DargelSkout said:

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80s Guy said:

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Welcome to the Jungle- Guns 'N Roses

Takes me back to a better day when life was easy and so were the girls. It was before I became a fulL fledged adult.

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I wish I could go back and listen to that whole album for the first time. I remember buying the cassette tape of Appetite for Destruction from my cousin. Such a good album front to back.

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Rocket Queen

Listening to REM's Automatic for the People the first time. It was such an amazing experience from start to finish, but the first time hearing "Nightswimming" just elevated it so much.

Wagon Wheel by Old Crow

as a kid, hearing live renditions of your favorite KISS songs was mind-blowing....and a 12-minute version, complete with a nasty drum solo? heck yeah......

deadhead aggie said:

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as a kid, hearing live renditions of your favorite KISS songs was mind-blowing....and a 12-minute version, complete with a nasty drum solo? heck yeah......

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Wore that album out!

Bruce Almighty said:

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Red House by Jimi Hendrix. I think it was the first song that ever gave me goosebumps.

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Heard that song many times before, but one night in college, tripping on shrooms with this blaring on the home stereo was mind blowing. You hear things you've never heard in that guitar solo.

Outfit--Drive By Truckers
If we were Vampires-Jason Isbell
State of Love and Trust-Pearl Jam
Veronica-Elvis Costello

YYZ
River of Deceit
Shine
Wrapped Around Your Finger

Any song off Purple by STP except Interstate Love Song. That song is fine, but it's been played to death over the last 28 years. I absolutely celebrate every other song on that album.

Funky Winkerbean said:

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YYZ
River of Deceit
Shine
Wrapped Around Your Finger

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Pretty much all of Moving Pictures.

All of Permanent Waves.

2112

A Farewell To Kings

Hemispheres

Clockwork Angels

I could go on

Sweet child of mine. Riding back from the ffa convention in San Antonio. Heard it in the ag teachers vehicle headed back to Lufkin. Every time I hear the opening chords of that song I close my eyes and go back in time.

BenTheGoodAg said:

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I know it's cheesy, but the first A&M game I really remember - Strategic Air Command. It just totally captured the moment for me.

There are so many it'd be fun to rediscover, but I think that one stands out for me.

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Off topic, but one of my happiest memories is standing on Kyle at the end of that song. I'm not sure what game it was, but I know it was my Zip year (Class of '01). I think we had just done the four-way, so it was probably my last time playing that song with the FTAB at Kyle. I was on bass rank at the back of the band, and the crowd was going nuts as we hit that ending crescendo. I got goose bumps.

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As far as recapturing that feeling of hearing a song for the first time, the one that stands out to me is The Nervous Breakdown by Brad Paisley. I absolutely despised country music until my then-girlfriend (now wife) played that song for me. As a guitar player, as I was absolutely blown away; it was my first exposure to chicken pickin'. And every musician in his band is an absolute badass.

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PRobably AC/DC Back in Black or Van Halen 1984.

Pretty sure there was reefer involved, but my soul spun during the first breakdown.

Here's another one.

"Rough Boy" by ZZ Top. I was on a band trip to the Alamo Festival of Bands with my high school band. We went to the mall (I think it was North Star Mall), and I picked up "Afterburner". I remember sitting on the bus heading back to the hotel and listening to "Rough Boy" for the first time.

I remember the first time I heard Manic Mechanic by ZZ Top.

Was just after my freshman year of high school. Took a church trip to Michigan for a couple weeks. Got back at 3am or something awfully late.

My older brother picked me up. He had bought a friend's car while I was away. 1963 Impala, and he had installed a Pioneer stereo system in it with some cranking speakers and an amp.

I was exhausted. He wanted to go open up that 327cu engine on the empty backroads and crank some tunes. One of those tunes was Manic Mechanic.

That's right.
That's right.
Thaaaaaat's right!

C@LAg said:

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too many, for different reasons - whether the music, the lyrics, a relationship I was in, etc.

