paul secor Posted October 22, 2013 Author Report Share Posted October 22, 2013 Albums that rocked my world include Nichols & May Examine Doctors, the first Moms Mabley releases that got played on WLAC, and Beyond The Fringe with Peter Cook & Dudley Moore.Songs that woke up my ears, at various young ages, include Spike Jones / William Tell Overture Joe Turner / Shake Rattle & Roll Coasters / Searching Jimmy Reed / The Sun Is Shining Ray Charles / Rock & Roll (album) Johnny Cash / Big River Bartok: Concerto for Orchestra (on an LP with Cantata Profana) Santo & Johnny / Sleep Walk (don't remember the singer) / Here I Am I'm Drunk Again Bayreuth 1936 (album of Wagner arias; Hitler was allegedly there that year) and the first rock-&-roll record I can remember hearing on the radio. It was by a male quartet and the first five lines were Booly otten boo, baby, booly otten boo Booly otten boo, baby, booly otten boo Booly otten boo, baby, booly otten boo Booly otten boo, baby Huh? The next strain was the same. Anybody know the singers or the name of the song? It was ca. 1953 or 54 Maybe Webb Pierce on Here I Am Drunk Again? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SMB1968 Posted October 23, 2013 Report Share Posted October 23, 2013 I was never the same after this one. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
David Ayers Posted October 23, 2013 Report Share Posted October 23, 2013 Good idea for a thread, not sure how I fit in. For me it was certain chart things that really got me into music. As the thread is about albums, I can say the first album artist I followed was David Bowie, then after that a move to non-chart with King Crimson. Once you are hearing KC you are already hearing British free improv, so when a few years later I first accidentally bought an Ornette Coleman record (James Blood Ulmer, Tales of Captain Black, in fact) then I was hooked on him, followed by Coltrane, Dolphy, Shepp, Ayler, Taylor, and other things I read about in The Freedom Principle, including those (over here) bastard-arse hard to find Nessa albums (ah but when you stumble across Saga of the Outlaws in the second-hand rack...). So my jazz obsessions were quite a few tracks/albums of Ornette (Atlantics, Golden Circle, some bootlegs) and JC (all the Impulses!), with Far Cry, Fire Music as major obsessions, and a big impact from my earliest Ayler and CT albums, Witches and Devils and Dark to Themselves. I guess I should add EP's Saxophone Solos as another favorite and big step into the abstract. After that the earth has never moved. After 20+ years of following classical and attending many performances, I'm still just getting used to it. Too grown-up to get over-enthusiastic I guess, which is a pity. But, you know, lots of favorite 'pop' songs and even some albums which do more for me than most of the other stuff I actually listen to... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John L Posted October 23, 2013 Report Share Posted October 23, 2013 Sam Cooke: Bring it On Home to Me Robert Nighthawk: The Moon is Rising Muddy Waters: Too Young to Know Bob Dylan: Just Like a Woman Jimmy Rogers: That's Alright Aretha Franklin: Angel Van Morrison: Tupelo Honey Johnnie Taylor: We're Getting Careless With Our Love Rolling Stones: Gimme Shelter Jimi Hendrix: Voodoo Chile to name a few Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Magnificent Goldberg Posted October 23, 2013 Report Share Posted October 23, 2013 I posted a few non-jazz things on the jazz thread, so I'll list them here In 1959 The Drifters - There goes my baby - Atlantic (London) Ray Charles - What'd I say - Atlantic in 1991 Youssou N'dour - Immigres - Saprom Sidiki Diabate, Batourou Sekou Kouyate & co - Cordes anciennes - Barenreiter Musicaphon To supplement those, some that were almost as important in different ways: In 1956 Fats Domino - I'm in love again - Imperial The first Rock & Roll I ever heard. I've always thought it was significant that I heard Fats before Elvis. I bought most of his late fifties and early sixties singles (and several LPs) and now have the 5 CD set of his complete Imperial singles. 1961 Phil Upchurch - You can't sit down pts 1 & 2 - Boyd Ray Charles - One mint julep - Impulse These 2 singles were my introduction to the jazz organ. Nuff sed. 1964 Alvin Robinson - Something you got - Tiger James Brown - Out of sight - Smash As important as the Drifters and Ray Charles singles had been to me in '59 - signals of something new in the air. 1967 Ambrose Campbell - Highlife today - Lansdowne Columbia UK First album of African music I bought. I liked it a lot but after several months, I could tell I wasn't really getting it. So I ditched it. But it started me reading West African history and that enabled me, when the time came, to get other things. 