When did you fall in love with music?

[psychlone99]

I'm guessing there are others whose first exposure to music was their parents' old albums. I still have my dad's old vinyl collection, which I've added to over the years with finds at garage sales and second-hand stores. I routinely cycle through the three Bs that initially hooked me: Buddy Holly, the Beach Boys, and the Beatles. While I was intrigued by and enjoyed those albums, it wasn't until my teenage years that I really fell in love.

I'm watching Soundgarden on Guitar Center Sessions and it reminded me of my moment, which was hearing "Black Hole Sun" for the first time on the radio. I would have been about 13 or so when I first heard it, probably on KRNA out of Cedar Rapids. After hearing it for the first time, I remember getting my cassette recorder ready in the coming days, then holding it up to the radio to record it when I heard it play again. After getting it on tape, I played it over and over and over again on bus rides to school. "Black Hole Sun" made me officially fall in love with music and rock 'n' roll.

When did you first hear a new song on the radio the grabbed you and solidified your taste in music?

 

[Rabbuk]

Growing up listening to the classics with my grandma while she made great big family meals. Bob Seeger brings me back to that time.

 

[ISUCyclones2015]

Honestly?

When dubstep became popular.

I'm 100% deaf in my right ear and 50%+ in my left so I like deep bass songs and dubstep/electronica. I can't understand most lyrics. It sounds like mumbling to me.

 

[JHUNSY]

When I was little I think the first album I ever asked for was a "Greatest Hits of the Jackson 5" CD. It was probably around the age of 4 or 5 when I was able to hear things clearly for the first time in my life following surgery to get t-tubes in. I was born with significant hearing loss so you would think that listening all together isn't so key in my senses and yet it is quite the opposite.

I grew up around music getting involved by listening and playing music regardless of the hearing setbacks. I play multiple instruments and actually produce music now. It's an important part of my life and I think music is one of the greatest things in life to whatever degree you have with it. I am pretty much deaf in my left ear and my right is below where it should be across all frequencies by a large amount and yet I value my ability to hear quite a bit.

IIRC, I think someone else on here had a similar issue with hearing and yet they seemed rather detached from music. I couldn't imagine life like that, music is a way for people to connect, to express one's self, and to explore the depths of creativity through alternative forms of art in new senses.

 

[cyrocksmypants]

My dad played the guitar. I can't remember a specific moment, I just remember when I was a kid he worked second shift, so while I was laying in bed, he'd come home from work (I later learned it was the bar after work that he was coming home from) and he'd go down to the basement and play his guitar and I would listen as I'd fall back asleep.

 

[Cyclonepride]

My parents always listened to music when I was little. Dad liked Johnny Cash, mom liked Elvis. Not a bad start

 

[coolerifyoudid]

When I was about 7, a lady in church sang an acapella version of O Holy Night during midnight mass that was unbelievable. Gave me goosebumps as a kid and is still the best version of the song I have heard to this day.

I've got an appreciation for any skilled musician, but the human voice is still my favorite instrument. Seeing someone lip sync or have to sing through some voice modifying machine ticks me off.

 

[jbindm]

My parents listened to a lot of Neil Young, Paul Simon, Eric Clapton and Fleetwood Mac when I was a kid. They also had a VHS tape of Bruce Springsteen's video anthology from 78-88, and we wore that tape out. I still remember one particular shot from a live outdoor concert performance of Born to Run - the camera is set up on stage directly behind the band, so it's a wide shot of the audience. From that angle it looks like there are a hundred thousand fans there easily, and the Boss just has every single one of them.

The Smashing Pumpkins released Siamese Dream when I was 14, and "Today" was a game changer for me. That was when I started looking for new music and not just listening to what my mom and dad liked.

 

[BoxsterCy]

Listening to the Beach Boys, Rolling Stones and Beatles on my little 8 transistor radio at night to KAAY which went 100,000 watts at night out of Little Rock, Arkansas.

One of the first rock songs I really remember catching my attention was Manfred Manns Do-Wah-Diddy which I still remember hearing for the first time being played really loud on my adult neighbors truck radio. How's that for a freakin' total recall flashback!

BTW, there is hope of all of you parental units stuck with kids singing and listening to tunes from Frozen. According to my mother I was absolutely crazy about How Much is That Doggy in the Window by Patti Page when I was just a little older than a toddler. There is hope your kids taste may evolve, maybe.

:smile:

 

[CarlHungus]

April 26th, 1992

 

[cdekovic]

My dad as a big jazz fan but really got into the Mamas and Papas and Simon and Garfunkel. One of my first concerts was Credence Clearwater Revival at Vets in about 1968. I was 9 years old and my dad took me.

 

[isulive2train]

I guess it was either talk to my siblings in the car or listen to music. Music had saved me from those long road trips. Forever in its debt.

 

[SerenityNow]

Listening to some classic 70s music my parents had on vinyl as a kid.

 

[Al_4_State]

I don't remember a time when I didn't.

When I was a baby, my folks were straight broke, and when they couldn't afford a babysitter, their entertainment was to throw me in the backseat, between the boombox speakers that served as a car stereo while they drank Old Mil and listened to Steely Dan, Dire Straits, the Stones, and Petty. My mom says I would just sit in the car seat, bob my head, and giggle. I think I was just programmed with this obsession.

 

[Pitt_Clone]

April 26th, 1992

There was a riot on the street, tell me where were you?

For me I think I was around 7 or 8 when my older brother would listen to the Doors and Led Zeppelin all the time. Got me hooked on music from then on.

 

[MeanDean]

Christmas 1964 my father bought the family a stereo (one of those console units in the wooden cabinet). Quite an extravagance as my father was one of the cheapest (frugal-est?) people I ever knew, though he did mellow out of it a bit as he aged. Turns out his girlfriend (my parents were separated/divorced) was kind of a music person and so that must have been an impetus.

Anyway. I have two older siblings, a brother 6 years older and a sister 5 years older. They were teenagers and I was 9. They listened to the cool stations (KIOA, KSTT, WLS) when we could get them and were instrumental in me become interested in music before anyone else in my grade school class. First "BIG" song I remember was "Downtown" by Petula Clark.

I recently listened to the Lou Simon countdown on Sirius and he mentioned 1965 is his favorite year for music. I have to agree, with 1964 and 1966 coming in right behind.

I had a church leader who always said that most people like for the rest of their lives the things they liked at age 10. So '65 Mustangs and Brit Invasion always hits me pretty close to home.

Also remember KAAY, the big 1090, out of Little Rock. One of the few stations that played R&R at night that you could get out in the boonies.

 

[Bamacyclone]

My sister two years older got into the Beatles big in 64. They were ok, but didn't do much for me with all the love songs. Eight year old boys I'm thinking don't care much for the mushy stuff. Then she brought home the Rolling Stones 'December's Children' with 'Get off My Cloud' on it. That was the first time music wasn't just back ground noise for me.

Hooked on vinyl ever since.

 

[demoncore1031]

Headbanged my way out of the womb!!

 

[DIRustCohle]

I stepped into the shallow end with this...



and moved onto this



then.....



and then



jumped to

 

[cyinne]

Cant say that I ever "fell in love" with music. I can appreciate all types of music and listen to them, but I would rather listen to talk radio when in the car or watch have the tv on in the house than listen to music.

Since it hasnt been talked about in this thread yet- everyone that "loves" music needs to visit the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame! That place is unbelievable! I spent about 5 hours in there one morning/afternoon a couple years ago and if it wasnt for another place I had to be later on that day I would have spent more time there. 6 stories in that building with complete awesomeness!