what song made you get into listening to music

[tangoprime]

Probably Iron Man, by Black Sabbath.
My brother showed it to me, and I really liked it. It was like nothing else I had ever heard before. From there I started seeking out other stuff by Black Sabbath, then expanding to other bands from the era, and... yeah. I ended up becoming a metalhead.

I believe I followed the same progression. Old Sabbath stuff starting with the Paranoid album -> New Wave of British Metal -> Iron Maiden -> Metal in general

 

[hooblabla6262]

I was going to go with the first cd I owned, which was Hot Show by Prozzak. Not sure what song I would have heard first, cause I was around 8 years old.
Then I remembered that I used to own a couple cassettes when I was even younger. No Doubt. The original South Park soundtrack (not the movie one). A couple more I can't remember.

I suppose if I had to pick one song that really started my love of music, it would be Blue by Eiffel 65.

 

[TwoHeadedBoy]

I was kind of interested in some music (a lot of it terrible) from the age of 11-13, but it wasn't until I heard "Paranoid Android" by Radiohead and "Rebellion (Lies)" by Arcade Fire in the same week that I became truly obsessive about it.

 

[Dark Prophet]

My teens were in the 90's and there were very few songs from that time period that I liked, so for a long time music was kinda not important for me. Then one day I found some old tapes which in all likeiyhood were my dad's and I discovered that I really really like music.
I can't name one song in particular but there was stuff from Mike Oldfield, Enigma, The Beatles, John Lennon, Stevie Wonder, Vangelis, Brian Eno, E.L.O., Emerson Lake and Palmer. There was more but those are the names I can give without going through my old tapes so it must be one of those or all.

 

[Shinsei-J]

I've been listening to music since before I was born, seriously.
I've always loved it.
My parents did play B52's a lot so I'll go with "Love Shack"
LOOVVVEEEE SHACK!

 

[EscapeGoat_v1legacy]

Ah man, for me it was Iron Maiden's The Trooper!


Such an awesome song! Before hearing Iron Maiden I just kind of casually listened to whatever music floated by without caring much for anything. The odd Killers track and one or two bits by Gorillaz was pretty much it on my very first mp3 player, but it wasn't until hearing Maiden that I suddenly realised I could love music and became a total metalhead. Then, I found the Guitar Hero games and became even more into my rock and metal! Say what you want about those games but they sure introduced me to a lot of great bands.

 

[White_Lama]

First off I'd like to thank my dad for listening to proper and good old rock music and not some other crap.

Secondly I'd probably say that The Final Countdown by Europe probably was the one song that got me into music and then it just went from there around the good old rock bands and such.

 

[217not237]

At that point, it kinda spiraled out of control to my present state of music adoration. (see: knowing what the fuck a "Perfume Genius" is and being a fan of post-rock)