The first full album from MBM changed what I listened to back when it came out. The beats were raw and the use of sampling was really well done.
Records that changed your life....
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The first full album from MBM changed what I listened to back when it came out. The beats were raw and the use of sampling was really well done.
wipers "is this real"
this heat s/t
raincoats s/t
beatles white album
stooges "fun house"
ATCQ midnight marauders
tyrannosaurus rex "a beard of stars"
black flag damaged
wire "chairs missing"
led zeppelin "physical grafiti"
sonny sharrock "black woman"
soft machine vol. 2
simply saucer "cyborgs revisited"
this heat s/t
raincoats s/t
beatles white album
stooges "fun house"
ATCQ midnight marauders
tyrannosaurus rex "a beard of stars"
black flag damaged
wire "chairs missing"
led zeppelin "physical grafiti"
sonny sharrock "black woman"
soft machine vol. 2
simply saucer "cyborgs revisited"
biographical ish:
REALLY fell in love with hip hop with this. there were always b-boys and b-girls around the way in 83, but i wasn't really sold until i heard that jam on the radio.
i was living with my grandparents for a couple of years and whenever they weren't listening to the filipino radio programs, my grandma would rock a tape of hawaiian music (she's 1/4 hawaiian). my favorite track on the tape was "hi'ilawe", and after my uncle brought out the record to show me where that track was from i would bump that in my headphones on the school bus.
cars drove by rumbling:
womp, wo-womp womp
wo-wo-womp
womp, wo-womp womp
so ill. made me want to slap bitches.
rediculous production and energy. made me want to slap white people. (oh c'mon. i was 16, and it was THAT era in hip hop)
went shopping for nyc indy 12inches and i heard "i gotta help my people" in a record shop and realized it was the source of an ill j-live drop for a college radio show (three years later it was released as "school's in"). it's such a beautifully powerful track. didn't buy it cause he wanted $20 for it and i thought that shit was outrageous. but that was record that sparked my pursuit for records.
REALLY fell in love with hip hop with this. there were always b-boys and b-girls around the way in 83, but i wasn't really sold until i heard that jam on the radio.
i was living with my grandparents for a couple of years and whenever they weren't listening to the filipino radio programs, my grandma would rock a tape of hawaiian music (she's 1/4 hawaiian). my favorite track on the tape was "hi'ilawe", and after my uncle brought out the record to show me where that track was from i would bump that in my headphones on the school bus.
cars drove by rumbling:
womp, wo-womp womp
wo-wo-womp
womp, wo-womp womp
so ill. made me want to slap bitches.
rediculous production and energy. made me want to slap white people. (oh c'mon. i was 16, and it was THAT era in hip hop)
went shopping for nyc indy 12inches and i heard "i gotta help my people" in a record shop and realized it was the source of an ill j-live drop for a college radio show (three years later it was released as "school's in"). it's such a beautifully powerful track. didn't buy it cause he wanted $20 for it and i thought that shit was outrageous. but that was record that sparked my pursuit for records.
Chrome-"alien soundtracks" and "Half-Machine Lip Moves"
Miles Davis-"Bitches Brew"
Dinosaur Jr.-"Green Mind"
and many, many others......
Miles Davis-"Bitches Brew"
Dinosaur Jr.-"Green Mind"
and many, many others......
By "changed your life," I assume you mean the album changes the way you think about life or music, or how your life relates to music (or the other way around?).
Too many to list, but here are a few I could think of:
Grade school:
Middle school:
High school:
Post high school:
At least, this is the one that really got the ball rolling...
Too many to list, but here are a few I could think of:
Grade school:
Middle school:
High school:
Post high school:
At least, this is the one that really got the ball rolling...
The record that made me stop waiting for Led Zeppelin to condescend to play anywhere apart from London, and made me realise that you didn't have to be a virtuoso to make music. I remember literally running home from my boy's one night because John Peel had said the previous night that he'd be playing something by the Ramones on the following night's show. I taped "I Don't Wanna Walk Around With You", took it to band practice a few days later and told the rest of the band, "We need to be doing stuff like this". They laughed. A week or so later, they threw me out of the band.
The record that made me realise that "Rapper's Delight" wasn't a novelty record. Discovering this record, and others, for myself without having read about it in the music press, or heard it on the radio or in clubs, was a real thrill for me. Early rap was the most exciting thing I'd heard since punk rock.
B-Side wins again. "Rebel" was an absolutely titanic game-changer of a record. Nobody had ever heard anything like it, simply because nobody had ever made anything like it. The bar had been raised.
At the end of 1986/beginning of 1987 (I can't recall exactly when), I remember going to one of the regular soul/funk all-nighters they used to hold at Legends in Manchester. Despite the name, the musical brief at these events tended to be fairly broad - around then, you'd hear current hip-hop tunes (Mantronix productions were particularly popular) alongside the sort of soul/funk that might be described as "modern" now - the first Tashan album, lots of Paul Laurence Jones/Kashif productions, early Jam & Lewis like SOS Band, Change, Alexander O'Neal or anything off that Thelma Houston album they produced, and Nick Martinelli joints like Loose Ends, 52nd Street, etc. This particular night was different, though. Many of the DJs had suddenly abandoned the soul/funk/r&b stuff they usually played in favour of what was then becoming known as "house", and that night it was the only stuff that was getting the kids - particularly the young black kids from Hulme and Moss Side - on the floor and keeping them there. One DJ in particular, a young kid of about 18 or 19 named Patrick Boothe, absolutely smashed it. He was the first person I ever heard properly DJ-ing all that shit, throwing in all kinds of cuts, scratches, chops and quick mixes as he tore through his set. The energy level went up 100% and the floor was packed for an hour solid. I just stood at the side watching everything and quietly grooving on it, not really sure what was happening but nevertheless convinced that something definitely was happening. I heard Fingers Inc.'s "Can You Feel It" for the first time that night. I heard Patrick Boothe spin at the PSV in Hulme a month or two later, but never again after that. He seemed to disappear off the face of the earth not long afterwards, and his name never comes up in any lists of pioneering UK house DJs. Two years later, almost every club in the UK was playing house music all night long.
honest and w/ disregard for taste-pc-ness:
0-12 years old
beastie boys - licensed to ill
dire straits first lp
blue and red beatles comps
first paul simon solo lp
thriller
12-18 years old
bloodsugarsexmagik
atcq - low end theory
pantera - vulgar display of power
early palace music releases
afghan whigs - gentlemen
18-23 years old
lee scratch perry - arkology boxset
12" releases on full cycle, v, prototype and photek recordings
johnny cash' american recordings
aquemini(sp)
meters - rejuvination
donny hathaway - everything is everything
23-29 years old
nick drake - bryter layter
pharoah sanders - upper and lower egypt
joe bataan - singing some soul
0-12 years old
beastie boys - licensed to ill
dire straits first lp
blue and red beatles comps
first paul simon solo lp
thriller
12-18 years old
bloodsugarsexmagik
atcq - low end theory
pantera - vulgar display of power
early palace music releases
afghan whigs - gentlemen
18-23 years old
lee scratch perry - arkology boxset
12" releases on full cycle, v, prototype and photek recordings
johnny cash' american recordings
aquemini(sp)
meters - rejuvination
donny hathaway - everything is everything
23-29 years old
nick drake - bryter layter
pharoah sanders - upper and lower egypt
joe bataan - singing some soul
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