What band had you hooked from the first song you heard from them?

[geminibear]

Van Halen - Running With the Devil

 

[+ purplekow]

The Archies Sugar Sugar i dare you to listen all the way through and then try to get the tune out of your head. It has been rattling around in the large empty spaces of my brain for 47 years.

Love me some Reggie and Moose (not pictured)

[bigvalboy]

 

 

Stood there boldly

Sweatin' in the sun

Felt like a million

Felt like number one

The height of summer

I'd never felt that strong

Like a rock

 

I was eighteen

Didn't have a care

Working for peanuts

Not a dime to spare

But I was lean and

Solid everywhere

Like a rock

 

My hands were steady

My eyes were clear and bright

My walk had purpose

My steps were quick and light

And I held firmly

To what I felt was right

Like a rock

 

Like a rock, I was strong as I could be

Like a rock, nothin' ever got to me

Like a rock, I was something to see

Like a rock

 

And I stood arrow straight

Unencumbered by the weight

Of all these hustlers and their schemes

I stood proud, I stood tall

High above it all

I still believed in my dreams

 

Twenty years now

Where'd they go?

Twenty years

I don't know

Sit and I wonder sometimes

Where they've gone

 

And sometimes late at night

When I'm bathed in the firelight

The moon comes callin' a ghostly white

And I recall

I recall

 

Like a rock. standin' arrow straight

Like a rock, chargin' from the gate

Like a rock, carryin' the weight

Like a rock

 

Like a rock, the sun upon my skin

Like a rock, hard against the wind

Like a rock, I see myself again

Like a rock

 

 

Edited May 14, 2016 by bigvalboy

[Brian Kevin]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l0QATz8aEAc

 

Childhood living

Is easy to do

The things you wanted

I bought them for you

 

This song and anything Stevie Nicks or Fleetwood Mac but this one....... wild horses takes the cake.

[+ purplekow]

 

 

Stood there boldly

Sweatin' in the sun

Felt like a million

Felt like number one

The height of summer

I'd never felt that strong

Like a rock

 

I was eighteen

Didn't have a care

Working for peanuts

Not a dime to spare

But I was lean and

Solid everywhere

Like a rock

 

My hands were steady

My eyes were clear and bright

My walk had purpose

My steps were quick and light

And I held firmly

To what I felt was right

Like a rock

 

Like a rock, I was strong as I could be

Like a rock, nothin' ever got to me

Like a rock, I was something to see

Like a rock

 

And I stood arrow straight

Unencumbered by the weight

Of all these hustlers and their schemes

I stood proud, I stood tall

High above it all

I still believed in my dreams

 

Twenty years now

Where'd they go?

Twenty years

I don't know

Sit and I wonder sometimes

Where they've gone

 

And sometimes late at night

When I'm bathed in the firelight

The moon comes callin' a ghostly white

And I recall

I recall

 

Like a rock. standin' arrow straight

Like a rock, chargin' from the gate

Like a rock, carryin' the weight

Like a rock

 

Like a rock, the sun upon my skin

Like a rock, hard against the wind

Like a rock, I see myself again

Like a rock

 

 

 

 

 

Great song but a bit too mournful. Prefer this one from Mr. Seger. With a young Matt LeBlanc https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bgOA24hAe60

[Becket]

AC/DC "You shook me all night long." I loved the line,.........."Knocking me out with those American thighs" So dam sexy.

 

Barbra Streisand: People. Stoney End. Loved her from the beginning.

[+ WilliamM]

http://www.dw.com/image/0,,18465757_401,00.jpg

 

 

Patti Smith in the 1970s. Joan Baez in the early 1960s.

[Beancounter]

Daddy Cool by Boney M

 

A.E.I. Amwana by Black Bood. Best Swahili rock group ever.

 

Edited May 15, 2016 by Beancounter

[+ azdr0710]

The Virginians - Nothing Could Be Sweeter

 

 

The Cars - Just What I Needed

 

[+ Phactor]

 

violent femmes "add it up"

 

Day after day, I will walk and I will play

But the day after today, I will stop and I will start

 

This was a hard call for me to choose just one ... good topic!

[Brian Kevin]

The Virginians - Nothing Could Be Sweeter

 

 

The Cars - Just What I Needed

 

 

I talk in my sleep AZDR!!!!

[mike carey]

I talk in my sleep AZDR!!!!

Are you telling me that you actually sleep, Brian?

[whipped guy]

The Police and Sting... "Every Breath You Take"

 

 

And I'll be watching you...

[Brian Kevin]

The Police and Sting... "Every Breath You Take"

 

 

And I'll be watching you...

 

 

Are you stalking us??

[geminibear]

Little River Band - Lonesome Loser

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tf-AmedKfRc

 

Lady

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BrnZv7fHGSE

[geminibear]

Steve Miller Band - Joker

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FgDU17xqNXo

[geminibear]

Three Dog Night - Shambala

 

 

Never Been to Spain

 

 

Mama Told Me Not to Come

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TshqjYGzGKk

[geminibear]

Crosby, Stills, & Nash - Suite Judy Blue Eyes

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JMbuJXQCIvo

[geminibear]

Nitty Gritty Dirt Band - Fishing In the Dark

 

[geminibear]

Alabama - Mountain Music

 

[bigvalboy]

Crosby, Stills, & Nash - Suite Judy Blue Eyes

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JMbuJXQCIvo

 

Alabama - Mountain Music

 

 

Wonderful memories geminibear....Alabama and Crosby Stills & Nash...two thumbs up!

[+ quoththeraven]

The Cars - Just What I Needed

 

 

Was that their first single? At any rate, I loved their first album. It's genius. And I was living in the Boston area at the time.

 

The Doors, "Light My Fire" (RIP, Jim Morrison and Ray Manzarek)

Jefferson Airplane, "Somebody to Love," Woodstock version

Renaissance, "Prologue" - not my favorite song of theirs, but probably the first one I heard.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xzAmqbpD4QA

I'm more of a CSNY fan myself.

[JayCeeKy]

In my third year of college my roommate introduced me to the music of Leonard Cohen. When I first heard "Suzanne" I was hooked.

 

http://rockhall.com/media/assets/blog_posts/songs_of_leonard_cohen_album.jpg

[bigvalboy]

Thanks QTR. Wonderful memories came rushing back. Jefferson Airplane "Somebody to Love" and I could add the Doors "LA Woman" and "Light My Fire"

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EGkq5PD1RU8

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vw40NMa_0RM

Edited May 15, 2016 by bigvalboy

[+ WilliamM]

 

I decided to go with Little Richard rather than Elvis Presley