1st time I heard this song...I was like...

[GOS]

Pupster made a comment in another thread about first time he heard a particular song...and was like "what was that"??

I think one of my moments that is crystal clear was somewhere around 1980, and I heard (unknown to me) this guy called Ozzy Osbourne singing Crazy Train. Just the sheer attack was something I hadn't ever heard...at least on the radio.

I was blown away, and forever a fan. From that day forward, I then realized he was with Black Sabbath. Mind blown...at that time.

 

[H.A.L.]

Definitely "Bohemian Rhapsody" by Queen!

 

[Marplot]

Elephant Talk from King Crimson caused me to take my Kiss and Zep posters off the wall and expand the types of music I listened to.

 

[privateuniverse]

In 1982 I was in high school. Every kid in school had to have a "work job". Usually something like sweeping floors or washing dishes. In my junior year I managed to snag a sweet one. I got to catalog all new LPs that came into the library. There was an alum who was working for CBS/Sony who put the library on the mailing list so we got all new releases from those labels, and often weeks before release date. As the guy who cataloged the albums, I got first crack at checking them out and taking them home. Billy Joel's The Nylon Curtain came in a few weeks before it hit the stores. I already loved Billy so of course I took it home. I put the needle down on side one and.....woah! This was a 180° shift from the previous album, Glass Houses. Sonically, this was big, bigger than anything he had ever done before. It was his Sgt. Pepper. Lyrically it was the heaviest thing he had ever done. On side one he was tackling unemployment, guilt, pressure & Viet Nam. This was a far cry from "You May Be Right" or "Just the Way You Are". Side one blew me away so much that I couldn't turn the album over. I had to listen to side one again. And gain. And again. I sat in my room and listened to side one seven consecutive times before finally turning the record over and listening to the second side. I've never had another album that made me do that.

Edit: Oh, FYI, for those who don't know, those four songs are "Allentown", Laura", "Pressure" and "Goodnight Saigon".

 

[JohnN]

1968 Steppenwolf Magic Carpet Ride start, Zombies Time Of The Season and Iron Butterfly In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida. Good way to kick-off those teenage years. All bent my mind...

 

[GOS]

1968 Steppenwolf Magic Carpet Ride start, Zombies Time Of The Season and Iron Butterfly In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida. Good way to kick-off those teenage years. All bent my mind...

I'd agree on Time Of The Season. What an awesome, groundbreaking tune.

 

[Willie Wilson]

Standing in a convenience store in 1986 and I hear the opening chords of a song that are a direct throwback to Chuck Berry but louder and fuller. Singer comes in and he is energetic, powerful and ready to add some roll to the rock. He keeps going and I notice a definite twang to the voice, which, to me, adds credibility.

Next thing I know, the drums, bass and lead guitar all come thundering in and this song is taking off right now! Big drum sound, metronome of a rhythm guitar track and some wailing lead guitar. I’m thinking, holy shit, who are these guys and what else have they done?

I stood in front of the beer cooler until the song ended, but this was an FM station, so no song ID followed. I grabbed my Schlitz Malt Liquor tallboys, went to the counter and asked the clerk what station was on.

Got home, cracked a tallboy, called the station and the DJ told me it was a great new record by the Georgia Satellites and the song is called “Keep Your Hands to Yourself.”

Next day, I head out to The Shoppe in Berea and grab the album. To this day, one of my all-time favorites. All killer with one song of filler.

For anyone who thinks the hit was a flukey hillbilly one- hit, take time to hear the album and you will find some timeless gut-bucket rock and roll. It includes a great cover of “Every Picture Tells a Story” by Rod Stewart. FYI, their second album is average (the classic case of having five years to write the first album and nine months to make the follow-up) and their third and final album, “ In the Land of Salvation and Sin” is mature, clever and rocking as hell.

A memory I will never forget, at least until dementia kicks in…

 

[Willie Wilson]

Pupster made a comment in another thread about first time he heard a particular song...and was like "what was that"??

I think one of my moments that is crystal clear was somewhere around 1980, and I heard (unknown to me) this guy called Ozzy Osbourne singing Crazy Train. Just the sheer attack was something I hadn't ever heard...at least on the radio.

I was blown away, and forever a fan. From that day forward, I then realized he was with Black Sabbath. Mind blown...at that time.

No doubt, Gene. Hearing Randy Rhoads open that tune is similar to hearing EVH blowing out of the speakers on the first VH album (or “Sheer Heart Attack” by Queen). Saw that Ozzy tour and it was fantastic.

 

[J. PUPSTER]

This is another one that shook me-

Spoiler: WHAT THE HELL IS THAT?

 

[DuncanS]

I think post the Beatles it was hearing Jimi Hendrix's "Hey Joe" on the radio, the next one that really made me go wow what on earth is this was King Crimson's "21st Century Schizoid Man"

 

[Willie Wilson]

This is another one that shook me-

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Spoiler: WHAT THE HELL IS THAT?

Mixolydian…

 

[Muppet69]

The whole of the Kid A album first time I was like “holy crap Batman, hit repeat!”

 

[Willie Wilson]

I think post the Beatles it was hearing Jimmy Hendrix's "Hey Joe" on the radio, the next one that really made me go wow what on earth is this was King Crimson's "21st Century Schizoid Man"

Jimi’s “Hey Joe” is definitive…and awesome.

 

[GOS]

Not gonna lie. When I first heard Boston on the radio, it had to be More Than A Feeling. I think I pretty much about shit my pants it was so dynamic and powerful.

 

[ar surround]

The shocker for me was The Beatles I Want To Hold Your Hand.

I had heard all this hullabaloo about The Beatles coming to America from my sister and her friends. When I first heard this song it was the weirdest song my young ears had ever heard. The guitars growled like nothing I’d ever heard, and the harmonies sounded bizarre despite the banal lyrics.

 

[GOS]

OK, no laughing here. The first time I heard Bridge Over Troubled Water was at a local funeral of my dad's friend. My dad was a very good singer and in big demand in our local community. He sang that song at the funeral, and I remember just thinking. Fuck. I was probably around 10 years old. It made a lasting impression....

 

[rjpinca]

I remember being completely blown away hearing Boston - "Foreplay/Long Time" for the first time on the radio wile driving.
Lived in Doylestown, PA and I think it was WMMR (Philadelphia) had an advance copy of the album before it was released in Aug 1976.
They played that song and never said who it was - drove me crazy.

 

[stoopid]

I remember playing my parents vinyl of Jimi's "Smash Hits" in my bedroom and thinking it sounded otherworldly. I was about 5 or 6, maybe 1980. Thankfully I grew up in a house that played a lot of music and most of it good. Jimi still managed to stand head and shoulders above the rest. He still does, if I'm being honest. lol

 

[JonUrban]

Many songs, but one stands out to me. I was in the Navy in Virginia Beach and was a fan of the Eagles. My wife and I went to see them with Linda Ronstadt at the Scope in Norfolk. Linda went first and in her set sang "Desperado", which I'd never heard her do, but I knew it because "Desperado" was a favorite album of mine and my old room mate from "A" School. Anyway, the Eagles came out and played some tunes which were great, then they said "Here's a new one" and we heard this bass guitar slide that was very unusual being repeated, then they broke into the new tune with Don Henley singing from behind the drums as he played. We were sitting on the side of the stage so I could see him very well. The tune was "One of These Nights", and when the song was over, my wife and I both looked at each other and said "That's a great song". I don't generally get enthusiastic after a first time tune is played at a concert, but that one grabbed me.

 

[stoopid]

I remember being completely blown away hearing Boston - "Foreplay/Long Time" for the first time on the radio wile driving.
Lived in Doylestown, PA and I think it was WMMR (Philadelphia) had an advance copy of the album before it was released in Aug 1976.
They played that song and never said who it was - drove me crazy.

This is still one of my personal 1970s favorites. But something I enjoyed more as an adult later on, probably because it was just so common place on the radio.