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I met my wife at a 'sex pistols 'concert..she was an 18 year old punkette ....my first ever gig was Alice Cooper's 'welcome to my nightmare' tour at Liverpool Empire 1974..or 5..
My daughter first slept a full night after me rocking her to sleep to U2's Pride/in the name of love.
C'mon , let's have those moments people.........should be interesting to me, being English as I'm sure some if yours will be waaay different.
 
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I met my wife at a 'sex pistols 'concert..she was an 18 year old punkette ....my first ever gig was Alice Cooper's 'welcome to my nightmare' tour at Liverpool Empire 1974..or 5..
My daughter first slept a full night after me rocking her to sleep to U2's Pride/in the name of love.
C'mon , let's have those moments people.........should be interesting to me, being English as I'm sure some if yours will be waaay different.
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Sex pistols and U2...both brilliant bands...am a huge fan of british music(Iron maiden, Judas priest, Deep purple,Rainbow) and films...my 22yr old wish came true when IRON MAIDEN came to Bangalore:yahoo:
 
Sometime in 2001, I was on a business travel and was stuck in my apartment on a weekend with no idea of what to do. I switched on the TV and changed channel till I reached one playing Sister's Act I. Within a few seconds, Fontella Bass's 'Rescue Me' started and ... for a moment I became a believer. The universe was alive and was responding. I still love the track.
 
 
Ajay, how come no BoneyM :)

Rasputin was the first ever English music track I ever paid attention to. I must have been 13-14. It was playing on rented vinyl in one of year end parties in school. 3 decades later, BoneyM still remains my guilty pleasure (ordered 'Night flight to Venus' from Amazon last week).
 
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Next stop. Rock. Since the late 70's.

My favorite songs from 1978-2008.

The boss at his best:
Then take me disappearin through the smoke rings of my mind
Down the foggy ruins of time, far past the frozen leaves
The haunted, frightened trees, out to the windy beach
Far from the twisted reach of crazy sorrow
Yes, to dance beneath the diamond sky with one hand waving free
Silhouetted by the sea, circled by the circus sands
With all memory and fate driven deep beneath the waves
Let me forget about today until tomorrow

Bob Dylan - Mr. Tambourine Man - YouTube

One of the greatest pop songs ever written.

John Lennon - Imagine (official video) - YouTube

Sometimes Neil Young is able to capture something very rare and beautiful in his songs:
It was then I knew I'd had enough,
Burned my credit card for fuel
Headed out to where the pavement turns to sand
With a one-way ticket to the land of truth
And my suitcase in my hand
How I lost my friends I still don't understand

Neil Young - Thrasher - YouTube

Probably my 'most played' song in the last three decades :)

Dire Straits - Sultans Of Swing - YouTube

Leonard Cohen's tour de force. Based on a poem by Federico Garcia Lorca.

Now in Vienna there's ten pretty women
There's a shoulder where Death comes to cry
There's a lobby with nine hundred windows
There's a tree where the doves go to die
There's a piece that was torn from the morning
And it hangs in the Gallery of Frost
Ay, Ay, Ay, Ay
Take this waltz, take this waltz
Take this waltz with the clamp on it's jaws

Leonard Cohen - Take This Waltz [Official Music Video] - YouTube
 
Granddad bought few cassettes with a component system. One of them was Tina Charles. Dad Bought Jazz and Elvis cassettes. Uncle introduced me to Indian classicals... First live music to my ears was Parveen Sultana. Music was mixed sort of affair and can't remember any events attached to it. All I can say is I liked them all.
Why - Tina Charles - YouTube
...and still do. :)
Regards
 
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I saw Les Miserables in London and New York. The experience of a lifetime. I have both the versions in CDs with me. Utterly brilliant and creative.
 
hmmm my first hard rock concert was of the legendery desi band the moksha in chennai(2000)...and seeing christy(lead guitarist) go on the leads was something i will always remember...and being a fanatical :p fan of the german hard rock head honcho's SCORPIONS and seeing them in bangalore live was a dream come true inspite of the rock music unaware 'pop'py audience(lol some lamers even screamed asking for the band to play 'bailamos'!WTF) and cops controlling the rebelious :p and some stinky homofag's(no offence personally meant to that kind here) trying to get a rub WTF!....still one of the best nights of my life besides the first night out with my first gf! the next day.......and yeah what got me into hard rock/heavy metal while i was listening to cotton eye joe and la bouche was my elder bro's high school era tapes of iron maiden-a real live one & the crow's ost!........and my first ever tapes were iron maiden-best of the beast,ac/dc-ball breaker,alice cooper-best of the frankenstein! and metallica-load
 
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The day that I sat, in the students' common room, listening to others playing Pink Floyd (Ummagumma, I think) and Jefferson Starship (Blows Against the Empire) and thought, "Hmmm... there's more to music than [western] Classical :)."

