KVR Audio

ariston · Post by **ariston** » Wed Nov 15, 2017 10:02 pm

On a serious note: maybe I'll make a new thread in which people can relate a story about WHY and HOW a particular album shaped them. We love our lists, but I'd love to hear the story behind the list.

melomood · Post by **melomood** » Wed Nov 15, 2017 10:10 pm

Did somebody say 'guilty pleasures'?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fMt537igFAc

christian f. · Post by **christian f.** » Wed Nov 15, 2017 10:42 pm

Massive Attack - Mezzanine
Tricky - Maxinquaye
Plastikman - Closer
Kanye West - Yeezus

kvaca · Post by **kvaca** » Wed Nov 15, 2017 10:54 pm

Slade-Whatever Happened to Slade
Magma-Mekanik Destruktiw Kommandoh
Chrome-Half Machine Lip Moves
Can-Ege Bamyasi

fluffy_little_something · Wed Nov 15, 2017 11:29 pm

ariston wrote:On a serious note: maybe I'll make a new thread in which people can relate a story about WHY and HOW a particular album shaped them. We love our lists, but I'd love to hear the story behind the list.

Two important albums for me were Quincy Jones' The Dude and George Benson's Give me the Night, both around 1980 if I remember correctly, similar sound because they were made by the same people.
I liked those albums because they sounded very good for that time, especially on the new boom box I had at the time. And of course because I was still young back then and had my life in front of me

jacqueslacouth · Post by **jacqueslacouth** » Wed Nov 15, 2017 11:37 pm

The Clash: London calling
Billy Bragg: Back to Basics
Elvis Presley: Elvis' 40 Greatest (UK 1975(?) release)
Green Day: Dookie

kelvyn · Post by **kelvyn** » Wed Nov 15, 2017 11:37 pm

Wow! KVR’s in this thread have until now shown that they have really good taste when it comes to their influences.

jacqueslacouth · Post by **jacqueslacouth** » Wed Nov 15, 2017 11:43 pm

kelvyn wrote:Wow! KVR’s in this thread have until now shown that they have really good taste when it comes to their influences.

Until now?

aMUSEd · Post by **aMUSEd** » Wed Nov 15, 2017 11:47 pm

aMUSEd wrote:Joni Mitchell - Blue
Archie Shepp - Blase
Laura Nyro - New York Tendaberry
Robert Wyatt - Rock Bottom

The ones I chose are just amongst the best non classical albums that exist for me. Blase is just amazing, the title track is spoken word poetry set to jazz (I guess one of the earliest examples of 'rap') - powerful and politically conscious lyrics, great singing and sax playing that makes my spine tingle. The whole album is just beautiful.

New York Tendaberry and Blue are both just so emotionally raw and open, and yet also so musically and lyrically articulate, full of moments of beauty and darkness. I believe Joni Mitchell was inspired by Nyro's earlier album, certainly you can hear hints of the title track of Tendaberry in the title track of Blue, and in The last Night I saw Richard, including the twisty piano lines. I slightly prefer Nyro's album though, there is nothing quite like New York Tendaberry - especially the almost Joycean title track - so clever.

Rock Bottom is dazzling in its musical brilliance, playfulness and sheer inventiveness (almost a new musical language) but also contains a lot of pain and emotional authenticity - it was written just after Wyatt's accident that left him paraplegic and although he makes it clear it does not explicitly reference that event I can see resonances in some of the tracks that deal with the experience of dependence in relationships and powerlessness in the most honest but also (darkly) humorous way (not to mention the obvious link in the title).

Rock Bottom and Tendaberry would be my 2 votes for best albums of the 20th century.

jancivil · Post by **jancivil** » Thu Nov 16, 2017 8:15 pm

ariston wrote:On a serious note: maybe I'll make a new thread in which people can relate a story about WHY and HOW a particular album shaped them. We love our lists, but I'd love to hear the story behind the list.

Why not here?

I could have chosen 3 Hendrix album, including Are You Experienced and Axis: Bold As Love.
Electric Ladyland was the first I experienced, my mother bought it for me for Xmas in 1969. I saw Hendrix May 9 that year in Charlotte with my mother. I was 12, so she was protective and insisted on going with. So, what that album did was fuse blues and a more free-form approach, eg., the long version of Voodoo Chile with Winwood et al. And I grew up in jazz so Mitch Mitchell brought Tony Williams into this thing, Hendrix and the SOUND which was huge for me, and simply more expansive; rather than Mike Bloomfield who was fantastic, it was the sustain and the roundness of his sound.

Lizard by King Crimson was the thing for me in 1970 as it brought horns in, my father's music was bigband jazz and I was conditioned to want horns I guess. Like Dweezil was conditioned to want a lot more than he would get from radio music, 'where are the marimbas?'. And cor anglais, and this weird sustained kind of objective approach to a guitar solo which WASN'T blues at all and was kind of edgy. I should note that I first took LSD in 1970 and this was a pretty psychedelic album to me.

200 Motels. Ok, I had this girlfriend from the literal wrong side of the tracks who was nonetheless kind of smart and hip who had Mothermania (and Fresh Garbage by Spirit was her fave) so this was another sort of mind-expanding thing in 1970 for me; and then the midnight movie would turn up 200 Motels around then. 1971. I think I got it that summer? Based on where we lived, which I do recall, it must be '71 (rather than 1972).
The first orchestra music in that (and I have to say with the visuals) flick... was ear-opening and I guess there are several reasons I picked that up in the store. The guitar solo in Magic Fingers, compositional in a way that little else in rock ever is... that loomed large. This is one of those things I learned by singing it all the time.

Sketches of Spain was a little later; I had some interest in spanish guitar by then and the sort of duende of Spanish music, the mystery of that Spanish modal thing appeared in this, and I'd always dug Birth of the Cool in my father's stack of records.

Aloysius · Post by **Aloysius** » Thu Nov 16, 2017 8:21 pm

I used to hang out with Mozart. We did magic mushrooms together. I got him to sign a CD of his greatest hits for me in the sixties but seem to have lost somewhere.

jancivil · Post by **jancivil** » Thu Nov 16, 2017 8:26 pm

ariston wrote:So, aside from the soundtrack to "Deliverance", which albums shaped the banjo people?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TzMdzp31wH8

I recorded my audition for CCM at Arthur Smith's studio. He wrote Dueling Banjos and (waiting for it to really hit before suing) sued and proved it was his 'Feuding Banjos' all along.
And that thing Fleck does there was (actually the entire suite) my piece for jury at CCM. Full circle, what. No, I never touched a banjo. Who knew.

ariston · Post by **ariston** » Thu Nov 16, 2017 8:38 pm

Great stories so far, keep em coming!

Jan, doing some arithmetic.... you took LSD at 13??

jancivil · Post by **jancivil** » Thu Nov 16, 2017 9:10 pm

ariston wrote:Great stories so far, keep em coming!

Jan, doing some arithmetic.... you took LSD at 13??

14. Birthday in late May. It must've been in 8th grade, fall of '70.

Zombie Queen · Post by **Zombie Queen** » Thu Nov 16, 2017 9:11 pm

Sex Pistols, Anarchy in the UK - shaped (and colored) my hair
Velvet Underground, Another View - shaped my attitude
The Residents, 3rd Reich'n'Roll - opened a whole new world
Uz Jsme Doma, Uprostred Slov - combined those worlds
Fred Frith, Cheap at Half the Price - showed that I can do it myself
OK, that's 5

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XURwbWEaEG8
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_-bYKWwgphg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NRweyGHJ3bc
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MhAEfYRdMj4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cFCML8N4fZE

4 albums that shaped me...