Jun 6, 2020 19:44:54 GMT 12 cooksferry said:

Small Faces, Odgens Nutgone Flake.

Yep, incomparable 

"I see music as a lifetime affair." [Rory Gallagher]

One of my favourites from Bob -1978?

Dylan makes in onto my 10 most influential albums as well. Dylan's first 'electric' album. Charlie McCoy's guitar playing on Desolation Row is worth the price of admission alone, but there are a lot of other great songs as well.

Neil Young- On The Beach.  The 1970s were a fairly barren time time for me picking up on new music. Too many other distractions, travel, motorbikes, general hedonism,marriage etc
One of the few constants was the music of Neil Young and the album I kept returning to was and still is, On The Beach.  If i had to pick just one record from that decade this would be it. 
Fav tk, For the Turnstiles. 

Saved by Bob Dylan. I only have it on cassette. Sometimes I’ll be out walking and ‘Are You Ready’ will pop into my head.

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Jascha Heifetz playing the Sibelius Violin concerto with Sir Thomas Beecham and the London Philharmonic. This particular recording was done in 1935. Mindblowingly good.

It has the Tchaikovsky and the Wienawski as well, also recorded in the 30s.

He did a later recording in 1959 which was almost as good. Sadly my copy has bitten the dust thus the Spotify link.

Richard Thompson- Rumor and Sigh.
This one I can almost lay at the feet of fellow forum member, Foveaux.
A couple of decades ago we used to meet Friday nights for lots of music and some internal lubrication. Trolling through Ian's extensive lp collection I'm (almost) certain that either Hokey Pokey or Pour Down Like Silver ended up on the Linn and a spark was lit. Can't say that Thompson had ever appeared on my radar till then.
Is Rumor and Sigh a perfect record? Not quite in my opinion. It could do with loosing the final track, Physco Street which almost no one seems to enjoy but the rest are a great mixture of story telling, humour and dark tales. Typical RT really.

Standout track for many is the best motorcycle song committed to disc, 1952 Vincent Black Lightning, a cinematic story in 4.33.

"Red Hair and black leather,my favourite colour scheme"
I was fortunate to score a near mint lp a few years and then MoFi came along with SACD and 2xlp versions in 2017/18. Still bummed that I passed the 2002 DVA version on sale when my local Sounds shop was closing. Was $10 then, now a copy at least $100 when you can find one.

Jun 9, 2020 9:22:25 GMT 12 cooksferry said:

A couple of decades ago we used to meet Friday nights for lots of music and some internal lubrication.  I'm (almost) certain that either Hokey Pokey or Pour Down Like Silver ended up on the Linn and a spark was lit. 

"Red Hair and black leather, my favourite colour scheme"

Those Friday nights were treasured sessions for sure. Astonished how we covered such varied music/artists between us.
Indeed it was 'Pour Down Like Silver' (don't have Hokey Pokey on vinyl).
Rumour and Sigh...what an album; and you'll get no argument from me about your favourite colour scheme either 

"I see music as a lifetime affair." [Rory Gallagher]

I've 3 'influencers' to go...No.8:

I thought Brian Eno's work was pivotal for Roxy Music, but solo, thankfully, he created his visionary musical universe. It's one I've subscribed to.
While favourites are "Before and After Science' and 'Fourth World, Vol. 1: Possible Musics' (with Jon Hassell), it's 'The Pearl' with Harold Budd and Daniel Lanois I pick:



Best for reflective listening, this will aurally take you anywhere you want to go. If you want to go nowhere, it'll do that too. Transcendental.      
  

"I see music as a lifetime affair." [Rory Gallagher]

Old, mono, worn, inspiring, once you hear it in your head you can’t get rid of it. Only a play of the record will alleviate the crisis.

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Away for a couple of days without internet, so will put up two albums to catc up. Still in the early 70s and focus was only on classical music. Both of these albums have been regularly played ever since.

Carefree days in London 80-85 (working holiday, not career oriented), resulted in plenty of focus on music and concerts; so plenty of 'influences.'

Post punk was emerging. The Fall, The Teardrops Explode, The Smiths, Bauhaus, Siouxsie and the Banshees, New Order [Joy Division unseen as Ian Curtis had died early 1980], The Sound, Japan, Killing Joke, Magazine & The Cure were all seen at gigs (aside: and U2 at the Moonlight Club, West Hampstead prior to 'Boy' being released. Thought they were 'energetic' - but not too remarkable   oops!).

More than the aforementioned, the band I enjoy/ed best was Echo and the Bunnymen (from Liverpool, no less  ). Their first release gets the nod:



Quintessential for me. Fanboy since 1980! 

Attended another of their concerts at the Royal Albert Hall in 16 Sept 2008, when passing through on hols. (concert was sold out way before we left NZ. However I visited the ticket office that day on the off chance of returns. Was told nil. Was almost out the door when I was called back - someone had just 'phoned 2 return tickets! - freaky and fortuitous coincidence).


