| Music tastes and why? 13:28 - Oct 12 with 20376 views | W13R |
As you can see I'm new to this board but the Frankie Knuckles thread has great interest to me for many reasons being ongoing and past memories and actions.
Now what I would like to know is why you like, love or have an interest in your genre.
This could include many reasons, radio, clubs, bars, gigs, venues, people, friends, family etc.
The main one for me would be growing up in Northfields with Magnum Records shop backing onto my bedroom so had an education in Soul, Lovers Rock & Reggae from an early age.
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| Music tastes and why? on 09:37 - Oct 13 with 2832 views | londonscottish |
Was a massive fan of punk/new wave in the 70's and 80's. Huge fan of John Peel.
Moved on to indie music in the later 80's with a strong side interest in R&B (proper R&B not that overproduced muck that kids listen to) and bebop.
In the late 80's early 90's stumbled across house and garage and have been a massive fan ever since with lashings of soul on the side.
Now listed to all sorts of genres but I'd had more fun with house and garage that anything else and still bang the tunes out. [Post edited 13 Oct 2014 16:00]
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| Music tastes and why? on 09:37 - Oct 13 with 2832 views | paulparker |
| Music tastes and why? on 19:56 - Oct 12 by Gloucs_R |
Grew up in slough during the 90s and we had slough record centre and the orchard centre....so it was a decade of raving for me. Spent many a weekend in Windsor at mirage, happy days but way to many chemicals.
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Mirage, god I remember that place, it used to be Dave Pearce playing in there from Kiss on a Friday night, they used to have acts do live PA's as well ,I recall shaking CeCe Rodgers hand in there after he did a couple of numbers ,
Nigel Benn played there one night and he was terrible
anyway talking of slough Glous , did you go to a little Dive called Henrys in Burnham ??
great for picking up the local talent
anyway I grew up listening to rap (public enermy, run DMC ) & soul and progressed to dance music,then Rave hit me and BAM I was never the same , went to many Raves in the early nineties and all my money went on records, clothes & Do's, coming home at 12 pm on a sunday afternoon , eyes like sauces and walking straight in for sunday lunch then back to bed was a ritual, (I must have drived my parents mad)
I then got more & more into House and clubs & do's such as Bagleys, Gardening club, garage city , Gas Club., The Emporium, SW1 Club, & the Ministry (93-96 best days EVER!!) got to know many people around the scene as well
these days I just find myself listening to old house & garage & eighties soul I find music especially dance music sh*t , I think I drive my wife & daughter nuts as they say I live in a time warp |  |
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| Music tastes and why? on 09:55 - Oct 13 with 2810 views | PunteR |
| Music tastes and why? on 09:37 - Oct 13 by paulparker |
Mirage, god I remember that place, it used to be Dave Pearce playing in there from Kiss on a Friday night, they used to have acts do live PA's as well ,I recall shaking CeCe Rodgers hand in there after he did a couple of numbers ,
Nigel Benn played there one night and he was terrible
anyway talking of slough Glous , did you go to a little Dive called Henrys in Burnham ??
great for picking up the local talent
anyway I grew up listening to rap (public enermy, run DMC ) & soul and progressed to dance music,then Rave hit me and BAM I was never the same , went to many Raves in the early nineties and all my money went on records, clothes & Do's, coming home at 12 pm on a sunday afternoon , eyes like sauces and walking straight in for sunday lunch then back to bed was a ritual, (I must have drived my parents mad)
I then got more & more into House and clubs & do's such as Bagleys, Gardening club, garage city , Gas Club., The Emporium, SW1 Club, & the Ministry (93-96 best days EVER!!) got to know many people around the scene as well
these days I just find myself listening to old house & garage & eighties soul I find music especially dance music sh*t , I think I drive my wife & daughter nuts as they say I live in a time warp |
Mate, we were all probably on the same dancefloors.
I loved Sw1, satellite at the coliseum, Bagleys, peach at Camden Friday nights. Strawberry sundaes. Good times. |  |
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| Music tastes and why? on 10:04 - Oct 13 with 2804 views | paulparker |
| Music tastes and why? on 09:55 - Oct 13 by PunteR |
Mate, we were all probably on the same dancefloors.
I loved Sw1, satellite at the coliseum, Bagleys, peach at Camden Friday nights. Strawberry sundaes. Good times. |
i think we were PunteR , its funny how you forget all the clubs & events you went to over that period , it must have been loads as for about 6 years that's all we did.
