Song that got you into music

Inspired by agup48....

What's the song that got you into music? The song that first sparked your passion, inspired your creativity, etc etc?

 

Hahah, I thought you were joking, well:

Linkin Park: Crawling

and then every other Linkin Park song and then it branched off from there. I was like 11 or 12.

 

oh, I don't joke about music.

Led Zeppelin: Dazed and Confused

 

My dad has always been into Hindi music, has records everywhere in our house. For Indian songs it would be these 2:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P47Tv3cANmc ////Shankar Mahadevan-Breathless (Title is b/c he sings the song pretty much Breathless)

and

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KG9Sbg_gkxA ////Colonial Cousins- Krishna ne Begane (I don't know what that means so don't ask, they sing in English for most of the song so some of you might like the lyrics)

 

Smoke on the water - Deep purple.

Must have listened to it hundreds of times before I realized I could download other songs.

 

When I 1st listened to Metallica's Ride The Lightening when I was around 10 yrs old!!

 

There have been many iterations of "getting into" music.

As a musician: Rush "YYZ"

As a DJ/Electronic Music Producer: Blue Amazon "No Other Love"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FyVbH2pkLGM

In general? Hard to say. Lots of songs, actually. The most likely source would be anything noteworthy from 1970-1976.

RMX

 

The 1st time I smoked pot & thought I would "freak out" I listened to "Stairway to Heaven". Lying on the floor of a dorm room in the dark I took music to another level. It's just in MY mind tho.

 

There was guy in my frat. house, freshman year fall '68, who did the same thing over and over with another early-hardrock song. Still remember him, lying on the floor, speakers next to his ears, volume up full, taking huge pulls on a fat doobie.

I can't name one song, but my appreciation for pop & rock music started in the pre-Beatles era, early '61 on. Too young to be of the '50s Elvis generation.

 

I couldn't tell you. I've always been a fan of music.

 

That or you're embarrassed. It's okay, what is it, Teletubbies, Sesame Street, Barney?

 

Whole Lotta Love

 

Dancing Queen - ABBA


Okay I kid ..I kid...


Highway To Hell - AC/DC . First tape I remember buying...entire album blew me away.

 

GTF outta here?! That was MY first favorite song! I forget which year--mid-70's--but I was in early grade school. I remember my AM radio was a car radio. Not from a car, but a radio inside a model car which was a repro of a 20's era Rolls Royce. But I'll never forget listening for hours waiting for Dancing Queen to come on. Please remember there was a generation gap here...

 

lol.

Teletubbies and Barney was way after my time for kid tv shows. They sucked anyway. Sesame Street and Mr. Rogers is where it's at!

 

In it's entirety, this reel-to-reel tape was my awakening when I was 5 and the release was fresh.

Peter Schickele Presents An Evening with P.D.Q. Bach (1807-1742?)
http://www.schickele.com/shoppe/pdqrec/evening.htm

Fortunately, Pop collected PDQ Bach and 007 Soundtracks until reels went out of style - man, did we play the hell out of 'em on any given day, while the folks were away...

Got to see and hear a few of PDQ Bach's compositions performed Live about... 21 years ago. Fun, fun night.

 

Lol, another deep purple fan here.

I've got the (well my dad, but i've copied it atleast 10 times) Live in europe album. My dad always says its extremely rare (hence i copy it so much...). Must have heard the album back to back hundreds of times to.

I listen to a lot of different music, always have. So yeah, old rock n roll (deep purple, guns n roses, iron maiden), heavy metal (almost anything), dance, trance, sometimes RnB and the old rap songs sometimes (50 cent, eminem, snoop dogg, pretty much limited to that as i dont like many rap songs). I dont like classical and mariah carey though

 

I kid that it was my first fav song..that WAS Highway to hell by AC DC.

However I am a HUGE ABBA fan. I have bootlegs live dvds, the autobiography, rare import albums...

I believe they are the single greatest pop band of all time.

 

Definitely Green Day's Dookie album. I remember buying the CD for something like $25.00 CAD back in the early 90's and listening to it on my Dads 10lb Kenwood CD player The following summer our parents picked up a cheap set of drums and a guitar for my brother and I to jam on and pretend to be Green Day. Needless to say, our neighborhood was never the same.

 

Dreams - Fleetwood Mac. Try listening to it on a warm starry night, motorcycle or fast car with sunroof open (or, even better, in a convertible), glass smooth road with no traffic, going swiftly but not fast, say 90-110. You will feel like you can fly. No drugs needed, though I am sure they would enhance the experience.

Some Duran Duran tunes have the same effect. And some reggae stuff is great too, although it can get monotonous after 8 or 9 songs. These days, I am more into vocals though. Some voices are just heavenly.

I try to capture those sensations when I edit some in-car videos. Music plus motion...nirvana.

 

Great song!

Another great song!

My "first" was Hotel California. After that the flood gates opened. I listen to everything really, and spent 7 years in the business. Still kinda dabble in it but not much

 

Another one..... Fragile Yes!

 

I didn't read it all at first. But even knowing you were kidding, I had to push through with the ABBA props! Shortly after that I was exposed to "real" music. The first albums/8-tracks I remember were

Stones-Hot Rocks & Get Yer Ya Ya's Out
Zeppelin-IV
Wings-Venus & Mars
Janis Joplin
Journey-Infinity

 

I rember the first time I heard Eye of the Tigar, in 1981, and was blown away, I was 6 years old..I listened to it so much I wore the tape out! Then I heard Joy Divison and it was all over! I listened to New Order version of Ceremony everyday for the last 20 years..