One song...

At a very young age watching Tubeway Army/ Gary Numan on Top of the pops doing  ' Are"friends" electric?

thrilling on every level.

Aged 15 and bored with Black Sabbath I asked a friend if he had anything I hadn't heard.  He loaned me two Rush albums that I took home and played on my dad's fold down record player and I played the first, Moving Pictures, and was astonished by the music I heard.  The first track was Tom Sawyer and although it's a huge cliche it changed me for ever and lead to a 35 year addiction.  Still thrills me now

TOBYJUG posted:

At a very young age watching Tubeway Army/ Gary Numan on Top of the pops doing  ' Are"friends" electric?

thrilling on every level.

+1, I still enjoy Tubeway army and early Gary Numan.

Kraftwerk's Autobahn is up there as well.. It really got me into electronic music and got me interested in electronics and spurred me into making my own synths and other 'noise' machines... this then evolved into early micros for music making.. and started my career in computer engineering and audio (and other media)

"Wonderous Stories" by Yes. It was on the radio and TOTP late in 1977. I was 14, and I had never heard anything like it before. One of my Christmas presents that year was the album "Going For the One," which I still have and still listen to regularly.

Jethro Tull  'Aqualung'.

It was the first song/album I listened to that nobody around me seemed to like or had even have heard about and that was not on ubiquitous Radio 1. I thought it was exciting  and also it was 'mine' and opened the door to me exploring all sorts of music that was not always cool or popular. I have kept exploring since, and remain confidently uncool!

Bruce

PS So thanks to my brother's mate for lending it to him, and to my brother for hating it (which of course attracted me more).

mrCardoso posted:

mention the (one) song , that changed you the most, as person

Not certain I'd go so far as to say it changed me as a person, but one song that certainly changed how I listen to music ...

The Beatles. I Am The Walrus.

So much going on with the lyrics, ambiguous musical structure, heavy cellos, distortion, sound effects, and layering of the tracks in the mix. I can remember at age 12 repeatedly playing the song and turning up the volume on the protracted fade-out to try to catch every nuance. It was ultimately "cool" to me at the time and really got me cued into the artistry and creativity involved in rock music production - something I still appreciate to this day.

Bruce Woodhouse posted:

Jethro Tull  'Aqualung'.

It was the first song/album I listened to that nobody around me seemed to like or had even have heard about and that was not on ubiquitous Radio 1. I thought it was exciting  and also it was 'mine' and opened the door to me exploring all sorts of music that was not always cool or popular. I have kept exploring since, and remain confidently uncool!

Bruce

PS So thanks to my brother's mate for lending it to him, and to my brother for hating it (which of course attracted me more).

hahahahahahhaha...  nice.....

joerand posted:

mrCardoso posted:

mention the (one) song , that changed you the most, as person

Not certain I'd go so far as to say it changed me as a person, but onesong that certainly changed how I listen to music ...

The Beatles. I Am The Walrus.

So much going on with the lyrics, ambiguous musical structure, heavy cellos, distortion, sound effects, and layering of the tracks in the mix. I can remember at age 12 repeatedly playing the song and turning up the volume on the protracted fade-out to try to catch every nuance. It was ultimately "cool" to me at the time and really got me cued into the artistry and creativity involved in rock music production - something I still appreciate to this day.

Joe, thats what i tried to say, using your words.

for me; "Rape me" was a case of a small lenght/ powersong that functioned like a "wake call".

(probably the One that i put on the same level - as i never heard anything like that before/since-  was Purple Haze by Hendrix... )

The OP question was to name one song that changed you as a person. Here's two!

'Strawberry Fields', which like the 'Walrus' post above changed the direction of my listening.

'American Pie' - beloved by generations for decades, hated by me for its supercilious college-boy pretentiousness, it confirmed for all time that my taste is correct and that the populi usually likes pap. 

mrCardoso posted:

(probably the One that i put on the same level - as i never heard anything like that before/since-  was Purple Haze by Hendrix... )

Have to agree with that one.

Still at school, most of us used to buy the "monthly"  LP on the way home, then rush round to each other's houses for a first listen.

I can still remember taking the "Are You Experienced" album round to a mate's and us both sitting there "gobsmacked" at what we were hearing. 

This one album probably changed my future music taste for ever..............though I was an impressionable 15 year old at the time! 

Dave.

Simon-in-Suffolk posted:

TOBYJUG posted:

At a very young age watching Tubeway Army/ Gary Numan on Top of the pops doing  ' Are"friends" electric?

thrilling on every level.

+1, I still enjoy Tubeway army and early Gary Numan.

