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The Album/Artist that brought you out of childhood music
Posted on 4/11/12 at 3:40 pm
Posted on 4/11/12 at 3:40 pm
What is the music that did this for you.
I remember being a child and hearing my dad play things from The Stones to Nirvana, but still I listened to crap like MMMBop. I was only 8 or 9 at the time, so it is somewhat excused. When I was 10 years old he took me backpacking and brough along his suitcase full of cassettes for the 14 hour car ride.
He played Bob Dylan's 'Blood on the Tracks' album for me first thing. I believe I requested it 3-4 more times on that trip. 'Idiot Wind' was the song that did it for me really. I later got into the Grateful Dead through 'Workingman's Dead' and Led Zeppelen through 'Led Zeppelen III'.
Special thanks to my dad for taking me away from garbage music.
I remember being a child and hearing my dad play things from The Stones to Nirvana, but still I listened to crap like MMMBop. I was only 8 or 9 at the time, so it is somewhat excused. When I was 10 years old he took me backpacking and brough along his suitcase full of cassettes for the 14 hour car ride.
He played Bob Dylan's 'Blood on the Tracks' album for me first thing. I believe I requested it 3-4 more times on that trip. 'Idiot Wind' was the song that did it for me really. I later got into the Grateful Dead through 'Workingman's Dead' and Led Zeppelen through 'Led Zeppelen III'.
Special thanks to my dad for taking me away from garbage music.
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Posted on 4/11/12 at 3:44 pm to TexasTiger1185
Pink Floyd "Animals."
Posted on 4/11/12 at 3:45 pm to RogerTheShrubber
snoop dogs doggie style
Posted on 4/11/12 at 3:47 pm to RogerTheShrubber
Thriller - Michael Jackson
This was as a little kid though. He touched me, but not in that way.
This was as a little kid though. He touched me, but not in that way.
Posted on 4/11/12 at 3:49 pm to TexasTiger1185
RUSH - Moving Pictures
or even earlier,
KISS- Rock N Roll Over
or even earlier,
KISS- Rock N Roll Over
Posted on 4/11/12 at 3:51 pm to TexasTiger1185
I think I finally entered musical maturity when I started listening to The Wailers. I think that's the one group I listened to when I was a teenager that I still do now without shame. I found one of those cheap compilations of their early material (a lot of the same stuff that is on Soul Rebels/African Herbsman). To this day I prefer the earlier recordings with Scratch Perry to Catch a Fire and beyond. From that point it snowballed... was big into the Beatles, Bob Dylan, etc. in '04 and then in '06 I started entering my indie phase.
This post was edited on 4/11/12 at 3:55 pm
Posted on 4/11/12 at 3:52 pm to simbo
Kiss is still aimed at children. 12 year olds not 6 year olds, but still children.
My parents played the crap out of Paul Simon, so he's a constant. But I'd have to say Abbey Road by the Beatles. My dad had it on vinyl and I just listened to side two over and over.
My parents played the crap out of Paul Simon, so he's a constant. But I'd have to say Abbey Road by the Beatles. My dad had it on vinyl and I just listened to side two over and over.
Posted on 4/11/12 at 3:53 pm to TexasTiger1185
"a night at the opera" came out when i was in the 5th grade...the first time i heard "bohemian rhapsody", i knew it was unlike anything i had ever heard before...i brought the single to school and talked one of my teachers into playing it...then we were allowed to bring music to listen to every friday afternoon for an hour or so...it was great.
Posted on 4/11/12 at 3:57 pm to pussywillows
My dad was in the school system, and after school let out in the summer of '73, some stoner forgot an LP of Dark Side of the Moon in their locker, and he gave it to me. With my love for synth, I immediately gravitated to the track On The Run.
Posted on 4/11/12 at 3:57 pm to TexasTiger1185
Experience Hendrix
Posted on 4/11/12 at 4:06 pm to TexasTiger1185
This is a strange question based on your example of teen Pop music - because a lot of people will say (insert Pop Top 40 band from your era) - as music aimed at teens...and which most of us listen to until we get to high school.
In that scenario...the first artist that really woke me up to other types of music besides...Top 40 Madonna, Billy Idol, Motley Crue, Men at Work, Thompson Twins Countdown stuff was...
