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Posted by George on 07-30-2008 at09:45:

  What was the first...

DA/TST song you ever heard? And did it win you over? I'll go first-


Angels Tuck You In


Was #1 song on the "hipper" of the 2 Christian radio stations in Tulsa, OK for 2 weeks in 1983 (the other station was the Imperials, Carmen, Sandi Patti station). Fell in love immediately and bought the cassette in the Oral Roberts University bookstore, where Doppelganger was #1. #2 was U2's WAR (It was, after all, a COLLEGE Christian bookstore). The irony--I always thought "I Didn't Build it for Me" had perhaps Oral Roberts in mind. There is a long hallway in the campus chapel with multiple portrait paintings of Oral and his family. These were the church icons. Anyway, I was hooked.

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Posted by baxter on 07-30-2008 at10:27:

 

Meal

It did not win me over immediately. I wondered why my older brother brought the abomination into our house. I was young and stupid. Now I am very grateful to him for introducing me to the boys. A few months later, I heard them at Disneyland (just after hiking up to Half Dome with this girl who was raving about them), and the obsession began...

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Posted by colorblind on 07-30-2008 at10:59:

 

Can't Take My Eyes Off Of You

I thought I had been transported to heaven!

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Posted by John Foxe on 07-30-2008 at11:06:

  Hd - Ilu#19

The first song off the first recording I got...

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Posted by Jimmy Brown on 07-30-2008 at11:25:

  RE: What was the first...

Hollow Man

And yes, I was hooked immediately. It helped that we had just studied the Eliot poem in English class. The album was new at the time.

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Posted by Ritchie_az on 07-30-2008 at11:28:

 

Shotgun Angel off of Preachers From Outer Space is the first DA song I ever heard. And no, it did not win me over. It wasn't until a got to Hound of Heaven, which is five tracks deep on the PFOS album, did I get won over.

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Posted by Strange Animal on 07-30-2008 at11:32:

RE: What was the first...

home permanent....
"my hair points to the sky, the place i want to be..."

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Posted by wes berlin on 07-30-2008 at11:35:

 

i honestly do not remember.....i do know that i saw them live many, many times back in the day (late 70's early 80's).

either way, my introduction to da was live and i was hooked right away.

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Posted by Jerry Davison on 07-30-2008 at11:40:

 

I Love You # 19. 'Nuff said!

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Posted by baxter on 07-30-2008 at12:17:

 

indeed!

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Posted by James on 07-30-2008 at12:19:

 

Not sure, but I suspect it may have been "Mall All Over The World".

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Posted by Chesterdox on 07-30-2008 at12:34:

 

Something off of a Bibleland cassette... I don't even remember if I bought it or somebody gave it to me. I remember thinking a couple songs were ok at best, so I threw it away.

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Posted by Dr Rich on 07-30-2008 at13:01:

 

Darn Floor - Big Bite.

When I first bought it back in 1988.

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Posted by achentodaze on 07-30-2008 at13:25:

  RE: What was the first...

"Ain't Gonna Fight It" off of the Maranatha 5 album. I was hooked right away. "Ain't Gonna Fight It" is probably the 'tamest' DA song ever so I have been challenged musically and lyrically ever since.


A side story:

Shotgun Angel came out in 1977 when I was 11. In that same year, I developed a pre-teen crush on Debby Boone, who had released "You Light Up My Life" that year. The next year, Debby Boone and her sisters released an album that included a cover of "Father's Arms" on it. Talk about pre-teen heaven. My girlfriend (in my mind) had recorded a song by my favorite rock band. At the time, I didn't care that it sounded like a cheesy version of "Fathers's Arms".

I've always wondered if Terry's reference to Debby Boone in "Bibleland" was at least in part a result of her recording "Father's Arms".

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Posted by baxter on 07-30-2008 at16:37:

 

I had that Boone album (Pat sang on One Way with the girls)
and that crush.

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Posted by John Foxe on 07-30-2008 at17:08:

  Earliest year?

Who has bragging rights for the earliest year?

ILU#19 I heard first in Fall, 1980.

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Posted by Ritchie_az on 07-30-2008 at17:17:

 

Debby Boone is older than my parents....

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Posted by John Foxe on 07-30-2008 at17:57:

  And Debbie Boone's parent...

Pat put out a punk record not too long ago...

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Posted by UnderDawg on 07-30-2008 at18:02:

  RE: Earliest year?

I first heard the band at a concert in '78 or so. I was so taken with the band that I bought two albums that were for sale at the concert. Shotgun Angel and Horrendous Disc.

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Posted by Captain Pedantic on 07-30-2008 at18:59:

 

I first heard Soon! but had no idea who it was and it was only until 8 years after I found DA that I discovered it was the boys.

My first would be A Sigh For You when the cassette in the store caught my eye. That was in 1990 5 months after I got saved.