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I do feel slightly blessed to have had the Ska explosion when I was around 14 years old, it did frustrate me though that I was too (much too young) young to go out and truly enjoy it. I was limited to local discos and secreted bottles of pink lady etc. Then, 4 or 5 years later the acid house explosion kicked in justvat the right time and I've been a house head ever since.
The answer to you question is however, for me, 70's disco and early 80's soul. Pure class. How I'd of loved to have lived those times. I'm sure my life would've been pure geared to the weekends and a love for hedonism. It was in the 90's! The music from that period I totally love and I like the fact I still stumble across gems I might never of heard before plus the amount of samples used from this period / genre speaks for itself
Honourable mentions go to rock n roll. That sound crafted my love of music -- it's all down to my Dad whom I owe everything to. I picked up his passion for music and to this day it's still a big love of his.
My tastes are divide and generation crossing. I'd liked to have lived the 50's with big hand rat pack sounds also appealing. I had to miss the game last night due to those vvankers Sky moving it as we had tickets to the Etta James Story at Cadogan Hall. What a fantastic show it was with the cover band doing justice to her music and more; interesting life doesn't do it justice
Top thread Bazza... anything of this ilk gets my juices flowing
Cherish and enjoy life.... this ain't no dress rehearsal
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Before Your Generation Music on 07:46 - Apr 8 with 4679 views
I wish I had been 15 not just 2 years old when Stax came to Europe for the first time *sigh*
'I'm 18 with a bullet.Got my finger on the trigger,I'm gonna pull it.."
Love,Peace and Fook Chelski!
More like 20StoneOfHoop now.
Let's face it I'm not getting any thinner.
Pass the cake and pies please.
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Before Your Generation Music on 08:38 - Apr 8 with 4658 views
I would have liked to experienced the 60s. Having my mind blown hearing the likes of Hendrix, The Kinks, The Who, the Stones etc for the first time ever. However, I wish I was old enough in 1988 to go to the original acid house partys and raves.
Occasional providers of half decent House music.
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Before Your Generation Music on 08:46 - Apr 8 with 4649 views
Before Your Generation Music on 07:35 - Apr 8 by Lblock
Nice one.
I do feel slightly blessed to have had the Ska explosion when I was around 14 years old, it did frustrate me though that I was too (much too young) young to go out and truly enjoy it. I was limited to local discos and secreted bottles of pink lady etc. Then, 4 or 5 years later the acid house explosion kicked in justvat the right time and I've been a house head ever since.
The answer to you question is however, for me, 70's disco and early 80's soul. Pure class. How I'd of loved to have lived those times. I'm sure my life would've been pure geared to the weekends and a love for hedonism. It was in the 90's! The music from that period I totally love and I like the fact I still stumble across gems I might never of heard before plus the amount of samples used from this period / genre speaks for itself
Honourable mentions go to rock n roll. That sound crafted my love of music -- it's all down to my Dad whom I owe everything to. I picked up his passion for music and to this day it's still a big love of his.
My tastes are divide and generation crossing. I'd liked to have lived the 50's with big hand rat pack sounds also appealing. I had to miss the game last night due to those vvankers Sky moving it as we had tickets to the Etta James Story at Cadogan Hall. What a fantastic show it was with the cover band doing justice to her music and more; interesting life doesn't do it justice
Top thread Bazza... anything of this ilk gets my juices flowing
'The answer to you question is however, for me, 70's disco and early 80's soul. Pure class. How I'd of loved to have lived those times'
I did, and yes certainly was a time of pure hedonism, clubbing nearly every night of the week, work really was just a means to fund many nights of pure pleasure.
Grew up in a jazz and ska household in the early sixties, but my early love was Motown and still to this day can't get enough, weaned on Disco in my early/late teens, no such thing as not dancing, if you wanted to catch the eyes of the fillies you had no choice but to shake your booty, much was commercial band wagon crap but if you knew where to go the music really did take over and many a night just sheer musical bliss.
My missed generation would be rock & roll, to me the pioneers of where music/hedonism really took over the lives of a young generation.
Will remain a 'soul boy' until my last days, even if that means 'doing my stuff' on a zimmer frame.
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Before Your Generation Music on 10:36 - Apr 8 with 4577 views
Got into the Doors big time about 10 or 12 years ago.
It was only the availability of music online that allowed me the opportunity to listen to more of their stuff, other than the usual three or four tunes you would normally hear.
