Nice idea for a thread Badsin. Could also use the Radcliffe and Maconie format of ‘first, last, and everything ‘External Link/Members Only
This is so difficult for me! I could pick a top three based on the genre of music that I’m listening to but I’d be here all day and would monopolise the thread. So here goes:Otis Redding - Try A Little Tenderness. Incredible to realise that this was recorded the day he and several members of his band were killed.External Link/Members OnlyBob Dylan - Hurricane. Bob the God and a lyrical geniusExternal Link/Members OnlyThe Rolling Stones - Gimme Shelter. In my opinion the best intro in rock music and the Stones at their majestic best.External Link/Members Only
I saw Otis Redding on his Stax Tour of Britain with an astonishing number of great performers - but nobody quite as good as him.On the other hand I saw the Stones in a club behind Piccadilly when they were unknown; I just thought they were noisy. Their version of Satisfaction nowhere near as good as his original i m o. But I saw them years later in Sydney, and they sure put on a show.
I have had conversations about this, I have always said it should be tracks that were part of your life not "its the best guitar solo" etc etc.My first two would be when you went to the pub at lunchtime (when drinking in work time was allowed !) and played pool witha big old fashioned juke box blasting out tunes at full volume, happy not a care in the world day's:Odyssey - Inside OutEdwyn Collins - Never Seen a Girl Like You BeforeThird would be when you went up town on the Bus on a Saturday afternnon to buy a Vinyl Album and couldnt wait to get home and play it."Bop to you Drop" blew me away (and was the first mainstream digitaly recorded record)Ry cooder - I Can't Win ( with a fantastic vocal by Bobby King)
Satisfaction is a Stones original that Otis Redding covered and I personally think that his version is the better one. Keith Richards has said in later years that the sound that Otis got was what he was looking for but never really managed to get.
My choices, what are yours....links please
1. External Link/Members Only Wonderland by Big Country, and the cover art really caught me as a Scot, and fell in love the the bands songs Hidden Image/Members Only 2. External Link/Members Only OMD Maid of Orleans, found the intro catchy, and even today this songs still sound as good as it first came out3. External Link/Members Only Midnight Oil, Beds are Burning, heard this song in a sports centre, band not widely known in the UK, but a few years later that changed
Midnight Oil, Beds are Burning, heard this song in a sports centre, band not widely known in the UK, but a few years later that changed
Run DMC - My Adidas, first record I bought with my first wage
Haven't listened to that album in a while, think I'll dig that out
Also Midnight Oil too. Saw them in concert many years ago. Blue Sky mining by Midnight Oil still one of my favourite albums from a much underrated band
Sugarhill Gang - Rappers Delight, first record I bought at 9 years old and shaped my musical preference for lifeRun DMC - My Adidas, first record I bought with my first wageMobb Deep - Shook Ones Part 2, the zenith of hip hop (in my eyes, or ears)
There is a famous DJ that presented this as part of his show primarily on BBC radio two.I don't think there was any rules, other than what influenced them through the years.To keep it simple, what be your 'three' choices be?1. Ghost town, the specials.External Link/Members OnlyWhich started my life of Two tone.
Grew up in the 70's:Pink Floyd Dark Side of the Moon - External Link/Members OnlyAlso Fleetwood Mac, Supertramp, Status Quo, and a lot of Glam rock!
I have had conversations about this, I have always said it should be tracks that were part of your life not "its the best guitar solo" etc etc.
Great choices there Jimmy in Pink Floyd, Supertramp and Fleetwood Mac. Saw Supertramp in concert in the late 70's. Recently saw a Pink Floyd tribute band play the whole of dark side of the Moon and other tracks at Coventry Cathedral ( The new cathedral) Unusual venue but the acoustics and the use of the cathedral organ was very good.
