📽 /🎵 What song/album marked your transition from "kids" music to "adult." From 'pop' to 'rock,' so to speak.

I can tell you the band. I can't tell you the album. It's a toss up between "Leftoverture" and "Point of No Return." Definitely, Kansas was the group.

The song? It's not from those guys. Iron Butterfly enters the chat with "In-A-Gadda-Da-Vita."
 
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The Beatles, "A Day in the Life" was weird and strange, but in a good way.

Much of the earlier hard rock was beyond me, I was a softer kind of guy. But Jimi Hendrix's cover of "All Along the Watchtower"
opened my eyes a bit.

Led Zeppelin's "Over the Hills and Far Away" was good as were many of their songs.

Ten Years After, with Alvin Lee playing with his guitar, endeared me to "I'd Love to Change the World", it's timeless.

The Chambers Brothers, "Time Has Come Today", is probably the earliest rock song to capture my attention.

Not to mention Edgar and Johnny Winter as rock influencers would not be right. Check out the video of "Tobacco Road" on youtube.
 
I don't ever remember listening to kids music. Old school country and classic rock as a younger kid as that was what my dad listened to. Started liking southern rock, blues, ac dc, and guns n roses around 12 or so. Guns n roses were probably the first modern rock band I liked, appetite for destruction and back in black are great albums.
 
Krimson said:
I don't ever remember listening to kids music. Old school country and classic rock as a younger kid as that was what my dad listened to. Started liking southern rock, blues, ac dc, and guns n roses around 12 or so. Guns n roses were probably the first modern rock band I liked, appetite for destruction and back in black are great albums.
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That would be the Mickey Mouse Club show.
 
Krimson said:
I don't ever remember listening to kids music. Old school country and classic rock as a younger kid as that was what my dad listened to. Started liking southern rock, blues, ac dc, and guns n roses around 12 or so. Guns n roses were probably the first modern rock band I liked, appetite for destruction and back in black are great albums.
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I put you as a Quiet Riot kind of guy.
 
I'm like Krimson, never listened to 'kid music'. The song that first got my attention to what was really being said was the Stone's 'Let's spend the night together.' I was 13 or 14 and wondered 'can you really say that in a song.' Daddy wouldn't let me watch them on the Ed Sullivan show but I read later that ole Ed made Jagger change the lyrics to 'let's spend some time together.'
 
Krimson said:
I don't ever remember listening to kids music. Old school country and classic rock as a younger kid as that was what my dad listened to. Started liking southern rock, blues, ac dc, and guns n roses around 12 or so. Guns n roses were probably the first modern rock band I liked, appetite for destruction and back in black are great albums.
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Bamabww said:
I'm like Krimson, never listened to 'kid music'. The song that first got my attention to what was really being said was the Stone's 'Let's spend the night together.' I was 13 or 14 and wondered 'can you really say that in a song.' Daddy wouldn't let me watch them on the Ed Sullivan show but I read later that ole Ed made Jagger change the lyrics to 'let's spend some time together.'
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Same. I never really listened to kid music, either. I always listened to what my parents listened to.
 
Bamabww said:
I'm like Krimson, never listened to 'kid music'. The song that first got my attention to what was really being said was the Stone's 'Let's spend the night together.' I was 13 or 14 and wondered 'can you really say that in a song.' Daddy wouldn't let me watch them on the Ed Sullivan show but I read later that ole Ed made Jagger change the lyrics to 'let's spend some time together.'
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If you like me, that kid's music was from Walt Disney on Sunday Night. Old Ed had a lot of bands change those lyrics, He tried The Doors to do the same, it was ok until the live performance. The Doors was told that the last time on the show. Jim told them it would find we already have. Also not only Ed did this but the Three Dog Night was told to change its lyrics too. A car company was the sponsor of to the show. The song was Jeremey was a Bullfrog.
 
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Old Hank Sr. was the very first for me. I can't remember the first 45's that I brought. It was either Kenny Roger and the First Edition or Neil Diamond Sweet Caroline. I'm not like some of you with that one favor band or singers.
 
In my post above, I listed individual songs that bent my ears. Usually from AM transistor radio. In those days, money was hard to come by, I would get lunch money but no allowance, no money for records or a player. To give credit to an album that turned me would come later as I graduated and started working. Bought my first all in one cheap stereo from Millers. I had been hearing a song or two on the radio from The Moody Blues second album,(1967) Days of Future Passed. Their direction was different if not strange, but in an ear pleasing way, mostly. I have come to appreciate and like much of their music and have collected many of their albums.
 
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