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Re: All music recorded since 1972 is crap. Except this. - CowboyIndian - 06-23-2015

(06-23-2015, 02:21 PM)Publius link Wrote:Saw today that The Wrecking Crew documentary comes to Netflix on July 30.  Interested to see it as they played on several of my all time favorite songs.


I've seen the documentary and I'm pretty sure they played on every song ever recorded between 1960 and 1980.

Re: All music recorded since 1972 is crap. Except this. - Rally - 06-23-2015

(06-23-2015, 04:38 PM)garvin link Wrote:That chewing-gum record was made by Brit skiffle artist Lonnie Donegan, so likely not. It does have the lyrical depth of a Paul McCartney composition, though.


I only wish the Beatles had done a cover of it.  Or the Stones.  Maybe arranged like House of the Rising Sun?

Best skiffle - Mick - 06-23-2015

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yG0oBPtyNb0

Mungo Jerry...

Re: All music recorded since 1972 is crap. Except this. - Hank 91 - 06-24-2015

The first album I ever bought for myself was Styx's "Paradise Theater," purchased from Pier Records in 1981. I'm pretty sure it was sold at a garage sale somewhere along the way, which is a shame. I don't wish I had that album, I just wish I had the first album I ever bought, if that makes sense.

Re: All music recorded since 1972 is crap. Except this. - Bruce Wang - 06-25-2015

(06-24-2015, 10:53 PM)Hank 91 link Wrote:The first album I ever bought for myself was Styx's "Paradise Theater," purchased from Pier Records in 1981. I'm pretty sure it was sold at a garage sale somewhere along the way, which is a shame. I don't wish I had that album, I just wish I had the first album I ever bought, if that makes sense.

The first album I owned was Cruisin' by the Village People.  I didn't buy it.  My aunt bought it for me at a department store in Taipei on the condition that I do the YMCA dance.  I attracted a crowd because that kind of exuberant behavior was very unusual for kids in Taiwan back then.  I remember loving the Village People not just for the disco grooves, but also all the neat costumes.  The gay archetypes, of course, went over the head of my 7 year old self.

I saw Styx at a MTV party during the cable tv convention.  The bill (in descending order): Styx, REO Speedwagon, and Journey, which struck me as backwards (no offense Hank and you other Styx-lovers).  When Journey came out with just the guitarist and keyboardist sans Steve Perry, I realized why they opened.  Instrumental-only Journey is not so good.  (This was before they found the Filipino guy.)  Upon closer inspection of my pass I saw that it read Sounds of Journey.

The midwestern boy in me enjoyed Speedwagon,  Take it on the run, baby!  Then Styx came on.  Well into their set they hadn't played Mr. Roboto yet.  So I started a chant for Mr. Roboto (mostly to be ironic being ethnically Asian).  I got a dirty look from Tommy Shaw.  They didn't play it. I think out of spite.

First album I ever bought - Mick - 06-25-2015

First record:  Rufus, featuring Chaka Khan.  Second was Frampton Comes Alive.
First cassette:  Boston's "More Than a feeling."
First CD:  AC/DC "Back in Black"

Re: All music recorded since 1972 is crap. Except this. - 2 for 2028 - 06-25-2015

I think that the first cassette I ever bought was the soundtrack to Breakin' 2: Electric Boogaloo.  Beat that.

Re: All music recorded since 1972 is crap. Except this. - needle - 06-25-2015

I always ask people this question (well, people old enough to have actually purchased music). For me, it was Faith No More's The Real Thing.


(If it had been Marky Mark's Walk on the Wildside, definitely one of my earliest purchases, maybe I wouldn't be so keen on asking.)

Re: First album I ever bought - Bruce Wang - 06-25-2015

(06-25-2015, 07:22 AM)Mick link Wrote:First record:  Rufus, featuring Chaka Khan.  Second was Frampton Comes Alive.
First cassette:  Boston's "More Than a feeling."
First CD:  AC/DC "Back in Black"

Now that's an interesting way of recording recording buying.

First record: The Village People's Cruisin'
First cassette: The J. Geils Band's Freeze Frame
First CD: New Order's Substance
First concert: REM Green Tour
First MP3: The Killers' Somebody Told Me

Re: All music recorded since 1972 is crap. Except this. - oman - 06-25-2015

First record: Chicago III

First cassette: I think I was cheap and just borrowed peoples albums and taped them.

