Soundtrack To Your Life
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Well, I have a very embarrassing eclectic musical life journey, ever the 'indecisive', mega will testify to this.
First ever record owed, I won at the grand age of 4 in a dancing competition at a local disco (sympathy win, I'm sure) was by Adam and the Ants, Stand and deliver. Still can't resist a good sing along to them now!
Adding the links, so you can laugh at me the next time you see me..
My first record player (delivered by Santa) came with my next phase of musical happiness, Madonna (obvious!) Shakin Stevens (I practised dancing on my toes everyday) and Talking Heads (this musical journey really is going to lead you to nowhere… of any interest anyway)
By this time I was truly loving the 80's (and still to this day, it's a massive cheese fest in our house when i get control of the IPOD dock, be warned if ever you come to one of our parties)
I was a HUGE Wham fan, bedroom was decorated with Wham posters, bead spreads and clock, thats as much as Mum and Dad would allow living in an army house, or possibly all they could take! Besides this I had an infatuation with A-Ha, loved a bit of Tears for Fears and had brief flirt with Bros, there are more, but I feel I have already gone too far.
Wham
A-HA
Tears for Fears
TBC…
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… approaching the late 80's and on occasions behind the trend, my taste changed again, and I started to listen to The Cure, i had a little thing for Robert Smith even though he was a little on the chunky side. This progressed into soft rock and Poison became my next tipple, quickly followed by Guns n Roses and iron Maiden. My Dad even suggested 'Bring your daughter to the Slaughter' as my walk down the isle song for our wedding!
this went on for a few years and in this time I also found Van Halen and reverted back to 1984 for a while
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You are all most likely bored by now, or drunk, so I will skip through the next lot as fast as I can.
I also hit the rise of the Manchester music scene, but not at the same level as Mega, i listened to the usual suspects at this time, and when i was 18 l loved Oasis. After this I kind of lost my way a bit and didn't overly take to many bands. I stated listening to Texas, Tracy Chapman and a bit of Macy Grey
When I met Gav, I claimed i didn't like U2, but every time one of their songs played on MTV, I would say ' I didn't know they sang this'… so that started my next phase and I suddenly became a U2 fan. I still listened to GnR a lot and other artists from my past like Susanna Hoff (Bangles)
Fast forward a few more years and I am now with Gav on the music front, 9 years of marriage and our musical tastes are starting to align, and mellow out. Now we enjoy a bit of Arcade Fire, The Black Keys, Band of Horses and a little Noah and the Whale
but also influenced by Tom too, he went through a massive Kiss phase, and therefore so did we
This being said, my Mum was big on Motown, 60's and 70's music, and as kids my sister and I used to dance in the living room with my Mum to a number of her favourites, special memories
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thankfully I bypassed that one.. phew!
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I basically assume if you lived in the UK during the Spice-alution, you were a rabid fan.
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No long and detailed stories as I'm 99% sure this is all double dutch to most of you, in order from primary school through to current day.
Denis Leary - I'm an asshole
Blood Hound Gang - The Roof
Metallica - And Justice for All
Manson
Nik Skitz / Skitz Mix
Ferry Corsten
Armin Van Burren
Pete Tong / Essential Mix
Two Tribes
Paul van Dyk / 'Clocks' bootleg/whitelabel
Above and Beyond
Sasha
James Holden Essential Mix
Digweed
Nick Warren / GU
Deep Dish
James Holden / Border Community
James Holden Balance 005
James Zabiela - 1st AU Tour / finishing with Enjoy The Gravy
Infusion
Josh Wink
Nathan Fake
Richie Hawtin
Miss Kitten / Love Parade Berlin 2004
Mathew Jonson
Jeff Mills
Adam Beyer
Joel Mull
Brian Eno / Sons of Arqua / Dark Side of the Moog
Pete Namlook / Bill Laswell
Good Looking Records / LTJ
Crazy warehouse parties throughout sydney
Bassdrive.com (5 years straight, still going) -
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I love this thread. @Minitron - Wham, Ah-Ha, Tears for Fears - oh, the memories come rolling back! Even now, if I hear the opening strains of "Club Tropicana" I start making involuntary groove moves…
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First real CD in 1999/2000:
Got this from my parents in 2001 (?):
http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x235d_blink-182-rock-show_music
The guys at the skatepark liked me for my "taste" and showed me other punk stuff like Lagwagon, Pennywise, NoFX and Millencolin!!!
