Top 10 pop pickers

DesVegas

So the other FB are running the '10 tracks which influenced your life' list at the moment

I'll be interested in yours because, well, i value your opinion somewhat more then theirs... annnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnd GO!!!

mike_l

Iron Maiden Hallowed be thy name, Children of the Damned (Actually all Maiden)

Metallica Fade to black, Master of puppets, Harvester of Sorrow, Blackened

Skid Row 18 & life

Queensryche Eyes of a Stranger, Another rainy night, I Don't believe in Love.

Motorhead Bomber, Ace of Spades, Damage case, Orgasmatron

Whadda ya mean stop at 10

 

Axe_meister

1) Elvis Presley - Hound dog  my first ever single when I was about 10 turned me onto music

2) The Beatles - Day Tripper I played this over and over again age about 12

3) Queen -Radio Ga Ga First ever gig age 15, was high in the Charts in Germany where I lived at the time

4) Eric Clapton - Cocain The first ever song I learned

5) Jimi Hendrix - Purple Haze really turned me onto Rock

6) Lynyrd Skynyrd - Sweet Home Alabama the sound track of my finishing O levels, what a great summer 88 was

7) Beatles - She is leaving home, When I left home to return back to the UK to do my A levels age 17.

8) Smells like teen Spirit - The Thursday night Uni Disco track that would get me on the dance floor (and got me laid)

9) Robert Cray - Don't be afraid of the dark (the song that was on when I was getting Laid)

10) Fleetwood Mac Albatross  - Song I played for my grandmothers funeral. Everybody was moved, nobody would have even thought about post 1950s music, but so so apt as she lived by the sea her whole life

DesVegas

@mike_l that looks pretty definitive, does that list of 14 change or is that how it always is?

mike_l

DesVegas said:

@mike_l that looks pretty definitive, does that list of 14 change or is that how it always is?

The Maiden songs (HBTN and COTD) are two of the main reasons I started playing guitar.

The Metallica songs are some of my favourites to play (badly).

18 & life, I did at Manicfest, with Manic's band a few years ago.

Queensryche songs are some of my favs. Another Rainy Night is the song I was listening to, prior to some slightly major bowel surgery, when I got a text from a lady colleague, who I really didn't expect to hear from.

The Motorhead songs are what I currently have on in the Mike Mobile.

Next week/tomorrow it could just as easily be Judas Priest. Or Anastacia.

And I haven't even mentioned Pink Floyd....

Or any number of other quality bands that have been infulential to me (Megadeth, Slayer, The Almighty, Sabbath etc)

Phil_aka_Pip

The obvious choices (for me), not in any order of significance

1. Sweet Baby James (James Taylor)
2. Child In Time (Deep Purple)
3. Lady Fantasy (Camel)
4. Sylvia (Focus)
5. Toccata & Fugue in Dm (JS Bach)
6. Overture to Music for the Royal Fireworks (GF Handel)
7. Steppin' Out (Bluesbreakers version)
8. Long and Winding Road (original over-produced Spector version)
9. Spoonful (Cream live version incl. self-indulgent jam)
10. I'm leaving you baby (Carl Martin, 1936)
    

equalsql

1. Revolution (The Beatles - B Side of Hey Jude)

2. Four Day Creep (Humble Pie - 1st track on the 'Performance' album)

3. Speed King (Deep Purple)

4. Voodoo Chile - A Slight Return (Jimi Hendrix)

5. Makin' Magic (Pat Travers live performance on TOGWT)

6. The Rocker (Thin Lizzy)

7. One Of Them Is Me (Andrew Gold)

8. Monmouth College Fight Song (The Yellow Jackets - Robben Ford's solo is jaw dropping)

9. The Dance Of Life (Narada Michael-Walden the original 1979 recording..the recent version being crap)

10. Layla (Derek and the Dominoes - the short version)

Not in list but would add if had the space..cos they too blew my young mind..

Some Skunk Funk (Brecker Brothers - Heavy Metal Bebop)
Sylvia (Focus) 
Saturday Night's Alright For Fighting (Elton John )
Doing All Right (Queen - Just about Brian May's finest moment excluding Brighton Rock)

photek

1. Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young - Carry on
2. Joni Mitchell - Blue
3. Jackson Browne - Running on Empty
4. Manic Street Preachers - 4st 7lb
5. Robben Ford - Talk to your Daughter
6. Kings X - Goldilox
7. The Black Crowes - Virtue & Vice
8. Air - All I need
9. Blind Melon - Vernie
10. John Mayer - No Such Thing

RocknRollDave

photek said:

4. Manic Street Preachers - 4st 7lb

Great choice!

FelineGuitars

Dear me - I'm hard pushed to limit it to 10.

I'll stick with the early obsessions in my life that still matter

T Rex - Get It on

Queen - We will rock you/We are the champions (double A side)

Fleetwood Mac - The Chain

Def Leppard - High and Dry

Alice Cooper - No more Mr Nice Guy

Paul Stanley (kiss solo album) - Tonight You Belong To Me

Motley Crue - Live Wire

Dokken - Unchain the night

Scorpions - No One Like You

UFO - Rock Bottom (live)

ICBM

1. David Bowie - Space Oddity
2. ABBA - SOS
3. Deep Purple - Child In Time
4. Fleetwood Mac - Go Your Own Way
5. Tears For Fears - Mad World
6. Duran Duran - Hungry Like The Wolf
7. Lloyd Cole - Perfect Skin
8. Mike Oldfield - Sentinel
9. Heather Nova - Walk This World
10. ATB - Love Will Find You

NPP

The earliest are probably the most significant:

1. AC/DC - Highway to Hell. AC/DC were the first band I was into big time

2. Deep Purple - Smoke on the Water (from Made in Japan). The start of a journey back into 60s music

3. Hendrix - Hey Joe. Probably the single song that had the most impact on me.

4. Clapton / Cream - Crossroads. I always had to listen to this multiple times at top volumes because I couldn't decide whether to focus on the guitar tone, what Clapton played, or what Bruce played.

