Natural Progression of a Music Fan. Birth to Current.
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What was your natural progression of your musical taste? Please list the inspirational/favorite bands of your life. Give about 10 - 12 bands from the time you got into music to present that reflect your musical personality. Please also list the time you got into music to current.. and your first 5 shows you saw.
Here is mine. (don't judge. I am 25 and I am going to start when I was about 5 or 6 )
Beach Boys, Chuck Berry, Aerosmith, Van Halen, Pearl Jam, Nirvana, The Beatles, Weezer, Pixies, The Clash, Wilco, Elvis Costello / Springsteen
My first 5 concerts were...
Beachboys 92
Beachboys 93
Ringo Star 94
Van Halen 95
Pearl Jam 98
I have seen 400 shows since 98.
What was your natural progression of your musical taste? Please list the inspirational/favorite bands of your life. Give about 10 - 12 bands from the time you got into music to present that reflect your musical personality. Please also list the time you got into music to current.. and your first 5 shows you saw.
Here is mine. (don't judge. I am 25 and I am going to start when I was about 5 or 6 )
Beach Boys, Chuck Berry, Aerosmith, Van Halen, Pearl Jam, Nirvana, The Beatles, Weezer, Pixies, The Clash, Wilco, Elvis Costello / Springsteen
My first 5 concerts were...
Beachboys 92
Beachboys 93
Ringo Star 94
Van Halen 95
Pearl Jam 98
I have seen 400 shows since 98.
07-02-98, 10-11-00, 04-22-03, 04-23-03, 06-09-03, 06-10-03, 06-18-03, 06-21-03, 06-22-03, 10-02-04, 10-03-04, 10-05-04, 05-16-06, 05-17-06, 05-22-06, 06-24-06, 06-29-06
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'95-'96: I revisited the "grunge" stuff and Alice In Chains were the first to really impress me. Behind AIC, I actually liked STP better than Soundgarden, Nirvana and Pearl Jam at the time.
'97: I was bored out of my mind without any good music out this year.
'98-'03: Decided to purchase my first CD, all my previous albums were tapes.:p And the CD I purchased was YIELD. I was very impress with the album so much that I bought all their previous 4 studios within the week. However, I listened to Yield for most of the year though.
'04-'05: Was disappointed with Riot Act and decided to take a break from PJ for awhile. Though I did buy Lost Dogs when I saw the advertisement on ESPN. I discovered Soul Coughing and Faith No More but these guys been disbanded for years now.
'06-'07: Purchased Avocado but wasn't too impress with it either. Then started listening to Radiohead a lot because I finally fell in love with Kid A.
Though, I should state that between '04-'07 I was listening a lot to PJ's live bootlegs too.
(late)'07-'08: Registered back into The Pit to download some free bootlegs but this time decided to post in the forum as well. As crazy as this forum gets something, I thanked everyone here for re-energizing my love for PJ and even did a little fan tour of my own to see them 5 times in a week. This past June tour made me a bigger fan of Binaural and Avocado!
So I'm back as a full-time Jammer now.
Recap:
'94: Green Day (mainly b/c of Dookie)
'95-'96: AIC
'98-'03: PJ
'04-'05:FNM and Soul Coughing (started listening to PJ boots though)
'06-'07(middle): Radiohead (really enjoyed listening to PJ boots)
(late)'07-'08(present): PJ
It's a love-hate relationship I guess.
EV- 08/09,10/2008.06/08,09/2009
9/10 I got into The Offspring after my older brother's friends lent me their music. The first album I ever bought was Smash.
11/12 I got into Foo Fighters. For the rest of my early teens Offspring and Foos alternated as my fav band. Also got into more indie stuff like Idlewild, but generally mainstream bands that were in the top 40. I didn't really listen to many bands because I had this stupid idea that it's best to like 3 or 4 bands and know EVERYTHING about them rather than listen to lots of bands and vaguely know stuff.
14/15 I got into Pixies and Pearl Jam. Started expanding my horizons and listening to friends' favourite bands. Was also introduced to At The Drive In the week after they split up (damn annoying that)
16/17 I got into more alternative rock bands, and also started looking at the bands who influenced my favourite bands. So started checking out Led Zepp, Husker Du, Ramones, Love, The Clash, stuff like that. Also started going to gigs and festivals for the first time.
