Music was a Thing!

[RCMerchant]

What's your first memory of music being an important thing?
For me it was the Rolling Stones 'Satisfaction'. I musta been all of 6 years old!
So that would be 1968.

http://youtu.be/KzYWTIHqutA

[Allhallowsday]

My mother bought this 45 when it was new.  It reminds me of people I love and lost.

http://youtu.be/UKAeeGnAYBo  

[Rev. Powell]

The Beatles, specifically this album:



I had actually taped "Hey Jude" off the radio prior to discovering this compilation. 

[Alex]

My earliest musical memories would be pre-school. My mum used to listen to the radio a lot. 'Bat Out Of Hell' had just been released and was in heavy rotation on the playlists.

[claws]

My dad loved C&W music so I got plenty of that before I even went to Kindergarten. My mom was into Spanish music at that time (followed by a Reggae phase), so I got plenty of that as well.
I grew up with three older sisters, so I was exposed to whatever they were listening: Pink Floyd, Alan Parsons Project, Frank Zappa, Bob Seger, Fleetwood Mac, Bob Marley, Queen, ELO.
My own music preferences were all over the place at first, but I soon found a liking to R&B, Soul and Funk music: Stevie Wonder, Earth Wind & Fire, Kool & the Gang, Marvin Gaye, Diana Ross, just to name a few. When my sister introduced me to Prince I was hooked.

Most of my friends were into metal or punk, music I couldn't relate to.

[FatFreddysCat]

My parents had a pretty big record collection so as a kid in the 70s and they always had music playing ... Elvis, Beatles, CCR, John Denver, Jim Croce, Olivia Newton John, etc. I never took much notice of it back then, though, it was basically background noise.

My personal interest in music coincided with the launch of MTV in 1981 - I was in 6th grade. I had heard some kids at school talking about this cool new channel so I tuned in when I got home. I vividly remember seeing the videos for the Ramones' "Do You Remember Rock N Roll Radio?" and Judas Priest's "Heading Out to the Highway" that first day, and that was all it took, I was hooked.

http://youtu.be/LKuuHfMx3CQ

http://youtu.be/ogobwFg68M0

[Allhallowsday]

In 1979 I discovered RAVEL.  I was introduced to RAVEL by VLADO PERLEMUTER's recordings and still have the three LP boxed set issued in 1961 which I listened to many times when I discovered it in Summer '79.  These are the same recordings, issued later on CD with a different cover (not to be confused with the 1978 recordings):  VLADO PERLEMUTER Plays RAVEL (1961)  I'm still listening to it.



I grew up with lots of music, including Classical, loved classic Rock, Pop, and still was listening to sh!t like STEVE MILLER BAND and then these recordings rocked my world.  A sea change. 

[RCMerchant]

The Beatles, specifically this album:



I had actually taped "Hey Jude" off the radio prior to discovering this compilation.  

I saw the YELLOW SUBMARINE at a theater when it was 1st released! I was living in a Catholic orphanage in NY somewhere.
Yeah- that was a thing! It was music and a cartoon!

[Allhallowsday]

The Beatles, specifically this album:



I had actually taped "Hey Jude" off the radio prior to discovering this compilation. 

Being too young for original BEATLEmania, I was educated by that album and the RED album too.  Though, I do remember listening to BEATLE 45s that had been my cousins... the records were probably only a year to two old!!!  I was about 5 or 6...

[retrorussell]

The first time I really recognized popular music was probably our 45s and albums from about 1973 (I was 2).
These in particular:
TOP OF THE WORLD- Carpenters

DANCING IN THE MOONLIGHT- King Harvest

We also had some sort of album called something like SUNSHINE '73 that had Lean On Me, Long Train Running, Crocodile Rock, Little Willy, The Most Beautiful Girl, and a bunch of other stuff from that year.

[The Burgomaster]

My mother has about 8 boxes of 45s from the 1950s (similar to the one below). I loved that music even when I was very young (probably somewhere between 6 and 8 year old). Still love it.