what song made you get into listening to music

[Fiz_The_Toaster]

Spoiler: Wonder what this says about me...

And it really was that version, the Stokowski transcription, rather than the JSB original, though I love that too...

The whole Fantasia movie made me fall in love with music, and Night on Bald Mountain scared the hell out of me when I was little. D:

I will say this one made me smile a lot as a kid, and really made me love music.




And it's Chinese Dance Youtube, not China Dance!

 

[King of Asgaard]

Back when Brutal Legend came out, I was interested enough in it to look up its soundtrack.
Among its many classics, I found the following song, and it was then that I realised my calling as a metal head:
Manowar is also my favourite band.

 

[SMILEYkyle21]

2001 age 10
System of a Down
'Prison Song'
www.youtube.com/watch?v=yndfqN1VKhY

 

[Old Father Eternity]

As far as I can recall, there was no specific song, I have always liked music in its various forms ... well, most of it anyway. However from recent memory, the brightest bit would be Kaleidoscope by Mythos which was left on repeat for many a nights.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s8Yl7yOz7Sk

 

[davidmc1158_v1legacy]

When I was young (long, long ago) it was the cartoon short "What's Opera Doc?" that got me to really appreciate the power and emotion of music. Yes, folks, Bugs Bunny!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wQa-r5DiGZk

(I don't know how to embed a video) /shame

 

[Twilight_guy]

All Star by Smash Mouth. Coincidentally, I'm currently listening to it on Pandora... uncanny.

 

[Starik20X6]

The year 2001. I was 11 years old, Pokémon was still new and the anime was a fixture of my TV watching. I was in my room, and my mum was out watching TV in the living room. She called out to me: "Quick, come and have a look at this! It looks like the Pokémon cartoon." I ran out to the TV, and there it was:


I sat there, transfixed. My parents had always had music going in the house, good music too, but nothing like this. It blew my little mind away. I asked my mum to record it the next time it came on. For my birthday that year I got my own portable CD player and a copy of Discovery. One More Time is still my favourite song.

 

[CrimsonBlaze]

There was a lot of music that I listened to during my pre-teen and teen years that got me interested in listening to all forms of music. These are some of the songs that got me interest in a variety of styles and genres.

Red Hot Chili Peppers - Californication, Around the World
Daft Punk - Around the World
blink-182 - All the Small Things, What's My Age Again?, Rock Show
Sum 41 - Fat Lip
Linkin Park - Crawling
Green Day - American Idiot, Brain Stew, Worry Rock, Good Riddance

 

[Rawberry101]

This song is what really sold me on the idea that music is worth listening to just for the sake of it. To paraphrase Yahtzee and his relationship with The Beatles, contemporary music wasn't cutting it for me and for a long time I didn't think I liked any. The only music my peers listened to at the time was terrible pop and rap. Then Led Zeppelin thundered into my life.

Needless to say this is one of the greatest revelations man has received. Music is now a huge part of my life and I can't imagine what I'd do without it even though that's how I spent a good 13-14 years of my life.

 

[Mister K]

I had two stages of music affection:
1. Beatles and jazz. My Father is a big fan of said group and genre and when we rode somewhere he always listened to them in the car.

2. Rap, Hip-Hop, etc. It started when I was still at school and my friend showed me this song:

3. Video game music. It all started with beautiful music from Final Fantasy X.

4. Metal, which led to listening of practically all genres. But it all started with Brutal Legend and:

 

[SlaveNumber23]

Without a doubt it was Pretty fly for a white guy.


Very nostalgic listening to that song, its fantastic.

 

[Azure-Supernova]

There are a couple of songs that defined my childhood. I was just coming four when Oasis brought out Don't Look Back in Anger and I very vividly remember my mother playing it a lot. But just a short while later my grandfather introduced me to Billy Fury and my uncle had Gangster's Paradise on cassette tape. I got my first MP3 player when I was 12 (which was 04 I think) and the three songs that really stand out to me are Clint Eastwood by Gorillaz,Gangster's Paradise by Coolio and Fear of the Dark by Iron Maiden. But Don't Look Back in Anger remains the first song that really made me want to listen to everything a band had to offer.

