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What was the track or album that had the greatest impact on you when you first heard it?

I'll start.

Autechre - Clipper
http://www.seeqpod.com/search/?plid=c2c9fc6652

This track absolutely blew my mind when I first listened to it. It was on a mix CD that someone made and I listened to it at like 2 am on an empty subway platform. It made me fall in love with electronic music.

Day in the Life, no question. Nobody had ever told me about the song, so I was surprised as hell by it. It made me realize that the Beatles actually were kind of a big deal.

High five!

OK Computer.

The moment my taste in music became good.

Dark Side of the Moon by Pink Floyd.  I put that on or Wincing the Night Away by The Shins (new but really good) whenever I need to clear my mind, relax, and be inspired.

Kill 'em All is what started it all for me.

There were a lot, but I think the most memorable was John Williams' Jurassic Park Overture.

Deep Sexy Space from Lords Of Acid. :durr:

http://fizy.com/yDsQRdO@_yTW

(There is a silly AMV attached to it and the quality is bad, but eh)

Don't ask me why, but it somehow changed the way I listen to music. I can't exactly say HOW it changed it, but it definitely did.

And no, neither the song, nor the lyrics are exactly something you'd call deep. At least not in that meaning of the word.

The first time I heard Ramones was probably quite life-changeing. Think it might have been 'I wanna be sedated (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wMD7Ezp3gWc&feature=related)' or something similar.

Madvillain made me realize there's a good side to rap, too- It doesn't have to be lazy and slung together like so many artists have given it a reputation of being.

Van Helsing Boombox (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n-E96HDW7mI)(Man Man)
Going to your Funeral Pt 1 (http://www.last.fm/music/Eels/_/Going+To+Your+Funeral+Part+I) (Eels)
Freak Show (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=82BaRDA3Huk) (The Residents)

Also: Nightmare Before Christmas

Pink Floyd DSOTM  :epileptic:

michael jackson was my first real exposure to popular music and I still think was the epiteme of it

prokofiev caused me to appreciate classical music

the seiklus soundtrack caused me to appreciate chiptunes

the secret of evermore soundtrack caused me to like atmospheric music

the earthbound soundtrack caused me to like weird music over traditional sounding music. so did the ys3 soundtrack, although it was weird in a different way.

buck 65 caused me to appreciate hip hop, his song 'craftmanship' is amazing

the barkely: shut up and jam: gaiden trailer music (the first trailer) is still my favorite exercise music

shnabubula is my favorite OC remixer, in general OC remix is great; his dueling consoles secret of mana remix is so intricate

In the Aeroplane over the Sea, by Neutral Milk Hotel.  This album does the trick every single time, it makes my emotion processors whrrrrrrrr.

YESSSS!!!!

For those who haven't seen that trailer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1M0FLAXXvRU

Jumpin' Jack Flash by the Rolling Stones was the first song that got me into music.

Oh lord, I remember hearing that song on the schoolbus as a kid.  It's from the Space Jam soundtrack, Quad City DJs I think.  They also had that "Come and Ride the Train" song.  Horrible but so many memories, lol.

Yes, but soo soo perfect for Shut Up and Jam Gaiden.

Off the top of my head:
Burzum's "Spell of Destruction"
Penderecki's Threnody to the Victims of Hiroshima
Dissecting Table's "Least Mean Square Algorithm for Personality Alteration"
Merzbow's Venereology
Wormed's "Voxel Mitosis"

I'm listing here only things that impacted me very significantly immediately upon first hearing them, not just any stuff that I listen to and like a lot, though obviously that has changed me too).

Shpongle - Divine Moments of Truth

Modest Mouse's Good News For People Who Love Bad News was the first album I ever bought- it helped me make it through middle school.

The album California by Mr. Bungle had a huge impact on me. Lots of music has had an impact, but if I had to choose one album which has had the biggest, that would probably be it.

Close runners-up include Discovery by Daft Punk and Toxicity by System Of A Down.

I also agree with Paul about Prokofiev. <3

Good News and California are both great, though I've kind of lost interest in Mr Bungle these days. Just don't interest me that much any more. Good News, though, I started listening to right around the time a whole lot of bad shit was going down in my life, so it has some very interesting associations now.

Slow Down Gandhi, by Sage Francis led me into liking meaningful rap and subsequently a renewed interest in spoken word poetry, of which I later recited my own in a café before small crowds of people - an unprecedented feat for li'l ol' introvert me.

Grandaddy, the entire group (first encountered on a commercial for the Honda Civic featuring their song "The Nature Anthem") led to a progressive calming-down in the type of music I like, and to a much more mellow self. Also, I get alot of music from commercials now.

