The first "Heavy Metal" song you ever heard?

Cum On Feel The Noise in 1983. i was 5 years old.

Alice Cooper's "Feed My Frankenstein", courtesy of the Wayne's World movie.

I could call something that used to be labeled "heavy metal" and youngsters nowadays get too uptight about misrepresenting some genre / sub-genre / and or whatever. Something from Sabbath, either of the first two Zeppelin albums and even Iron Butterfly's "inna-godda-da-vida" or Steppenwolf's "Born To Be Wild" were my first exposure.

Angelcake Adonisus Fox wrote:

Alice Cooper's "Feed My Frankenstein", courtesy of the Wayne's World movie.

Classic!

Sabbath Bloody Sabbath & Number of The Beast....what chance did I have

Judas Priest's "Headin' out to the Highway"

each dawn i die and then came manilla road.....

I got into heavy music when I was in grade school in the 1970's. A lot of the kids were listening to the Jackson 5, Bay City Rollers, Shawn Cassidy, Bee Gees, etc. I was listening to Thin Lizzy, Ted Nugent, Aerosmith, and Kiss. I don't know what exactly was the first "song", or even "album" that I had heard though.

I had a neighbor who had two teenagers that use to blast music down the street. I remember hearing Aerosmith one time blaring from his house. I was addicted. That was 1975 I think. I became and Aero-fanatic from that day on. I also discovered Kiss, Thin Lizzy, Black Sabbath and Ted Nugent about that same time.

In the very early 1980's I purchased a record by a band called Judas Priest. The record was only half a dollar. It was "Stained Class" but was in the "Sin after Sin" cover, which is why it was so cheap. However, when I first heard "Exciter" I became a metal fanatic! That was it. Soon after, Priest released "Screaming for Vengeance" and I was a bonafide metalhead. Saxon, Motorhead, Iron Maiden, UFO, etc. all followed soon after.

basically whatever hard rock that was around in 1974-75 like Nazareth, Thin Lizzy, Aerosmith, Kiss, Ted Nugent, Montrose. That was what got me started.

metallica - enter sandman.

yes i know its SAD but true!

do you like my little pun there

TheGooch wrote:

do you like my little pun there

No.

i know
its rather crap

My father said he used to play the hard rockin' stuff like Thin Lizzy, Queen etc. to put us to sleep when we was babies.

"Fire" by THE CRAZY WORLD OF ARTHUR BROWN



It was my first 45 back in 1974 (even though it came out in 1968 - the year I was born). I heard it at my cousin's house and as soon as I heard that intro "I am the God of Hellfire, and I bring You..." I was HOOKED. Since I made such a big deal about it, my cousin gave me her 45 and I took it home and played it over and over and over and over on one of these:

First was Ozzy's Flying High Again and the second was Krokus' Long Stick Goes Boom. All thanks to K-Tel records.
Funny thing is at that young age I thought it was a song about actually flying and the other a song about dynamite.

the sentinel wrote:

Suite Madam Blue (Styx) I know that most of the song is pretty mid paced, but the end where the guitars are just blaring and the drums are wailing really stuck me in the gut!

I still love that song (a lot).

The first time I really remember hard rock getting my attention was during a roadtrip to the family farm in N. Minnesota. I remember that a lot of Zeppelin and Grand Funk was played, and I thought it was pretty good.
But THE moment when it all became MINE, I rember clear as a bell. I was getting a ride home (I was 14) in my cousin JImmy's 63 Chevy Nova. Smoke on the Water came on the radio. It was raining and the windshield wipers seemed to be keeping Paice (another bad pun) with the music. I was totally hooked from that moment on.

I havent been even listening to metal for that long but I still cant remember what my first song or band was. I think probably something by Van Halen, Savatage, Petra, Montrose, Daniel Band, Rez Band, Ted Nugent, or Steppenwolf considering my dad used to pump that stuff non stop when I was younger.

Probably Judas Priest's-Turbo Lover

TrogDawn wrote:

"Fire" by THE CRAZY WORLD OF ARTHUR BROWN

Did they put the rest of the "Fire Poem" on the B-side? The whole thing together is awesome. A lot of people don't know that "Fire" is just part of a longer suite.

p.s.- You still haven't got off your butt and picked up that Writing on the Wall- "Power of the Picts" album have you? As I said it sounds like Arthur Brown singing with Bloodrock or something like that. From 1969.

I have no idea, my parents (mainly my mom) listened to a ton of hard rock and early heavy metal.

SAHB Healer wrote:

TrogDawn wrote:

"Fire" by THE CRAZY WORLD OF ARTHUR BROWN

Did they put the rest of the "Fire Poem" on the B-side? The whole thing together is awesome. A lot of people don't know that "Fire" is just part of a longer suite.

p.s.- You still haven't got off your butt and picked up that Writing on the Wall- "Power of the Picts" album have you? As I said it sounds like Arthur Brown singing with Bloodrock or something like that. From 1969.

That was my best friends favorite album. I've only ever known myself, him, and 2 other of my buddies who really appreciated it though.

spectrefate wrote:

Was it heavy metal? Maybe it was close...."I Was Made For Lovin' You" by KISS. By brother had the 45 in '79.

Thats the first "heavy" song I remember hearing on the radio when I was about 5 years old.

Can't remember, maybe something by Megadeth or Motorhead, now they are some of my favourite metal bands!

mc666 wrote:

Cum On Feel The Noise in 1983. i was 5 years old.

Dam I don't remember 5, god I feel old!

Wargod48

Probably when I was 11 and my buddy played me the Black Album by Metallica. That was my first metal experience. Can't remember a particular song though.