[Music] Classic albums that totally passed you by

[clapham_gull]

Were you brought up around parents who adored pop music, who had R1 or R2 on? I know a few people who also aren’t, they say lamenting, that their Dads didn’t like music, another that their boarding school banned all music, radios, record decks.

Our house was very liberal, I was watching Parkinson, The News at a very very early age , but my parents weren't into pop music themselves.

My old man was a huge cricket fan and my mum was an incredible cook.

We found our own music, nothing was banned. I was very into music in my 20s when I found myself at the arse-end of Madchester. I got seriously into was known then as "indie" (my age) and was a Reading regular.

What turned me off (pretty much for life) was finding myself afterwards working in Camden right in the middle of "Cool Britannia" / "Brit Pop". My job at the time was also running a tape library for MTV.

In my mind afterwards, it became supermarket product. Never missed being really into music, I get greater joy from finding something new to cook with.

I recently found some never seen before middle eastern garlic stock cubes in a back street food shop in Liverpool and to be frank, I've had as much pleasure from them as I did seeing Nirvana live

In fact I'm very similar to Harry Wilson's tackle in that respect. Rather than hunting out an obscure 80s electronic band he'd never heard of, I hunt down obscure stock cubes.

 

[Happy Exile]

My son bought me Disintegration by The Cure for my birthday last week. This totally passed me by. It came out when I was listening to no music, newish dad, new job looming, first house (the one I'm still in) just found but not bought, but plus the marriage, ahem, disintegrating. Crazy times.

Bloody hell. What did I miss? It is stunning. OMG.



Have you recently stumbled into something you really ought to have embraced years ago?

It's my favourite album of all time. I can't imagine how amazing it must be to be hearing it totally fresh for the first time ever after so many years!

 

[Pevenseagull]

My son bought me Disintegration by The Cure for my birthday last week. This totally passed me by. It came out when I was listening to no music, newish dad, new job looming, first house (the one I'm still in) just found but not bought, but plus the marriage, ahem, disintegrating. Crazy times.

Bloody hell. What did I miss? It is stunning. OMG.



Have you recently stumbled into something you really ought to have embraced years ago?

That's an album that has a statement of intention to kick off.

 

[Pevenseagull]

My son bought me Disintegration by The Cure for my birthday last week. This totally passed me by. It came out when I was listening to no music, newish dad, new job looming, first house (the one I'm still in) just found but not bought, but plus the marriage, ahem, disintegrating. Crazy times.

Bloody hell. What did I miss? It is stunning. OMG.



Have you recently stumbled into something you really ought to have embraced years ago?

Welcome friend.


It is that good.


You are not deluded.

 

[Pevenseagull]

When I was 20yrs old I was disappointed with Talk Talk, 'Laughing Stock'.


Only listened to it once and gave it away.

Oops

 

[Swegulls]

I've always wanted to like Tom Waits, thought he was cool in a way, like in that film Rumble Fish. I never understod the hype about Swordfishtrombones (still don’t) and it’s just a couple of years ago I gave it another go. His Closing Time from -73 is a masterpiece, so glad I found it!

 

[Pevenseagull]

On subject.

Board Of Canada, 'Music Has The Right To Children'

A mate recommended it to me during lockdown.

Never heard it

20 years ish after it came out.

Now one of my favourite albums

 

[shingle]

Pink Floyd. Dark side of the moon

 

[Whitechapel]

Despite being a massive rap/hip-hop fan I’ve never listened to a Wu Tang album. Really should change that at some point

 

[Couldn't Be Hyypia]

Difficult to pin it down to one of his particular albums but another artist who passed me by until more recent years is John Martyn.

Saw these guys in January. What a gig. Worth looking out for.

Videos — JMP

www.thejohnmartynproject.com

 

[South Stand Bonfire]

My son bought me Disintegration by The Cure for my birthday last week. This totally passed me by. It came out when I was listening to no music, newish dad, new job looming, first house (the one I'm still in) just found but not bought, but plus the marriage, ahem, disintegrating. Crazy times.

Bloody hell. What did I miss? It is stunning. OMG.



Have you recently stumbled into something you really ought to have embraced years ago?

Well I’ve just bought that CD for my ad hoc Saturday morning music delivery. Cheers!

 

[Herr Tubthumper]

Neil Young is another. It was only a short while ago, when he returned his back-catalogue to Spotify after withdrawing it, I listened to my first album of his.

Interestingly, I instantly recognized about 3 or 4 album covers.

 

[Flounce]

Lots of Dylan albums are quoted as Classics but I dislike his voice so much have never bothered with them. My loss I suppose...

100% imo

Have you heard Modern Times? A brilliant album and well worth a listen if not

Taster tracks. I get lost in Dylan’s lyrics and love the way he delivers them

 

[armchairclubber]

Saw these guys in January. What a gig. Worth looking out for.

Videos — JMP

www.thejohnmartynproject.com

Superb thanks & will do.

 

[Guinness Boy]

Stevie Wonder. As a teen I had him down as the guy who did saccharine nonsense like “Happy Birthday” and “Ebony and Ivory”.

Then my brother got Mrs GB Innervisions as a present one year and we both loved it. Going back over his career I then found Songs in the Key of Life which is even better, although I could live without Isn’t She Lovely which may have started the cheesy rot.

 

[raymondo]

Difficult to pin it down to one of his particular albums but another artist who passed me by until more recent years is John Martyn.

I saw him for the first time at Brighton art college, a smokey basement, then in London a few times.
'Bless the Weather ' was the first of his I bought, but Solid Air was better known in the end.
In the early 70s Eric Clapton said of him: "John is so far ahead of the rest of us in technique and song writing ".


'Sweet Little Mysteries ' is an anthology of his best stuff, double CD.

 

[Herr Tubthumper]

It's my favourite album of all time. I can't imagine how amazing it must be to be hearing it totally fresh for the first time ever after so many years!

I have said before this is the absolute beauty of music, there is always something to discover and and hear for the first time. Always. I am past 50 and consider myself reasonably well “listened” but I still find gems every year and this thread has probably produced a few more for me.

 

[Herr Tubthumper]

In fact I'm very similar to Harry Wilson's tackle in that respect. Rather than hunting out an obscure 80s electronic band he'd never heard of, I hunt down obscure stock cubes.

Stock cube, Aitken and Waterman?

 

[Herr Tubthumper]

Oxo-asis?

 

[Herr Tubthumper]

Betty Boo-uillon