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Well, I liked lots of records before my first "musical love," but, I'm thinking whose records did you buy??

I finally have my own copy of the ELTON JOHN record I've wanted for about 35 years.  My favorite ELTON JOHN song has always been "Honky Cat" and when growing up, we had ELTON's Greatest Hits, Goodbye Yellow Brick Road (two copies) Caribou, Captain Fantastic and the Brown Dirt Cowboy, and some 45s, but the first record I ever bought, by any artist, was Don't Shoot Me I'm Only The Piano Player, bought on a whim, instead of the record I went to buy, Honky Chateau and ironically, that was the only time I found it at that local record shop I frequented so many years ago, and later when I bought all my other ELTON LPs, Honky Chateau was never available.  By the time Blue Moves came out, I was over ELTON... I did eventually buy a copy of Honky Chateau by my first love, ELTON JOHN, and it got me to wondering... 

Who was your first musical love?  

Well, I remember liking Michael Jackson a bunch as a younger kid, but I wouldn't necessarily say he was my 'favorite', although I still think he was extremely talented. 

I'd say my first 'love' was Weird Al Yankovic, actually.  He's the first musician I bought when I started buying my own albums with like, birthday money.  And he's actually helped introduce me to other musicians through not only his parodies, but his original music as well.  Bands like Cake, They Might be Giants, Frank Zappa, Ray Stevens, Sparks, Devo, etc.

The Beatles.  Definitely the Beatles.  The first time I heard "Hey Jude" I fell head over heels.  This was the first cassette tape I ever bought.

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I also liked Elton John, especially "Madman Across the Water."

Never liked any of the music that was popular when I was growing up in the 1980s. I was always 20 years behind my peers.

Wow...thats a good subject Hallows....I gotta get in the 'Wayback Machine'...!

Back in the 60's...I recall the Stone's 'Satisfaction' as being a favorite...as well as the Archies 'Sugar Sugar' and of course 'THese Boots' by Nancy Sinatra and the Name Game -Shirly Ellis!!!!

 The NAME GAME!!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z1YyTAd3O9o

 My first albums were...
.HERMAN'S HERMITS (don't remember the albums name...)
.ALICE COOPER-Easy Action...(his second album,I believe...)
.LED ZEPPILIN II
.HANK SNOW-I'm Movin' On
.the BOX TOPS-I know it had 'the Letter' on it
.the TURTLES

How many 'alt-rock' groups have copped this look?

 The BOX TOPS

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wD9mCp8SifM

...by the way..that's Alex Chilton from BIG STAR on vocals...

BELA, you sure know your bands!  You are one of only two people I know who even heard of BIG STAR...  :thumbup:

I do remember loving 45s when I was very young (we had both my brother's and my cousin's).  My favorites were LOU CHRISTIE "Lightening Strikes," SHEB WOOLEY "Purple People Eater," and THE SINGING NUN "Domenique" !!   :bouncegiggle:

I never listened to alot of music when I was younger. I listened to Hip-Hop but I think I was trying to fit in with me peers. When I got older I started to listen Nirvana and Guns N Roses that got me into more music but I will be honest those bands really only put out 1 good album each (Nirvana you could say 2 if you count "Bleach") and I hardly listen to them anymore. So I can't say it was a longer lasting love. They were the "gateway" you could say.

Whats really my first love and can listen to them over and over was probably Dead Kennedys Bad Brains, Minor Threat, Black Flag and Descendents. I remember hearing them on a 80s music comp. I bought trying to find better music. When I first heard songs like "Raise Above" and 'Suburban Home". It just blew my mind and eveything in my music collection. It spoke to me. I went out and bought most their albums and started to go to shows and see so much more.

So my first albums were:

Black Flag-Damaged
Descendents-Milo Goes to College
Bikini Kill-p***y Whipped
Dead Kennedys- Give Me Convenience or Give Me Death
Minor Threat, Germs, Anti-Nowhere League, Avengers, Judge-Anthologies of those bands.

Def Leppard was my first musical love, I suppose. :o

Make that 3 people...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jrXM7fKKlR0

Well, I do have a tendency towards hyperbole...  :wink: 

 

I first got into punk in the mid 80's...when I was staying in NYC with my Ma and brothers Mike and Glenn...my first punk albums I bought...

. BLACK FLAG-DAMAGED
. the CRAMPS-Gravest Hits
. the RAMONES-1st
 . a Cherry Red big 45 of Too Drunk to F*ck and the Prey by the DEAD KENNEDYS
. X-Under the Big Black Sun
. the SEX PISTOLS-Never Mind the Bullocks
. -and the BIRTHDAY PARTY-It's Still Living.

 Nick Cave and the BIRTHDAY PARTY-Release the Bats!!!

  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V6saDXTw7Kc

First love would have to be The Police followed very closely by Duran Duran.  After all these years I can love and admire their music without going teenage screamy over the guys themselves.

