paul secor Posted October 22, 2013 Report Posted October 22, 2013 The Topic Title speaks for itself. Here are mine: Fat Domino: "Blueberry Hill" Chuck Berry: "Johnny B. Goode" The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan Ray Charles Story Vols. 1&2 Robert Johnson: King of the Delta Blues Singers The Best of Muddy Waters Hank Williams - a Best Of compilation Mississippi John Hurt: Today! Son House singing "Death Letter Blues" on the Newport Folk Festival 1965 compilation Jimmy Yancey: Chicago Piano Volume 1 Swan Silvertones: Love Lifted Me Bach: Cello Suites Mozart: Clarinet Concerto Jascha Hornstein conducting Mahler's Das Lied von der Erde Artur Schnabel playing Beethoven's Piano Sonatas and a few more to make it an even twenty: The Best of Little Walter Reverend Robert Wilkins (Piedmont) Elmore James on an old Kent album Bobby "Blue" Bland" "Stormy Monday" Otis Rush: "All Your Love (I Miss Loving)" I hope others will add their choices. Quote
Rooster_Ties Posted October 22, 2013 Report Posted October 22, 2013 Happenings 10 Years Time Ago The Yardbirds Quote
GA Russell Posted October 22, 2013 Report Posted October 22, 2013 Manfred Mann - My Little Red Book of Winners Meet The Beatles Quote
JSngry Posted October 22, 2013 Report Posted October 22, 2013 on late-nite AM radio out of New Orleans, or Mexico, or someplace, I don't remember. but yeah - that. Quote
GA Russell Posted October 22, 2013 Report Posted October 22, 2013 Jim, did you listen to Lew Kirby on WNOE? Quote
JSngry Posted October 22, 2013 Report Posted October 22, 2013 It was somebody, yeah! Don't remember names at this point...but if he was on between 8 PM & 1-2 AM between 1968 and 1971 or so, I probably did. Top 40 back in the day...after dark, you could pick up stuiff from all over, and the playlists were still somewhat regional, so...it was a good time just going up and down the dial all night long. Quote
jeffcrom Posted October 22, 2013 Report Posted October 22, 2013 (edited) Great thread! Here's 20 from me - songs and albums, in no particular order: The Klezmatics - Rhythm & Jews Defunkt - Thermonuclear Sweat The Allman Brothers Band - Eat a Peach R.L. Burnside - Too Bad Jim Robert Johnson - King of the Delta Blues Singers Fela - Zombie Rascher Saxophone Quartet - Music for Saxophones Joni Mitchell - "Furry Sings the Blues" and "Tea Leaf Prophecy" Randy Newman - Land of Dreams and "Shame" The Radiators - Wild and Free James Booker - Resurrection of the Bayou Maharajah O.V. Wright - The Soul of O.V. Wright Professor Longhair - New Orleans Piano Jimi Hendrix - Band of GypsysSounds of the South (Alan Lomax field recordings - Fred McDowell, Hobart Smith, Vera Hall, Wade Ward, Mississippi fife and drum music & more) Alan Lomax's 1947-48 Parchman Prison songs; I've had various issues over the years. James Brown - "Cold Sweat" Blind Willie Johnson - Complete Recordings Al Green - "Love and Happiness" Howlin' Wolf - "Killing Floor," "Smokestack Lightning," "Moanin' at Midnight," "Commit a Crime," etc. Edited October 22, 2013 by jeffcrom Quote
clifford_thornton Posted October 22, 2013 Report Posted October 22, 2013 I don't know if I would have plunged into the world of "uneasy listening" without the introduction that bands like Sonic Youth, Mudhoney et al. provided. Quote
Bol Posted October 22, 2013 Report Posted October 22, 2013 Dire Straits, "Sultans of Swing" Peter Gabriel, "Red Rain" Peter Gabriel, "In Your Eyes" The Police, "Bring on the Night" The Police, "Message in a Bottle" The Police, "Synchronicity II" U2, "A Sort of Homecoming" Yep, I grew up in the '80's. Quote
Homefromtheforest Posted October 22, 2013 Report Posted October 22, 2013 Yeah I think hearing the Bad Brains in 1987 started me on explorering lesser known music. Before that I was listening to Zeppelin, Hendrix, etc. Living on west coast I got to see Nirvana, Mudhoney, etc numerous times around 1989-1991 which was a special time for me. Anyway here are some of the non-jazz albums that really rocked my world growing up: Led Zeppelin 1 Jimi Hendrix "axis bold as love" Metallica "ride the lightning" Bad Brains "roir cassette" Dinosaur Jr "you're living all over me" Sonic Youth "sister" Big Black "atomizer" Fugazi "s/t" Beat Happening "jamboree" Mudhoney "s/t" Nirvana "bleach" Galaxie 500 "on fire" Stooges "funhouse" Wire "pink flag" Squirrelbait "skag heaven" Slint "spiderland" My Bloody Valentine "loveless" And that's not including all the prog, Canterbury, krautrock, electronic, experimental, folk, avant garde stuff I was discovering along the way! Quote