The album A Night at the Opera by Queen as it was what got me heavily into music.
The song Life on Mars by David Bowie as it pushed me towards thinking critically about entertainment.

Not so much music as more an entire music festival that changed the way I look at music.
It's the Dour Festival (http://www.dourfestival.be) that made me listen to more than metal and appreciate all that might be potentially good. It's the dour festival, which changed my social ways in a way I'll never regret.

Damn, I love that festival.

Goldheart Mountaintop Queen Directory, by Guided by Voices. First of theirs to catch my attention.

Spectre vs Rector, by The Fall. There's something special about Mark E. Smith yelling "Yog-Sothoth rape me lord".

And The Band Played Waltzing Mathilda, by The Pogues. The saddest song I've ever heard.

Now Is Better Than Before, by Jonathan Richman. Somehow made me a more optimistic person.

I'm Waiting For The Man, by The Velvet Underground. Introduced me to them, and from there to lots of music.

john coltrane - a love supreme

one of the better pieces of music that exists in this universe.

High five with other hand!

The Sophtware Slump is a super excellent album.

Rust in Peace, by Megadeth, was the album that got me seriously into music. I became a metalhead then, until well into highschool. I think then Coldplay's Parachute made me broaden my musical horizons--it's kind of embarrassing, as most people regard Coldplay as romantic pop trash, but Parachute is a very good album, and it hit a note in a particularly depressive period of my youth. I think that somewhere in between those, The Dark Side of the Moon made me realize that there was some great stuff to be found in classic rock.

Regarding Grandaddy, did they ever make another album quite as good as The Sophtware Slump?

Allow me to be a bit pedantic! As far as I know, the version in the game is something of a remix, a mashup made by the game's creator, Chef Boyardee of the original Space Jam track by the Quad City DJs and a song known as Funky Stars (or sometimes Hybrid Song 2:20) which was a mod/xm made by Quazar and originally used to accompany... a crack of Worms 2, I think?

Here's some links to the original versions:
Funky Stars (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xQuM2ONbHYE) (or download xm here (http://autofish.net/cell7/music/quazar_funkystars.zip), from cly5m's site)
Space Jam (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GsUznU8USII) (apologies for the video maybe)

Embody the Invisible by In Flames

it made me realize how awesome music can be, that guitars kick ass and that metal is the law  :wizard: :handmetalR:

The Fun Lovin' Criminals were my first real taste in music. Before that, I just tagged along with what was popular or advertised.
The Flaming Lips then became a band which is so life-affirming and positive and experimental and simply awesome that I listened to them for a long time.
Then The Magnetic Fields, and with them (since he sang on one of Stephen Merrit's self-made self-tribute songs) Momus, which is what manifested my taste until today. The funny and interesting thing about The Magnetic Fields is that I've listened to them 15 years before I really knew them, when watching The Adventures of Pete & Pete. I think my taste was programmed at a very early age, I just needed to re-discover and admit to it.
Also, add some Lullatone, for the minimal, supersimple cute melodies that I still like today.
Asa-Chang & Junray also need to be mentioned. I've not heard such beauty before.

This is more or the less the cornerstone recipe to my music taste today. Of course, there's hundreds of artists inbetween.

YES!

I would also like to add Michigan by Sufjan Stevens. Awesome storytelling.

I've been getting into jazz lately. Bitches Brew by Miles Davis makes long car trips much more bearable. Also it makes people think I'm cool  :noir:

I believe the first Radiohead album I ever heard was Kid A, then Amnesiac, then I stole my brother's copy of OK Computer. It was the first music I had ever heard that didn't make sense but sounded perfect at the same time.

After that, I'd say Windowlicker by Aphex Twin because it scared the crap out of me, and Microscopic by Download cause its ... well fucked up. I used to listen to a lot of Nine Inch Nails as well, but the new albums are kinda lame :/

I really think music changed me. Theres this Aphex Twin. You wouldn't believe me if I told you I listened to his music at a very young age. He prevented me from listening to music that would be usual for kids my age.

And then I really think my own music changed me. Like when I made this intentionally shitty album, my style of making music changed completely.
Freaky stuff. Don't change myself anymore by myself!  :epileptic:

lazytowns cake song.

Oh yes, Miles Davis is quite the shit. First jazz cd I actually bought was Milestones by  him.

I must say, when I first heard At The Drive-in and Fugazi, that really changed what I was into. But then I heard Captain Beefcake recently and that fucked things up again.

