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If you mean in person, it was 1967 in High School, Country Joe and the Fish, who played at my high school in California at a dance, before they became well know in their Woodstock appearance.
America, Horse With No Name -- not my favorite America song, but I love hearing it and listening to the layered guitars and vocals.
Michael Stanley Band, Midwest Midnight -- my first week as a freshman at the University of Dayton, one of my first new friends was from Rocky River, the same Cleveland 'burb Michael Stanley grew up in. She had a copy of the band's new live album, Stage Pass; Midwest Midnight was the first song on the album, and when she dropped the needle on it, I fell in love with the band and the song, and it's still my favorite MSB tune.
R.E.M., Carnival of Sorts - still love cranking that song up LOUD! My R.E.M. obsession is fairly well documented in this forum.
The Cars - Good Times Roll -- my college roommate came home with the Cars' debut album one afternoon, and we played the heck out of it all year. The opening song on the album is still a favorite.
The Connells, Darker Days -- I heard it on the radio and thought it was a pretty good song, so I bought the album, the band's first. But it was their second album, Boylan Heights, that I really fell in love with and I'm pretty sure I like the band and Darker Days even more now than I did in 1986.
Back in '83-'84 I snuck into my sister's room and found Judas Priest's "Screaming For Vengeance" album on her bed. I put it on and was blown away! It's what turned me from a pop music fan to a metal head.
I didn't really become aware of music outside of my mother's record collection until around 1980. I grew up in the Australian Bush and back then there were only two television stations and one radio station that I could access. There were no record stores in my town. One of the TV stations was the national broadcaster and they had a show called Countdown that I was obsessed with. That was where I saw many of my favourite bands for the first time. The more alternative music that I like came to me much later when I moved to the city in 1988 and discovered them for the first time. So I spent a lot of time playing catch up with artists and bands that I missed growing up.
There are three bands/artists that I have really loved all of my life.
The first is Duran Duran. I remember the video for "Planet Earth" was introduced on Countdown and my sister said "look at this band, the singer jumps off a platform at the end and he is hot". I watched it and cared a lot more about the song and how the video looked than how they looked. I was too young and the hormones had not kicked in yet . I loved it and have loved them for 40 years. I still listen to every new album they produce.
The second is The Cure. I came to hear The Cure quite late. The first time I heard them was when a school friend of mine insisted I listen to her copy of The Head on the Door which I loved but didn't really explore the bands music until around 1989 when I bought the 1986 compilation album "Standing on the Beach". Since then they have been one of my favourite bands. The song that really stood out to me and I remember loving from that first listen to The Head on the Door was "Close to Me".
Thirdly is the late, great David Bowie. Definitely my favourite solo artist. The first time I heard/saw David Bowie was when the song "Ashes to Ashes" came on Countdown. My family thought he looked hilarious (I believe my mother said he looked like Big Bird) but I was obsessed. I loved everything about it, the music of course but also the look and feel of the video. I have loved his work all of my life.
More Than A Feeling by Boston, first heard on the radio in the fall of 1976, along with other songs from the album. Wasnt long before I bought the album, I was 17 in high school, I played that album often during that long cold winter, and for many years after, eventually wearing it out.
Not new to listening and loving music. I think I was hearing Glenn Miller while in my mother's womb and I grew up listening to music. I loved the music of the 50's but when I started to develop my own taste, I fell in love with the Rolling Stones. I liked the Beatles and all other groups and singers of the 60's but when my cousin put the Stones Album Paint It Black (1966) on the record player, I knew I was a fan for life.
I love other songs from various Stones' albums and I still listen to their music even today. However, there is someone that took over the #1 spot in my music lover's catalog and that's Bob Seger. So many great songs from this artist. I won't even try to list them but as much as I like all of his songs, not one reaches me more now than ever before than his 1986 recording Like A Rock. Great song then but when you start getting older, the lyrics mean more than when you were young. I love love love this song . . .
My first memory of country band Sawyer Brown is their song named "Heart, Don't Fall Now". I only love the song even more now that I am older. I believe that it went to radio the year that I turned four years old in 1986.
God bless you and each past and present member always!!!
Holly (one of their many fans)
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