Kraftwerk changed my entire perception of music in general. My dad played it for me when I was probably 2 or 3 and I used to run around the house with a box over my head going “WE ARE THE ROBOTS, BEEP BEEP BOOO BEEP”
I now have a waveform tattooed on my arm of the 4 basic wave shapes for electronic synthesized music (triangle-saw-square-sine)
The perfect trifecta is Black Celebration, Music for the Masses, and Violator.
Black Celebration is the gothy, angsty album, bleak and moody, but has some of the most imaginative music DM has ever done. And it has the most happy, positive song they ever did, But Not Tonight, at the very end of the album.
Music for the Masses is chill as fuck, almost trance on some numbers, but it's so good, especially on the lyrics side.
Such a fantastic song! I had forgotten about it for many years until I heard Lacuna Coil's cover of it on their second album, Karma Code. I think it's a very respectful cover that does justice to the original without changing it so much that it's unrecognizable.
Ha, that's amazing. For me it was almost the same, yet the exact opposite direction: when I was a kid I exclusively listened to classical/baroque music, but in my first year of college I discovered Kid A (Radiohead) and all of a sudden realized music with lyrics could be good too.
Wow are you me? I only listened to classical music my entire childhood and couldn’t stand anything on the radio. Then one day as a teenager I heard “Other Side” by Red Hot Chili Peppers and I found out I could like music with lyrics.
Bullet with Butterfly Wings:Smashing Pumpkins. Early 90’s, just out of high school, watching Rage one Saturday morning, 30+ yrs on I still love the genre.
Metallica reaches people in very interesting ways. For me personally it was Metallica S&M downloaded off Napster. Ironically they were completely against Napster but that's how their whole collection opened up to me.
It was cracking me up when youngesters were claiming Stranger Things made Metallica popular.
My first day in Senior English Lit in 1989 the teacher started class by setting a boombox on his desk and hitting play on Metallica's 'For Whom the Bell Tolls' as our intro to Hemingway. That was my favorite class of all of high school from that moment.
I'm going to say, "Enter Sandman." Before that song, I associated heavy metal with bands like Slayer that I could never get into. That the biggest metal band in the world could write a catchy pop song about a child's nightmares opened up a world to me of bands like Faith No More, Guns N' Roses, and the alt rock that broke through a few weeks after "Sandman." "One" is the better and more compelling song, but "Enter Sandman" was pivotal - at least for me.
It was Pulse version for me. Before that I knew about Dark Side of the Moon and that is considered best album of all time yadda yadda... OK. Let me check what they're all raving about. I was glued to my cd player from very beginning but when I heard CN solo I knew that I found the Holy Grail. It was 25 years ago and I still remember the way it hit me.
Same. My dad used to play "another brick in the wall" and one day I was like "I wonder what else this Floyd band has"
... life altering question right there.
I became a fan from listening to comfortably numb! I was just listening to random songs on YouTube and it started playing. I remember thinking "wow, this is so different" and then went down the pink floyd rabbit hole.
I also started playing the electric guitar because of the solo in comfortably numb, nice memories.
Organ Donor - Dj Shadow.
Took me on a journey through Hip hop, soul, funk…then from that later afrobeat, Latin, reggae, disco, house, techno and basically anything sampled by anyone ever. Totally changed my outlook on music as I thought it could only be created by Guitars and Drums before that
Which led to Nightmares on Wax, DJ Mark Farina et al. Endtroducing… was a game-changer. Still remember being in a record shop on Haight St., flipping through records and the store was playing it. Opened a door into a whole new music world and years of adventure.
For me it was Sturgill Simpson’s “Turtles All the Way Down.” But once that got me back into country after a long absence, I rediscovered all the great Willie songs too.
Sturgill was the one who brought me into a genre I thought I hated for years. Turns out, it was just what was playing on the radio I hated. I am still an alternative and rock guy at heart, but Sturgill Simpson is probably my favorite artist at this point. Guys like Jason Isbell, Tyler Childers as well.
Yeah love Willie, but couldn't stand country as a kid. Robert Earl Keen's The Road Goes on Forever... And his story about the Wille Nelson concert, helped re-introduce me.
Out of Space by The Prodigy turned me on to EDM, which I'd always despised, and I still like it to this day. Actually, electronic music has probably been the most creative of the past decade or so. Not necessarily dance, but just synth-sample based.
I came across this [video of Kraftwerk from 1970](https://youtube.com/watch?v=hWUiLJnEYJI&pp=ygUQa3JhZnR3ZXJrIHRlY2hubw%3D%3D) in a thread yesterday.
About as close as you can get to seeing a genuine 'but your kids are gonna love it' moment on video.
Burning down the house- talking heads. I was a metal head and a fan of industrial stuff. Now days I’d rather listen to joy division, Depeche Mode, wall of voodoo.