To be fair, they did some crap as well, but if I ever I was deserted on a desert island and could only listen to the music of one band again, it would have to be the Doors for the sheer variety and theatre.
Was lucky enough to see the Riders Of The Storm, as they were then known, live twice about 10 years ago, when they were fronted by Ian Astbury (which swayed it for me as I was a bit fan of Southern Death Cult back in the day) and still had the originals Bobby Kreiger & Ray Manzerik. Ian Astbury has since moved on and Ray Manzerik the keyboard player has passed away, so unlikely to happen again.
Wish I'd been around to see them at their finest though with Jim Morrison
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Before Your Generation Music on 10:45 - Apr 8 with 4574 views
Shostakovich died when I was 11, but Wagner, Sibelius, Bruckner and Beethoven were all gone before I was born. Though the composers and many of their great interpreters are no longer around, you can still enjoy their work live. Treat yourself.
Before Your Generation Music on 08:38 - Apr 8 by PunteR
I would have liked to experienced the 60s. Having my mind blown hearing the likes of Hendrix, The Kinks, The Who, the Stones etc for the first time ever. However, I wish I was old enough in 1988 to go to the original acid house partys and raves.
Before Your Generation Music on 07:46 - Apr 8 by 18StoneOfHoop
I wish I had been 15 not just 2 years old when Stax came to Europe for the first time *sigh*
My sentiments entirely. I would love to have seen those Stax soul artists especially Otis Redding. In fact I would have loved to have been around when the British beat boom got underway in '63/64. I was only a littl'un then. Not so keen on early Beatles, but I love the old Stones, Who, Kinks, Animals and Yardbirds stuff. Going back further to the 40's and 50's, I dig the swing and R n B stuff of that time. Louie Jordan, Bo Diddly, Little Walter etc . Magic. I grew up on punk and new wave stuff in the 70's. Love a lot of it to bits still. As I've got older, my tastes in music have become quite eclectic. In my household you will hear anything from blues, jazz, soul, ska, punk/post punk, folk, bluegrass even a dollop of classical now and then. You won't hear metal, prog rock, acid house, Rap, most 80's stuff or Irish country.
There aint half been some clever bastards.
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Before Your Generation Music on 19:59 - Apr 8 with 4396 views
Before Your Generation Music on 07:46 - Apr 8 by 18StoneOfHoop
I wish I had been 15 not just 2 years old when Stax came to Europe for the first time *sigh*
Before my generation would be pre-elvis I guess as that's the time I first really became a pop/rock music fan. Not sure how much I would like to have heard live apart from Ella Fitzgerald.
18 stone - your selection is my most enduring music and the nearest I got to that was the Ram Jam Club in 1966.
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Before Your Generation Music on 20:14 - Apr 8 with 4380 views
Great history of the time but a bit snotty about the rare groove scene. Best thing about those times was the mix - house, jazz -dance, rare groove, go-go etc. My introduction was 80s soul, part of the casual culture, but I was too young for the club's. Talking to someone recently, I realised I properly got into Rangers when the Jam split up. They were a religion and I needed to fill that gap. Despite all the Shiite, no regrets and I've passed the curse on to my sons.
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Before Your Generation Music on 23:37 - Apr 8 with 4284 views
Before Your Generation Music on 19:59 - Apr 8 by HantsR
Before my generation would be pre-elvis I guess as that's the time I first really became a pop/rock music fan. Not sure how much I would like to have heard live apart from Ella Fitzgerald.
18 stone - your selection is my most enduring music and the nearest I got to that was the Ram Jam Club in 1966.
The Original Inspiration -
The Passionate Tribute - Geno, Geno, Geno, Geno, Geno! Geno, Geno, Geno, Geno, Geno! Geno, Geno, Geno, Geno, Geno! Back in '68 in a sweaty club (Oh, Geno) Before Jimmy's Machine and The Rocksteady Rub (Oh, Geno) On a night when flowers didn't suit my shoes After a week of flunkin' and bunkin' school The lowest head in the crowd that night Just practicin' steps and keepin' outta the fights Academic inspiration, you gave me none But you were Michael the lover The fighter that won But now just look at me as I'm looking down at you No, I'm not bein' flash, It's what I'm built to do That man took the stage, his towel was swingin' high (Oh Geno) This man was my bombers, my Dexy's, my high (Oh, Geno) How the crowd, they all hailed you, and chanted your name But they never knew like we knew Me and you we're the same…
The iconic album cover features a photograph of a thirteen-year-old Irish Catholic boy carrying his belongings after being forced from his home in Belfast, Northern Ireland because of civil unrest in 1971. The photo was included in the Evening Standard the next day and was picked up by the band nine years later. The boy later identified himself as Anthony O'Shaughnessy. He stated that "There were tensions simmering for about three days. People did not know what was going to happen. I thought it was a dream and in the morning everything would be okay, I don't even remember the photographer doing the picture." Upon the choice of the image Rowland explained "I wanted a picture of unrest. It could have been from anywhere but I was secretly glad that it was from Ireland." The original sleeve also contained an account of the band's history along with various phrases printed with the song titles, including quotes from Brendan Behan's book Borstal Boy and the Book of Psalms.
