First Album That Got You Into Your Favourite Band(s)

jadis · 08-08-2021, 06:44 AM

Getting into artists through their most acclaimed studio albums? Anyone can do that. It's more fun to get into something through a random compilation some label that existed for two years around 1998 put out and you would find their stuff in the bargain bins of your local record shops years later...

Got into Beefheart through this compilation, has lots of great stuff from the pre-TMR era and the teenage me thought the cover was pretty cool

Followed by this

Into Eno through this on a worn-out vinyl

Into Stranglers through this

Hendrix through this

Another bargain bin CD I remember really liking

Tristan_Geoff · 08-08-2021, 02:00 PM

Favorite band in general? That's a tough one but ig I'll try to answer.

at the moment it's probably Kraftwerk still and the album that got me into them was Autobahn, in 2019

Mucha na Dziko · 08-09-2021, 10:35 AM

"Paranoid" by Black Sabbath

Though they aren't my favourite band anymore, they were for a long time (since I was 12 up until I went to high school), and they were the first band I counsciously became "fan of".

I saw Paranoid on my dad's iPod one day, and really loved the cover art, and when I heard the music I was like "damn...how can anybody be that heavy and melodic at the same time?!? Favourite band of all time!"

And then I discovered that they were coming to Poland, for a show of their Ozzy Osbourne Reunion tour. And I wanted to go so bad, damn. But my father told me he ain't gonna buy us any tickets for a concert by a band I only know one album.
So the next six months I was obsessed with buying Black Sabbath CDs in the local store. Every few weeks I went to the shop and bought the next album, then devour it for a week or two, and then back to the music store to buy another album.

So after a couple of months I had my collection of all Ozzy Osbourne era Black Sabbath records.

And my father bought me and himself tickets for the show.
And so my love affair with music began.

The Batlord · 08-09-2021, 04:34 PM

For a second there I was gonna say something mean about your dad but he came through in the end.

Mucha na Dziko · 08-10-2021, 07:10 AM

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Originally Posted by The Batlord

For a second there I was gonna say something mean about your dad but he came through in the end.

Well yeah, I mean it was quite a good thing he did, because in this simple way the thought a another way of consuming music.

That was the whole point I think – like, to motivate me, or make me see some other side of the story (the artist, the fanboying, the collector, the conscious recipient/consumer)

SlyStone63 · 08-10-2021, 07:35 AM

Stand!

bob_32_116 · 08-25-2021, 02:00 PM

My two favourite bands are Genesis, and porcupine Tree.

The respective albums were Foxtrot, and Fear of a Blank Planet.

Terrapin_Station · 08-26-2021, 06:47 AM

My favorite musical artist overall is Igor Stravinsky. And I can remember the album that made me obsessed with him:

Firebird Suite/Petrushka - Pierre Monteux / Paris Conservatoire Orchestra

That was a birthday present from my grandfather (who had already gotten me into a fair amount of classical, big band/swing, etc.) when I was 9 years old, the year it was released with that particular cover.

Second favorite musical artist is Frank Zappa. That's not as simple, because I heard him prior to thinking "I have got to buy everything this guy does!" But what really got me into him was Uncle Meat, a couple years after it was released (so 1971, and almost the same exact time that I got into Stravinsky above), because one of my drum teachers at the time was into Zappa and he had me work on playing along with a couple tunes from the album. 200 Motels, which came out just a few weeks prior to my ninth birthday, was the first Zappa album I bought when it was new. (I was also taking piano lessons at the time, which is one of the things I bonded with my grandfather over, as he was a pretty good amateur pianist).

jadis · 08-27-2021, 09:34 AM

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Originally Posted by Terrapin_Station

My favorite musical artist overall is Igor Stravinsky. And I can remember the album that made me obsessed with him:

Firebird Suite/Petrushka - Pierre Monteux / Paris Conservatoire Orchestra

That was a birthday present from my grandfather (who had already gotten me into a fair amount of classical, big band/swing, etc.) when I was 9 years old, the year it was released with that particular cover.

Second favorite musical artist is Frank Zappa. That's not as simple, because I heard him prior to thinking "I have got to buy everything this guy does!" But what really got me into him was Uncle Meat, a couple years after it was released (so 1971, and almost the same exact time that I got into Stravinsky above), because one of my drum teachers at the time was into Zappa and he had me work on playing along with a couple tunes from the album. 200 Motels, which came out just a few weeks prior to my ninth birthday, was the first Zappa album I bought when it was new. (I was also taking piano lessons at the time, which is one of the things I bonded with my grandfather over, as he was a pretty good amateur pianist).

Great choices. As I'm sure you know Zappa was a big Stravinsky fan, which I guess was practically inevitable at the time unless you were a hardcore Schoenbergian.

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jadis Music Addict Join Date: Jun 2021 Location: dont ask Posts: 1,360	Getting into artists through their most acclaimed studio albums? Anyone can do that. It's more fun to get into something through a random compilation some label that existed for two years around 1998 put out and you would find their stuff in the bargain bins of your local record shops years later... Got into Beefheart through this compilation, has lots of great stuff from the pre-TMR era and the teenage me thought the cover was pretty cool Followed by this Into Eno through this on a worn-out vinyl Into Stranglers through this Hendrix through this Another bargain bin CD I remember really liking

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bob_32_116 Music Addict Join Date: Mar 2016 Location: 32S 116E Posts: 324	My two favourite bands are Genesis, and porcupine Tree. The respective albums were Foxtrot, and Fear of a Blank Planet.

08-26-2021, 06:47 AM	#38 (permalink)
Terrapin_Station Music Addict Join Date: Nov 2015 Location: NYC Man Posts: 877	My favorite musical artist overall is Igor Stravinsky. And I can remember the album that made me obsessed with him: Firebird Suite/Petrushka - Pierre Monteux / Paris Conservatoire Orchestra That was a birthday present from my grandfather (who had already gotten me into a fair amount of classical, big band/swing, etc.) when I was 9 years old, the year it was released with that particular cover. Second favorite musical artist is Frank Zappa. That's not as simple, because I heard him prior to thinking "I have got to buy everything this guy does!" But what really got me into him was Uncle Meat, a couple years after it was released (so 1971, and almost the same exact time that I got into Stravinsky above), because one of my drum teachers at the time was into Zappa and he had me work on playing along with a couple tunes from the album. 200 Motels, which came out just a few weeks prior to my ninth birthday, was the first Zappa album I bought when it was new. (I was also taking piano lessons at the time, which is one of the things I bonded with my grandfather over, as he was a pretty good amateur pianist).