Whats the one song that got you hooked?

ajurlacher
ajurlacher Posts: 48
edited September 2008 in The Porch
Obviously Alive and Even Flow were the songs that got most of us into the band but what was the one song that sealed the deal?

I remember listening to 10 all the way through for the first time as a coherent adult a couple years ago, and i was just blown away. And then Release came on.....and I almost started crying. That's how powerful it was. The song, well it hits very close to home. I'll leave it at that, and with such literal lyrics and beautiful music, that was it. I was HOOKED. Been a PJ fanatic ever since.
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  • InMyTree4
    InMyTree4 Posts: 1,239
    no specific song...it was seeing them live that hooked me
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  • Low_Light03
    Low_Light03 Posts: 1,227
    Wishlist. heard it alot on the radio in 98
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  • MattyJoe
    MattyJoe Posts: 1,424
    Go.
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  • Anon
    Anon Posts: 11,175
    jeremy originally hooked me
    but for 'sealing the deal', i don't know why, but something about 'i am mine' made me just go 'holy crap!'
    two other close seconds would have to be 'better man' & 'elderly woman'- those two also made me love the band even more after i'd heard them for the first time
  • FrankieJ
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  • youngster
    youngster Boston Posts: 6,576
    Seeing the Jeremy video actually got me in PJ. Their best video ever. Bought Ten, loved it, and never looked back.
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  • Red_Dot
    Red_Dot Posts: 1,454
    Given to fly
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  • tmud91087
    tmud91087 Posts: 97
    Corduroy wet my whistle and given to fly put me over the top. That was when i listened to live on two legs for the first PJ album turn ever...Given to fly studio blew my mind even further.
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  • Antreaper
    Antreaper Posts: 256
    Jeremy.


    Xbox live name way back when it first came out was KingJeremy
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  • pj622
    pj622 Posts: 110
    my ex boyfriend loved Oceans.. i got ten to see what it was all about.. hooked since then!!
  • Brain Of E
    Brain Of E Posts: 499
    i remember being like 9 ('91 or '92)when i first heard 'jeremy' and i was hooked. i remember asking my dad to buy me the cassette but he said no. we would always go to pizza inn after church on sundays and i would always put it on the jukebox. it wasn't until i was 13 that my older brother finally bought ten on cd that i heard the rest of the songs.
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  • Pauk
    Pauk Posts: 1,084
    I can't actually remember what the first song I heard was, think it was No Code that made the impression on me. Present Tense, Hail, Hail or In My Tree....
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  • pretext
    pretext Posts: 1,294
    I think it was Jeremy (and the video) that got me in the door. Then it's hard to differentiate amongst Ten tracks. I remember busting that open on XMas night in '92 and listening to it over and over again on my sony discman. i can still feel sitting in the dark, the first tinklings of Once, the anger and angst all culminating in the catharsis of Release. a great, transformational night.
  • Gonzo1977
    Gonzo1977 Posts: 1,696
    "Stupid Mop"

    No Seriously...

    It made me realize this band couldn't even suck if they tried
  • finnannie
    finnannie Posts: 1,186
    yellow ledbetter


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  • NoelMichael
    NoelMichael Posts: 1,635
    Definitely Black
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  • Ghost Of K.
    Ghost Of K. Posts: 170
    Oceans and Alive.
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  • spearhead
    spearhead Posts: 600
    ONCE...

    They had me at side one track one ...
    I was alone and far away when I heard the band start playing!

    ...I was always a DeadHead, but when I first heard Winston Rodney, aka the Burning Spear, sing, I became a SpearHead too!
  • Dark Grin
    Dark Grin Posts: 33
    Given to Fly
  • ariel
    ariel Posts: 191
    long ago it was Jeremy that got me to be a casual fan. a couple of yrs ago it was a combo of All Those Yesterdays and the person who made me listen to it a few times that got me hooked. My heart still shifts or something when I hear it :(
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