What five records, had you heard them at age 14, would have turned you on to good music?

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and WHY.

― thom west (thom w), Friday, 29 August 2003 00:59 (twenty-two years ago)

Aged 14 now, or aged 14 then? This question makes little sense.

― CharlieNo4 (Charlie), Friday, 29 August 2003 01:03 (twenty-two years ago)

None, I think. At 14, I wasn't ready for anything that didn't sound typically New Romantic-esque. And Japan and Simple Minds I did know about and didn't get at the time.

― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Friday, 29 August 2003 01:19 (twenty-two years ago)

NIRVANA

― Caitlin O'Neil (kurdtkobain205), Friday, 29 August 2003 01:23 (twenty-two years ago)

I listened to good music at age 14.

― sundar subramanian (sundar), Friday, 29 August 2003 01:33 (twenty-two years ago)

Are you just trying to yank someone's chain, or are you really unwilling or unable to scroll down the page to look at earlier threads?

― Monty (Nom De Plume), Friday, 29 August 2003 02:00 (twenty-two years ago)

it's not actually the same question

― thom west (thom w), Friday, 29 August 2003 02:07 (twenty-two years ago)

as indicated by the different phrasing and use of a different set of words

― thom west (thom w), Friday, 29 August 2003 02:08 (twenty-two years ago)

Ooh, semantics.

― Karen (Nom De Plume), Friday, 29 August 2003 02:10 (twenty-two years ago)

why are you pretending to be more than one person?

― thom west (thom w), Friday, 29 August 2003 02:13 (twenty-two years ago)

What I heard at 13-14 that made a big impact -

Dead Kennedys - Fresh Fruit For Rotting Vegetables
Sonic Youth - Dirty (which led to Daydream Nation which led to Evol which led to...)
Jon Spencer Blues Explosion - a couple of albums

― miloauckerman (miloauckerman), Friday, 29 August 2003 02:27 (twenty-two years ago)

at 15 I discovered my public library had a turntable, headphones, and 10 or 12 albums by Borbetomagus. I still took another 4 years to tune into really eclectic & elusive stuff, but I couldn't be smugger about how it all turned out.

actual answer to semantically distinct query:

in the jungle groove - james brown
the clash - the clash
ege bamyasi - can
ole - coltrane
best of screamin' jay hawkins

― autovac (autovac), Friday, 29 August 2003 03:59 (twenty-two years ago)

jeez. these suggestions would have put me (personally) off music forever

― electric sound of jim (electricsound), Friday, 29 August 2003 04:02 (twenty-two years ago)

shit wrong thread!! sorry

― electric sound of jim (electricsound), Friday, 29 August 2003 04:03 (twenty-two years ago)

Joy Division - Substance
Sonic Youth - Dirty, seconded
Autechre - Tri Repetitae
Fela - Best of Black President
Mazzy Star - She hangs brightly

― Fabrice (Fabfunk), Friday, 29 August 2003 06:58 (twenty-two years ago)

My music tastes were pretty shit at 14 but I can't think of any likely way they'd have been improved. Listen to hip-hop? I wouldn't cos I hated the people at school who liked the Beastie Boys. Go out to a disco? I was chronically shy and geeky and would have hated it. Listen to house music? Without the disco thing I just wouldn't have understood. Be warned off classic rock and warned onto indie? Same difference, just a year earlier. Basically I was doomed.

― Tom (Groke), Friday, 29 August 2003 07:03 (twenty-two years ago)

my big break was through angst music, JD and the Cure mainly, which allowed me to differentiate myself from/rebel against my peers, and at the same time made me aware of how much you could do with music, the type of feelings that could be expressed through it.

― Fabrice (Fabfunk), Friday, 29 August 2003 07:11 (twenty-two years ago)

Don't understand this question. I mean, you listen to stuff and then you work through some of the stuff in that ballpark and then you go to something else or stay there.

When you start out you just have taste, maybe ''good'' or ''bad'' in retrospect, but you know, you need to buy 'rubbish' too.

― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Friday, 29 August 2003 07:18 (twenty-two years ago)

I think I was 15 or 16, but at that age my mom completely shut down plans my friend and I had to drive from pella to des moines for a rave in the botanical center on a school night. so whatever the first 5 records I'd have heard then.

― g--ff c-nn-n (gcannon), Friday, 29 August 2003 07:20 (twenty-two years ago)

frankly, I think running across better writing about music at that age would have been a bigger help.

