The Nice: Karelia Suite (1969)
When I was in high school, I heard this music and it blew my mind. I pictured, in my mind's eye, how badass these people that made this music were and it basically looked exactly like this. I wanted nothing more than being this cool, crafting these musical bridges and rustling jimmies while doing it
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These days there's so much available at our fingertips. The combination of YouTube and discogs gives people access to all of this wonderful music created since the dawn of sound recording. I almost envy kids today who have such resources available to them, but I guess that's how it goes.
On an added note, as someone who grew up with punk/industrial/whatever, it's amazing how much weird, experimental and downright awesome music was produced before the establishment of any of those genres, and how those genres made little progress beyond their obvious influences. I mean ... the late 60s and early 70s was such a beautiful time for such music. The first wave of Industrial is basically a regurgitation of psychedelia and disco but packaged in shallow transitiveness; I can appreciate the era more as a concept rather than for the recordings it produced.
And for the the record, The Monkees' 'Steppin Stone' is the most punk rock song ever written, and the Beatles can fuck off.
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