Music from your younger days

missm · Mar 11, 2014

Wooo, it's awesome to see so many Pink Floyd fans! Count me in as one!

I'm only 18, but there are a few artists/bands that were my "soundtrack" ever since I can remember:

Pink Floyd (of course)

Tom Waits

The Beatles

Led Zeppelin

Sting

Deep Purple

Jethro Tull

Queen

The Rolling Stones

Lou Reed (also Velvet Underground)

Leonard Cohen

Bratři Ebenové

Now I have a very wide field of music I regularly listen to, but these always belong in a special place

mani · Mar 11, 2014

Too many to mention! I used to love song lyrics, as long as they were 'meaningful'.

My sister is 10 years older than me and was a 60s activist, so I know just about every Pete Seeger song.

Then probably at least one of each of: Simon and Garfunkel.. then Paul Simon , Dylan, Clapton (a lot of 461 Ocean Boulevard), The Pretenders (Hymn to Her is one of my absolute favourites.) and Stevie Nick's 'Landslide'. And virtually all of Carol King's 'Tapestry'... I got through my final school years on that album.

denice · Mar 11, 2014

cat nap said:
Thanks @Denice , I didn't know "House" was a musician too. I remember him playing the piano on the show and I think also guitar, but didn't know Hugh Laurie , the actor is also a blues musician.

One last question , and then I'll go away.

Is Jazz all that different from Blues?

I think, and I am not a music expert by any means, that Blues is considered a type of jazz. All jazz isn't blues however.

mservant · Mar 12, 2014

@MissM, you reminded me of a wonderful Tom Waites album I used to have on tape but can't remember the title of: it had a track called The Red Shoes I think. Love his gravelly voice!

Patti Smith too, Horse, and Wave I used to play regularly. I went to see her recently though she recites poetry and lyrics mostly these days she is a powerful speaker.

Winchester · Mar 12, 2014

I'm a rocker. A loud rocker. When I met dear Richard (I was 12 when we met), I listened to stuff from Tommy Roe, Herman's Hermits, etc. I had a Dino, Desi, and Billy album.....didn't they have a song called If You're Thinking What I'm Thinking? And then Rick said, "No bubble gum." And I learned to love Deep Purple, Jimi Hendrix (well, I didn't love Hendrix, but he was OK), big Pink Floyd fan, big Santana fan (Abraxas is just awesome), Procol Harum, Grand Funk, James Gang (southern rock?), Allman Brothers, Lynyrd Skynerd, Led Zepplin (Rick's very favorite band...bar none) and so on.

We've been to many rock concerts and have seen some bands 3-4 times. I know we saw Deep Purple 3 times, I've seen Aerosmith now four times. I wouldn't go again as Tyler just isn't worth it anymore, IMO. The last time, he was in really bad shape on stage.

My very favorite album of all time will always be Machine Head by Deep Purple. Smoke on the Water just rocks. It just rocks. That song starts playing and I simply cannot be still....I'm always up moving around. And I can sing along to every song on the album, well, actually on all the Deep Purple albums. I still listen to Fireball.

My favorite group will always be Aerosmith. But I love ACDC....I blew it a couple of years ago when ACDC was in the Poconos and we didn't get tickets. I've kicked myself ever since. They're thinking about another tour and, this time, if they come anywhere close to us, we are going. They do a fantastic concert. And I love the Black Ice album.

The live version of Cheap Trick's Aint that a Shame is outstanding. Does anybody remember Donnie Iris' Love is Like a Rock? I always liked David Bowie, too: Diamond Dogs, Rebel Rebel, Jean Genie, Suffragette City. Count me in on Billy Idol because I loved White Wedding, Rebel Yell, and Fleshful Fantasy. Styx, Judas Priest, Kansas, Uriah Heep, Jethro Tull, Foghat, the Doors, Jefferson Starship/Airplane, all great bands.

