Albert Collins
Frozen Alive
Frozen Alive
Name a few albums which helped determine your musical tastes
How about a short list of albums that shaped your listening from early on in your life?
Not just albums that became favorites (though they could be now). Let's call them historical turning points for you that shaped you as a listener, now.
Me:
Not just albums that became favorites (though they could be now). Let's call them historical turning points for you that shaped you as a listener, now.
Me:
- Quadrophenia or Who's Next
- Sgt Peppers Beatles
- Floyd, Wish you were here
- Jethro Tull, Thick as a Brick
- Metheny, Offramp
- Glenn Gould, Goldberg variations
- Joni Mitchell, Court and Spark
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One album of the best military marches ( 13 years old) hate them with contempt till this day..The album was given free with the purchase of a stereo furniture....I think to kill myself after that listening.... đ Johnny Hallyday 14 years of age like him for few months only...He save me of my only military album... We were very poor and i had not great purchase choices near my house... Rolling Stone first album same age , dont hate it but dont like it either.... Beatles and Mamas and the papas like them better...But not enough to buy something else after... Leo FerrĂ© same age liked him and loved him instantly....( French anachist poet singing Baudelaire, Rimbaud and Verlaine absolute poetry in interpretation)... Same year in love with Joan Baez....Bob Dylan also... Bach concertos for violin in a musical class at 16 years old, fall in love for life...Vivaldi same story around the same time....Bach teach us all.... Frank Zappa at the same age, dont loved it, dont liked him either....He was introduced to me by my friend of 52 years old friendship now.... I was not able to understand his English poetry....Too bad....I like him today... đ Choral music, Desprez, Jannequin, Monteverdi Schutz etc were my heart companions at 16 years old... Moondog the viking of the 50th street... The real creator of minimal music in America... A street musician who draft from musical school and recreate music for himself in the street.... A myth....At 24 years old with my new Tannoy speakers....I loved with nostalgia till today...I owned all his albums... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Y80QulpLUo&list=PLiN-7mukU_REyKvKlRJMwGjsNCamUhqpd Choral music and baroque composers mainly after that... 35 years old, The impactful discovery of Bruckner.....Change my way to understand musical form after Bach initiation... 40 years old, the discovery of Scriabin and Sofronitsky and of the Russian piano school...Change my way to listening to colors and tones... 50 years old, the discovery of all Indian music, instrument and voice, and the impactful discovery of my first Persian/iranian master, one of the greatest musician i ever listen to with the pianist Nyiregyhasy, my first album : the celestial harmonies of Ostad Elahi...Change completely my way to understand the power of music for therapeutic of the body and soul... It is no more music like a pleasure in the body, it is music like a walk out of the body...Other discoveries with natural frequencies conforted my experience with this Persian genius master....That is also a sufi saint.... My discovery of jazz at 50 years old , which i was knowing before but falling in love is not liking someone... Chet Baker were my master initiator and Bill Evans...They dont play their instrument like others, they lost their ego at the profit of the hidden song in any melody... 55 years old the discovery of the greatest pianist i ever heard... Ervin NyiregyhĂĄzi with this piece of Liszt: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dLk6vqaxU1Y This Hungarian god live a life that is unbelievable and after absolute world fame at young age, quit concert after 34 years old and live in total anonymity, and regain world fame easily in his first concert after 40 years to save his 10th wife...I read 2 books about him....Listen to him and compare with anyone else... 55 years old the discovery of the greatest feminine voice ever because she can deliver emotion on par with any other female voice but contrary to all others can sing in ALL styles of music without fail...Opera from Monteverdi to Puccini, lieds, bach, Handael, negro spiritual, popular, even Jazz all that with the more powerful emotional force ever seen...His voice reproduce all that which is in the soul.... Marian Anderson.... And the most beautiful woman i ever see, soul,voice and body.... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UXhdUC43Jq0 Today, around 10,000 albums in files perhaps a bit less.... I love Classical, Jazz and Indian and Persian music dearly.... I am in love mainly with choral voices, piano and trumpet..... |
The bread of those early years: Phil Ochsâpleasures of the harbor John Faheyâdays have gone by John Mayallâthe turning point Leonard Cohenâsongs from a room Golden Ringâa gathering of friends for making music The Bandâmusic from big pink Bob DylanâJohn Wesley Harding Cannonball Adderleyâmercy, mercy, mercy Roland Kirkâwe free kings. George Harrisonâall things must pass |
