The music that shaped my life.

[corkybstewart]

I got married in 1981, one of my old roommates made the trek to Alabama for our wedding and he was a strolling troubadour at our outdoor reception. He played this song from one of my favorite bluegrass bands of the time. We still love to listen to and dance to this song, especially after a bottle of good wine or a few beers. But I have to be careful with the album on my 40 year old turntable.


For me the 80's were a musical wasteland, not much was created that I could even listen to.

 

[corkybstewart]

Here is probably the single exception of my dislike of the 80's. I first heard it around 3 AM driving to work(90 miles one way) on a public radio station that played the entire album. It blew me away and is still one of the few U2 albums I like.
https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-54467937

 

[day_trippr]

I've been a bit locked in on this song the last few days. I went through the same thing years ago with Pink Floyd's On The Turning Away...





Cheers!

 

[Francis Eric]

Sometimes I do not want to listen to words in music
Sometimes Listen also to drowned out the noises around me.
Below is something I got into in the past year
Also I done this about 16 years ago when My Niece was a young baby
Good to go to sleep in complete silence , but not good to wake up to sudden noise of a baby
So I have put on the music to sleep better at that time in life
right now ear plugs work , because noisy neighbors.
(edit I find you have strange dreams listening to classical music
while sleeping I find words can be a distraction to fall asleep)

My CD is different then this picture below)
( Ludwig Van Beethoven Beruhmte Klavier-Sonaten)
For instance adagio sostenuto (is Midnight sonata on the CD, and not in link first song)
Song ii Allegretto (not in link) --

song iii Presto Agitato (700 minutes) see second link
Reminds me of a Tom & Jerry Cartoon or
Somethings you'd see on a Charlie Chaplin movie




Piano Sonata
No. 21 in C major, Op. 53 "Waldstein"
I. Allegro con brio
II. Introduzione. Adagio molto - attacca
III. Rondo. Allegretto moderato - Prestissimo
Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827)
Claudio Arrau (1903-1991)













in my little brain this type of music plays
as I try to make the train every time
I do go to the train running late which is every time.


See war time songs next from CD bought.

 

[FromZwolle]

music from my past that i didn't like somehow translated into something i love... i don't even know

 

[day_trippr]

Like I said, this particular song has been moving me of late. Here's an orchestral version from much earlier in time...



Cheers!

 

[day_trippr]

BUT...back to music that I grew up with - and speaking of under-appreciated guitarists...



Cheers!

 

[Snuffy]

At the same time I was listening to a lot of very different stuff. Long before I knew he was from my hometown this was one of my favorites:

You from Mobile?

 

[Snuffy]

When I lived in Mobile AL back in the 70's we listened to an excellent radio station, WABB FM. They played such an amazing mix of music that I was probably 15 years old before I realized some people differentiated between blues and rock.. WABB played "regular" stuff like Beatles, Stones, Moody Blues, Allman Brothers mixed with Taj Mahal, BB King, JJ Cale, Bobby Bland, etc.

I lived in Mobile 77-78. In the old Lafayette Square apartments. Went to WP Davidson HS 10th and 11th grade. That was a freaky town in the 70s. Stoner central. Used to go to shows at the Civic Center, Ft. Whiting Armory. Nugent, Nazareth, Charlie Daniels, Aerosmith, Frank Marino, Foghat. I worked at Shakey’s PIzza on Airport Blvd one summer. Still got good friends on Dauphin Island. WABB was the stuff. Album rock.

 

[corkybstewart]

I lived in Mobile 77-78. In the old Lafayette Square apartments. Went to WP Davidson HS 10th and 11th grade. That was a freaky town in the 70s. Stoner central. Used to go to shows at the Civic Center, Ft. Whiting Armory. Nugent, Nazareth, Charlie Daniels, Aerosmith, Frank Marino, Foghat. I worked at Shakey’s PIzza on Airport Blvd one summer. Still got good friends on Dauphin Island. WABB was the stuff. Album rock.

I left in 1976. When I came back a few years later WABB was country music and everything had changed. But we had some excellent music back then.

 

[corkybstewart]

BUT...back to music that I grew up with - and speaking of under-appreciated guitarists...



Cheers!

That was a really great album. He came out with a new album in the past few years that as still excellent.

 

[mullet6577]

Still got good friends on Dauphin Island.

My family vacationed on Dauphin Island for 6 of the last 7 years (this year being the one we skipped because of obvious reasons). I'd bet it was a pretty cool place in the 70s

On topic, my tastes tend toward eccentric and nothing really stands out as "shaping my life", but various genres definitely provided the soundtrack.

 

[mattdee1]

Nirvana definitely earns the "shaped my life" distinction because in gradeschool all I listened to was cheesy pop music (e.g. C+C Music Factory) and commercial hip hop (e.g. Vanilla Ice) with the odd power ballad thrown in (e.g. "I Remember You" by Skid Row.) But in Grade 9 (or, "ninth grade" to my American friends), the first time I heard "Smells Like Teen Spirit" boom over the PA during an event in our high school cafetria, I was a changed person. Almost literally over night I ditched the mixtapes of the aforementioned music and started growing my hair long and delving into rock and roll. I wore out my copy of Nevermind, it was played so many times. A few months later, I talked my parents into buying me a guitar, and I've been playing ever since.

Somewhat paradoxically, these days, I kind of struggle stomaching most 90s music. Aside from a small selection of albums, much of it just hasn't aged well to my ears.

My favorite band overall is Rush; a completely different animal altogether. You could play me any song from their 40 year career and I'd be able to name the song, album, and year of release.

Weird thing about Rush and Nirvana for me is that as important as they are to my musical past and present, I don't really care much for any other bands that would be comparable to them.

The vast majority of the music listening I've done over the last 20 years has been geared toward discovering new music that would never see the light of day on hit radio stations and the like. I definitely cringe when I hear people say "all new music sucks, maaaan" - which is a very ignorant viewpoint, IMO. There is always something going on that is good; the problem - if there is one - is that rock and roll is getting older and older and all of the most obvious tricks and colors and textures have been done to death, so you have to walk the line of doing things that are derivative enough to be recognizable as rock and roll but original enough to be fresh. Personally, while I will always respect originality, I couldn't care less if music breaks any new ground - a good song is a good song.

Services such as Spotify and the like have made it possible for me to go crazy with music exploration, which as a concept, it turns out, isn't as great as it might have sounded 10-20 years ago. It's just too much - I call it "death by options." The result is that I end up recognizing individual songs and not bands. The concept of the "album" has become almost meaningless as a framework for music distribution. I need to get back to basics I guess.

 

[bracconiere]

was just thinking.....this probably had a profound effect!

 

[corkybstewart]

Services such as Spotify and the like have made it possible for me to go crazy with music exploration, which as a concept, it turns out, isn't as great as it might have sounded 10-20 years ago. It's just too much - I call it "death by options." The result is that I end up recognizing individual songs and not bands. The concept of the "album" has become almost meaningless as a framework for music distribution. I need to get back to basics I guess.

I was very, very happy to see the grunge movement shove disco into the ditch. Nirvana and Pearl Jam were my favorites, but the genre created a ton of fresh music that sounded much like the music I grew up listening to.
And I completely sympathize with you on the subject of albums. In the 70's I could tell you the members of 100 different bands, see an album cover(there was some great art on albums back then) and tell you what the 3rd song on side 2 would be. Not anymore, I'm now at the point that I hear a song I like and have no idea who it is, where to find it, or even the name of the song. My wife uses Shazam app, but so much of the music that we don't know, Shazam doesn't recognize either.

 

[Kharnynb]

I grew up in the 80's, but was much happier to play my dad's record collection than anything that was on the radio at that time, so my early influences are The Doors, rolling stones, janis joplin, hendrix etc.
My own taste started developing when I started secondary school(age 11-12) and with new friends, discovered Iron Maiden, Type 0 Negative and other metal.
Nirvana was interesting, but my biggest "discovery" was in my late teens, when bands like Nightwish, Within temptation, the gathering and After Forever came on the scene in the Netherlands.