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| And Bowles is onside, Swinburne has come rushing out of his goal , what can Bowles do here , onto the left foot no, on to the right foot
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| Music tastes and why? on 10:30 - Oct 13 with 2789 views | PunteR |
| Music tastes and why? on 10:04 - Oct 13 by paulparker |
i think we were PunteR , its funny how you forget all the clubs & events you went to over that period , it must have been loads as for about 6 years that's all we did.
our Generation had it good as those days will never come back |
A lad that works for me now and then, djs and plays Jump up D&B, he tells about his avin it weekends and sends me youtube links to his mixes. Some of its ok but for the most part its basically the same tune for 45 min. I'm either getting old or music's evolution is grinding to a halt.
Bless him, he says he's thrown in some old skool into the mix but they're tunes from 2003!!
I obviously tell him all about the history of house music but when your 19 listening to a 38 year old banging on about the good times is as much fun as uncle albert going on about the war.
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| Music tastes and why? on 10:40 - Oct 13 with 2780 views | paulparker |
| Music tastes and why? on 10:30 - Oct 13 by PunteR |
A lad that works for me now and then, djs and plays Jump up D&B, he tells about his avin it weekends and sends me youtube links to his mixes. Some of its ok but for the most part its basically the same tune for 45 min. I'm either getting old or music's evolution is grinding to a halt.
Bless him, he says he's thrown in some old skool into the mix but they're tunes from 2003!!
I obviously tell him all about the history of house music but when your 19 listening to a 38 year old banging on about the good times is as much fun as uncle albert going on about the war.
we did have it good though. |
Ha Ha I know what you mean about going on like some kind of ravey uncle albert
but its true , I try and explain it to the juniors at my work but they just don't get it,
they think going to revolutions and listening to Swedish house mafia is what its all about
I even try and play old tunes to my daughter who is 14 and she just looks at me and goes that's c rap
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| Music tastes and why? on 10:55 - Oct 13 with 2775 views | ngbqpr |
PP - my daughter is 16 and suddenly "gets it" - on car journeys we flick through my iPod, we try out all manner of house genres and sub-genres...if a particular track catches her fancy, I'll play her more like that. Her current favourites are Energy Flash and also Slam's Positive Education!
My 20 year old lad thinks Leftfield's 'Leftism' is a cracker and has nabbed all my Strictly Rhythm comps :) |  |
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| Music tastes and why? on 10:56 - Oct 13 with 2774 views | BrianMcCarthy |
I'm not really sure what started me off, but I can't remember a time when I wasn't mental about music. My Dad loved his music and I used to listen to anything he had, and by about four or five I was apparently picking the music on the stereo or in the car. Elvis was my first idol.
When we moved to Ireland in '75, Dad started drifting away from new music so I had to go looking for myself. They bought me a small radio the summer we moved home and I'd listen to it under the blankets late into the night - BBC, Luxembourg, Dave Fanning on RTE Radio 2 when it launched in '79.
By the time I was eight or nine, Donald, Carl and myself had started to swap records and, man, we were cooler than school. Elvis was gone now, in every way. We were into punk (though, secretly, I don't think any of us really liked it), Two-tone (yes, please), U2, Jam, Clash and the rest. The heavy metal kids would let us listen to their stuff (of which only Floyd and Zep were acceptable).
In the first year of secondary school we met The Hippies, the girls had exotic names like Epiphany and Orion, had long hair, posh English accents, dope and great record collections. Now we were listening to reggae, folk, Hendrix, Drake, Doors....
I started playing the accordion then and started getting into a bit of Irish trad music, but that wasn't cool and I dropped it without shame or a look back.
It was Tom Waits now thanks to my cousins in Killarney and Janis Ian, Mary Coughlan and James Taylor. Peel was also a religion now so I was getting into the Smiths and The Cure and whoever else might make it big soon.
The move to England in '85 resulted in a Harrow Library card and access to their cassettes and in '87 I was painting my bedroom when I changed cassettes and put on Otis Redding. I was hooked on soul. Instantly. How had I never heard of this?
Wave after wave has washed over me down the years - Madchester, Northern Soul, Beatles, more Trad, more folk, more '60's, more '70s, West Coast indie, more reggae. It never ends. Who's next? Who's that? Can I borrow it? I'll send you a copy... |  |
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| Music tastes and why? on 11:27 - Oct 13 with 2748 views | Metallica_Hoop |
I have a fast metabolism and a short temper....
Was always going to be metal.
