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Madness + The Specials as a young lad got me into music
All Mod Cons The Jam + Glory Boys Secret Affair got me into the mod revival at the end of the 70s whilst I turned into teens
Imflammable Material SLF turned me from mod to punk
The Smiths by The Smiths and Love by the Cult turned me into Indie music and watching live music as a 17 year old
George Best by The Wedding Present - kept me off dance music and more into guitar music
Man,
Pink Floyd, Caravan, Camel, Miles Davies, John Coltrane, The Beatles, Rolling Stones, Kinks, Thin Lizzy, Sandie Shaw and many others.
Even early Queen before they became crap. Never liked Led Zeppelin either.
Some fo the music listed above to like Stackridge, Santana, Robin Trower, The Who, Jimi Hendrix (luckily I saw him in 1970).
And we had T.Rex and our school dance once, but I didn't go.
Influential:
The Velvet Underground & Nico - eponymous
Bowie - Aladdin Sane
Sex Pistols - NMTB
Siouxsie & The Banshees - Join Hands
Joy Division - Closer
Echo & The Bunnymen - Crocodiles
U2 - Boy
The Psychelelic Furs - eponymous
The Fall - Grotesque
Don't be so defensive about it, it's a great song ! I love the piano riff, it's a great hook. And the lyrics ! No wonder it gives you palpitations !Originally Posted by jon1959
The Gun Club - Miami
I saw both Sabbath (twice) and Rainbow at the Capitol. The first Sabbath gig was great, the second a complete shambles due to technical problems. Blackmore was very uninspiring (yet again).I saw Rainbow & Sabbath in the Capitol not too much time in between them, Richie was a Moody fker on stage, smashed his Strat (part of the stage act) the neck launched by the strings, the body launched by the strap int the crowd, i'm not qualified to say who is the better axe, but Tony Iommi was far better to watch and listen to, hard to say which gig i enjoyed more, Sabbath were nuts but I liked the Rainbow songs prolly a little bit more, Cozy Powell, Ronnie James Dio, R. Blackmore, Ozzy, Bill Ward, Geezer & Iommi awesome times. The Capitol being a dive, allowed to stand on the seats and go nuts and previous to this, two x Slade gigs at the Capitol, crowd mayhem with who has to be the best front I have seen, the incomparable Noddy, get yer fkin boots on and get down and get with it, Holder, I go to gigs now, sit down be quiet and just listen to the music basically a misery
Without a shadow of doubt. the best two gigs I saw at the Capitol were Jethro Tull and Wishbone Ash. Even to this day, those gigs are are still in my top 5 of all time.
You and I have very similar taste, certainly from that era. Aladdin Sane is my favourite Bowie album but it was punk that got me into Bowie and not the other way round...
Unknown Pleasures influenced my love of the Bunnymen and The Furs so I didn’t include them as influencers of my collection.
I missed Boy from my list though which was an oversight
The Scream is one of my all time favourite albums but it took me a few years to realise that
I would also add Talking Heads.. Fear Of Music and probably The Housemartins ... London 0 Hull 4
London 0 Hull 4 was our go-to album in the car on the way to and from City games. We used to do a lot of aways in the mid 80s. I must have listened to that record hundreds of times. Not necessarily and influencer, but a great record.
Loop - Heaven's End
Spacemen 3 - Sound of Confusion
HUGE for me.
1967 The Kinks Something Esle,
1968 Jeff Beck group -Truth
1968 Jethro Tull This was
1969 Fairport Convention Unhalfbricking
1969 First Taste album
1970 The Faces First Step
1969 Fairport Convention Unhalfbricking
1971 Bowie Hunky Dory [Although I must admit I bought it after The Ziggy Stardust album came out}
1979 The Kinks Low Budget
1988 Icicle works Blind
Was Patricia Morrison , later in the sisters of mercy , in the gun club then ?
Christ she gave me the horn
Saw blackmore with rainbow at st David's hall in 83
Great guitarist in his day but he was done by then , the original line up was great
Sabbath , original line up , milton Keynes bowl 1998 , amazing gig , iommi was on top form
Spellbound banshees , a band on top form
Always preffered spacemen 3 to spiritualised
She gave us all the horn. She's not on that album, but played with them soon after. She's married to Dave Vanian. Had the pleasure of meeting her once or twice.
Did she talk about me ?
Out of interest
Only one track on IM that I didn’t really like.
The rest was, and still is brilliant - still get goosebumps when I play it
I believe she might have. She was more concerned about what was going on at Ninian Park though. Those were dark times.
That’ll be Closed Groove then 🤣
Indeed , it affected everyone , even sexy female bass players
The Holy Bible - Manic Street Preachers
Funeral - Arcade Fire
Our Love to Admire - Interpol
Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not - Arctic Monkeys
On a slight sidenote, The Strokes just released another album and its excellent, as is Beauty of Youth by Pretty Vicious which came out about 8 months ago
Interpol are a fantastic band
Don't have a bad album, consistently brilliant
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