 

[Austin93]

AC/DC, Thunderstruck did it for me. It was the version from their album AC/DC Live. That made me buy that album, then any other AC/DC album I could get my hands on. Listening to it made me want to play guitar, which caused me to start doing research. This revealed that Angus Young, the guitarist from AC/DC, got his inspiration from old blues legends like Chuck Berry, which started me down the road of listening to old blues and it kind of spread from there

 

[Antari]

I am part of the Earth Wind & Fire converts of the 70's. Nostalgia power!!!

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No I don't view it as strange that I still have Earth Wind & Fire's Raise album on a record.

 

[Sacman]

Dinosaur Jr's Little Fury Things...


I mean , Dinosaur Jr weren't the first band I'd ever gotten into... Nirvana certainly took that title... but they were the band that made me appreciate music... And Little Fury Song is the first song I heard by them... being the first song off of the first album I heard by them... along with that entire album, it just redefined how I thought about music...

it just fires out at you, with that powerful, pounding drum fill, which soon becomes overcome by what is essentially pure noise, screeching wahs, layered over miles of fuzz, and lee ranaldo's terrifying screams... just those first few seconds, are probably one of the most emotionally powerful moments I've heard in music... it tells you everything you need to know, the soul crushing doubt, confusion, disorientation and despair, is just conveyed perfectly... It's literally crying out for help, to be saved... which in term gives way to this pretty melodic core of the song, where we hear, through words, the complete lack of self respect, and lack of confidence, through the monotoned nasal drawl Mr. Mascis gives out, which is punctuated by these strong moments of instability as the song occasionally cracks into these powerful swirls of emotional guitar riffing, moving back and forth between legitimately pretty and upbeat, almost hopeful, before falling back down into this scattered noise and than falling even farther, back into the apathetic, cynical chorus, before becoming completely overwhelmed once again and not just falling back into havok, and culminating in a powerful and messy guitar solo, before fading out once again... The way I see it, it's not just an emotionally powerful song, but thanks to the complete lack of actual song structure, very unique and this beautifully dynamic piece of ear candy... melting your ears with it's pounding drumming and noise one minute only to relieve you with this upbeat almost sensual style chord progressions the next...<.<

So yeah... made me really appreciate music as a medium for self expression...<.<

 

[Zack Alklazaris]

I have always loved music, but certain songs have gotten me into certain genres.

Goo Goo Dolls - Iris got me into acoustic/alternative rock.

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Soilwork - The Bringer got me into metal

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Outkast - Ms Jackson got me into rap

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Eiffel 65 - Blue got me into Europop

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[Professor Lupin Madblood]

Spoiler: Seven Days to the Wolves

Nightwish got me introduced to music in a serious way, specifically metal and symphonic metal. I'd listened to bands before, but nothing made me want to actually listen to music like they did. Embarrassingly (more than listening to Nightwish), I didn't realize until years later and by pure coincidence that the wolves the song refers to are a reference to Wolves of the Calla, a book of the Dark Tower series by Stephen King.

Spoiler: Warning: clicking this spoiler tab may result in asplodage of the head

I then discovered what actual good metal sounds like and started listening to Kiuas. They're pretty fucking metal.

 

[Catfood220]

The first song I remember liking was this, it probably explains some of my music taste.


And the song that actually got me listening to rock/metal/punk/indie was this.


I have great taste in music.

 

[Scarim Coral]

The year 2001. I was 11 years old, Pokémon was still new and the anime was a fixture of my TV watching. I was in my room, and my mum was out watching TV in the living room. She called out to me: "Quick, come and have a look at this! It looks like the Pokémon cartoon." I ran out to the TV, and there it was:


I sat there, transfixed. My parents had always had music going in the house, good music too, but nothing like this. It blew my little mind away. I asked my mum to record it the next time it came on. For my birthday that year I got my own portable CD player and a copy of Discovery. One More Time is still my favourite song.

Same here (well I was abit older) although I was flicking through the music channels one evenning and stumble to their music video. That song pretty much got me into dance music.
Sure there were a couple of music I did like before Daft Punk but they didn't get me into music.