FabSwingers.com forum: Album that awakened you musically

By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago

Early teens I was into the New Romantic stuff, Heaven 17, Human League, Yazoo etc; but come maybe 15 I swapped a bmx for a bunch of rock albums with a guy from the local village (sadly died of a brain haemorrhage not long after poor bugger).

Anyhoo, in that pile of albums was Iron Maiden's Live After Death.

This record blew my mind when I heard it and still does today (was listening to it on the bike going to Glasgow the other day).

That then opened a whole can of metal worms for me through my late teens and into my 20s.

So what the album that you recall from your youth that made you aurally scream 'f**k me!'

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By *ustforalaugh1Man
over a year ago

Glasgow

Heaven 17; penthouse and pavement!

Blew me away, then and now!

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By *iverview1Couple
over a year ago

gourock

close to the edge by yes was my first.

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By *ionaScarletTV/TS
over a year ago

Dundee

It was Master of Puppets for me - Socks blown right off and out the window.

Live after Death is awesome though - Love that album

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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago

"It was Master of Puppets for me - Socks blown right off and out the window.

Live after Death is awesome though - Love that album

Used to alway think he was singing 'bastard, bastard, master of puppets is pulling your strings' lol was their last decent album in my view. Bought ride the lightning last week after hearing it in a pub in Malta week before

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By *all saulMan
over a year ago

Dunbartonshire

as a kid first hearing Pink Floyd - The Wall blew me away as did the film.

maybe young and impressionable but opened my eyes to older music

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By *oe bloggs69Man
over a year ago

fife

Sensation Alex Harvey band-framed

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"The holy bible" by the Manics

Lyrically bleak but beautiful,it's the sound of a band knowing their worth and of a lyrical genius knowing the end is nigh.

To this day there is still nothing that can touch it.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Nirvana - Bleach

Made me first pick up a guitar!

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

""The holy bible" by the Manics

Lyrically bleak but beautiful,it's the sound of a band knowing their worth and of a lyrical genius knowing the end is nigh.

To this day there is still nothing that can touch it."

And this is coming from the biggest smiths fan in the world.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

The Stone Roses eponymous first album.

It changed my life and I still get a tingle every time I listen to it. It still sounds fresh and great.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

The album that got me to get over my obsession with boybands was Jimmy Eat World - Bleed American. Still listen to it most days.

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By *all saulMan
over a year ago

Dunbartonshire

no vengaboys ? lol

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Vengaboys were my childhood favourite, Jimmy Eat World my teens

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Black Sabbath ruined my life (in a very good way)

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"The album that got me to get over my obsession with boybands was Jimmy Eat World - Bleed American. Still listen to it most days. "
salt sweat sugar on the outside. My absolute favourite.

My answer to this post was probably listing to Smoke on the water a mixtape my dad had with lots of greats hendrix/sabbath/thin lizzie/ zz top etc absolutely drove my music love into overdrive from there.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Bob till you Drop by Ry Cooder. Just for the perfect sounds.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Rainbow "Rising" , blew me away, and still love it and play it regularly (Mr)

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I dont know that it awakened me musically but the killers mr brightside album is my most memorable ... Cant hear a song on it without a rush of mental images from an excellent time in my life

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By *ikchattyfellahMan
over a year ago

Greenock

Ziggy Stardust when I was very young, made me realise just how good music could be..

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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago

Had just started high school and it was the hottest summer ever.

Was listening to the radio and heard Why Can't a This Be Love by Van Halen, the guitar intro bit sent shivers down my spine & set me on a very slippery slope to Rock/Metal heaven.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

i have 2,signing off ub40 and one step beyond madness

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By *amazingWoman
over a year ago

glasgow

Highway to Hell by AC/DC and Mean Streak by Y&T are the two that started my out on my love of all things rock.

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By *ere4agoodtime11Couple
over a year ago

East Lothian

Power Slave by Iron Maiden opened my eyes to the world. Hardly ever listen to it now as it heavier stuff but that was beginning

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By *oobsandballsMan
over a year ago

st andrews

Use Your Illusion I and II, Guns n Roses. Constantly on repeat as a teen and I have the best of album in the car. I'm still a rock chick

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Struggling to pin it on just one album.....the soundtrack to my childhood featured amongst so many the likes of The Rolling Stones,The Beatles,Pink Floyd,David Bowie,Frank Zappa,Led Zeppelin,The Doors....etc,etc.

Had a wee rebellion as a teenager n listened to a lot of industrial Lenny Dee type tunes.......got sick of that soon enough when I realised I couldn't dance to that stuff in a club for any longer than 5min without giving myself a heart attack!

Still love my dance music,just a bit more mellowed out these days.

I'll just pick one of many out the hat before this turns into a novel..................

The Beatles-Sgt Peppers Lonely Hearts Club Band........as I can still clearly remember knowing all the words to every song off it when I was 11-12ish

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By *rebor601cplCouple
over a year ago

edinburgh

Rainbow rising , brain salad surgery , fortress ,it's a long list ,oh and Billion Doller baby's

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Kate Bush, The Hounds of Love and Bob Marley,Uprising. Both albums still send a shiver down my spine

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By *damandeve4funCouple
over a year ago

Glasgow

The Doors compilation "13" was what triggered my initial interest in music. However, it was the emergence of punk that really started the ball rolling as far as buying much of it.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Listend to oasis and they did a cover hey hey my my Neil Young as you know so I bought a Neil Young album he did a bob Dylan cover on it bought a bob Dylan greatest hits then transcended to the sounds of the doors and now love a lot of everything musically. Although now looking back maybe it was the Paul McCartney frog song that started it all bk in 19 canteen who knows

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Van Halen's debut album. Still love it after all these years!!

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By *omaMan
over a year ago

Glasgow

Bowie. . The Man Who Sold The World

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By *hickensCouple
over a year ago

Inverness-ish

Pinky and perky

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Dads copy of Sgt Peppers

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

sun burst finish by be bop delux

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

First album that turned me on was the second Queen album. Turned me into a Queen anorak

However it also turned me onto Prog music.

Recently had a breakdown and have been on anti depressants and the album "Is There Anybody Out There " or The Wall live from Floyd helped get my MOJO back

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

My musical tastes are too eclectic to pick one album.

I did get a lot of kudos for having licensed to ill on import about 6 months before the beastie boys were turned into media sensations.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Issues by Korn and Americana by The Offspring were the two that got me away from boybands and into rock music.

Then it was Burn Piano Island, Burn by The Blood Brothers purely because I'd never heard any music that sounded anything like it before. Wasn't sure if I liked it at first but it's my number one now for sure

And Cross by Justice for showing me that dance music can actually be awesome.

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By *one IdolMan
over a year ago

your imagination

The Sonics ... Boom

Still play the vinyl copy I liberated from my old man

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Journey to the Centre of the Earth - Rick Wakeman. I know, showing my age. But he's still going strong. Saw him at Motherwell Town Hall the other night. So talented, and a great laugh.

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