Also, when Lil' Wayne(I think) sampled Heart in a song, that was awesome, showed even fairly shit rappers can use good samples

Radiohead! I don't really get why so many people don't like the new Nine Inch Nails stuff, though, I  think that Ghosts was their/his best album so far. Actually, Ghosts is a good example. I never really thought that instrumental ambient kind of improvised music like that could work properly, and never really paid any attention to it, but Ghosts really changed my perception of that kind of music.

I only have In Rainbows. But that's enough to make me want every other album :-*

Go now. Buy every single Radiohead album. Buy every last album including the My Iron Lung, COM LAG (2plus2isfive), and Airbag/How Am I Driving? EPs, and also I Might Be Wrong: Live Recordings. I did it. You should too (well, in installments, unless you have lots of :handmoneyL: to spend).

no doubt.

Class, though it's the Master of Puppets album that did it for me :beer:

I love that album. Mike Patton  :-* :handmetalR:

I didn't start really getting into music until I heard Aenima by TOOL, specifically the song Eulogy. And then it all began...

Since then I've loved a lot of other music, but I'd say the song that most recently floored me is In The Flowers by Animal Collective off of Merriweather Post Pavilion. That song inspired a game idea that I want to do, but I'm saving it for when I know how to program it since it's kind of personal.

This. Disco Volante too. Oh, and Delìrium Còrdia by their sister band Fantomas.

Ditto on Aeroplane. Like, emphatically ditto.

Hasn't been mentioned yet: Lucy Ford by Atmosphere.

bohemian rhapsody?

The night I heard stuff by Rorikiller and No. 305 was pretty life-changing, as they were pretty much the tipping point that got me into noise and from there all sorts of really amazing experimental music. At the same time it was the start of me taking things a lot easier and just having fun.

Fond memories.

Yes.

when i found weezer's blue album again. when i was, like, five years old, it was my brother's favorite album and he played it all the time, and i would grow up with it playing in the background as i played my ps1 games with him.

listening to it again, it helps me remember those times and what video games represented for me back then, so i can help make those feelings in other people.

The Tony Hawk Pro Skater 2 soundtrack blew my mind. Consequently, I've never been able to find a tracklist, so I've never been able to figure out who I was listening to.

The majority of the Polysics music. Although 90% of the time I don't even know what they're singing, I find them fun to listen to, and some of the videos are great.

This.

I second the greatness of NMH, AC and Aphex, but none of that really changed me.

As I said Radiohead's when I started getting into good music. Before that it was horrible classic rock and bad pop groups that ignorant people listen to, thinking they where listening to the brave, outer fringes of music. Then I realized how wrong I was.

The Sex Pistols are nothing special, but they got me into punk and I appreciate them for that. No Age and the Mae Shi got me into modern, and experimental punk (before that it was experimental music and punk separately). Botch got me into metal/extreme music.

Now I listen to everything!

1. Papa Roach - Blood Brother (3:19)
2. Anthrax and Chuck D - Bring The Noise (3:37)
3. Rage Against The Machine - Guerilla Radio (3:25)
4. Naughty By Nature - Pin The Tail On The Donkey (3:49)
5. Bad Religion - You (2:27)
6. Powerman 5000 - When World Collide (2:44)
7. Millencolin - No Cigar (2:42)
8. The High And The Mighty - B-Boy Document 99 (3:54)
9. Dub Pistols - Cyclone (3:28)
10. Lagwagon - May 16 (2:57)
11. Styles Of Beyond - Subculture (3:29)
12. Consumend - Heavy Metal Winner (2:33)
13. Fu Manchu - Evil Eyes (3:29)
14. Alley Life - Out With The Old (3:51)
15. Swingin Utters - 5 Lessons Learned (1:55)

I got the soundtracks of THPS 1-4. 2 is my favourite, by far. They just managed to capture what skating music meant at that point and assembled an amazing playlist. It's a bit superior to the other soundtracks in the way GTA3 has the best soundtrack of all (3D) GTA games. It's easy to just buy all the music that's popular when you're big and have money, but for GTA3 they actually put lots of thinking into the music and found special, unknown artists to contribute.

"Superman" from THPS1 is also an amazing song.

I like that song, but not much else from the soundtrack. :shrug2:

I actually slightly prefer THPS3's soundtrack. :durr:

Also:A friend tried to get me into Polysics. I just..i don't know, they're just a little hard to listen to. They do have a great cover of My Sharona though :D

I'm surprised there seems to be no love for The Residents (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5SnlNAzmifM) here. It doesn't get much indier than that.

Probably because "mention music you love" is not the topic of this thread. Then again, I guess I was the one who started derailing. Sorry for that. D:

God, yes.

