The great tapestry of Popular music.

I can mostly remember The Beatles and The Stones as a nipper in the 60's (born in 62), but in the same period I always watched The Monkees. Agree about Chuck Berry because my old man listened to him therefore so did I. Led Zep in the early 70's, with a bit of T Rex and Simon and Garfunkel are my main memories from the early 70's.
Really like Peter Green's Fleetwood Mac from the 60's, but didn't become aware of how good they were until 15 years later.
 
Dave62 said:
I can mostly remember The Beatles and The Stones as a nipper in the 60's (born in 62), but in the same period I always watched The Monkees. Agree about Chuck Berry because my old man listened to him therefore so did I. Led Zep in the early 70's, with a bit of T Rex and Simon and Garfunkel are my main memories from the early 70's.
Really like Peter Green's Fleetwood Mac from the 60's, but didn't become aware of how good they were until 15 years later.
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Dave, 70 this year and my older brother 80 this year, got all my early music influences from him, then the 60’s exploded into all sorts of musical genres. Personally moved into Soul, Tamla, but most of all Reggae and onwards.
 
Levi501 said:
Dave, 70 this year and my older brother 80 this year, got all my early music influences from him, then the 60’s exploded into all sorts of musical genres. Personally moved into Soul, Tamla, but most of all Reggae and onwards.
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You're 10 years ahead of me, so I was only a kid during the 60's, but I still liked the Stones, Beatles, and the Monkees TV show. I've never really been in to Reggae, but with obvious respect for Bob Martley, especially after visiting Jamaica, where he is still worshipped. Same with Tamla, although Marvin Gaye Heard it Through the Grapevine always stuck in the memory (69?)
 
Dave62 said:
You're 10 years ahead of me, so I was only a kid during the 60's, but I still liked the Stones, Beatles, and the Monkees TV show. I've never really been in to Reggae, but with obvious respect for Bob Martley, especially after visiting Jamaica, where he is still worshipped. Same with Tamla, although Marvin Gaye Heard it Through the Grapevine always stuck in the memory (69?)
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Marvin the sublime voice of Motown yeh (69). Went up to Bob’s house in Jamaica a few years ago, he brought reggae to the white audience. Yer mon!
 
TheSeaWord said:
My background was rock/pop/punk, now getting into old blues guitarists Freddie & Albert King, Buddy Guy, Stevie Ray Vaughan etc.
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To me that’s what it’s all about, so much music out there to discover besides the music you grew up listening to. Or As the great Bobby Gillespie waxed lyrically: Music is music whether gospel, blues, or jazz.
 
First band I ever loved was Floyd (and still do) from about the age of 11 and a family member introduced me to The Doors. I started early with an obsession with music. Bands I listened to most at that time though were Sweet, Suzi Quatrro and Slade but they were on the slide.
From 77 onwards though it was the Pistols, Damned, Clash, Penetration and from 78 I got into Reggae and Ska.
 
My mum used to put Bill Haley and the Comets on when I was very young 7/8 ish and try to teach me to Jive, she was a great dancer and that’s where it began for me. Dad was an Elvis fan so between these 2 artists I found the rhythms and beats intoxicating and went on my own voyage of discovery. The 70s was when I started buying all sorts of music and by the early 80s i was into reggae, ska and 2tone (which are my favourite genres now).
 
I have a very long memory (for good or bad), and remember stuff from being about 4 years old in 1964: Down Town by Petula Clark, My Boy Lollypop by Millie Small. Obviously the Beatles and the Stones painted the backdrop to those years but I only really started getting into music through TOTP in 1967/68. The first single I can remember being No. 1 was Cinderella, Rockerfella by Esther and Abi Ofarim. That was quickly followed by Manfred Mann's The Mighty Quinn and The Legend of Xanadu by Dave Dee and friends. In 1970 I started my lifelong attachment to The Beatles, who have remained my No. 1 throughout. The only one of there's I can recall being at No. 1 whilst I was starting to take an interest was Get Back. Footage from the Let It Be rooftop gig was used by TOTP and I remember my mum and her sister bemoaning the way they'd changed.
 
