What's "the" song that changed it all for you?

martin808 · Post by **martin808** » Mon Jun 12, 2006 9:00 pm

the track that done it for me was when i was about 8. I was sitting in a park with some older guys and they had a "breakdance" tape. It was an orange coloured basf cassette. I stole it and listened to it over and over to the point where the tape was inaudible.

There were 2 tracks that I couldn't get enough of. 1 of them i discovered much later was kraftwerk - tour de france and the other i have no clue what it was. I've never heard it since but i can still hear the full track in my head.

I'd love to find that track. maybe someones already mentioned it here. I've downloaded hundreds of random breakdance and hip hop mixes from the 80's but still no joy

Patch · Post by **Patch** » Mon Jun 12, 2006 9:05 pm

^^

^^

Yeah - I remember watching breakers at the YMCA in Bedminster and not knowing what any of the tunes were!!!

What I wouldn't give to get hold of some of those old tapes!!!

I stole it and listened to it over and over

Heh-heh... Brave boy!

dhilsabeck · Post by **dhilsabeck** » Mon Jun 12, 2006 9:26 pm

propellerheads-take california

nice attention getter

dallas! · Post by **dallas!** » Mon Jun 12, 2006 10:15 pm

dhilsabeck wrote:propellerheads-take california

nice attention getter

Hell yeah

But for me it was several, like my brother buying me Metallica the black album and Nirvana Nevermind for Christmas one year, I hadn't even asked for them, didn't know what the music was but was instantly drawn to their sounds (god my brother was a genuis, miss him

)

Then probably around the same time Rage Against the Machine - Killing in the Name (months later was my first concert EVER, seeing Rage at Brixton....awesome for a 16year old) Around the same time I was drawn to the whole sound track for Judgement night (crap film but amazing collaborations, I mean, Cyprus Hill vs Pearl Jam....***king genius!)

From there it's probably a bit of a haze, Atlantic Ocean and Waterwall is in there, Music sounds better to me and after several years I guess xpander came along.

The prodigy have been there all the way through....although it's quite strange, my tastes started as Rap/Thrash, metal and punk whilst the Prodigy was dance....now we've both flipped our styles...hmm

Throughout all thou there's been only a few classics, finished my first DJ gig with Dub be good to me and if I could I'd finish EVER gig with Stevie Wonder and Sir Duke....it's all about that brass section and has to be played LOUD!....funny thing is once it starts people instantly know what it is and just can't help smiling and dancing!

Too many to list I know.....but 1 wouldn't do me justice.

dallas!

mr-e · Post by **mr-e** » Mon Jun 12, 2006 10:18 pm

Orbital - Impact (The Earth Is Burning) : bye bye guitars , welcome fasttracker II

first music experience was pink floyd's whish u were here

dhilsabeck · Post by **dhilsabeck** » Mon Jun 12, 2006 10:24 pm

dallas! wrote:Around the same time I was drawn to the whole sound track for Judgement night (crap film but amazing collaborations

traav-e-lin' at the speed...of...light....

doo doo doo dooooo

dallas! · Post by **dallas!** » Mon Jun 12, 2006 10:32 pm

dhilsabeck wrote:
dallas! wrote:Around the same time I was drawn to the whole sound track for Judgement night (crap film but amazing collaborations
traav-e-lin' at the speed...of...light....

doo doo doo dooooo

I lost touch with reality, now my personality
Is an unwanted commodity (ooh yeah)
Can't believe I used to be Mr Steve Austin on the mike
(Six million ways) I used to run it!

I think it was the Teenage Fan club single, it had a remix of the Biohazard vs Onyx track, but they'd willingly taken out all the swear words and used hilarious alternatives, funny as.

dallas!

quandry · Post by **quandry** » Mon Jun 12, 2006 10:33 pm

dhilsabeck wrote:
dallas! wrote:Around the same time I was drawn to the whole sound track for Judgement night (crap film but amazing collaborations
traav-e-lin' at the speed...of...light....

doo doo doo dooooo

that song was the shit! I listened to that over and over and over and still have it on most of my ipod playlists. near perfection that track.

Angstrom · Post by **Angstrom** » Mon Jun 12, 2006 10:52 pm

I'm always amazed by people whose revelatory track came out like 5 years ago. I guess not everyone is as ancient as me!

props to the guy who chose Suicide - Ghost Rider, heh, now thats the kind of music that makes you re-think what you were doing / listening to before. And it still rocks.
I can never really believe the ones that claim something that is still 'cool' though / ie within the genre we still find ourselves. Often the tracks that inspire you early on are by artists who are really uncool now. EG: For one period in my life I was deeply influenced by ELO for example, I was also during my teens majorly influenced by Gong ... but would never recommend that you or I listen to it now, ever!

really one track is far far too few even for purposes of a laugh, I went from one "oh my god, that has changed the way I think" moment to another for years. starting in about 1979

but anyway, my choice that probably pointed me most on the direction I am still roughly pointing in is :

Force Majeure by Tangerine dream which I heard in about 1985

although I've been flipflopping between that and Ricochet
see, I told you, major uncoolth!

D K · Post by **D K** » Mon Jun 12, 2006 11:41 pm

i remember revolution 9 by the beatles scaring the shit out of me when i was a wee lad in '76.....
the first cassette i bought was by missing persons, i really liked the tune
"destination unknown"....
to elaborate for you:
the beatles tune made me realize the emotional impact of music...."click"
the missing persons tune made me realize the importance of a pleasing song structure...."double click"
sorry i couldn't keep it to one, but it's just not possible for me, so many moments in my life have been marked by specific music that made me into a musician....that's why folks tend to want to ist 30 bands or so, i reckon....but these were the first two i recall anyway...
better for you now, iltk?

ILTK · Post by **ILTK** » Mon Jun 12, 2006 11:42 pm

I thought we were supposed to list the one song/band that made us start listening to music and not just treating it as background noise as way back as we could remember, and not what influenced us as musicians, it was years in the future before I got into playing music.

For me that was Slade in 1973 with "Cum On Feel The Noize", I started wanting to get more of thier older stuff, started picking up other records etc.. from then on, but I wouldn't say they influenced me much, but it was what started me on my path to picking up an instrument and getting into playing music as I got older.

Hmm, been years since I heard anything by them, I wonder how it sounds to me today?

Angstrom · Post by **Angstrom** » Mon Jun 12, 2006 11:56 pm

ILTK wrote:I thought we were supposed to list the one song/band that made us start listening to music and not just treating it as background noise as way back as we could remember, and not what influenced us as musicians.

ok if it is 'what made me start', rather than what influenced me most
it is most likely

Human Leaue - The Path of Least Resistance

it was very different from the rapidly dating wash of punk (this was 1981 kids), it were northern like, and it featured synthesizers.

missjade · Post by **missjade** » Tue Jun 13, 2006 12:09 am

once i heard 'scram' by the plump djs (the whole plump night out album really, but that would be cheating here), i went out and got myself a pair of decks

mike holiday · Post by **mike holiday** » Tue Jun 13, 2006 12:56 am

"i'm gonna beat that bitch with a bat"

mike holiday · Post by **mike holiday** » Tue Jun 13, 2006 1:03 am

first xperience was Minor Threat "out of step"