one piece of music that shaped your view on music

At the very beginning, it has to be Miles Davis Porgy and Bess.

Not the earliest phase. I started with Bill Haley and Gene Vincent but that was not at anything like the creative level of this which introduced so many ideas. For me a concept album with lots of musical flavors.

oh Geoff I'm with you, when I put the needle on the first track and john sang Come Together my mind exploded and the rest of the album was an amazing experience.

but I'd have to say at 13 when my sister got this it was the first step into Fantasyland. And I never inhaled anything!!!!!

Neil Young - 'Time Fades Away' - the first time I realised that there was more to music than mere melodicism.

Only cost a few bob too - few of those who had loved 'Harvest' loved this!

Fraser

Light my Fire and Lady Marmalade are the first songs I remember hearing. I was hooked. If I'm being honest I also have to include this:


I loved this song when I was five.

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I have not been the same since.

Nor has Tommy - personally I think Thomas William Hicks songs were a load of little white bull; however there were times when he rocked with the caveman around the town until doomsday and he was knee deep in the blues or was it his cannibal pot, while Grandad just rocked. Didn't he go to Nairobi? Still as Hiawatha, a Tallhassie Lassie, once said of Tom, he wasn't worth half a sixpence.

This is one of my few posts but I couldn't resist telling you all about my old music teacher who shaped and developed my listening habits.
His name was Willie Wanless and part of our course we had to 'study'
Dark Side Of The Moon
Mozart's Horn Concerto K447
Babbacombe Lee by Fairport Convention

What a great teacher to have when you are 15, it was 1978

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Babbacombe Lee by Fairport Convention

Love that record - some really stunning tracks on it - you had some music teacher. I had a decent music teacher too; he pointed out to me that Mussorsky, Bartok and Leoš Janáček among others had ripped off a lot their music from Emerson Lake and Palmer or was it the other way around?

Hip Hop & Electro Funk hit the UK and nothing was the same in my world again and this record just defines what I was listening to at the age of 12, solid music.






Dean...

Remembering "One For My Baby" on our Ferguson Radiogram, I can see I was destined to swim in the shallows of Porcupine Tree

Thankfully Richard Thompson pens many cheery lyrics to balance my listening experience

Beatles - She loves you.

I was six and the parents thought it/they where absolutely horrible. Of course I loved it!

JohanR

For me, it wasn't so much a single piece of music. Rather it was the moment.

1964 - The Beatles singing "She Loves You" on the Ed Sullivan show. The image of screaming, crazed teenage girls, crying, fainting . . . the Beatles, dressed in their Beatle suits, Beatle boots, and all the great musical gear (Gretsch guitar, Vox amps, Ludwig drums). All in living black & white TV delivered to your living room. Such a powerful, surreal spectacle for a 4 year old. We had never seen or heard anything like it before.

That was the moment that definitely shaped my view of music at the time, but also started the musical journey of a lifetime.

Max

probably

The biggest broadening came from this:


It opened up Schoenberg and beyond which completely baffled me before, I still struggle with Birtwistle though.

At the age of 9 or 10, this showed me there was life outside the top 40:



Around 20 years later, this was my entry into the world of Bach, and classical music in general.

The Choir "It's Cold Outside" single release



mid-sixties, heavily influenced by the early Beatles. this was the first band I remember seeing live, at a teen club. the three gentleman to the right of the picture are Wally Bryson, Jim Bonfanti and Dave Smalley, who, together with Eric Carmen, became The Raspberries.

Blue Monday - New Order

Garageland

(Strummer/Jones)

Back in the garage with my bullshit detector
Carbon monoxide making sure it's effective
People ringing up making offers for my life
But I just wanna stay in the garage all night

We're a garage band
We come from garageland

Meanwhile things are hotting up in the West End alright
Contracts in the offices, groups in the night
My bummin' slummin' friends have all got new boots
An' someone just asked me if the group would wear suits

I don't wanna hear about what the rich are doing
I don't wanna go to where the rich are going
They think they're so clever, they think they're so right
But the truth is only known by guttersnipes

There's twenty-two singers! But one microphone
Back in the garage
There's five guitar players! But one guitar
Back in the garage
Complaints! Complaints! Wot an old bag
Back in the garage
All night

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Originally posted by 555:


Blue Monday - New Order

Also a landmark single, and my first batch cutout sleeve 12" is tucked away for the future.

Jono

Blue Monday is fantastic, one of my all time favourite tracks.
However, having rummaged around in my memory, I realise to be on topic I should have posted Confusion instead.
No pun intended. Is it me or are the lights getting dim?

At the time Confusion was released I was in the middle of my first major musical horizon expansion,
getting deep in to hip hop, dance music & electronica.
Then I found my favourite 'old' band were going on the same journey.

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... my old music teacher ... part of our course we had to 'study' Dark Side Of The Moon ...

I make that two cases of child abuse reported here in a few days!

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Originally posted by 555:
Blue Monday is fantastic, one of my all time favourite tracks.
However, having rummaged around in my memory, I realise to be on topic I should have posted Confusion instead.
No pun intended. Is it me or are the lights getting dim?

At the time Confusion was released I was in the middle of my first major musical horizon expansion,
getting deep in to hip hop, dance music & electronica.
Then I found my favourite 'old' band were going on the same journey.

Now my son's fav music video. He is 7 years old!

Jono

That's my boy!

Good topic.

Can I have two? Both lead me into worlds beyond rock and roll.