This is Ska said:
My mum used to put Bill Haley and the Comets on when I was very young 7/8 ish and try to teach me to Jive, she was a great dancer and that’s where it began for me. Dad was an Elvis fan so between these 2 artists I found the rhythms and beats intoxicating and went on my own voyage of discovery. The 70s was when I started buying all sorts of music and by the early 80s i was into reggae, ska and 2tone (which are my favourite genres now).
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I definitely like the more popular end of reggae and I've long been a fan of ska. However, I remember around 1979-82 there being some quite heavy dub reggae knocking about which wasn't my thing at all.
 
Being just a young lad myself ,(57) I listened to pop music on the radio , Mud, Sweet, Rubettes etc. August 77 was when I really started to take music seriously. Yes August 16 when Elvis died , I listened to Elvis 40 greatest hits when I got home from school. I loved it. My love for Rock n Roll began there. My Stepfather had loads of old albums ,Bill Haley, Buddy Holly , Chuck Berry , Eddie Cochran, Gene Vincent and so on . My pals growing up were mostly into Heavy Rock so it was obvious I would have to endure their tunes but I enjoyed it. As I’ve got older I’ve started to appreciate other music , not so much modern music but I don’t mind 80s and 90s stuff. I quite like 60s stuff from The Stones , Van Morrison , Clapton etc . I have become rather concerned that I’m actually starting to like tune from Pulp. Weird or what ? Anyway that basically covers my music tastes, though I have stuck with my first love, 50s Rock nRoll / Rockabilly.
 
Fatboy said:
Being just a young lad myself ,(57) I listened to pop music on the radio , Mud, Sweet, Rubettes etc. August 77 was when I really started to take music seriously. Yes August 16 when Elvis died , I listened to Elvis 40 greatest hits when I got home from school. I loved it. My love for Rock n Roll began there. My Stepfather had loads of old albums ,Bill Haley, Buddy Holly , Chuck Berry , Eddie Cochran, Gene Vincent and so on . My pals growing up were mostly into Heavy Rock so it was obvious I would have to endure their tunes but I enjoyed it. As I’ve got older I’ve started to appreciate other music , not so much modern music but I don’t mind 80s and 90s stuff. I quite like 60s stuff from The Stones , Van Morrison , Clapton etc . I have become rather concerned that I’m actually starting to like tune from Pulp. Weird or what ? Anyway that basically covers my music tastes, though I have stuck with my first love, 50s Rock nRoll / Rockabilly.
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I like very early Elvis - My Baby Left Me, Little Sister, Baby Let's Pay House. What do you think of the Rock n' Roll covers album that Lennon did?
 
00s Indie Rock and Oasis were my initial main obsessions, Oasis and Noel Gallagher's interviews then put me on the path of discovering music of the 60s and such. The influence was clear in the music and Noel would talk about "putting the younger generation onto the greats like the Beatles and the Stones" - I very much obliged.

Since then my taste has more revolved around Rock music of the 60s/70s but anything guitar based from any era can tickle my fancy.
 
The first popular singer I liked was Al Jolson, Wouldn't be big now as he 'blacked up for his act.
He did sing with a Minstrel band earlier.
Next favourite was/is Frank Sinatra, possibly got all his hits/songs on plastic..
Next was Neil Sedaka, some great songs.
One who always been on my list is Don McLean.
Play them all regularly. Usually when I'm doing the ironing.
Yes, I do all the ironing 😟 ;)
 
1966_and_all_that said:
I like very early Elvis - My Baby Left Me, Little Sister, Baby Let's Pay House. What do you think of the Rock n' Roll covers album that Lennon did?
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I’ve never heard it if I’m honest ! My favourite Elvis music is also his early stuff from he Sun collection, and his first RCA albums .
 
Davepick said:
The first popular singer I liked was Al Jolson, Wouldn't be big now as he 'blacked up for his act.
He did sing with a Minstrel band earlier.
Next favourite was/is Frank Sinatra, possibly got all his hits/songs on plastic..
Next was Neil Sedaka, some great songs.
One who always been on my list is Don McLean.
Play them all regularly. Usually when I'm doing the ironing.
Yes, I do all the ironing 😟 ;)
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Neil Sedaka wrote some fantastic songs , as did Paul Anka .
 
The first moment I sat up and though WTF I love that was watching Tubeway Army perform 'Are Friends Electric' on TOTP - I will have been 12.