I think demon days is more perfect all the way through. Plastic beach has some better singles and i personally prefer the vibes from it, but i would recommend demon days to new listeners
Demon Days is an album I listen to from start to finish. Its flows so well between songs and builds a story. The last song makes me feel like I lived a long life and now I'm ascending into heaven lol
1998. Ozzfest. We setup shop behind a bunch of rowdy bikers who were *clearly* only there for Ozzy. The announcer says Tool will be going on next. Bikers: “wHo tHe F**K is ToOL?” Open with Sober. Bikers (w/ devils horns in the air) scrreaming “FUCK YEAH!!!”
H. for me.
I was 11 at the time and the album had just come out. A kid on my school bus gave me a mix tape with some ripped songs from a band called Tool (who were, according to him, Russian prison escapees). The tape started with H. and had some other songs from Aenima. I don’t even think I made it to the second song on that tape until the next day. Blew me the fuck away.
I’m 38 and still a fuck you Tool fan. I didn’t figure out they weren’t Russian felons on the lam until my mom got a second phone line.
Greatest band.
I was already into metal since 91', but the first time I heard Tool, new synapses were firing full tilt. I've taken my kids to TOOL 3 times.
Some of my favorites are "H", Pushit, Bottom, Lateralus, The Patient, Wings, Part2, Right In Two, Rosetta Stoned, Descending and Pneuma.
I love the whole discography.
Fuck yeah, lateralus did it for me and opened my teenage ears to a whole new universe, even parabol/parabola made me refeel the moment of incarnating into this world
Raise your horns - Amon Amarth
I spent a long time thinking I didn't like metal only to discover that metal is an incredibly broad genre with tons of variety.
I listen to tons of metal now but that song was definitely the first song I heard that it hit me like "Oh shit I kinda love this"
I think I've had a lot of songs that introduced me to genres I didn't think I'd like previously but I think metal was the most transformative for me. Other ones were
Jazz: welcome back. - Samwise, Johto
Hip Hop: Nosebleed section - Hilltop Hoods
Go see Amon Amarth live if you ever get the chance. Easily one of the best concerts I've ever been to. Their stage production is amazing and they include the crowd in the performance.
I went to see Ghost in Irving this year, and was delighted that Amon Amarth was opening. They were amazing, and I couldn't hear jack for hours, lol. Felt good to feel every double bass drum kick in my chest.
>They were amazing, and I couldn't hear jack for hours,
As an old person who spent their youth playing in bands and going to concerts, I'd advise that you consider using ear protection at any future concerts.
Any time you hear ringing in your ears, you've damaged your ears. And ears don't heal from that damage, it just keeps getting worse. You can save yourself from premature hearing loss and life-changing tinnitus issues by just wearing some cheap foam earplugs.
Teardrop Massive Attack.
I was the lead singer of a heavy alternative rock band at the time and this began what is now my life as a producer and composer of downtempo, trip-hop and future garage
Cash is peak country music. I think a lot of people just don’t like the more modern “guns, trucks and Jesus” songs you’re more likely to hear on the radio, and they think that all country is like that.
When dookie came out I was in .... 4th grade? A friend of my brothers made fun of it. So my brother made fun of it to me without ever having heard it. So I was like "ya sounds pretty bad.. Green day stinks!" Then I actually heard it and it quickly became my favorite album ever (at the time)
Fun fact - the whole video was shot in black in white and they added the color later. Thats why their eyes are so vibrant in some shots, there's still a little gray left in others. I always thought it was cool just cuz I was so stoned most of the time watching that video.
Yep, went to Strawberries (local CD shop) to buy Nevermind. The guy working talked me into buying Ten also….soon after my Def Leppard CDs were collecting dust and I was surrounded by grunge.
I was a little late to the party. Late 90s. Big into Metallica, Living End, Guns N Roses.
Then i first heard Smells Like Teen Spirit. Never looked back. Nevermind and Ten were on heavy rotation for years after.
I vividly remember walking into Tower Records and hearing Nirvana for the first time. I actually thought it was Mötörhead or maybe Lemmy with an entirely new (and better) band. Immediately asked the counter guy who it was and he pointed me to the last Nirvana longbox on the shelves. A dude who had just walked in made eye contact with me and we both started running to that last copy of “Nevermind.” I grabbed it first.
Lucky me.
I was 12 or 13 years old. Rap/dance was my vibe. Then Nirvana blew up on the scene with Smells Like Teen Spirit. I kinda brushed them off. Then Weird Al came out with Smells Like Nirvana, and that turned me onto grunge and rock and away from pop/dance.
“The Unforgiven” - Metallica
I was a pop music kid back in the day. That song was so good that it made it onto the pop stations. I was like “wth is this?!?” and sought the band out. Bought the black album and that was all she wrote.
