Religion and Ethics Forum
General Category => Literature, Music, Art & Entertainment => Topic started by: Khatru on February 13, 2016, 09:30:53 PM
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What was your best year for music?
I know it's subjective but for me it has to be 1970.
Great releases from Deep Purple, Led Zeppelin, Jethro Tull, Moody Blues, Fairport Convention, Santana, Simon & Garfunkel, Humble Pie and Creedence Clearwater Revival.
Debut albums from Black Sabbath, Wishbone Ash, Uriah Heep and Hawkwind.
1970 was so good that even Top of the Pops was enjoyable.
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Probably 79, I think at 15 music is at it's most exciting, you get to go to gigs, you get to try and play with others and set up bands.
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Probably 79, I think at 15 music is at it's most exciting, you get to go to gigs, you get to try and play with others and set up bands.
Of course, back then it was cheaper to buy a concert ticket than it was an album.
Glasgow Apollo rocked in the seventies and nearly all the big bands played there and I got to see loads of them. I remember my Led Zeppelin ticket being £1 - that was 1972.
Then there was the eek I saw three different bands on consecutive nights.
Rainbow, Yes and Blue Oyster Cult.
Ah, great days indeed.
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I don't think I want to say that the best year is in the past. I'm discovering new music all the time, and I'd hate to do that and yet think back to how much 'greater' it was years ago.
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Yes, the Apollo was a great venue, I may have gone to more gigs at Barrowlands though.
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I don't think I want to say that the best year is in the past. I'm discovering new music all the time, and is hate to do that and yet think back to how much 'greater' it was years ago.
I admire music I find more than love it. I think you hear music differently as a teenager. The line in.Young Americans 'Ain't there one damn song who can make me break down and cry' has haunted me for years. It isn't the music, it's me.
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I admire music I find more than love it. I think you hear music differently as a teenager. The lube in.Young Americans 'Ain't there one damn song who can make me break down and cry' has haunted me for years. It isn't the music, it's me.
I find music affects me just as much as it did when I was in my teens. I'd hate for it not to. That sense of it filling you, or expressing something or reflecting back a thought you didn't know you had... no different at 14 or 44.
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1989-90, known at the time as the second summer of love. The era of acid house, raves, E's (or MDMA), baggy trousers, bucket hats and - especially - Madchester, specifically the Stone Roses and the Happy Mondays, who I saw live.
I still listen to The Stone Roses and Pills n' Thrills and Bellyaches to this day. It reminds me that even I was young once. It makes me think of Charles Bukowski's poem So now?, one of the last late, great poems written when he was dying of leukaemia:
the words have come and gone,
I sit ill.
the phone rings, the cats sleep.
Linda vacuums.
I am waiting to live, waiting to die.
I wish I could ring in some bravery.
it's a lousy fix but the tree outside doesn't know:
I watch it moving with the wind in the late afternoon sun.
there's nothing to declare here, just a waiting.
each faces it alone.
Oh, I was once young,
Oh, I was once unbelievably young!
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It's an odd one. I don't look back at any of it with any sense of yearning - I listened to Strangeways Here We Come earlier which came out as I left school, and it's me listening to it as a 44 yr old. Maybe it's because I'm happier in my own skin now than I was back then.
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I don't think I want to say that the best year is in the past. I'm discovering new music all the time, and I'd hate to do that and yet think back to how much 'greater' it was years ago.
I can see why you say that - I'm always on the look-out for new music and I still find great stuff to listen to.
Having said that, I can't see there being another musical year like 1970. It was very much a formative year for me as it was also the year that saw me discovering album music and moving away from singles/Top Twenty orientated music.
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I can see why you say that - I'm always on the look-out for new music and I still find great stuff to listen to.
Having said that, I can't see there being another musical year like 1970. It was very much a formative year for me as it was also the year that saw me discovering album music and moving away from singles/Top Twenty orientated music.
The formative year idea is interesting - I'm still having those so maybe that is reflected in how I feel.
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What was your best year for music?
I know it's subjective but for me it has to be 1970.
Great releases from Deep Purple, Led Zeppelin, Jethro Tull, Moody Blues, Fairport Convention, Santana, Simon & Garfunkel, Humble Pie and Creedence Clearwater Revival.
Debut albums from Black Sabbath, Wishbone Ash, Uriah Heep and Hawkwind.
1970 was so good that even Top of the Pops was enjoyable.
If you can remember that then you weren't enjoying yourself, man!!!
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1971 for me for similar reasons but different albums.
Who's Next
Sticky Fingers
Tapestry
A Nod Is As Good As a Wink... to a Blind Horse
Electric Warrior
Nilsson Schmilsson
Tupelo Honey
Hunky Dory
Every Picture Tells a Story
Aqualung
Performance Rockin' the Fillmore (H. Pie)
Thin Lizzy
Fillmore East – June 1971 (The Mothers)
Imagine
Nazareth
200 Motels
What's not to like?
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If you can remember that then you weren't enjoying yourself, man!!!
The concert and party memories are a definite blur!
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1971 for me for similar reasons but different albums.
Who's Next
Sticky Fingers
Tapestry
A Nod Is As Good As a Wink... to a Blind Horse
Electric Warrior
Nilsson Schmilsson
Tupelo Honey
Hunky Dory
Every Picture Tells a Story
Aqualung
Performance Rockin' the Fillmore (H. Pie)
Thin Lizzy
Fillmore East – June 1971 (The Mothers)
Imagine
Nazareth
200 Motels
What's not to like?
Great list!
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Autumn 1980 to Spring 1983 (yes I know that is more than a year).
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The concert and party memories are a definite blur!
Glad to hear it, I was getting worried you didn't really join in in the fun of it all.
I don't really have a year. It started with Hendrix and early Floyd and blurred on from there. And like Rhi my tastes have expanded, into such things as Jazz and Classical - more of an era than a year.