Mellowed out as I've got older and discovered symphonic metal and Indica. |  |
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| Music tastes and why? on 11:30 - Oct 13 with 2743 views | corse |
first in the mid 70 s slade, queen,jethro tull, sparks, black sabbath. some of them i found myself some of them were introduced by friends.
then came punk in the late 70 s ( SLF, skids , chelsea, clash,ramones ).
jebus it blew my mind back then. and on that road i ve been since.
also bit of reggae( misty in roots, culture,steel pulse) on the side.
then later more and more hc punk and now the last ten years or so mostly crust punk
( ekkaia, ictus, fall of efrafa, cop on fire - the spanish one) and all crust sub genres like doom crust, metal crust etc.
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| Music tastes and why? on 11:42 - Oct 13 with 2722 views | TheBlob |
Anything with a screaming guitar in it.
Anything with thundering drums.
Anything with over driven bass.
Anything with a killer horn section.
Anything with killer keyboards.
1964 to the present date. |  |
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| Music tastes and why? on 12:29 - Oct 13 with 2699 views | Lblock |
| Music tastes and why? on 10:40 - Oct 13 by paulparker |
Ha Ha I know what you mean about going on like some kind of ravey uncle albert
but its true , I try and explain it to the juniors at my work but they just don't get it,
they think going to revolutions and listening to Swedish house mafia is what its all about
I even try and play old tunes to my daughter who is 14 and she just looks at me and goes that's c rap
Bloody kids |
Amen to all said above.
I really do miss those days.
Tried to recapture it all in Budapest last month and the club we ended up in did very much remind me of those halcyon days. There just was something missing and it was quite obvious the rest of the younger crowd just didnt want to cut loose totally.
I ended up looking like a very strange, old, past it fella and a figure of fun for the on-lookers.
Fck 'em - I had it anyway!
Another scene I never understood was the Speed Garage wave. Why the fck would you want to stand there looking as mean and moody as possible sharing a bottle of Krstal champers with 12 others and filling it with water when it's done?!?!
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| Music tastes and why? on 12:39 - Oct 13 with 2691 views | paulparker |
| Music tastes and why? on 12:29 - Oct 13 by Lblock |
Amen to all said above.
I really do miss those days.
Tried to recapture it all in Budapest last month and the club we ended up in did very much remind me of those halcyon days. There just was something missing and it was quite obvious the rest of the younger crowd just didnt want to cut loose totally.
I ended up looking like a very strange, old, past it fella and a figure of fun for the on-lookers.
Fck 'em - I had it anyway!
Another scene I never understood was the Speed Garage wave. Why the fck would you want to stand there looking as mean and moody as possible sharing a bottle of Krstal champers with 12 others and filling it with water when it's done?!?!
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with you on the Speed Garage scene there Lblock , it reminded me of D&B
everyone moody, to many blokes and to much bad Mc'ing , I mean who needs all that bollox on a night out
problem with the kids of today is they don't take E's , they don't get the rush of "coming up" they don't get the rush of one tune mixed to another or coming out of a club with the birds tweeting and the sun coming up ,
that's why you see blokes our age on a night out dancing around like a loon or having smiles on our faces when you hear an old tune , we have memories, we can just about recall the day you heard "caught in the middle of love " being mixed in
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That’s there that’s two, and that’s Bowles
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| Music tastes and why? on 13:32 - Oct 13 with 2669 views | CroydonCaptJack |
| Music tastes and why? on 12:39 - Oct 13 by paulparker |
with you on the Speed Garage scene there Lblock , it reminded me of D&B
everyone moody, to many blokes and to much bad Mc'ing , I mean who needs all that bollox on a night out
problem with the kids of today is they don't take E's , they don't get the rush of "coming up" they don't get the rush of one tune mixed to another or coming out of a club with the birds tweeting and the sun coming up ,
that's why you see blokes our age on a night out dancing around like a loon or having smiles on our faces when you hear an old tune , we have memories, we can just about recall the day you heard "caught in the middle of love " being mixed in
kids now go home at 1am after doing to many shots, we were just getting warmed up at there age |
One of the best 'the problem with kids today' quotes I've ever heard.
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| Music tastes and why? on 13:40 - Oct 13 with 2663 views | TheBlob |
| Music tastes and why? on 13:32 - Oct 13 by CroydonCaptJack |
One of the best 'the problem with kids today' quotes I've ever heard.
Thanks for brightening my day mate. |
Oh god,this getting like the musical version of a Monty Python sketch.
