...in which Che dates himself as being an old fart...
In compiling these, I'm laying out the albums that really changed the way I
heard music, albums I can still listen to & hear something new...in vaguely
chronogical order (of experience, not release)...
The Who - Quadrophenia
Pink Floyd - Dark Side Of The Moon (Ok, I can't listen to DSOTM any more -
I have a complete copy of it in m head, so I don't need to anyway)
Robert Fripp - Exposure (this one really dropped a bomb on me in high
school. My friends thought I was nuts.)
King Crimson - Lark's Tongue In Aspic
King Crimson - Discipline
Brian Eno - Here Come The Warm Jets (esp. Baby's On Fire)
Brian Eno - Discreet Music
Brian Eno - Another Green World
Brian Eno/David Byrne - My Life In The Bush Of Ghosts
David Bowie (w/ an assist from Eno) - Heroes
XTC - Black Sea
Kraftwerk - Computer World
New Order - Blue Monday 12"
YMO - Technodelic
Japan - Gentlemen Take Polaroids
Wire - The Ideal Copy
Public Enemy - It Takes A Nation Of Millions To Hold Us Back
808State - Newbuild (yes, I heard it before 90)
808State - Utd. State 90 (I'm still waiting for a Techno album to top this
one)
Richard Harris - The Yard Went On Forever (Waits & Cave only wish they
could be this sick)
Martin Denny - Exotica
Various - Biorhythms 2 (unbeknownst to me, the revolution happened in
Detroit while I wasn't listening)
Black Dog - Live In Toronto
Amon Tobin - Permutations (this one is so good I have trouble listening to
anything else)
yeah, I know, heavy on the Fripp & Eno, but they did more to change the way
I listen to music than anyone...
Props to: Public Image Ltd., George Clinton, Devo, Captain Beefheart, Kate
Bush, The Cocteau Twins, The Cure, The Smiths, Coldcut, Patsy Cline, Hank
Williams Sr., Frank Sinatra, Perez Prado, Jon Hassell, Harold Budd, Model
500, The Orb, Autechre, Global Communication, TPower, and uh oh, The
Grateful Dead.
Che
rock - rok (v.) - having a conventional and/or boring nature. ex: "Khakis
rock". "That Rolling Stones show rocked". syn: suck.