Kraftwerk's Autobahn is up there as well.. It really got me into electronic music and got me interested in electronics and spurred me into making my own synths and other 'noise' machines... this then evolved into early micros for music making.. and started my career in computer engineering and audio (and other media)

new wave... didn't know Gary Numan. Kraftwerk is a power house.

my kind of synth is more DepecheMode.

AC/DC Highway to Hell album, particularly Beating Around the Bush, which meaning was lost on a 9 year old at the time, but the energy and attack of that song, thus entire album led me down the Rock/Metal pathway until this day.

mrCardoso posted:

Simon-in-Suffolk posted:

TOBYJUG posted:

At a very young age watching Tubeway Army/ Gary Numan on Top of the pops doing  ' Are"friends" electric?

thrilling on every level.

+1, I still enjoy Tubeway army and early Gary Numan.

Kraftwerk's Autobahn is up there as well.. It really got me into electronic music and got me interested in electronics and spurred me into making my own synths and other 'noise' machines... this then evolved into early micros for music making.. and started my career in computer engineering and audio (and other media)

new wave... didn't know Gary Numan. Kraftwerk is a power house.

my kind of synth is more DepecheMode.

You must be younger than me then.  This sort of thing is so dependant on which generation you are.  Looking at YouTube on Gary Numan it is so obvious that he was taking his stage art from sir David of Bowieshire , yet at 6 years old he would have been a bit too grown up for me to even know of.   God knows wether the young borns of today will have a music epiphany as such.

TOBYJUG posted:

mrCardoso posted:

Simon-in-Suffolk posted:

TOBYJUG posted:

At a very young age watching Tubeway Army/ Gary Numan on Top of the pops doing  ' Are"friends" electric?

thrilling on every level.

+1, I still enjoy Tubeway army and early Gary Numan.

Kraftwerk's Autobahn is up there as well.. It really got me into electronic music and got me interested in electronics and spurred me into making my own synths and other 'noise' machines... this then evolved into early micros for music making.. and started my career in computer engineering and audio (and other media)

new wave... didn't know Gary Numan. Kraftwerk is a power house.

my kind of synth is more DepecheMode.

You must be younger than me then.  This sort of thing is so dependant on which generation you are.  Looking at YouTube on Gary Numan it is so obvious that he was taking his stage art from sir David of Bowieshire , yet at 6 years old he would have been a bit too grown up for me to even know of.   God knows wether the young borns of today will have a music epiphany as such.

Agreed. But sometimes is more of the environment then age.... Or personal taste.

i.e: i like new wave but not all the variations.

likewise punk: i do prefer by large margin The Clash as oposite Ramones.

why? because of the influence (on the Clash) of the bass: SKA/Reggae.

im 40 by the way...

White Man in the Hammersmith Palais - The Clash. It was the smoking gun on the single's label that intrigued me and so I bought it. 1978. It wasn't just that it was a great single, it was the key to unlocking the "forbidden" sounds of West London at the time, unlocking the secrets of Delroy Wilson (cool operator), ska and sound systems. It doesn't sound like stereotypical punk and yet it has anger, revolt, a raised voice against racisim and yet remains surpringly joyful. 

White youth, black youth  / better find a better solution / why not phone up Robin Hood / and ask for some wealth redistribution

Bohemian Rhapsody - I still vividly remember hearing this for the first time at quite a tender age and being amazed at the variety encompassed in one song.  It is funny to think that the record company tried to discourage its release, but thanks to Kenny Everett it was played.  

I would have to name at least 4 or 5:

Leonard Cohen - "Hey, that's no way to say goodbye". - the first track I ever heard played in stereo in a small record shop. I couldn't believe what I was hearing, and I have been addicted to hi-fi and music ever since.

Pink Floyd's "Atom Heart Mother" - the first Floyd album & track I listened to properly & which turned me on to a whole new genre of music

Anyting from Peter Green's Fleetwood Mac who turned me onto 'Blues' music in a very big way.

Julie Driscoll's version of "Wheels on Fire" and Jefferson Airplane's "White Rabbit" left a big impression in my very early 'Hippy' days (I never did inhale!)

Why Me Lord - Kris Kristofferson. I don't know why this song struck me down as a young man, but it did. Stopped me in my tracks. Just a simple song of contrition that sounds so direct and heartfelt when Kris sings it.

It is difficult to name one track as I could mention many!

However going through school in 1982 listening to a diet of Human League and Ultravox, I stumbled across a copy of my elder brothers 'Rainbow Rising' album. Initially it was the cover that sparked my interest but then decided to play it on my Sanyo Music System!

Unintentionally I played side 2 first and heard 'Stargazer' and that was it. I was so captivated by the performance of Blackmore and Dio that almost immediately I ditched the new wave pop and went straight into Rainbow and headlong into a 34 year (and counting) musical journey of all things hard rock and heavy metal!