George
Dignified Lazar
Registration Date: 10-08-2007
Posts: 71
Location: where the wind hits heavy on the borderline
 |
|
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.
|
|
07-30-2008 09:45 |
|
|
|
Jimmy Brown
Ceremonial Kernel
Registration Date: 06-26-2007
Posts: 1,425
|
|
| 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.
|
|
|
07-30-2008 11:25 |
|
|
|
Strange Animal
Woolly Eggwhisk
Registration Date: 04-19-2002
Posts: 777
Location: Could I keep you locked in a cage in my brain?
|
|
|
|
07-30-2008 11:32 |
|
|
|
achentodaze
Unsullied Affiche
Registration Date: 02-26-2007
Posts: 32
Location: Let's drive to Oklahoma
|
|
| 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".
|
|
|
07-30-2008 13:25 |
|
|
baxter 
Ubique Epoque
Registration Date: 09-19-2002
Posts: 15,686
Location: "Come, let us to our holy task again."
|
|
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...
|
|
|
07-30-2008 10:27 |
|
|
colorblind
Mind Peach
Registration Date: 03-05-2008
Posts: 247
Location: in the freezer
|
|
Can't Take My Eyes Off Of You
I thought I had been transported to heaven!
__________________
Nue Welt Ordnen
31 * 12 * 99 songs for the new west
|
|
|
07-30-2008 10:59 |
|
|
John Foxe
Woolly Eggwhisk
Registration Date: 03-12-2002
Posts: 654
Location: Elkhart, Indiana
|
|
The first song off the first recording I got...
__________________
I'm a middle-aged hitchhiker...
LetsSpin@comcast.net
|
|
|
07-30-2008 11:06 |
|
|
Ritchie_az
Ceremonial Kernel
Registration Date: 07-02-2008
Posts: 2,139
Location: Arizona
|
|
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.
__________________
So I can type anything I want here? No?
My Photography Blog
|
|
|
07-30-2008 11:28 |
|
|
wes berlin
Official Impasto
Registration Date: 03-18-2002
Posts: 3,397
Location: "but today i feel that too much of the church is merely a thermometer, which measures rather than molds popular opinion" mlk 1965
|
|
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.
__________________
"Exorcising Ghosts"
|
|
|
07-30-2008 11:35 |
|
|
Jerry Davison
Woolly Eggwhisk
Registration Date: 03-30-2005
Posts: 846
Location: Atlanta, GA
|
|
I Love You # 19. 'Nuff said!
|
|
|
07-30-2008 11:40 |
|
|
baxter
Ubique Epoque
Registration Date: 09-19-2002
Posts: 15,686
Location: "Come, let us to our holy task again."
|
|
|
|
07-30-2008 12:17 |
|
|
James
Mind Peach
Registration Date: 01-09-2007
Posts: 146
|
|
Not sure, but I suspect it may have been "Mall All Over The World".
|
|
|
07-30-2008 12:19 |
|
|
Chesterdox
Woolly Eggwhisk
Registration Date: 09-20-2005
Posts: 686
Location: Tranquility Base
|
|
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. 
__________________
|
|
|
07-30-2008 12:34 |
|
|
Dr Rich
Ubique Epoque
Registration Date: 03-15-2002
Posts: 9,986
Location: Hoverkrafti im është plot me ngjala.
|
|
Darn Floor - Big Bite.
When I first bought it back in 1988.
__________________
|
|
|
07-30-2008 13:01 |
|
|
baxter
Ubique Epoque
Registration Date: 09-19-2002
Posts: 15,686
Location: "Come, let us to our holy task again."
|
|
I had that Boone album (Pat sang on One Way with the girls)
and that crush.
|
|
|
07-30-2008 16:37 |
|
|
John Foxe
Woolly Eggwhisk
Registration Date: 03-12-2002
Posts: 654
Location: Elkhart, Indiana
|
|
Who has bragging rights for the earliest year?
ILU#19 I heard first in Fall, 1980.
__________________
I'm a middle-aged hitchhiker...
LetsSpin@comcast.net
|
|
|
07-30-2008 17:08 |
|
|
|
UnderDawg
Ceremonial Kernel
Registration Date: 05-04-2008
Posts: 1,098
Location: Magnolia, TX
|
|
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.
|
|
|
07-30-2008 18:02 |
|
|
Ritchie_az
Ceremonial Kernel
Registration Date: 07-02-2008
Posts: 2,139
Location: Arizona
|
|
Debby Boone is older than my parents....
__________________
So I can type anything I want here? No?
My Photography Blog
|
|
|
07-30-2008 17:17 |
|
|
John Foxe
Woolly Eggwhisk
Registration Date: 03-12-2002
Posts: 654
Location: Elkhart, Indiana
|
|
| And Debbie Boone's parent... |
|
Pat put out a punk record not too long ago...
__________________
I'm a middle-aged hitchhiker...
LetsSpin@comcast.net
|
|
|
07-30-2008 17:57 |
|
|
Captain Pedantic
Official Impasto
Registration Date: 12-18-2002
Posts: 2,686
Location: "This calls for a very special blend of psychology and extreme violence." - Vyvian - The Young Ones
|
|
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.
__________________
Seek Justice
|
|
|
07-30-2008 18:59 |
|
|
|
|
  |
|
RE: What was the first...
