Tunes that changed your life - any genre

[JayTee]

Always a tough one to pick out your favourite songs, but I`ve got two life changing musical moments - 1) Nov 1979 - I was a young teenage rocker watchin Top Of the Tops and on comes a pasty faced, jumpsuit clad, young fella wearin dark make up - 3 seconds into the opening synth riff & BOOM - musical perception changed forever! Are Friends Electric? - Tubeway Army - a bone fide classic & I`m still a huge Numan fan to this day.

2) was hearing Jack That House Built again on TOTP & my 1st introduction to "House Music" - the rest as they say, is history!

What about you lot?

 

[Shooms]

YouTube - Sweaty Betty! Live at the Fulham Greyhound, Macc Lads

Macc Lads, The - Beer & Sex & Chips n Gravy

Eye-opening

c 1986

"A Macc Lad of me took note,
And he poured a pint of bitter down me throat,
It were the first pint I ever had,
And I changed to a real Macc Lad.
Me clothes started looking real flash,
I got a tattoo and a moustache,
And me car got a go-faster stripe,
And now I pull crack every night.
And I'm not weak anymore,
'Cos me dick measures three foot four,
So don't you call me wimp,
'Cos it's three foot four even when it's limp."

 

[quadster]

i was 15 a large woman came on and mimed black box ride on time on top of the pops - i was blown away !!

about a month later i was 16 in the boot of my mates Escort RS2000 going down the east lancs to the quadrant park - totally changed my life - from then on untill the late 90's i despised everything that wasnt underground italian house!!

 

[Sheikh Yerbouti]

...hearing Jack That House Built

Good call... that tune pretty much kicked it all off for me too.

There have been loads of other life-changers though... Pretty much always hearing bands for the first time as a yoot.

Floyd (Darkside) AC/DC (Back in Black) are 2 which spring to mind.
Also i used to cane me awld fella's Beatles records when i was v.young (less than 10) on an old portable record player for hour after hour in me bedroom.
That pretty much decided me that music was gonna be a massive part of my life. And that it should be played LOUD.

EDIT to add 1st spliff (Floyd) 1st trip (Doors) 1st pill (mate's house party summer '87). They were all undoubtedly life changing moments although not just about the music

 

[ollieovcity]

Hearing I think Jeff Young? play JVC Force - Strong Island on Radio 1 got me into Electro from which I progressed onto house music but if I hadn't heard that tune who knows I could have been like some of my mates and been into other types of music - There is a God!

 

[Shooms]

EDIT to add 1st spliff (Floyd) 1st trip (Doors) 1st pill (mate's house party summer '87). They were all undoubtedly life changing moments although not just about the music

1st spliff - Bob Marley / UB40 - Baggariddim

1st trip - Doors as well

1st pill - had one at home for the 1st time... split it with the then bird... for some reason I vividly remember Gerry Rafferty - City to City being on the Amstrad tower :$ It was fuckin ace n all

 

[mr sy1975]

For me it was a mixtape a mate gave me circa 91. I was aware of electronic music before this, but had not had that much exposure, so listening to this mix (it was a tape he had mixed himself, long since lost ) was like opening a door to another world, I had to have more of the same and have never looked back

 

[Sheikh Yerbouti]

1st spliff - Bob Marley / UB40 - Baggariddim

1st trip - Doors as well

1st pill - had one at home for the 1st time... split it with the then bird... for some reason I vividly remember Gerry Rafferty - City to City being on the Amstrad tower :$ It was fuckin ace n all

hahaha quality memoirs Mr. Shooms!
PMSL @ Amstrad tower.

I think tripping my Jacobs off for the first time with Mr. Morrison & co as the soundtrack would have to be counted as one of the top three best drug experiences of my life. I couldn't even tell you which album(s) it was. Only that it was perfect. Years later Screamadelica came close though mind...

