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What song did you first really enjoy? Not like any lull-a-bies, but like a song that got you started into really enjoying music and appreciating it.

Mine would be Bullet with Butterfly Wings, by the Smashing Pumpkins. good song. đź‘Ť
 
Hmmmm, the first song I really, really enjoyed would have to be Andy Gibb - "Shadow Dancing" perhaps. Oh wait, I think "Get Down Tonight" by K.C. and the Sunshine Band was a few years sooner. Yeah, it's that one from 1975. The Andy Gibb song was from 1978.
 
I first started enjoying it when i got my co-op position in 12th grade. My job was tedious and time consuming so the music was the only thing keeping me sane.

I more or less grew up on hip-hop and r&b because my brother and I shared the same room. Now I listen to just about everything and I'm starting to get him to listen to a bit of rock now as well.
 
My first music memory is The Gambler by Kenny Rogers, and "Big, Bad Leroy brown " I am not sure who the artist it.....when I was like 4 or 5 I could sing the whole songs
 
TwinTurboJay
My first music memory is The Gambler by Kenny Rogers, and "Big, Bad Leroy brown " I am not sure who the artist it.....when I was like 4 or 5 I could sing the whole songs
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The first memory of enjoying "real" music was listening to a song with Simon&Garfunkel when I was a few years old. I don't remember what it was called but it hade some engine sounds in it. Just told my mom I wanted to listen to the "car song" and she put on the record for me. :)

Besides that it was probably ABBA, listened to them a lot when I was about 6-7 years.
 
OK, this may have set the stage for my whole outlook on life, but my earliest real memories of music revolve around Frank Zappa and the Mothers of Invention's We're Only In It For The Money album. My oldest sister had it and listened to it a lot when I was around 3-6 years old. 10 years later I found a copy in my art teacher's filing cabinet and put it on during class one day, and surprised the crap out of him and the rest of my friends by singing the entire first side straight through with almost no mistakes, even in all the different voices...

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I hope I'm not the only one who grew up on songs like Dr. Dre - Nothin But a G' Thang and Coolio - Gangsta's Paradise
 
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I hope I'm not the only one who grew up on songs like Dr. Dre - Nothin But a G' Thang and Coolio - Gangsta's Paradise
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I sorta grew up to "It's an Amish Paradise" by Wierd Al. My dad listened to it a lot.
 
Well, pretty much up until Grade 7 (12) I just listened to what others liked (Eminem, D12, Limp Bizkit, etc). Towards the end of Grade 7 my friend gave me a listen of Tool - Lateralus and pretty much ever since I've heard that song I've gone off and started listening to what I like and just recently picked up a guitar. So, I guess that song was my first real musical experience...
 
I used to be a huge, huge fan of boybands like Backstreet Boys, N'Sync, 911 and 98 Degrees when I was younger, maybe 4-5 years back. I owned a couple of their albums and I went to the extent of, um, memorizing their song lyrics. :sly: Pop music rocks. They were the only bands I know.

But the song that got me started on rock music was Papa Roach's Last Resort. I liked the guitar riff, I enjoyed the song alot. And to think that last time I used to absolutely HATE any form of rock music. I guess this song opened up everything for me, and then Shannon got me hooked on Tool.. and the rest, as they say, is history. ;)
 
Like Carbon, I used to listen to the crappy generic pop music when I was younger. But thankfully, my parents rescued me from lame pop music, when my dad played a best of Santana album for me. The opening song Jingo blew my mind, I was amazed at Santana's guitar playing! That was about 4 or 5 years ago, and ever since, I've been addicted to rock music (both old and new, but now mostly the good classic rock, I find too much crap rock being made now).

And Duke, is that Zappa album the one with Moving to Montana on it?
 
My very first "real" musical experience that I can remember was an NSYNC song. :yuck: I think my brother got me listening to some good music. When I was younger I used to always listen to southern gospel. After that, my dad got me hooked on oldies. After that, I went through the "wigger" stage and listened to nothing but rap. Not good rap like Dre Dre, Snoop, Ice Cube, NWA, or Coolio, but the crap they played on the radio a lot. Now that I have come to my senses, I listen to basically everything now. I really like electronica, rock, some (oldskool) rap, and rock and punk. đź‘Ť
 
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And Duke, is that Zappa album the one with Moving to Montana on it?
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No, 'Moving to Montana' is on Overnite Sensation, about 6 years later. I do like that song and some of the others, but overall, Overnite Sensation is not my favorite album.

[edit] Well, actually, let me restate that. Musically it's a great album, but lyrically, it's a little heavy on the toilet humor for my taste, even by Zappa standards. [/edit]
 
I first remember liking '(don't) fear the reaper by Blue Oyster Cult'. Porbably because I would go to sleep on a Sunday night with that blaring from downstairs. That was at aged 8.
Though I also heard alot of Manic Street preachers and Black Sabbath at that age aswell I don't remember it so much.
 
The first musical memories I have are when Micheal Jackson was all over the place with Thriller... had the vinyl with the panther on it for Christmas, when I was 5. I remember my favorite song at the time was 99 red balloons by Nena, I loved her voice. I also liked ABBA and Cindy Lauper.(don't ask why!). And at that time I also didn't understood one single word of these songs, it was funny to listen to some songs once I understood what they said. There's really no chance in the world I would have got that Cindy bops. :P

My father listened to Genesis (and Collins Solo), Supertramp, The Police and Pink Floyd a lot. Each time I hear the Genesis Album (the one with mama), The Wall or Dark Side of the Moon, it reminds me of the vacations we had at the beach.
 
I remember listening to Black Sabbath, Neil Young, and the Rolling Stones as a kid đź‘Ť.
 
under18carbon
But the song that got me started on rock music was Papa Roach's Last Resort. I liked the guitar riff, I enjoyed the song alot.
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Listen to Iron Maiden - Genghis Kahn. You'll love it; besides being an awesome song, its from whom Papa Roach took that riff.
 
Nah, the writer of music column was reviewing a bunch of rock albums and one of them was Papa Roach's latest album, so he commented on them "ripping" Iron Maiden's riff.
 

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