Metallica - Black Album. Mom gave it to me on cassette when I was maybe 5, and I listened to it hundreds of times until it broke. She soon after introduced me to Manson, NIN, and White Zombie, among others.
Then my first CD ever was Master of Puppets. Strange how I went forward in technology but backwards in album chronology. Both are godly albums, and I don't think it's nostalgia talking.
Moody Blues - Wildest Dreams - the song of my childhood.
The Atari's - San Demis High School Football Rules - pretty much hits home with highschool.
And whenever I hear the old alma matta's fight song I will remember those late mornings of TFC while the football game is going on down the road.
racketboy wrote:Somebody needs to correct it in Wikipedia then...
There's a surprise.
Though I will admit, the way this phrase is pronounced in the song it does SOUND like they are saying "goo goo g'joob" because of the lack of a pause between the last "goo" and the "joob", but that's not how it is written nor how it was performed by the original artists. Listen closely to the song and you can clearly hear each "goo".
Another little bit of trivia you can hear for yourself. The song "A Day In The Life" on the Sgt. Peppers Album ends with a single loud piano cord which is allowed to ring itself out. Toward the end of this cord you can distinctly hear an office chair squeek in the background. No fancy electronic recording methods were used back then so when the cord was ringing out everyone was supposed to be sitting still and quiet in the studio to capture the ever softening cord in it's entirety, apparently somone was fidgety that day. This squeek is easily heard on a CD recording but is harder to hear on a vinyl recording unless you have a pristine early pressing or a Master Recording pressing and pretty high end hi-fi equipment. It helps to turn up the volume as the cord rings out to hear it well.
I thought that this was going to be about game music for a second.
I place high importance on the music that I grew up on. I love the feeling of nostalgia and most of the music I play nowdays is stuff from or similar to music that I enjoyed growing up. Here are some bands that I want to point out:
Oasis
Matchbox 20
The Verve
Jamiroquai
All of these bands are still going too which is great. I think that Wonderwall by Oasis is particularly defining of my era.
Scooter wrote:Another little bit of trivia you can hear for yourself. The song "A Day In The Life" on the Sgt. Peppers Album ends with a single loud piano cord which is allowed to ring itself out. Toward the end of this cord you can distinctly hear an office chair squeek in the background. No fancy electronic recording methods were used back then so when the cord was ringing out everyone was supposed to be sitting still and quiet in the studio to capture the ever softening cord in it's entirety, apparently somone was fidgety that day. This squeek is easily heard on a CD recording but is harder to hear on a vinyl recording unless you have a pristine early pressing or a Master Recording pressing and pretty high end hi-fi equipment. It helps to turn up the volume as the cord rings out to hear it well.
High school firends turned me into a Rush head, and they're still going after 30 years. I get to see them four times this tour since they extended the dates when they got back from overseas. But HS was also Metalica (black album came out), Nirvana, Alice in Chains, NIN (Broken/Fixed came out, but PHM is _the_ best). Since those years are most ppls defining era of music, it fun to see how folks came up. I also had a co-worker (bagboy/cashier at Kroger) that got me into Madien, Yes, Cult and Neil Young.
After High School, it was all techno (back before it was electronica?!). Starting going to the club and hearing all the euro-beats. Nowdays I listen to Overclock Remix, 80's and some vocal trance all on the internet...my CD collection just collects dust.
