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

RiotNrrd · Post by **RiotNrrd** » Wed Jun 14, 2006 2:52 am

Gary Numan - are friends 'electric'?

Living in a small semi-rural town in the late 70's, about all I heard was either disco, "Top 20" radio, country, or what passed for hard rock at the time (i.e., Blue Oyster Cult, Styx, Kansas, etc.).

So, in 1979, Numan's music was so unlike anything I'd heard that it just up and blew me away. Right then and there I knew that synthesizers were where it was going to be at for me.

forgie · Post by **forgie** » Wed Jun 14, 2006 9:55 am

Radiohead - Exit Music

I was 14, I was emotionally unstable. Nuff said. That's the reason I'm still making music today.

peeddrroo · Post by **peeddrroo** » Wed Jun 14, 2006 9:57 am

The Cure - Boys don't cry ('86 version)

netchaiev · Post by **netchaiev** » Wed Jun 14, 2006 10:06 am

When I was 4 y.o I used to put Black magic Women on the record player over and over. But then 10 years later the BIG shock: A Love Supreme.
Period

elemental · Post by **elemental** » Wed Jun 14, 2006 10:44 am

Ruffige Kru - Terminator

jeskola · Post by **jeskola** » Wed Jun 14, 2006 10:48 am

have to say not one song, but digweed and sashas communication and the xpnader EP really changed the type of music i was into, and made me want to write similar stuff. Rabbitweed still is an unbelivable track

djshiva · Post by **djshiva** » Wed Jun 14, 2006 7:53 pm

DeadlyKungFu wrote:
Machinesworking wrote:
DeadlyKungFu wrote: One is tough to choose, but that makes it interesting.
Arrgh! I can't read! off to edit my post..........
All in good fun, I was gonna post how I had the Cure's 'Faith' and 'Pornography' on two sides of a casette tape in high school, great morning music on the bus ride to school. All Cats Are Grey is a tasty track.

i used to have a split tape with the cure's "faith" and an instrumental called "carnage visors" on the other side. that tape died years ago, but i have been looking for carnage visors in digital or cd form and still have not found it. any leads?

as far as songs that changed it all...tough to narrow down to songs, so i will stick to albums:

duran duran "seven and the ragged tiger"
minor threat "out of step"
ministry "the land of rape and honey"
ani difranco "not a pretty girl"

as far as techno goes:
rob hood "minimal nation"
joey beltram "places"
adam beyer & lenk "drumcode 1"
dan bell "losing control"
surgeon "magneze" & "badger bite"
slam "positive education"
dave clark "red 1"

there are so many, but i'll keep it to those for now...

djastroboy · Post by **djastroboy** » Wed Jun 14, 2006 9:28 pm

Donny Osmond - One Bad Apple

the ar · Post by **the ar** » Wed Jun 14, 2006 9:38 pm

Doo Wa Ditty, Zapp.

Just awesome.

The Revrend · Post by **The Revrend** » Thu Jun 15, 2006 8:21 pm

Messiah - Temple of Dreams

Rev

womoma · Post by **womoma** » Thu Jun 15, 2006 9:15 pm

snap - i got the power

.. seriously.

Anubis · Post by **Anubis** » Fri Jun 16, 2006 5:37 am

Like you said, this is a near impossible question to answer. So I'm gonna limit it to the very first song that sparked that realization that music is magical, that it can grab you like nothing else as if it were a sixth sense. I was about 11 or 12, just the age when you become artistically aware.

It must have been '67 or '68 and my family took us to visit relatives in NYC. There, for the first time in my life I was captivated by this hauntingly beautiful, droning sound that played constantly from the am radio stations. That song cast a spell on me for the very first time. (of course, there have been many more since)

Now that I've seen all the VH1 documentaries and have some historical perspective, I realize that it must have been when The Doors broke with "Light My Fire" and they were in NYC for the first time.

nebulae · Post by **nebulae** » Fri Jun 16, 2006 6:00 am

There comes a time in one's life when one feels like he can tell his friends a deep dark secret of which he is so ashamed that he had buried it deep inside and vowed to never reveal....

Lionel Richie's "All Night Long." The first song I remember loving. Yeah yeah, I went head long into Flock of Seagulls, Smiths, New Order, Cure, Kraftwerk, Dep Mod, etc. etc. etc. But if there was one song that started it all, it was that bastard Lionel Richie and that infectious gay groove of All Night Long (all night) that made me realize what a fucking disco fag I really was.

Ok, I'm glad I got that off my chest. Now y'all can make me feel stupid about it...

DeadlyKungFu · Post by **DeadlyKungFu** » Fri Jun 16, 2006 6:15 am

nebulae wrote:Lionel Richie's "All Night Long." The first song I remember loving.

nebulae · Post by **nebulae** » Fri Jun 16, 2006 6:20 am

DeadlyKungFu wrote:
nebulae wrote:Lionel Richie's "All Night Long." The first song I remember loving.

I knew someone was gonna make me eat shit for telling the truth...

LOL, I guess that's what friends are for...

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