AskTheScrabbled: What "before your time" albums do you really love?
Just finished listening to Tim, by The Replacements, for the second time today. So Good! The album came out in ’84 and they broke up in ’91 so there was never really a chance for me to get into them. What “before your time” albums do you really love?
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are you limiting this to “ah shit we missed em by a couple of years?” or are we posting classic rock albums that we all can’t live without (beatles, beach boys, pink floyd, etc.)
Slayer – Reign in Blood
Release in 1986. A 5-year-old at the time, I probably would not have appreciated the album. I listen to it at least twice a week, and have so for the past few years — probably the last 4-6. Haven’t exactly kept track. It’s the only album that I refuse to leave home without.
This thread is already making me feel old.
Sorry kev, I was three when that album came out. Christina, you can pick anything you want but everyone saying the beatles or pink floyd will get old quickly.
Oh shit, I’ve been playing Aretha Franklin’s “Lady Soul” album in my car for weeks now.
i listen to shitloads of Chuck Berry and old rockabilly, which is obviously way before my time. i’m also envious of those who got to see The Rat Pack live in Vegas and the original lineup of The Clash.
What’s Going On – Marvin Gaye
Beach Boys – Pet Sounds
Pink Floyd – Umagumma (because i bet the acid was really strong when they made that shit)
Beatles – Rubber Soul
Actually that last one is more of a case of I wish I were alive when it was made so I could have gone to the studio and burned all memory of it before it was ever unleashed the world.
My earliest memories of music are when I was 5 in 1975 and my dad’s cousins who were teenagers at the time would always play me stuff like Black Sabbath, and Blue Oyster Cult and whatever Zeppelin was still going on. So while I wasn’t “into” that stuff at the time I remember it seeming really cool. And because of that I started getting into music myself really early and thus pretty much most musical movements or big records from about 1980 on I was pretty aware of or around for. And since there were a lot fewer bands, even on a smaller level at that point it was pretty easy to be somewhat aware of the stuff making a fairly major impact.
So basically other than maybe a handful of classic rock albums from the late 60’s and maybe stuff like the earlier Clash records there’s not much I’m into that was “before my time.”
I am old.
My grandfather used to put on Spike Jones records when I was a kid, which is probably before even some of your parents times’. I could listen to it a million times, and still, that shit never gets old.
That’s great stuff, Evan.
First album that came to mind was Springsteen’s The Wild, The Innocent, and the E-Street Shuffle. It was released in ‘73, well before I was born, and is about an era of NJ I’ve never seen and would have a hard time even imagining if the lyrics weren’t so evocative. But Springsteen’s songs paint such vivid pictures, you get a pretty good idea.
I plan to one day rule the entire world, enslaving most of humanity and just reigning with terror in general. I think I will make all of you guys my jesters. It would be a lot of fun to watch Kevin berate Hutch in person, and I would make Sammy carry out his “yearnings” for Christina in front of me for my amusement. Jonathan can sing me songs.
That said, I’m comfortable stating that my time has yet to arrive, so everything I have ever been into is before my time. Especially Rush. And Van Halen.
Those first batch of Springsteen albums are good ones. Not so much that they were before my time (though some were by a couple of years), but mostly because I was a douche who hated him pretty much until about 5 or 6 years ago.
Kevin said:but mostly because I was a douche who hated him pretty much until about 5 or 6 years ago.
Yep. I could say this about so many bands. As I have always said the older we get the wiser we do not get but we do realize what idiots in our former years.
I have not always said that, I just made it up.
The Manc said:Kevin said:but mostly because I was a douche who hated him pretty much until about 5 or 6 years ago.
Yep. I could say this about so many bands. As I have always said the older we get the wiser we do not get but we do realize what idiots in our former years.
I have not always said that, I just made it up.
This whole theory is also how I know that I hate the Beatles as I hated them when I heard them as a kid when I was young, and 40 years later I still hate them. There has never been a period in my many, many, MANY years on this earth where I haven’t hated them.
Kev, if there was some way I could make a mix of hand-picked songs and guarantee that you’d listen to them and have no idea that it was the Beatles, that I could pick at least a double-album’s worth of stuff you’d love.
Strawberry Fields, man. There’s no way you don’t actually love that song with all your heart.
John said:Kev, if there was some way I could make a mix of hand-picked songs and guarantee that you’d listen to them and have no idea that it was the Beatles, that I could pick at least a double-album’s worth of stuff you’d love.
Strawberry Fields, man. There’s no way you don’t actually love that song with all your heart.
you made me a Beatles mix and i got through half of it, once. sorry.
Evan said:
It’s like watching the birth of Attention Deficit Disorder.
John said:
Strawberry Fields, man. There’s no way you don’t actually love that song with all your heart.
You see, if that’s your idea of a song I would/should love then I can tell you there’s just no way. Because that song is the embodiment of everything I hate about it, them, and that type of music.
And even if you were going to make this attempt it would have to be all Paul, Ringo, or George songs because 1) I can spot Lennon’s annoying voice in any context, 2) I can spot his utterly grade school sentiment, trite, hack lyrics in any context. I don’t have any particular affection for the other 3 dudes or their music, vocals, or lyrics (which are all pretty horrible in their own right) but there is at least a slight degree more of lyrical sophistication, vocal ability, and musicianship. But John Lennon was just the worst. The WORST.
cap n jazz
I just don’t get it, Kev (V)
Kev (L), Cap’n Jazz was the late 80’s/early 90’s, no?
Ev, that video was incredible. Sort of reminds me of the Ink Spots, but with Vaudville.
yes
Cap ‘n Jazz is one of those bands that it amazes me that they have this reputation because people hated that band when they were around. Like not just a matter of "Well, at the time people didn’t get to hear them and then they did….". I mean people heard them, knew who they were, and hated them.