From then on I got into a lot of electronic music and still love discovering new electronic bands.

As I grew up like many others I listened to John Peel every night and by the early / mid 80s I was obsessed with music (mainly what you would describe as post punk) and would go to 50+ gigs a year . . . still do 👍
 
Elvis, Chuck Berry, Lonnie Donegan, Joe Brown. Great days for music, II thought it started going downhill in '69 for some reason.
 
Watched the Rolling Stones last night in a small gig from 2015, played some rare stuff from the Sticky Fingers album amongst others. Not watched it all yet but really enjoyed it so far. Think it’ll be on iplayer. We’ll worth a watch.
 
Well I first heard, Duran, Spandau, Wham, Michael Jackson, David Bowie, Stones and Queen. They were through my parents. Then I had my own faves as I got older. But them listed are still listened too regularly for good memories.
 
My Dad always had Jazz and big band music on the "stereogram"
Sister played lots of late 60's early 70's
Mother didn't listen to owt!!!
I will listen to anything apart from rap (beastie boys excluded)
In the 70's was into Mike Oldfield, Glam Rock, Punk, 2tone
80's Anything electronic
90's Oasis and the like

Now it's mostly trips down memory lane as the modern manufactured shite does nothing for me whatsoever.
Just come back from a week in Scotland and visited my mates recorded shop, couldn't believe the stock he has!!
I'll post his number later if anyone's interested as he does mail order👍🏻
 
Hertsseasider said:
No surprise for those that know me but Love it to Death by Alice Cooper.
Quo, Queen,Roxy,Bowie, etc..
A 70's child .
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Although I love The Beatles and started listening in the 60s I am also really a 70s lad. I still have my T Rex, Sweet and Slade singles. My favourites though are Status Quo. I have all the albums up to and including Rocking All Over the World but my favourite is Hello!
 
Wizzerboy said:
My Dad always had Jazz and big band music on the "stereogram"
Sister played lots of late 60's early 70's
Mother didn't listen to owt!!!
I will listen to anything apart from rap (beastie boys excluded)
In the 70's was into Mike Oldfield, Glam Rock, Punk, 2tone
80's Anything electronic
90's Oasis and the like

Now it's mostly trips down memory lane as the modern manufactured shite does nothing for me whatsoever.
Just come back from a week in Scotland and visited my mates recorded shop, couldn't believe the stock he has!!
I'll post his number later if anyone's interested as he does mail order👍🏻
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Love the word stereogram.. it conjures up pictures of life in a completely different era! We had one too..a Dynatron..
 
Have always had wide tastes, growing up in the 70's, all the usuals, Slade, Yes, early Genesis, Motown, even a bit of C&W. Punk changed me, so many were so bloody awful and couldn't play their instruments, I looked for the ones , and new wave, who could. Clash, Eddie and the Hot Rods, Dr Feelgood, Ian Dury, Police, and that lead into Specials, Selector. Didn't rate Pink Floyd, thought it was pretentious twaddle, it is now my go to music! Add in a bit of John Lee Hooker, Santana, Celtic Folk, Bocelli, Zeppelin, Springsteen, Amy Winehouse and any of the great women singers, I'm either confused or very Catholic tastes.
 
Levi501 said:
Where are your roots, and what first reved you up?
For me, Chuck Berry, Bo Didley, Beatles, Stones.
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They covered Dylan's 'like a rolling stone' last night. I've seen literally hundreds and hundreds of gigs in my lifetime but that 5 minutes in particular was up there with some of the best I've ever seen.
 
southshorepool said:
They covered Dylan's 'like a rolling stone' last night. I've seen literally hundreds and hundreds of gigs in my lifetime but that 5 minutes in particular was up there with some of the best I've ever seen.
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Yeh looked at the playlist earlier and noticed it, we’ve just watched it on YouTube, fackn ace. We got ‘I wanna be your man’ at Anfield as a tribute to the Beatles. Just watching more footage from last night, Jagger is phenomenally fit for 78 , so made up we got to see em cause it maybe the Last time, I don’t know.😉
 
My roots, as in I was brought up on Abba and Diana Ross type stuff.
When I hit 11 and found my own taste it was Soft Cell and and other electro style bands and then Prince came along.