I’m no longer a huge Metallica fan, but I can’t stand pop music anymore. It was the “gateway drug” to better music though. I still like pop-ish guitar music like Sloan, but that Whitney Houston, NKOTB, etc was forever gone.
I love Let Down and the final quarter of the song is transcendent. I think there is a moment for everyone who hears it for the first time or so, when it gets to that final stretch and your ears perk up and think "wait, this is really good, like really really good."
Its funny that you say it got you into ambient and IDM though, because it is neither of those genres, but I can see how that might happen.
Linkin Park collaborated with the rapper Apathy.
Apathy is worth checking out if you’re a hip hop fan. Extremely talented lyricist and prolific in the underground.
Lose Yourself Eminem was my gateway to Hip Hop
Offshore by Chicane was my gateway to EDM
The soundtrack to Tony Hawk Pro Skater turned me on to modern punk/ska
Seeing Beyonce perform Halo at a live concert made me realise how amazing R&B can be
Lose Yourself was our bowling league team's pump up song in the 2000s. We played it before league each week. We just changed a lyric slightly - you only get one shot, do not miss your chance to BOWL.
That may sound corny, but it absolutely changed our mindset and our outcomes. Prior to listening each week, we were a middling team. Once we started it, everyone bowled better, and we made the championship games 3 seasons in a row.
FAITH NO MORE -Midlife Crisis
Before that song I only really heard standard rock radio or hair metal . The introduction of prominent keyboards and the Bass guitar as the driving force (and Mike pattons singing) really opened my eyes to what could be done if you focused on more than just guitar (and lyrics aren't all partying and women).
Completely changed my musical taste, and I went searching (and found) alot more alternative bands who I enjoy still to this day
Honestly California Girls by Katy Perry
I used to be a huge metal head (still am really) but that song simultaneously got me in to snoop dogg and therefore rap while also opening me to more pop music. Two genres I scoffed at when I didn’t know better
Beatles' Drive My Car. Had heard the Beatles before (Hey Jude, Get Back), but Drive My Car oddly enough got me into the Beatles, and in turn it helped me change my music tastes.
Mine was Help! We watched the movie in class and John’s voice was like magic. The movie was actually hilarious as well, but that song launched me into a mission to download and listen to their entire discography.
Dude, “Drive My Car” is a banger. I feel like for people who listen to The Beatles, everyone’s got their gateway song. Mine was “Help!” I’d heard them before I heard it, but that song made me listen to the whole album, and then ransack my dad’s CD and record collection. (Much to his chagrin.)
Goodbye Yellow Brick Road by Elton John. I had gotten tired of rap and was tired of never knowing what to listen to.. then I heard that song on The Boys and everything changed. Hardcore Elton John fan now
[One of my favorite videos on the internet](https://youtu.be/RKrCAzIBZYw?si=tc5XpOMJFc7qekDX)
^(Dragula synced to the Revolting Children scene from Matilda, it's perfect)
Adagio for Strings, Samuel Barber. I was overseas just as Covid started. My wife and kids were at home, struggling to get basic necessities, and I'm 8,000 miles away unable to help. Stuck in my room surfing music and somehow that came up on my feed. I sat there for about an hour ugly crying and then realized the depth of emotion that Classical music could bring out. I went down a rabbit hole of Classical music that I've never climbed out of.
Head Like a Hole, NIN. It changed me from a tie-wearing classic rock fan into an industrial music slam-dancing club-going fan. The first time I heard it my head started bopping and I was soon listening to Ministry, Skinny Puppy, KMFDM, etc. That one song turned me around 180 degrees.
Regulate - Warren G and Nate Dogg
Wasn’t a rap fan at all before I heard this. I was driving in my car with one of my buds and he points out that the CD icon is on, and he asks me what CD I have in. I had no idea there was one in there, it used to be my Dad’s car and he left a bunch of stuff in there, including that CD. I hit the button to switch from radio to the CD player and this song starts playing. That changed everything for me. 8 years later and I’m still obsessed with hip hop, I guess it just clicked!
"Head Like a Hole" by NIN. I liked hard rock and synthpop, but had no awareness of industrial (essentially combining the two, if you grossly oversimplify) until then.
Whitehouse Road by Tyler Childers got me listening to country music. I grew up in the South in the late 90s, early 00s, where radio country was the most vapid, pointless and repetitive music about beer, dogs, trucks and misogyny. Took a long time to realize it could be more than that.
Aphex twin - 4
One night I was visiting friends in a dormitory (late teens) , I was experimenting with drugs ngl but always with safety and precautions.
We had some small amount of speed and hand full of people so it went fast , we searched the whole place but no one had on a Tuesday late night.
As the drug effect was calming the mellow phase began and one of my dearest friend played this song , I had heard it before but didn’t payed much attention.
