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First Album That Got You Into Your Favourite Band(s)
We all had to start somewhere, so spill!
Genesis: Seconds Out (live album) Rory Gallagher: Against the Grain Supertramp: Crime of the Century ELO: Out of the Blue Nanci Griffith: Lone Star State of Mind Marillion: Script For a Jester's Tear Ten: Far Beyond the World Kamelot: The Black Halo Bruce Springsteen: Born in the USA Asia: Asia a-ha: Hunting High and Low Eagles: Hotel California Iron Maiden: The Number of the Beast Saxon: Wheels of Steel Rush: Caress of Steel Judie Tzuke: Welcome to the Cruise Tom Waits: Small Change Bon Jovi: Slippery When Wet Mostly Autumn: The Last Bright Light Pendragon: Believe Bob Seger: Nine Tonight (live album) |
That's easy for me. I got into the Beatles then everything went from there. Naturally I started getting into the Stones and the Who after that. All this was going on when new wave hit and I got into Costello. And then I discovered the Pebbles collection, and so on...
First actual album: I'll go with the Beatles 1962-1966 and The Beatles 1967-1970 |
Judas Priest - British Steel
Bowie - Hunky Dory Black Sabbath - Paranoid Bob Dylan - Blood on the tracks Pixies - Doolittle Prince - Prince/Around the World in a Day ELO - Eldorado Kate Bush - The Kick Inside None of the above are my favourite albums from these guys except for the Pixies and Bob Dylan ones. |
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Slayer - Reign in Blood
Metallica - Master of Puppets/Load/Reload (all were my first records) Ke$ha - Animal Iron Maiden - Number of the Beast Saxon - Wheels of Steel Bathory - Bathory Black Sabbath - Black Sabbath Morbid Angel - Altars of Madness |
Slayer- South of Heaven (when it came out)
Sabbath - Paranoid (from radio) - probably around 1980 |
Beefheart - Safe Ass Milk
Frank Zappa - Apostrophe (even though the song Inca Roads is what got me into him) Marc Ribot - Asmodeus: Book of Angels Volume Seven Slayer - Seasons in the Abyss Ulcerate - Vermis Zu - Carboniferous John Coltrane - Ascension Ornette Coleman - Free Jazz Billy Woods - History Will Absolve Me The Residents - Freak Show Shabazz Palaces - Black Up John Zorn - Torture Garden King Crimson - In the Court of the Crimson King but I didn't get into them heavily until I checked out Discipline years later Sunn O))) - Monoliths and Dimensions Jimi Hendrix - Are You Experienced? The Fall - Live At the Witch Trials Swans - Filth |
Beefheart- friend’s mixtape Frownland and Blue Eyed Beans from Venus
Coltrane - A Love Supreme Ornette - friend’s mixtape -lonely woman- Hendrix- Smash Hits. Fall - Totally Wired single Swans- Children if God but I think I knew who they were before it came out |
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David Bowie - David Bowie (AKA Space Oddity)
Black Sabbath - Paranoid Metallica - Master of Puppets Alestorm - Black Sails at Midnight My Chemical Romance - The Black Parade Ayreon - Into the Electric Castle The Decemberists - Picaresque Green Day - American Idiot |
Another excellent thread idea, Trollheart - and an excuse for me to be nostalgic about some of my better album purchases. Thanks!
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Slayer - South of Heaven
Accept - Metal Heart Iron Maiden - Seventh Son of a Sevent Son Grave Digger - Tunes of War |
Gravediggaz - 6 Feet Deep
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I got into Moondance before Astral Weeks. Into the Mystic was the first Van Morrison song to totally blow me away.
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^ Well, they are both great albums aren't they ? Into the Mystic is a beautiful song, with VM, as he did at that time, tapping into some magic that no-else even knew existed!
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Just last week I went camping just me and my dogs and listened to Astral Weeks in front of the fire. Still hits the spot.
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Ped got me into Dr. John with Locked Down.
