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

stimpsonslostson

My dad brought home Nevermind when it was released. He had a HUGE stereo in our living room, volume went up to 11, CD in.
Guitar intro, then THAT drum pattern. 
My 10year old brain promptly exploded. 

Honorable mention to MachineHead- Burn My Eyes. Waiting in the car outside a French Hypermarket I grabbed an unmarked random cassette out of the glovebox & slapped it into my Walkman... the aural equivalent of finding your dads p0rn stash. WHAT IS THIS?!!
I’ve been a metal head ever since. 

monofin

axisus said:

I bought Rush's 2112 album without having heard a note of it back in 1979. I put it on and my mind exploded at the sound of Overture/Temples of Syrinx. It just seemed like such an exciting blast of energy. 

That is one of my favourite albums of all time!
Regularly have it on in the car.

Absolute classic!

Boromedic

There's quite a few more in many genres, but this was an awakening for me and the start of my real love for thrash metal and heavier music. 

Jalapeno

The Mellotron wooshing L-R R-L in this

octatonic

equalsql

Boston - More Than A Feeling..

Oh God, Brad Delp's vocals made the hair stand up on my neck.

kaypeejay

toussaint louverture By Santana for me. Still make the hairs on my neck stand up. 

viz

Tchaikovsky 6th 

Sesh

Hoorah hoorah hoorah hey!
Over the hill with the swords of a thousand men!

schrodinger1612

Don’t laugh now, but Babylon Zoo blew my mind as an 11 yr old...https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EG4NP8bldJg the whole album is gold 

then at 14 I discovered this in my bro’s cassette collection. 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7-iRf9AWoyE

This was a game changer though at 17...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vwLQw_95hX0

wish I could hear all the songs of my youth again for the first time

thumpingrug

I had listened to Comfortably Numb a number of time but the live version thats on the Momentary Lapse of Reason album blew me away.  Around the same time I also listed to Steve Vai-Passion and Warfare and still wonder how that was done.

viz

thumpingrug said:

Around the same time I also listed to Steve Vai-Passion and Warfare and still wonder how that was done.

Yes!

relic245

I was 14, never heard any rock music before and a friend gave me a cassette tape with 1 track on.

deep purple - child in time. The made in Japan version.

life was never the same again.

prowla

The first track on UFO's Lights Out - a mate gave me some headphones to listen to his new album on and had them way too loud!

(I guess technically it nearly blew my eardrums rather than my mind...)

EricTheWeary

I do slightly wonder how accurate these kind of memories are likely to be. However, on the headphone thing as per @prowla I have a memory of hearing Motorcycle Man by Saxon on headphones and being wowed by the motorbike noise at the beginning going across the stereo spectrum then the fast music coming in. 
My brother gave me an album, I was probably 15, which was a double compilation of various guitarists like Rory Gallagher, BB King but the track that was WTF was the full length Hocus Pocus by Focus. Like the Saxon track I was probably more interested in the weird stuff than the guitars at the time but it is a great guitar track too. 

TTBZ

My first memory of guitar in music was EVH’s Beat It solo. Just remember it being the coolest thing I’d heard. Got told off at school for listening to it on the cassette players we were meant to be listening to educational stuff on  

DrCornelius

tone1 said:

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

That’s a brilliant clip - thanks for posting (that’s my Friday night sorted !)

drofluf

Maybe a conflated memory but I seem to remember them doing this on Top of the Pops dressed as monks but at the time it seemed so other worldly.

Then a few years later



Made me realise there was more to life than 3 minute pop songs

JAYJO

All we had to listen to was my mothers records as my father wasnt interested in music. So it was Johnny Cash and Kitty Wells with Neil Diamond and i think Barry Manilow. I had one of those suit case record players and was given Beach Boys singles to play which i thought was ace. Then i progressed to a few more up to date singles but the Album that blew my mind as a youth was 100% Nevermind the Bollocks by the sex Pistols. I still had my suitcase record player and yet it still blew my mind.. Amazing.

Deadman

As a 9 year old it was I can't stand losing you by The Police.