― g--ff c-nn-n (gcannon), Friday, 29 August 2003 07:22 (twenty-two years ago)

hmm ... when i think about it now, i realize that i had already been exposed to "good music" when i was 14 or by the time that i was 14. by "good music," i mean stuff that i would come to love later on (like, when i was 16 or so). while i was kinda latent as far as appreciating music, i was precocious as far as watching TV -- so i'd seen stuff on saturday night live or fridays (ABC's early 80s "punk" SNL knock-off) or even the young ones that i'd later come to like. folks like david bowie, zappa, devo, the stones, gary numan, talking heads, the "infamous" episodes with elvis costello and fear -- all of whom were musical and/or celebrity guests on SNL. then there was radio and/or my older sister's music collection. so it hadn't really made an impression at 14.

― Tad (llamasfur), Friday, 29 August 2003 07:22 (twenty-two years ago)

Geoff is otm actually. What I did actually read at 14 was Paul Gambaccini's Top 100 Albums Of All Time coffee-table book, though.

― Tom (Groke), Friday, 29 August 2003 07:24 (twenty-two years ago)

The Clash
Damned Damned Damned
Ramones - Ramones / Leave Home / Rocket To Russia
Talking Heads - '77
Vibrators - Pure Mania
Wire - Pink Flag

.... and what's more, it worked (or at least, I think it did)!

1977 was a good year to be 14.

― Stewart Osborne (Stewart Osborne), Friday, 29 August 2003 07:24 (twenty-two years ago)

1977 was a good year to be 14.
-- Stewart Osborne

Hey, 1974 wasn't *too* bad a year to be 14, either! ;-)
Certainly, if more music - of various kinds, not just 'pop' or 'rock' - had reached me in the place I was then, everything would've been even better, haha.

Yet thinking of records that already existed by that time - but most of which I only got to hear many years later - I suspect that, e.g., In A Silent Way could have made some sort of impression on the 14-year-old me ...perhaps.
Os Mutantes would have done the trick, I'm sure.
Some classic soul wouldn't have gone amiss, hopefully. (In reality it took a long time before I made friends who listened to that kind of stuff)
Henry Mancini, I'd say.
And Cheerful Insanity of Giles, Giles and Fripp, ha.

― t\'\'t (t\'\'t), Friday, 29 August 2003 10:59 (twenty-two years ago)

At the age I did okay. Besides an abiding love of MJ's old music and Motown and an awareness and filtering of Britpop, I had:

The Chemical Brothers-Live At The Social vol. 1 (great clubbing/genre mash-up primer)
Jon Carter-Live At The Social (great early 90s dancehall/breakbeat primer)
The Prodigy-Experience/Music For The Jilted Generation
Portishead-Dummy
The London Funk Allstars-Flesh Eating Disco Zombies vs The Bionic Hookers From Mars

― Barima (Barima), Friday, 29 August 2003 11:13 (twenty-two years ago)

What Sundar said!

Truth be told, I'm listening to the same music as I was when I was 14 (13 years ago). Though, within an expanded range, it has to be said.

― jel -- (jel), Friday, 29 August 2003 16:18 (twenty-two years ago)

rancid, fugazi, huggy bear, cypress hill, sepultura.

― Tom Breihan (Tom Breihan), Friday, 29 August 2003 16:26 (twenty-two years ago)

What jel said about what sundar said. I was into some "good" music and some "bad" music when I was 14. (I was into some "good" music and some "bad" music when I was 5 years old.) And the same can be said for my taste in my 20's, and presumably my taste now. I no longer expect to continue to like whatever I happen to like at the moment.

I guess maybe I would have benefited by exposure to Arabic music earlier on. I'm not sure what I would have made of a singer like Oum Kalthoum back then, however. I think I might have been more responsive to Qur'anic recitation and perhaps some oud taksim (pref. Riad el-Sounbatti's.) (I don't think I would have liked salsa in my teens, but I think I might have gone for some of the Arabic music I now like.)

― Al Andalous, Friday, 29 August 2003 16:27 (twenty-two years ago)

Would have been good to have heard the Master Magicians of Jajouka at that point, or similar Moroccan music.

― Al Andalous, Friday, 29 August 2003 16:46 (twenty-two years ago)

Musicians, I meant. Too much Psychic TV influence.

― Al Andalous, Friday, 29 August 2003 17:58 (twenty-two years ago)

If I could and would change something about my 14-year-old self, I'm pretty sure taste in music would not be at the top of the list!

― sundar subramanian (sundar), Saturday, 30 August 2003 01:35 (twenty-two years ago)

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