On Tue, Jul 28, 2009 at 10:37 PM, wrote: > > If there is another younger band or artist that had a major impact on > your life in > >a way that the Beatles impacted an earlier generation, what is it? > > If we're talking an artist whose albums impacted me as they were putting > them out, then I'd have to say Morrissey. If we're talking about artists > whose albums impacted me as I discovered them, then the Beatles were my > Beatles, in that they were the wellspring from which my subsequent obsession > with music flowed. If my next-door neighbor hadn't given me the "20 Greatest > Hits" album as a present one year, I don't know WHERE I'd be today. > No artist had a series of albums that impacted me as they were putting them out the way the Beatles impacted me as I discovered them. But I discovered the Beatles early. The group whose catalog I had the most pleasure discovering *after* the Beatles would have been XTC, and I even had the pleasure of being able to really get into them while they were still (barely) active (after *Nonsuch* but before *Apple Venus Volume 1*, though I did purchase *Oranges & Lemons *when it came out). -- Benjamin D. Lukoff ÷ lukoff@gmail.com LinkedIn profile: http://www.lukoff.us blog: http://www.examiner.com/x-479-Seattle-History-Examiner articles: http://crosscut.com/account/BenjaminSPACELukoff/ photos: http://www.flickr.com/photos/lukobe/