From my 20’s onwards I’ve been open to any music style to be honest.

Favourites from across the decades would be Soft Cell, Prince, Lauryn Hill, Keane, Del Amitri, Frank Ocean, Arctic Monkeys, Red Hot Chilli Peppers.
I don’t have a genre, I’m open to all of it.
 
Hackneyseasider said:
Seeing Sparks on TOTP playing This town ain't big enough for the both of us - Hitler's on the telly!

Roxette by Dr Feelgood was the first time I heard something on the radio which rocked my world.
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I have a half hour excerpt on DVD, from a late 70s Feelgoods gig in their home town of Southend. Cracking stuff.

Edit: It's on You Tube, live from Southend Kursaal.
 
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Levi501 said:
Yeh looked at the playlist earlier and noticed it, we’ve just watched it on YouTube, fackn ace. We got ‘I wanna be your man’ at Anfield as a tribute to the Beatles. Just watching more footage from last night, Jagger is phenomenally fit for 78 , so made up we got to see em cause it maybe the Last time, I don’t know.😉
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You may well be aware but Lennon & McCartney gave I wanna Be Your Man to the Stones, who then released it as their second single. It reached No. 12 and was their first single in the Top 20.
 
1966_and_all_that said:
You may well be aware but Lennon & McCartney gave I wanna Be Your Man to the Stones, who then released it as their second single. It reached No. 12 and was their first single in the Top 20.
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Yeh it was on ‘With the Beatles’ LP sung by Ringo, when I was a nipper I couldn’t work out why both groups had done it! before I knew the facts.
 
My mother was very much Abba, Shirley Bassey and Barbara Streisand while my father was more Jean Michel Jarre/ synth and disco. My elder brother was more Led Zep, Motorhead and Metal so I chose to like Led Zep as a very young un. Changed mid 80's to more synth/electro music like Depeche Mode, New Order etc.
 
Levi501 said:
Where are your roots, and what first reved you up?
For me, Chuck Berry, Bo Didley, Beatles, Stones.
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some good stuff there Levi 👍
In my very early teens it was David Bowie and TRex, as well as a few other glam rock bands.
Then along came the Pistols, Clash, Damned etc.
And it was the early Punk stuff which really revved me up! And it still does even now.
After that along came The Who in to my life after seeing them in concert in 1982. I was persuaded to go to that gig by a friend as I admit prior to that I liked them, but they'd sort of passed me by a bit. That gig absolutely blew me away as prior to that I don't think I'd realised just how good a band could be live. And it's still the best gig I've ever been to.
 
RUSTY_2_STANDS said:
some good stuff there Levi 👍
In my very early teens it was David Bowie and TRex, as well as a few other glam rock bands.
Then along came the Pistols, Clash, Damned etc.
And it was the early Punk stuff which really revved me up! And it still does even now.
After that along came The Who in to my life after seeing them in concert in 1982. I was persuaded to go to that gig by a friend as I admit prior to that I liked them, but they'd sort of passed me by a bit. That gig absolutely blew me away as prior to that I don't think I'd realised just how good a band could be live. And it's still the best gig I've ever been to.
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I saw them in 82 at the NEC. It wasn't that one was it?
 
RUSTY_2_STANDS said:
some good stuff there Levi 👍
In my very early teens it was David Bowie and TRex, as well as a few other glam rock bands.
Then along came the Pistols, Clash, Damned etc.
And it was the early Punk stuff which really revved me up! And it still does even now.
After that along came The Who in to my life after seeing them in concert in 1982. I was persuaded to go to that gig by a friend as I admit prior to that I liked them, but they'd sort of passed me by a bit. That gig absolutely blew me away as prior to that I don't think I'd realised just how good a band could be live. And it's still the best gig I've ever been to.
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Being older than you Rusty, I grew up listening to The Who, Small Faces, Kinks, Animals etc, and buying their records. Saw Bowie in Jan 74 at Preston Guild Hall on the Ziggy tour, brilliant gig. Saw the Who at The Valley Charlton summer 74, they blew everyone away they were that loud and powerful! Then like you, Pistols, Clash Elvis Costello Joy Division, better stop there😉 great era of music.
 
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