Music you like here!

[Jill]

Sometime like when we were having Mandys birthday party yesterday I just like finding good music tracks I like on You Tube and listening to some sounds old and new. And I notice we sometimes are less active on the music front than we are with other things like photos and blogs on Creative Cafe. So I thought it would be nice to have this discussion just to put up music vids we like and maybe even a bit of a description about when and where we were and why we came to like that track.

Will leave this open for members to decide which way this thread will go!

[Jill]

To start things off I had to put in the first record I ever bought when I was about 16 and had also got hold of my first record player. This was a mono (not stereo) unit that played a record over and over again if you left the arm open. Which led to many complaints of 'Turn that music down' from my family at the time!
The record was ' All along the Watchtower' by Jimi Hendrix and it was a double A side with 'Hey Joe' on the other. And all for the cost of 6 shillings and 4 pence in old money. That is about 32pence today! What a bargain!

[Azzami Bell]

Among the first records I brought just cos I liked them was...

[Mandy Lawrence]

Now I am well within my comfort zone.

So many tunes, so little time.

Have to pick one of me favs. Japan. Lead singer, David Sylvian voted the most beautiful man in the world (sometime in the 80's) and Smash Hits Readers (with youthfull and superficial savvy) voted Japan the most missed band the year after they split. Am a hive of useful and mostly unwanted information.

Anyway, I was lucky enough to see them perform live, twice, and this is one of theirs I like the most:

[Mandy Lawrence]

P.S. That should have read 'Useless and unwanted information'!

[Jill]

Hi Mandy

No. Pretty interesting info in my opinion. And I like that track. I will like it even more when I get the chance to listen to it properly which is hard around here with constant extra noise going on around the place.

Here is another one I like which reminds me of someone I know. Or should i say someone I knew! ( But not the one who thinks it is him!)

[Jill]

My next track by Joni Mitchell is really good for the lyrics which apply today a lot when it comes to a lot of building developments. What trees once stood where now there is an out of town supermarket complete with big car parks.

[Azzami Bell]

The odd thing about that year at the IoW was that by the time Jimi Hendrix began his set the place was mostly empty! The stragglers scattered among human detritis, cleaners roaming & the very best of James Marshall H. ringing out to the neighbouring sheep!
This is vaguelly linked...

[Azzami Bell]

What was it?

[Mandy Lawrence]

Somebody bought me this record and said it was about me. Cheers mate. Although in many respects it is.

[Jill]

I wasn't really a Jam fan when they were around and then years later someone put a Style Council tape on in the car and said 'Paul Weller says he is a manic depressive' I could relate to that and to his music which I thought was great. I have been to a couple of his concerts and this is one of his best tracks in my book:
Wild Wood

[Louise]

Hi,
Have been searching YouTube and came up with some real golden oldies that I had forgotten about, here's one of them

[Louise]

Didn't think I had done it correctly - I'll have another go in a tick!!!!