Your musical moment of zen?

[Taverner]

Me?

When I first heard "Sunday Morning" by The Velvet Underground

It showed that a truly great song could be more than just power chords and testosterone

A simple beauty that could have been by anybody

But yet, it was by the VU - and it just worked so beautifully

[taterguy]

1. Seeing Husker Du on their 1984 tour

Well, actually I saw them in 1985 but 1984 makes it fit the thread title better.

[Taverner]

2. What happened there?

[Richard Steele]

14. EVERYTHING you ever imagined happened at some point on Husker Du's '84 tour.

It was a whirlwind of hedonism.

Coke, smoke, firearms, fire engines, and boobs everywhere in between....
man, that tour had EVERYTHING!

[mcctatas]

3. Mine are mood related...

right now, it has been this one
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1SmxVCM39j4

But I think the all time one that still sticks with me has to be The Chieftans with Roger Daltrey singing Behind Blue Eyes:

(pay no attention to the animation on the video, but love the song)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=efI6iefWpgE

[Dr Morbius]

4. The first time I heard Knights of Cydonia.

I was one with everything.

Someone on this here message board arranged this moment; all things are truly connected.

[AllenVanAllen]

5. For me it's Pink Floyd's "Comfortably Numb."

To this day it takes me back to that rainy day of my childhood. To me, the sound is simply sublime.

[Taverner]

9. Oh definitely

[cherokeeprogressive]

35. That song haunts me even after all these years.

I heard the world premiere of The Wall on Jim Ladd's show, laying on my bed stoned out of my mind and zinging from a few cross tops. Big KOSS earphones... when I heard that guitar solo I was taken from this universe and shown another.

All. Time. Favorite. Song.

When I was a child
I caught a fleeting glimpse
Out of the corner of my eye
I turned to look but it was gone
I cannot put my finger on it now
The child is grown, the dream is gone
I have become Comfortably Numb

That so describes me.

[Old Troop]

6. "Betcha by Golly Wow" by the Stylistics

[abq e streeter]

7. Not exactly sure what you mean; I have a few but not sure if they're what you're asking about

[Ron Green]

11. I think he's talking about listening.

Yeah, I've got a few of those you're thinking about, too.

[Xipe Totec]

8. Santana Singing Winds, Crying Beasts

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=frntiiyoreg

[JuniperLea]

10. "Black Sabbath"

What is this that stands before me?
Figure in black which points at me
Turn around quick, and start to run
Find out I'm the chosen one
Oh no


First, there was "Satisfaction" by The Rolling Stones... and I merrily rocked for a decade or so... then Black Sabbath ripped my metal virginity from me, chewed it up and spat it back at me... I've worn it proudly ever since.

[Taverner]

12. That whole album is a masterpiece!

Downtuned guitars, Ozzy's vocal, wow - pure metal madness

[JuniperLea]

15. Indeed...

It taught me to fear the devil, something my Sunday school teacher failed to do my entire life before!

[JCMach1]

39. Sabbath transcends metal... it is also proto-punk

[mitchum]

42. Agreed...they were also art rock

[Walk away]

13. "Cupid" sung by the great Sam Cooke...

I was just a kid but it blew my mind!

[WCGreen]

16. Frigid Pinks version of House ot the Rising Sun...

Seriously, it was the Animals verson that rocked my world...

Frigid Pink gave it that Heavy Metal ummpp...


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t40INnb6DnY


Another one that got me was Do The Strand by Roxy Music.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TWfXqae1NzA&feature=related

and of course, Deep Purples Highway Star...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KgZSnAkQc4c

[abq e streeter]

19. Saw Frijid Pink ( with Alice Cooper) in Oct.1970

Almost 40 years ago...WHAT???

Memories the next morning were, uh , just a little hazy, but seems to me that I thoroughly enjoyed the evening.

[WCGreen]

30. My first show was around that time....

Neil Young on the Harvest Tour with Linda Rhondstat with the Eagles as her back-up band...

[carlyhippy]

17. Surf's Up by the Beach Boys

not only music, but a work of art :)

[abq e streeter]

18. +1 at least

[Taverner]

26. That one song is comparable with Beatles' Abbey Road

And remember this is one song, up against an album!

