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OT: "Share Your Life Changing Top 10 Vinyl or Cassette or CD purchases"
I use FaceBook for local music news of shows and the rambling of musicians.
Lately a viral chain letter has infected my friends. Here's the gist:
For 10 Days recommend a Vinyl Album that really impacted you as a musician.
With each posting Nominate someone else to do the same.
So, far I've seen close to 100 albums recommended and it's useful to see who shares your sensibilities.
Who want's to share their Top 10 Vinyl Purchases. Less or More is fine. I won't start and fuck up
canvas of memory. If you didn't buy and Vinyl you may not play. You too young for this to require
looking back 30 or more years. If you want to use cassettes that' fine... just don't mention that.
CD's are OK too but STFU about that terrible form factor. And streaming is the end of real collecting. That's just hosting music but not collecting real artifacts. Still, most streamed music
also has a CD, Cassette, Vinyl product in the world somewhere.
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In no particular order (maybe), and a somewhat eclectic mix. Also so many to choose!
*Billy Joel - Stranger
*Beach House - Teen Dream
*The Black Heart Procession - 2
*The Black Heart Procession - 3
*Fleetwood Mac - Rumors
*God speed! You Black Emperor -F# A# Infinity
*Vince Gauraldi - Charlie Brown Christmas (on green vinyl)
*RadioHead - In Rainbows, (original double vinyl box set)
*Boards of Canada - Music has the Right to Children
*Portishead - All 4 records, can’t choose just one.
Honorable Mention:
Wendy Carlos - original Tron Soundtrack on blue double vinyl.
I’m going to check out some of these that surface regularly on ABF. Of course quick hit listening requires someone to show you what to listen for and why it matters.
Some of my top early picks in the order I've found and listened to them first:
Isao Tomita - Pictures Of An Exhibition
Frank Zappa - Tinseltown Rebellion
Mike Oldfield - QE2
Saga - Worlds Apart
Rush - Exit... Stage Left
Jean Michel Jarre - Zoolook
Lenny White - Streamline
Brand X - Product
Steely Dan - Aja
Grace Jones - Slave To The Rhythm
Rick Springfield - Tao
Nik Kershaw - Human Racing
Thompson Twins - Side Kick(s)
Go West - Go West
Froon - Froon
Spliff - The Spliff Radio Show
Thomas Dolby - Aliens Ate My Buick
Gotta stop now.
*Television - Marquee Moon
*David Bowie - Hunky Dory
*T. Rex - The Slider
*Sex Pistols - Never Mind the Bollocks
*Radiohead - OK Computer
*Sparklehorse - Vivadixiesubmarinetransmissionplot
*Stereolab - Emperor Tomato Ketchup
*Mouse On Mars - Idiology
*Prefuse 73 - Vocal Studies And Uprock Narratives
*múm - Yesterday Was Dramatic – Today Is OK
If I were to add something...
*The Stalin - STOP JAP
The Stalin is Japanese punk rock band.
Why vinyl though
I guess @McD silently implied that we'd list albums before the last dawn of the vinyl record, indicating the epoc (just my guess!) somewhere between roughly the 60s and the 90s.
The thing about vinyl is you’re more or less a captive audience—you’re listening to a collection of songs as the artist intended. Each time you listen to the album, you hear the songs in the same sequence, which further solidifies the collection as a whole.
With CDs, you can program track order, shuffle tracks, or even skip tracks altogether.
Cassette tapes are similar to vinyl in their, what you might call, holistic listening experience, but the sound quality is inferior and they don’t offer the large form factor that supports album artwork you can hold between your hands and, say, printed lyrics you don’t need to squint to read.
Overall, listening to vinyl is an active and immersive endeavor in a way other media are not.
It's circulating among Boomers on FaceBook. Go for it. There are no rules. It's really just
creating a thumbnail of your musical preferences. For an audience of maybe 10-20.
Sorry, I just skimmed the OP and overlooked his remarks about other media.
However I prefer to keep my music library digital. Files to easily search and tag, edit the meta data. And I still can listen to albums from A to B how they were supposed to be listend to. I also generally oppose streaming of playlists, but sometimes I find a really enjoyment in listening to well thought about mixes.
I‘ve still got some vinyls but, partly because being a bit of a hypochondriac trying to minimize cancer risks, decided to stop buying them and get rid of them when I change my flat.
Anyways, @rs2000s explanation resonates with me and I am sorry for any derailing I have caused. As previously mentioned I simply skimmed that opening post to quickly. Carry on.
No problem... do you have 10 tracks that influenced you or that you consider to be exceptional?
Ultravox - Systems of Romance
Kraftwerk - Computer World
Gary Numan - Replicas
Jethro Tull - A Passion Play
Bruce Springsteen - Nebraska
Orbital - Brown Album
Brian Eno - Discreet Music
Traffic - Low Spark of the High Heeled Boys
Peter Gabriel - Melt
King Crimson - Discipline
Talking Heads - Remain In Light
Is that 10?
