Amanda330
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🎵 Monthly Song Challenge 🎵
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lingus60
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Day 2: A song that was a gateway to a lot of the music you currently enjoy
My son's a jazz guitarist and has introduced me, through stuff like this, to a whole world of contemporary jazz that I now love:
The Impossible Genlemen: Heute Loiter
My son's a jazz guitarist and has introduced me, through stuff like this, to a whole world of contemporary jazz that I now love:
The Impossible Genlemen: Heute Loiter
lavendersilk
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Day 2: A song that was a gateway to a lot of the music you currently enjoy
I don't think I have posted this song before. I remember playing with my father's mini Casio keyboard recorder trying to recreate the instrumental bridge part. Love 80's pop music. It is my happy place and has influenced what I listen to today for sure.
Take On Me - A-ha
I don't think I have posted this song before. I remember playing with my father's mini Casio keyboard recorder trying to recreate the instrumental bridge part. Love 80's pop music. It is my happy place and has influenced what I listen to today for sure.
Take On Me - A-ha
Great_Scot
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Day 2: A gateway song to some of the music you currently enjoy.
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Day 2: A song that was a gateway to a lot of the music you currently enjoy
Growing up, the music that surrounded me was dance/happy hardcore/rave etc but this was one of the first songs that introduced me to rap/hip hop. Was a complete contrast in culture/aesthetics and so new, fun and exciting..
Growing up, the music that surrounded me was dance/happy hardcore/rave etc but this was one of the first songs that introduced me to rap/hip hop. Was a complete contrast in culture/aesthetics and so new, fun and exciting..
MedicalMuse
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Day 2: the gateway
This is just one. There are really so many.
This is just one. There are really so many.
vagrantx
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I'm only half way through the song and I love it already. Waaah this is amazing!
BlueEyedGuy29
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I’m going to have this in my head all day.
Apisto42
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I really like Boney James. This song got me to download a few of his albums and learn more about his music.
@MedicalMuse yay! Good to see you.
I really like Boney James. This song got me to download a few of his albums and learn more about his music.
@MedicalMuse yay! Good to see you.
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MedicalMuse
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Whiskeyjack
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Day 2: A song that was a gateway to a lot of the music you currently enjoy
I played French horn in the high school band more for the social aspect than for any talent or interest in classical music. But getting to blast through "The Planets" was some of the most fun I ever had. It turned my whole attitude toward classical music around.
"Mars" - Gustav Holst
I played French horn in the high school band more for the social aspect than for any talent or interest in classical music. But getting to blast through "The Planets" was some of the most fun I ever had. It turned my whole attitude toward classical music around.
"Mars" - Gustav Holst
UnquietDreams
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I could go on for pages about Big Star, but I won't bore you. They should have been huge -- the reviews for #1 Record were glowing. But their record label fell apart, and Columbia, who agreed to distribute them, decided they were too much competition to their own artists, so instead of getting records on shelves, they actively hunted down and destroyed copies. And it got more complicated from there.
But listen to this. This is from 1974. It could easily be from 2024. Big Star was the favorite band of your favorite band. Hell, they inspired us to form a garage band in high school. They were one of the foundations of modern alternative rock, and most people who know their name heard it from a Replacements song praising them. A true unknown pioneer.
This is a brilliant song from their second album, which also got screwed over (I think they all pissed off a bunch of fairies as children. Fucking up a fairy ring is my theory. It is the only thing that makes sense), Radio City. It is a classic "Boy Loves Girl, Girl is Amused By It And Will Sometimes Have Sex With Him" song. You know, that old standard.
"September girls do so much
I was your Butch, and you were touched
I loved you...
Well, never mind
I've been crying all the time
December boys got it bad."
This is almost perfect power pop, a pure, perfect moment of love and longing and disappointment. There is a venom there, but diluted by tenderness. I love this song for so many reasons, and it opened up a world of love for music. I never go far without a little Big Star...
"September Gurls," Big Star.
(I loved you...well, never mind...)
I could go on for pages about Big Star, but I won't bore you. They should have been huge -- the reviews for #1 Record were glowing. But their record label fell apart, and Columbia, who agreed to distribute them, decided they were too much competition to their own artists, so instead of getting records on shelves, they actively hunted down and destroyed copies. And it got more complicated from there.
But listen to this. This is from 1974. It could easily be from 2024. Big Star was the favorite band of your favorite band. Hell, they inspired us to form a garage band in high school. They were one of the foundations of modern alternative rock, and most people who know their name heard it from a Replacements song praising them. A true unknown pioneer.
This is a brilliant song from their second album, which also got screwed over (I think they all pissed off a bunch of fairies as children. Fucking up a fairy ring is my theory. It is the only thing that makes sense), Radio City. It is a classic "Boy Loves Girl, Girl is Amused By It And Will Sometimes Have Sex With Him" song. You know, that old standard.
"September girls do so much
I was your Butch, and you were touched
I loved you...
Well, never mind
I've been crying all the time
December boys got it bad."