The first time we saw Jethro Tull, Ian Anderson was simply great. The second time, he was even better.....while people were milling about before the concert, there was this guy sitting on a park bench up on stage. People kept talking about him, wondering who he was. Well, turns out it was Anderson "sitting on a park bench, eyeing little girls with bad intent". The crowd went crazy. And then he took his cap off....and he had no hair! Anderson's hair was way, way down his back at one time. But he cut it all off. It was an excellent concert. I remember, too, that the drummer wore this outfit that looked like the Noah's Ark bedsheets that our son had when he was a child. Looked exactly like them.

Right now, as you all know, I'm on a Dire Straits kick....yep still on that same kick. Mark goes with me everywhere as a separate Playlist on my iPod. Whether I'm on the elliptical, on the treadmill, out walking over lunch, or just driving in my car, Mark goes with me. I just love What It Is, Why Aye Man, Boom Like That. And with the Straits, I still love their classics....I have a live CD of theirs called On The Night that is great listening....I just wish it had Sultans of Swing. I don't consider Dire Straits rock, though, more of a roots-blues kind of music. I'm not listening to them all of the time, but I still listen often.

We lost so many good albums in the '72 flood. A lot of good music. We replaced much of it with CDs, but many of the album covers were simply gorgeous and they cannot be replaced. It's a shame.

Whenever I'm at home, the music is on. And it's loud. In my car, my iPod is hooked-up. And it's loud. Rick says that there are times when he can tell what kind of mood I'm in by listening to the music I play.

mani · Mar 12, 2014

MServant said:
@MissM, you reminded me of a wonderful Tom Waites album I used to have on tape but can't remember the title of: it had a track called The Red Shoes I think. Love his gravelly voice!

Patti Smith too, Horse, and Wave I used to play regularly. I went to see her recently though she recites poetry and lyrics mostly these days she is a powerful speaker.

Oh yes.. the original Tom Waites "Heart of Saturday Night" album... musical poetry!

oneandahalfcats · Mar 12, 2014

Circa 1960 here .. I've always loved music as well. What a dull world it would be without it.

My interests run to the eclectic. There's very little I don't like except for maybe some of the head-banging heavy metal

Gettin too old to rock that hard!

@catspaw66 : I agree re. SRV. One of my favorite blues artists. Gone way too soon!

@Winchester : I think we could be related!

Here's my list of some favs through the years :

Beatles (of course)

Rolling Stones (Some Girls, Sticky Fingers)

Jim Hendrix

Doors

Santana (Abraxis)

Stevie Wonder

Van Morrison (Brown Eyed Girl, Stoned Me)

BB King (Thrill is Gone)

Pat Metheny

Muddy Waters

Neil Young (Comes a Time, Crazy Horse)

Chicago (You are the love of my life)

Lionel Ritchie / Commodores

Michael Jackson

Pink Floyd (Dark Side of the Moon)

David Bowie (Ziggy Stardust, Hunky Dory, Aladdin Sane)

Deep Purple

Uriah Heep

Yes (Fragile)

Jethro Tull (Thick as a Brick)

Miles Davis (Kind of Blue)

Stevie Ray Vaughan

Keith Jarrett

almost anything classical (chopin, brahms, bach, shostakovich)

Simply Red

AbbysMom · Mar 12, 2014

peaches08 said:
AbbysMom said:

Today I listened to the Synchronicity album by The Police while I was walking. Some days I can barely remember what I had for breakfast, but 30 years later I still remember every word to that album.

Do you have an album from when you were younger that you remember every word to?

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I am SUCH an 80's child! I really loved music, so there are a lot of songs I remember the words to from years ago. I also relate music to people, what I was doing when I first heard the song, etc.

The 80's is my music! :lol3: I love it all.

catspaw66 · Mar 12, 2014

cat nap said:
I think that is "exactly" what Eric Clapton said in an interview.

lol

Really? I never heard that interview. That statement came from my heart.

