Is there a tune that changed everything for you?

andydes · Post by **andydes** » Wed Dec 12, 2007 6:28 pm

Couldn't narrow it down to one track. But two albums:

Nirvana - Nevermind. Made me go out a buy a guitar. Before then had a little more than a passing interest in music.

Underworld - Dubnobasswithmyheadman. First got me interested in electronic / dance music.

For a while between the two, it was guitars or nothing. But to be honest, leftfield, the chemical brothers, portishead, orbital, the orb, future sound of london etc. all played their part.

They may be obvious choices, but there you have it.

To the OP, also with you with Papua New Guinea. In ibiza, my first *argh-hem* lets say big club night. It was an emotional moment.

glu · Post by **glu** » Wed Dec 12, 2007 6:31 pm

Is there a tune that changed everything for you?

a few tunes from a few groups:

I grew up in my johnny jump-up listening to Chuck Mangioni, Pink Floyd, Michael Jackson, Mozart, Michael Jackson, and the Beatles and then years down the road: Gypsy Kings, Depeche Mode, Dr. Dre, Wagon Christ, Micky Hart, etc. This is probably why my music is all over the place.

elemental · Post by **elemental** » Wed Dec 12, 2007 6:38 pm

Rufige Kru - Terminator

I was about 14 i think.

"you're talking about things I havent done yet..."
bebomchah-chaakachakachakah
bebomchah-chaakachakachakah
bebomchah-chaakachakachakah
bebomchah-chaakachakachakah

[each bar pitch shifted up a few tones..]

"Terminator is out there...." ..

LOL sorry that tune just changed my view of what music can be.

A few years after that it was probably a Basic Channel track, and then "Badboy" by The Advent.

Martyn · Post by **Martyn** » Wed Dec 12, 2007 7:09 pm

andydes wrote: Underworld - Dubnobasswithmyheadman. First got me interested in electronic / dance music.

Yeah that album crossed me over too, them and Fluke although I don't remember having an album by them. I actually walked past The Prodigy who were playing the NME stage at Glastobury once to catch Fluke who were playing the dance tent at the same time.

I picked up on the Detroit stuff later as a result of hearing those sorts of artists first, there wasn't a lot of Detroit techno being played in rural Cornwall at that time, I wish there had been.

andydes · Post by **andydes** » Wed Dec 12, 2007 7:19 pm

Martyn wrote:
andydes wrote: Underworld - Dubnobasswithmyheadman. First got me interested in electronic / dance music.
Yeah that album crossed me over too, them and Fluke although I don't remember having an album by them. I actually walked past The Prodigy who were playing the NME stage at Glastobury once to catch Fluke who were playing the dance tent at the same time.

I picked up on the Detroit stuff later as a result of hearing those sorts of artists first, there wasn't a lot of Detroit techno being played in rural Cornwall at that time, I wish there had been.

Oh yeah, forgot to mention Fluke. Hell, I'd love to see them again.

BAKOY_MUSIC · Post by **BAKOY_MUSIC** » Wed Dec 12, 2007 8:08 pm

The song that changed everything for I-Man was way forward in 1989 . . squatting in London at the time.. and the song . . .

RIGHT ON TIME by BLACK BOX

My neighbour, Johnny the Scott, kept playing it over &over &over &over........

it sorta started the revolution House Music

Wandering who was in London at that time too ??

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senator adam · Post by **senator adam** » Wed Dec 12, 2007 9:49 pm

Hard to name specific songs, I remember whole albums better..

Beatles - Abbey Road
Cream - Disraeli Gears
Jimmy Hendrix - Are You Experienced, Electric Ladyland
Michael Jackson - Beat It (still a jam)
Metallica - One (epic tune!)
Dj Shadow - Endtroducing
Frankie Bones - Factory 101 album
Prodigy - Experience album
Source Direct, Omni Trio, Photek, DJ Crstyl tunes
Amon Tobin - Supermodified

sxezskoz · Post by **sxezskoz** » Wed Dec 12, 2007 10:04 pm

morerecords wrote: but our generation grew up buying NIN/Prodigy/BT records because those are the records that made it into most stores, based on major labels' artist criteria, which has always been image obsessed/ sucked..

