Another example of music as a spiritual magical force, when I was a very young kid and not feeling well listening to the four seasons would always make me feel better, not necessarily cure … no irrational, non-scientific, non-medical mumbo jumbo here thank you very much … but always improve greatly the way I was [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Desert Island Discs’
Vivaldi – The Four Seasons
Posted in Other's Music, tagged Classical, Desert Island Discs, Influences, Post-rock on February 6, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Antonio Forcione – Live
Posted in Other's Music, tagged Antonio Forcione, Desert Island Discs, Influences on February 5, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
The effect of seeing this guy live was possibly the closest I have come to having a bona-fide spiritual experience. I popped along to The Talking Heads pub in Southampton after seeing a picture of him in a guitar magazine with the following weird-ass looking thing:
(Picture source http://www.antonioforcione.com/)
Which he didn’t play or have with him [...]
Dead Kennedys – Fresh Fruit For Rotting Vegetables
Posted in Other's Music, tagged Dead Kennedys, Desert Island Discs, Influences, Politics In Music, Punk on January 30, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Almost had second thoughts as to whether I should have put this record in this list as I am struggling a bit as to what I should say about it. The Dead Kennedys are probably the most important band ever. Although there is a touch of chicken and egg, cause and effect here … do [...]
My Bloody Valentine – Loveless
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Desert Island Discs, Influences, Shoe-gazing on January 23, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
In this list, this record represents, along with Arab Strap and Fugazi, where my musical tastes are today. It wouldn’t necessarily have to be this record but something in the shoegazing oeuvre (and since this record is one of the, if not the, finest example of this style …). Like everyone else I claim to [...]
Fugazi – Red Medicine
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Desert Island Discs, Fugazi, Hardcore, Influences, Punk on December 19, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I don’t have so much to say on this one, it isn’t “the first” anything in my musical journey (well, it was the first Fugazi album I bought/heard and it is one of the few albums that came close to the “Wow, what is this” feeling I described in my Rust In Peace post … [...]
Arab Strap – The Cunted Circus
Posted in Other's Music, tagged Arab Strap, Desert Island Discs, Influences on December 15, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Chose this Arab Strap album for this list not because it has a naughty word in the title but as it is a live album from late in their existence it allows me to cheat and have a selection of tunes from throughout their catalogue. It doesn’t have all my favourite tracks, the live version [...]
Nirvana – Nevermind
Posted in Other's Music, tagged Desert Island Discs, Grunge, Influences on December 10, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Being “cool” is not important to me but this album gave me my one moment of coolness. Growing up in a rural location and going to a small town high school, when I bought this album noone else I knew had it. Shortly after purchasing it, I was sitting in standard grade maths and the [...]