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Can't say Risk got me into Megadeth, that would be Countdown to Extinction, but a few of the songs that got me highly interested at 13-14 were from that album. I honestly like it more now than I did then. Shout at to "Crush 'Em", "Prince of Darkness", and "Breadline" from my childhood.
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Okay, now that I have the spirit of this thread...
The Beatles- 1962-1966 David Bowie- The Man Who Sold the World Elvis Costello- Get Happy The Zombies- Time of the Zombies The Kinks- Kinkdom |
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Anyhow, I actually quite like ReLoad and would probably pick it over Risk. Just delete the first three tracks on ReLoad and it rules! |
A few I can recall at the moment...
Allman Brothers Band - At Fillmore East Blue Öyster Cult - Tyranny and Mutation Pink Floyd - The Dark Side of the Moon The Beatles - Help! Captain Beefheart - Bongo Fury Frank Zappa/Mothers of Invention - Freak Out! Jimi Hendrix - Are You Experienced The Doors - 13 Steppenwolf - Steppenwolf The Rolling Stones - Sticky Fingers Black Sabbath - Paranoid Neil Young - Decade Grateful Dead - American Beauty The Stooges - Raw Power The Damned - Damned Damned Damned Buzzcocks - A Different Kind of Tension The Clash - Give 'Em Enough Rope The Jam - Sound Affects Gang of Four - Another Day/Another Dollar (EP) X - Under the Big Black Sun Dead Kennedys - Fresh Fruit for Rotting Vegetables D.O.A. - Something Better Change XTC - Black Sea John Coltrane - My Favorite Things Sun Ra - The Nubians of Plutonia Sonny Rollins - East Broadway Run Down Roland Kirk - Bright Moments The Mermen - A Glorious Lethal Euphoria Johnny Cash - At Folsom Prison Link Wray - Bullshot Howlin' Wolf - Moanin' in the Moonlight Nancy Sinatra - Boots Moby Grape - Moby Grape Jefferson Airplane - Surrealistic Pillow Love - Forever Changes Led Zeppelin - Led Zeppelin II David Bowie - The Man Who Sold the World Funkadelic - Maggot Brain James Brown - Black Caesar Grupo Fantasma - Grupo Fantasma The Mallett Brothers Band - Low down The Velvet Underground - Loaded Lou Reed - Transformer Cocteau Twins - Treasure John Lee Hooker - Burning Hell Creedence Clearwater Revival - Cosmo's Factory King Crimson - Starless and Bible Black The Who - Tommy The Pretty Things - S.F. Sorrow The Beat - I Just Can't Stop It The Turtles - It Ain't Me Babe Jeff Beck - Jeff Beck with the Jan Hammer Group Live Stevie Ray Vaughan - Texas Flood B.B. King - Live at the Regal Hawkwind - Quark, Strangeness and Charm |
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MY older sister and dad influnced my music taste early on
my dad grew up in the hippie gen / phase 70's 80's all thoes rock and metal bands he would show me and we would listen to all thoes bands like Zeppelin,Sabbath, metallica , COC ,ELP ,Rainbow,Tararus , etc etc my sister like Hip hop RNB and pop and this was the mid 90's when all the east coast west coast stuff was going down... stuff like snoop Ashanti coolio brandi etc etc somehow tho the first CD i bought with my own money was Prodigy -Fat of the land and RATM- evil empire so pre NU metal phase is were it all started for me i was hooked then KORN/Deftones came along i was on cloud 9 LOL |
The Fall--This Nation's Saving Grace
Johnny Dowd--Pictures From Life's Other Side Webb Wilder--It Came From Nashville Led Zeppelin--Led Zeppelin II American Music Club--The Restless Stranger Steppenwolf-Steppenwolf 7 The Paranoid Style--Rolling Disclosures The Creepers--Rock 'N' Roll Licorice Flavor The Damned--The Black Album Graham Parker--Stick To Me Loudon Wainwright III--Unrequited Reverend Horton Heat--Liquor In The Front Steely Dan--Countdown To Esctasy Tyvek--Origin Of What Half Japanese--Charmed Life Jad Fair--Monarchs Creedence Clearwater Revival--Green River I may add others later. It's pretty late as I type this. |
Getting into artists through their most acclaimed studio albums? Anyone can do that. It's more fun to get into something through a random compilation some label that existed for two years around 1998 put out and you would find their stuff in the bargain bins of your local record shops years later...