The key seminal album for me circa 1980 as a spotty gloomy shy girl friend free 15 year old. Searching For The Young Soul Rebels I might never have got to the 90's without the succour of Kevin Rowland's intense passion projection. KR in return had seen Geno when he was also but 15
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'I'm 18 with a bullet.Got my finger on the trigger,I'm gonna pull it.."
Love,Peace and Fook Chelski!
More like 20StoneOfHoop now.
Let's face it I'm not getting any thinner.
Pass the cake and pies please.
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Before Your Generation Music on 14:46 - Apr 9 with 4162 views
Another vote for Stax, here, and Otis in particular.
A lot of my collection is older, the thirst for new music to love brings us to some fantastic places. Love ska, reggae, two-tone, good rock, good soul, folk, trad, some classical.
But it always come back to Sothern Soul with me with Stax and Otis out on front.
"The opposite of love, after all, is not hate, but indifference."
Before Your Generation Music on 08:38 - Apr 8 by PunteR
I would have liked to experienced the 60s. Having my mind blown hearing the likes of Hendrix, The Kinks, The Who, the Stones etc for the first time ever. However, I wish I was old enough in 1988 to go to the original acid house partys and raves.
I've been told acid attacks are very popular in London at the moment.
Before Your Generation Music on 14:46 - Apr 9 by BrianMcCarthy
Another vote for Stax, here, and Otis in particular.
A lot of my collection is older, the thirst for new music to love brings us to some fantastic places. Love ska, reggae, two-tone, good rock, good soul, folk, trad, some classical.
But it always come back to Sothern Soul with me with Stax and Otis out on front.
I was lucky to have been at the first show of the Stax/Volt revue at Finsbury Park Astoria.
A mate of a mate had got four tickets, another friend and I ran into them both in Stevenage Town Centre early that afternoon, and they asked we wanted to use the two spares. Well, sure!
It was an amazing experience in so many ways. First, it was the first half-and-half black and white audience I'd been part of. Though a big mod town (hence the love of Stax) Stevenage was very whitebread in the 60s. The noise was was incredible, mostly from teenage girls in the front of stalls. We were about three-quarters of the way back, and the 5'5" 50+ year-old Irish usherette had to brusquely move four very large dudes out of our seats – something I doubt we'd have had the courage to do! The intensity just built and built from the moment Booker T & the MGs hit the stage until Otis closed the show. Sam and Dave were incredible, and perhaps the most memorable performance, partly because they weren't particularly well known at the time, and like... just the way they moved! Up and down off the stage, back on, driving the teenyboppers crazy. And of course, there was Otis. In his pink suit with half-mast trousers (the suits got brighter, the bigger the act – Arthur Conley and Eddie Floyd had to make do with beige or brown.) He was awesome, such a big guy the stage almost seemed too small for him. One of my memories is of a persistent little female voice, between songs, pleading "Sing 'Good to Me' babe!.. Oh, man sing 'Good to Me' !... Oh, puuuuhlease sing 'Good to Me'!"
Sadly he never did. The song list for everyone was nailed down and everything seemed timed to the second.
We left exhausted and overwhelmed. And wishing we had tickets for the next show.
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Before Your Generation Music on 18:55 - Apr 9 with 4072 views
As to artists before my time I wish I'd seen. I suppose Buddy Holly and Eddie Cochrane would qualify... just.
From farther back – in the mid 30s – Teddy Grace was perhaps the first white woman to "sing black" convincingly. I love the sinuous warmth of her voice. She had an interesting and, ultimately, rather sad life, if you want to look her up.
And, from 1927 one of the most profoundly moving pieces of music written in the past century, 'Dark Was The Night, Cold Was The Ground, by Blind Willie Johnson.
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