The Nightwatchman - especially the first album - was a true revelation. "One Man Revolution" is pretty much a perfect album to me.

http://www.nightwatchmanmusic.com/

The Matrix soundtrack. First album I ever bought with my hard earned pocket money. Bought it along with the first ever comic book I'd bought for myself. Great memory of me sitting on a bean bag, trendy coffee in hand and at least an hour of bliss with music that matched my mood perfectly.

http://bombthemusicindustry.com/

Bomb the Music Industry -Goodbye Cool World

This record was a watershed moment for me in terms of my musical tastes, before I listened to this I was trying disparately to like a lot of Punk, Ska and Emo. I tried to dig deep into the meanings behind those types of music and I didn't really like what I saw. I felt the majority of those types of bands have a very small understanding of what they are actually trying to convey, but anything was better then nothing. Then I listened to "Bomb the Music Industry" with their hilariously named band, and excellent album names. I found in them truth, they weren't afraid to bring those other genres of music to task about how they really are. They are also capable of taking the piss out of themselves, also with interesting and introspective pieces about the inherent silliness of the indie music scene. Laced heavy with cynicism, you have to be in a similar place to truly appreciate what they are singing about.  I started reading up about them as a band, and found they are really appreciative to their fans. You can come to a show with a blank CD and they will burn their albums for you, if you show up with a t-shirt they have paint and stencils to make your own band shirt or if you show up with an instrument, you can hop up on stage and play along with them, how cool is that?

I really need to get that album sometime...

The Matrix soundtrack was amazing, as was the (first) movie. I really like Rage, and it's amazing how well their music fits The Matrix.

Speaking of Tom Morello, Street Sweeper has recently really been changing how I think about rap music. Instead of Rage's more screamy, less traditional rap, Street Sweeper is traditional rap with awesome guitar. I've never really liked traditional rap, but Street Sweeper is pretty ace.

http://streetsweepermusic.com/ (http://streetsweepermusic.com/)
You can download a promo EP for the 2009 NIN/JA tour with two of their songs on it here:
http://www.ninja2009.com/ (http://www.ninja2009.com/)

high-five returned!

anyway, aside from jazz (especially bebop acutally), when it comes to music that has changed my life, I really find it interesting when someone makes music using some crazy method like with everyday objects, or smashing instruments together rather than playing them, or by just doing amazing thngs whith their body.

more common examples that I can think of are people like bobby mcpharrin, and the blue man group.

here is a not so common example (http://www.gemueseorchester.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=46&Itemid=)

also, I do listen to alot of classic rock. listening to led zep right now actually.

I'm not usually that huge on rap, and two out of the three Street Sweeper songs on there don't work for me... but The Oath is quite wonderful. Thanks for calling my attention to this.

I love you jstckr, more than mere words can describe. Off to iTunes!

The Metroid Prime soundtrack. One day I said down and listed to the Chozo sanctuary theme. I was so sad and the music was so beautiful... Yeah, I had to cry. I cried the tears of love. Love for videogame music.

Edit: Majora's Mask's music! The theme when Link got transformed from Deko to Human changed my entire musical perception. From this point I began to love melancholic music.

Also, Negative (http://www.bad-sector.com/mp3/bad_sector_negative.mp3) by Bad Sector is worth to mention. I never heared anything like that before. It was my start into abrassive noisy music and is still affecting the way I listen to ambient.

Phendrana Drifts :-*

Sigur Rós - Takk <3

Stricken by Disturbed. Before hearing this I never really liked music. I listened to this, and fell in love with Metal of all kinds. Other songs that have changed me are:
Voices - Disturbed
Whats Left of the Flag - Flogging Molly
Pulse of the Maggots - Slipknot
When Worlds Collide - Powerman 5000

I really don't want to sound like an elitist, but are you asserting here that Radiohead represents the "brave, outer fringes of music"?

Souns like a smaller scale of music ;) .

Funkadelic - Maggot Brain (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maggot_Brain)

The whole album, and especially the opening title track, which consists of the greatest studio guitar solo ever recorded, time and again rocks my socks off.

No. That place scares me.

But haven't you ever met someone who thought their taste in music was edgy because they listened to The Police or some garbage like that?

This is a little more recent, but de Blob's soundtrack absolutely blew me away when I first played it. I had no idea people could do things like that with video game music, and it was pulled off so well that it just left me stunned and happy.

Okay.  Yeah I'm definitely with you there.

I dont know if this changed me, but I still consider this to be my favorite boss music of ALL TIME.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SMCNaTyUYkw

(also this remix that I just discovered UGH SO AWESOME http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sx4BKx-HouY&fmt=18)

SHIT YES

High five, dude!

That song is definitely one of the best kirby songs ever, and that's saying a damn lot.