A little light-hearted post for a change! 😄

wow

thats the most difficult question ever, i was just talking today about music of my era, as they say, to someone a lot younger than me.  what a laugh, especially as they had never heard of anyone i was mentioning haha.

only one though is soooo hard, can i have a single as well as an album, please.

single would be massachusetts by the bee gees, i used to hear my mama playing this when i was a right nipper, so young i couldnt even pronounce it, i used to ask her to play massa two shits and i still love it and have it on my car mp3 and it still takes me right back to great memories of mum and dad playing all their 60s stuff in the house, we didnt have a telly when i was little so music was on all the time, on the old record player, stacking all the singles up, brilliant.

album would have to be stiff little fingers, Hanx, the live album. they were the first gig i ever went to with my cousin, donkeys years ago at St Georges Hall in Bradford. it was brilliant.   those were the days when after gigs you went backstage for a can of beer with the groups, got autographs and had a good laugh.  we still leap about, although a lot slower now and a bit more careful of spraining something, to Alternative Ulster whenever we play it now. Great times, never any trouble at gigs, just a wonderful time and great music, well great music to us.  one gig the support group was another group from Ireland that no one had ever heard of and they were U2, haha, we thought they were OK but not as good as SLF, but i did get their autographs and a can of beer from Bono.

it was difficult because i also saw the clash loads of times and i loved them, i even got a lecture from Joe Strummer about making sure i got my head down at school and got my O levels, he said exams were the most important things to do at my age as well as listening to his music.  

Great memories of the age, but also how times have changed, i doubt you could get backstage with any group now for a beer and a laugh, they were just so down to earth and appreciated you loved their music and that their words meant something to you at that age, and still do, even though im now nearly 61.

So, ok, only one is difficult, but now we have these little sticks that hold hundreds of albums, cant i take one of those instead haha, but nothing will ever replace the vinyl scratching sound of old, oh and then the screech when it was scratched and the needle flew off the record player and you had to buy the album again or try and tape your best mates copy if they had a modern stacker system. haha

so whats your album then, you didnt say

great question but now im going to have to dig it out and blast the neighbours.

thanks for  stirring up the memories

My one song would be Comfortably Numb-Pink Floyd 

Album At Filmore East -Allman Brothers. 

Both for certain memories that they bring back.

Ones that I don't mind recalling over and over.

Funny isn't it, I have never heard that, it would be good to see what other people put down as their choice and then get a list and listen to them all and see what I think and feel about that bit of music, will have to wait and see oh and also for my up to date techno best pal to come on holiday and find them all for me haha should be interesting 

So, I’m on my way to a Desert Island, what one album I’d bring with me? - Abbey Road (Beatles). Thoughts of my days working in the UK having left school age 16 and embarked on the ferry from Ireland, not having a clue of what would happen to my future.

Edited to stay within confines of the thread

Ya can try to bend them but see if you CAN narrow it down. 

Not easy.

As for reading material maybe we can start related topic and give a choice of 2 books.

Funny thing about music, when you think of it, you may know the lyrics to hundreds or thousands of songs maybe.

I know I do. Wish I could replace even half of the space it takes up with my Spanish learning 😜.

Some of these songs you love others you like then there's the ear flea ya know the one that won't go away and drives you batty... looking at you Winchester Cathedral.

Oh shite here we go again😖

Thing is when I want to listen to music I sometimes end up NOT listening to it.

You throw one song on then say "nah not that" I can sometimes spend hours just searching for that one song I want to hear or that one type.

Some days it's the crashing crescendo of Beethoven's Symphony No. 9 in D Minor, Op. 125, Second Movement others it could be some moon stomping SKA or Joni Mitchell's Blue 🤔🤔🤔

As for radio 'Fuhgeddaboudit' back in the day, in New York WNEW FM one of the first album stations,  great music and introduced me to a wide range of artists but now all radio have playlists dictated by their sponsors and are repetitive crap. 

In a pinch I'll throw Caroline on but even then your at the mercy of some of the strangest DJ'S I ever heard.

In the car I'll only listen to Spanish radio more as noise and listening practice.  

So in conclusion pick only one song and one album if you can.

ONE song and ONE Album? Holy crap that’s a big ask

ummmmm song … Corazon Espinado - Santana

Album … Machine Head, Deep Purple

3 concerts would be

 1. Bob Seger 2019 Jacksonville  Jaguars Stadium  Flordia . Hollywood Nites almost brought the house down. 

2. Fleetwood Mac Point Depot Dublin 2013. Fans reaction to Stand Back was amazing and the intensity between Steve Nicks and Lydsay Buckingham during Silver Springs was spine tingling. 

3. Thin Lizzy Fort Regent Jersey Channel islands 1981. Wow just Wow. What a preformer Phil was. Gone to soon.

 Honourable mention Eric Claption Point Depot Dublin 1991 with Phil Collins on drums. It was Phils 40th birthday and the crowd singing happy birthday 🎂 was something else.

Songs 

1.AC/DC Thunderstruck

2.Wishbone Ash Sometime World

3.Garry Moore Still Go The Blues For You

Honourable mention Snow Patrol Chasing Cars.

3 albums

1.Deep Purple Made in Japan

2.Bob Seger Stranger in Town

3.Fleetwood Mac Rumours 

Honourable mention 

Thin Lizzy Live and Dangerous 

No, couldn’t do it.  I’d get bored.  I just love the variety that radio gives. Local stations, either at home or in Spain,  BBC 2 and BBC 4 at different times.

See that's my problem with radio, local stations plural. Which could mean not sticking to one at a time and one is constantly  searching for something to listen too that doesn't bore one. 

Same with the choice of the certain  stations different times only not all day. 

So how about the one that brings back THE memory- first dance, kiss, love, or childhood memories.