5. Robert Johnson - Travelling Riverside Blues. I had a long period of listening to older blues and all kinds of blues, this is probably the song most representative of that though Muddy Waters's Going Back to Luisiana or SRV's Texas Flood would fit that role as well

6. Rolling Stones - Brown Sugar. After the blues period came the Rolling Stones period, guitar tuned to open G and all that. Brown Sugar probably best encapsulates that approach to playing. 

7. Free - Heartbreaker (All Right Now would have been to easy). Though it is difficult to justify putting this above some Allmanns or Little Feat ...

8. Aretha Franklin - Respect. Beginning to turn towards soul and funk. 

9. Booker T & the MGs - Green Onions. Discovering more about Motown rhythm playing. 

10. needs to be something with Cornell Dupree on it probably. 

There are loads of others, though ...

suspiciousminds

Elvis - baby lets play house
Beatles - revolution
Elvis - always on my mind
Sweet - blockbuster
Hollies - long cool woman in a black dress
Echo and the bunnymen - do it clean (live)
Elo - diary of horace wimp
Queen - bohemian rhapsody
Acdc - the jack (live from if you want blood)
New order - blue monday
Basically when i hear these songs it reminds me of specific times in my life.

strumjoughlamps

photek said:

6. Kings X - Goldilox

doesn't make this list for me but boy its one of my fave songs of all time.

Public Enemy - welcome to the terrordome

Ride - drive blind

Sundays - can't be sure

Afghan Whigs - my curse

10000 Maniacs - don't talk

Sultans of PIng - where's me jumper

Power of Dreams - the jokes on me

The Charlottes - see me feel

Soundgarden - jesus christ pose

Love Battery - split in two

all got life memories for me

photek

strumjoughlamps said:

photek said:

6. Kings X - Goldilox

10000 Maniacs - don't talk

Right back at you dude. 10000 maniacs - Whats the matter here is the first song I remember actually listening to the lyrics and really feeling something. I would have been around 8-9 years old. Fooking amazing band.

PolarityMan

Does anyone else think of it more as "10 songs my life influenced"? You know as the pivotal songs I think are kinda unconsciously selected because they resonate with particular experiences and times.

mike_l

^^Yep.

 

Nunogilberto

Boston - Peace of Mind
Queen - I Want It All
U2 - I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For...
Lightning Seeds - Never Change
The Verve - Lucky Man
Van Halen - Eruption
Feeder - Comfort in Sound
Extreme - Decadence Dance
Mr Big - To Be With You
Manics - A Design For Life

ICBM

PolarityMan said:

Does anyone else think of it more as "10 songs my life influenced"? You know as the pivotal songs I think are kinda unconsciously selected because they resonate with particular experiences and times.

The ones I picked are because they changed my life or my appreciation of music in some way.

Space Oddity - the first record I ever liked. Because it was about space, rather than because I had unusually developed music taste for a 5-year-old, I admit .

ABBA - hearing them for the first time was a magical experience for me at the age of 8. SOS just happened to be the song.

When I got to 'big school', some older boys were playing Child In Time in their study. I was now hooked on rock music. It was just so *powerful*.

The solo in Go Your Own Way made me want to play a guitar - although I didn't take it up for several years.

Mad World made me realise as a confused teenager that other people felt as alienated as I did and that this could be communicated through music. (Clichéd but true.)

Hungry Like The Wolf was the first Duran Duran song I liked, and I found that this made me attractive to girls. More than listening to prog rock and even Tears For Fears did, anyway.

Lloyd Cole was one of the reasons I came to live in Scotland. Like me, he's English - but The Commotions were a Glasgow band. It had to be a cool place.

Mike Oldfield - Sentinel (Tubular Bells 2) - this may seem an odd choice, but the *sound* of that record completely blew my preconceptions about what 'guitar tone' should be wide open. It really doesn't sound like anything else even he had done before.

Heather Nova - one of my biggest influences and why I'm in the type of band I'm in today. Walk This World is just the first song on the first album of hers I heard. You know when you hear something new and within the first second it has your complete attention? Like that, only more so .

ATB - importantly that song features Heather Nova on vocals. That's why I bought his album, but the rest of it made me get much more into dance and electronic music, which I had more or less ignored until then.

Evilmags

Rush, la villa strangiato. First album was hemispheres and that track blew me away.

Led Zeppelin two. Just the whole album.

John Mclauglin Trio Florianapolis.

Al de Meola Tango Suite.

Zappa eat that question

Miles Davis, Soleá

Paco de Lucía Zyrab

Vai for the love of god. When that album came out no one had made a guitar do that.

Zappa Florentine Pogen

Joe Pass, Virtuoso

littlegreenman

Evilmags said:

Zappa Florentine Pogen

Great call