You only went home at 1?You were lucky to have a home.....we stayed up all night then did back to back shifts at the abbatoir.... | |
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| Music tastes and why? on 14:23 - Oct 13 with 2371 views | paulparker |
| Music tastes and why? on 13:32 - Oct 13 by CroydonCaptJack |
One of the best 'the problem with kids today' quotes I've ever heard.
Thanks for brightening my day mate. |
No Worries Captn ,
I have these mad theories from time to time , im pretty sure my dad said the same thing when I was 18 ,
I can hear him now , Stop listening to cr ap music buy a lambretta , buy a two tone suit, get my haircut , get in to the Kinks and take a couple of Purple Hearts | |
| And Bowles is onside, Swinburne has come rushing out of his goal , what can Bowles do here , onto the left foot no, on to the right foot
That’s there that’s two, and that’s Bowles
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| Music tastes and why? on 14:51 - Oct 13 with 2357 views | londonscottish |
| Music tastes and why? on 14:23 - Oct 13 by paulparker |
No Worries Captn ,
I have these mad theories from time to time , im pretty sure my dad said the same thing when I was 18 ,
I can hear him now , Stop listening to cr ap music buy a lambretta , buy a two tone suit, get my haircut , get in to the Kinks and take a couple of Purple Hearts |
It's funny isn't it? I originally thought our generation had invented all night clubbing in the late 80's then I found out all about Northern Soul from two decades earlier.
I just presumed we were the custodians of it for a while and that it would be picked up by today's kids.
Seems like I was wrong on that count.
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| Music tastes and why? on 15:55 - Oct 13 with 2345 views | Monahoop |
Fantastic thread. Some really interesting input.
I suppose I've always had an eclectic taste in music having been bought up in a music loving family with varying tastes. In our house there was jazz, pop, classical, show tunes, party songs, crooners, all sorts. Some of it made an impression on me, others didn't.
I was exposed to rock and roll at very early stage. I was barely in this world in 1961 when someone, but no one can recall who, bought a single for me, Let There Be Drums, by Sandy Nelson. My folks said I loved it.I still have it. Scratched but perfectly playable! I also recall an LP by a Swedish guitar band, The Spotniks. I was able to put this on our old Garrard turntable at the ripe old age of 3 and select the right speed 33rpm! How I loved their up tempo, whirlwind guitar takes on old popular and folk tunes. I bought my first single at the age of 10, John Kongo's We're Going to Step on You Again, a bold choice for someone that age. I bought it 'cos my older brother wanted it, but I beat him to it.
In my early teens I listened to all sorts. I loved Slade and Elton John but I had what I thought was a quite mature taste. I also opted for bands like Free, Deep Purple and The Rolling Stones [ the only rock band my old man approved of] and strangely, The Moody Blues. My brothers friends, all long haired types would come round our house and bring these albums of said bands, so I would listen in avidly. My brother was a jazzer, so loads of Miles Davis, Theolonius Monk, Chet Baker and Count Basie from him.
I'm glad I was bought up in the 70's. Musically there was masses going on. Glam, Prog Rock, Metal, Disco, Philly Soul, Jazz Funk, Reggae,New Wave and Punk. As a teenager I was getting into listening to John Peel in the evenings on Radio 1 [ none of that nancy boy, girlie stuff from DLT and the like during the rest of the day], Nicky Horne on Capital Radio and Radio Caroline. Peel used to play a lot of rock stuff. But then he changed his stance overnight. I couldn't believe my ears. What was this? It was punk. I was hooked. Other DJ's soon followed.
A mate of mine from Crawley paid me a visit one weekend. He bought with him a wadge of LPs for me to listen to. He thought I was old fashioned and needed changing. He was one of the pioneering followers of Punk and New Wave. Among his albums were those of the Sex Pistols, The Dammned, The Stranglers etc, but two albums slightly more dated in their approach, but by no means acceptable for the time,that really hit home, were Life on the Line by Eddy and the Hot Rods and Stupidity, a live album by Dr Feelgood. That was it for me. I loved that gritty bluesy sound. I bought the albums, watched these bands on OGWT and eventually live.
Some folk on here have mentioned 6th form common rooms. At break times, but sometimes sneekily in between breaks, LPs were played. Our Common room became a battle ground. Most of the bods there listened to sad old prog stuff, Genesis, The Enid etc. When I and some others came armed in with the likes of Dr Feelgood, Ian Dury, The Clash etc things could get tasty. Deep divisions in musical tastes were abound and because of these a few punches were exchanged.