Since then my major loves have been Tori Amos, kd lang and Crowded House.

I guess you could say my first music favorite was "Weird" Al. That would have been elementary school, and he had a goofy humor that allowed me to latch onto the music. But I didn't really start listening to music until I started my teenage years. (However, "Weird" Al was the first concert I ever went to, but that was more of a function of him being one of the only artists to go to Juneau, AK.)

Nirvana and Pearl Jam helped take me out of dance music radio/MTV hell, but I would have to say the first band that I really got obsessed with was Nine Inch Nails. Started with Pretty Hate Machine freshman year and by the time The Downward Spiral came out a year or two later I was hooked.

KillerBees, saw THE POLICE at the Brendan Byrne Arena (since renamed) when Synchronicity was released.  1983?  I had all their albums...
Bela, love THE BIRTHDAY PARTY.  Youtube for you boob.   :teddyr:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6kpYUuHMhkg

I liked BUSH TETRAS around '82; the song here is "Cowboys In Africa" (the video skips a bit at the beginning but clears up in a few moments):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vkep-zFQJ2s
Mofo Rising:  NIN  :thumbup:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N1Hs2AQwDgA
Anybody remember PETER SCHILLING?   I loved all thos 12 inch singles... mine are mostly long gone... :smile: 
I can't stop hunting on YouTube!!! 
KRAFTWERK Tour de France...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VPowpIRVOuY 
Can't show you DOMINATRIX The Dominatrix Sleeps Tonight as it's "flagged" by their User community. 

AllHallowsDay

I had Synchronicity on vinyl in the days when it was coming out in different colours.  The one I snagged was blue.  I still have it packed away somewhere.  Brilliant album, along with everything else they ever did.

I always thought that the Synchronicity II song was creepy and scary.

The first album I ever owned was The Archies, but that was one my parents bought for me. The first albums I bought were by Christian artists like Amy Grant, Dallas Holm, The Imperials, etc. The first secular group I obsessed over would probably have been They Might Be Giants. When I finally decided to start buying CDs (I was convinced for a long time that they would never overtake vinyl), the first two CDs I bought were Genesis and a Hank Williams, Sr., greatest hits disk. My music collection now consists largely of '30s and '40s artists, much as my movie collection consists of many black and white films. Seems I only advance my technology so I can go back further in time...

My first musical love was Diana Ross and the Supremes.  My folks had an 8 track of them and I'd listen to it over and over.  Also The Fifth Dimension (Up, Up and Away), and Nancy Sinatra.  The first 8 track I ever bought was Shawn Cassidy.  Never thought I'd admit that in public.  After that, it was the Bee Gees (hey, I still like disco and those guys were awesome), and for some reason I picked up Van Halen II, which heralded my descent into the dark side.

I'd have to say for me it would be a toss up between old Judas Priest and Autograph.
My cousin let me borrow his British Steel album when I was like 9 years old and I remember loving it.
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Then in 1984, Autograph released their album Sign In Please and I went over to the glam side of metal.

This song still kicks ass today!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=90zLrMBmWpM

In 1984 I was 10 years old and I remember begging my grandpa to take me to an autograph signing the band Autograph was having at a local record shop.
I can still rember what I wore that day.
Black & red parachute pants and a weird matching black & red michael jackson looking top.
I looked like someone staight from the movie "Breakin'".  
Oh...and my hair was spiked.   :wink:

It was funny to see my grandpa standing among all those glam metalheads with long hair.
Anyway, I got all the band member's autographs by having them sign the inside of my Sign In Please cassette tape liner.
Most of those liners contained lyrics and credits, but Autograph's liner was completely blank.
I still have the tape and autographs.   :thumbup:
And just like in the video, drummer Keni Richards signed mine with a big ugly X.

Years later around 1988 or '89, a friend of mine loaned me his Anthrax (State of Euphoria) and Metallica (And Justice For All) tapes and I was hooked on hard metal.
Still am today.   :smile:

I was, like, 12, I think when I first started really listening to music as a fan.  For me, it's a toss up between two albums from wildly divergent styles.

