what music do you 'return' to?

[slim jenkins]

i think i could actually make a pretty good case for the 90s being the best decade for music

Not the right Smilie according to the official definition but it's the most appropriate expression re the above! I'd love to hear your case.

As someone's said it has a lot to do with your age. I always return to Bowie circa '69-75. Roxy Music's first three albums. 70s Funk, esp Parliament. Reggae from Rocksteady to The Upsetters and classic Trojan. Blue Note, esp Horace Silver. Miles Davis. Mingus. Charlie Parker. Still get a kick out of early Jungle, which has aged surprisingly well. Hendrix. Loads of others but those are the basics.

 

[shaolinsoul]

early edgy detroit techno and some harder european R&S, tresor stuff.

 

[zhao]

so much music from places ive never been to and times when i was not alive feels like, and have become, home to me.

john fahey, delta blues and gospel, howling wolf... louis armstrong, sidney bechet, nina simone... congolesce rumba, indian classical, persian classical, eric satie, harold budd, roots reggae...

 

[Corpsey]

I think the music you get really into when you're a teenager feels like it's 'yours' at the time, or at least that's my experience of it. I had extremely narrow tastes for most of my teenage years, but I had so much passion for it.

 

[empty mirror]

metallica - kill 'em all

i was heavy into metal (nyuk!) in 5th and 6th grade before disavowing metal completely in favor of new wave music (my best friend claimed to melt into a human puddle when in direct contact with heavy metal cassettes so i had to be sure to put them away when he visited)----and yet i seem to know this metallica album (and a few others) word for word. i have strong memories of "headbanging" with a tennis racket to metallica until i puked. (for reference, i got into them when "...and justice for all" came out----"one" on the tv all the time)

i rarely return to motley crue, testament, poison or gnr but today i put on kill 'em all (after having DL-ed it illegally last night---that felt good!) and drove to work with the volume waaaaaaaay up----acting like a maniac!

i guess metallica is a difficult band to return to, particularly in light of their attitude towards downloading music in the napster days. it went beyond protecting artists to some kind of disdain for fans. 🤷

anyway, yeah:

 

[low band]

Despite years of wandering around all sorts of musical genres, if I'm ever in need of a nostalgic fix (the stuff that's burned deep in my skull/soul). I'll stick one of these on:

Spacemen 3 - The Perfect Prescription
Psychic TV - Force the Hand of Chance (including the Themes vol 1 vinyl, which I love)
The Smiths - Hatful of Hollow
Crass - Christ The Album
Nightmares on Wax - A Word Of Science (sadly no king sized skins left)
Seefeel - Quique
Sonic Youth - Daydream Nation
Can - Tago Mago
KLF - Chill Out
Various - Blood On The Cats

 

[Sick Boy]

Sonic Youth - Daydream Nation

Ahh, yeah, Sonic Youth are a big one for me too. I discovered them in High School when I was taken to one of their concerts by a friend and shortly after proceeded to buy their entire discography in one fell swoop.

Some bits they've done have revealed themselves to be a bit cringey now I'm no longer a teenager, but for the most part I can put on their stuff and have a really good time.

 

[Dunninger]

I regularly go on Sonic Youth binges, most of their records still move me. Just got the Sensational Fix exhibition catalogue the other day and will go there in 2-3 weeks

 

[DannyL]

I don't own any of it - and don't really want to, and strictly speaking I don't return to it very often - but eighties soul kills it for me. I can go for a few years without hearing it, but then go on a Youtube jag or hear some at a party and go potty.

I was into electro first, but kinda grew up around this stuff, being from the London/Essex boundary.

Saturday Love - Alexander O'Neill & Cherrelle
SOS Band - The Finest
Loose Endz - Hanging on a String
The Controllers - Stay
Joyce Sims - All in All

and of course...

The Mighty Luther! (one of my mates lives in NY now, and keeps on saying he's going to drive out to visit his grave).

Sound of my youth right there.

 

[urbanite]

For me it would have to be Company Flow at least right now... The music I go back tends to change and morph across time. Would've been quite nostalgic to be listening to Nirvana - Incesticide a few years back or maybe Fugazi - The Argument, also Shadow - Endtroducing brings back a lot of memories.

 

[michael]

this thread is in danger of becoming "your favorite teenage bands"

Well,yeah, it's pretty much built into the question, isn't it? At least, music you've known since you were a teenager...

I go back to:
Slowdive - 'Souvlaki'
Spiritualized - 'Laser Guided Melodies' + 'Fucked Up Inside'.
Massive Attack - 'Blue Lines'
The Orb - 'UFOrb'
Skylab - '#1'
Medicine - 'Shot Forth Self Living'
My Bloody Valentine - 'You Made Me Realise' + 'Glider' EPs
De La Soul & Teenage Fanclub's Falling off the Judgment Night soundtrack.

I guess I do return to soul and disco quite a lot too, which is not something I liked at all as a teen.

 

[josef k.]

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Sometimes I listen to this twenty times in a day.

 

[crackerjack]

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Sometimes I listen to this twenty times in a day.

Fantastic

 

[josef k.]

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Together with this song, and I think you have all you need.

 

[crackerjack]

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Together with this song, and I think you have all you need.

Hmm

 

[Elijah]

Jay-Z - Reasonable Doubt
Prodigy - Fat of the land
Micheal Jackson - Off The Wall.

Always cheer me up

 

[ToRMeNT]

punk/hardcore . Any and all eras, its in me blood.

 

[thirdform]

Rave music for me. I was 10-11 in 1992 and my favourite bands were the Prodigy, KLF, Altern-8 (whatever was in the charts at that time basically) and my older sister's tapes she bought at raves. I then 'grew up' and went off down the Indie route for years, but I can't ever imagine returning to Oasis and Blur now...

lmfao.

and to answer the question, turkish folk, classical and arabesk music of the 70s-90s. Economy, melody, emotional range, and no wars about punks vs noodlers that get every whiteboy (and girl!) in a twist. The concept of the noodle is foreign to anatolian musicians.

 

[Benny Bunter]

Turkish music is shit though

 

[thirdform]

Turkish music is shit though

It might be shit, but your Western European music is middle eastern makam forms gotten wrong, so I have no reason to heed your opinion.