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Still has a huge impact on me to this day.
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It changed my life more than anything else.
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I recently revisited Live After Death after I reckon at least 20 odd years of not listening it, and it's bloody brilliant. Yeah, it has it's fair share of cheese with the call and response thing with the crowd, but it's all part of it, and is of the time too. Maiden, I skipped over to be honest, and only just dived into their albums properly.
Larks Tongue In Aspic.
@boogieman - The new Sid Smith book is just out if you fancy a look, double the size of the original, and if the reviews are anything to go by, completely re-written....
https://burningshed.com/sid-smith_in-the-court-of-king-crimson_book
It was completely off-tangent(?) to the mainly rock music I was listening to in 1979 but was so sassy and she just oozed this snappy confidence. TOGWT did a segment on her and played her Young Blood and Chuck E's In Love videos (see below) and I was just mesmorised. It completely changed my musical direction.
Cheers man, been on my xmas list for a while now.
Anything by Dire Straits really. I don't listen to them very often but when I do I always find myself impressed, I always seem to hear something new or learn something.
Even the last album, On Every Street - which to be fair has some dodgy tunes on it, has some really good songs and excellent playing. Always feels like I'm home after a long stay away whenever I'm listening to Straits.
There is no 'H' in Aych, you know that don't you? ~ Wife
Turns out there is an H in Haych! ~ Sporky
Bit of trading feedback here.
The Sun and the Moon - The Sun and the Moon (1988)
The Smiths - Meat is Murder (1985)
Both bring back fond memories from that time.
Owned it on cassette back in the '80s when I was starting to listen to more challenging stuff, and have bought it on various other formats once or twice again over the years. It's just so dense, rhythmically and melodically. I could probably sit and listen to it again today, and pick out something I'd never noticed before. One of the greatest examples of "the studio as creative instrument" ever.
The ones that really changed things after that:
Miles Davis - Bitches Brew (which then started me on a whole jazz thing which continues to this day)
Public Enemy - Apocalypse 91 (not one of their most acclaimed albums, but it was my gateway drug to hip hop)
Tom Waits - Small Change (and/or) Swordfishtrombones
My Dad was into Tom Waits, so it was on in the house, but he listened to the more piano driven 70s stuff, so Swordfishtrombones was an eye opener.
All three of those albums massively influenced what I like today, almost 30 years later.
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Live After Death: I got the double tape when I was 11 after hearing it at a friends house. I pretty much listened to nothing but this for the next couple of years and had Eddie posters on my wall. At 15 I got into indie and moved on from Maiden who, well, were not ‘cool’, I even started to dislike them. Gradually I got back into heavier bands and metal and about ten years ago gave Live After Death a spin and was blown away how good it was. I think early engagement with the album gave the foundations to be into allsorts of heavy and non mainstream guitar music in later years.
Superunknown is one of my, probably the, favourite albums. It has influenced my musical taste ad the way I play guitar. However I can’t say I ever left it, as every few months I’ve always gone back to it. I must have listened to it hundreds of times by now and know if back to front. Perhaps I’ve listened to it less often since Chris left us, some of his lyrics are by now close to the bone.
If I had to chose a favourite album I'm pretty sure it would be the winner.