Overall - Probably "Save a Prayer" - Duran Duran

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Same here. Since I pretty much 90% listen to 80's pop and club music, I can place myself in the scenes in junior high or high school when I first heard a song -- who I was dating, what sport was going on, days at the lake, etc.

Not as much once college started, except a few -- like Straight Up by Paula Abdul immediately takes me to the spring freeze of 1989.


As for my favorite "first time" I'd like to relive, I would say it was the first time I heard a mix tape of club music brought back from college by my buddy's older cousin. Blew our minds. New Order, Book of Love, Communards, Pet Shop Boys, Dead or Alive. Hooked for life.

Great topic. Mine are fairly random, but coincide with an impactful (good) time in my life that resulted in me listening to them over, and over, and over...again:

GNR- Sweet Child O Mine
U2- Running to Stand Still
Don Henley- Boys of Summer
Christopher Cross- Sailing
Led Zeppelin- D'yer Mak'er
Soup Dragons- I'm Free

maroon barchetta said:

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Eruption.

Has this been mentioned?

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Easily the first song I thought of.

I was a fairly sheltered kid, mostly listening to oldies in the car with mom. I'd heard Stairway and the like, but never really into hard rock.

I was at a friend of a friend's house in 9th grade, and he had one of those silver Aiwa shelf systems right when they came out. 15 year old me was absolutely floored at the first 5 seconds, and I stood there wide eyed for the entire song. Then I made him play it again. The memory is tattooed on my brain.

Then we went over to some girls house, I never called, and didn't get home until 1:00. And that was the last time I got grounded.

The entire CD Houses of the Holy

Garrelli 5000 said:

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Queensryche Anarchy-X/Revolution Calling. I was in 7th grade. First rock band I became obsessed with to where I quickly worked my way back through their entire catalog.

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I heard "Eyes of a Stranger" on the radio and went out the next day and bought that album. I still listen to it at least once a week.

gggmann said:

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Garrelli 5000 said:

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Queensryche Anarchy-X/Revolution Calling. I was in 7th grade. First rock band I became obsessed with to where I quickly worked my way back through their entire catalog.

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I heard "Eyes of a Stranger" on the radio and went out the next day and bought that album. I still listen to it at least once a week.

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Don't.

Don't ever trust the needle.

MW03 said:

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Id like to go back and pop Siamese Dream into the CD player and hear Cherub Rock again for the first time. Either that, or Weezer's Blue Album and listen to my name is Jonas. Those two tracks started my love affair with music more than any others.

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I was riding in a truck in my sophomore year at A&M with an apartment mate and he put this CD Siamese Dream in for the first time and we literally drove around and listened to it for a long time. Played Cherub Rock about 10 times. It's still my favorite full album.

TX AG 88 said:

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I used to sit by my stereo and make mix tapes on cassettes off the radio. I had recently switched my "goto" station from KRBE (pop rock) to KLOL (hard Album Oriented rock). Spirit of Radio came on and I recorded it the first time I ever heard it. The guitar and drums intro just blew me away. As it continued to play and just got better and better, I was SO glad I was recording it for many future listens. Still one of the best songs ever!

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Ha, I used to do the same on a regular basis...was so much fun, but kids of today with constant instant gratification always at their fingertips probably couldn't imagine how or why that could be fun.

I had many songs blow me away, but similar to your story, I remember hearing this strange new sound that was unlike anything I had ever heard before, which gave me crazy vibes, and I instantly hit record, just barely missing the first second or two...."Loser" by Beck in 1994. Recorded it and couldn't stop listening to it for several days. So weird, lyrically and musically, but such a unique, unprecedented sound.

Black Hole Sun was another one from right around that time that opened up my musical world. The early/mid 90's was an incredible era for music, and making mixtapes.

MW03 said:

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Id like to go back and pop Siamese Dream into the CD player and hear Cherub Rock again for the first time. Either that, or Weezer's Blue Album and listen to my name is Jonas. Those two tracks started my love affair with music more than any others.

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Man, same. Especially Weezer's Blue Album. I was addicted to that one.

1994 was insane with the musical releases.