Bands from your childhood

What is the first band that you can remember that really took hold of you and shook the shit out of you. A band that you listened to over and over. And how old were you?

for me it was Pink Floyd, specifically The Wall. It was never in my household so hadn't heard of them until smoking cigs one day after school and a friend put it on. He was amazed i had never heard any Floyd! That record amazed me and was the first record that i can remember that totally blew my mind. I was 15.

[DSF Guest 6]

AC/DC- Live album. I was about 12 years old and was like WHOA I missed out......So awesome.....I know every track by heart on that album......

[Goat Gosselin]

KISS was the band i first remember listening and having all the records, so long ago i dont even remember what age i was. guessing i would say age 8. i have the sticker on a my night stand that i had when i was a kid.

[wildebeast71]

For me and probably many others, it was Led Zeppelin. I was probably around nine and my brother (8 years older) got me hooked. Zeppelin is still one of my favorite bands.

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[wildebeast71]

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Thanks RDC2007, forgot about the first time I heard The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars.

[BlackCrypt]

Got this tape Christmas of 1988. I was 12. Never really cared much for music until then then. After that, got into Motley and other hair bands. Grew into a love for MetallicA. Then, there was no looking back.


On a side note, the other tape I got that Xmas was Rattle and Hum.

[rdc2007]

When I was a wee lad I listened to country because that's what my dad listened to (and that's when country was really country and not just lame rock bands with fiddles). One day, we were given this huge console stereo full of records that used to belong my mom's youngest brother. She asked me to pull the "Hey Jude" 45 out so she could listen to it. Since I'm an OCD completist kind of guy, I pulled all the Beatles records out. My dad still refers to that day as the day my musical tastes were ruined.



(You can see me cross this intersection here:

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Shortly afterward, they started playing a song on the radio that had this weird vocal part in the middle and then it got really heavy and then quiet again. The dynamics of it caught my ear. I bought the album it was on and, well, ever the completist...



The song was, of course, Bohemian Rhapsody.

I loved the Midnight Special and would stay up every Friday night religiously. One night, this weird dude with orange hair was on and, again, I couldn't take my ears off him.



If I remember correctly, he played Time and Space Oddity on that show.

My brother brought home an album with a naked man ass on the cover. I was already not wanting to hear it. Then I heard the singer and I thought it was a chick. I did not want to hear that band. A year or so later, a friend at school stuck the first Sony Walkman I'd ever seen in my hands and told me to press play. Four minutes of rocking guitar goodness filled my ears before I heard that voice again. I couldn't deny the greatness of Rush's 2112 (despite Geddy Lee's weird voice). I was hooked.



I discovered Alice Cooper on my own. Alice wasn't quite as feared by parents as he once was, after all, he'd been on Hollywood Squares. I instantly gravitated to the look and the humor that, dang it, a lot of people just couldn't see. But beneath it all was a bunch of rock solid catchy songs. Without the great songs, Alice would have been just another pathetic Marilyn Manson wannabe, only decades before wittle Brian would become the derivative wannabe that he so very much is.



These were soon followed by Pink Floyd, Adam Ant, and so many others but the foundation was laid by Alice, David, and the boys from Liverpool and the Great White North. They still are in constant rotation in my ears and are all still active musically (except for the two dead ones).

[Candi Apples]

My father introduced me to Iron Maiden when I was younger,and
Number of the beast became an album that I would listen to over and over.

I was 12 yrs old,from what I can remember.

And Iron Maiden is still one of my favorite bands to date.

[scampr]

To say I had a sheltered childhood would be to put it mildly. It wasn't until I was 12 that I really had free access to a radio or the ability to buy music. I still had to keep it to myself for fear I'd have to meet with the pastor or something. But my foster brothers were all a bunch of long haired party boys that got in trouble on a daily basis. So I was introduced to Van Halen-Women and Children First, Rush-Hemispheres, Foghat, Pink Floyd, Bachman Turner and The Eagles-The Long Run all at about the same time. It was all great and it was all devil music and since I was surely going to hell anyway my favorite song was of course Only The Good Die Young - Billy Joel.
None of those got me "addicted" though.
The three bands that absolutely slayed me as a preteen, caused me to become a DJ and spend half my life's earnings on albums, equipment, concerts...:



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Sabbath, especially, Master of Reality just destroyed me as a former bible thumper. I knew for sure Hell was gonna be a lot more fun. Maiden is still one of my all time favorite metal acts; speed, power, cool stories in their songs and the guy can actually sing. And Triumph was the ultimate party band. If you can't have a good time listening to "Tear The Roof off Tonight" you need to check your pulse.

I dug those three records out of my brother's collection the same weekend and I've never been the same since.

[thermos]

good post scampr.......and I can quasi-relate. My parents blocked the evil MTV empire as child....yet they curiously left VH1 and BET available......so I grew up with a fucked up mix of Phil Collins, Dire Straits and Eric B. and Rakim. My parents were also were obsessed with Huey Lewis (and don't forget the News) - not good times. It's probably why I like to listen to Wu Tang Clan whilst driving my minivan today.

I started to spread my wings with a Columbia House subscription.....like 12 cassettes for 1cent or something like that? I used to pour over that catalog each month.....read each little blurb and circle the ones I wanted (and couldn't afford).

My musical virginity was lost to many of the artists you all spoke off (a gangbang, I guess).....Led Zep, Black Sabbath, Nirvana, GNR (I loved the cover art on appetite for destruction), Beastie Boys, etc. I was born in 79 so I was the typical grunge/alternative kid.....Pearl Jam, Mudhoney, Alice in Chains.....but I'll highlight two that really resonated with me.


Doors - Strange Days. I was probably 13 or so when I first heard it....and it blew my fucking mind. Deep, dark and creepy.....yet it rocked my face off and simultaneously scared the fuck outta me. I never really heard rock be so poetic or artistic before.

Beck - Mellow Gold. I was 14 or 15 when I bought this (admittedly, just because I wanted the single "Loser" but that whole album is solid. I had just started smoking up and it was a strange marriage. I didn't understand the lyrics but I didn't care.....and when you're stoned and 14, the world is in your crucible. It was new and different and I've been a fanatical follower ever since. I grew to hate "Loser" and the topical fans that clung to that heavily rotated song.....but I'm also a hypocrite. My point being - it's a much better album than people remember.

I'd also equate these feelings to the first time I saw Rocky Horror or Heavy Metal. Good stuff.