Yeah I remember getting my Fat of the Land album back in the day... I started off buying movie soundtracks actually. Since I didn't know any bands, I would just get soundtracks to movies I liked. But one day during my search I came across an album with a big Pi symbol on it. The world's never been the same since.

Also coming across the Reich Remixed album made me realize what a remix is, how bad ass Steve Reich is, and how much I loved Nobukazu Takemura without even having heard any other tracks aside from his remix of "Proverb." And since I'm expanding, Air's Moon Safari made me realize that electronic music could be sexy.

Bionecteur · Post by **Bionecteur** » Wed Dec 12, 2007 10:14 pm

Martyn wrote:With all the best band threads going it got me thinking back at how my tastes have evolved over the years

I actually started out listening to Jean Michel Jarre when I was really young and then discovered rock and metal when I was at shool leaving age. That continued for a long time and I learned guitar, played in lots of bands etc and then one night after getting back fom work I had the radio on and just before getting out of the car in the dark, Papua New Guinea by FSOL got played. It was like a light going off in my head, it felt like I was hearing a sound being played to me from the future, especially when I heard the name of the artists!

Looking back, I really was hearing a sort of calling from my future, because had that not happened I'm not sure I would have experienced some of the happiest times of my life so far.

So if there's been a tune in your life that's been like being hit over the head with a revelation hammer, which was it for you?

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Uuhhm this is a really nice thread..

Music was my first love it will be my last...That´s why it is hard to name only a few. But there were some highly emotional moments in my life ( I am 42, so..)

Doors: The End
Donna Summer:I feel love (It blew me away)
Kraftwerk: Wir sind die Roboter
Tuxedomoon: No Tears ...for the creatures of the night
Visage: Fade to grey
Joy Division: Atmosphere
The Cure: A Forest
New Order: Blue Monday

and then the 90´s with all the new electronic stuff ..
Basic Channel
LFO
Aphex Twin

and so on..

I was hit by the first E while Emmanuel Tops Turkish Bazaar plays...one of the most emotional moments...i will never forget..

Ok, to summarize this I would say a lot of tunes changed my way of thinking and i would go a step further and say : they changed my way to see the world.

Uwe

chis · Post by **chis** » Wed Dec 12, 2007 11:54 pm

Model 500 - Off To Battle (Remix)
System 7 - Cyberboogie

Words fail me.

kyleweb · Post by **kyleweb** » Fri Jan 04, 2008 1:06 pm

always into a wide variety of music but when i started to dj was heavily into drum and bass.
I wasnt really into anything house related until i heard vitalics album ok cowboy and more specifically la rock 01.

Was the first piece of vinyl i bought that was even vaguely house related and completely changed the sort of stuff I was dj-ing.

Still would love to see vitalic live although my tastes have continued to go on a journey and not hugely into that stuff anymore, but just because at the time (for me anyway) he seemed to be the only one doing something that sounded really innovative.

popslut · Post by **popslut** » Fri Jan 04, 2008 1:11 pm

Kraftwerk - Autobahn.

Donna Summer/Giorgio Moroder - I feel Love.

New Order - Blue Monday.

Orb - Towers of Dub.

Cardiacs - A Little Man And A House

Adam F - Circles.

Orb - Little Fluffy Clouds.

forge · Post by **forge** » Fri Jan 04, 2008 2:03 pm

popslut wrote:Kraftwerk - Autobahn.

Donna Summer/Giorgio Moroder - I feel Love.

New Order - Blue Monday.

Orb - Towers of Dub.

Cardiacs - A Little Man And A House

Adam F - Circles.

Orb - Little Fluffy Clouds.

that Adam F album was great - although he wears his Golidie Inner City Life influences on his sleeve on that record - still great though

the Orb was a big one for me too - but I'd have to stick Orbital in there too

lola · Post by **lola** » Fri Jan 04, 2008 2:36 pm

I was 12 in 82, skipped school on a day and went to a local record shop where i heard this one...
Cybotron- cosmic cars 1982

Was stunned

overdub · Post by **overdub** » Fri Jan 04, 2008 2:52 pm

In 1979 I was 13 years old, and when I first heard London calling by the Clash my life REALLY changed...............and I never turned back!
And still - to this day, that song sends shivers down my spine!!!!!

Is there a tune that changed everything for you?

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