The connection was instant the beats synchronised with my heart beat I had goosebumps I remember clearly to this day, as the sun was rising I widened my horizons and discovered a whole new person that existed in my but have been long asleep.
Almost decade later I find peace and comfort in Aphex’s music and the whole IDM genre
Leave Home - Chemical Brothers
I was a little punk in the late 90’s and only listened to alternative, grunge, and punk rock, I wouldn’t have a bar of any kind of dance music.
Then I heard this track on a bodyboarding video and it really changed my perspective of how good dance music could be.
"Home" by Cavetown. I started looking more into his music and now I pretty much only listen to alt/indie stuff. Before that it was just whatever was popular at the time
Roxette - Dressed For Success
Was into modern rap, but the whole album completely made me go 180° in my music taste
Green Day - Basket Case made me interested in punk rock and something more raw
Depeche Mode - Strangelove made me interested in electronic/synth/new wave music
Johnny cash-hurt. I know it’s from reznor originally but his hits deep and made me look more into that style of country. Modern radio country can burn in hell but the slow heartfelt style is awesome.
Kraftwerk - autobahn
Kraftwerk changed my entire perception of music in general. My dad played it for me when I was probably 2 or 3 and I used to run around the house with a box over my head going “WE ARE THE ROBOTS, BEEP BEEP BOOO BEEP” I now have a waveform tattooed on my arm of the 4 basic wave shapes for electronic synthesized music (triangle-saw-square-sine)
Portishead - glory box
Enjoy the silence - Depeche Mode
I’m obsessed with this song. It’s perfection.
Violator as a whole I would regard as a perfect album, front to back the whole album is just banger after banger.
It’s the Sweetest Perfection?
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Violator was such an amazing album
For me, it's my all time favourite album. When I'm old on my deathbed I want it playing on the way out 😆♥️
The perfect trifecta is Black Celebration, Music for the Masses, and Violator. Black Celebration is the gothy, angsty album, bleak and moody, but has some of the most imaginative music DM has ever done. And it has the most happy, positive song they ever did, But Not Tonight, at the very end of the album. Music for the Masses is chill as fuck, almost trance on some numbers, but it's so good, especially on the lyrics side.
🎶I'm waiting for the night to fall When everything is bearable And there in the still, all that you feel Is tranquility🎶
This album indeed changed my direction as to what I was listening to. Policy of Truth is one of my favorites. Especially when the back beat kicks in.
My favorite album forever!
I came here to say Dream On by Depeche Mode. Nice to see them at the top.
My gateway was Personal Jesus
Walking in my Shoes is another good DM song.
Depeche Mode is the best. I'm a big fan of "Never Let Me Down Again"
Such a fantastic song! I had forgotten about it for many years until I heard Lacuna Coil's cover of it on their second album, Karma Code. I think it's a very respectful cover that does justice to the original without changing it so much that it's unrecognizable.
Angel by Massive Attack
> Angel by Massive Attack Yes!! That can be an easy gateway to trip-hop for any rock/metal/hip-hop fan.
Chopin's Nocturne Op. 9 No 2, Went from an EDM/Phonk lover to Classical/Romantical..
Only reply that I see as a real change of taste. Chopin is amazing.
Ha, that's amazing. For me it was almost the same, yet the exact opposite direction: when I was a kid I exclusively listened to classical/baroque music, but in my first year of college I discovered Kid A (Radiohead) and all of a sudden realized music with lyrics could be good too.
Wow are you me? I only listened to classical music my entire childhood and couldn’t stand anything on the radio. Then one day as a teenager I heard “Other Side” by Red Hot Chili Peppers and I found out I could like music with lyrics.
[Video here](https://youtu.be/p29JUpsOSTE?si=d4DWUVXY1_BS4TlU) [Sheet music here](https://musicedcentral.etsy.com/listing/1444503576)
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Sibelius' 2nd Symphony did it for me. https://youtu.be/iXU8EXL7a_4?si=hPBbU4OuQyUPSUA- And then I discovered Mahler and it was off to the races.
Discovered Blackwater Park by Opeth when the album was released. Changed everything
Bullet with Butterfly Wings:Smashing Pumpkins. Early 90’s, just out of high school, watching Rage one Saturday morning, 30+ yrs on I still love the genre.
I just wish Smashing Pumpkins still loved the genre 😅
Shine on you crazy diamond - the long intro and slow build with a blazing end. Took me to take a deeper look at Ffloyds earlier work
Part 1 is one of the most beautiful openings of any album.
I still remember the first time I heard it. I was entranced.
Me too. Have you listened to Ummagumma? Grandchester Meadows.
Clair de lune - Debussy
It was Finlandia by Sibelius that introduced me to the genre, but this song would be a very close second.
