Earliest music interest ?

[Bizkit]

Going back into time,can you recall the first real musical interest you had? For instance your first cd,cassette,record or whatever it may have been and is it still on your playlist? I was browsing my youtube channel and the thought popped into my mind.

The ''Dirt'' album by Alice in Chains was the first cd I ever owned. How about everybody else?

 

[Bugman]

My parents were of the Great Depression - WWII generation so I grew with with Glenn Miller, Artie Shaw, Sinatra etc. Then I started taking cello lessons in 5th grade and the classics entered my life. Still love them both.

I don't recall the first album I bought (no Cd's or cassette's in those days) but it was probably something by one of the classical composers.

 

[milagros317]

The first song that I remember liking a lot was Elvis Presley's version of "Hound Dog" which he performed when I was six years old.

 

[Snail Shell]

The album FLOOD by They Might Be Giants.

Snail Shell

 

[kwildoctr]

According to my parents, Bill Haley and the Comets (when I was about 2 or 3).

R

 

[Skipadeedoodah]

My first favorite song ever was Don't Worry Be Happy - and yes, I still listen to it often.

 

[Soda Bobinski]

"Earliest" , huh?

I used to sing this song called The Alphabet all the damn time when I was just a wee lad.


Still know all the words , too.

 

[AmishTickler]

Good question. I remember being intrigued by my uncle's music. He had a HUGE collection of albums that he had lined up and organized in alphabetical order under his top-of-the-line stereo system. I can remember two songs in particular that he played for me...Squeeze Box by the Who and Barracuda by Heart. I think at that point I was hooked on "rock and roll" music and have been ever since. A funny tidbit on the Who song...Squeeze Box was on the album titled "The Who By Numbers" and the album cover had a connect the dots type of thing on it. And I can remember wanting to connect the dots on the album cover and my uncle making sure that did not happen. lol

 

[Em Es]

Jim Croce

Jim Croce was the first recording artist I liked when I was a boy whose music I still play today.

 

[Bugman]

Jim Croce was the first recording artist I liked when I was a boy whose music I still play today.

Bad Bad Leroy Brown, Time In A Botltle, Operator... Too many to name. He died far too young on September 20, 1973. 🙁

 

[unit5610]

First album I loved when I was a kid, aside from the Beatles albums was Big Hits, Green Grass and High Tide by the Rolling Stones when I was 5 years old. First single I got my mom to buy me in a store was either "Come On Down to My Boat" by Every Mother's Son or "Happy Together" by The Turtles. Both are now on my I-Tunes 60s playlist. The first album I bought with my own money was War Child by Jethro Tull when I was like 14.

 

[TklDuo-Ann]

The earliest things I remember listening to a lot were Spike Jones, Micky Katz and various big band albums. Oh, and I can't forget our Happy Monsters album that we played constantly...and actually still have. The first thing I ever bought for myself was Barry Manilow's first album, followed by more of his stuff, some of Bobby Vinton's stuff, then Kool and the Gang, Herbie Hancock, Queen, Abba, AC/DC, Eddie Rabbit, various spiritual albums, etc. I've always liked a variety of stuff. I still listen to most on occassion. Drew has broadened my horizons in that area even more since his tastes are even more varied.

 

[Jagermeistered]

My tastes in music is weird. I like old school country, but not really into it. I know sounds and lyrics, but not into fusing the artists into memory(only: Garth Brooks, Nitty Gritty,etc.). Most music I've enjoyed in my kid years were compilations for movie soundtracks on tape. Like: Navy Seals, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, and so on(90's stuff). My first actual band I was into: Screeching Weasel(punk rock). Since then, rock and metal all the way.

 

[Mitchell]

The first song I ever remember loving was "50 Ways To Leave Your Lover" on Paul Simon's Still Crazy After All These Years album. The song came out when I was five. My father used to have an eight track player in the seventies, and would play that song in our apartment all the time.

OMG that song just made me think of a bad line. Remember how the song in the middle goes like "Slip out the back, Jack, make a new plan, Stan. ". If Simon had REALLY wanted to be rude in that song, he could have made up a line with my name: "Ditch the Bitch, Mitch".

LOL, sorry a bit of humor there.

Mitch

 

[me4o]

I don't remember the first song I heard, nor do I remember the first album that I bought. But I used to love rap music when I was smaller(2pac, D.M.X., Eminem, Notorious B.I.G) and lots of other artists, incuding some Bulgarian ones. Since that time, I've stopped following this genre so much, but I occasionally listen to my old records or browse Youtube for something new and intersting, or for some old classics 😉

 

[Artoo]

Felix Mendelssohn was probably the first composer I remember hearing and enjoying.

 

[TklDuo-Drew]

The earliest song I can remember liking was "A Little Bit of Soul" by The Music Explosion.

My earliest introduction to jazz was when I was very young, watching the Marx Brothers movie "Love Happy". I was intriged by some of the backround music in one scene, I found out years later it was a raunchy version of "Willow Weep For Me"



Drew