1968 Debussy/Boulez/Pierre Louys; Chansons de Bilitis - Vera Zorina (who was Goddard Lieberson's missus) - Columbia My introduction to French chamber music. I went to the UK first performance of this work, with the recitation by Ms Zorina, accompanied by half a dozen beauties from Sussex University who danced around in what greatly resembled baby doll nighties. I've never sold this LP, which I'd bought a few days before in the WHSmith sale. (The B side is 'Herodiade' by Hindemith/Mallarme.) 1975 Fela Kuti - Gentleman - EMI Nigeria I walked into Spillers one day and side 1 of this was playing in the shop. When it got onto side 2, the lady at whose behest it was being played didn't want it (!!!!) so I said, 'I'll have it!!!" MG Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alankin Posted October 24, 2013 Report Share Posted October 24, 2013 Here are some of mine: Steely Dan - Pretzel Logic (w/ Duke's "East St. Louis Toodle-Oo") The Band - Rock of Ages Bob Dylan - Blood on the Tracks & Desire Allman Brothers Band - Live at the Fillmore East Rolling Stones - Let it Bleed Fairport Convention - Liege & Lief Steeleye Span - Please to See the King Tangerine Dream - Phaedra Soft Machine - Third Soft Machine - Triple Echo Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sundog Posted November 11, 2014 Report Share Posted November 11, 2014 Not sure how I stumbled on this thread but it's a good one! My rock oriented list below. Elvis Costello- Watching The Detectives Squeeze- Pulling Mussels (From The Shell) Pretenders- Mystery Achievement Rolling Stones- Respectable Talking Heads- Life During Wartime David Bowie- Stay The Clash- Know Your Rights Paul McCartney- Jet The Kinks- Victoria Bob Dylan- Idiot Wind Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
danasgoodstuff Posted November 11, 2014 Report Share Posted November 11, 2014 Albums that rocked my world include Nichols & May Examine Doctors, the first Moms Mabley releases that got played on WLAC, and Beyond The Fringe with Peter Cook & Dudley Moore.Songs that woke up my ears, at various young ages, include Spike Jones / William Tell Overture Joe Turner / Shake Rattle & Roll Coasters / Searching Jimmy Reed / The Sun Is Shining Ray Charles / Rock & Roll (album) Johnny Cash / Big River Bartok: Concerto for Orchestra (on an LP with Cantata Profana) Santo & Johnny / Sleep Walk (don't remember the singer) / Here I Am I'm Drunk Again Bayreuth 1936 (album of Wagner arias; Hitler was allegedly there that year) and the first rock-&-roll record I can remember hearing on the radio. It was by a male quartet and the first five lines were Booly otten boo, baby, booly otten boo Booly otten boo, baby, booly otten boo Booly otten boo, baby, booly otten boo Booly otten boo, baby Huh? The next strain was the same. Anybody know the singers or the name of the song? It was ca. 1953 or 54 Could it have been the Clovers? time period is right and sounds like something they might've done...they di do"Boo diddy boo dah do day" Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chuck Nessa Posted November 11, 2014 Report Share Posted November 11, 2014 Blue by Mostly Other People Do the Killing. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jazzbo Posted November 11, 2014 Report Share Posted November 11, 2014 I'd say Band of Gypsys is the one that most rocked my world and "changed my way of thinking." Then there's Jobim's "Stone Flower." Just keeps opening up its beauty to me. Finally there's Sade's "Promise." Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hardbopjazz Posted November 11, 2014 Report Share Posted November 11, 2014 Can't You see - Marshall Tucker Band. Just about everything by Jimi Hendrix. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
paul secor Posted November 11, 2014 Author Report Share Posted November 11, 2014 I am getting old. I saw this thread this morning and was going to respond to it. Then I saw that I started it a year ago. Have absolutely no memory of doing so. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