This is almost perfect power pop, a pure, perfect moment of love and longing and disappointment. There is a venom there, but diluted by tenderness. I love this song for so many reasons, and it opened up a world of love for music. I never go far without a little Big Star...
"September Gurls," Big Star.
GretaX
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Day 2: A song that was a gateway to a lot of the music you currently enjoy
Oooh! @morelikeasong is really making us think this month!
I think the reason Bowie is my favorite artist is because he is so influential. Nearly all the music I listen to has been influenced, either directly or indirectly, by his genius. Hard to pick a single song, so I'll go with my favorite:
Oooh! @morelikeasong is really making us think this month!
I think the reason Bowie is my favorite artist is because he is so influential. Nearly all the music I listen to has been influenced, either directly or indirectly, by his genius. Hard to pick a single song, so I'll go with my favorite:
curious_slut
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My music tastes are sort of scattered here, there, and nearly everywhere. For example, I somehow found myself listening to Russian Orthodox chants last night apropos of nothing. As for today, I didn't know if I wanted to go in the direction of new wave or jazz. Decisions, decisions...so here's a 98 year old recording
It's fanciful, but I like to imagine I was also listening to this stuff in a past life.
Jelly Roll Morton - Black Bottom Stomp
My music tastes are sort of scattered here, there, and nearly everywhere. For example, I somehow found myself listening to Russian Orthodox chants last night apropos of nothing. As for today, I didn't know if I wanted to go in the direction of new wave or jazz. Decisions, decisions...so here's a 98 year old recording
It's fanciful, but I like to imagine I was also listening to this stuff in a past life. 
Day 2: A song that was a gateway to a lot of the music you currently enjoy.
As soon as this started playing, I wanted more. This was the first concert that I went to also. It was 1984, the Texas Jam Festival. Rush, Ozzy, Gary Moore, 38 Special, and Bryan Adams?
As soon as this started playing, I wanted more. This was the first concert that I went to also. It was 1984, the Texas Jam Festival. Rush, Ozzy, Gary Moore, 38 Special, and Bryan Adams?
Qky75
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Day 2: a song that was a gateway to a lot of music you currently enjoy
This is Les Paul (yes the same as the guitar) and his wife Mary Ford demonstrating the breaking idea of OverDub. Sadly the large table to his left with all the individual reel-to-reel tape machines isn't shown. Mary is singing with several individual recordings of herself harmonizing. Les is doing the same. Every single piece of modern music using samples and over dubs or stacked vocals and stacked guitars owes their success to this innovator. how high the moon
This is Les Paul (yes the same as the guitar) and his wife Mary Ford demonstrating the breaking idea of OverDub. Sadly the large table to his left with all the individual reel-to-reel tape machines isn't shown. Mary is singing with several individual recordings of herself harmonizing. Les is doing the same. Every single piece of modern music using samples and over dubs or stacked vocals and stacked guitars owes their success to this innovator. how high the moon
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GhostOfFAS
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Day 2: A song that was a gateway to a lot of the music you currently enjoy
A college buddy introduced me to the Avett Brothers early-ish in their career. Offering and November Blue were the two that hooked me and opened up my interest in folk/Americana. I think the band has sort of lost their way lately, but I still dig them.
A college buddy introduced me to the Avett Brothers early-ish in their career. Offering and November Blue were the two that hooked me and opened up my interest in folk/Americana. I think the band has sort of lost their way lately, but I still dig them.
__Nathan1968
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I was an east coast suburban kid. This song made me a fan of bluegrass and traditional mountain music.
I was an east coast suburban kid. This song made me a fan of bluegrass and traditional mountain music.
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When I listen to this, I see a black-and-white news reel with flappers doing the Charleston!!Day 2: A song that was a gateway to a lot of the music you currently enjoy
My music tastes are sort of scattered here, there, and nearly everywhere. For example, I somehow found myself listening to Russian Orthodox chants last night apropos of nothing. As for today, I didn't know if I wanted to go in the direction of new wave or jazz. Decisions, decisions...so here's a 98 year old recording
Jelly Roll Morton - Black Bottom Stomp
Wonderer67
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Day 2: A song that was a gateway to a lot of the music you currently enjoy
Candy-O, by The Cars is the first album I bought with my own money. Quaker bridge mall 1979.
I liked music, I was hearing on the radio at the time, Elvis Costello, the clash, etc. Although my sister is listen to punk, I wasn’t quite there yet.
But within a few years, I was at my first hardcore show (The Exploited and Kraut) and then venturing to NYC on Sundays. (Often a my sisters and their friends)
But this was kind of the start.
Candy-O, by The Cars is the first album I bought with my own money. Quaker bridge mall 1979.
I liked music, I was hearing on the radio at the time, Elvis Costello, the clash, etc. Although my sister is listen to punk, I wasn’t quite there yet.
But within a few years, I was at my first hardcore show (The Exploited and Kraut) and then venturing to NYC on Sundays. (Often a my sisters and their friends)
But this was kind of the start.
