Music - What Floats Your Boat?

Not bad for a boy treble 

Just found Eric Bogle's ' And the band played Waltzing Matilda ' in the same string of Aussie music ~~ another tear jerker.

By 'eck, for a moment I thought it said ROY Hodgson !!

Whilst I enjoy the old cliché of Bach to Beatles, two that I particularly like are Tomita, (a Japanese electronic wizard who is now no longer with us) and The Enid headed up by Robert John Godfrey of Barclay James Harvest fame. Anybody else like these? 

Like others we enjoy a range of music and more than anything else music takes you to the places and times associated with it.

Growing up, in Bolton, my Dad always had something playing and built a deck into our sideboard and had a decent stereo set up that I became to realise was way better than most had.

He would often come home with LPs from Bolton music library, hence my education in the Goon Show etc, but the music that I remember most was John Barry and in particular the album "Ready When You Are-JB".

My first albums were Black Sabbath, Deep Purple and Led Zeppelin and somewhat at odds with most of my teenage peers at the time, as were my Saturday afternoons not being at Burnden park to watch Bolton but at the octagon Theatre for their Bluesology Sessions..

I heard someone a while back saying that he had been trying to explain the process of buying a record back in his youth and it brought home to me how much you 'invested' in getting some music, the anticipation of getting home and playing it-over and over.

In my early twenties I moved on to Supertramp, with the live album Paris being my favourite, and containing a mention of the Bataclan Theatre in Paris. 

In more recent times it has been the Stereophonics, probably the number 1 for a family get together, Snow Patrol, Starsailor David Gray and Elbow.

We have seen Stereophonics and Elbow live a few times with the stand out being Elbow at the Eden sessions which, thanks to modern technology, I have on a SD card in the car.

What should I listen to as I drive to get my vaccine today?!!

Yes, I’ve heard of Tomita, and remember the album ‘Snowflakes Are Dancing’ was quite popular, back in the day. Can’t recall if I’ve heard it though. I have also heard of The Enid, again not sure if I’ve heard them. 

I have a couple of BJH albums (vinyl), my favourite being ‘And Other Short Stories’. I guess they’re best known for this...

After your suggestion of Blackmore's Nights, which I enjoyed by the way, I thought that I'd have a dig through and listen to some of my old favourites over the last couple of days....and it ties in a bit with the Tomita post above. So it was a varied mix:-

Brain Salad Surgery....ELP

Lord of the Rings.... Bo Hansen ( the Tomita connection)

National Health

Hocus Pocus....Focus

The Tain, and The Book of Invasions.....Horslips

I think it will be a bit of Supertramp next.

You’ve surprised me (in a good way) as to your musical tastes 👍Glad you enjoyed BN.

Supertramp, I guess my favourite album would be ‘Crisis?What Crisis?’, although ‘Crime Of The Century’ runs it close. I quite like ‘Hamburger Concerto’ by Focus, also ‘Moving Waves’. As for ELP, it has to be the self-titled (first) for me. Are you familiar with Camel? If not, try these for starters, highly recommended...

As I recall, ‘Deep Purple In Rock’ was the first ‘hard rock’ album I bought. It still remains one of my all-time favourite albums, nothing quite like it since. Love Zep. Until the recent shenanigans, I would go to a local venue each year to see/experience ‘Whole Lotta Led’, a Zep tribute band who really do it justice. The first Sabbath album, yes, very good, and very original 👍

Funny you should suggest Camel, Freddy, as they are on my list for listening to tonight.

Have you tried the mixes on Spotify? I think you'd like the Bo Hannson Radio one.....Camel, Strawbs, Hawkwind, Curved Air, VDGG etc

I checked out the Bo Hannson radio. Looks like a good mix. I noted Anthony Phillips was in the playlist. He was a founder member of Genesis and appeared on their first two albums. So, if you like early Genesis, you might want to check out one of his solo works, ‘The Geese And The Ghost’, available on Spotify.