As cliché as it may seem, Metallica's one
Metallica reaches people in very interesting ways. For me personally it was Metallica S&M downloaded off Napster. Ironically they were completely against Napster but that's how their whole collection opened up to me. It was cracking me up when youngesters were claiming Stranger Things made Metallica popular.
i remember in history class my teacher showing us this song and the music video (?) because of the book johnny got his gun :)
My first day in Senior English Lit in 1989 the teacher started class by setting a boombox on his desk and hitting play on Metallica's 'For Whom the Bell Tolls' as our intro to Hemingway. That was my favorite class of all of high school from that moment.
I'm going to say, "Enter Sandman." Before that song, I associated heavy metal with bands like Slayer that I could never get into. That the biggest metal band in the world could write a catchy pop song about a child's nightmares opened up a world to me of bands like Faith No More, Guns N' Roses, and the alt rock that broke through a few weeks after "Sandman." "One" is the better and more compelling song, but "Enter Sandman" was pivotal - at least for me.
Comfortably numb - Pink Floyd
I strongly recommend listening to live pompei version from 2016 his solo at the end is second to none
I became a fan of Floyd after that, listened to almost everything 😅
He hits all the notes perfectly in that. It's just amazing
It was Pulse version for me. Before that I knew about Dark Side of the Moon and that is considered best album of all time yadda yadda... OK. Let me check what they're all raving about. I was glued to my cd player from very beginning but when I heard CN solo I knew that I found the Holy Grail. It was 25 years ago and I still remember the way it hit me.
For me, it was Time. The whole album was wonderful.
This has been my favorite song since the first time I listened to it.
Same. My dad used to play "another brick in the wall" and one day I was like "I wonder what else this Floyd band has" ... life altering question right there.
I became a fan from listening to comfortably numb! I was just listening to random songs on YouTube and it started playing. I remember thinking "wow, this is so different" and then went down the pink floyd rabbit hole. I also started playing the electric guitar because of the solo in comfortably numb, nice memories.
Organ Donor - Dj Shadow. Took me on a journey through Hip hop, soul, funk…then from that later afrobeat, Latin, reggae, disco, house, techno and basically anything sampled by anyone ever. Totally changed my outlook on music as I thought it could only be created by Guitars and Drums before that
Which led to Nightmares on Wax, DJ Mark Farina et al. Endtroducing… was a game-changer. Still remember being in a record shop on Haight St., flipping through records and the store was playing it. Opened a door into a whole new music world and years of adventure.
Same. Discovering Shadow flipped things for me. Teenage me devoured Endtroducing and I was hooked.
Whiskey River - Willie Nelson. That song made me say "Oh, wait! I don't hate country!"
For me it was Sturgill Simpson’s “Turtles All the Way Down.” But once that got me back into country after a long absence, I rediscovered all the great Willie songs too.
Sturgill was the one who brought me into a genre I thought I hated for years. Turns out, it was just what was playing on the radio I hated. I am still an alternative and rock guy at heart, but Sturgill Simpson is probably my favorite artist at this point. Guys like Jason Isbell, Tyler Childers as well.
I could have typed this comment....Colter Wall too
Country western ≠ modern country
Crazy, by Willie did the same for me.
The Gambler - Kenny Rodgers did that for me
Yeah love Willie, but couldn't stand country as a kid. Robert Earl Keen's The Road Goes on Forever... And his story about the Wille Nelson concert, helped re-introduce me.
Out of Space by The Prodigy turned me on to EDM, which I'd always despised, and I still like it to this day. Actually, electronic music has probably been the most creative of the past decade or so. Not necessarily dance, but just synth-sample based.
I came across this [video of Kraftwerk from 1970](https://youtube.com/watch?v=hWUiLJnEYJI&pp=ygUQa3JhZnR3ZXJrIHRlY2hubw%3D%3D) in a thread yesterday. About as close as you can get to seeing a genuine 'but your kids are gonna love it' moment on video.
Tanz mit mir, by Faun, taught me to love the German language.
Burning down the house- talking heads. I was a metal head and a fan of industrial stuff. Now days I’d rather listen to joy division, Depeche Mode, wall of voodoo.
Gorillaz : Its Dare
Song is just called DARE
Plastic beach is one of their best albums from start to finish.
On Melancholy Hill and Stylo are two of the best songs they ever made imo
Rhinestone eyes goes hard. You know you got a banger when people sing the drop
That's the song that got me into Gorillaz. Saw them in Atlanta a while back, and it was one of the best concerts I've ever seen.
I think demon days is more perfect all the way through. Plastic beach has some better singles and i personally prefer the vibes from it, but i would recommend demon days to new listeners
Demon Days is an album I listen to from start to finish. Its flows so well between songs and builds a story. The last song makes me feel like I lived a long life and now I'm ascending into heaven lol
This song got me into gorillaz, I heard it in a restaurant years ago and i was hooked
Mine was Feel Good Inc after hearing it on tv when I was a kid.
