Not sure if this has been done before or not, but I'll take a chance on it. Going from least favorite to favorite what are your 10 most favorite discs of all time? This can include all styles of music or if you want you can do a list of each style if you'd like as well. I'll get back to you on my list soon.
Oh top ten - now that's cruel that is..
TEN can't even start the list - that includes the ones I want to be there - to list any of my top favs..
Where then - do I start.
Lets see - Little Arrows.
That's the song a bloke in my grade sang (or attempted to sing) when our High School had an in-assembly-hall anybody could sing if they had talent - "concert" - (in the school) - thus that song was and always has been - my goto fav - as he sucked but the song was great.
Oh & it was to be the same year that I later discovered that I could borrow long-term (steal being a bad word) some 10 bakelite MES globe holders - from the science room's lab/storeroom - for my VU meter board.
As FOUR YEARS earlier mid-way through mid winter of 1965 - (here in New Zealand) I had my very own unique way - of playing ALL MUSIC in multiple channel surround sound, such that every single album - that I have ever bought, borrowed - or been given to "play / play with" - since then, has been IN - my top ten favourite albums of all time - each one pushing the tenth out of contention
Thus whoever sang the original Little Arrows.
Leapy Lee (just googled it and found the album was also called LITTLE ARROWS
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Little Arrows" is a single by English artist Leapy Lee. Released in 1968, it was the first single from his album
Little Arrows.
en.wikipedia.org › wiki › Little_Arrows
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But then I also had access to all the one's from 1965 - that my own sisters and even my Mum had - to thus have THEM as my favs too.
(I didn't have any money when I was 12 - so I had to rely on others to "buy" or loan theirs to me - for me to "play/play-with" any music see).
All I know is this - as far as I can remember - (as well as what some research has found) away back in 1965 when I was "playing with" all forms of music - from old 78's in mono - to modern radio played albums, that my friends had bought and that I could thus play - in stereo - were what appeared to be similar - to what the end of July 1965's Australian Top Ten singles had been..
ie:
July 22, 1965
1 Crying In The Chapel - Elvis Presley
2 I Told The Brook - Billy Thorpe and the Aztecs
3 Mr. Tambourine Man - The Byrds
4 It Ain't Necessarily So - Normie Rowe and the Playboys
5 Hucklebuck - Brendan Bowyer
6 Angel - Cliff Richard
7 Stagger Lee - P.J. Proby
8 Wonderful World - Herman's Hermits
9 Wake Up My Mind - The Ugley's
10 Trains And Boats And Planes - Billy J. Kramer and the Dakotas
ALL of these - i played or attempted to play - across my system - and ALL of them - became my all time favs - always depleted from my top ten list - when the next album or single "arrived" to topple the songs / albums at the bottom of the list.
Now - what were you wanting - as I have the FULL 1978 NZ published records available shopping guide - of the Records Publications Ltd, in Wellington NZ - listing all available (in the late 1970's) here.
And can give you their song titles, record numbers - album names / contributing artists / record labels - whatever?
Take the letter H for example...
Page 38 midway down LHS of page.
HANDS, Brian:
Hands Across The Table -- Waitete; Haere Mai; Hoki Mai; Manurere; Te Arawa E; Pokarekare; Blue Smoke; etc.,
Viking label;
VP 408, VPS 408C, * VIKING
The Publication was entitled as:
THE COMPLETE NEW ZEALAND RECORD & CASSETTE CATALOGUE
Oh = I still have it - which is still the way I made it - in 1968 (after I borrowed the bakelite globe holders and some MES torch globes) when I used a piece of discarded flooring panel (particleboard or chipboard as it's now known as).. to build my special 10 channel VU meter board.
Not being able to buy one see - as the only one's I knew of were very expensive and only two channels
But I had to add a plastic zippy box a few years ago - to "hide" the birds-nest of wires, that comprised my ten channel "Decagonophonic" VU meter board - to allow me to play it for making videos for YouTube around 2006 - 2009 - so that I could show the working board - without anyone seeing the birds-nest of wires, that comprises the analogue deplexer-decoder's active circuits and decoding workings.
Check it out, as I - here in the late 2000's - was playing an old pre-recorded tape I'd made sometime in the late 70's early 80's - on an 25w per ch - integrated amp's 2ch hard wired outputs, (here in Roxburgh), as I tried ever so desperately - to make a video proving that I had - ten channels of analogue decoded SURROUND SOUND in electrical current paths, that could be otherwise directly wired for speakers..
Yet - all on YouTube seemingly didn't watch - or care - as they blabbered on - about my cellphone's silly MONO recording (when doing video's) telling me it wasn't surround sound at all - but a mono audio in the video - as if the surround sound VU meter board - only displayed a MONO system ..
I am still gobsmacked to this day - that some idiots that SEE LIGHTS pulsing and flashing at different rates, power strengths etc - all assume - because it was "filmed" with a mono cellphone - it must ONLY be a mono system, that produced those flashing lights?
TEN LITTLE LIGHTS, brilliant VU meters - showing exactly how where and why - they LIGHT to nearly full brightness, driven ONLY by the electrical currents that should be powering individual speaker voice coils - in a ten channel analogue surround sound system.
FED from a two channel amplifier using just three wires - a Left positive, a Right positive & ONE other - oh look - one wire called a common-return/earthed-ground wire.
3 wires - for a 3D "ten channel" analogue deplexer-decoded surround sound system
Driven from the signal currents themselves, that I was able to prove are found on any old (or new) 2 ch / 2 track compact cassette tape.
Or watch the whole video from the start ...
