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I don’t understand why I can like stuff by GOAT and Heilung (and, in a classical vein I can enjoy Stravinsky) which is pretty weird but can’t get any pleasure from listening to jazz. I was reading the other day that Rick Wright from Pink Floyd was basically a jazz musician, along with Charlie Watts who seems to be regarded as a jazz drummer. Is it something you just ‘get’. Or do you have to learn to appreciate it. It just sounds like a jumbled up noise to me. But so is Heilung and I love that.
 
moehat said:
I don’t understand why I can like stuff by GOAT and Heilung (and, in a classical vein I can enjoy Stravinsky) which is pretty weird but can’t get any pleasure from listening to jazz. I was reading the other day that Rick Wright from Pink Floyd was basically a jazz musician, along with Charlie Watts who seems to be regarded as a jazz drummer. Is it something you just ‘get’. Or do you have to learn to appreciate it. It just sounds like a jumbled up noise to me. But so is Heilung and I love that.
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Give Kind Of Blue a go. If you get it, then great. If you don’t, then there’s no need to try any further.
 
I've been a premium Spotify subsriber for a decade or so and It's broadened by taste massively just playing around with it and I've discovered really good albums/artists I never would have before. Some reccos'

Punk but more melodic, not that shouty:
The Gun Club - Miami
X - Los Angeles
Minutemen - Double Nickels on the Dime

Hard Rock:
UFO - Phenomenon (amazing album, this band should have been way bigger than they were)
Scorpions - In Trance
ZZ Top (any early album, most are better than Eliminator, more bluesy)
Thin Lizzy - Shades of a Blue Orphanage

Prog:
Jethro Tull - Any of Aqualung, Benefit or Song for the Wood
King Crimson - Discipline
Yes - Going for the One

Female artists or female front ed bands
Joni Mitchell - Ladies of the Canyon
Heart - Dreamboat Annie
Bardo Pond (my best discovery, large catalogue, guitar based psychodelic type band)
 
My 3 picks were all from 1966 or 67 and it doesn't take much imagination to work out that they spanned my last year at school and first year at university. Freedom to choose between buying an LP or eating on a Sunday (I was in a hall of residence on half board terms except for Sunday). I'm quite proud that I did the minimum amount of work to (just) get the degree but expanded my record collection with stuff that I still play. Happy memories of;




and one for the 'undiscovered' list although I did manage to get it played on Brian Matthew's Sound of the Sixties as part of a 3 in a row tribute to San Francisco.


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Just home from my weekly visit to my local bar. Albums played whilst I was there included Rage agains the machine & Guns n'roses
 
Deep Purple In Rock
Free Live
Layla And Assorted Love Songs

the next 3

Led Zeppelin 1
Led Zeppelin 2
Black Sabbath

The last 3 probably influenced more bands than any other albums in rock history
 
2017diary said:
Just home from my weekly visit to my local bar. Albums played whilst I was there included Rage agains the machine & Guns n'roses
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There is a pub in town where the First Friday of every month is Vinyl Friday where then locals bring along their records.I probably had my best pub experience of the last 30 years at one of those nights.
 
LUKE said:
There is a pub in town where the First Friday of every month is Vinyl Friday where then locals bring along their records.I probably had my best pub experience of the last 30 years at one of those nights.
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Used to be every Friday at mine. I'd fall in at 6.00 when the doors opened with an album & it was a case of "what's he bringing in now"? Could have been anything from Warren Zevon, Bhundu Boys, Robert Palmer, Benny Goodman, Doctor John, Rickie Lee Jones, Robert Johnson, Curtis Mayfield etc etc. Had my pint (+ the one that I came for) then off home.
 
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