Tracy Chapman with Fast Car.
After that I was more open to music in an adult sense.
In that scenario...the first artist that really woke me up to other types of music besides...Top 40 Madonna, Billy Idol, Motley Crue, Men at Work, Thompson Twins Countdown stuff was...
Tracy Chapman with Fast Car.
After that I was more open to music in an adult sense.
Posted on 4/11/12 at 4:08 pm to TexasTiger1185
The Best of The Guess Who
Various artist albums from K-Tel. I remember listening to Snoopy and The Red Barron 500 times.
Various artist albums from K-Tel. I remember listening to Snoopy and The Red Barron 500 times.
Posted on 4/11/12 at 4:14 pm to Zamoro10
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This is a strange question based on your example of teen Pop music - because a lot of people will say (insert Pop Top 40 band from your era) - as music aimed at teens...and which most of us listen to until we get to high school.
Yeah, I almost put a few bands aimed at teens but then I realized that I don't listen to them anymore. I pretty much went with who I listened to back then that I would still listen to today without doing so purely for the sake of nostalgia.
ETA: In that case, I wonder why I didn't put Radiohead or U2... I got into them and The Wailers at about the same time. Can't remember who was first.
This post was edited on 4/11/12 at 4:19 pm
Posted on 4/11/12 at 4:20 pm to TexasTiger1185
Posted on 4/11/12 at 4:33 pm to Decatur
I can't speak for anyone born before the mid 80's. I was born in '86, and when I was young in the 90's I listened to Green Day and 311 and Nirvana, but I also listened to Hanson, Ricky Martin, Britney Spears. Yes, I'm man enough to admit that I attended a Britney concert with a buddy for his birthday when I was 13.
It seems like there must have been music in the 70's that was made specifically for pre-teens, David Cassidy or something?
It seems like there must have been music in the 70's that was made specifically for pre-teens, David Cassidy or something?
Posted on 4/11/12 at 4:35 pm to TexasTiger1185
When i was 11 my dad put on Steve Miller Band's Jet Air Liner. I was hooked on rock n roll.
When i was 13, I got my allowance and my mom took me to Best Buy in Kenner. I was walking around the music shelves and for some reason I was drawn to this picture over and over and over again:
I bought the album and my life has never been the same. I was in utter awe the entire time i listened to it and i listened to it on loop for months. I cherish that because i wasnt told about Pink Floyd. I had no expectations. No one told me they were stoner music or gave me any preconceived notions about them. I just bought the CD because i couldnt get the cover out of my mind, and my mind was forever altered after that. Pink Floyd is hands down my favorite band and IMO no one has ever or will ever be able to play Guitar like Gilmour. He is in a category all his own and by himself and i borderline worship the man.
When i was 13, I got my allowance and my mom took me to Best Buy in Kenner. I was walking around the music shelves and for some reason I was drawn to this picture over and over and over again:
I bought the album and my life has never been the same. I was in utter awe the entire time i listened to it and i listened to it on loop for months. I cherish that because i wasnt told about Pink Floyd. I had no expectations. No one told me they were stoner music or gave me any preconceived notions about them. I just bought the CD because i couldnt get the cover out of my mind, and my mind was forever altered after that. Pink Floyd is hands down my favorite band and IMO no one has ever or will ever be able to play Guitar like Gilmour. He is in a category all his own and by himself and i borderline worship the man.
Posted on 4/11/12 at 4:38 pm to Breesus
Glad you mentioned Dark Side of the Moon as I did. I was beginning to develop a complex after being labeled as a snob in another thread. 
Posted on 4/11/12 at 4:39 pm to TexasTiger1185
Posted on 4/11/12 at 4:53 pm to Degas
quote:
I was beginning to develop a complex after being labeled as a snob in another thread.
Haters gonna hate. The hate for Floyd is something i will never and can never understand. That band is pure genius.
This post was edited on 4/11/12 at 4:54 pm
Posted on 4/11/12 at 5:03 pm to Breesus
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Haters gonna hate. The hate for Floyd is something i will never and can never understand. That band is pure genius.
I've never heard hate of this kind...perplexing
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