Off Topic Saints Not606 Music Thread

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TheSecondStain said:
In a First Song I Ever Heard By This Band or Soloist category, I'll give you something from Jethro Tull. The first thing I ever heard from Ian Anderson was Living In The Past, although, as it was buried within the soundtrack of a documentary, I had absolutely no idea who it was. So the first thing I heard from Tull and knew it was Life's A Long Song.
A couple of years ago I stumbled over a series where Rick Wakeman was talking to fellow musicians. The chat with Ian Anderson was particularly interesting. In it, Rick asked Ian why he took up the flute. Anderson's reply was amazing. He said that, although he was a guitarist, he'd recently seen Jimi Hendrix blow everyone else away, and so he decided that being a guitarist wasn't enough. He had to have a new angle. So he saw a flute in a music shop and decided to buy it. He taught himself within 6 months to virtuosity, although he still denies that he is any good.! Anyway, he plays the acoustic guitar very prettilly in this one:

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Still my favourite Tull song, just perfect.
 
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First Jethro Tull song I heard was the opening track from This Was, their sublime debut album before they started releasing singles. My brother bought the album and I fell in love with it, and the band, instantly. Here's that opener, My Sunday Feeling (and yes, I know it's only Saturday!)
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Just looked through a few LPs in the collection and came across an odd one for the First Song I Heard.... Gary Numan. Oops, no it was actually Tubeway Army, before he dropped that idea and just called the band by his own name.
I remember that awful smiling DJ with the perm, err... Somebody Powell, introducing several singles on his Radio 1 show, and then pronouncing on which were good and which weren't. I found this moderately entertaining because almost every song he thought was the best, I thought differently. It was almost as if he was being bunged to promote the obvious star performer's single. Down In The Park was Tubeway Army's first single from their second album Replicas and they were definitely not the stars. I thought it was bloody fantastic at the time, and still really like it. My brother [that one with the Led Zep II album 10 years earlier] thought it was monotonous and moronic. About 20 years later he got into Trance music. There's a lesson there, I think. Anyway, DITP died on that playing by Mr Powell, but TA got their own back with the second single, from the album, Our Friends Electric. I happen to like this one more. It's darker and purer.

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TheSecondStain said:
Just looked through a few LPs in the collection and came across an odd one for the First Song I Heard.... Gary Numan. Oops, no it was actually Tubeway Army, before he dropped that idea and just called the band by his own name.
I remember that awful smiling DJ with the perm, err... Somebody Powell, introducing several singles on his Radio 1 show, and then pronouncing on which were good and which weren't. I found this moderately entertaining because almost every song he thought was the best, I thought differently. It was almost as if he was being bunged to promote the obvious star performer's single. Down In The Park was Tubeway Army's first single from their second album Replicas and they were definitely not the stars. I thought it was bloody fantastic at the time, and still really like it. My brother [that one with the Led Zep II album 10 years earlier] thought it was monotonous and moronic. About 20 years later he got into Trance music. There's a lesson there, I think. Anyway, DITP died on that playing by Mr Powell, but TA got their own back with the second single, from the album, Our Friends Electric. I happen to like this one more. It's darker and purer.

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Saw Gary Numan loads of times in concert. Brilliant live. Our Friends Electric always a crowd pleaser obviously.

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