First song to "Blow You Away"...

I was driving down I-65 today when Dylan's "Rainy Day Women #12 & 35" came on the radio. It took me back to 1965 or 66 when I was riding home from the store with Mom and "Like a Rolling Stone" came on the radio. We got home before the song ended so I ran into the house to turn the radio so I could catch the end of the song. Yeah, that was probably the first. I was maybe 12 years old.

I've got two tunes that send me to a another zone. The End by Doors and Logos By Tangerine Dream. There are some great song listed in this thread. I am going to made a play list of some to them and just float for an hour or so this weekend. Thanks all.

Purple Haze.

Our art teacher put on a psychedelic light show for our class & played Purple Haze full blast. I'd never heard anything like it and yes, as a mere boy in the late 60s, IT BLEW ME AWAY!!!!

Thanks Mr. Finegan :)

For so many reasons. First pop song to be recorded in a modular style. The song was recorded in five different recording studios taking more than 6 weeks to complete.....bouncing from 4 track to 8 track machines...try to hear that on the final recording. Brian Wilson somehow got the same sound from all 5 studios. Any recording engineers here will realize the difficulty of doing that in 2006, but in 1966??? The tempo changes so many times in a 3.5 minute span it's amazing. The song starts in the key G flat major (six flats) and starts with the verse descending from the relative minor: E flat minor. It was probably played in the key of F (one flat) with the verse starting on the chord of D minor and sped up at the mixdown stage. The song uses a solo cello and a theremin to build the rhythm section for one section, and in another section doubles a honky-tonk piano with a jaw's harp (this, at a time when typical pop songs used bass guitar, electric guitar, sometimes piano and drums) The instrumentation changes radically from section to section; the bass plays in some parts but not in others, drums and vocals drop in and out, and the voices sometimes accompany fully developed backing tracks (such as in the chorus) and are in parts almost a cappella. The beat, although the standard four-to-the bar, has a triplet feel, a three's over fours type thing. The second eight bars have a broken drum pattern, and the 16-bar chorus was edited into the multitrack master tape at some point during the construction of the track. When my ears first heard this Brian Wilson masterpiece in 1966, they took notice. This song forever changed not only my musical direction, but also changed the way music was recorded. Still quite an accoplishment even by todays standards. Great song, amazing production.

"Surealistic Pillow" by Jefferson Airplane back in 1967 in LaCrosse, Wisconsin at around 10:00pm in the dark with earphones on at the Spook House (the name of our place at college). It was the first time I believed that perhaps levitation was possible.