18/19 I started checking out new bands and going to gigs even if I hadn't heard of the band. My friends call it the start of my music geekdom :rolleyes: Started to get into Elliott Smith at university (my fav artist ever since). Smith kickstarted my love of folk and the realisation that music doesn't have to be pumped up and rocked out to sound good. Also started to get into Electro at university, not in a big way, but do listen to a few DJs like Simian Mobile Disco and Justice (i.e. the popular ones everyone likes but not the bleep bleep flashy lgihts ones).
20/21 where I am now. Go to lots of gigs and have a gloriously open music taste. I'm sure in 5 years I'll probably look back and think I was really narrow minded though
'06 - London, Dublin, Reading
'07 - Katowice, Wembley, Dusseldorf, Copenhagen, Nijmegen
'09 - London, Manchester, London
'12 - Manchester, Manchester, Berlin, Stockholm, Copenhagen
2000-2003 - mostly listened to U2, REM, Bruce Springsteen. Saw U2 live twice, bit of Chili Peppers, saw them live also
2003-2006 - Pearl jam, Alice In Chains, Soundgarden, Nirvana - the whole grunge scene. Also got into QOTSA. Fell in love with Led Zeppelin :-)
Nowadays - mostly listeneing to Neil Young, Pumpkins, bit of psychedelic rock (Funkadelic, Zappa etc.) Trying to open my ears to other genres of music, but i'm very stuck in my ways i have to say
KISS
The Doors
AC/DC (The Bon Scott years)
Bruce Springsteen
The Police
Duran Duran (I was 16, enough said)
The Clash
REM
U2
Pearl Jam (a constant since Ten)
White Stripes
Rage Against the Machine
TOOL
Aged seven, in 1979, I discovered my brother's old Beatles and solo Beatles albums. That was the real start of my musical interest. I loved sixties music, mainly the aforementioned, The Rolling Stones, Bob Dylan and (between the ages of about ten to twelve), The Who.
On my twelfth birthday I got some Hendrix albums, and there began the main musical passion of my life. Whatever I listen to even now, I find myself coming back to Jimi. In my teen years, up to sixteen, I listened to a lot of blues, and a lot of psychedelic rock.
Aged sixteen I got into jazz, and bought a lot of vinyl, mainly focusing on the period between the rise of Art Tatum and the early seventies. Bop, hard bop and Coltrane have always been my main interests, there.
Throughout this whole time, I'd always loved Irish traditional music given my heritage, and about the age of seventeen, I developed a fondness for British folk also, mainly John Martyn/Nick Drake. I preferred John to Nick, though: the music was edgier and less precious. I love Van Morrison's Irish soul, and, across the water, Tim Buckley's earlier and mid-period music.
I got into Pearl Jam in 1991.
I've a fondness for Indian classical music, as well as the music of Mali. (Who hasn't?)
the birth of the blues, and thus r'n'r, baby. as much as any discerning music fan digs the wombles and pinky and perky was it??,
take a good look
this could be the day
hold my hand
lie beside me
i just need to say
Until I was about 10, I didn't really have any favourite bands or listen to anything specific but I always loved music. Hearing Don't Look Back In Anger by Oasis gives me a tremendous sense of nostalgia still, even though I don't like Oasis.
I started listening to Tupac Shakur around the age of 10 after hearing Changes when his greatest hits came out and basically fell in love with his music and a bunch of other rappers. Besides Tupac, I started listening to Nas, Dr Dre and the Wu-Tang Clan. As for non-hip-hop, I started listening to Bob Dylan, although not to the extent that I would later.
Aged about 11, I got into Nirvana and Guns N' Roses although I remained a big fan of hip-hop.
Around 14, I listened to PJ for the first time, though I'd heard Alive years before. They quickly became my favourite band in the world
From about 15 or 16 onwards, I started branching out listening to Jazz, starting with Miles and Coltrane and also some fusion stuff like Mahavishnu Orchestra and Weather Report. I also heard Minor Threat for the first time and fell in love.
At 17, I met my best friend and we went on something of a musical journey of discovery, going through huge jazz, experimental and punk phases. I also delved further into hip-hop. I found the greatest band I've ever heard, Godspeed You! Black Emperor, a band who I swear make the most beautiful sounds I've ever heard.
Since then, I've explored electronic music, classical, massive amounts of hardcore punk (the genre I feel I best connect to for whatever reason, besides jazz) all types of jazz, huge amounts of hip-hop and "avant-garde stuff", some indian music like Allaudin Khan, Nusrat, some Koto, klezmer, IDM, noise, ambient, field recordings, basically anything I can get my hands on
Most currently, I've been listening to a lot of hip-hop again, as well as classical and a rejuvenated Coltrane phase. I'm always up for hearing new stuff though.