http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xinlp_pennywise-same-old-story_news
http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xqaqa_millencolin-penguins-polarbears_music
In 2003 I got more and more into Hardcore Stuff, my parents gave me my first recordplayer as a birthday present and I went straight to the only recordstore I knew at the moment and bought a Agnostic Front - Victim In Pain Bootleg LP
This made me to crash my head against the wall. So wild, so crazy, so powerful!!!
I collected my whole X-Mas money and bought some other life changing records like Minor Threat, DYS and a couple more. The first time I came in contact with the whole Straight Edge stuff, I already knew Youth Of Today, 7 Seconds and some other, but I never understood the lyrics because I never had the lyricsheets…
After a very embarrassing new years eve, not for me but for the drunken adults at the party, I decided to became Straight Edge and I am still strong.
At the some time I got hooked with heavier NYHC Stuff like Outburst, Madball and other. The Down By Law Video made another little change in my life:
http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x1zkvv_madball-down-by-law_music
The other Posi-Kids hate me for my tougher music taste haha But since
But since some years ago, the NYHC stuff is kinda trendy in the "scene" and I was like "Hey listen up, I liked Outburst since forever". -
Through metallic Hardcore and the almighty Black Sabbath, I discovered the wonderful world of metal/stoner/doom/sludge, my tattooartist helped me al lot, too.
The older HC-Dudes showed me also stuff like Get Up Kids, The Smiths and more.
Through that I discovered newer bands like Daylight, Turnover, Citizen…
Well, there is so much great music, and I think you´ll get a picture about my soundtrack.
I also like NAS, Wu Tang and Th Cure, Clash… -
Middle School - Rap
This was the early days of Yo MTV Raps. My first cassettes I got when I was in 8th grade were Young MC and Biz Markie.
YoungMC->Biz Markie->Poor Righteous Teachers
High School - Jazz
I was in HS Band and played trumpet. I had dreams of being a big time jazz trumpet player. Freddie Hubbard's Breaking Glass was my first CD ever. I actually got it before I owned a CD player.
Freddie Hubbard->Miles Davis->John Coltrane->Charles Mingus->Roy Hargove
Late High School -> Early College - Ska and Punk
I hit the ska and punk pretty hard. Went to lots of shows at the Tune Inn and the El N Gee. Played trumpet in a couple of bands that never progressed past the rehearsal stage to gigs stage.
Mu330->Skoidats->Slackers->Gadjits->Dropkick Murphys
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Late College
I spent some time in Lincoln Nebraska and found a Lullaby for the Working Class in the used CD bin. The scene out there was pretty incestuous with bands like the Faint, Bright Eyes, and Cursive. Bands would sometimes play at tKnickerbockers in town or I drove over to Omaha to hit a LOT of shows at the Cog Factory.
Lullaby for the Working Class->Bright Eyes->Cursive
Post College
I'd heard about Songs: Ohia, but it was kind of hard to get into but when Magnolia Electric Co came out it was spectacular. I later came to love the earlier Songs Ohia stuff. It's a real shame Molina died. But since they were on the same label and since I loved going to shows at the Space in Hamden, CT I checked out both Damien Jurado and Richard Buckner at the same show. It was purely epic and at the time I had no idea of the greatness I was witnessing.
Songs: Ohia->Magnolia Electric Co-Jason Molina->Damien Jurado->Richard Buckner
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Last 5 years
I started doing messing around with songwriting and have been drawn to more of that vein of music. Bill Mallonee was a local guy at the time in the Atlanta area and I saw him on a whim at Eddie's Attic in Decatur, GA and loved it. Townes' music is something special and Ryan Adams/Whiskeytown is great.
Bill Mallonee->Townes Van Zandt->Ryan Adams
