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

rhanson187 · Post by **rhanson187** » Tue Jun 13, 2006 6:32 am

taylor - baba from the untited djs of america compilation he did

lesterdiamond · Post by **lesterdiamond** » Tue Jun 13, 2006 11:39 am

David wrote:Slam - Positive Education (Soma)

That was the one that did 'it' for me...

Me too. I love that track, every time I hear it it sounds as good as the 1st time.

Angstrom · Post by **Angstrom** » Tue Jun 13, 2006 2:00 pm

I'd like to thank this thread for making me dig out my copy of Ricochet - which I haven't listened to in about 15 years.

wow, I really was influenced by that album!

I'd forgotten it was a 'Live' album, supposedly completely improvised then edited to fit on vinyl. It goes to show the power of the moog style sequencer for live improvisation.

mosca · Post by **mosca** » Tue Jun 13, 2006 2:28 pm

there are 3

human league - being boiled
kraftwerk - the model
the soft cell - tainted love (and after investigation 'sex dwarf')

mosca

luke_l · Post by **luke_l** » Tue Jun 13, 2006 3:09 pm

Some Justice by Urban Shakedown

Back in the day. Whoever said hardcore will never die was sadly wrong.

glitchrock-buddha · Post by **glitchrock-buddha** » Tue Jun 13, 2006 3:58 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...

Well actually that's not exactly what I was thinking, but it's another good question itself. As I said in the first post, Echoes by Pink Floyd was probably my most stand-out song experience which really made me look at music differently, and I thought aha! yes!, but I was in grade 11 and had been listening to lots of music for years. At the time I was heavily into grunge, classic rock, some hip-hop, but that just blew me away.

If I was going way back to the first song I was ever obsessed with and made me love music, I would honestly probably have to say the ghostbusters movie theme song. I actually wanted it so bad I tried recording myself singing it into a tapedeck, but that just wasn't the same, I wasn't sure why. I was about 6 years old I think and stole the cassette from my grade 1 classroom. Man was it worth it.

grb

markaugust · Post by **markaugust** » Tue Jun 13, 2006 4:07 pm

trigger: desire - 69 (ccraig)

I was like what the f&^%k!?

is this electronical music too?
and people make this on their own?

as for now-now I am pretty blown away with the funk in "Where We At [Version 1]"
from "Henrik Schwarz & Ame & Dixon"

zpixel · Post by **zpixel** » Tue Jun 13, 2006 5:03 pm

Baba O'Riley - The Who
I heard this in a mall and then promptly passed out

Lucky Man- ELP
Turning point for me. Almost drove off the road that day.

20th Schizoid Man - King Crimson
I didn't know you could sound this wicked.

Wuthering Heights - Kate Bush
Instant woody for me.

diverdee · Post by **diverdee** » Tue Jun 13, 2006 10:58 pm

Burning spear - Slavery days.
Growing up where I did, with lots of friends of african/carribean ethnicity that song impacted with me on so many levels.
I love reggea & dub anyway - but the lyrics just haunted me.

quandry · Post by **quandry** » Tue Jun 13, 2006 11:06 pm

diverdee wrote:Burning spear - Slavery days.
Growing up where I did, with lots of friends of african/carribean ethnicity that song impacted with me on so many levels.
I love reggea & dub anyway - but the lyrics just haunted me.

classic track on a classic album. His voice is so unique and perfectly suits the darker lyrical material he often deals with. Marcus Garvey and then Dry and Heavy are two classic reggae albums fo sho.

ILTK · Post by **ILTK** » Tue Jun 13, 2006 11:17 pm

quandry wrote:classic track on a classic album. His voice is so unique and perfectly suits the darker lyrical material he often deals with. Marcus Garvey and then Dry and Heavy are two classic reggae albums fo sho.

Burning Spear and Steel Pulse are also 2 of my favorite reggae bands from way back, Steel Pulse has such an awesome sense of timing, well except from that horrible fling with rhytm boxes and sequenced stuff they had.

quandry · Post by **quandry** » Tue Jun 13, 2006 11:23 pm

ILTK wrote:Burning Spear and Steel Pulse are also 2 of my favorite reggae bands from way back, Steel Pulse has such an awesome sense of timing, well except from that horrible fling with rhytm boxes and sequenced stuff they had.

Two of my faves for sho, saw Steel Pulse for the first time last year and they were great live. Other favorites of mine Israel Vibrations, Mighty Diamonds, Heptones, Culture, The Etheopians, Ernest Ranglin, Monty Alexander, of course the Wailers, but also Bunny Wailers solo stuff, Hepcat...I like me some reggae bass--familyman and robbie are two of my bass heros.

b0unce · Post by **b0unce** » Tue Jun 13, 2006 11:27 pm

seen horace andy, and the skatalites
koolest old timers I've ever shared a space with

Martyn · Post by **Martyn** » Wed Jun 14, 2006 12:02 am

Mika wrote:"Echoes" Pink Floyd

Yeah, same here.

That made me want to learn guitar, and turned me into a rock monster until one weary night sitting in my car after work, overlooking the lights of a town I was living in at the time, I heard Papua New Guinea by FSOL on the radio. That took me to another place and I've been into electronicly produced music ever since. I still love that tune.

went to the gypsy · Post by **went to the gypsy** » Wed Jun 14, 2006 2:07 am

mr roboto

(the urge to destroy is also a creative impulse ...)