   

"I see music as a lifetime affair." [Rory Gallagher]

Rosanne Cash- Interiors
Not too many female artists appearing on these lists and it's one area where my collection falls a little short.
Not sure what lead me too this record but it's one that I connected to immediately.  Cash's first self produced and mostly self written record and the blossoming of a talent that has continued to grow to this day. 
Interiors may or may not document much of the breakdown of her marriage to Rodney Crowell. Whichever way the listener leans there's no doubt there's a dark under current to the songs .
My vinyl copy is a promo with a different cover to the regular release and a couple of bonus tracks.
 

My #10
Now here was a nice little 'English' band: a small guy with the finest rock/blues voice, an urchin magician on astral lead guitar & a rock solid rhythm section.
They released a quartet of albums before their first implosion. 

In the wake of the breakup, this was released:

 

I consider the album their greatest hits live. 
An influence? I'll say.   Peerless & a supreme joy.  

"I see music as a lifetime affair." [Rory Gallagher]

After buying my first decent stereo set up in early 70s, I purchased exc,usive.y classical music, but my ears were opened one day to something different! I joined the World Record Club, and one month didn’t send back the order form in time, and was sent the monthly pick -

Oh yes, some good stuff to follow up chaps.

sub - I still have this, one of my first vinyl purchases & still brings back warm, fuzzy memories
'Folk' in now enjoying a comeback I see.

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A mixtape I received once had a bit more influence on me than the records I was listening to at the time:

#1 Larsen / Feiten band

#2 Ben Sidran 'The Cat and The Hat'.

#3 Lenny White The Adventures of Astral Pirates.

Interesting bass and guitar-playing.

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#4 The Brecker Brothers 'Heavy Metal Be-Bop'.

Good atmosphere on this record.

This was one of the first Jazz albums I bought having seen and loved the film and my introduction in Jazz really. I still play it regularly and it’s the first album I play with a new turntable or cartridge.

Jun 10, 2020 8:17:41 GMT 12 colinf said:

Old, mono, worn, inspiring, once you hear it in your head you can’t get rid of it. Only a play of the record will alleviate the crisis.

colinf sorry - what is that record. I can't quite read that thanks.

Click on the image, it will enlarge, then zoom in if you need to. Schumann, Symph 1: LSO/Krips

Thanks. I did do that. Okay.

I think Schumann had a knack for writing catchy little ditties that repeat over and over in some form or another. I listen mostly to Symphony no.4. The Schumann Cello Concerto is another like that.
Do you think I’m getting a little eccentric, existing as I do in my own little world of classical? I was playing Bartok string quartet no.3 the other day and had reached the bit where it sounds like a cat being tortured. The other half walked in and thought the world had actually ended, and closed the door swiftly. It was quite unlike Rod Stewart and Enrico Iglesias.

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Bartok's String Quartets are among my most cherished of all string quartets.

Juilliard's 1963 performance is the one I grew up on, and love the most.

This thread is classy. 😐 I was saying to Owen Y recently that when The Warehouse sold more interesting cds I picked up this set for about $20 I think. Of performances mainly either of Czech? or Hungarian origin.. I kept thinking how little revenue the players would've got from it. Also bad that I'd never really gotten into small chamber music like I should've. There is a really well played Schubert String Quartet in the set.

Ah yes, Schubert string quartets, some of my favourite music ever....
It was a cold, rainy evening in Hobart when the Takacs String Quartet came to the Uni of Tasmania’s small and intimate theatre. I made sure I didn’t miss them. They played Bartok string quartet no.3, and some Beethoven. As the exotic, undiluted sounds issued forth from their ancient, refined little wooden boxes I was aware we were experiencing something very special. The players were so passionate, the culture of the music had completely consumed them. It was a magic evening.
The Takacs quartet had just recorded all of Bartok’s quartets and were on a promotional tour. I bought their Decca CD set right there.

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Wow.

Aug 15, 2020 18:04:30 GMT 12 colinf said:

I think Schumann had a knack for writing catchy little ditties that repeat over and over in some form or another. I listen mostly to Symphony no.4. The Schumann Cello Concerto is another like that.
Do you think I’m getting a little eccentric, existing as I do in my own little world of classical? I was playing Bartok string quartet no.3 the other day and had reached the bit where it sounds like a cat being tortured. The other half walked in and thought the world had actually ended, and closed the door swiftly. It was quite unlike Rod Stewart and Enrico Iglesias.

I have a bit of a weird theory related to Schumann - it's a bit odd but I wonder if what he was doing with the 'machine' that broke his left hand - was he was trying to improve a problem that is I think more prevalent in Caucasian folks - that if you don't learn an instrument early enough - the finger joints in each hand can 'set' earlier than later and affect flexibility? My 1st and 2nd finger joints on my 3rd and 4th fingers are more like boards won't do a reverse curl on their own. And without that it's no good pursuing a musical career. You can become an audiophile though. 😊 The furthest I got was learning about a hormone called relaxin (III) that used to be recovered from pigs but can now be synthesised in the laboratory from recombinant dna and that will actually soften or elasticize connective tissue.