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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.
Anyway over to you ladies & gents for your input.
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Music tastes and why? on 04:21 - May 23 with 2054 views
Found this while digging for the original Frankie Thread! A great read that's also almost 7 years old.
Personally, it's amazing just how much my music taste has progressed over the last 7 years. The Frankie thread has obviously played a major part and my main progression has been into Disco and Funk (Shout out to the WestBerks Influencer!) that I'd never really listened to or really even paid much attention to before but now I can't get enough of the groovy stuff!
I still love the old school obviously. Nobody can take that music and those times away but it's been great to Disco step out of that one track time machine I was in and update and educate myself on new genres with choons from way back when up to recent times.
I love power metal, industrial metal for the energy, for the pressure, for the presentation, but how can you not like this kind of music? Heavy metal is a classic of rock, what he sang, heard in films, what he grew up on. Regarding the negative attitude towards rock - it all depends on the people. All music has fans who spoil the attitude towards it. Whatever one may say, there are millions of degenerates spoiled by pop music, and millions of people, whose image and behavior are not influenced by an addiction to rock. For me, rock is the music of intellectuals, the music of thinking people, the music of the living
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Music tastes and why? on 16:50 - May 27 with 1737 views
my older brother came home one day in 1978, he had the jam "all mod cons", as we shared a room and when he was out i was drawn to the target roundel design and quickly played a few tracks, later i learnt every word of every track and nowadays have a large collection of jam/style council and weller stuff. just to think Weller has had 2 number 1 lps out during the pandemic , some going , both of which are quite laid back soulful lps, "on sunset" and "fat pop" the jam live were kin intense and powerful , i saw them 3 times in 82 when i was 15 . most of my schoolmates too were into the jam at that time, then 2 tone hit in 79 and with "quadrophenia" film out, that was me....a "mod" but the sodding fact is big fellas cant squeeze into the medium size fashions, then or now lol
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Music tastes and why? on 17:20 - May 27 with 1712 views
Grew up with the Beatles, Stones etc. Then heard Hendrix one day and was wowed. Got into all the bands of the day like Cream, Zeppelin, etc. Used to listen to John Peel on the radio which opened me up to all sorts off stuff and would frequent the Marquee and least once or twice a week.
I really got into progressive rock through Gentle Giant and Arthur Brown’s Kingdom Come. Plus I love the Canterbury Scene — bands like Caravan, Hatfield & the North and Kevin Ayers.
I’ve never really left the 70’s.
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Music tastes and why? on 17:22 - May 27 with 1711 views
Music tastes and why? on 16:50 - May 27 by themodfather
my older brother came home one day in 1978, he had the jam "all mod cons", as we shared a room and when he was out i was drawn to the target roundel design and quickly played a few tracks, later i learnt every word of every track and nowadays have a large collection of jam/style council and weller stuff. just to think Weller has had 2 number 1 lps out during the pandemic , some going , both of which are quite laid back soulful lps, "on sunset" and "fat pop" the jam live were kin intense and powerful , i saw them 3 times in 82 when i was 15 . most of my schoolmates too were into the jam at that time, then 2 tone hit in 79 and with "quadrophenia" film out, that was me....a "mod" but the sodding fact is big fellas cant squeeze into the medium size fashions, then or now lol
Must have been mid 70's I saw Jam, mate dragged me to the Birds Nest in West Kensington I think it was, after raving about them, played a bit of Rn & B and a few Motown tunes, thought they was alright but nothing special.
Just shows how crap I am at picking out future hit makers
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Music tastes and why? on 17:42 - May 27 with 1703 views
When I was a kid we had music in the house. We would gather around the radio on Sunday for the new top 40. At around 11 years of age I really got into The Police and loved their early stuff. I had different tastes in my teens. Really Liked Heaven 17's first two albums. Had them on tape as was cheaper. Loved Level 42 up until 1986. However, when leaving school and you start going out to clubs and in turn are then bombarded with soul/boogie/dance music you start to get into that type of music. My first RnB album was the Eugen Wilde album with I Gotta Get You Home Tonight on it. Then followed the obvious at the time with Luther Vandross, Alexander O'neal, Will Downing, David Peaston, Maze, Michael McDonald, SOS Band, Change to name some.
But then I heard a couple of songs from James Brown that I had never heard before. They were There Was A Time and Give Me My Thang. I was hooked and hoovered up all the old James Brown records I could get. That then turned me onto Parliament and Funkadelic. Then I was just hooked to 70's and early 80's Funk. Bands like Confunksun, Mandrill, Fatback Band, Roy Ayres, Gap Band, Sly and the Family Stone, Barkays, Early Kool and the Gang and so many more. I went full circle and discovered Prince and all of his Funk stuff around 1986 and have all his bootlegs, especially after he passed away. So my music taste now is all things Funk, Soul & Boogie. Especially 70's & early 80's.