AbbysMom · Mar 12, 2014

kookycats said:
Here I go dating myself -- but it would have to be Elvis! Here's a secret: My friend and I met Elvis when he appeared in NY. He leaned over a gve me a tiny kiss on the lips. I was around 15 years old then --- and I haven't washed my face since!!!

That's really cool! :clap:

AbbysMom · Mar 12, 2014

You are all bringing back some really good music memories here. :clap:

catspaw66 · Mar 12, 2014

MServant said:
@MissM, you reminded me of a wonderful Tom Waites album I used to have on tape but can't remember the title of: it had a track called The Red Shoes I think. Love his gravelly voice!

Patti Smith too, Horse, and Wave I used to play regularly. I went to see her recently though she recites poetry and lyrics mostly these days she is a powerful speaker.

The album is Blue Valentine, and the song is Red Shoes by the Drugstore. It is from 1978. I have 28 Tom Waits albums in MP3 format.

Winchester · Mar 12, 2014

oneandahalfcats said:
Circa 1960 here .. I've always loved music as well. What a dull world it would be without it.

My interests run to the eclectic. There's very little I don't like except for maybe some of the head-banging heavy metal

Gettin too old to rock that hard!

@catspaw66 : I agree re. SRV. One of my favorite blues artists. Gone way too soon!

@Winchester : I think we could be related!

Here's my list of some favs through the years :

Beatles (of course)

Rolling Stones (Some Girls, Sticky Fingers)

Jim Hendrix

Doors

Santana (Abraxis)

Stevie Wonder

Van Morrison (Brown Eyed Girl, Stoned Me)

BB King (Thrill is Gone)

Pat Metheny

Muddy Waters

Neil Young (Comes a Time, Crazy Horse)

Chicago (You are the love of my life)

Lionel Ritchie / Commodores

Michael Jackson

Pink Floyd (Dark Side of the Moon)

David Bowie (Ziggy Stardust, Hunky Dory, Aladdin Sane)

Deep Purple

Uriah Heep

Yes (Fragile)

Jethro Tull (Thick as a Brick)

Miles Davis (Kind of Blue)

Stevie Ray Vaughan

Keith Jarrett

almost anything classical (chopin, brahms, bach, shostakovich)

Simply Red

I love Stevie Ray Vaughan! Taxman is a great song.

Yeah, we might be related somewhere!

Rick was a Beatles fan; me not so much. Although I remember one night at dinner, I kept saying that I really wished I could hear I Want to Hold Your Hand on the radio and finally the song came on. Dad laughed at me because my face got red when it finally came on. I was 13 at the time, I think.

Does anybody remember Several Species of Small Furry Animals Gathered Together in a Cave and Grooving with a Pict by Pink Floyd? The first time I ever listened to that song, I was a bit.......um, well not inebriated, but something else. Is that a good way to put it? And, at the time, I thought it was the amazing song I'd ever heard in my life.

There was another song I heard around the same time called The Autobahn by Kraftwerk, I believe it was. It was cars (music) speeding down the Autobahn with music and the group was singing "Fun, fun, fun on the Autobahn". And that was pretty much it; that's pretty much all I remember. But what was hysterical (although you had to be there, I guess) was when we would give people headphones and have them listen to the song through the phones. Every single time, it sounded like a car was driving in one ear and out the other. And everybody would turn their heads to "see" the car. I don't even remember where we found that album anymore; I don't know if we still have it.

I loved Carole King's Tapestry album. Traffic with John Barleycorn Must Die. And I liked the Doobie Brothers, too, although not so much when Michael McDonald was with them. We saw them in concert when Patrick Simmons was their lead singer and they were really good.

I'd say I'm pretty much a child of the 70s. I was 15 in 1970, so that's the music that I loved.

No rap here. And certainly no country.