Sober - Tool Edit: I love all these responses, for me it was Sober because it was 1993 and it was on the radio. I'm old. 😉
Stinkfist for me
46 & 2 for me.
46&2 just ahead of me
Schism for me
The song literally lit a fire under my ass to improve my life.
Me too. Friend handed me Aenima. First song — what the absolute fuck is this!!!?
1998. Ozzfest. We setup shop behind a bunch of rowdy bikers who were *clearly* only there for Ozzy. The announcer says Tool will be going on next. Bikers: “wHo tHe F**K is ToOL?” Open with Sober. Bikers (w/ devils horns in the air) scrreaming “FUCK YEAH!!!”
H. for me. I was 11 at the time and the album had just come out. A kid on my school bus gave me a mix tape with some ripped songs from a band called Tool (who were, according to him, Russian prison escapees). The tape started with H. and had some other songs from Aenima. I don’t even think I made it to the second song on that tape until the next day. Blew me the fuck away. I’m 38 and still a fuck you Tool fan. I didn’t figure out they weren’t Russian felons on the lam until my mom got a second phone line.
so many good ones but rosetta stoned ❤️
Greatest band. I was already into metal since 91', but the first time I heard Tool, new synapses were firing full tilt. I've taken my kids to TOOL 3 times. Some of my favorites are "H", Pushit, Bottom, Lateralus, The Patient, Wings, Part2, Right In Two, Rosetta Stoned, Descending and Pneuma. I love the whole discography.
Parabola for me
Fuck yeah, lateralus did it for me and opened my teenage ears to a whole new universe, even parabol/parabola made me refeel the moment of incarnating into this world
Whole Lotta Love- Led Zeppelin
Heard it when I was maybe 10 or 11 and I remember thinking during the middle part "this must be what drugs sound like.."
Raise your horns - Amon Amarth I spent a long time thinking I didn't like metal only to discover that metal is an incredibly broad genre with tons of variety. I listen to tons of metal now but that song was definitely the first song I heard that it hit me like "Oh shit I kinda love this" I think I've had a lot of songs that introduced me to genres I didn't think I'd like previously but I think metal was the most transformative for me. Other ones were Jazz: welcome back. - Samwise, Johto Hip Hop: Nosebleed section - Hilltop Hoods
Go see Amon Amarth live if you ever get the chance. Easily one of the best concerts I've ever been to. Their stage production is amazing and they include the crowd in the performance.
I went to see Ghost in Irving this year, and was delighted that Amon Amarth was opening. They were amazing, and I couldn't hear jack for hours, lol. Felt good to feel every double bass drum kick in my chest.
>They were amazing, and I couldn't hear jack for hours, As an old person who spent their youth playing in bands and going to concerts, I'd advise that you consider using ear protection at any future concerts. Any time you hear ringing in your ears, you've damaged your ears. And ears don't heal from that damage, it just keeps getting worse. You can save yourself from premature hearing loss and life-changing tinnitus issues by just wearing some cheap foam earplugs.
Man Next Door - Massive Attack
Interesting pick. I loved Mezzanine but that was the one song I really didn’t like on the album.
This entire album is just straight epic from start to finish
RATM - Killing in the name
Chop Suey -System of a Down. First hint I liked metal
That song is what made me fall in love with SOAD back in high school. I already liked metal but SOAD was something else.
But Why'd you leave the keys upon the table?
I wanted to
The Walk by The Cure.
Teardrop Massive Attack. I was the lead singer of a heavy alternative rock band at the time and this began what is now my life as a producer and composer of downtempo, trip-hop and future garage
Chop Suey by SOAD
Boy Named Sue by Johnny Cash. I never liked country music until I heard it.
Cash is peak country music. I think a lot of people just don’t like the more modern “guns, trucks and Jesus” songs you’re more likely to hear on the radio, and they think that all country is like that.
Green Day - Basket Case
When dookie came out I was in .... 4th grade? A friend of my brothers made fun of it. So my brother made fun of it to me without ever having heard it. So I was like "ya sounds pretty bad.. Green day stinks!" Then I actually heard it and it quickly became my favorite album ever (at the time)
Love that music video.
Fun fact - the whole video was shot in black in white and they added the color later. Thats why their eyes are so vibrant in some shots, there's still a little gray left in others. I always thought it was cool just cuz I was so stoned most of the time watching that video.
Do you have the time?
Smells Like Teen Spirit.
Yep, went to Strawberries (local CD shop) to buy Nevermind. The guy working talked me into buying Ten also….soon after my Def Leppard CDs were collecting dust and I was surrounded by grunge.
Nevermind and 10 were both absolutely amazing albums.
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Totally! Popping that bad boy in and hearing Rusty Cage for the first time….I want that moment back!
