What song(s) blew you away?

[BahamaDada]

There are songs that will make this:

Songs, that you hear for the first time and will remember for a lifetime. What are they for you?

I can pin down 2 of such moments:

First time I heard that middle clean part/harmonized solo in Master of Puppets. I was 16 and could not believe what I was hearing. That part actually made me buy a guitar (or beg my mom to).

Second time was somewhere down the line hearing All Along The Watchtower (Jimi's version) for the first time. I was like "What is that guy doing? In the 60s? Was that even allowed? What is this strange waddlewaddle (the wah wah) sound? Holy sh...". And so on.

 

[TheTrueZoltan!]

At the innocent age of 8, "Master of Puppets" turned young TTZ! into a lifelong metalhead.

 

[RGB]

 

[Warmart]

Opening with a massive boomer bend? YES!!!!

Will never forget hearing it the 1st time, or all the times since!

 

[JiveTurkey]

There are songs that will make this:

Songs, that you hear for the first time and will remember for a lifetime. What are they for you?

I can pin down 2 of such moments:

First time I heard that middle clean part/harmonized solo in Master of Puppets. I was 16 and could not believe what I was hearing. That part actually made me buy a guitar (or beg my mom to).

Second time was somewhere down the line hearing All Along The Watchtower (Jimi's version) for the first time. I was like "What is that guy doing? In the 60s? Was that even allowed? What is this strange waddlewaddle (the wah wah) sound? Holy sh...". And so on.

Both excellent choices \m/

 

[duzie]

 

[Zodiac]

Rock Bottom, the original version on the Phenomenon album

And also..... FREEBIRD!!!

 

[Zodiac]

That whole album is smokin'

 

[Eldorado]

 

[L.D.]

There are songs that will make this:

Songs, that you hear for the first time and will remember for a lifetime. What are they for you?

I can pin down 2 of such moments:

First time I heard that middle clean part/harmonized solo in Master of Puppets. I was 16 and could not believe what I was hearing. That part actually made me buy a guitar (or beg my mom to).

Second time was somewhere down the line hearing All Along The Watchtower (Jimi's version) for the first time. I was like "What is that guy doing? In the 60s? Was that even allowed? What is this strange waddlewaddle (the wah wah) sound? Holy sh...". And

There are songs that will make this:

Songs, that you hear for the first time and will remember for a lifetime. What are they for you?

I can pin down 2 of such moments:

First time I heard that middle clean part/harmonized solo in Master of Puppets. I was 16 and could not believe what I was hearing. That part actually made me buy a guitar (or beg my mom to).

Second time was somewhere down the line hearing All Along The Watchtower (Jimi's version) for the first time. I was like "What is that guy doing? In the 60s? Was that even allowed? What is this strange waddlewaddle (the wah wah) sound? Holy sh...". And so on.

"Rocky Top" Osbourne Brothers

There are songs that will make this:

Songs, that you hear for the first time and will remember for a lifetime. What are they for you?

I can pin down 2 of such moments:

First time I heard that middle clean part/harmonized solo in Master of Puppets. I was 16 and could not believe what I was hearing. That part actually made me buy a guitar (or beg my mom to).

Second time was somewhere down the line hearing All Along The Watchtower (Jimi's version) for the first time. I was like "What is that guy doing? In the 60s? Was that even allowed? What is this strange waddlewaddle (the wah wah) sound? Holy sh...". And so on.

 

[L.D.]

"Hey You" 16 yrs old we were. First time smoking something and listening to "the wall" album on cassette in friends chicken shirt yellow Subaru hatchback at night, parked in his parents driveway, seats reclined and a green bulb replacing interior dome light. Out in the country with no neighbors, his parents was cool. Never got better after that. Ode to Carl.

 

[HotRats]

Tough question, there are too many songs that blew my mind.

If I go back in time, when I was a teenager, the first song that really hit me hard is Time (Pink Floyd). The whole record blew my mind, of course, but Time has a special place in my heart because it's guitar solo made me really want to throw away the classical guitar and buy an electric. That sound! Those notes! Oh my god!



The second song I choose is Telegraph Road (Dire Straits). I'm a huge Dire Straits fan, I've grown up playing over their records and still listen to them often.
Telegraph Road blew my mind with the song structure, arrangement and link between the music a the lyrics.
Telegraph Road is a movie soundtrack without the movie.
Is a song (among many other DS songs) that thought me a lot about songwriting.

My favorite version is the live one form Alchemy record.

 

[TSJMajesty]

Blew me away? Well, Eruption for sure.

But this one, from the opening notes, made me go, "WHO is that?!!" I borrowed the CD only to bring it right back the next day because I'd gone out and bought my own copy.

 

[TSJMajesty]

Although as a kid, the first time I heard this song, was a big "Wow" moment:

 

[HotRats]

Although as a kid, the first time I heard this song, was a big "Wow" moment:

That's what is called a great riff and song.

 

[FuzzyAce]

Off the top of my head, definitely Jimi's "1983... (A Merman I should Turn to Be)". Up to that point I was very familiar with his usual hits and all, but when I heard that song for the first time it was like being transported somewhere. Yeah, I was stoned too, but it was more than that. It took me on a musical journey, not to mention the production fascinated me too. I'm sure it created a fork in my musical road at the time.

Of course listening to Satch's early albums blew me away too. Pretty much all the songs.