By the time I left school and getting my first job I was going to lots of gigs. The music scene in the late 70's early 80's in places like Brighton was magic. Musically my were tastes were broadening. I liked ska and a range of eccentric musicians around the time. I was also getting big into blues helped by the revival of R and B music by Dr Feelgood and Nine Below Zero. I researched further. As well as British blues, there was stuff from Chicago, Texas and Mississippi where it all began. Muddy Waters, John Lee Hooker, T Bone Walker, Bo Diddley, Big Bill Broonzy, Jimmy Reid etc, I couldn't get enough of the stuff. How I'd love to to what Ted Hendrix did and visit those old blues stomping grounds. Over the years my tastes in blues have changed. At one stage I liked blues with long drawn out guitar licks, but I found in time it was like listening to prog rock again. Long, lumbering and boring. I like my blues punchy, down to earth and gritty.
My other tastes as I get older but none the wiser include Soul especially Stax stuff from the 60's, old Jamaican Ska, Jazz especially Jump Jive and Blue Note and jazz guitar stuff. I like some Folk so long as its not all One Merry Morning, Diddly Eidy Oh nonsense and have been even dabbling into American Bluegrass.
I continue to listen to the radio a lot. I'm an avid listener to BBC Radio 6, especially on Sundays and the Mark Riley and Gideon Coe shows in the weekday evenings. I also listen into Paul Jones Blues show on BBC Radio 2 on Monday nights and Jamie Cullums Jazz show on the same station on Tuesdays.
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| Music tastes and why? on 16:22 - Oct 13 with 2329 views | londonscottish |
| Music tastes and why? on 12:29 - Oct 13 by Lblock |
Amen to all said above.
I really do miss those days.
Tried to recapture it all in Budapest last month and the club we ended up in did very much remind me of those halcyon days. There just was something missing and it was quite obvious the rest of the younger crowd just didnt want to cut loose totally.
I ended up looking like a very strange, old, past it fella and a figure of fun for the on-lookers.
Fck 'em - I had it anyway!
Another scene I never understood was the Speed Garage wave. Why the fck would you want to stand there looking as mean and moody as possible sharing a bottle of Krstal champers with 12 others and filling it with water when it's done?!?!
Rave On to the Break of Dawn |
That reminds me of going to a club in the mid 90s in San Francisco. It looked like Ministry and sounded like Ministry but at about 2.30 the lights came on and everyone just went straight home.
I was just getting going :-) [Post edited 13 Oct 2014 16:23]
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| Music tastes and why? on 17:50 - Oct 13 with 2298 views | westberksr |
dad was a big rock'n'roll fan but Mum was about as square as they get (still is, bless her) but i was always drawn to her Motown compilations and a few Philly albums that they had; just regualr 'greatest hits' stuff and that genre always stuck.
being of a 68 vintage the two tone stuff hit the spot rather than punk (bit too young for that) and got me interested in Northern Soul and a bit of reggae too. Stayed with the music of black origin pretty much all the way through and even when house landed it was the vocal US stuff rather than European styles that did it for me.
along the way i've always liked a wide smattering of other stuff (talk talk, Bowie, talking heads and the suchlike) and lots of blues style stuff too. never been completely into it to the extent of wanting to play or DJ but enjoyed all the other crazy fukkers that did!
listen to a lot of Radio 6 lately as they play a pretty good mix of stuff for someone that hates radio 2 and Radio 1, but doesn't want to listen to genre specific stations all day. worth a listen if you are 30+ and like your music.
now listen to everything from House to jazz, with a bit of rap thrown in too. locals think i'm a fukking idiot when i pull up in the village with 'strings of life' blaring out! |  | | |
| Music tastes and why? on 20:25 - Oct 13 with 2264 views | StevenageRanger |
| Music tastes and why? on 21:46 - Oct 12 by W13R |
StevenageRanger, you my man are everything I wish I could have been.
Unfortunately I was the person who ferried around my then DJ mates. Never mind I still went to some quality do's without getting hassled about on what tracks I should have had inside my record box.  |
I still love the DJ'ing. Not much better than people coming up thanking you for a great night etc.. and introducing new tracks to people. Still love digging a bit deeper in the box and playing something that people may not be aware of but seeing a reaction. | | | |
| Music tastes and why? on 23:19 - Oct 13 with 2235 views | Lofthope |
| Music tastes and why? on 14:51 - Oct 13 by londonscottish |
It's funny isn't it? I originally thought our generation had invented all night clubbing in the late 80's then I found out all about Northern Soul from two decades earlier.
