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Post by Poster Saint on Sept 13, 2003 13:24:50 GMT -5
Not a question of current or past favourites, but what song started everything for you?
A friend of mine played the Laid album for me a few years ago during a visit from the States and although the first two tracks were amazing, when I heard "Dream Thrum" I told her to stop playing the record and that we could move on to something else because I would be buying the album the following day.
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Post by saysomething on Sept 13, 2003 15:00:07 GMT -5
what's the world was the first james song I heard, but it was if things were perfect off village fire that really got me hooked.
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Post by steen on Sept 13, 2003 16:39:35 GMT -5
Listening to SOUND at some point in the winter of 1991 on the radio and later seeing it on Mtv to know who was actually performing this song. My only knowledge about James before this was from a Factory poster that showed a picture of James- Sit down was never a hit in Denmark
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Post by Geoff on Sept 13, 2003 17:57:10 GMT -5
I remember my sister's boyfriend playing Goverment Walls, it got me asking questions, then I was hooked. Now I'm a James addict and have to buy everything to do with them. If there was 'Tim Booth's lunch, last Sunday' on Ebay, I'd have it.
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Post by lostinsound on Sept 13, 2003 20:51:17 GMT -5
I'm ashamed to say that the first time I heard James was in a Wal-Mart while checking out the stereo systems they had on sale. This was before I learned of the atrocity that is Wal-Mart and decided to boycott it. I was testing out a stereo and when I put it on a radio station Laid was playing. I immediately thought "I need to find out who sings this song." The radion stations never seemed to say who it was after they played it. I asked some people I knew if I they had heard it, but no one had. The only part I could remember was "you're like a disease without any cure" so it was hard to describe it to people. After about a week I finally found out it was James and I bought the album. And its just gone downhill from there. But in a good way.
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Post by scarecrow on Sept 14, 2003 4:11:50 GMT -5
Tomorrow.
First time in my life I could completely relate to a song, Id heard other James songs before but this one really grabbed me. Got the back catalogue, got everything since.
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Post by jinnele on Sept 14, 2003 17:43:01 GMT -5
Hearing "Sometimes" on the radio. I was transfixed from the first chord. I knew of previous James songs, but this one made me pay attention. When "Laid " was released a few months afterwards, my interest was sealed. I can recall all the hoo-ha on the local radio station about the substitution of the word "comes" with "sings", and me and a couple of friends thinking we were being sooo rebellious singing the original lyrics in Dunstable town centre. ;D
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Post by geo on Sept 15, 2003 12:10:29 GMT -5
I bought the Alternative NRG cd back in college because of the live REM and U2 on it. REM was track 1 and U2 was track 3. Sandwiched inbetween was this little accoustic song "Ring the Bells." I usually just flipped past it (it kind of started slow and slightly uninteresting). However, one day I just put on the cd while working around the house. Once they got to the jam at the end of the song (you all know the part), I had to stop what I was doing and just listen. And I thought "who the hell is this?" I was hooked.
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Post by saysomething on Sept 15, 2003 14:26:44 GMT -5
Sandwiched between U2 and REM - that almost sounds like a music press dismissal of James.
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Post by Poster Saint on Sept 16, 2003 11:42:05 GMT -5
Sandwiched between U2 and REM - that almost sounds like a music press dismissal of James. True, but in retrospect it's funny how often James appears on compilations with these other bands. I had been into R.E.M. about six years before a friend introduced me to James, and ironically I had never gotten a single one of these releases. R.E.M. made the extra tracks available elsewhere.
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Post by geo on Sept 16, 2003 23:54:10 GMT -5
Sandwiched between U2 and REM - that almost sounds like a music press dismissal of James. Well... this may be true, but it introduced me to them and 10 years later I'm obscessing (and skipping REM and U2 concerts...) ;D
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Post by builtoncomplacency on Sept 30, 2003 13:12:38 GMT -5
For me it was Just Like Fred Astaire; even though I'd heard Sit Down on the radio that was the one that made me decide to go and buy some of their stuff.
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Post by stripminer on Oct 1, 2003 16:38:57 GMT -5
It was Hang On when I was 7 or 8. Just recall hearing this amazing sound blasting from my brothers room... And so it began!
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Post by cat on Oct 2, 2003 16:16:25 GMT -5
For me, the song that began it all was "Laid" when it first came out in 1993. Hey, not terribly original, I know, but at the time I used to listen almost exclusively to college radio and they played it all the time (also on cable radio, which was new then, and not many people had it). I remember just being blown away by the song, loving it from the first time I heard it, and thinking "WHO IS this band?!" I went out and immediately bought the CD and was just amazed-- I loved every song on it, and I listened to it continuously. I could not get over (and I'm still equally impressed today) with how beautiful Tim's voice was and how poignant and relevant the lyrics were, and how the band was all over the spectrum, equally talented with the slower, more thoughtful songs and the faster, rockier ones. I loved how such sensitivity and sass could exist in one band, and that quirky sense of humor and appreciation of irony which came through so clearly in songs like "Laid" and "Low Low Low." "Say Something," "One of the Three," and "P.S." were some of my favorites. I immediately began raving about the band to anyone who I thought had reasonable musical tastes and might be willing to give something new a listen, but interest was lukewarm (at best): no one had ever heard of them and I'm afraid I didn't make many converts. They've been my favorite band ever since and shortly thereafter I went out and bought all of their back catalog that was available, and I've bought everything since. To my everlasting regret, I never had the opportunity to see them live. Ah, the greatest tragedy of my life.
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Post by Maurice on Oct 3, 2003 16:37:52 GMT -5
I saw a live concert on the BBC. I think in 1990 or 1991 and since that moment I am a fan. Unfortunately I never saw them live.
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