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49 yrs ago I first heard this, and it made me weep, and it still does. If I was having a funeral they'd play this.

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I was 11, in my second term of secondary school. It was the first record that was "mine" if that makes sense
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Smuts beat me with Enjoy the Silence.

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I would have said Blue Monday but I was about 8 when it came put and it seems like it's always been floating around my brain...
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I think I first heard this in 1982 or '83, in the Summer before I turned 14/15.

There were a lot of soul boys about and Jazz funk was rife, which was ok but wasn't really my thing at my tender age.
I was listening to Blondie and The Police a fair bit and one of my older brothers mates obviously noticed that I had an ear for something different and gave me his copy of Nobodys Heroes.

Before the singing kicked in on the first track, the very first time I settled the needle down, I was all in.
Oh yes I thought, I'm having some of that!

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This one grabbed a 12/13 year old me and, along with a few that follow below it, shaped my musical taste in my teenage years










Mind blowing - bought the Black & White album, 7" "Walk on By" came with and still gets played regularly today and remains, for me, up there with greatest covers of all time, if not the greatest




Then there are these, both of which to this day stop me in my tracks:



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Walk on By and Tank on the b-sde. Top class
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This was my gateway to 90s fast breakbeats.
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Partly for the context: John Peel announcing that Ian Curtis had taken his own life, then playing this song. First time I'd heard it.
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Tenbury wrote: Mon Jan 23, 2023 3:41 pmIf I was having a funeral they'd play this.
How have I never heard this before? Awesome. Solo/s reminds me a bit of Freebird though (or is it the other way round).
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Ok, sample hounds, at 00'49 of the Sputnik track, there's a sampled male voice. It appears to be 'let me tell you about my mother'.

Where is this from, and who else sampled that voice, maybe ten years later?

I'd forgotten it was on the SS Sputnik track (admittedly not one I've repeatedly listened to, since it first came out), so was surprised to hear it.
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Expansions by Lonnie Liston Smith

Was a young teen when I first heard it & it was magic. Still listen to it on a regular occasion.

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Up the Junction wrote: Tue Jan 24, 2023 6:29 pm How have I never heard this before? Awesome. Solo/s reminds me a bit of Freebird though (or is it the other way round).
This was an album I gave a spin during lockdown when I listened to albums I’d never heard before. It didn’t do anything for me whatsoever - I’ve just f l i cked through a few tunes on it to see if I could pick up the Freebird vibe - which I didn’t but did hear a bit of Doves. Will have to give it another chance.
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Tenbury wrote: Mon Jan 23, 2023 3:41 pm 49 yrs ago I first heard this, and it made me weep, and it still does. If I was having a funeral they'd play this.
I had totally forgotten this.
The first time I smoked dope. the lads I was with went to s record shop that had Earphomes.
Listening to this album left me on the floor in a heap.
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Mindblowing! Everything about it...
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There’s a few tracks on that PE album that fit the thread description.

One of a number that blew me away on first hearing …



McAlmont’s beautiful and powerful voice, the glorious strings, the thumping rhythm and Butler’s superb guitar, all give me goosebumps.

This performance on Later …. Is particularly wonderful.
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Like a hammer to the head, this was the song I'd waited most of my life to hear.

Bass so low my bowels almost involuntarily moved.

Every beatnik, Kerouac & Bukowski novel distilled into 5 odd minutes.

A lifetime love of loud, fast, fuzzy guitars established after this.

Sheer perfection, still hard to top.
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Albums that blew you away/=: Blue Valentine by Tom Waits
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