I just presumed we were the custodians of it for a while and that it would be picked up by today's kids.
Seems like I was wrong on that count.
Shame, they're missing out big time. |
London Scottish, Northern Soul was based on London's early 1960s Mod Scene, all-nighters with amphetamines (Flamingo, Marquee etc).
I can recommend the Northern Soul movie which comes out this weekend. As someone who went to Wigan Casino and other All-Nighters in the 1970s (often after a Rangers away game up north) and ,having seen the film I can tell you that it's really authentic. it's set as a drama but is designed to explain Northern Soul to the uninitiated via the lead character's discovery of the scene.
Another film that I can really recommend (given your taste) is They call It Acid, Gordon Mason's documentary about that mid to late 80s transition from soul clubs to raves. I recall the era but went down the R&B / hip hop road and didn't get in to the 'dance scene thing'...nevertheless, despite my tastes, it is fantastic and has so much original footage that he shot during the era. | | | |
| Music tastes and why? on 23:32 - Oct 13 with 2228 views | CroydonCaptJack |
| Music tastes and why? on 23:19 - Oct 13 by Lofthope |
London Scottish, Northern Soul was based on London's early 1960s Mod Scene, all-nighters with amphetamines (Flamingo, Marquee etc).
I can recommend the Northern Soul movie which comes out this weekend. As someone who went to Wigan Casino and other All-Nighters in the 1970s (often after a Rangers away game up north) and ,having seen the film I can tell you that it's really authentic. it's set as a drama but is designed to explain Northern Soul to the uninitiated via the lead character's discovery of the scene.
Another film that I can really recommend (given your taste) is They call It Acid, Gordon Mason's documentary about that mid to late 80s transition from soul clubs to raves. I recall the era but went down the R&B / hip hop road and didn't get in to the 'dance scene thing'...nevertheless, despite my tastes, it is fantastic and has so much original footage that he shot during the era. |
Yes I've heard of that film. They must have got the name from the d mob single from that era. It name checked a few of the acid house clubs at the time like shoom and spectrum. | | | |
| Music tastes and why? on 00:26 - Oct 14 with 2207 views | queensparker |
It's a great read this.
Music wise I reckon nobody can touch the QPR manor: Shepherd's Bush / Acton / Ealing / Richmond / Ladbroke Grove has been right in the middle of it all with the venues and the bands. The Who, The Stones and all the blues scene from the 60s, The Clash, Slits, Libertines, rave/jungle with Nicky Blackmarket/Alex Reese/Optical/MJ Cole/ all the pirates etc, fast access to all the decent clubs in town and Windsor/Slough/etc, Norman Jay, acid jazz and the Brand New Heavies lot, Don Letts, Subterrania, Ealing Jazz Club, Yardbirds, Ronnie Wood, The Bluetones from Hounslow, even Jamiroquai (add all the plenty I've forgotten below)
Brilliant place to grow up [Post edited 14 Oct 2014 0:32]
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| Music tastes and why? on 09:02 - Oct 14 with 2180 views | londonscottish |
| Music tastes and why? on 23:19 - Oct 13 by Lofthope |
London Scottish, Northern Soul was based on London's early 1960s Mod Scene, all-nighters with amphetamines (Flamingo, Marquee etc).
I can recommend the Northern Soul movie which comes out this weekend. As someone who went to Wigan Casino and other All-Nighters in the 1970s (often after a Rangers away game up north) and ,having seen the film I can tell you that it's really authentic. it's set as a drama but is designed to explain Northern Soul to the uninitiated via the lead character's discovery of the scene.
Another film that I can really recommend (given your taste) is They call It Acid, Gordon Mason's documentary about that mid to late 80s transition from soul clubs to raves. I recall the era but went down the R&B / hip hop road and didn't get in to the 'dance scene thing'...nevertheless, despite my tastes, it is fantastic and has so much original footage that he shot during the era. |
Excellent - I'll look into those films.
I recently read Skag Boys. For an Irvine Welsh complete-ist like me it was the long-awaited prequel to Trainspotting - it fills in some of the back story and takes a much harder look at Renton and his motivations.
Anyway, the whole Trainspotting story kicks off with Renton as a teenager following Hibs/partying/going to Wigan.
Football and music :-) | |
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