What first attracted you to an artist or band?
Discussion
I've been a fan of many bands over the years with various styles, and there is always something different that attracted me to them.
Genesis - As discussed in the other topic, it was their late 80s, early 90s pop singles that I liked as a child, and in later years made me discover their earlier prog rock efforts
Blur - We had a CD in the car that got played on so many road trips
The Prodigy - Heard them on some of the first parties I ever went to. The forbidden video clips that you could only watch after 23:00 captivated my imagination
Genesis - As discussed in the other topic, it was their late 80s, early 90s pop singles that I liked as a child, and in later years made me discover their earlier prog rock efforts
Blur - We had a CD in the car that got played on so many road trips
The Prodigy - Heard them on some of the first parties I ever went to. The forbidden video clips that you could only watch after 23:00 captivated my imagination
Stuck out in the middle of the Sahara for months at a time in the late nineties, a friend gave me a cassette of 'OK Computer' - there wasn't anything else and so I'd listen to it while driving through this completely alien, hostile and desolate landscape and it seemed to capture that mood/feeling so well I became hooked.
DickyC said:
I started to become a Bowie fan after hearing his cover of Let's Spend the Night Together on Aladdin Sane.
I first heard Life ON Mars? in 1973 aged 10 and thought it was the best song I'd ever heard (and still do). Then I saw a huge poster of the Alladin Sane album cover in the window of a record shop and was totally blown away. But I bought Hunky Dory because it had Life On Mars? on it. "There's a new sensation,
A fabulous creation..."
The opening lines of 'Do The Strand' on Roxy Music's 'For Your Pleasure album caught me immediately for some reason. It was like it was from another world to (a very young seven year old) me in 1973 when I first heard it. And the album cover, with slinky Amanda Lear on the outside and the ultra glam band on the gatefold inner sleeve was dark, exotic and spoke of amazing cool glamour (don't forget, this was Hull in 1973 - glamour for us was cream soda with your fish and chips on Friday night). Eno looked like a cross between an alien and a peacock, and Andy McKay looked more like Bryan Ferry than Bryan Ferry- 50's inspired glam-rock chic. The album lyrics conjured such fantastic images it always dragged me away from dull reality. Then later there was 'Stranded' and 'Country Life'... no-one did album covers like Roxy.
I still remember the first time I heard 'Mezzanine' by Massive Attack - at a rather decadent house party in a mansion in South Yorkshire. It was booming out of a hi-fi system in the kitchen, around 3.00am. Utterly mesmerising.
Bowie was an odd one for me - I remember 'Sound And Vision' playing on the radio in 1977 at my sister's house while I sat on the carpet playing with some toy cars, and loving the cascading synth section and those crooning but disjointed lyrics. It wasn't until a couple of years later that I realised it was the same singer that featured on the Ziggy/Aladdin Sane albums that my brother used to play in the early 1970's. After that, it was a fantastic voyage of discovery of Bowie's stuff..
A fabulous creation..."
The opening lines of 'Do The Strand' on Roxy Music's 'For Your Pleasure album caught me immediately for some reason. It was like it was from another world to (a very young seven year old) me in 1973 when I first heard it. And the album cover, with slinky Amanda Lear on the outside and the ultra glam band on the gatefold inner sleeve was dark, exotic and spoke of amazing cool glamour (don't forget, this was Hull in 1973 - glamour for us was cream soda with your fish and chips on Friday night). Eno looked like a cross between an alien and a peacock, and Andy McKay looked more like Bryan Ferry than Bryan Ferry- 50's inspired glam-rock chic. The album lyrics conjured such fantastic images it always dragged me away from dull reality. Then later there was 'Stranded' and 'Country Life'... no-one did album covers like Roxy.
I still remember the first time I heard 'Mezzanine' by Massive Attack - at a rather decadent house party in a mansion in South Yorkshire. It was booming out of a hi-fi system in the kitchen, around 3.00am. Utterly mesmerising.
Bowie was an odd one for me - I remember 'Sound And Vision' playing on the radio in 1977 at my sister's house while I sat on the carpet playing with some toy cars, and loving the cascading synth section and those crooning but disjointed lyrics. It wasn't until a couple of years later that I realised it was the same singer that featured on the Ziggy/Aladdin Sane albums that my brother used to play in the early 1970's. After that, it was a fantastic voyage of discovery of Bowie's stuff..
Edited by MikeT66 on Friday 30th October 13:34
DocJock said:
Definitely Clem Burke's silky skills with the 'sticks......yeah, that's it....
My girlfriend (wife) was called 'Blondie' for years.
So, hardly anything to do with what attracts me to bands/artists.
However, like so many, I really liked their music but so I did masses of other groups.
Great guitar playing is usually, but not always, what I've looked for first.
Didn't buy anything of Blondie's for years, until Panic of the Girls (quite liked that, best tracks from them in ages).
I still have the Collector's Pack somewhere - or did I flog it on the 'bay?
Boring statistic. Did watch them live in 2005 at Cornbury Park Festival - she was what, 60 then?
Not quite the same as seeing them in late 70s at Hammersmith Odeon when Debbie was in her early 30s.
A few weeks later was watching Wishbone Ash at the Odeon, hardly similar.
Driving home one night in bad mood, John Peel played this
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8EUJ7EnpOvc
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8EUJ7EnpOvc
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