What album first awakened you to music?

For me, it was Peter Gabriel's album, So.

Bruce Springsteen's - Born in the USA.

My parents owned this album and they say I was listening to from when I was 4/5 years old. One of the stories that they love to tell is when they put on a wiggles(kids group) CD and I made them turn it off and put on Born in the USA. haha

After that it was probably the greatest hits album by Gun's N Roses that I discovered when I was around 12 which led me into more more rock and roll. Then My musical tastes changed again when I discovered my dad's pink floyd CD's at around age 15 which made me a very big fan of progressive rock.

edited 29th Mar '13 4:32:08 AM by Bwaaaa

Hey man, The Wiggles are awesome.

This video still gives me nightmares

edited 29th Mar '13 7:26:29 PM by Bwaaaa

That is exactly why they're awesome.

Here's an edit of it I made that'll give you even more nightmares! >:D

Geez. I don't know... Probably a Beatles album. I was into The Beatles when I was a kid (and I still am)...

In Utero by Nirvana.

I bought the album as a little kid, thinking it was the one with "Smells Like Teen Spirit" on. Instead, I got an insane noisy mess... that I loved to the core. In Utero is still one of my favourite albums, and it helped introduce me to the wider world of moody, experimental, and just plain epic music. And for that, Mr Cobain, I am eternally grateful.

Are you sure that that isn't just a Residents' side project?

The radio did.

Nice.

I've loved music ever since I was a toddler, but I can still identify a moment when I first saw music as the vast, incredible art form it is, and realized what a huge role I, as the listener, played in selecting and enjoying it.

I was about twelve. My parents had recently divorced and my dad was taking my sister and me to his apartment for the weekend. For the first time, I really noticed a non-top 40 song playing on the killer stereo he'd put in that tiny Ford Escort, and on subsequent trips I always requested he play it. Eventually he just gave me the CD. It was Styworld Live 2001. Oh, what a great, infinite adventure he'd opened to me.

From there I went on to collect all the Styx albums, and those (along with my old Top 40 fare) provided a great soundtrack for my junior high years. Then, one summer afternoon before I started high school, I was digging around through some old junk in the basement, and I discovered one of my dad's old King Crimson records. Intrigued by the cover art, I tried it out on my mom's old turntable. With the first sinister riff of "21st Century Schizoid Man," the musical world grew tenfold.

edited 21st Apr '13 9:47:45 PM by BrainSewage

Can't pass up a perfect moment like that

For me, the first album that really worked me over was AC/DC's Back in Black.

Sounds like a stupid choice? You'd be right...but I was fourteen at the time and therefore I think deserve a pass. I discovered this album digging through my older brother's left-behind cassettes; don't ask me why I chose that particular one, I can only say "just because".

Anyhow, the first cut that came on was "Have a Drink On Me". It blared through my headphones like a panzer tank set on "blitzkreig"...it was all so raw, so tough, so amazingly awesome that fourteen year old me could only flail around like a coked-up idiot. the lyric "Forget about the check/we'll get hell to pay" still makes me grin, despite almost twenty years of listening to hard rock. You never forget your first, I guess.

Sure, I've gotten sick as hell of that album off and on over the years. But I can't bring myself to throw it away or stop listening to it...maybe because if one hangs out in a bar long enough some asshat will throw a cut from it on the goddamn jukebox. But also because despite over thirty years of exposure that album is still raw, tough and amazingly awesome.

Sure, I've heard better rock and roll since then. But I'll grin when "Have a Drink On Me" is played in my presence...hell, I might even tap my foot a little. Mouth the chorus words, even.

Why? Because fourteen year old me demands it be so.

I guess it would have to be Shake Your Money Maker by the Black Crowes.

Disturbed's Indestructible and The Sickness along with Appetite for Destruction were pretty important to me as well.

I have no idea. The problem is that I have no idea whatever I'm already awakened to music or if I'm yet to cross that threshold.

Maybe I crossed it. I say that my dad's music taste has rubbed off of me gradually, letting me enjoy both mainstream and niche music, so I guess no album in particular. Is that a valid answer?

Or it could be that I'm yet to be truly awakened and the other side is going to be real exciting for me.

edited 9th May '13 4:44:35 AM by chihuahua0

Genesis' Nusery Cryme.

I remember the exact situation too.

My Dad and I were driving home from the Melbourne CBD after dinner and he randomly said "I bet you haven't heard anything quite like this" and stuck Nursery Cryme on.

I was in love with it before the end of Musical Box.

You've inspired me to check that one out on Spotify, which I'm doing now.

I'm goddamn floored.

I'll take that as a sign you like it. Which if so, is great!

If you like Nursery Cryme, Selling England by the Pound and Trespass should also prove interesting listens to you.

Thanks! Adding those to my list of stuff to listen to now.