The night that, in their freezing-cold mooreland house, some student friends introduced me to The Incredible String Band (5,000 Spirits, ---still one of my hifi audition discs) and I heard instruments from other countries, including India, woven into this folk-rock mix.

Moving on, a decade or two, the night when, working long at my then hobby of jewellery, I turned to the cassette player thinking, "anything will do," put on some cassette somebody had scrawled "Tchaikovsky" on and pressed "play." Whoa! This was not Tchaikovsky. That was how I discovered Mahler's 2nd Symphony.

Oddly, I have no memory at all as to where or when (or what) I first heard Indian classical music
 
The first classical LP I heard on my hi fi was Wagner....excepts from the ring. With George Szell conducting on decca..
It hit me like a truck !
I have never since heard a classical record to match its scale and beauty.
 
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:)

Musical moment every morning: my old gramophone plugged into a time switch as an alarm clock, waking up to Wagner. Lohengin Prelude to something, Act 3? You probably know it.
 
my musical anti-moment. it was a spic macay concert, a lecdem. i think the cats on stage were the duo rajan and sajan mishra. i was there to make my teacher happy. having no clue of indian classical music i decided the best place for me was outside, minding the shoes and the chappals.
 
I work odd hours and use public transport. Not good for safety but I just love being out at night. Many days when returning from work, the only transport available will be a worn down mini-bus taking construction workers back home after a day's work. Most people won't get into those buses, but I am grateful they exist, and I kind of enjoy those rides :)

The buses will be equipped with cheap tuners which are almost always on. On some days, when I climb one such bus, I am greeted by some of the finest voices from the golden age of hindi cinema (probably from some late night radio programs). Getting into a rickety bus at 11:40 in night and hearing Rafi singing 'Ye Reshmi Zulfein' ... life becomes bearable again. Too bad I reach home on the 3rd or the 4th song.
 
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Almost 3 decades back I used to work Shifts in the Steel Plant as a young engineer. After a tiring night shift, I was in deep sleep in the morning and a lilting melody woke me up (I actually thought I was dreaming) slowly, played on the Sonodyne system by my younger brother who had come home on a vacation.Extremely moving and musical especially in my dreamlike state . I still remember it.I used to look down on rock guitarists then- not after this.
Jeff Beck & Eric Clapton - Cause We've Ended As Lovers [Secr - YouTube
Cheers
 
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Few memories -

Children's songs over my granddad's record player. I don't remember the make of the player but I do remember that he used to play one song on it and I would be the happiest kid then.

Boney M songs that we blasted in the college hostel on loudspeakers on new year eve and danced like mad.

Felix Mendelssohn's wedding march that echoed in the hall over the huge loudspeakers when I got married.
The fond memory that I have is of my head full of hair and no pot-belly that I saw in the mirror along with my beautiful bride's flowing gown.
 
In 2008 I heard Phil Ochs for the first time. Gradually his songs have grown to become a major part of my listening (and humming) sessions. Personally I believe that he was the greatest singer/songwriter of the twentieth century. His voice and his words are imbued with an honesty and insight which I have never found in mainstream music. His songs are timeless, prophetic, passionate and heartbreakingly honest.They are as vital and real today as they were 40-45 years ago when he first sang them. It dosen't matter which century, or which part of the world, one is living in. Phil Ochs is relevant for all ages and every corner of the world.

Phil Ochs believed that one could learn to think and speak for himself/herself, or one could become a child of the media. No wonder critics, recording companies and the mainstream media ignored him. I discovered Bob Dylan in 1977. I discovered Phil Ochs, who was Dylan's contemporary, in 2008! My loss :sad:

Phil Ochs - I Ain't Marching Anymore - YouTube
 
Interesting :)

Do you like Roy Harper? Folkejokeopus has long been one of my favourite albums. (Check it out quick: I doubt the copyright people will let a whole album stay there long).

Track 7, McGoohan's Blues --- my most favourite ever "protest" song ...is what I'm listening to now :)

Digitised copy from my own vinyl.
 
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