Guns 'n' Roses - Apetite For Destruction
One of the most confrontational albums I've ever heard in my entire life.  I'd been listening to a lot of silly metal at the time, whatever was getting rotation on rock stations, like Motley Crue and s**t, but this was the first time my eyes were opened.  I couldn't particularly relate to it at all because I was a 12 year shooting hoops in my driveway with this blasting and not some Sunset Strip degenerate.  I had no idea what Night Train was and the references of Mr. Brownstone flew right over my head.  My Michelle also sounded like a frightening girl that I never wanted to meet.  The power of the album was unmistakable, though.  It makes Los Angeles sound like ground zero for the Apocalypse.  A total free for all.  While most of the bands from that area were writing 10 songs about barely concealed sexual innuendo plus a cheesy power ballad for the top 40, Guns 'n' Roses didn't really seem to give a s**t.  Sweet Child O' Mine may carry that power ballad weight, but it still rocks too hard and would probably eat Every Rose Has Its Thorn for breakfast.  I even feel like this album is relevant today.  It's extremely dark and the feeling that I was listening to something very dangerous gripped me for years.  The Use Your Illusions were a decent follow up, but they betrayed every rule set by Apetite in terms of four on the floor rock and roll and dipped into the sort of excesses that the band may not have had time to think about between recording, playing out and coke binges.  I still listen to this album with the same ears that I did when I was 12 and it's still as awesome.  Following my initial exposure, I was sucked in and became a huge GnR fan.  Somewhere at home I still have a junior sized denim jacket with a big-ass back patch with the album's cover on it.

The other album that changed my life was:

NWA - Straight Outta Compton
I liked hip hop a lot way back before it had heavy rotation on every radio station.  It's tough to imagine a time when the stuff wasn't everywhere you looked and a major pop-cultural force but it was true.  The stuff that did get circulation in mostly white communities was about as safe and comfortable as it gets but this album, released around the same time as Apetite and set in the same city, had the same kind of confrontational message that depicted a place that was frightening.  I'll admit that the album drew me in originally because the word f**k is exclaimed somewhere in the hundreds of times, but the lyrics were real storytelling.  It's a cartoony picture of South Central LA where everyone carries an assault rifle for protection, but again, I was just some brat in the burbs on the edge of mountain country so what was I to know?  The beats are so hard and as far as I was concerned, this was just another form of heavy metal.  A form of music so extreme that most people turned away from it because it scared them.  NWA followed it up with some real mediocrity, but when your debut is so absolutely strong, it's impossible to match the power.  Dre and Ice Cube have both released some solid hip hop in the years to follow but nothing any of them have ever done ever matched the balls and machismo of this album.  Since then, I've always had a love of hip-hop.  I don't talk about it much because I'm either listening to obscure indie hip-hop, weird, way out arty hip-hop or I'm too ashamed to admit that I like Timbaland's beats publicly.

Hey RapscallionJones, beautifully written commentary, I edited the quotation of your post mainly for space, but also to highlight some of your cool comments.  You have wonderful personal insight.  They are two great and hugely important albums, I know I'll be listening to Appetite later...  :thumbup:

I totally agree about Straight Outta Compton.
Awesome album!   :thumbup:
I have both the CD and all the songs on it uploaded to my MP3 player and still listen to it often.
Memories of my friends & I cruising around blasting "Dopeman" and the title track, "Straight Outta Compton" are still fresh.

But the album that really got me into hip-hop was Eazy Duz It by Eazy-E.
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It had a huge impact on me when I was 16 years old back in 1990.
"Nobody Move" and "Boyz-N-The-Hood" still bring back strong memories of my adolescence whenever I hear them.
It was one of those tapes that I had to hide from my parents or else it would've been confiscated.

Another great gangsta rap group was The Geto Boys.
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Their sound was as good as NWA.

In the music section of my Myspace page, I state that I like old school rap from the late 80's-early 90's and I stick by that statement.
Hip-hop nowadays is 99.999% crap compared to the hard hitting beats and lyrics rappers pushed out back then.

Check out Loose Cannons if you haven't heard of them.  They don't compare to NWA, but compared to the crap today, they're pretty damn good.

I like very,VERY little hip hop/rap. BUT I do like NWA and EAZY E quite a bit!

Here you go ,ASH...TROLL 2 backed by EAZY E!!!! Remarkable video...really...!!!! It matches up as to be uncanny..!

   http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a8AGgNRqxZc

Growing up, I liked a wide variety of music...ranging from classic hits to heavy metal to rap to techno dance for a brief time. None of it though really hit home with me personally until in the mid 1980s, I first heard "Orange Crush" by R.E.M.. I just had to hear more of the band and I loved nearly everything I heard come from them...only in the 90s when drummer Bill Berry left did they seem to lose some steam but they still delivered some good stuff now and then. I still own more music on cassette and CD by R.E.M. than any other band as much as I love bands like The Ramones, The Clash, The Sex Pistols, The Misfits, Blue Oyster Cult, Motorhead and others.

I'm with you guys, most Rap is kuh-Rap, but in the beginning, in the 80s early 90s there were some great records, NWA being the most shocking and edgy (and nearly the greatest).  I think It Takes A Nation Of Millions To Hold Us Back and Fear Of A Black Planet by PUBLIC ENEMY were important. 
I was into BIZ MARKIE enough to buy his CD The Diabolical Biz Markie The Biz Never Sleeps; of course, what I liked about it was its upfront crappiness.  He definitely made me chuckle. 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xtr5-hOjJfs