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First CD: Proclaimers, maybe

First MP3: Getaway People - Six Pacs

Re: All music recorded since 1972 is crap. Except this. - CowboyIndian - 06-25-2015

First record: Jailhouse Rock
What's a CD?

Re: All music recorded since 1972 is crap. Except this. - Robbie - 06-25-2015

First record: U2 - "Under a Blood Red Sky"
First live show: Madness

Re: All music recorded since 1972 is crap. Except this. - Leftcoast - 06-25-2015

1st cassette: Supertramp, Breakfast in America
1st CD:  U2, Joshua Tree
1st live concert:  Police, Ghost in the Machine tour, Cow Palace

I have NO idea what my first ITunes download was.  I wonder if it's easy to check?

Re: All music recorded since 1972 is crap. Except this. - SUBuddha - 06-25-2015

I will play this game.

First Record: Kinks --- Lola vs. The Power Man

First Cassette -- Scorpions Black Out

First CD -- Bob Marley -- Songs of Freedom

First Concert -- Beastie Boys, Murphy's Law and Fishbone (Paramount in Seattle)

Re: All music recorded since 1972 is crap. Except this. - Bruce Wang - 06-25-2015

(06-25-2015, 11:22 AM)leftcoast link Wrote:I have NO idea what my first ITunes download was.  I wonder if it's easy to check?

Just look in your Purchased playlist.  There isn't a date to sort, but you can probably figure it out by looking at the songs.

Re: All music recorded since 1972 is crap. Except this. - CornFed - 06-25-2015

My first album was probably "A Hard Day's Night" or Simon and Garfunkel's "Sounds of Silence".  From that innocent start I stayed in a pretty "pop" mode (some folk music, a little Beach Boys, etc.) and went to my first live concert in my junior year of high school.  Get this.  I went on a school-sponsored trip to Minneapolis, which may as well have been New York from the perspective of a high school student from a small town in Iowa, to see Led Zepplin.  To top off the experience, one of my classmates experienced his first acid trip as the combined result of a trip to the bathroom and a naive and trusting outlook.  Quite an introduction to the "Age of Aquarius"!

Re: All music recorded since 1972 is crap. Except this. - oman - 06-25-2015

On the mp3 I actually listed a napster tune I stole.  Didn't do itunes until really recently. 

I'm still cheap.  I get almost all of my music from the library and download it.  Hard to find new stuff, but that is satisfied somewhat with podcasts.

Re: All music recorded since 1972 is crap. Except this. - BostonCard - 06-25-2015

(06-25-2015, 12:52 PM)Publius link Wrote:[quote author=leftcoast link=topic=12243.msg121331#msg121331 date=1435256533]
I have NO idea what my first ITunes download was.  I wonder if it's easy to check?

Just look in your Purchased playlist.  There isn't a date to sort, but you can probably figure it out by looking at the songs.
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If you right click on the header of the "purchased" playlist, you can add additional columns.  One such column is "Date Added".  Add it, and click on the column heading to order it in the order you added it to your playlist.

My first song shows as "Born Losers" by Matthew Good.

By the way, Oman, if you are cheap and want to get new stuff, I'd recommend Spotify.  If you are willing to put up with some ads, you can stream most everything.  And if you are willing to put up a few dollars ($10 a month) you can do away with the ads.  Apple's forthfcoming Apple Music might be a good option if you are an Apple fan and want to hook up multiple accounts in a family to the same service (it too is $10 a month, but $15 for up to six accounts on a family plan).

BC

Re: All music recorded since 1972 is crap. Except this. - Hank 91 - 06-25-2015

First album: Styx, Paradise Theater*
First cassette: The Smiths, Strange Ways Here We Come
First CD: The Police, Ghost in the Machine
First Concert: The Police, Synchronicity Tour, 1983 (Openers: Berlin, The Fixx, Thompson Twins)


*If we're being technical, the first album I ever purchased was The Monkees. When I was seven or eight the show was in re-runs on weekday afternoons, and they always advertised the album that you could send away for. I finally convinced my mom to buy it for me, waited the ETERNITY it took for it to arrive, then wore the vinyl out. A couple years later, when I was ten, I begged for a KISS album for Christmas. My parents took one look at the album artwork and song list on the back, and bought me a cheesy compilation LP called "Love Rock" instead. I still remember the opening track -- Lou Rawls, "You'll Never Find Another Love Like Mine." Anyway, I choose not to count any of that.

Re: All music recorded since 1972 is crap. Except this. - jacketree - 06-25-2015

Where's the love for 8 track?