seemed an easy way of finding out what I liked.

Posted on: 07 November 2012 by Quad 33

Both these LPs cost me 12s/ 6d, Had to walk home from Sheffield after I had bought the 'Rock Machine Turns You On' album spent the bus fare.

Graham.

Posted on: 07 November 2012 by fatcat

Originally Posted by Steve J:

What were your experiences?

ATB

Steve

I bought a copy of this a couple of months ago, but haven't listened to it yet. The artist/songs look interesting, not the usual rock compilation containing smoke on the water, freebird and walk on the wildside etc.

Posted on: 07 November 2012 by Cbr600

Originally Posted by Quad 33:

Both these LPs cost me 12s/ 6d, Had to walk home from Sheffield after I had bought the 'Rock Machine Turns You On' album spent the bus fare.

Graham.

Walk home to where?

Rotherham? Doncaster? Leeds?

Was it a long walk and more importantly was it worth it?

Posted on: 08 November 2012 by Gale 401

Steve,

I have the fill your head with rock album.

I think i might even have a Vol 2 copy of it.

I didn't own it when it came out though.

This was my most played sampler album when it came out.

I bought every album from the artists and bands on it.

Stu.

Posted on: 08 November 2012 by Steve J

Stu,

That Island sampler was a good one.

One sampler I'd wish I came across earlier is this one:

Most of the albums featured on this one are worth a fortune now.

Steve

Posted on: 08 November 2012 by Quad 33

Originally Posted by Cbr600:

Originally Posted by Quad 33:

Both these LPs cost me 12s/ 6d, Had to walk home from Sheffield after I had bought the 'Rock Machine Turns You On' album spent the bus fare.

Graham.

Walk home to where?

Rotherham? Doncaster? Leeds?

Was it a long walk and more importantly was it worth it?

Hi Cbr600:

I walked to Rotherham. I was seventeen and it yes did feel like a along walk at the time 12 miles + but defiantly worth it, have you see the bands on the RMTUO album I am still playing most of them to this day. My first job was with the Sheffield Telegraph & Star newspaper ‘dark room junior’. I got paid weekly real money in a brown paper envelope loved it. I was still living at home and all my money went on records usually in Bradleys’ record shop on Fargate, and going to the King Mojo Club, Peter Stringfellows first well known club outside Sheffield. Saw Jimi Hendrix one Sunday afternoon but missed the Beatles to young by about 18 months, mother would not let me go!!

Regards Graham.

Posted on: 08 November 2012 by FangfossFlyer

Fantastic stuff from 1969....ah i remember it well (well some of it!)

Side One

"A Song For Jeffrey" (Anderson) – Jethro Tull – (Alternative mix, original version from This Was) (ILPS 9085)
"Sunshine Help Me" (Wright) – Spooky Tooth – (from It’s All About Spooky Tooth) (ILPS 9080)
"I’m a Mover" (Rodgers/Fraser) – Free – (from Tons of Sobs) (ILPS 9089)
"What’s That Sound"^[4] (Stills) – Art – (from Supernatural Fairy Tales) (ILP 967)
"Pearly Queen" (Winwood/Capaldi) – Tramline – (from Moves of Vegetable Centuries) (ILPS 9095)
"You Can All Join In" (Mason) – Traffic – (from Traffic) (ILPS 9081T)

[edit] Side Two

"Meet on the Ledge" (Thompson) – Fairport Convention – (from What We Did on Our Holidays) (ILPS 9092)
"Rainbow Chaser" (Spyropoulos/Campbell-Lyons) – Nirvana – (from All of Us) (ILPS 9087)
"Dusty" – (Martyn) - John Martyn – (from The Tumbler) (ILPS 9091)
"I’ll Go Girl" (Ritchie/Ellis/Hughes) – Clouds – (from Scrapbook) (ILPS 9100)
"Somebody Help Me" (Jackie Edwards) – Spencer Davis Group – (from The Best of the Spencer Davis Group) (ILPS 9070)
"Gasoline Alley" (Weaver) – Wynder K. Frog – (from Out of the Frying Pan) (ILPS 9082)

[edit] The album cover

Designed by Hipgnosis and although not as imaginative as some of their later work, the front cover photograph was taken in Hyde Park and is said to feature "every single one of the Island artistes ... bleary eyed after a party."^[5] The rear cover consists merely of a track listing and monochrome images of the covers of eight of the sampled albums (Tracks 1.1, 1.2, 1.4, 1.6, 2.1, 2.2, 2.3 & 2.6).