And , of course, if we will just follow with open ears the list should go on and on.... I an older than most of you, I think, though certainly not better or wiser, and though I agree with numbers of the music listed, I can certainly add a few. I don't remember a time when music wasn't important to me and everyone in my family. A maybe apocryphal story is that after I was born, when I first came home from the hospital, my father held me up before his big monaural speaker to play his new love of a hot very young trumpet player- Miles Davis. Of course I have no memory of this. But Miles music was always one thread of the sounds in the homes of my family of origin. When I got swept away by Miles though was when Miles Ahead came out and impactful albums included all of his later collaborations with Gil Evans. As an older child I wore out a copy of Sketches of Spain and I even loved his less respected Quiet Nights. I came to Kind of Blue later.Other early loves of mine included, Everybody Digs Bill Evans And the Bill Evans Trio albums especially Song For Debbie (I ended up marrying a woman named Debbie who I am still with and in love with after 52 years) and Polka Dots and Moonbeams. I also loved anything by Duke Ellington or Count Basie. My first classical loves, well after some kid records (Sparky and the orchestra, Atlanta and the Golden Apples) were Rites Of Spring (I think it was Ansermet conducting), Lt. Kije Suite and Brahms' Symphony No.4.In my early teens I was influenced by older kid friends and was formed again by Hoyt Axton's Greenback Dollar, the first Joan Baez album, Pete Seeger and this scratchy voiced kid's first Columbia album, Bob Dylan of course. That album is still tied in my memory to a weeks vacation at Newport Beach in southern California. Having said all of this, I was and remain a rock 'n' roller before anything else. I can still remember the first time I heard the Beatles (my sister 1 1/2 years younger got to them before me and it was her single of "I Want to Hold Your Hand" that was my hello from them, hearing the Animals version of "House of the Rising Sun" and early Kinks though it was Something Else that was the kicker for that band. The first live rock band I saw, I think, was Dick Dale and I stayed moved by those surf bands ever after.The first album I bought with my own money was Turn, Turn, Turn by the Byrds, which I still have. About that time my father was given his first set of stereo speakers by a drummer friend of his.Formative albums included Da Capo & Forever Changes- Love; People Are Strange - Doors; Tim Buckley and even more Happy Sad; Are You Experienced - Jimi Hendrix, Astral Weeks -Van Morrison, Young Brigham - Ramblin' Jack Elliott, Vincebus Eruptum - Blue Cheer, Soft Machine 1 - Soft Machine, My Favorite Things, A Love Supreme - John Coltrane, Town & Country - Humble Pie, Ogden's Nut Gone Flake - Small Faces, the Sex Pistols album but even more the first Bucocks album and London Calling - Clash, Europe '72 -Grateful Dead. Ooops gotta stop now as it's dinner time maybe to return later.Take care and be safe y'all. |
Doors zeppelin judas priest def Leppard (early albums) humble pie clarence brown bb king buddy guy koko taylor venom raven motorhead y&t rainbow UFO Samson!!! much,more blues, the rest is history.  Been metal since,... still love the good stuff! wishbone ash uriah heep thin lizzy  when I heard sin after sin and sad wings of destiny, my life changed!   Rock on! |
The first was probably Grand Funk Railroad Inna Goda Divida. I probably wore that side all the way thru  Queen Day at the Races Talking Heads Fear of Music Steely Dan Gaucho Joe Jackson Look Sharp My current obsession is Maria Bethania Que Falta Voce Me Faz Buika Mi Nina Lola I get stuck in a loop and tend to to play the same albums over and over. The best part of digital is you can't wear them out |
Nice idea for a thread! I will list bands, not just albums. Very early on: Sgt Pepperâs - informed me that rock could be a bit more than 3 minute, 3 chord, songs. Next: Deep Purple - In Rock, Black Sabbath- 1st, Uriah Heep - Very Humble, and others - informed me that rock could be even heavier, and be bit more focused on musicianship Next: T2 - Itâll All Work Out in Boomland, YES - The YES Album, King Crimson - ItCotCK, ELP, Gentle Giant, - informed me that rock could totally break free of itâs blues roots, and that there is an entirely new level of musicianship and complexity from the previous bands I listened to. Very soon after: Bands - PFM, Banco, Le Ormer, Triana, Grobschnitt, Museo Rosenbach, many more - informed me that world class prog, as good as what was coming out of England, was being made all over the world, and that those countries put their own cultural spin on it. Around the same time: Discovery of fusion, like - Mahavhishnu Orchestra, Return to Forever, Brand X, Iceberg - While not exactly the same as prog, the creativity and musicianship was there. Next: Henry Cow - Unrest, Univers Zero - Heresie, Art Zoyd - Generation sans Futur - informed me that atonality and dissonance had itâs place in music. Soon to be followed up with most of the rest of avant-prog. Stravinsky - Rite of Spring, Bartok - Music for Strings, Percussion Celeste - Informed me that classical could be more than all the famous warhorses that I found boring. This lead directly to the even more avant-garde composers - Scheoenberg, Elliott Carter, Berg, Joan Tower, Charles Wuorinen, etc. |
Let me add a couple to the above list. My discovery of fusion, lead me to post bop, avant-garde, chamber, and other progressive forms of jazz. My discovery of the 1st album by Swedish band, Anglagard, in the mid 90's, led me to the knowledge, that prog was in the early days of coming back. And has not let up since. Even though I am no longer a fan, Dream Theater helped my determine, that progressive music can also be made with the trappings of metal. This led me to bands I consider quite a bit better. Pain of Salvation, Opeth and The Contortionist, for example. |