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Smells like a trout farm in here
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Music tastes and why? on 09:30 - May 29 with 1609 views
just to add my brother was more of a clash fan and although i like em, they don't do it for me, shame he got pi55ed and ripped up the PIL first single picture sleeve, which was a fold out newspaper i think they are worth a few £££££ today.
Music tastes and why? on 09:30 - May 29 by themodfather
just to add my brother was more of a clash fan and although i like em, they don't do it for me, shame he got pi55ed and ripped up the PIL first single picture sleeve, which was a fold out newspaper i think they are worth a few £££££ today.
my brothers copy of 'setting sons' was what really started it all for me
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Music tastes and why? on 13:10 - May 29 with 1553 views
It's interesting to read about people's tastes in music. Like others mine have changed and evolved over the years and are now pretty eclectic: progressive bluegrass, contemporary jazz, ambient and Celtic folk are my main likes these days.
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Music tastes and why? on 09:23 - May 30 with 1479 views
Great thread and respect to everyone whatever your tastes
Five main great influences for me 1. The Music press 2. John Peel 3. Live gigs 4. West Indian workmates 5. The rise of the Mp3 / Internet
As an early teen, became an avid radio fan but hating the BBC daytime offer. Borrowing my older brother’s Record Mirror and Chart Songwords magazines. Listening primarily to Capital. A regular listener whenever I could, but never missing Nicky Horne’s Your Mother Wouldn’t Like It ,but replacing that fairly quickly with John Peel, who I’ve described on here before as probably the most influential person in my life. By this time I was buying Sounds and NME every week and attending my first gigs
Loved Punk/New Wave/Ska but particularly the post punk of Joy Division, Killing Joke, Theatre of Hate, Dead Kennedys etc etc I’d just started work so could afford 5-6 gigs a month and saw hundreds of bands doing The Lyceum on a Sunday, 100 Club on Tuesday and occasionally Thursday, and a host of other venues like the Moonlight, The Marquee etc. At work in the warehouse we were allowed music on, and some of my workmates were massively into Dub & Lovers Rock and although it’s a genre I know comparatively little about, I still have a real soft spot for and listen to, to this day. A lot of reggae was also played at punk gigs between bands so a bit more exposure there.
Kids, Mortgages and all the sensible life stuff got in the way of buying much physical music until the birth of the MP3. I’d stopped doing gigs but as my kids reached an age that they were into music, the Internet & Mp3 landed, and all of a sudden every type of music was so accessible and often for free(cough) I hoovered up everything, and now have really eclectic taste across so many genres, although very little is what I call mainstream.
Did a whole second phase of gigs including Bloc Party, Kings of Leon (early), Pigeon Detectives, The Zutons, Razorlight sometimes with the kids in tow.
Still do a handfull of gigs a year, but getting tired of standing up all night now, and covid has broken the habit, but hope to get past that.
My phone has 4.5k tracks on it, and music is a major thing in my life. Still love discovering new music, and now BBC Radio 6 music, is my go to.
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Music tastes and why? on 11:09 - May 30 with 1451 views
Being brought up in Aussieland, the early stuff for me was more the Easy Beats and what was on the radio at the time around the late 60s and early 70s. There was a great record store in George St in Sydney and through that I got into Santana and Blue Oyster Cult. It was the guitar that dragged me along, then to Knoffler, Hendrix and the like. Strangely, I also got into Marillion as well which was quite out of the rest of the mix. Perhaps these were a rebellion to the local stuff being poured into my ears from JJJ (was JJ then) and other more alternative radio stations. Still, INXS, Flowers, Hunters & Collectors, Cold Chisel, Midnight Oil, Angels, Rose Tattoo and the like all carried me through the 70 and 80s.
Skipping to the more recent, things started to change and I have added house and especially the likes of Goa, Deep House Slow Jam (South African). Also, stumbled upon an Aussie, DubFX, playing to the crowd in the old Manchester Piccadiily in 2008. That was what really changed or added to my tastes. His mix of dub step, reggae and ska was quite taking.
So, now I am into almost anything, bar country & western and disco. Still love the blues and have numerous albums of that, especially the likes of Gary Moore. Still am very much into guitar music with Satriani, Vai, Santana, etc, well included within the music section of my phone and also now more into the variants of house. Also cannot deny some hard rock with AccaDacca (ACDC) and BOC. Life's still good with music.
To add to this, the first album I bought was Slade Alive! and first concert I went to was a small Aussie band called Ayers Rock.
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Music tastes and why? on 13:32 - May 30 with 1424 views
Reading people's reflections on live gigs, who went to those Sunday afternoon/evening gigs at the Roundhouse in Chalke Farm in the late 60s/early 70s called "A Sunday Joint"? Hours and hours of rock music heaven
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