Soundtrack To Your Life
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the first song i can clearly remember and i HATED IT was canary in a coalmine by the police
my mother was obsessed with this track and played it over and over again (side note i fucking LOVE the police now including this track
my first concert ever was glass tiger on the thin red line tour
i was in grade 3
so as a kid my grandparents had a trailer at the beach and me and my brother spent all summer there from the age of 4 until 10 i believe
this place very much shaped us, from my grand mother playing her patsy cline, tom jones and other oldies
to the older brothers of some of our friends introducing us to stuff
at the age of seven my favorite albums were gnr's welcome to the jungle, the smiths the queen is dead and ice t's o.g. original gansta
i remember smoking my first joint at the ripe age of 10 at a beach party while we had the lies album on repeat
i also remember hear just dont bite it for the first time hahaha
then came some confusing years of liking whatever was on the radio
hearing immigrant song for the first time around 12 blew my fucking mind
i dont think anything was the same after that song
enter the grunge years and a unrelenting love of cypress hill
but it wasnt enough, something was missing
i hit highschool
i was introduced to slayer, biohazard, sepultura, white zombie and nailbomb
fuck i loved nailbomb and white zombie
i was also at this time really starting to get into nine inch nails, marylin manson, ministry, and the revolting cocks
i remember the crow sound track being super important
then some friends started getting me into punk rock
the cramps, misfits, sex pistols and the ramones, fugazi.
around this time i started getting into some dumb shit and found myself on the wrong side of the law, whoops. 15 and dumb
being in computer class one day and we were discussing that none of us had ever heard the bad brains only heard of them
i had been looking for something heavier then punk but with a punk attitude and no bullshit guitar wanking
i was at the local cd store when i came across this compilation that had one bad brains song and a bunch of shit id never heard of, but it was 5 bucks and there was no highspeed interenet, shit i think we only had midi files anyways then
that cd was victory style 3
man my mind imploded
had i just stumbled across exactly what id been after?
when track one hit me square in the face the answer was yes
i quickly proceeded to get a victory catalog and order a shit ton of records
at this time i spent a fair amount of time in chatrooms discussing hardcore with others
this lead me to find other bands, poison the well, bane, converge, buried alive
and of course i started to get into a lot of real emo , the get up kids, braid, and the promise ring
as most hc kids know you end up with a lot of compilations in your collections, enter hot water music and small brown bikeafter that came a few years of ocd like behavior over bands like saetia, neil perry, the orchid, joshua fit for battle, you and i. all that stuff (yes i still have most of those lp's and 7's and other obscure shit)
then came a thundering return to loving hardcore, fueled by terror
now i started to return to those compilations at this time and fell in love with a band called rumbleseat
i was also super into johnny cash at the time
so enter my current ocd obsessions with everything chuck ragan and everything lucero
which obviously got me hooked on jawbreaker again
shortly after that i got obsessed with knowing where everything came from
that lead me back to the stiff little finger, bruce springsteen, the velvet underground, desmond dekker, robert johnson and so on
plus a huge love of "outlaw country"
and i'll leave you with this gem
hope you guys enjoyed
i know im missing some shit
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Bravo Nate, very well done. Looking forward to seeing more.
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glad you guys enjoyed my little run down memory lane
looking forward to yours joe
and riffblaster generals
and black hearts
and wolfbloodsFUCK i can not believe i wrote that whole thing and never once mentioned my undying man crush on otis redding
fuck
in my eyes hands down thee greatest male vocalist ever
but thats just me
my obsession may have start with the first time i saw top gun
but i probably heard dock of the bay threw my grandmother before that
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Phew - amazing contributions here.
When I get around to putting my soundtrack together it's going to be very tame by comparison!
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Great Thread. I'll start putting mine together
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Redding was as good a song writer, arranger, musician, and producer as be was a vocalist. What a loss…
I love him, Cooke, Gaye, Hathaway, Mayfield, Charles, Wonder...
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Sam Cooke best voice in the game. Total gem.
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Almost every goddamn time they die too soon too…
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so many good names mentioned above. Natehate's story sounds almost identical to mine, id swear he was a kid from the little click of HC kids I ran with through out my youth.
To add a few more I was a huge agnostic front fan for awhile…Now though, as I have gotten older and mellowed out.... If im stranded on an island with nothing but some old vinyl and player, Give me some old motown and a little bebop and ill be one happy man. I can get lost (in a great way) listening to coltrane, parker, or miles just doing what they did so well. And I have never in my life heard a song from the old motown days that didnt put a smile on my face. That age of music, IMO, was the highwater mark, so much goodness..... so so much...
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I have never in my life heard a song from the old motown days that didnt put a smile on my face. That age of music, IMO, was the highwater mark, so much goodness….. so so much...
Yes, I feel exactly the same way!
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I am big on Stax and Motown, and I'd add New Orleans soul as well, Eddie Bo, Earl King, Lee Dorsey, Ernie K-Doe, Allen Toussaint, Irma Thomas, and I don't want to get started until I can really get into it with the stride pianists like Professor Longhair and the funk like the Meters….
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so many good names mentioned above. Natehate's story sounds almost identical to mine, id swear he was a kid from the little click of HC kids I ran with through out my youth.
To add a few more I was a huge agnostic front fan for awhile…Now though, as I have gotten older and mellowed out.... If im stranded on an island with nothing but some old vinyl and player, Give me some old motown and a little bebop and ill be one happy man. I can get lost (in a great way) listening to coltrane, parker, or miles just doing what they did so well. And I have never in my life heard a song from the old motown days that didnt put a smile on my face. That age of music, IMO, was the highwater mark, so much goodness..... so so much...
not trying to be a dick
but can we refer to it as northern soul, not motown, motown was just one label, albeit the biggest and most recognized. its just a pet peeve of mine.
northern soul is technically the proper term for that style of music
i'll shut up now
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always have referred to it as such (as everyone I have ever known has) and doubt it will change, but if you refer to it as northern soul i'll know what your talking about.
also known as "motown soul", or "motown sound"….
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Right , however, Motown is a form of soul in which Barry Gordy played "the hand of god" in crafting a sound that became synonymous with Detroit..
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MoStax MoProblems
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Also, if someone said "northern soul" I'd say "oxymoron" ha!
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Of course, there are all sorts of subgenres of Soul Music usually by region: Detroit, Memphis, Philadelphia, etc. But to call all that music Northern Soul is just as incorrect as calling it all Motown. The term Northern Soul is rarely used in the States (where Soul Music actually originated). Here's a definition of Northern Soul from Wikipedia: "The phrase northern soul was coined by journalist Dave Godin and popularised in 1970 through his column in Blues and Soul magazine. The term refers to rare soul music that was played by DJs at nightclubs in northern England. The playlists originally consisted of obscure 1960s and early 1970s American soul recordings with an uptempo beat, such as those on Motown Records and more obscure labels such as Okeh Records. Modern soul developed when northern soul DJs began looking in record shops in the United States and United Kingdom for music that was more complex and contemporary."
