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@Stoned Rose I'm in.

How far we going back? My first ever song that stirred me was when I was 6 and I heard love will tear us apart, the music just made me feel weird. Then it was John Lennon and woman, I drove my dad mental asking him over and over who sings it and me trying to remember the verse.

I started with Depeche mode in 85/86, progressed to the smiths in 87/88 with a bit of public enemy thrown in and it all made sense in 88/89 when the roses got into my bloodstream.
 
manimanc said:
@Stoned Rose I'm in.

How far we going back? My first ever song that stirred me was when I was 6 and I heard love will tear us apart, the music just made me feel weird. Then it was John Lennon and woman, I drove my dad mental asking him over and over who sings it and me trying to remember the verse.

I started with Depeche mode in 85/86, progressed to the smiths in 87/88 with a bit of public enemy thrown in and it all made sense in 88/89 when the roses got into my bloodstream.
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My man.
 
manimanc said:
@Stoned Rose I'm in.

How far we going back? My first ever song that stirred me was when I was 6 and I heard love will tear us apart, the music just made me feel weird. Then it was John Lennon and woman, I drove my dad mental asking him over and over who sings it and me trying to remember the verse.

I started with Depeche mode in 85/86, progressed to the smiths in 87/88 with a bit of public enemy thrown in and it all made sense in 88/89 when the roses got into my bloodstream.
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First tune I remember thinking "fuck me that's ace" about was Down Under by Men at Work when I was about 5 or 6.

For the next 4-5 years I soaked up lots of my parents' music - The Drifters, John Holt, Beatles, Dire Straits, loads of 50's and 60s pop, and a big dose of Country music.

Then when I was about 10 I remember being blown away by Pump up the Volume by MARRS and Beat Dis by Bomb the Bass.

These 2 just sounded like they were from another planet and I began to want to seek out my own tastes and find "my" music rather than the diet my parents had raised me on.

1989-91 came along and whacked me in the face. I was immersed in "Madchester" but was also listening to to loads of pirate radio stations that were churning out "mix tape" nights, house nights and ragga nights.

By age 14 I had a really wide understanding of music. Pretty ridiculous for my age tbh. I then started to see how it all "fit together" and how all music influences other music. How genres grow out of genres, how "threads" can be heard when you listen to a wide range of music and how you can tell which bands have influenced other bands.
 
Radio in the kitchen in the morning before school with Lieutenant Pigeon and Mungo Jerry in my ears, the scaffold Beatles and a bit of Mamas And Papas thrown in.

Not a woman or a ho in sight :)
 
My older brother bought The Beatles and The kinks records on the day they were released, he was late teens and earning a wage I was still at school.
He didn't know it, but I played his records to death when he went out, we shared a bedroom and had a small record player in it.
Before those bands the charts were all Perry Como and Matt Munroe etc. Boring to a young kid.
I loved those records so much and was so indoctrinated in music that I learnt to play bass guitar when I was 18.
I've played in bands ever since.

One early recollection was delivering news papers as a 15 year old in the cold dark winter mornings with my little radio and hearing Matthew and son by Cat Stevens, when I hear that song Im delivering papers again.
 
mexico1970 said:
Radio in the kitchen in the morning before school with Lieutenant Pigeon and Mungo Jerry in my ears, the scaffold Beatles and a bit of Mamas And Papas thrown in.

Not a woman or a ho in sight :)
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Mungo Jerry were pretty good , i liked them too .. In the summertime, Lady rose, You don't have to be in the army to fight in the war, etc .... and Tulisa's (NDubz) dad was a member of the group too!

Aaah , Lieutenant Pigeon , the Coventry novelty group ... and 'Mouldy old Dough', their Number One hit .... i've never forgotten that tune either .... a 'one hit wonder' group though i think!
 
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I feel grateful for being 36, a great age for having childhood largely untouched by the internet as it is, but young enough to have picked up skills from it as it grew. Finding a great new band as I was growing up could come from a magazine, some random support band, word of mouth, a flyer in the street, even MTV, when it played music.. That mystery is largely gone in such a short space of time, everything is there, right now. Promoted straight in to your face based on what you listened to 10 minutes ago.

We may have been one of the last generations to head to the local independent record store and browse, ask the owner to play a track or two. However I love having all the music in the world instantly at my fingertips.
 
denislawsbackheel said:
My teens?
Here we go
Small Faces
The Kinks
The Animals
The Stones
The Beatles
Chris Farlowe
Simon Dupree and the Big Sound
The Bonzos
The Incredible String Band
Donovan
Cat Stevens
Al Stewart
Roy Harper
Pink Floyd
Tyrannosaurus Rex
Clifford T Ward
Peter Skellern
Et al...
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Chris Farlowe had a great voice, but never sustained his career,. Add in Andy Fairwether Lowe for iconic voices of the time. He's still going.
 
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