Just as an aside, our son did listen to some rap. And I always said that I would never stop him from listening to any music. But then I came home from work one afternoon and he was listening to Two Live Crew. I listened to it for quite a while as I was working on dinner (around our house, the music has always been loud.....everybody hears it). And then I went back to his bedroom and knocked on his door. Walked in and said, "I'm sorry, I never thought I would ever say this to you. But you cannot listen to that music in this house. Ever. Please take it out to your car. Now." He knew I was completely serious and he didn't even try to change my mind. He just said, "Ok, Mom." And that was that.

mservant · Mar 12, 2014

@Winchester, I heard Autobahn and went straight out and bought that album! Not one I've replaced with CD but I loved it at the time. Model was the other track I used to listen to a lot. Funny how stereo effects were such a big thing at that time - Oxygene did the same thing and everyone was obsessed with it.

Of early eras in my memory:

Jefferson Airplane were pretty amazing, Grace Slick had one of those voices I couldn't get out of my head, and in true form I went straight for tracks like White Rabbit along with Somebody to Love.

Fairport Convention were another band I loved and a couple of folk tracks I still love are Matty Groves and Crazy Man Michael.

Slightly later and I got in to U2, and their first album 'Boy' will always be my favourite. Simple but some lovely lyrics.

Also massive fan of reggae and 2 Tone, all starting with Desmond Dekker's Israelites....

kookycats · Mar 12, 2014

cat nap said:
@kookycats
, WOW! I think I would have fainted....lol. You had seats that were that close or else you rushed up to the stage?? ( Did you remember any of the concert after that?) he...he...
I think you were probably on top of the world. Dreamy....lol:9:

We met Elvis at the stage door of a TV,show he was on. But the "famous kiss" was in the lobby of the Warwick Hotel where he and his group were staying. (Note: I said "lobby". --- those were the old and innocent days). My friend Silvia and I were hanging out in the lobby waiting for Elvis and the group . I still hear from my old friend Silvia and we reminisce about those old days -- where we met Elvis, The Everly Bros., Frankie Avalon and Fabian, Pat Boone, Jerry Lee Lewis. We really have such wonderful memories of those days.

Winchester · Mar 12, 2014

MServant said:
@Winchester, I heard Autobahn and went straight out and bought that album! Not one I've replaced with CD but I loved it at the time. Model was the other track I used to listen to a lot. Funny how stereo effects were such a big thing at that time - Oxygene did the same thing and everyone was obsessed with it.

Of early eras in my memory:

Jefferson Airplane were pretty amazing, Grace Slick had one of those voices I couldn't get out of my head, and in true form I went straight for tracks like White Rabbit along with Somebody to Love.

Fairport Convention were another band I loved and a couple of folk tracks I still love are Matty Groves and Crazy Man Michael.

Slightly later and I got in to U2, and their first album 'Boy' will always be my favourite. Simple but some lovely lyrics.

Also massive fan of reggae and 2 Tone, all starting with Desmond Dekker's Israelites....

I have both White Rabbit and Somebody to Love on my iPod. Grace Slick did have a very strong, sensual voice.

So does Ann Wilson from Heart.

My son got me into U2. Thanks to him, I am also a big fan of Kenny Wayne Shepherd. Can that man ever sing!

I am an Alex O'Laughlin fan from Hawaii 5-O. But prior to that he was Mick St.John on Moonlight. There's a YouTube video of him to I Just Want to Make Love to You by Etta James. That woman could belt out some serious blues. I bought her At Last CD and then bought Make Love to You as a single from Amazon.

Anybody a Styx fan? How about the Scorpions? Creedence Clearwater? I have all of their songs on my iPod. Love walking to Suzie Q. Did anybody listen to The Outlaws' Ghost Riders in the Sky? I had one of their CDs playing this morning for a while.

Sorry I get to talking about music and I get carried away.

oneandahalfcats · Mar 12, 2014

Winchester said:
I love Stevie Ray Vaughan! Taxman is a great song.

Yeah, we might be related somewhere!

