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Two that honestly changed my life:

Posted by Prisoners (A) on May 2, 2015 at 12:10:30

In Reply to: Pivotal albums in your musical life? posted by LWR on May 2, 2015 at 08:09:22:

The first was Van Halen's debut in 1978. I was 10 years old and my mom had taken me to a house party. She was still young herself, only 30. The guy at the stereo system was playing a lot of LPs and when I heard this I was no longer a bored kid trying to stay out of the adult's way. I picked up the jacket and studied the pictures and song titles and just knew I had to own this. The DJ guy asked me if I wanted to listen to the new Tom Petty and I distinctly remember saying "No, I wanna hear THIS again!" It was my first exposure to anything approaching heavy metal and I loved it. I had no idea that 'You Really Got Me' was a Kinks cover...or even who The Kinks were. Eddie Van Halen playing 'Eruption' is something I wish I could experience for the first time many times.

The other life-changing album for me was Judas Priest's 'Point of Entry' released in 1980. 'Heading Out to the Highway' was a big FM hit and it was the first song I'd ever heard from them. The melody, guitar harmonies, and lyrics promising freedom and independence really grabbed me. That summer I went to my first metal show; it was Judas Priest on this tour with a very raw but powerful Iron Maiden as the opening act. I had seen Queen, Zappa, and The Cars only a few months before but this....this was something else entirely. The power of the aural/visual assault was overwhelming and seemed dangerous to a wide-eyed twelve year old. I'll never forget how dazed I felt coming out of the venue and how I recognized that this was indeed a life-changing event: I was simply not the same kid that I'd been three hours before. When my mom picked up my friends and I outside the concert hall she asked "How was it?" and I couldn't answer....I had no words to describe what I just saw and heard and I remember struggling to answer. "I liked it" or "it was great" were simply inadequate.

While my musical tastes have expanded into most all genres I still listen to these two records quite often. Both led me to explore other powerful albums froma variety of artists.

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