Which were the records which made you stop in your tracks, walk into the first available record shop and ask for the record you have just heard for the first time on your radio? These remain treasures in your collection not just for the music that touched you but the milestone they created in your life.  Some of these were issues on vinyl originally but naturally reissued on CD or MP3. All of these songs below I ne3eded to own on every medium because I have not stopped playing them to this very day.....

Have you ever taken a moment to think back and figure out which where these sounds which made you stop in your tracks and made you resolve immediately, “I must have that record...right now!”....

Here are some that had an impact on me;....


1                    All the Beatles albums , (no exceptions)....

2                    Super session - Al Kooper and Mike Bloomfied (1966/67)....

3                    Freddie King’s first album  (1972 or thereabouts)....

4                    Sultans of Swing - Dire Straits (197???)....

5                    Blowing in The Wind – Bob Dylan (sixties)....

6                    Refugee - Cold Chisel  198?? (Australia)....

7                    Eric Clapton  - Sunshine of your Love” (sixties)....

8                    Jimmy Hendrix – Hej Joe/The wind cries Mary (sixties)....

9                    Stevie Ray Vaughan – “Mary had a little lamb”....

10                John Lennon – Imagine – seventies I think.....

I think I will stop here but everyone of these tracks caused me to stop whatever I was doing and head for the nearest record shop so I could buy the record  there and then....which were yours?!


Mannie   
Feb 2009