Got into Beefheart through this compilation, has lots of great stuff from the pre-TMR era and the teenage me thought the cover was pretty cool https://img.discogs.com/jxIXJHKg6ZTy...-1923.jpeg.jpg Followed by this https://img.discogs.com/TUoxqFSBH5A-...-1003.jpeg.jpg Into Eno through this on a worn-out vinyl https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon....OL._SX425_.jpg Into Stranglers through this https://img.discogs.com/tYJ9Hnor3Yad...65251.jpeg.jpg Hendrix through this https://img.discogs.com/h2dyLC-Wb4sX...407724.jpg.jpg Another bargain bin CD I remember really liking https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon....1Vagj8GPVL.jpg |
Favorite band in general? That's a tough one but ig I'll try to answer.
at the moment it's probably Kraftwerk still and the album that got me into them was Autobahn, in 2019 |
"Paranoid" by Black Sabbath
Though they aren't my favourite band anymore, they were for a long time (since I was 12 up until I went to high school), and they were the first band I counsciously became "fan of". I saw Paranoid on my dad's iPod one day, and really loved the cover art, and when I heard the music I was like "damn...how can anybody be that heavy and melodic at the same time?!? Favourite band of all time!" And then I discovered that they were coming to Poland, for a show of their Ozzy Osbourne Reunion tour. And I wanted to go so bad, damn. But my father told me he ain't gonna buy us any tickets for a concert by a band I only know one album. So the next six months I was obsessed with buying Black Sabbath CDs in the local store. Every few weeks I went to the shop and bought the next album, then devour it for a week or two, and then back to the music store to buy another album. So after a couple of months I had my collection of all Ozzy Osbourne era Black Sabbath records. And my father bought me and himself tickets for the show. And so my love affair with music began. |
For a second there I was gonna say something mean about your dad but he came through in the end.
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That was the whole point I think – like, to motivate me, or make me see some other side of the story (the artist, the fanboying, the collector, the conscious recipient/consumer) |
Stand!
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My two favourite bands are Genesis, and porcupine Tree.
The respective albums were Foxtrot, and Fear of a Blank Planet. |
My favorite musical artist overall is Igor Stravinsky. And I can remember the album that made me obsessed with him:
Firebird Suite/Petrushka - Pierre Monteux / Paris Conservatoire Orchestra https://img.discogs.com/E4fVJPJGDvoG...-3338.jpeg.jpg That was a birthday present from my grandfather (who had already gotten me into a fair amount of classical, big band/swing, etc.) when I was 9 years old, the year it was released with that particular cover. Second favorite musical artist is Frank Zappa. That's not as simple, because I heard him prior to thinking "I have got to buy everything this guy does!" But what really got me into him was Uncle Meat, a couple years after it was released (so 1971, and almost the same exact time that I got into Stravinsky above), because one of my drum teachers at the time was into Zappa and he had me work on playing along with a couple tunes from the album. 200 Motels, which came out just a few weeks prior to my ninth birthday, was the first Zappa album I bought when it was new. (I was also taking piano lessons at the time, which is one of the things I bonded with my grandfather over, as he was a pretty good amateur pianist). https://img.discogs.com/uPhOOzOWkCdt...06441.jpeg.jpg |
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Great choices. As I'm sure you know Zappa was a big Stravinsky fan, which I guess was practically inevitable at the time unless you were a hardcore Schoenbergian. |
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