 

[Jiglo]

I grew up with parents into folk and crooners, so only really got a taste of pop when my dad bought the Abba - Super Trooper album for my sisterphones: Thought it was the greatest piece of music i;d ever heard

Then my sister started buying electronic music, new romantics stuff and taping the top 40 off the radio, so she was my second real influence who got me up to date with modern (at the time) music

I then bought my first 7'' Human League - Don't you want me and got into my own stuff - Joy Division, Julian Cope, The Associates etc and i've still got some of my old recordings on tape that I made myself at the time with these tracks on.

I Started seeing bits of the breakdancing craze on tv in 82 and loved the whole scene that was emerging, showing Buffalo Gals and also Double Dutch which was more about the skipping craze but was 83 before Rocksteady Crew came out with Hey You and I bagged me my first 12''.

Rock music next Def Leppard Pyromania album

Then Steve 'Silk' Hurley brought out 'Jack Your Body' in early 87 when I was still at school. It got to number 1 and started me on my house music collection, was the very first house music record i bought

 

[Biskit]

In my younger years i grew up in a few pubs, so i was constantly hearing music, disco, nu romantic, 80's pop. I used to hear alot of disco, and one tune that sticks in my head is when 'Ottawan - Hands Up' came out, it was constantly on the Juke box n being played by the pub D.J's then, probs what moulded me into loving the disco sound.

Another is 'Steve Silk Hurley - Jack Your Body' and 'Sweet D - Thank Ya', i also remember 'jack your body' getting to number 1 and top of the pops didnt have a video to play, so the song was initially over stills of Steve Hurleys face lol. sweet d is another that i heard on an album n loved the piano in it.

I also remember the first UK appearance of 'Black Box - Ride on time', it was on a early morning saturday show, with gilbert i think, n i was hooked instantly.
Incidently, i remember either 'starlight', black box' n 'jt & the big family' being in the charts, n one morning while watching the saturday morning chart show, i think (remember that) n turning to my mum while she was doing her hair for work n saying i love this music lolol phones:

i also remember having a tape n always rewinding a certain track, i was continually playing it, in the end i found out the name, it was 'helyom halib'

 

[STUART]

George Kranz - din da da


remember watching Breakdance films 1 & 2 and on BETAMAX (LOL) running the audio out into my amplifier and tapeing the music from the film and putting it on a Ghetto walking round the streets with my mates thinking we were the dogs danglies.

then onto Jolly Roger - acid man and all the Royal House era stuff.
and the stuff like Computer Madness, Chicago Trip, Acid Drill,Laser Nation the belgium new beat stuff i loved.

And especially the Hitman & Her yes its true some ground breaking stuff played on there.

Blue Tattoo - love can do
Katherine E - im alright
Corporation Of One - real life
Bizz Nizz - party line

i knew then italian house was for me and my saturdays were spent going on the train from Chorley to Afflecks Palace for some vinyl

 

[Biskit]

i knew then italian house was for me and my saturdays were spent going on the train from Chorley to Afflecks Palace for some vinyl

lol same ere, catchin saturday morning train from chorley to victoria or piccadilly

 

[Northern Star]

It was very difficult not to notice music from early age in my household, my uncle den was bang into all sorts and i was kinda dragged up on prgrammes like the old grey whistle test the first bands i can really remember developing my own taste for tho were the likes of simple minds, joy division, echo n the bunnymen and inxs all sorts of stuff

YouTube - Echo & The Bunnymen - Lips Like Sugar
YouTube - Echo & The Bunnymen - The Cutter

ill never forget the 1st time i heard boys from brasil and in trance as mission proper dark records which i loved i still got my original sons and fascination tape lol :$

YouTube - Simple Minds - In Trance As Mission


as far as house music was concerned, i was listening to it a while before i went to my first party ( largely in the rollerskating rink) where all the tunes like jack e makossa jack in the opera house, jolly roger acid man, candido jingo, dtrain - your the one for me, housemasterboys house nation n faley jackmaster funk love cant turn around phones: all ground breaking records for me and steared right me into a scene that would define my taste in music for the rest of my dayz

