What's "the" song that changed it all for you?
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What's "the" song that changed it all for you?
Here's the next topic for discussion. I thought the musical influences thread was pretty interesting and informative for discovering some new music, but everyone listed about thirty bands/artists and it becomes complete overload. So to keep it nice and concise: what's the one song that you heard for the first time, and it made the light bulb go off and it all clicked and you went "hell ya". Know what I mean? I know it's tough, maybe imposiible, and I could list off cowgirl, one too many mornings etc etc., but to chose one, I'm going to have to say:
Echoes by Pink Floyd - Rummaging around with a fiend in his moms closet full of records after school in grade 11 one day, we pulled out Meddle, threw it on the turntable, and I was dumbstruck for the next 23 minutes and 27 seconds. The guitar became a very different instrument to me after that.
What's yer story?
grb
Echoes by Pink Floyd - Rummaging around with a fiend in his moms closet full of records after school in grade 11 one day, we pulled out Meddle, threw it on the turntable, and I was dumbstruck for the next 23 minutes and 27 seconds. The guitar became a very different instrument to me after that.
What's yer story?
grb
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Very hard to pick just one...
I could say a track from The Clash or Pistols.
Or Grandmaster Flash on the wheels of steel.
Or something by Massive Attack.
But you said "just one" so it's going to be Ghost Rider by Suicide. I saw them support The Clash (and The Specials!) way back in the day, and they blew me away.
I could say a track from The Clash or Pistols.
Or Grandmaster Flash on the wheels of steel.
Or something by Massive Attack.
But you said "just one" so it's going to be Ghost Rider by Suicide. I saw them support The Clash (and The Specials!) way back in the day, and they blew me away.
"A Whiter Shade of Pale" by Procol Harum
I remember hearing Matthew Fisher's organ solo for the first time on a summer day in 1967. I was still really small. We were in my mother's station wagon, parking for a trip to the zoo. I'll never forget hearing that song for the first time, or parking beneath the incredibly tall parking lot marker with a giraffe's head and spots... had to start studying keyboards from that moment on.
I remember hearing Matthew Fisher's organ solo for the first time on a summer day in 1967. I was still really small. We were in my mother's station wagon, parking for a trip to the zoo. I'll never forget hearing that song for the first time, or parking beneath the incredibly tall parking lot marker with a giraffe's head and spots... had to start studying keyboards from that moment on.
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I was two years old in 1974 sitting in the backseat of my parents' car, Doobie Brother's Black Water comes on the AM radio. OMFG I loved that tune.
"I'd like to hear some funky dixieland
Pretty mama come and take me by the hand
By the hand, take me by the hand pretty mama
Come and dance with your daddy all night long"
Damn, too many to choose from, but that was the start of it all, pretty women and funky music.
"I'd like to hear some funky dixieland
Pretty mama come and take me by the hand
By the hand, take me by the hand pretty mama
Come and dance with your daddy all night long"
Damn, too many to choose from, but that was the start of it all, pretty women and funky music.
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America is Waiting- David Byrne and Brian Eno
The rest of the album is OK, but that song was it.
i write in a similar style, layered, syncopated melodies and rhythm.
The rest of the album is OK, but that song was it.
i write in a similar style, layered, syncopated melodies and rhythm.
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Oh gosh, this is so darned difficult, my inpirations have been so eclectic that I don't know what to write!
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In the beginning -
'Voodoo Child (slight return)' - The Jimi Hendrix Experience
then
'Too Drunk to Fuck' - Dead Kennedys,
recent 'dance' epiphany -
'Where You At?' - Derrick Carter
and
'Manilla' (Ewan Pearson Mix) - Seelenluft & The Silvercity Bob Orchestra
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In the beginning -
'Voodoo Child (slight return)' - The Jimi Hendrix Experience
then
'Too Drunk to Fuck' - Dead Kennedys,
recent 'dance' epiphany -
'Where You At?' - Derrick Carter
and
'Manilla' (Ewan Pearson Mix) - Seelenluft & The Silvercity Bob Orchestra
Nearly a DJ
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Re: What's "the" song that changed it all for you?
One is tough to choose, but that makes it interesting.glitchrock-buddha wrote:So to keep it nice and concise: what's the one song that you heard for the first time. I know it's tough, maybe imposiible. But to chose one