And that was my music life so far...
I was born in 1978
my first musical memories from my parents are of
Elvis
Willie Nelson
Neil Diamond
Fleetwood Mac
and oddly
Til Tuesday
My first record of my own was
Michael Jackson Thriller (still love it)
I was in kindergarten, 1983
Around ages 8-10, basic 80s pop:
Gloria Estivan and the Miami Sound Machine
Whitney Houston
Lionel Richie, Dancin on the Ceiling (lol)
moving into
Tiffany,
Debbie Gibson
HOWEVER
somewhere around this time
Paul Simon's Graceland came on to my radar
Around ages 10-12- bad pop and R&B
New Kids on the Block
Paula Abdul
Bel Biv Devoe
Bobbie Brown
And even Milli Vanilli!!!
yes this is an embarrassing time. However, I remember some GOOD stuff sneaking into my earlobes at this time
REM
The Cure
Even a little Aerosmith
By 8th grade, 1991 I'm getting into some rock music, even though it was totally unacceptable to listen to anything but rap/hip hop at school
Guns n' Roses
REM
u2
Aerosmith
DECEMBER/JANUARY 1991, AGE 13: HEAR ALIVE FOR THE FIRST TIME
High School: 1992-1996
When I started High School my 3 favorite bands where
Pearl Jam
U2
G n R
The just got into the whole "grunge" thing:
Soundgarden
AIC
Mudhoney
a little Nirvanna but it was never really my thing
went back and looked at music from the 60s/70s:
The Who
The Doors
As I moved through high school, got more into like "hippy" music, folk
Paul Simon
DMB
stuff like Tom Petty
and was really into Natalie Merchant
BUT ALSO
got into more mid-90s "alternachick rock"
(this was very big in boston)
Lemonheads
Juliana Hatfield
Mighty Mighty Bosstones
Throwing Muses
Machinery Hall
The Shiela Divine
(all boston bands)
Sugar
The Pixies
The Breeders
Dinosaur Junior
...god just about anything...I was a music sponge in high school
COLLEGE 1996-2000
Music is in a very depressing time
I start getting into FOO FIGHTERS big time, BAD RELIGION, SEBADOH
Go back to check out smaller bands from the 90s:
The Gits
Green Apple Quickstep
Go Back to the 80s:
THE SMITHS!!!!
OLD U2
Echo and the Bunnymen
Liked to go out skanking to my friend's ska band!
2000-present
Anything new from my all time favorite bands
WEEZER
Around 2001 I really got into PETE YORN I've seen him several times
By this point I've got so many CDs, I don't need much new stuff
Sorry so long this post was asking for trouble when I came along!!!
Later 80s/early 90s. Got into some hair metal because of my older sister. That's the only music I ever really listened to in my life that I disown today, with the exception of a couple bands. Also discovered INXS at the time, still listen to them a lot. Plus Metallica, Megadeth, etc.
1992 was the year that started to shape what I'm still into today. Soundgarden, Pearl Jam, Alice In Chains, etc. Also discovered death metal around this time, being that it exploded when I was in Florida. Still like classic death metal/tech death bands.
Once I found Pearl Jam and Soundgarden I didn't have much room for anything else. The output of both these bands blew me away and still does today. Definitely my all time favorite bands. Also in the early 90s discovered The Doors, Hendrix, The Who, Black Sabbath.
As I've gotten older (mid-to-late 20s) I've really gotten into stuff like Fiona Apple, Tori Amos, Bjork, Ani DiFranco. Now a fan of older blues and jazz. Love some Miles Davis! Also I've become a big Frank Zappa fan in the last ten years.
I still find myself going back to Pearl Jam and Soundgarden ultimately
8/25/92, 10/4/96, 10/5/96, 9/1/98, 9/4/98, 8/4/00, 8/6/00, 4/15/03, 4/16/03, 10/6/04, 6/16/08
early years (4-11)
grew up hearing my mom/sister playing AIC,soundgarden, pearl jam, smashing pumpkins, live and nirvana.
dad only played Pearl Jam. Too young to care about any music honestly. I guess I liked the band Live.
pre-teen/early teen (12-15)
Started listening to some Korn and Limp Bizkit until I was around 14. Then I bought my first walkman which could hold about 400 songs. This is when my taste started to cange. I downloaded all of the hits from all the 90's bands. I probably had about 5 or more PJ songs.
16/17
I was recommended Primus and downloaded a few of their songs. I was hooked and bought every single primus album. I couldnt get enough of claypool. Then somewhere/some how I decided to buy an Avenged Sevenfold cd. I listened to it and basically tried convincing myself it was good. It wasn't. Then I asked to borrow all of my oldest sisters CD's. At this point I had PJ's first 3 albums and every aic album. When I was 17 I decided that AIC was my new favorite band. Then I got tix to my first real show (Pearl Jam) and decided to buy every other PJ album to get myself familiar with them. I bought riot act and binaural at once. Then I bought No Code, then Yield, Then self titled once it came out. AIC was still my fav. Then I started playing the drums. This is when I got into the whole "Neil Peart" phase. (I am totally passed that now) I bought literally FIFTEEN out of 18 of Rush's albums. I guess they became my favorite band (you can see this whole favorite band phase I wen though, just a phase)
18-present (19)
At this point I have seen PJ, AIC (twice), Primus, Rush and a bunch of other small shows. This is when I realized PJ is bar none my favorite band. Now I am in the process of discovering new music. Because of PJ I have gotten into MMJ, The Who, Grateful dead, some jazz (harrybu mccage), and any other classic rock basically. My taste in music is gradually becoming more soft. Just copy and paste my facebook link to see my fav bands.
Brief summary of favorite bands through the years:
Live
Korn
Red Hot Chili Peppers
Primus
Alice in Chains
Rush
Pearl Jam
Summing it up, Pearl Jam opened up my taste in music to liking bands I didnt think I would ever like. I Know for a fact I am done with those favorite band phases. No other band does it for me like PJ. I am always going back to PJ at the end of the day.
8/7/08, 6/9/09
Mid to late 60's: The Beatles and The Rolling Stones are my first musical memories. Apparently I rocked my playpen hard when my older sister would put on "Day Tripper" or "Satisfaction". I'm pretty sure that The Stones' "Gimme Shelter" was the first song that I actually went "what-the-fuck-is-this-it-is-amazing" ga ga over. I was 7 years old, and it's still one of my favorite songs. Ever.
70's: Early to mid it was all about metal and glam; David Bowie, Alice Cooper, T. Rex, Queen & Kiss. I also loved Sabbath & Zeppelin but the glitter/theatrical/metal hybrid thing was more to my liking. The mid to late part of the decade it went from glam to more straight ahead hard rock like Heart, AC/DC, Bad Co., Scorpions & Aerosmith right into punk and new wave: Sex Pistols, The Clash, Patti Smith Group, The Buzzcocks, Ramones, Talking Heads, The Cars, Elvis Costello, The Police & The B52's. While I still loved "the old rock," bands like Styx, Journey & Foreigner were rearing their faceless, generic heads and the "new" stuff was just sounding better and better.
80's: Everything that was great about punk and new wave started going wrong early in the "me decade." I actually remember Loverboy being advertised as a punk band and Men At Work were billed as new wave. The "new wave of british heavy metal" was ok for about 10 minutes with some good music by bands like Iron Maiden, but when it morphed into L.A. hair metal I jumped ship for more gothic bands like Sisters Of Mercy, The Cure, Bauhaus, Joy Division and to some extent synth bands like Yaz, Erasure, New Order & Depeche Mode. The Smiths fit in here somewhere, too. Mind you, I love some songs from the Aqua Net years of metal, but the mentalities of the musicians on a whole were just off the charts. Unfortunately, if I can't respect the musician to some degree I can't get behind the music either. The 3 shiney, bright, beautiful lights of the decade: U2, R.E.M. & Pixies. Two of them are still in my top three to this day.
90's: The dreaded "G" word. Say what you want, but the short lived grunge thing was a needed shot in the arm. Pearl Jam and the usual suspects brought organics back to rock. The Chili Peppers brought the funk back to rock with "Blood Sugar Sex Magik." NIN and Marilyn Manson brought the fear back to rock. Garbage proved you could bring electronics AND pop back to rock. Local H keeps bringing the grunge thing back to rock with every release and it's kinda cool every time.
Present: Now, I just listen to everything and anything. And it's all good!
I was raised on a diet of Split Enz, Roxy Music, Pink Floyd, Lou Reed, Frank Zappa, 10CC, Dire Straits and Manhattan Transfer (courtesy of my parents). Also listened to alot of Beatles, ABBA and The Beach Boys (cassettes and vinyls that our parents gave my sister and I).
Early to mid 80s
My sister (3 years older) was listening to ALOT of Nena and Thompson Twins, I followed but then became obsessed with Culture Club and Wham (don't judge, I was about 9 years old), from there we progressed(?) to Spandau Ballet, Tears for Fears, a-Ha (c'mon, teenaged girls in the 80s), we also liked Madonna (but mum didn't approve, she thought she was a tart)
Mid to late 80s
INXS hit with Kick in '88 and I became heavily into Johnny Diesel & The Injectors (another Aussie rock band) and also U2. The U2 obsession continued well into the 90s (I still love them).
Early 90s
I was one of the only people that didn't like U2's Achtung Baby, but by then I'd discovered the Red Hot Chili Peppers & Pearl Jam. The Chili's were originally in the lead, but it didn't last long with Pearl Jam taking first place, where they've been ever since. From Pearl Jam I discovered Neil Young. I also started listening to Led Zeppelin (I was somewhat exposed to them growing up, but only when my mum wasn't around... dad loved them, she didn't).
90s cont'd
Also heavily into Soundgarden, AIC, The Tea Party, Faith No More and JEFF BUCKLEY. Jeff Buckley gave Pearl Jam a run for their money for a while, but we all know how tragically that ended.
00s
Muse, Muse, Muse! I always say that Pearl Jam have my heart but Muse are my crack. I've swung back to more British music these days. Aside from Pearl Jam and Muse, I listen to alot of Snow Patrol, Keane, Coldplay, I also discovered The Clash (better late than never). I also like folky music... Jason Mraz, Yoav, Lior, Joshua Radin, Ray LaMontagne, Brett Dennen, Ian Hutchinson and Aussie band George... something about a male voice and a guitar (except for George which has brother and sister singing). I was a total music snob in the 90s (while in my 20s), but I listen to a wide variety of music these days.
So, for me I guess it would go:
Split Enz, Roxy Music, Pink Floyd, Culture Club, Wham, INXS, Johnny Diesel & The Injectors, U2, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Pearl Jam, Soundgarden, The Tea Party, Jeff Buckley, Muse, Snow Patrol, Keane.
First 5 concerts:
Wham '85
Spandau Ballet '85
Tears For Fears '85
Thompson Twins '86
Dire Straits '86 (with my parents)
Then came Paula Abdul, Tiffany, and Debbie Gibson. Those were dark years. About the time all the other 12-yr-olds thought Vanilla Ice was dreamy (ugh)...
I went to Target and bought Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers, "Into the Great Wide Open": still my most listened-to album.
Then came Smashing Pumpkins, PJ, Nirvana, Soundgarden, Ani DiFranco, Ben Harper, Jimi, Janis, and now I'm on to:
PJ (a'course)
Joseph Arthur
Martin Sexton
Regina Spektor
Rolling Stones
Juana Molina
Neil Young
Michael Penn
and I just bought Deerhoof this morning, because everyone raves about them.
Then Pearl Jam, Smashing Pumpkins, RHCP, Nirvana, stp, aic and Soundgarden when I was 14....
Then NIN, Manson, Tool/Perfect Circle when I was 16-18
Nowadays, at 24, my fave bands/artists are Pearl Jam, Sigur Ros, Tom Waits, Bob Dylan, Nick Cave, Radiohead, Beatles, KOL, Delays.....
I've mellowed alot but PJ is a consistant fave for 10 years.....
Usually listened to whatever my parents played in the house. Lots of CCR, The Who, Elton John, James Taylor, Gordon Lightfoot, among others.
Favorite bands at this time: didn't really have one.
mid - late 80s:
Started becoming a big fan of music and buying cassettes with my weekly allowance. Like most kids at that age, I started out with your typical 80s stuff-- Michael Jackson, Madonna, Cyndi Lauper, Men at Work, Duran Duran, Huey Lewis & the News, and the soundtracks from Top Gun, Footloose, and Ghostbusters. Then my friend and I discovered his older brother's record collection and started making mix tapes with all kinds of great stuff on 'em. For my 12th birthday, some friends bought me my first "real" albums: U2's The Joshua Tree, Bruce Springsteen`s Born in the U.S.A., Midnight Oil's Diesel & Dust, and Synchronicity by the Police.
