Today I've been relaxing by playing music I listened to in the past (my youth!)
Here's one such song (Supertramp: Logical Song) https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ukKQw578Lm8
Do reply with a song you liked listening to... we can turn this thread into a virtual jukebox!
I would have to take a key track, a few maybe for each decade.
For the Sixties, I liked then and still like, a little psychedelia
Hole in my Shoe - Traffic. Loved it then because it was not a silly love song, no pun or allusion intended to Wings.
Fixing a Hole - Beatles. My fave from Sergeant Pepper I remember 1967 was a pretty special year, something was certainly in the air. Actually I like that Thunderclap Newman track, though he would be horrified I am sure by the darkening clouds in the air now
Badge - Cream. Discovered that later, but loved the chords.
Wheels on Fire - Judith Driscoll, hated it then but love it now.
70's. Hated T Rex, Donny Osmond, David Cassidy and the like. David Bowie could be trusted to do something weird. I had a sad passion for The Sweet but then much later on, really grew to like a sublime track I didn't recognise as theirs, Love is Like Oxygen.
Erm..... I liked Abba too. Knowing Me Knowing You being the most anthemic.
Every track on Supertramp's Crime of the Century rocked for me at 20. Not a single filler, as every good album should be. There was a boyfriend who introduced to Voyage of the Acolyte, by Steve Hackett, I did not stay with this guy but did continue to love this album.
I could say the same of Dark Side of the Moon and later investigated early Pink Floyd, Saucerful of Secrets: I freaked out some other students from the halls by playing the track with the organ music late at night.
10 CC I'm Mandy, Fly Me.
Recently I discovered an elusive tracks I liked by Blue Oster Cult, Don't Fear the Reaper. Pretty proto Goth.
In the early 80's I liked anything you could dance too, but Blue Monday deserves a mention. Still like that. Or is that 70's?
Soft Cell and Tainted Love and their deliciously decadent Sex Dwarf. I danced to the Sister's This Corrosion but did not know it was Sisters and a Goth anthem. New Romantic sat well with me, Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark for example. Later in the 80's I started to like Kate Bush more and more.
In the 90's I discovered Goth, starting with Heaven and LasVegas from Cocteau's, only grew to like their first two albums, which were a lot more Goth, later. I reviewed stuff for a Goth zine called Bats and Red Velvet and got to know lots of new music that way.
Best finds were Coventry kids Attrition - who knew that was brewing right under my nose in the inner city then? Try Cosmic Citizen.
All About Eve is and remains a favourite band of mine.
From Germany there was Engelsstaub, medieval and sinister, industrial Project Pitchfork, Fateful.Passion, Dark Orange,Theatre of Tragedy and Lacrimosa. Australia brought Joy Division-inspired Ikon to my attention. From Italy, Africa, all brilliant finds. In Hungary I encountered the nihilistic FO system and later The Space Monkeez.
In 2005 I was utterly bowled over by Brian Wilson's Smile. He claims it was the closest to a hymn to him and that is how it felt to listen to.
Right now I have Florence on my Machine, especially Ceremonials. Some of the later PJ Harvey albums are pretty good too. Anna Von Hausswolff is worth checking out. And I hope to find still more gems put there at some point.
Interesting reading, Nexus9. Lots of agreements, and a few disagreements. I loved T Rex. But you have such an interesting selection there. I liked All About Eve, too, but found them a bit lightweight later on in life. Tim Bricheno later joined the Sisters of Mercy.
I wonder if you like this as much as I do. I think the lyrics suck a bit... but it entrances me whenever I hear it...
Interesting reading, Nexus9. Lots of agreements, and a few disagreements. I loved T Rex. But you have such an interesting selection there. I liked All About Eve, too, but found them a bit lightweight later on in life. Tim Bricheno later joined the Sisters of Mercy.
I wonder if you like this as much as I do. I think the lyrics suck a bit... but it entrances me whenever I hear it...
Here's a track from Ikon:
Stranger I've Become https://youtu.be/vPvwH6dGkOc
That's a great track, Martian Tom, it has an intensity to it. I lost track of Pink Floyd after The Wall, so cannot claim to be familiar with what came later. Waiting for the Worms seems somewhat prophetic now. I guess I disliked T Rex because of the way all the girls I knew on the school bus had such a massive crush on them, or rather Marc Bolan. I was actually fairly easy ndifferent towards the music. It did somehow define the new decade though.
