The Very First Rock Song You Remember Hearing That Changed Your World...

[Westerly Wood]

Or opened up a new world...

Me: Boston's More Than A Feeling.

I was 12. My parents did not listen to much music in the house. I do remember some Elvis and poppy Beatles songs, and then there was Barry Manilow and Pat Boone. But everything changed for me, and them, when my uncle bought be Boston's first album. I think the album had been out a good 3 years before he bought it for me for my 12th bday...

I still get chills when I listen to this song...

 

[Opsimath]

You have a good memory. I couldn't even begin to guess. When I was 10 we moved next door to a family with 4 kids. The oldest was in high school, probably a senior, and had 60's albums. I remember she had Hollies, and she liked the Beatles, but she had a varied collection and often had music playing when I was over there. No particular one comes to mind but I liked her music more than what my parents listened to.

 

[jedzep]

Well, I know the song that made me want to play guitar. And I know exactly when it happened.

 

[jfilm]

I also had Beatles in the house, the double red album 1963-1966 and double blue album 1967-1970 something like that, and loved listening to every song on them. But somewhere along the line a friend introduced me to Led Zeppelin (IV), and so, I'm gonna go with Black Dog, first song on there. From there discovered all sorts of great stuff from the 60s and 70s, and have always preferred that era to anything since when it comes to the rock genre. After the Led Zeppelin phase, I rediscovered the Beatles and went into a much longer Beatles phase that continues to this day.

 

[Westerly Wood]

Wyman is hysterical.

 

[Westerly Wood]

I also had Beatles in the house, the double red album 1963-1966 and double blue album 1967-1970 something like that, and loved listening to every song on them. But somewhere along the line a friend introduced me to Led Zeppelin (IV), and so, I'm gonna go with Black Dog, first song on there. From there discovered all sorts of great stuff from the 60s and 70s, and have always preferred that era to anything since when it comes to the rock genre. After the Led Zeppelin phase, I rediscovered the Beatles and went into a much longer Beatles phase that continues to this day.

great story. I remember in 1980, my Dad comes in the room and asks, what rock album you want me to buy?
i told him either Led Zepplin stairway to heaven album (i didnt know name of album at time) or AC/DC back in black.
he comes home a couple hours later with Zep 4 cause he took one look at an all black color album and said, oh hell no...LOL

so i remember my younger brothers and i jumping around the room listening to black dog etc...

 

[GAD]

Boston was one if the first LPs I got in my Columbia house 12 Records for a Penny deal!

The only others I recall was Foreigner Double Vision.

Edit: and Led Zep 4.

To this day Boston remains one of my all time favorites.

 

[jedzep]

By hysterical you mean cool?

 

[Westerly Wood]

Boston was one if the first LPs I got in my Columbia house 12 Records for a Penny deal!

The only others I recall was Foreigner Double Vision.

Edit: and Led Zep 4.

To this day Boston remains one of my all time favorites.

my other all time fave song off of the Boston album:

 

[dreadnut]

Probably The Animals' "House Of The Rising Sun." 1964

 

[davismanLV]

So funny!!! I read the title and before I even opened the thread, I said to myself, "Boston - More Than A Feeling"!! How funny!! I was way older than you but I didn't really listen to Rock at all. I grew up with Motown from when I was a kid and then slipped right into folk/pop. My older brother was the rocker. So I was well into my teens and maybe even 20 when it came out. I'm not saying it's my favorite song or song of theirs or making a judgement call about it at all. But it moved me and made me listen and I bought the record, which was branching out for me.

 

[Westerly Wood]

So funny!!! I read the title and before I even opened the thread, I said to myself, "Boston - More Than A Feeling"!! How funny!! I was way older than you but I didn't really listen to Rock at all. I grew up with Motown from when I was a kid and then slipped right into folk/pop. My older brother was the rocker. So I was well into my teens and maybe even 20 when it came out. I'm not saying it's my favorite song or song of theirs or making a judgement call about it at all. But it moved me and made me listen and I bought the record, which was branching out for me.

good story Tom!
i never was introduced to MoTown, as my folks never really listened to music in the house. they were like too old to be Beatles fans, and Elvis was way over by then anyway. so....

but my uncle was into rock and roll, he was younger than my Dad by 10 years or so. so he had Who albums, stuff like that.

that being said, my Dad did have a Jim Croce album and i think that helped me get into Folk.

 

[Default]

First few songs that I remember, being a little kid sitting at a dining room table in a little tiny town, were light my fire, Don't walk away Renee, and windy.

The one that really got me moving was rock and roll hoochie coo, and then "who do you love", covered by George Thorogood.

 

[fronobulax]

"Light My Fire" - The Doors.

First song I heard on the radio and wanted to hear again badly enough to buy it. Bought the (vinyl) album to get it and quickly discovered there was more interesting music than AM radio. Also discovered after listening to the Oedipal section of "The End" that there was music I didn't necessarily want my mother to know I was listening to.

It changed my world because it changed how I looked for and discovered new (to me) music. Cue up Steely Dan's "FM".

 

[Westerly Wood]

"Light My Fire" - The Doors.

First song I heard on the radio and wanted to hear again badly enough to buy it. Bought the (vinyl) album to get it and quickly discovered there was more interesting music than AM radio. Also discovered after listening to the Oedipal section of "The End" that there was music I didn't necessarily want my mother to know I was listening to.

It changed my world because it changed how I looked for and discovered new (to me) music. Cue up Steely Dan's "FM".

wait, no static at all?

 

[twocorgis]

This one turned a very young me's musical world on its ear the first time I heard it, and was the first 45 I bought with my "own" money.



Still a groundbreaking song in many ways, and sounds as fresh today as it did back then.

 

[HeyMikey]

I Want To Hold Your Hand - 45. Sitting on the floor with my brother we wore it out on a portable flip up player.

 

[Westerly Wood]

I Want To Hold Your Hand - 45. Sitting on the floor with my brother we wore it out on a portable flip up player.

that is awesome! and a 45 no less...

 

[fronobulax]

wait, no static at all?

Steely Dan's "FM" reminds me of the time when FM radio was neither mainstream nor homogenized and people who listened to FM were somehow set apart.

Fast forward a decade and listen to WHFS in the DC market with DJs who programmed their own shows and played stuff that other stations didn't even know about.

 

[Westerly Wood]

Steely Dan's "FM" reminds me of the time when FM radio was neither mainstream nor homogenized and people who listened to FM were somehow set apart.

Fast forward a decade and listen to WHFS in the DC market with DJs who programmed their own shows and played stuff that other stations didn't even know about.

those days are so long gone too.
when i was a teenager, before i got into college radio, Providence RI had a great Rock station, 94 HJY. love that station, every night after homework and before bed....

then i got into 95.5 WBRU, which was Brown Univ's station. that changed stuff for me, as i first heard REM for example in like '82 or '83...