If someone had never heard music...

[AaronVonRock]

Slayer

 

[g-dude]

I’d start with something ancient.



Oldest Christian hymn recorded outside of the Bible that is still in use today.

 

[comatosedragon]

Probably Beauty in Falling Leaves by Yob. There's really no need to listen to anything else after.

 

[farace]

The Shaggs, because they had never heard music before, either.

 

[MVE]

Interesting question.

I would try to read their personality a bit and choose something I think they might enjoy.

Ya gotta read the room before you jump in with your opening number.

 

[r_bnks]

 

[swink]

The Goldberg Variations - Bach
Graceland - Paul Simon

 

[L Anthony]

"The First Circle" by Pat Metheny Group

...I don't even know how to describe what I feel whenever I hear this song (the original version from the First Circle album in particular).

 

[micahwc]

Muskrat love

 

[ezstep]

Pat Metheny. Too many to name just one....


EDIT: I was typing when you posted!!!

 

[OptimalOptimus]

 

[QweziRider]

Benedictus from 2CELLOS, the live in Zagreb version.

 

[roller]

"Shake It Up" by The Cars

 

[monsterthompson]

 

[BadSanta1281]

Stairway first, then Freebird.

 

[Feral Feline]

AGOGO

 

[Feral Feline]

Seriously ...

Agogo, get them dancing to it, get them to try it themselves...

 

[thabassmon]

Probably some Bach, Vivaldi and Beethoven.

I can imagine how rock music would feel like an assault, so I'd steer clear of anything with electric guitars. They could discover that stuff on their own.

 

[Blueinred]

Miles Davis "Kind of Blue",

Stevie Wonder "Innervisions"

or this :

 

[LBS-bass]

I don't know if I can answer this. I'm thinking of how strange music would be to someone who has never heard it. Do you want them to like it? What's the first step there? Hard to say but I think it would have to be something simple and melodic. A quiet song. What are the first songs our mothers sing to us? The first songs we ever hear are usually lullabyes.