YouTube - Old Skool Vibes - 32 D-Train - You're The One For Me
YouTube - Candido - Jingo (1980)
YouTube - Farley Jackmaster Funk - Love Can't Turn Around - 1986 (check out the old top of the tops intro lol)

God bless them each and every one of them

 

[DJ Bin-Bag]

for me

Rhytm Device - Acid Rock

Soundclash - my sound

Renegade Soundwave

 

[.double h]

ya know wat...ya probably don't want to..but seen as though i'm such a fooooookin fossil i wud av to say ....chooooooooons that changed my life would b the likes of the sweet/ballroom blitz....sparks/this town aint big enough 4 the both of us....was into that sort of music 4 years growin up so much sooner than u lot...then came the likes of joy division, wow this was so fresh...quickly followed by the likes of the smiths who were local to me and plenty of others...could go on for ever but don't want to boar ya..and ya know what as music was realy kickin off in the uk and big time in the north west ,i seen fit to leave and move to australia in febuary 1988...what a foooookin bellend!!! anyway still caught up with the house music scene and never looked back, still blows me away too this day. oh well if any1 needs any bricks layin i'm ya man...giv us plenty of notice i'll have to leave home early to get there... by the way big respect to yas all i enjoy ya company on osa very very much

 

[Biskit]

jack e makossa jack in the opera house

lol i remember one of my mates jordee buying this Various - House Hits '88 back in 1988, he only had it about a week n i borrowed it, one of my fave tracks was jack in the opera house, i kept the album for about 2 years, kept makin excuses up to him so i could have it longer, gave it back in the end i remember it being a great summer that year to lol

 

[westy303]

Growing up my mum and dad always had the radio on and I remember eating my sugar puffs as a four or five year old, with Stevie Wonder - Sir Duke on in the background. That tune still sends shivers down my spine and my mum and dad were old northern soulers from yesteryear, and I suspect that I was influenced into dance music this way. Never really liked rock, metal or indie, and I reckon that early influences are the cause of this.

As I got older, remember M.A.R.R.S and Steve Silk Hurley being on at the Arena rollerskating rink in Bury, and when I was eleven I got Bomb The Bass - Into the Dragon on LP for Christmas. Also remember buying an Ultimate Trax Compelation with Jazzy Jeff doing a mastermix. Pretty hooked after that, and had a mate who was into hip hop and electro, and pretty much progressed from there.

The big shift came when I went to college and one summer bought myself an Ark tape - Rob Tissera August 1993??? Hooked after hearing the Orb - Ever Pulsating Brain which was the first track, which more or less coincided with my early forays into club culture.

Later on, probably not the best tune, but perhaps the best tune ever dropped for a specific moment, I was in Manumission in Ibiza and one of the props caused a fire. All the lights went dead and the dj dropped the Martin Luther King - I have dream 'pella with Amos - Let Love Shine. Classic moment! Tore the arse off the dancefloor!

 

[grover]

In the late 70's I used to go to my cousins who is about 10 years older than me and go through his record collection in his room - I played Showroom Dummies by Kraftwerk and had never heard anything like it before and was hooked. I used to play that tune over and over again

 

[Mister_DJ]

This tune was the first proper House tune I heard....

Kariya - Let Me Love You For Tonight

And it proper changed my life phones: . Made me think "wow" - more of THAT please .

Never looked back.

Mart

 

[blue jammer]

Phuture - We Are Phuture, heard it on Stu Allan's 'house hour' and loved the acid sound in it and was hooked.

At the time and just prior to that, I hadn't realised that he did the house hour or souled out, I only used to listen to bus diss for the hip hop stuff.

Earlier though I'd say Blondie - Rapture being the record that got me into buying 12" records, when I'd only bought 7" and albums before that.

Something about the Stu Allan/Jeff Young/808 State radio shows that made discovering new (at the time) music so good, there's been nothing like those times since, with new music still being made that has more saturation of bad new music against good and the lack of enthusiasm people have nowadays, such a shame...