The First Song You Heard from Your Facorite Artist(s) and the Aftermath
 

Could be an interesting thing. There's always a time before you've discovered any certain music that you now couldn't imagine life without.

The first Sonic Youth track I heard was "The Sprawl" and it drew me in with ease. I went on from there to listen to Daydream Nation and find myself amazed. The blend of textural noise and indie rock on that album opened me up to deeper experimental noise stuff. It was a while ago, and like nothing I'd ever heard

First Burzum track I ever heard was this beauty:



And I instantly became a fan. I hadn't heard all that much black metal at the time, but I still knew this was it's own beast, with an approach I had never really heard before.


The first AJJ song I heard was American Tune, and if you're familiar with it I think it goes without saying the initial reaction is "wtf am I listening to?" Wasn't long before I gave the rest of the album a listen, and with that I became hooked. Knife Man is still my favourite of their releases to this day, probably because it was the first one I listened to.

This is *very* conventional - the first song I Heard by my favorite band was "I Want to Hold Your Hand" way back in the year 1963. I heard the song on the radio in Sweden which I was visiting in the summer on my vacation (I lived in the USA at the time, even though I am a Swede by birth).

I decided that I wished to hear more of the Beatles. So I soon noticed "She Loves You" on the radio back "home" in America ac while later (in the spring of 1964). The Beatles, along with the Dave Clark Five and the Beach Boys, were my first favorite musical artists. I grew up in the suburbs of America during the 1960s. Nowadays I am an old fart!

Hearing this song sent me down the rabbit hole looking for more rap rock bands or as I later came to find out what's considered nu metal. I felt like it was the perfect marriage between two genres that I listen to. It's pretty funny how I used to introduce people to Linkin Park that either hated rap and only liked rock and vice versa but they all loved Linkin' Park. I ended up bridging the gap between genre faithful from casual listeners that I knew.

I think the first AJJ track I heard was "Survival Song" and I wasn't a huge fan initially. It was something off that album. I relistened to it after I started listening to Mischief Brew so much. rip MB :(:(:(:(

Thought it sucked, checked out Safe As Milk a few months later, checked out TMR again, and the rest is history.

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Kardusen off of "Yes I Am" was the first track I ever heard from pg.lost and from that point onwards, they released Key which I now have a vinyl copy of, and simultaneously became the band I'd be able to be known for loving the most. They've constantly blown me away with everything they've done, and I hope they continue to do so.

Back when Songs for the Deaf first came out my dad would play it in the car driving places. He'd always skip the first song though. Never letting me hear what essentially would become my all time favorite track. But the sounds of a car "beeping" stuck out. I had no idea what the name of the album, the song, or anything of the sort was. Eventually my father got sick of it and switched back to talk radio. And as time went by I forgot about the album.

One day, going through my parents CD's I came across Songs For the Deaf. In my mind I had never heard this album before. I had no idea who the band was. So I decided to give the album a spin. When the sounds of the car "beeping" came on, I was blown away. It caused all these memories I had forgotten about to come rushing back. And as the track played through, I was blown away by just how incredible the song my father always skipped was. From then on, I was in love with that album for the nostalgic reasons and the fact that it's just a fucking perfect album!

Technically for John Zorn it was Love Is a Fist by Mr. Bungle (along with the production of the rest of the album).

I'm not sure when I actually got into Zorn albumwise. Torture Garden, Spy vs. Spy, Naked Coty's s/t, and IAO were some of my early favourites. I went way down that rabbit hole. His best new album is Inferno.

Cool tune but it's just so repetitive after the first couple of minutes,

1969. Nine years old. Turn it up really loud and listen when JPJ comes in with his bass. Hard rock was knocked on its ass once this came out.

All of you modern recording dudes, Page and Eddie Kramer did that middle section using an 8 track analog mixer and tape recorder.