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Your biggest or most important musical influences?
I'm talking about the one artist you saw, heard, met even, who changed what was at the time your view of music and set you on a different path. The one who made you realise maybe that music was not just a pastime or something to form the background noise, and could be something deep and interesting and rewarding and powerful.
For me personally it would first be Genesis (yeah yeah) whose live album Seconds Out impressed me so much at 17 years old and turned me onto progressive rock. Second would be Iron Maiden, who two years later got me into heavy metal, something I had assumed was loud, noisy and dirty. I was right of course, but there was something there I had not expected: well crafted and well played songs. And thus began my descent into the maelstrom that is music. How about yourself? |
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Not an initial influencer but rather one that came in later on, but Cage influenced my perspective on music (and life in general) massively. |
See my avatar. Hearing Zep I for the first time in 1970 changed everything. Honestly, gave me a reason to want to live at the time.
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I used to play Sgt. Pepper on repeat incessantly as a kid. There was a theatrical, story-telling vibe running through every track that made the music feel as much like an adventure as simply a collection of songs. I'd call it my first musical "experience", as it wasn't just enjoyable melodies and lyrics that I found in other music I knew at the time (Queen, Robbie Williams, Ian Dury, The Who).
I wasn't old enough to appreciate what the specific drug/dark references were in the lyrics or the sound of the album, but I was turned on to the idea of music affecting mood and creating a jovial or unsettling ambience. I don't think any other album I ever listened to had the same effect on me. The Beatles' voices were so confident, youthful and melodious that I would almost call it hypnotising. 'Within You Without You' is probably the most powerful example of a worldly-wise, psychedelic art-form invading the mind of someone who had so little experience of the world, art and politics. The album's artwork was enough to fascinate me, as that colour and character saturated image looked to invite you in to an impossible, ambiguously frightening world where you could meet all the strange characters from the songs and maybe become a Beatle yourself. I hadn't thought about it for a long time, but I was practically obsessed with that album. I wouldn't even place it in my top 10 these days, but all of the mystery, untapped potential and unfinished stories got me hooked on the medium, and it's safe to say it made me want to spend the rest of my life collecting music. |
I was,like 9,years old
Hearing Selena West coast rap Prodigy Korn The rest was history |
I picked up my Beach Boys love through my dad. Through them I discovered the Beatles (as everyone does). They expanded my rather limited musical horizons. Then I found David Bowie thanks to Urban and LiL and everything took off.
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Metallica. At the time I thought their 90's material was the catchiest music that could still be badass, and their 80's stuff was the most brutal thing I'd heard. Led me to thrash and Iron Maiden, and I've been riding that train ever since.
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I was an average pop-comercial-listener until Internet came to my life and then through the net i was able to find out new world of tunes, sounds and lyrics (from other countries, different languages, older years) that literally changed my framework. So I'd say that the net was my great influence.
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Main ones off the top of my head:
Talk Talk Can Miles Davis Alice Coltrane King Crimson David Bowie Brian Eno Sun Ra Scott Walker The Beatles The Beach Boys The Velvet Underground Steve Roach Arthur Russell Robert Fripp Faust John Fahey Chopin Debussy Talking Heads Terje Rypdal Bennie Maupin Robert Wyatt Björk |
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