 

[corkybstewart]

I grew up in the 80's, but was much happier to play my dad's record collection than anything that was on the radio at that time, so my early influences are The Doors, rolling stones, janis joplin, hendrix etc.
My own taste started developing when I started secondary school(age 11-12) and with new friends, discovered Iron Maiden, Type 0 Negative and other metal.
Nirvana was interesting, but my biggest "discovery" was in my late teens, when bands like Nightwish, Within temptation, the gathering and After Forever came on the scene in the Netherlands.

The Gathering sounds interesting, the others have that melodious vocals but not nearly enough screaming, ear splitting, irritating guitar riffs for me

 

[Kharnynb]

the gathering changes a lot over their time, early on they were male fronted with more "heavy" style, when their female vocalist joined, they also got more "prog metal"

 

[corkybstewart]

Not bad. I could listen to this while I'm futzing in my shop, as long as the wife isn't around to complain.

 

[soccerdad]

Denn sind wir nicht mehr hier, dann trinken die andern unser Bier.

 

[Lefou]

"In Heaven there's no beer, that's why we drink it here ..."

Thank you, good sir. I believe I'll have another Pils.
One is cooling off in the fridge now. By the way I'm a Ronald James Padavona fan. You know .. the guy who sang with ELF, Rainbow, Sabbath, and Dio.

 

[corkybstewart]

I spent the summer of 1981 in France with my new inlaws. Musically the only good thing that came from the summer was awareness of Django Reinhart and Edith Piaf. They are both gods of French music.
BUT, my father in law introduced me to Belgian beers and good red wine and her family became my family that summer.

 

[Kharnynb]

currently playing a lot of gothic/melodic death and doom metal, such as draconian and trees of eternity

 

[Summa_Brewologica]

Also, where ska is concerned....

My coworkers were upset to lose Eddie Van Halen. I was upset to lose Johnny Nash and Bunny Lee the same day as EVH. Plus Toots Hibbert not long ago. Sad times for Jamaican legends.

Speaking of Jamaican legends, how are you on Roots Radics and the thousands of tracks they put out? I’m a punk/metal guy but I have a soft spot for that early 80s reggae.

 

[corkybstewart]

The first and last albums of one of the most exceptional singer/songwriters of my life:

 

[Mr_S_Jerusalem]

Personally I’ve always liked Eric Clapton, Santana, a little bit of Jimi (but not too much, kinda goes off the rails occasionally), Pink Floyd, and when I’m in a certain mood a little bit of Leonard Cohen.

And of course all the ones they always play on the radio like that Eagles song and that one by Kansas lol etc

Oh! And the best 14 minute song ever, Telegraph Road of course, by the legends that are Dire Straits.

 

[mkelly601]

Grew up in the 80's with an older brother so I got exposed to the hair bands and some 70's but Alice in Chains mesmerized me.

 

[Transamguy77]

I read most of the posts and I like someone else I didn’t plan on posting but so many things were discussed that I felt compelled too.

When I was growing up my dad listened to classical music and that was pretty much all I heard until I moved in 89, and met some new kids who introduced me to Guns N Roses, Metallica, Megadeth and Iron Maiden, my life changed forever! I couldn’t get enough and I wanted to hear more, metal, rock, classic rock, hair metal (although I don’t think that’s what it was called back then) and as I went into the 90’s there was so much more coming and changing and that had another layer of stuff I had to hear

Now I dabble in those bands but enjoy stuff way heavier these days, as I’ve gotten older I look to hear music much heavier like All that Remains, Blessthefall, Slipknot, In Flames, Bury Tomorrow and Dead by April.

I could go on for days about music and bands but I’ll stop here, for now.

 

[corkybstewart]

We ran across her last year and her songs really struck a chord with my wife and me. Her "radio station" on spotify is one of our favorites

 

[MHBT]

Metal head with a deep love for the blues and southern rock

Megadeth
Metallica
Black Sabbath
Iron maiden
Death
Lynyrd Skynyrd
Allman bros
SRV
Buddy guy
The three kings, bb,albert,freddie
Too many to name