re: Name the one song from your lifetime that had the biggest impact on music

in 1978, Echoes started my lifetime Pink Floyd obsession. Still my favorite tune they play and probably the best song I have ever heard live.


Overhead the albatross hangs motionless upon the air
And deep beneath the rolling waves in labyrinths of coral caves
The echo of a distant time comes willowing across the sand
And everything is green and submarine

And no one showed us to the land
And no one knows the where's or why's
But something stirs and something tries
And starts to climb towards the light

Strangers passing in the street
By chance two separate glances meet
And I am you and what I see is me
And do I take you by the hand
And lead you through the land
And help me understand the best I can?

And no one calls us to move on
And no one forces down our eyes
No one speaks and no one tries
No one flies around the sun

Cloudless every day you fall
Upon my waking eyes
Inviting and inciting me to rise
And through the window in the wall
Come streaming in on sunlight wings
A million bright ambassadors of morning

And no one sings me lullabies
And no one makes me close my eyes
So I throw the windows wide
And call to you across the sky

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Islands In the Stream

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This made me belly laugh. Lol.

I was going to post Nirvana also. They completely changed music in like a couple of months. It’s easy to say someone else would’ve done it, which is true.

If Columbus hadn’t found the New World, someone else probably does sooner rather than later. The fact is he was first.

Here's my hot take. Rock media created the idea that "Smells Like Teen Sprit" was a musical sea change as an homage to Kurt Cobain after his death. Grunge was going mainstream before that song was even released. "Man in the Box" had already been nominated for a Grammy. That change was happening with or without Nirvana.

For ME it’s “Hotel California”.

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Here's my hot take. Rock media created the idea that "Smells Like Teen Sprit" was a musical sea change as an homage to Kurt Cobain after his death.

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Nope, that was well discussed while he was still alive... and while a shift may have eventually happened in mainstream music, the change was expedited with SLTS... I can accept the argument of right place, right time... but it was them/that song that spearheaded it...

Most people I knew that were into "alternative/indie" music, considered AIC more in line with Metal than what we liked...

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I remember trying to tell people about it. I remember the delay between college radio and mainstream.

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I remember Drivin N Cryin playing Murphy's a little later in the fall, after the song was released... they encored with Teen Spirit and everyone went nuts... I think that may be when this phenomenon started to sink in for me...

Two songs from their 1974 Debut LP although it was probably '75 or '76 time frame that I was first finding my own flavor of music.

Deuce

100,000 Years

I remember listening to 100,000 Years opening and thinking that doesn't sound like any guitar I'veever heard.

Mind you I was like 6 or 7 and to that point my musical experience was my parents album collection of Bob Dylan, Cat Steven, John Denver etc.

Blew my mind I tell you. That's the day I joined the Kiss Army. lol