Songs that opened the door to...
 

I believe everyone remembers what were the first songs that opened them up to metal/rock/grunge/punk... So,my first songs:

hard rock - Child in Time - Deep pruple
Metal - Children of the damn - Iron maiden
Grunge - Alive - Pearl Jam

What's yours?

Grunge: Pearl Jam - Alive or Nirvana- Smells Like Teen Spirit
Metal: Iron Maiden - Heaven Can Wait
Punk: The Clash - London Calling

Prodigy-Fat of the land

was the first Cd i ever bought and that opened me up to Music in general ROck Metal and Hip hop


its kinda weird tho since there is alot of electronics on that album but yet some of the songs are Heavy Just like Metal well in my head it is

Grunge: Smells Like Teen Spirit - Nirvana, Black Hole Sun - Soundgarden
Metal: ...And Justice For All - Metallica
Punk: God Save the Queen - Sex Pistols

I didn't need an exemplary track to open myself up to rock / metal it was always, ALWAYS, good. Electronic music on the other hand, that was garbage, complete utter rubbish, just some lame chump with a beat box and a boom tsk boom tsk boom tsk beat plus some girly pop vocals.

Then I heard this tune (and subsequently bought my first actual piece of electronic music)



Funky beats, rock guy vocals, great visuals, raving police officers, and drops that didn't require you to look like a mental handicap dressing themselves based on a 1982 fever dream about what the future would look like. And the rest of the disc just got better and better.

The two songs that really won me over to metal both happened back in 1980. Judas Priest - Living after Midnight and Black Sabbath - Neon Knights were the songs that did it for me back in high school. I was living in Philly at the time and the radio there rocked.

This one to metal (in exactly this version):

To rock: Deep Purple - Child in Time
I like punk, but never dug it that much (at least for now). I can't recall any song that opened my way to it.

For me, one song changed everything:

The Beatles - Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band/With A Little Help From My Friends

Before that point, I only listened to Bon Jovi. When I first heard this song in The Beatles: Rock Band, it was the first time I'd ever been inspired enough to go seek out a band's other work. It was amazing the doors it opened. First to '60s Rock. Then to Experimental music and other work by them as individuals.

If that song changed everything I can only imagine what sort of reaction you had the first time you heard Helter Skelter :tramp:

That was, in fact, the first song I would openly headbang to, so there's that. :yeah: