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Jan 14th, 2008 10:24 PM
Pip I was in 6th grade when I first discovered music...back then it was all about Greenday, Smash Mouth, and Blink 182. After that I got into some classic rock through bands like Led Zeppelin, Black Sabbath and Van Halen. From there, my first wave of metal obsession began and I took a liking to Iron Maiden, Motorhead, Slayer and Megadeth. When that ended, I discovered marijuanna and got into bands like The Beatles, The Doors, Pink Floyd and Jefferson Airplane. When I realized that marijuanna sucks, I got back into metal with bands like Venom, Exodus, and Heathen. From there, I grew a fondness for alternative, alt. metal and grunge so I was into bands like Smashing Pumpkins, Helmet, Dinosaur Jr. and stuff. After this phase, I got into metal once more with a favoring of Mercyful Fate, Kreator, and Death.

Then at the beggining of my junior year of high school I fell in love with my current music of choice...horror rock. So now I listen to alot of horror punk, psychobilly, surf rock, rockabilly and Doo Wop
Jan 14th, 2008 05:57 PM
Cedar
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I'd call that one a devolution
Jan 14th, 2008 05:55 PM
Cedar im really into shoegaze atm
Jan 12th, 2008 10:11 AM
WhiteRat I got into the Beastie Boys at the release of Ill Communication and still consider them my favorite artists. Got into Soundgarden and 311 and once I hit high school I pretty much listened to nothing but rap, mostly Three 6 Mafia. I still listen to a decent amount of rap today but I mainly listen to electronic as well as a lot of 80's pop/new wave.

I will listen to anything besides country.
Jan 9th, 2008 07:05 PM
Spruce Moose Up until I was like, 16, I had no inkling of what music I like. Because I had no radio of my own, no cds, and my parents controlled the car radio(which was 50s/60s pop, which really didn't agree with me). Now I could've taken initiative and asked for some sort of music playing device for Christmas or something, but it never occurred to me because my whole life, I'd never experienced it. I never even knew it was worth experiencing. My brothers picked up a Boyz II Men and a Rembrandt CD, and Mariah Carey, and that was alright to me, I suppose, but I wasn't terribly into it, and it paled so much in comparison to things like video games that I continued thinking that music, especially modern music, wasn't anything worth my money. I was kind of in to classical from all the lessons they crammed into me in elementary school, I guess.

And then I heard all these bands in Tony awk's Pro Skater 1 and even more imporatntly THPS2. And it blew my mind. And then I got an alarm clock radio one Christmas out of nowhere. And I found a classic rock station. And it blew my mind. And then started to get an interst in music, music I liked, msuic outside my parents iron clad control over the radio(when you can't drive, you don't have much leverage over that radio). So I got a CD player the following Christmas, picked up the albums of bands I'd heard on the classic rock station or whatever video game with licensed music, and I finally developed my own taste.

Which, as it stands now, is punk rock and classic rock(including many of the bands already mentioned in this thread). Millencolin and The Ramones are probably my top bands, but I really enjoy They Might Be Giants for some reason. They don't quite fit in genre wise, but I like them.
Jan 9th, 2008 06:02 PM
Jeff The Ninja When i was a kid. It was whatever my mom listened to, which was country. Which i must say has had a great impact on what I listen to today. Then i was listening to Country mixed with classic rock (the Eagles, The Travelling Wilburys, Elvis Presley, the Beatles...ect). From there, i discovered at the age of nine, what is still my favourite genre of music, Hard Rock. Starting with KISS then STYX (Saw them a few months ago, good show) then AC/DC. At age 10, I was confused, i went from Hard Rock to Disco, to whatever my sister was listening to (Boy Bands and the Spice Girls) then back to Hard Rock, then to Soft Rock, then country, then country rock, then to Heavy Metal (King Diamond). And it has been a mixture of that up until grade 9. When being a high school freshman, i met my greatest musical influence, a creepy dude with an endless collection of creepy music named Jessie Sieben. He was and still is my hero for getting kicked out of every school assembly by screaming "GOD IS DEAD" (i go to a catholic high school despite not being catholic). He introduced me to the Pixies, Smashing Pumpkins, Rodan, Soundgarden, Led Zeppelin, Pink Floyd and other Alt/punk/grunge bands that I never heard of. In turn, i got him into videogames, so it was win/win.

Lately, ive been listening to Iron Maiden, every Hair band i can get my hands on, Def Leppard (STYX opened for them, and STYX put on a better show) TOOL, The Smashing Pumpkins, the Pixies, Pink Floyd and Tenacious D (a very dangerous amount of Tenacious D i might add).

So thats it.
Jan 5th, 2008 10:30 PM
Vanhelm13 Back in the day I was all about the Elvis
Then I got into ACDC, then the Ramones, then Iron Maiden, Judas Priest, Metallica, Megadeth, etc.
It all went to hell from there. (metaphorically and literally, I guess.)
Now it's all metal, except slipknot-type-stuff and the crazy "rape your bleeding corpse with my axe" death-gore. (Read: cannibal corpse sucks)
I'm a huge fan of viking, folk, black, and stoner metal.
So I'd say my current favourite bands are:
Esniferum, Eluveitie, Satyricon, Early Man, and High On Fire

And Iron Maiden. No one will ever achieve their greatness.
Jan 5th, 2008 03:59 AM
dirtyxblondexdame wow this is a good one! starting from about 13 (that's the earliest i can remember), i'll go down the line...........

Green Day
Billy Joel (still one of my all time favs!)
Bloodhound Gang
311
Nine Inch Nails
Rob Zombie
then i had this big gap between like 18 and 25 where i just stopped caring about music. weird.
so now...............
Faith No More
Peeping Tom
Clutch
Priestess (latest discovery, they fucking rock)
Amy Winehouse (when i'm sad about boys lol)
Lily Allen
Metallica
Mr. Bungle
GnR
and a bunch more but i'm too tired to think
Jan 5th, 2008 03:41 AM
terrva First stuff i remember popping in my tape player over and over again was Deep Purple and AC/DC. From there i went through the usual Metallicas and Iron Maidens and Megadeths to Motörhead (which is still one of my favourite bands of all time).

Then i heard about this mystical genre from beyond the seas called Hip Hop. I listened to that for some time (i still like old school hip hop and rap, like N.W.A., Run-D.M.C. and Public Enemy).

And then became the electronic music. It started with that crappy mainstream trance and techno, oh and let's not forget *shudder* eurodance *shudder*. Much later i started listening to hardcore and all of its subgenres. I also like industrial, noise and drum'n'bass pretty much. Electronic music is still to this day a type of music i haven't really dug into, but like a lot.

At nearly the same time as i was getting tired with mainstream electronic music, i was itroduced to death metal and grindcore, when my friend gave me Death's album Human, which is still my favorite album of all time. Now i have so extensive list of death metal and grindcore bands i love, that i'm only going to give you the cream of the crop: Bloodbath (swedish supergroup), Nile (goddamn, they are good!), The Berzerker (you can't hate electronic music if you like The Berzerker), Nasum (pretty much the best grindcore band ever) and (this should have been the first) Death, which is my favorite band ever.

So there.
Jan 4th, 2008 09:04 PM
Wild Wallace I used to love Top 40 shit but now I like Indie, Alternative Rock, and Ska.
Jan 4th, 2008 11:50 AM
Tadao This thread makes me old.

Harry Chapin and Gordon Lightfoot
Linda Rondstat and Olivia Newton John
Foghat, Led Zeppelin, Hendrix
Grateful Dead, Cat Stevens, Pink Floyd
Bahaus, Fishbone, Bungle
Zappa, King Krimson, Brian Eno
Chemical Bros, Crystal Method, Aphex Twin
Aesop Rock, Jay Z (old),
Nothing anymore.
Dec 30th, 2007 10:11 AM
Blackjack Mid 90's - Britpoppy things like Oasis, Supergrass and Mansun

Late 90's - Ska Punky things like NOFX, Less Than Jake, Pennywise and Mad Caddies

Early 00's - 80s Thrash-Metally things like Metal-lica, Megadeth and Slayer

Mid 00's - 80's synthpoppy and electro things like Human League and Ladytron mixed with 50's Rock n Roll things like Little Richard and Johhny Cash. Also cheesy pop in from all the decades.

Current - Dancey-Trancey things like Matt Darey, Armin Van Buuren, Deadmau5 along with breaksy-bassy things like Pendulum, Optical and Squarepusher. Also horrific electro-house and indie things like Justice, Klaxons and more Ladytron

Also reflects various 'scenes' I've been a part of ie:

Mid 90s - Trendy
Late 90s - punk DJ
Early 00s - Roadie and punk/metal DJ
Mid 00s - Goth/Burlesque scene and full on cheesy DJ
Now - Clubby scene on a part of my DJing and VJing. But I tend to indulge in a bit of everything when I can - still love punk bands and jumping around to ska, still love air guitaring like a lunatic, still love dressing up and dancing with attractive ladies in corsets and suspenders (them, not me!)
Dec 5th, 2007 09:50 PM
Sacks Elvis, KISS, Green Day, The Aquabats, and then everything just kind of exploded.
Nov 30th, 2007 03:42 PM
Zomboid When I was a kid, I found my dad's cassette collection which had a lot of KISS, AC/DC, Iron Maiden, Judas Priest, and a few others. I got into KISS more than the others at that point, and I kinda just listened to whatever pop shit everyone else was listening to until I got a bit older. Then it kinda went like this:

Radiohead--AC/DC--Slayer--System of a Down--AC/DC again--Iron Maiden--Metallica-All that Remains-Mastodon

but Iron Maiden, AC/DC and Metallica are still my favorite bands :O
Nov 29th, 2007 12:45 AM
Naught
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Originally Posted by noob3 View Post
Instead of "I don't listen to music," which is a lie, why can't you say "I listen to everything." Quit being such a pompous jerk!
That's a lie, too. There are some things I hate horribly.
Nov 29th, 2007 12:25 AM
AlliSabbah Waysted Angel in my early teens.

