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Thrown a curve ball

Randlepmcmurphy's picture

Did anyone ever mention a band to you and you just thought to youself i don't like them even though you'd never heard them. When i was in school many years ago you were either in the Glam camp or the rock camp and very rarely did the twain meet. I was into Bowie/T Rex/Sweet and some of my friends were into Zeppelin/ Genesis/ Yes etc and as much as we tried to intergrate each other into our music it rarely happened. I wouldn't listen to Rock music as i thought it was all ten minute drum solo's (ok it mostly was) and that was not my idea of fun. Over the last few years since getting back into vinyl i've found myself picking up cheap albums from record fairs and giving them a spin. I now have a great selection of Yes/ Genesis/ King Crimson albums and i can't believe all the great music i missed just down to my preconceptions of what i thought they'd sound like. My band of the moment is Emerson, Lake and Palmer.......you still there ? ,and i love a ten minute Bass/Keyboard/Drum solo as much as next man but sometimes, just sometimes they could pull out a thing of pure beauty. If you've never heard this before have a listen and if you have doesn't it still sound great.


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Where to start?

I never liked the Smiths for a long time. Never heard them, and when I did I think my prejudice was reinforced. Lots of other Manc bands too (James, Stones Roses, Charlatans, Inspiral Carpets), possibly cause I was such a Scouser I resented them a lot.

Yet I learned to love them over the years, possibly because I realised that all we had at the time were The La's. That was it.

(Apart from the Boo Radleys.)

(And The Stairs.)

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Klaus Joynson | 30 October 2009 - 5:27am

King Crimson

Never heard them and utterly dismissed them as pretentious twaddle until this year. Then I heard Red on the Stuart Maconie Freakzone, bought that one and Larks Tongues in Aspic and am now picking up on the earlier years. In fact this very morning have ordered In the Wake of Poseidon from Amazon.More pretentious twaddle to annoy the kids with on long journeys.

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Chris Young | 30 October 2009 - 9:07am

I recommend the 'Great Deceiver' live box set

A good half of it is the improvisations at which the 72-74 Crimson were so good.

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stimpy | 30 October 2009 - 1:58pm

Thanks Stimpy

I'll look that one up later.

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Chris Young | 30 October 2009 - 3:15pm

I may be in the market

for selling my copy, times are tight and even I, as a Crimso head find it terribly... well dense.

Monday shall decide its fate (3rd stage grievance at work)

on a lighter note:
I avoided the Moody Blues for years as my local Co-Op, back in the early 70s only stocked albums by them, CCR, Matt Monroe and Shirley Bassey etc. The reason for my avoidance was, mainly, because the album sleeves were in such an awful state from browsing. I did like "Nights" and "Isn't" but hated "Bad Moon".
Funny the way prejudices live with you, Spotify™ has sorted out my Moodys deficiency but CCR still escape me.

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James Blast | 30 October 2009 - 10:19pm

bargepole recommends

you also check out their epic 'Starless' - peerless stuff.

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bargepole | 30 October 2009 - 10:05pm

errr...

He's already bought Red.

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stimpy | 30 October 2009 - 10:09pm

so he has

Bargepole really must pay closer attention in class !

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bargepole | 30 October 2009 - 10:24pm

still here

and still at it again (tee-hee)

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James Blast | 30 October 2009 - 10:50pm
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