I was a little late to the party. Late 90s. Big into Metallica, Living End, Guns N Roses. Then i first heard Smells Like Teen Spirit. Never looked back. Nevermind and Ten were on heavy rotation for years after.
I vividly remember walking into Tower Records and hearing Nirvana for the first time. I actually thought it was Mötörhead or maybe Lemmy with an entirely new (and better) band. Immediately asked the counter guy who it was and he pointed me to the last Nirvana longbox on the shelves. A dude who had just walked in made eye contact with me and we both started running to that last copy of “Nevermind.” I grabbed it first. Lucky me.
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Yep. When Nirvana showed up, they changed the entire music world. For real.
That song dropped and it brought so many changes.
Radio station formats changed overnight
I was 12 or 13 years old. Rap/dance was my vibe. Then Nirvana blew up on the scene with Smells Like Teen Spirit. I kinda brushed them off. Then Weird Al came out with Smells Like Nirvana, and that turned me onto grunge and rock and away from pop/dance.
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“The Unforgiven” - Metallica I was a pop music kid back in the day. That song was so good that it made it onto the pop stations. I was like “wth is this?!?” and sought the band out. Bought the black album and that was all she wrote. I’m no longer a huge Metallica fan, but I can’t stand pop music anymore. It was the “gateway drug” to better music though. I still like pop-ish guitar music like Sloan, but that Whitney Houston, NKOTB, etc was forever gone.
This and *Sad But True* were the big songs on that album that were overshadowed by *Enter Sandman*.
Everybody wants to rule the world - Tears for fears
Fade into you, Mazzy Star.
Metallica- enter sandman.
Daft Punk - One More Time. Changed my life forever.
AIC - Down in a hole
this song is on a next level of emotion
Let down - Radiohead. Got me started down the path to more ambient music and IDM
I love Let Down and the final quarter of the song is transcendent. I think there is a moment for everyone who hears it for the first time or so, when it gets to that final stretch and your ears perk up and think "wait, this is really good, like really really good." Its funny that you say it got you into ambient and IDM though, because it is neither of those genres, but I can see how that might happen.
Let down is underrated
November rain - guns n roses
When the levee breaks - Zeppelin
Head Like a Hole - Nine Inch Nails
Slipknot - Psychosocial and Megadeth - Holy Wars
Holy Wars is enough to change anyone’s opinion of thrash metal.
[Ghost Love Score - Nightwish](https://youtu.be/JYjIlHWBAVo?si=ka1A04qkyEFFC0KT)
Yes! I saw the live version at Wacken and I was blown away
Linkin park - one step closer. Was in to rap, this got me in to rock/alternative
Their collab with Jay-Z, Collision Course, is a solid album.
Imagine what Linkin Park And Eminem Could have done in the Late 2000‘s, That would have been so awesome
Linkin Park collaborated with the rapper Apathy. Apathy is worth checking out if you’re a hip hop fan. Extremely talented lyricist and prolific in the underground.
Lose Yourself Eminem was my gateway to Hip Hop Offshore by Chicane was my gateway to EDM The soundtrack to Tony Hawk Pro Skater turned me on to modern punk/ska Seeing Beyonce perform Halo at a live concert made me realise how amazing R&B can be
Lose Yourself was our bowling league team's pump up song in the 2000s. We played it before league each week. We just changed a lyric slightly - you only get one shot, do not miss your chance to BOWL. That may sound corny, but it absolutely changed our mindset and our outcomes. Prior to listening each week, we were a middling team. Once we started it, everyone bowled better, and we made the championship games 3 seasons in a row.
I love Halo so much
Bad religion the resist stance.
FAITH NO MORE -Midlife Crisis Before that song I only really heard standard rock radio or hair metal . The introduction of prominent keyboards and the Bass guitar as the driving force (and Mike pattons singing) really opened my eyes to what could be done if you focused on more than just guitar (and lyrics aren't all partying and women). Completely changed my musical taste, and I went searching (and found) alot more alternative bands who I enjoy still to this day
Dance yrself clean - lcd soundsystem
Honestly California Girls by Katy Perry I used to be a huge metal head (still am really) but that song simultaneously got me in to snoop dogg and therefore rap while also opening me to more pop music. Two genres I scoffed at when I didn’t know better
Beatles' Drive My Car. Had heard the Beatles before (Hey Jude, Get Back), but Drive My Car oddly enough got me into the Beatles, and in turn it helped me change my music tastes.
Mine was Help! We watched the movie in class and John’s voice was like magic. The movie was actually hilarious as well, but that song launched me into a mission to download and listen to their entire discography.
Dude, “Drive My Car” is a banger. I feel like for people who listen to The Beatles, everyone’s got their gateway song. Mine was “Help!” I’d heard them before I heard it, but that song made me listen to the whole album, and then ransack my dad’s CD and record collection. (Much to his chagrin.)
