musicman56
50 years hifi & vinyl junkie
When the Beatles burst into my life, aged 8, in 1964 I vowed to follow the singles chart avidly thereafter. And I did, throughout the sixties and right up to 1971 when I heard ‘Back Street Luv’ by Curved Air and was sufficiently enthused by its ethereal beauty to spend my paper-round earnings on their LP ‘Second Album’ with its die cut fold out sleeve – only my second LP purchase ever. (see avatar)
It blew me away with its longer-than-3-minute pieces, weird violin and VCS3 synth melodies and haunting female vocals. It kicked down the door to ‘album’ bands and in the golden age of prog, I never looked at a single again.
Second Album remains my keystone album opening my eyes to a world beyond the singles chart and I have just secured an immaculate first pressing to replace my old copy worn away by a miss-tracking autochanger all those years ago.
What was yours?
It blew me away with its longer-than-3-minute pieces, weird violin and VCS3 synth melodies and haunting female vocals. It kicked down the door to ‘album’ bands and in the golden age of prog, I never looked at a single again.
Second Album remains my keystone album opening my eyes to a world beyond the singles chart and I have just secured an immaculate first pressing to replace my old copy worn away by a miss-tracking autochanger all those years ago.
What was yours?