His Boy Elroy Posted November 11, 2014 Report Share Posted November 11, 2014 (edited) I was a late bloomer, music-listening wise. My parents weren’t really into it and had a small, mostly-uncool collection. I grew up listening to radio, but it was all mainstream stuff where I lived. Over time, I gravitated to classic rock. In the ‘80’s, I was exposed to a bit more here and there – some college radio type stuff, some punk, reggae, but I was always flat broke and didn’t really have money for records. I didn’t really start opening up, musically, until the late ‘80’s, early ‘90’s, and even then it took a few years to get done with schooling and finally get myself into a spot where I could start buying music in earnest. Still, there were some along the way that sort of stand out in my memory . . . “Hey Jude” and Abbey Road by the Beatles. My brother and I rubbed some coins together in the late ‘70’s and bought these on 8-track to play on my father’s stereo. ‘My first intro to late Beatles, which led me to a ton of other ‘60’s and ‘70’s rock bands. “The Ramones,” “Rocket to Russia” and “Rock-N-Roll High School.” My intro to punk music . . . still a bit of a guilty pleasure . . . but perhaps moreso, in its influence on a lot of post-punk indie music that came after, which I eventually got around to. “The Violent Femmes” – Debut. This one rocked my world when I first heard it. It’s pretty adolescent in a lot of ways, but had a certain stripped-down, low-fi rawness that still appeals to me. I’ve always tended to lean toward organic-sounding rock. “The Free Wheeling Bob Dylan” – really opened me up to pre-electric folk music. Neil Young may have laid the groundwork. “Life’s Rich Pageant” by R.E.M. Early R.E.M. really influenced my listening back in the ‘80’s, nudging me out of purely classic rock and into some more indie-type sounding stuff. “Skylarking” by XTC – this one took it a step further . . . “Love of the Land” by Irish-born Robbie O’Connell. My brother, who was working at a record store in the mid-late ‘80’s, made me a tape of this one, which began a long interest in celtic music – which eventually expanded to include other European folk music, and possibly even led me to bluegrass. “Taj Mahal” – Taj Mahal. I didn’t stumble across this one until later, but it really opened me up to electric blues, and remains one of my favorite blues albums of all-time. “In The Aeoroplane Over The Sea” – Neutral Milk Hotel. This one is only 15 years old or so, but I probably wouldn’t own half of what remains of my rock collection if I hadn’t encountered this one. It really got me interested in modern indie rock again, after I’d been heading in other directions for a while. Anyway, a few off the top of my head . . . I’m sure there were many others. 'not the coolest list of all-time, lol, but they eventually got me into some pretty interesting stuff, I think . . . Edited November 11, 2014 by His Boy Elroy Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Magnificent Goldberg Posted November 11, 2014 Report Share Posted November 11, 2014 Well - my world, I find, is still being rocked. Earlier this year, by this first encounter with hot Meringue Felix Del Rosario - Felix Llego - Borinquen. When I saw the sleeve, I couldn't resist... Felix died a couple of years ago. He was lauded in the Dominican Republic as a hero of Meringue. MG Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Brownian Motion Posted November 12, 2014 Report Share Posted November 12, 2014 The David Grisman Quintet Quintet '80 Tony Trischka--Bluegrass Light, Heartlands Mark O'Connor--Markology, Bill Keith--Something Auld, Something Newgrass, Something Borrowed, Something Bluegrass Bela Fleck--Crossing the Tracks, Drive Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
colinmce Posted November 12, 2014 Report Share Posted November 12, 2014 In chronological order, roughly spanning ages 10-23 (I actually came to jazz at that point feeling like rock, etc. had shown me everything it had to offer. I still feel this way): Bob Dylan - Highway 61 Revisted The Byrds - Greatest Hits The Modern Lovers - s/t Television - Marquee Moon The Velvet Underground - Velvet Underground The Band - Music From Big Pink Modest Mouse - The Lonesome Crowded West Yo La Tengo - I Can Hear the Heart Beating As One Pavement - Slanted & Enchanted Sleater-Kinney - Dig Me Out Fugazi - End Hits Grand Ulena - Gateway To Dignity Cocteau Twins - Heaven or Las Vegas Loudin Wainwright III - Album II Joni Mitchell - Blue Nick Cave - The Boatman's Call A very particular distinction being made here. I would say that these are the albums that opened my ears up to new avenues of or new limits to personal expression. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JSngry Posted November 13, 2014 Report Share Posted November 13, 2014 Too soon to tell for sure, but I'm starting to feel that too-familiar, "uh-oh, you should have left this one alone, you don't have enough time left in this or any other life to deal with all this" about Morton Feldman's Crippled Symmetry by California EAR Unit on Bridge. Not my first Feldman, but the first one I've not been able to listen to a few times, say, ok, I got it, and then move on. This one, it's easy to hear what's there, except that it's easier to come back and hear it again and realize that, yes, that's all there, but so is THIS, and then, there you go. No doubt true of so much Feldman (and of so much music in general), but this is the one that's getting its fangs increasingly buried. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jim R Posted November 13, 2014 Report Share Posted November 13, 2014 Plenty of rock and pop came before these, but here are some that stand out since I was in college (1975 onward) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jim R Posted November 13, 2014 Report Share Posted November 13, 2014 (edited) Edited November 13, 2014 by Jim R Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
soulpope Posted November 13, 2014 Report Share Posted November 13, 2014 (edited) and the door to African Music was smashed wide open via Edited November 13, 2014 by soulpope Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scott Dolan Posted November 13, 2014 Report Share Posted November 13, 2014 Wish You Were Here - Pink Floyd Appetite For Destruction - Guns N Roses New Moonshine - James Taylor Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shawn Posted November 14, 2014 Report Share Posted November 14, 2014 I would have to post several thousand albums to answer this question. At one point I ended up with a list of over 100 albums that were released in the year 1970 that I consider essential, can't imagine how long that list would be if I opened it up to all years. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Homefromtheforest Posted November 14, 2014 Report Share Posted November 14, 2014 In chronological order, roughly spanning ages 10-23 (I actually came to jazz at that point feeling like rock, etc. had shown me everything it had to offer. I still feel this way): Bob Dylan - Highway 61 Revisted The Byrds - Greatest Hits The Modern Lovers - s/t Television - Marquee Moon The Velvet Underground - Velvet Underground The Band - Music From Big Pink Modest Mouse - The Lonesome Crowded West Yo La Tengo - I Can Hear the Heart Beating As One Pavement - Slanted & Enchanted Sleater-Kinney - Dig Me Out Fugazi - End Hits Grand Ulena - Gateway To Dignity Cocteau Twins - Heaven or Las Vegas Loudin Wainwright III - Album II Joni Mitchell - Blue Nick Cave - The Boatman's Call A very particular distinction being made here. I would say that these are the albums that opened my ears up to new avenues of or new limits to personal expression. Some interesting choices. Fugazi was my first punk rock concert...it was the "repeater" tour and it was held in some basement with a back alley entrance...probably no more then 100-200 people and the cops tried to shut it down halfway through. Ian and Guy talked to the cops for a bit and the show went on...it was very punk rock haha. Also have fond memories of seeing Pavement on the "slanted" tour...their drummer Gary was outside the venue chatting with fans..he was a character for sure! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ligeti Posted November 14, 2014 Report Share Posted November 14, 2014 Blimey, it's easier to mention artists than specific albums. Elvis Costello - I have most of what he's done (didn't like the last one, but it seems relatively popular). Alice Cooper - Everything up to From the Inside. Richard Thompson - Everything. Television/Tom Verlaine - Everything. Talking Heads/David Bryrne - Everything. Graham Parker - I've lost touch with him for a bit, but I have everything up to Don't Tell Columbus. Kate Bush - Everything up to Red Shoes. Black Sabbath - The Ozzy era. David Bowie - Everything. Individual albums.... Ten off the top of my head: Graham Parker - Mona Lisa's Sister Elvis Costello - North David Bowie - Low/Heroes. Steve Reich - Music for 18 Musicians (Nonesuch). Charlemaine Palestine - Strumming Music. Ultravox - Systems of Romance. The Vibrators - Pure Mania. Bill Nelson's Red Noise - Sound on Sound. Bob Dylan - Infidels. Jethro Tull - Songs from the Wood. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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