Favorite bands at this time: U2, Midnight Oil, The Police, Bruce Springsteen.
late 80s/early 90s:
My sister bought me Appetite for Destruction for Christmas '87 and I became an instant Guns N' Roses fan, but when they started adding horns and backup singers for the Use Your Illusion tour, I started to lose interest. I also went on a big classic rock kick around this time with plenty of Zeppelin, CCR, and especially The Doors. In late 1989 I discovered something that up until then was considered extremely un-cool: Canadian rock. A little-known rock n' roll five piece from Kingston, Ontario called The Tragically Hip came out of nowhere and kicked everybody's ass with their own unique brand of no frills, old-school hard-rock. They wrote amazing and intelligent songs about small town life, prison breaks, drug addiction, and broken relationships, and Gord Downie`s lyrics were often full of uniquely Canadian images and iconography. With the help of fellow countrymen like 54-40, Change of Heart, Rheostatics, Headstones, the Grapes of Wrath, 13 Engines, and Lowest of the Low, they spoke to a new generation of young Canadian rock fans and made it cool to write songs about their own country . This opened up the floodgates for a massive rock n' roll renaissance in Canada that is still being felt today. The recent worldwide popularity of Canadian artists like Arcade Fire, Broken Social Scene, Feist, and the New Pornographers can be traced back to that first wave of bands in the early 90s. (*a little side note: my high school garage band once opened a show for a local Calgary punk band called Placebo, who`s lead singer was none other than 17-year old Leslie Feist).
Like any teenage rock fan at this time, I was also heavily into the alternative rock movement. I had become a big fan of Nirvana, R.E.M., Radiohead, Buffalo Tom, Soundgarden, Screaming Trees, Smashing Pumpkins, and of course the almighty Pearl Jam.
Favorite bands at this time: The Tragically Hip, Pearl Jam, Midnight Oil, the Doors, R.E.M.
late 90s - 2000:
Dove headfirst into the alt-country/folk movement and became a huge fan of bands like Uncle Tupelo, Wilco, Son Volt, Steve Earle, the Jayhawks, Whiskeytown/Ryan Adams, and Johnny Cash's "American" series. And of course their Canadian counterparts: Blue Rodeo, Cuff the Duke, Kathleen Edwards, the Sadies, Sarah Harmer, Ron Sexsmith, Hayden, and the Guthries. I also discovered the genius of Tom Waits during this time and started buying every album the guy ever released. An obsession that continues to this day.
Favorite bands at this time: The Tragically Hip & Pearl Jam (by this time I was a lifelong fan of both bands and neither one was ever going to be replaced on my list of favorites.) Wilco, Rheostatics, Sarah Harmer, Tom Waits.
2000 - present:
Discovered amazing bands like The Constantines, the Weakerthans, Matt Mays & El Torpedo, Sam Roberts, Wintersleep, the Hold Steady, New Pornographers, Arcade Fire, Feist,
Current favorite bands: the Hip (of course), Pearl Jam (of course), Wilco, the Weakerthans, Constantines, Wintersleep, Sarah Harmer.
-Tom Waits
-New Kids on the Block
-MC Hammer/Vanilla Ice
-Barenaked Ladies
-Green Day/Offspring
-Bush
-Pearl Jam
-The Tragically Hip
-Silverchair
-Rage Against the Machine/Foo Fighters
-Sam Roberts
-John Mayer
-Brad Paisley
-Kings of Leon
So, for me, I haven't strayed too much, but BNL started me down the rock-ish road.
First five concerts:
- Bush, 97
- Our Lady Peace, 98
- Edgefest 99 (for Silverchair)
- Summersault 2000 (for Foo Fighters)
- Pearl Jam 2000
birth - present: The Who, Queen, David Bowie
Grades 2-7: The Beatles
Grades 8-11: The Cars
Grades 9 - present: The Church, Roxy Music, The Clash, Violent Femmes, The Ramones, The Cure, U2, REM, Elvis Costello, Peter Gabriel
high school (I'm female): Duran Duran
post high school/ college: still The Church, Roxy Music, The Clash, U2 etc. Add Paul Weller/ Style Council/ The Jam, Everything But the Girl
post college to present: the above plus Lloyd Cole, Bob Marley, Grateful Dead, Green Day, classic jazz, Nirvana, Pearl Jam
concerts: I have been to relatively few, for a variety of reasons. First shows include The Cars (I loved them, but they sucked live), Style Council (awesome!), Midnight Oil (great show), the Church (also a great show). I have seen Lloyd Cole live more than any other artist.
Oh, I've liked them for just about forever, too!