Tool, Lateralus
Radiohead, OK Computer
Bjork, Vespertine
Jeff Buckley, Grace
Norah Jones, Come Away With Me
Sting, Dream of the Blue Turtles
Police, Synchronicity
Peter Gabriel, Passion
Genesis, Abacab
Rush, Signals
These are just the most important:
King Krimson - In the court of the Krimson King
Pink Floyd - The Wall
Caravan - In the land of grey and pink
801 - Live
Eric Clapton - 24 Nights
Lou Reed - New York
The Waterboys - Fisherman’s blues
Townes Van Zandt - Sanitarium blues
Meat Loaf - Bat out of hell
Ivano Fossati - Buontempo live
Peter Gabriel - So
Bob Dylan - Oh, mercy
Alan Parson - Eye in the Sky
Kraftwerk - TEE
Leonard Cohen - I’m your man
Neil Young - Rust never sleeps
Led Zeppelin - IV
The Cult - Love
Giorgio Gaber - Far finta di essere sani
CSN&Y - 4 way street
The Cure - Pornography
Dire Straits - Dire Straits
Thindersticks - Curtains
Francesco Guccini - Stanze di vita quotidiana
XTC - Apple Venus
Glenn Gould - Bach Goldberg Variations (1981)
Miles Davies - Kind of Blue
David Bowie - Ziggy Stardust
Fabrizio de Andrè & PFM - In concerto vol 1
Area - Are(A)zione
Robert Johnson - The complete studio recordings
Genesis - Selling England by the pound
Brüggen: Beethoven symphony n. 9
Quartetto Italiano: Beethoven last quartets
Abbado: Verdi Simon Boccanegra
Carmignola: Vivaldi 4 stagioni
Play Bach - Play Bach
Jan Garbareck - Officium
Moby - Play
Massive Attack - Mezzanine
Dengue Fever - In the ley lines
Ry Cooder - Buena vista social club
Jean Michel Jarre - Oxygene
P.I.L. - Album
The Clash - London Calling
Tom Petty - Long after dark
Deep Purple - Made in Japan
Eagles - Live
Jefferson Airplane - Flight log
Jethro Tull - Thick as a brick
Roxy Music - Avalon
The Beatles - Sgt Pepper lonely hearts club band.
I think 2 of those may be in my top 50.
EOSP and In Utero
Always go back to them
Electric Warrior - T.Rex
Flying Teapot - Gong
Weird Scenes Inside The Goldmine - The Doors
Floating Anarchy - Planet Gong
Electric Ladyland - Jimi Hendrix
Anthem of the Sun - The Grateful Dead
Replicas - Tubeway Army
Ultravox - Ultravox
Travelodge - The Human League
The Man Machine - Kraftwerk
Germfree Adolescents - X Ray Spex
The Raven - The Stranglers
Scientist Rids The World of the Evil Curse of the Vampire - Scientist
Aswad - New Chapter In Dub
Play - Magazine
Doremi Fasol Latido - Hawkwind
Faust IV - Faust
Apologies if too many but I struggle to leave some out & there could have been more! Love reading the other lists - gives inspiration.
Right now I only know one record which was a life changer for me and that was Herbie Hancocks „Headhunters“ CD.
I was born in 1974 and it was 1991/92 when I was a regular customer in our school cafeteria. There was a guy who always played some weird stuff on the boom box within the cafeteria. I really liked what I heard so one day I asked him about that kind of music and if he would be willing to recommend me a CD.
One afternoon we went to the city and he showed me some stuff and finally I bought one of the cds he recommended to me.
I went home and listened to it and it was so cool that I listened to it the whole evening again an again ... and sold all my records and cds the day after.
I remember that night like it was yesterday...listening g to those 4 tracks again and again.
That was a life changing moment for me...this was the moment when I fell in love with Jazz and Funk Music, when I started collecting vinyl and tbh...that was the best decision in my life.
I have never heard something like that before...
BTW I only have a handful of cds but 2.5k records in my collection since then. So that cd really had some kind of impact on me.
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Art of Noise - Daft
The Cure - Standing on a Beach
Buffalo Springfield - Again
Yello - One Second
Quicksilver Messenger Service - Happy Trails
Reuben Wilson - Blue Breakbeats
Jefferson Airplane - Crown of Creation
Goldie - Timeless
Daft Punk - Homework
LFO - Advance
The Orb - UFOrb
Leftfield - Leftism
Pink Floyd - Dark side of the Moon
Beastie Boys - Paul's Boutique
Dr. Octagon - Dr. Octagonecologyst
Joni Mitchell - Clouds
You've been looking through my record collection!
In no particular order (difficult keeping it down to 10, but here goes), vinyl only:
Beatles - White Album
Gong - Camembert Electrique
Steve Hillage - Green
Daevid Allen - Now is the happiest time of your life
Hawkwind - Space Ritual
Syd Barrett - Syd Barrett (double-album)
Roy Harper - Bullinamingvase
Faust - The Faust Tapes
The Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band - The Doughnut in Granny's Greenhouse
Motorhead - Overkill
Obviously that's a pretty narrow selection, but probably they had the most impact during the period I was buying vinyl.
Memories -
hearing the White Album for the first time around a friends place, in stereo - Wild Honey Pie and Revolution No.9 stick in the mind particularly...
Post gig at a pub where Alison Moyet spilled a pint over me, back at a friends listening to The Space Ritual, and realising it was the best thing I'd ever heard...
Bombing around on my bike as a long haired teenager, singing the lyrics from Camembert, with my silly green hair, chased by skinheads who wanted to kill me...
Now is the happiest time of your life - back of a bus at a free festival on the border of Cumbria - probably best not go into the details of that one...
etc.
Gotta reach way back to include vinyl. The list would be significantly different post-vinyl era, but actually, as far as initial inspiration goes, pretty relevant.
BTW, leather is far superior to vinyl.
Nice top-tenning.
In no particular order
Rush - Farewell to Kings
Rush - Hemispheres
Kansas - Song for America
Pink Floyd - Meddle
Crack the Sky - Crack the Sky
Ted Nugent - Ted Nugent
Uriah Heep - Live
The Carpenters - The Singles
The Bee Gees - Jive Talkin (45)
Genesis - Seconds Out
Ah, that saves me posting it, I was just on YouTube remembering it for this list, you got it first