Name a song from your youth that blew your mind 1st time you heard it.

tone1

California Dreaming - Mama & Papas

https://youtu.be/-MEqT2kmTHg

smigeon

Yer Blues - The Beatles

oh_pollo

King Crimson - Frame by Frame

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d46FV8rSbNE

fob

Philly_Q

Boogie Nights - Heatwave

Danny1969

Animal Nitrate, made the hairs in the back of my neck stand up 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i7mEB2wnDLQ

tone1

Danny1969 said:

Animal Nitrate, made the hairs in the back of my neck stand up 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i7mEB2wnDLQ

I’ve been learning this recently.....Here’s Bernard giving all his secrets away...

https://youtu.be/l7WGvcCNWZM

MagicPigDetective

The end of 91 into 92 when I was 15/16 was a musical awakening. Dragging me down by the Inspiral Carpets. Everybody in the Place by The Prodigy. Come as You Are (heard it before Smells like), Leave Them All Behind by Ride. Primal Scream - Moving on Up. Teenage Fanclub - The Concept. Pretend were Dead, L7. Bullet in the Head, Rage. Rusty Cage, Soundgarden. Fate Accomplit, Curve. Boo Radleys - Lazy Day. Slash n Burn, Manics

Fuengi

My earliest memory of something that had a profound effect on me was hearing Karen Carpenter sing Top of The World. 






I was 28. 

ICBM

munckee

Forgot this, a good friend of mine was very goth and introduced me to this

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OKRJfIPiJGY

stickyfiddle

Muse - Plug In Baby

Like nothing else in a radio era of manufactured late-90's pop bands and Travis-alikes

digitalkettle

https://youtu.be/NHBjdSRmRvU

rustneversleeps

Used to play my older brothers records when he was out ,but there’s two “Southern man” Neil Young and “Voodoo Chile” Hendrix and yes I am old.

stratman3142

Zoolooter said:

Voodoo Child - still blows me away, never tire of it.

Yes probably Voodoo Child when I first heard it when it went to number one after he sadly died. I'd been playing guitar for about a year and a half and I'd never heard sounds like it at the time.
 
It changed my perspective and I started to think, less in terms of just the notes, and more about how to make sounds I liked from the guitar. Around that time, Kossoff's vibrato on All Right Now also had a similar effect.
 

bluechargeboy

When I was a kid I found a cassette of my uncle's with some awful twee shite on one side, and something called Bat Out Of Hell on the other side, which blew me away and transformed me into a rocker on the spot.

(I later found out the twee shite was Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band)

Nitefly

Procol Harum, Whiter Shade of Pale.  I first heard it late one night on the radio when it first came out, could not believe how great it sounded.

Winny_Pooh

Nirvana's Come As You Are when I was 11 & Tori Amos's Cornflake Girl when I was 19

TTBZ

Korn - Blind

Listening back its kind of underwhelming but I think that was the first time I’d knowingly heard anything heavy, low and dissonant like that. I remember I wanted a 7 string for so long!

thecolourbox

Fascinating Rhythm by Jamie Cullum