Rick was a Beatles fan; me not so much. Although I remember one night at dinner, I kept saying that I really wished I could hear I Want to Hold Your Hand on the radio and finally the song came on. Dad laughed at me because my face got red when it finally came on. I was 13 at the time, I think.

Does anybody remember Several Species of Small Furry Animals Gathered Together in a Cave and Grooving with a Pict by Pink Floyd? The first time I ever listened to that song, I was a bit.......um, well not inebriated, but something else. Is that a good way to put it? And, at the time, I thought it was the amazing song I'd ever heard in my life.

There was another song I heard around the same time called The Autobahn by Kraftwerk, I believe it was. It was cars (music) speeding down the Autobahn with music and the group was singing "Fun, fun, fun on the Autobahn". And that was pretty much it; that's pretty much all I remember. But what was hysterical (although you had to be there, I guess) was when we would give people headphones and have them listen to the song through the phones. Every single time, it sounded like a car was driving in one ear and out the other. And everybody would turn their heads to "see" the car. I don't even remember where we found that album anymore; I don't know if we still have it.

I loved Carole King's Tapestry album. Traffic with John Barleycorn Must Die. And I liked the Doobie Brothers, too, although not so much when Michael McDonald was with them. We saw them in concert when Patrick Simmons was their lead singer and they were really good.

I'd say I'm pretty much a child of the 70s. I was 15 in 1970, so that's the music that I loved.

No rap here. And certainly no country.

Just as an aside, our son did listen to some rap. And I always said that I would never stop him from listening to any music. But then I came home from work one afternoon and he was listening to Two Live Crew. I listened to it for quite a while as I was working on dinner (around our house, the music has always been loud.....everybody hears it). And then I went back to his bedroom and knocked on his door. Walked in and said, "I'm sorry, I never thought I would ever say this to you. But you cannot listen to that music in this house. Ever. Please take it out to your car. Now." He knew I was completely serious and he didn't even try to change my mind. He just said, "Ok, Mom." And that was that.

Yes, I think I would have definitely made the same call ..

I was never a big techno fan so would probably not have noticed Autobahn .. liked some of Carole King's stuff. James Taylor, Carly Simon. .. Doobie Brothers, for sure. Seals and Croft

I admit to liking some rap, like Heavy D before he went back to his roots (reggae) and some of the lesser knowns of the 80s. Heavy D is older, respectable rap. If you ever get the chance, look up his greatest hits in a compilation CD. Now that we've found love, what are we going to do with it .. An old Bob Marley song that he did. Great dancing music.

In your last post re. Scorpions. Really like Rock you like a Hurricane, Wind of Change ..

Forgot to add The Eagles to my list .. Saw them live at a racetrack here in Ontario .. Many moons ago

Foreigner, INXS

catspaw66 · Mar 12, 2014

Originally Posted by Winchester

Did anybody listen to The Outlaws' Ghost Riders in the Sky? I had one of their CDs playing this morning for a while.

I have a recording of Dick Dale and the Deltones (the original writer and his group) doing that song.

mservant · Mar 12, 2014

Oh I love this, reminding me of so many great bands and great voices, and tempting me to listen and find out some more that I haven't heard of too.

Like Kenny Wayne Shepherd and Alex O'Loughlin.

@kookycats, you did some serious hanging out a few years ago!

(Anyone else fancy evesdropping on some of kookycat and Sylvia's little chats?!

)

Winchester · Mar 12, 2014

Ohhh, we saw the Eagles! Back when they were just getting famous. I think they had just brought out their third (second?) album, On the Border, when we saw them. OMG, they were outstanding, even back then. I loved Desperado. I loved all their songs. Great for when I was feeling very mellow.

MServant, O'Loughlin is not a singer. He is an actor. But I was looking for a video of him and found that one on YouTube. The video was the song by Etta James and I fell in love with her voice and that song right away. She was an wonderful singer.

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