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Post by MusicHead on May 17, 2018 19:30:28 GMT -5
Songs: Call me - Blondie Africa - Toto Comfortably Numb - Pink Floyd Whatever you want - Status Quo Tunnel of Love - Dire Straits
Albums Magnetic Fields - Jean Michel Jarre Equinoxe - Jean Michel Jarre Oxygene - Jean Michel Jarre Pretty much every album from Alan Parson's Project Lily on the beach - Tangerine Dreams
There are so many more, but those are the few that stands out.
Nice trip down to memory lane 😀
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Post by geeqner on May 18, 2018 12:11:15 GMT -5
When I started this topic - I meant to refer to your earliest childhood recollections (then again, the young hipsters on this site probably don't want to confess to listening to "The Barney Song"...) Now when I got a little OLDER (13-ish) and got my OWN Stereo Record Player (Black plastic "suitcase" with detachable stereo speakers): I also signed-up for that infamous "Columbia House Record Club" where I got my initial installment of something like 20 albums for (was it a buck or a penny?). From that batch, the one that stands out is "Don't Look Back" by BOSTON. I still know most of those tunes by heart and I had to get a second copy on Vinyl because I think that I wore-out my original copy, plus I learned how to better take care of my album collection. (This is from BEFORE Tom Scholz "flaked-out"...) I think that what is REALLY fun / enjoyable - is to audition such albums / tunes on a series of improved Systems: - I Really ENJOYED the album when I played it on the first system that was "my own" (knowing what I know now - I did not realize how fundamentally crappy that record player was, because I had no frame of reference of what was substantially better. Before that, our best home stereo was the one built-into our 1972 Zenith Console TV with Tuner at one end and record player at the other end. [Dad was a TV & Appliance Salesman in a small town where high-falutin' component stereo stuff would not have sold in the store..,)
- I was SHOCKED when I got to play it on the Component Stereo that I received for Christmas when I was about 16 (heard things in it that I had not heard before) That system was by no means "high-end", but it was still better than what about 80% of the people I knew / my classmates had and neither I nor they had been exposed to anything substantially better.
- Improved slightly when I upgraded my Turntable to the AR with a Bang & Olufson Cartridge back in about 1986
- I was NEARLY AWED when I heard it on the NAD Receiver / Polk Audio speakers, and my trusty AR Turntable with the better-matched / upgraded Shure V15-VMR Cartridge
- Gotta re-connect my TT through the new Amp & Speakers (have not done that with DLB [YET ;-P])
I'll bet that the Sub and new Amp / Speakers will really let that Organ that Boston was famous for REALLY hit its stride / hit those pedal notes...
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Post by geeqner on May 25, 2018 11:55:08 GMT -5
Oh, and I forgot ANOTHER album that I loved when I was a kid, but seems "corny" to me now: IIRC Chip Davis, from Mannheim Steamroller, was the main Recording Engineer for that masterpiece...
"CW McCall's Greatest Hits" Actually, I still like the humor and "musical storytelling" in his tunes
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Post by Jean Genie on May 27, 2018 17:07:32 GMT -5
Paul Revere & The Raiders, "Hungry"
Thunderclap Newman, "Something In The Air"
Steppenwolf, "The Pusher"
Lee Andrews & The Hearts, "Teardrops"
The Chambers Brothers, "Time"
The Allman Brothers Band, "Statesboro Blues"
The Kinks, "You Really Got Me"
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Post by Bonzo on Jun 12, 2018 11:38:41 GMT -5
Got out a CD last night and played this one. I used to play this song relentlessly as a teenager. As in like 50 times in a row. And the funny thing is, I found myself doing it again last night. My wife was so nice. I played it at least 10 times, a little louder each time.
Funny this song never took off while 2 (or maybe 3) others from the same album did. Addicted To Love was the monster hit, and this song was before it on the album. Just goes to show that a video made everything back in the 80's, not the song. I like this song much better. It still totally grabs me.
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Post by adaboy on Jun 12, 2018 17:07:22 GMT -5
My soon to be 4 year old has requested Mr. Roboto now for the last 2 years....
Ugh and it was such a great song!
Me on other hand... Billie Jean never gets old.
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Post by emofrmcgy on Jun 12, 2018 17:12:30 GMT -5
Back in 1995 I had White Zombie’s Astrocreep 2000 in my Walkman for the better part of Grade 8.
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