I 'm watching Bob Dylan for the first time on BBC4. Is there an artist that overwhelmed you the first time you listen to them?
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February 26th, 2010
His words are so true after all these years!
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I don’t understand the question. Yes, Bob Dylan is is great. <<shrug>>
When I first heard the Beatles’s “Let it Be”, I cried, and it was my lullaby for many a night.
You’re just now hearing Bob Dylan? What?
Dave Matthews has brought me to tears, a few times.
We’re on “Maggies farm” now I know this from early 80’s Britain!
@Mat74UK Wow, that’s surprising. Well here is one of my favorite Dylan songs that’s not as popular as some of his others.
Tom Waits was an artist that instantly clicked for me, right after the first time I heard him. He hasn’t brought me to tears, but it was a connection right from the start.
Janis Joplin, Sara Brightman, Caruso. Karen Carepenter would also be included
not only for her voice but that something extra of life’s sweetness she gave through her singing.
Many for different reasons – but the most pronounced was Bright Eyes, at the time – and not because I loved it right away…
I love most of the artists already listed.
The Stray Cats blew me away when I first saw them on TV. I knew them from a punk radio station I listened to, but I was shocked that all that music was coming from 3 guys.
Bruce Springsteen when I first saw him live in Red Bank, NJ in about 1978. I was dancing in the aisles.
Bibo No Aozora, the piano piece from the movie Babel, by Ryuchi Sakamoto made me cry almost immediately and still does sometimes.
Nara by E.S. Posthumus.
Moonlight Sonata by Beethoven.
Caleb Followill is the lead singer from Kings of Leon. Listening to his voice brings on a lot of emotions.
Nina Simone. If the Beatles for me were a warm gun, Nina Simone was an AK-47.
@Vunessuh – The Kings Of Leon live are amazing! The wife took me for my birthday!
@Mat74UK I bet they are. I would love to see them in concert. Lucky you. His voice is captivating.
@Vunessuh – Sheffield Dec 2008 seems like yesterday. I lost my voice singing along!
Oh man, so many…but recently, Ryan Adams.
I heard ”Come Pick Me Up” on the ElizabethTown soundtrack and had to hear more. I soon picked up ”Easy Tiger” and was just blown away.
Then a very generous friend gave me all his albums (solo and otherwise) and I cannot stop listening to him.
I play him so much, my daughter’s been singing his songs.
His lyrics just crush me.
When I listen to the beatles Abby road, I was about 17 and really getting into rock and roll, especially how the Beatles became to trippy.
The first time I heard Led Zeppelin 1.
The singer, Sade. Everything she does…overwhelm is the right word.
Re Dylan, an obscure favorite of mine, by him: “Highway 61 Revisited”...see/hear them both on UTube.
It certainly wasn’t Bob Dylan.
6th Grade – Enter Sandman – Metallica. That song was the rawest, hardest thing I had ever heard before and it was amazing.
The first tome I saw/heard Jason Mraz. I thought he was phenomenal! I still do.
I’ll never forget the first time I heard Pink Floyd’s Dark Side of the Moon on headphones…wow!
I went to a John McGlaughlin (sp) and the Mahavishnu Orchestra concert, back in the 70’s, and when he came out playing madly, in his flowing white Kurta and all the lighting and electrical sounds coming at us like BEES….well, I’d never heard anything like it! I sat, half in awe and half in meditation, wide-eyed through the entire show. When over, I uttered a weak, “wow..”
@Ellen33 That is so awesome you got to see that! WOW!! I love JM and his time with the Mahavishnu Orc was ground breaking in terms of exposing the western world to an amazing experience! Lucky you!! I saw him do a solo show but could only imagine the orchestra on stage would be mind bending!
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