Not to denigrate any of these...

[abq e streeter]

20. One was Hard to Be a Saint in the City

Had only vaguely heard of Bruce Springsteen, but heard that one song, and said this is "the one". IMO, I was dead-on right.

[Taverner]

23. What about the Bowie version?

Check it out - kind of different...

[abq e streeter]

28. Didn't know he did it...will look for it

[kayakjohnny]

21. There were a few, but this was probably the big one for me...

Loved everything about this collection.

Had the album. Played it relentlessly.

And also played 3 or 4 eight-tracks of it into the ground.

[abq e streeter]

22. Another was my first night of ever listening to rocknroll radio; WLS , Chicago in 1961

I remember hearing Dion, Chubby Checker, Sandy Nelson, I think The Marcels, among others. I can still picture the exact scene;ten years old, my little brown radio on top of the dresser in the corner of my bedroom, and to quote Jerry Garcia ,"the whole world just went kablooie".


Despite all the amputations, you could dance to the rock and roll station, and it was ALL RIGHT.

[Taverner]

24. Ahhhhyessssss

To be a part of that must have been an epiphany...

[abq e streeter]

27. One of the WLS jocks was named Bob Hale

and even at ten years old, I remember noticing how emotional he'd become when he introduced an "oldie" by Buddy Holly, but didn't really think about it beyond noticing ( didn't really know about the plane crash etc, and at ten of course, almost 3 years earlier is ancient history. ) Found out many years later that Bob Hale had MC'd the show at the Surf Ballroom on Feb 2nd. 1959, and had seen Buddy, Ritchie and The Bopper off at the airport. But yeah, in those early days, rock and roll wasn't universally listened to ( or almost universally) and I discovered it before any of my friends. And yes, an epiphany it was, and still remains.

[abq e streeter]

25. And yet another-first time I heard 8 Days A Week--been lukewarm about the Beatles till then

( more of a soul music guy, so I was really into The Animals and Stones) but 8 Days a Week made me realize I was wrong and the rest of the world was right about how great the Beatles were.

[abq e streeter]

29. One last one ( no promises though)... Like a Rolling Stone

OK, another one---Papa's Got a Brand New Bag

[mitchum]

31. When I first heard Howlin' Wolf's voice

Sam Phillips was right

[greendog]

32. The sign outside the bar said "Country Blues Band"...

The band was fronted by a old man playing a mandolin. I had no idea at the time that he was playing music that he first recorded in the '20's.

One of the obscure inventors of the blues:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JOyvWiiV-EU&feature=related

[Tikki]

33. "Marquee Moon"....Television

a truly transitional sound going from the 60's and into the 70s...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jlbunmCbTBA


Tikki

[mitchum]

34. I have listened to it a thousand times and it still has that power

There is always a new ahhh moment every time

[datasuspect]

36. i was 14 when i bought my first copy of the velvet underground and nico

the banana cover.

vinyl.

i wore that fucker out. best track for me was "I'll be your mirror"

yeah, some VU went a long way when i was a confused teen.

[datasuspect]

37. oh, and the last part of pinball wizard when elton john sings it

actually, the whole thing just moves me.

[Forkboy]

38. "I saw that Alice Cooper on Burt Sugarman's Midnight Special..."

"He did Raped and Freezing."

[JCMach1]

40. Putting on 'Fables of the Reconstruction' for the first time

R.E.M. at their best...

Like some warped musical dream you can't quite make out, or wake up from...

At least it's something you've left behind
Like Kohoutek, you were gone

[mycatfred]

41. For me

There are a lot of songs that just make me feel perfect.
And you'll laugh when you hear (read) two of them. Because they are Avril Lavigne cheesy pop songs. But Runaway and Innocence are great songs if you ask me.
Also: Let it be- The Beatles.
Beauty in the Breakdown- The scene Aesthetic
Indiana- The Meg and Dia band
And tons more. . .
Also, if this counts, when I play the song "Fugue in C" by Bach on my cello, I get the same feeling. I have no clue why.

[Bertha Venation]

43. O Magnum Mysterium by Morten Lauridsen

I can't describe it.