Is there a tune that changed everything for you?

thefool · Post by **thefool** » Thu Jan 10, 2008 11:43 am

while its surely interesting, and also ahead of its time, i'm also pretty certain the acid did its job

cavern · Post by **cavern** » Thu Jan 10, 2008 12:21 pm

for kate i wait

slatepipe · Post by **slatepipe** » Thu Jan 10, 2008 1:59 pm

telekom wrote:
slatepipe wrote:i saw the butthole surfers play at reading festival in 89 and that really was like being hit over the head with a hammer. i was right down the front and quite frightened....
Fukkin YES! Awesome experience.

Orb have been mentioned a lot here, and I do remember being completely gobsmacked by A Huge Ever Growing Pulsating Brain That Rules from the Centre of the Ultraworld... I was in a colour darkroom at night printing photos in almost total darkness when John Peel played it... incredible.

Nice to be back, I been away learning to ride a motorbike. Bought one today too, yay.

mister were you at that buttholes gig?

yeh john peel....had a few moments from my past when he made me stop and just stare at the radio...california uber alles by the dead kennedys, atmosphere and dead souls by joy division, the day everything became nothing by nomeansno.
those are some moments that i distinctly remember that havent been lost in the haze of age.

popslut · Post by **popslut** » Thu Jan 10, 2008 3:24 pm

xrayfish wrote:A Rainbow in Curved Air by Terry Riley.

1972 I think at my brother's flat in Cheltenham

The very first totally electronic record I heard (possibly the first ever made?)

Not by a long way.

John Cage, Karlheinz Stockhausen and others were making "totally electronic" recordings in the 1950s and early 1960's and Delia Derbyshire's "Dr Who Theme" predates Riley's "...Curved Air" by four years.

mosca · Post by **mosca** » Thu Jan 10, 2008 3:33 pm

guitarwise: JAMC - In A Hole
electronicwise - LFO Freeze

xrayfish · Post by **xrayfish** » Thu Jan 10, 2008 4:35 pm

Not by a long way.

John Cage, Karlheinz Stockhausen and others were making "totally electronic" recordings in the 1950s and early 1960's and Delia Derbyshire's "Dr Who Theme" predates Riley's "...Curved Air" by four years.

Yeah, right enough, that's true.

Machinate · Post by **Machinate** » Thu Jan 10, 2008 4:37 pm

popslut wrote:
xrayfish wrote:A Rainbow in Curved Air by Terry Riley.

1972 I think at my brother's flat in Cheltenham

The very first totally electronic record I heard (possibly the first ever made?)
Not by a long way.

John Cage, Karlheinz Stockhausen and others were making "totally electronic" recordings in the 1950s and early 1960's and Delia Derbyshire's "Dr Who Theme" predates Riley's "...Curved Air" by four years.

But then how do we define a "totally electronic" recording? The Dr. Who main theme is mostly tape loop stuff, iirc - would that be considered "electronic" or is it merely manipulated audio? And more importantly, do we care?

Khazul · Post by **Khazul** » Thu Jan 10, 2008 5:38 pm

Not sure there was any specific track - like someone else here - when I was a kid I was into an odd mix of JMJ and heavy metal. All my mates were into heavy metal too apart from one other guy who like me was into whatever was vaguely danceable at the time...

A few years later the pairs of us started DJing - that was 27 years ago, nothing special just low key local events and the like, but it kept the interest going for the next few years...

I guess over the years I have never not been into dance music of some kind, at the end of the 70s - disco stuff - these days a mix of progressive house/electro house and the M25 rave and Ibiza clubbing years in between.

So no single track, not even any single artist - just a constant immersion in dance and electronic music - maybe some of the JMJ stuff in the very early days, later Kraftwerk, certain floyd tracks have hung around in my head over the years - especially comfortably numb for some reason - it allways reminds me of something from the distance past that I cant quite place. Some skinny puppy, orb, fsol, even some queens of the stone age tracks have had their impact.

popslut · Post by **popslut** » Thu Jan 10, 2008 5:53 pm

Machinate wrote:And more importantly, do we care?

A good point, well made.

Ten Square · Post by **Ten Square** » Tue Jan 22, 2008 8:35 pm

Goldie - Timeless - Inner City Life

Machinate · Post by **Machinate** » Tue Jan 22, 2008 8:47 pm

Ten Square wrote:Goldie - Timeless - Inner City Life

God, that was a good one!!!
- it came out JUST at the right time, too. The whole jungle scene was really rocking.

knotkranky · Post by **knotkranky** » Tue Jan 22, 2008 9:02 pm

This stunned me silly when I saw this on SaturdayNightLive in 78'

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid ... 99921806&q

Ya gotta have in mind that radio back then was tons of Frampton, Styx, Journey, Mac, Skynyrd. Very rock or americana. Punk was taking off though.

When Devo hit it was very WTF!!

Oh, and bastardizing a Stones song on national TV back then was WTF too.

roby · Post by **roby** » Tue Jan 22, 2008 10:21 pm

I don't have a song that's changed my life, for me everything has been really vague and musical changes have been pretty steady and smooth.

after giving it some though, i think an important moment when i knew i wasn't going to do heavy metal forever but branch out and be more eclectic is when i first heard Sonic Youth's Goo, and the song that did it for me was Tunic.

jonny72 · Post by **jonny72** » Wed Jan 23, 2008 12:10 am

I was never in to music as a kid, then I heard The Beatmasters / Rok Da House and it converted me on the spot. It wasn't long before the record collection started growing, then I got a pair of Technics and a mixer. Now 20 years after it started I'm loving it as much as ever.

Whilst I like most kinds of music I will always be 'house music' at heart.

mpresev · Post by **mpresev** » Wed Jan 23, 2008 1:05 am

Get the Balance Right by Depeche Mode.