xybert Posted October 22, 2013 Report Posted October 22, 2013 I know i'm forgetting stuff... these shook my world roughly in chronological order from pre-puberty to early twenties. Blues Brothers OST Grease OST John Williams - Star Wars OST Jimi Hendrix - Smash Hits Big Brother and the Holding Company - Cheap Thrills Led Zeppelin - Remasters (2 CD compilation) The Beatles - 1967-1970 (that 2 CD blue compilation) Pink Floyd - Dark Side of the Moon Metallica - Ride the Lightning Pearl Jam - Ten Rage Against The Machine - S/T Body Count - S/T Nine Inch Nails - The Downward Spiral A Tribe Called Quest - Midnight Marauders Pavement - Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain Chavez - Gone Glimmering The GZA - Liquid Swords Vangelis - Bladerunner OST Aphex Twin - Richard D. James album Fantomas - S/T Dillinger Escape Plan - Calculating Infinity Converge - Jane Doe Cannibal Ox - The Cold Vein El-P - Fantastic Damage Quote
GA Russell Posted October 22, 2013 Report Posted October 22, 2013 Jim, Lew Kirby was on from midnight to 6 am as I recall. From 8 to midnight was a guy named CC something. I later saw CC on Firing Line with Bill Buckley, though I don't remember what for. ***** Hatfield & the North (first album) Donald Fagen - The Nightfly Soft Machine vol. 2 Quote
Indestructible! Posted October 22, 2013 Report Posted October 22, 2013 So many to choose from. Here's the first six that come to mind: Black Flag - Jealous Again Black Flag - Nervous Breakdown SNFU - ...And No One Else Wanted To Play D.O.A. - War On 45 Clash - London Calling Gary Numan (Tubeway Army) - Replicas So tough to narrow this down... but each of these albums has influenced my life in profound ways. I'll probably list a dozen more tomorrow! Quote
Indestructible! Posted October 22, 2013 Report Posted October 22, 2013 Ah hell, here's six more: Culture - Two Sevens Clash Upsetters - Return Of Django Slackers - Better Late Than Never Hepcat - Scientific Skatalites - Foundation Ska Philip Glass - Einstein On The Beach Quote
A Lark Ascending Posted October 22, 2013 Report Posted October 22, 2013 (edited) Not necessarily my favourite records by the performers involved, but these were the ones that between 1971-9 opened my ears on a musical world that proved to bring as much lasting pleasure as jazz: Edited October 22, 2013 by A Lark Ascending Quote
A Lark Ascending Posted October 22, 2013 Report Posted October 22, 2013 (edited) And in another genre: Edited October 22, 2013 by A Lark Ascending Quote
king ubu Posted October 22, 2013 Report Posted October 22, 2013 dammit, did all the work collecting images, but of course it was way too many ... so I posted the list here, in no particular order: http://ubu-space.blogspot.ch/2013/10/albums-that-shook-my-world-excluding.html fun thing to do! Quote
mikeweil Posted October 22, 2013 Report Posted October 22, 2013 (edited) Excellent idea! Buffalo Springfield Again Cream - Disraeli Gears Gentle Giant - I A Glass House Pentangle - Solomon's Seal Pentangle - Reflection Otis Rush - Mourning In The Morning Kooper/Bloomfield/Stills - Super Session Howlin' Wolf - some Chess Greatest Hits compilation Loggins & Messina - same Johnny Guitar Watson - A Real Mother James Brown - Live at the Apollo (the one with There Was A Time) Helcio Milito - Kilombo Moacir Santos - all of them! African & Afro-American Drums (2 LP Smithsonion Box) Jali Nyama Suso - Kora Music anything from the Musical Anthology of the world series on Musicaphon Kartick Kumar - Sitar Music from India Edited October 22, 2013 by mikeweil Quote
jlhoots Posted October 22, 2013 Report Posted October 22, 2013 (edited) Jefferson Airplane: Surrealistic PillowFairport Convention: UnhalfbrickingBob Dylan, Townes Van Zandt, Leonard Cohen - several by each, can't pick just one Edited October 22, 2013 by jlhoots Quote