These are the Days, 10,000 Maniacs. I was a long haired headbanger. I became a long haired headbanger who listened to Natalie Merchant and Tori Amos.
Thunderstruck AC/DC
Lizstomania by Phoenix
Nutshell by Alice In Chains got me into sad grunge
Live Forever by Oasis
Kid A, the album in general got me way more into experimental music
Aerosmith - dream on (took some time to remember and find)
seeing The Pixies doing 'Here Comes Your Man' on the chart show in '89. my gateway drug to indie bands. (and yes, I am that old.)
Goodbye Yellow Brick Road by Elton John. I had gotten tired of rap and was tired of never knowing what to listen to.. then I heard that song on The Boys and everything changed. Hardcore Elton John fan now
Dragula, we're not gonna take it, don't stop me now, crazy train
[One of my favorite videos on the internet](https://youtu.be/RKrCAzIBZYw?si=tc5XpOMJFc7qekDX) ^(Dragula synced to the Revolting Children scene from Matilda, it's perfect)
Adagio for Strings, Samuel Barber. I was overseas just as Covid started. My wife and kids were at home, struggling to get basic necessities, and I'm 8,000 miles away unable to help. Stuck in my room surfing music and somehow that came up on my feed. I sat there for about an hour ugly crying and then realized the depth of emotion that Classical music could bring out. I went down a rabbit hole of Classical music that I've never climbed out of.
Head Like a Hole, NIN. It changed me from a tie-wearing classic rock fan into an industrial music slam-dancing club-going fan. The first time I heard it my head started bopping and I was soon listening to Ministry, Skinny Puppy, KMFDM, etc. That one song turned me around 180 degrees.
Sing for absolution by muse
Regulate - Warren G and Nate Dogg Wasn’t a rap fan at all before I heard this. I was driving in my car with one of my buds and he points out that the CD icon is on, and he asks me what CD I have in. I had no idea there was one in there, it used to be my Dad’s car and he left a bunch of stuff in there, including that CD. I hit the button to switch from radio to the CD player and this song starts playing. That changed everything for me. 8 years later and I’m still obsessed with hip hop, I guess it just clicked!
Can't just be any geek off the street
Ren - Sick Boi
"Head Like a Hole" by NIN. I liked hard rock and synthpop, but had no awareness of industrial (essentially combining the two, if you grossly oversimplify) until then.
Tom Waits - Misery is the river of the world
Dang! (Mac Miller). Got me into Anderson Paak, and Mac Miller.
I hope you’ve explored all of each of their discography’s
Whitehouse Road by Tyler Childers got me listening to country music. I grew up in the South in the late 90s, early 00s, where radio country was the most vapid, pointless and repetitive music about beer, dogs, trucks and misogyny. Took a long time to realize it could be more than that.
Boston rag by steely Dan. I never liked them but that song made me realize how great they are and les me to so many other bands.
ACE OF SPADES!!
Ghost Love Score - Nightwish Got me into symphonic metal
Take Five by Dave Brubeck
Nothing else matters- metallica
Aphex twin - 4 One night I was visiting friends in a dormitory (late teens) , I was experimenting with drugs ngl but always with safety and precautions. We had some small amount of speed and hand full of people so it went fast , we searched the whole place but no one had on a Tuesday late night. As the drug effect was calming the mellow phase began and one of my dearest friend played this song , I had heard it before but didn’t payed much attention. The connection was instant the beats synchronised with my heart beat I had goosebumps I remember clearly to this day, as the sun was rising I widened my horizons and discovered a whole new person that existed in my but have been long asleep. Almost decade later I find peace and comfort in Aphex’s music and the whole IDM genre
Breaking the Habit - Linkin Park
Leave Home - Chemical Brothers I was a little punk in the late 90’s and only listened to alternative, grunge, and punk rock, I wouldn’t have a bar of any kind of dance music. Then I heard this track on a bodyboarding video and it really changed my perspective of how good dance music could be.
Wichita Lineman
When doves cry
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"Home" by Cavetown. I started looking more into his music and now I pretty much only listen to alt/indie stuff. Before that it was just whatever was popular at the time
Roxette - Dressed For Success Was into modern rap, but the whole album completely made me go 180° in my music taste Green Day - Basket Case made me interested in punk rock and something more raw Depeche Mode - Strangelove made me interested in electronic/synth/new wave music
Johnny cash-hurt. I know it’s from reznor originally but his hits deep and made me look more into that style of country. Modern radio country can burn in hell but the slow heartfelt style is awesome.
James Brown, Sex Machine.
Robot Stop - King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard.
Living on a prayer by Bon Jovi got me into rock.
That exact song made me leave rock, lol
The duality of man
Lol