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Heard listening to Peel sometime in '88. A friend at school had started listening to The John Peel Show and turned me on to it. I remember distinctly that he played the Gigantic/River Euphrates single, both sides back to back, one after the other. I was just getting over Gigantic, when River came in. Never heard a scream like it on record before, and with Joey doing those semitone bends into discord over everything...well, it all just clicked into place, like nothing I'd ever heard before.
I remember being wowed by the I iii IV I chord progression which at the time was new to me, and the fantastic (semi-Biblical) imagery. One of those rare instances where the lyrics paint pictures in my head even more vividly than Dylan manages.
Never heard anything like it....
Gassage mentioned Hanging Around by the Stranglers, which I would also second as another massive influence on me, along with Nice n Sleazy.
Later on, but still sort of in my youth, Stevie Ray's Texas Flood affected me like no music since.
Two final revelations for me musically would be Vernon Reid's solo on Cult of Personality and then Tom Morello's playing on that first RATM album, mainly Township Rebellion and Killing in the Name of.