mjazzg Posted October 22, 2013 Report Posted October 22, 2013 (edited) vaguely in the order that my world was rocked... Thin Lizzy - Jailbreak Bob Seger and the Silver Bullet Band - Live Bullet Bruce Springsteen - Born to run Mighty Ballistics Hi-Power - Here comes the Blues Tom Waits - Blue Valentine Van Morrison - Astral weeks & Common one whichever recording of Vaughan Williams' A Lark Ascending my father owned Marvin Gaye - What's going on Clash - London's calling The Congos - Heart of the Congos Joni Michell - Don Juan's Reckless daughter Bach - Cello suites (Tortellier) REM - Reckoning Microdisney - Clock comes down the stairs Sonic Youth - Daydream nation Massive Attack - Blue lines Terry Callier - What colour is love Gil Scott Heron - Winter in America The Necks - Sex Arve Henriksen - Sakuteiki Edited October 22, 2013 by mjazzg Quote
TedR Posted October 22, 2013 Report Posted October 22, 2013 Chicago Transit Authority - my first rock album. As popular as the group was I still think Terry Kath remains an overlooked rock vocalist/guitarist. Santana (1st album) and Santana's Abraxas Allman Brothers, In Memory of Elizabeth Reed from Live at the Fillmore Creedence Clearwater Revival, Willie and the Poor Boys Quote
Neal Pomea Posted October 22, 2013 Report Posted October 22, 2013 20 Songs from my early listening days in the 70s: 1 Brownie McGhee & Sonny Terry, Down by the Riverside 2 Elmore James, Dust My Broom 3 Lighnin' Hopkins, Hurricane Betsy 4 Muddy Waters, 40 Days and 40 Nights 5 John Lee Hooker, Tupelo 6 Howlin' Wolf, Wang Dang Doodle 7 Earl Scruggs, Nashville Blues 8 Doc Watson, Tennessee Stud 9 Jimmy Martin, Losing You (Might be the Best Thing Yet) 10 Bashful Brother Oswald, The End of the World (7-10 from Will the Circle Be Unbroken, Nitty Gritty Dirt Band) 11 Jimmie Rodgers, Blue Yodel #1 (T for Texas) 12 Carter Family, Lula Walls 13 Rambling Jack Elliott, 1913 Massacre (from Tribute to Woody Guthrie concert) 14 Nathan Abshire, Pine Grove Blues 15 Octa Clark & Hector Duhon, Waltz of the Marshes 16 Adam & Cyprien Landreneau, Les Pinieres 17 Mamou Hour Cajun Band, Hathaway Two Step 18-19 Lawrence Walker, Unlucky Waltz, Opelousas (Osson) Two Step 20 Professor Longhair, In the Night Quote
king ubu Posted October 22, 2013 Report Posted October 22, 2013 as far as classical goes, off the top of my head: Bartók/Szgeti playing the "Kreutzer Sonata" Gulda playing the well-tempered piano Arrau playing Chopin's Nocturnes Rubinstein playing Mozart's K 491 and Schubert's D 960 Schnabel playing Beethoven's sonatas ... and D 960 Rubinstein playing Mozart's piano quartets Michel Portal playing Mozart's clarinet concerto Ginette Neveu playing the Brahms violin concert Ferras and Barbizet playing various sonatas (Beethoven, Schumann, Brahms, Franck) Samson François playing nearly any Chopin Marcelle Meyer playing Debussy Blandine Rannou playing Rameau Gardiner conducting Mozart's da Ponte operas and the Magic Flute Fricsay conducting Mozart's c minor mass Kathleen Ferrier singing english songs (mostly that one unacompanied one that Terence Davies made such wonderful use of in one of his cinematic poems) Gardiner's recording of Monteverdi's "Orfeo" Janet Baker singing Bach and Schubert Hans Hotter singing Bach's cantata BWV 82 "Ich habe genug" Hilary Hahn's recording of the Mendelssohn violin concerto Maria Callas' "Tosca" and some of the arias she did in her studio recitals (the coloratura arias album!) Natalie Dessay singing the second aria of the queen of the night in William Christie's recording of the Magic Flute Glenn Gould's recording Bach's two- and three-part interventions Stern's recording of Mozart's K 364 (with Pinchas Zukerman and Daniel Barenboim conducting) Ida Haendel and Vladimir Ashkenazy's recording of the third Enescu sonata Szigeti's recording of the Bach violin solo partitas and sonatas Rubinstein/Szeryng/Fournier doing Brahms' piano trios Tragicomedia's CD of "Canterine Romane" by Rossi I feel like this list is still way too short - but then it shows how intense the past around 15 months of listening to classical for the very fist time in any degree of seriosity were ... Quote
John Litweiler Posted October 22, 2013 Report 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 Quote
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