The Cramps from High School to Current Day.

I've yet to evolve at all.
Nov 28th, 2007 05:20 PM
bigtimecow oh man

will smith, slipknot, system of a down, deftones, poison the well, american nightmare, converge, daughters, some girls

between will smith and poison the well is very hazy because it was a while ago, but i know i've defiantely had a lot of changes in taste. like just recently i've realized that the choice of a vocalist of a band can really affect my liking. like, the vocalist of some girls is really abrasive and having throaty. like his voice is giving out. they're music is very simple, so i imagine that if any other vocalist was in the band it wouldn't work as well.

and i used to have this thing about how like, music wasn't good unless it was technical and off-time and dumb shit like that. but what's wrong with a good, powerful 4/4 beat?

Nov 28th, 2007 04:05 PM
JediScum The record labels Alternative Tentacles and Ipecac have a SHITLOAD of mp3 samples on their websites, if anyone is looking to try something new on. Both of these labels are quite diverse in their musical stylings, so its not like you'll be exposed to a lot of the same stuff.

Henry Rollins also does a radio show called "Harmony In My Head" that has downloadable episodes dating back to 2004. He plays a lot less punk rock than you would think.
Nov 28th, 2007 01:30 PM
noob3 Instead of "I don't listen to music," which is a lie, why can't you say "I listen to everything." Quit being such a pompous jerk!
Nov 27th, 2007 10:40 PM
Fathom Zero I jump around in phases and I hardly ever go back to any one genre.

There are some bands I've voluntarily listened to so much that I hate them and can't listen to them ever again, like Pink Floyd and Led Zeppelin.
Nov 27th, 2007 09:49 PM
Naught What I listen to now comprehensively? Far, far from it.

But yeah, good point. What I just said doesn't make for a nice, simple, one-sentence answer verbally, though.
Nov 27th, 2007 10:22 AM
Cfr5 But you just explained.
Nov 27th, 2007 01:56 AM
Naught I did not listen to anything aside from video game music or movie soundtracks until I was 12. At that point I started listening to Weird Al and Eiffel 65. Drastic improvement, eh? In seventh grade my friends and I decided to listen to whatever the kiddies thought was "cool," which just so happened to be comprised of Eminem, Limp Bizkit, and various mainstream rap. I ditched all that in eighth grade for the stereotypical angry white boy music selection. My favorite bands at the time were Linkin Park, System of a Down, AFI, and Disturbed, and I also enjoyed Alien Ant Farm and Gorillaz. It was at that point that I started discovering electronic music, though, with the help of the internet. Middle school ended there. Thank heavens.

The transition to high school kept middle school's status quo. Over the course of my freshman year, however, I started moving away from the aforementioned bands and got more and more into electronic music, predominantly trance. By the later portion of that year, trance was pretty much all I listened to. This kept up halfway through my sophomore year, when (again, with the help of the internet) I discovered various European metal bands that perked my interest. By the end of my sophomore year I was listening to electronic, metal, and nothing much else. During junior year I decided to try my hand at classical and found that I loved it, so that joined my listening ranks.

Finally, during my senior year of high school, I decided to become much more open-minded and went scouring through genres upon genres of music, from the obscure to the well-known, clogging my hard drive with hundreds of bands. The difference was that I made a note not to torrent my music, and I still don't get any satisfaction from simply grabbing an archived discography and having loads of albums left unlistened to. I take care in getting music on an individual song or album basis, and my playlist is constantly in careful rotation whenever I'm not in the mood for something in particular, to ensure that I'm completely familiar with everything I have.

My music library has since expanded to the point where nowadays, when somebody asks me what kind of music I like, I just simply respond, "I don't listen to music." Seriously. It's easier than trying to explain.
Nov 25th, 2007 02:02 AM
Trash From crappy finnish joke rap to every genre in extreme metal and (hardcore and some traditional) punk.
Nov 24th, 2007 09:17 PM
Eyelobe The first cassette I bought was Huey Lewis and the News - Sports. I eventually discovered AC/DC, GnR, Maiden, etc...then went through a punk rock phase, an indie rock phase, a blues phase...I have now reconciled all my disparate influences and listen to and play whatever the fuck moves me at the time - including good old Huey Lewis again.
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