On 18 Sep 98, Greg Earle wrote re: (idm) Industrial changed my diapers:
quoted 2 lines try and list "music that changed my life" (a hopeless task, given> try and list "music that changed my life" (a hopeless task, given
> over 25 years' of immersion - Irene, Kent, can I get a witness?)
Yes; you're absolutely right - seeing I'm personally being called on,
I shall have to do this ( I was trying to stick my head in the sand ) :
Juno Reactor's "Rotorblade" - a section of which was on a free CD
with The Mix - was the first real push over the edge into my present
musical realm. Here's a jumbled history of where it all went wrong
:-)
The Beatles - all their singles and early stuff especially
John Martyn : Solid Air
The Bothy Band (Irish trad.)
Alan Stivell
Talking Heads - 77
B-52's (very very very loudly)
Devo - Are we not men
Wire : 152 / Chairs Missing / Pink Flag
Grateful Dead : American Beauty
Echo & The B - Heaven up Here
Shriekback - Oil and Gold
New Model Army - Ghost of Cain
The Police
Eno & various : After the heat / Bush of Ghosts etc.
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft - all DAF's early stuff
The Doors (esp. Riders on the Storm)
Pat Metheny : As Wichita falls, so falls Wichita Falls
Martha & The Muffins : Echo Beach (the track)
The The : Infected
UB40 - Signing Off
SoM : A slight Case of Overbombing
Underworld : Dubnobass...
FSOL : Dead Cities
Portishead - s/t
Leftfield : Leftism
Carl Craig (Wonderful World, the track)
Luke Slater - Freek Funk (Track PURELY blows me every time)
Squarepusher : Beep Street (the track)
Aural Expansion - Surreal Sheep
oh - and Brahms' Requiem. Which I've sung in the with the CT
Symphony Orchestra choir. Goosebumpy experience deluxe.
And about a million more - the list grows every day.
Most recent entry being Bernd Friedmann in his various guises.
Exhausted .... and already regretting all the ones I haven't
mentioned.
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