Listening to the radio tonight, a song came on, heard it countless times before, know it word for word.

But, at 46, I had this realisation that it was *the* song that made me start to really appreciate music.

Run to the Hills, Iron Maiden.

Weird how all of a sudden the realisation came to me.

[video]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ipGhzrIi3s[/video]

like the OP, mine was Iron Maiden, but Phantom Of The Opera
and Queen – Bohemian Rhapsody

as a hip hop fan….

Roxanne Shante, Shante rox on

KC – Give it up!

Cool cool memories of this blaring out by the beach as a 10 yo back in ’83 ish

metal guru – first record I bought

might have to stop wearing glittery stars on my cheek now I’m nearly 50 though 🙁

Please no Youtube embedded video’s without the text to say the song, some of us CBA to watch the video but are interested in your thoughts.

For me =
Sit Down – James

BTW – I was a Maiden fan before RTTH (didn’t want to like Dickinson when he joined) but it really did change how I thought about music.

Bohemian Rhapsody!

NMA – No Rest. I was 20 when this came out & I’d been following them for over 2 years already. Their one & only UK top 30 hit record

you can watch it if you want, but you don’t have to:

[video]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dbv_ant8H8w[/video]

I was at their gig in Leeds last week. They still do this one. sometimes

Power and the Passion by Midnight Oil from their 10,9,8 … album. It was 1982 and I was 18 and had never been interested in music till I heard this at a mate’s place. Brilliant.

First ‘song’ that made me realise that music could affect your mood (big brother bought the 7″)
[video]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mh0orhvcxBY[/video]

The first track I thought no home should be without:
[video]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=scif2vfg1ug[/video]

This ‘rebooted’ my musical tastes for a while:
[video]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HUMh8GQnDW8[/video]

Saw The Smiths in ’86 and then the South Bank Show not long after – the first (and possibly last) time I’ve mourned the collapse of a band:
[video]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bbr57W70UdE[/video]

Either White Lines or something from The Cramps’ Smell of Female ep.

Fugazi-Waiting Room
I was 15 when my girlfriend at the time got me the album. I wore it out, and it still sounds fantastic now I’m 40…

[video]http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=H9sx90BTh2A[/video]

Suicidal Tendencies – Institutionalized

When I was 16 ‘Liberator’ (Spear of Destiny) did have a bit of an effect too.

Amazing coincidence. I opened this thread and, as I read the opening line from jondoh, my Windows Media Player (on shuffle with c.1000+ songs) started playing ‘Run to the Hills’
Shiver down the spine
Go Bruce
No particular song, but about 1982 – ‘Number of the Beast'(The Prisoner), ‘Back in Black’ and the Friday Rock Show.

That *is* spooky…

[video]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VdphvuyaV_I[/video]

this also, Billy Idol – Rebel Yell
still good now!

I seem to remember my older sister had two albums I always would Nick from her room, Queen Greatest hits and Lou Reed Transformer. Satellite of love, later it was UB40 and Ivory Madonna.

loddrik – Member 
Suicidal Tendencies – Institutionalized

Fantastic!

[video]http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=LoF_a0-7xVQ&desktop_uri=%2Fwatch%3Fv%3DLoF_a0-7xVQ[/video]

Utah Saints – Something good. I don’t know how many times I have listened to the whole album. It seems to be the one go to playlist of choice on my iPod.

I actually wore out my first copy of Maiden’s NOTB – bought a second copy and gave the first to my unappreciative brother.

[video]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bif2q_Zo3-4[/video]
And Alec – if you ever see this ….thanks!

Inspiral Carpets – This how it feels to be lonely

Or

Radiohead – Creep

Sweet exorcist test one.

Still love this,

And this

Epitome of hype ladies with an attitude .

The music was so good when I was a young’un (sighs)
http://youtu.be/jwUwgzUHPFA

Sultans of Ping -‘ Where’s me Jumper’, but probably due to a spate of lost kiddie school jumpers.

So:
Gn’R – Sweet Child ‘o Mine – GCSE year
House of Pain – Jump Around – A levels
And oddly, En Vogue – My lovin – (the ‘never gonna get it’ song)- uni

I was aware of songs from when I was small, Freight Train, by Nancy Whisky, was a song that I always remember hearing on the radio, but the album that totally changed my perspective of what music could sound like was one I borrowed from a classmate, because I’d never seen a cover like it, and the very first track was like nothing I’d ever heard before, and still sounds unlike anything else from 1969:

[video]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ujIbpt-CCTY&sns=em[/video]

King Crimson In The Court Of The Crimson King, and 21st Century Schizoid Man

[video]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AFXJF2Y_9rM[/video]

Anarchy In The UK