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Post by peterrugby on Mar 31, 2007 16:19:06 GMT -5
Come Home was also the first song I heard and got into. Was also my first James T-shirt. White long sleeve. if you still got the T shirt I bet its gray NOW
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Madchester
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Post by Madchester on Apr 1, 2007 14:44:36 GMT -5
For me it were two songs actually. While making a trip on someone's boat with music playing on the background, I simply could not grasp the idea that 'Low Low Low' and 'I Know What I'm Here For' were products of the same band. I had to go buy both the records to realize it was true. Naturally I was hooked.
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Post by MAЯC on Apr 3, 2007 8:44:44 GMT -5
"Low Low Low" reminds me of XTC.
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Post by stevethedog on Apr 4, 2007 6:59:40 GMT -5
My dad used to be signed up to the Britannia thing where you got 5 albums a month. He got the best of and I asked who they were. He said there was a song he really liked by them which turned out to be Sit Down.
I chucked it on to my discman and headed of to school. I was loving it and I think it was Destiny Calling which got the heart pounding the most. I let the bus drive right by my school as I had to listen to the entire record. Amazing time I'll never forget.
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coolmachine
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I'm so obsessed that I'm becoming a bore
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Post by coolmachine on Apr 7, 2007 16:07:09 GMT -5
What a cool teacher you had! Mine (when they actually stuck music on in lessons during HS and College) played trash and nothing much else! Yeah he was really cool. He also lent me Stutter on vinyl. That thing was older than me! If it was mine there would be no way anyone would be allowed to touch it.
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JimmyCactus
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Post by JimmyCactus on Apr 13, 2007 16:36:59 GMT -5
That a cool subject to read...
In 1990, I left Canada to spend one year in England ( with all its weirdos eating chips sandwiches...englishwise and american wise ). Beginning of 1991, I was enroll at Eccles Comprehensive School in the great Manchester. That`s where it all stated. One day in class, one of the most beautiful girl had with her the 12 inches of Sit down that she just had bought. I was intrigued by it. I finally heard Sit Down on the radio and saw the video on the television. I like it. But it`s not there that I was hooked. As I was broken, there was no way that I could get a single andéor the album.
And then I read somewhere that the were going to be on the television "At the dome". They didn`t played Sit Down but they did played Heavens. And tim was dancing like a crazy man. There was my moment. At that point....
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Post by cbrown on Apr 13, 2007 18:25:12 GMT -5
my memory is very clear - running into my brother's room (he was a casual fan) to tell him and the music he was playing to, as I recall it, "shut the fu*k up!" .... bad language from a 10 year old :-P anyway, he insisted I watch two minutes of his tv. Playing was Come Home from the Come Home Live video. I was curious enough to sneak into his room a few days later, steal his tapes and see what all the fuss had been about. I got hooked on that song, then drumming along to it and then later the band itself. if it weren't for that song I might not play music today. its a gem.
cB
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Post by runaground on Apr 16, 2007 10:18:16 GMT -5
First James song I listened to was "Sometimes" off a mix tape a sibling made for me. I heard it and thought it was too good to be true. Forget about U2 and Bono painting pictures with their songs! From the first line, "There's a storm outside.." the song conjures up images like no other! Beautiful and fantastic.
I doubt I would have been a fan of James if my first songs I listened to were Fred Astaire or She's a Star (no offense, the songs are good by their own rights, but they don't carry the magic as Sometimes does with me). Hope that makes sense? Maybe some of you can relate to what I'm trying to say?
But yeah, Sometimes, amazing song and like all first good things, the memory of it is still very fresh today..as is the song.
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NewColour
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Post by NewColour on Apr 16, 2007 12:31:17 GMT -5
Sometimes is a fantastic song, one of my favourites too. I know what you mean about 'Fred Astair' etc (although I do like that song - how I wish someone would write a song like that for me) I had heard James along time before I got into them, 'sit down' really, and it wasn't until I was introduced to Stripmine that I thought wow, I can relate to this, especially 'ready to rebel'.
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Post by guernica1976 on Apr 21, 2007 13:47:40 GMT -5
When I was 15 and heard Born of Frustration for the first time... I'd heard stuff from GM but BoF really spoke to me at that particular moment. Guess I was just starting to wonder about the whole meaning of life thing! "Who put brown owl eyes on the butterflies wings? Who gave the leopard spots and taught the birds to sing?" Yeah, who did? When I bought the single I was hooked by the extended opening and how it takes you away on some magic cloud before exploding into life Then there were the 'woo-woo's' at the end of Ring The Bells. That touched me in a way I can't really describe, it opened up feelings and hazy memories of something long before this life. When I first heard Sometimes it just all went to a level of intensity that will not happen again. I know I'll never listen to another song so many times I've done my bit to spread the word since and every single person has fallen in love too.
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Post by saulisgod on May 7, 2007 16:15:18 GMT -5
She's a star got me interested...I may have heard the band but not compute why
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Post by jamesreunited on May 7, 2007 16:25:28 GMT -5
Government Walls
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Post by paranormalhandy on May 8, 2007 15:10:42 GMT -5
"What For?"
I heard it on the James "Come Home" live video, and noticed it wasn't on "Gold Mother" or "Seven". So I went out and bought "Strip Mine" in late 1992 (along with a "We Are Sound" long-sleeve T-shirt) and started exploring their early stuff from there. Within a couple of years I'd got all the Factory, Sire and Rough Trade stuff - all thanks to "What For", which is still probably my favourite James song.
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Post by whitey on May 11, 2007 14:02:22 GMT -5
For me it was Johnny Yen live.
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Post by richie141 on May 11, 2007 16:08:48 GMT -5
Ring the bells and Hymn from a village got me hooked. I remember listening to them and just being so shocked at how different it was to anything I have ever heard. Went out and bought about 3 albums the next day
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