What/Who got you into music?

mauichick

itsevobaby wrote:

how far do you go back???

first song i remember LOVING was toto - africa, when i was 5!

first tape i ever bought was M.Jackson - bad, we were dating at the time.

first cd was def leppard hysteria.

then i lost things a wee bit....there was some bros, new kids, it was a confusing time, my sister saved me with the joshua tree.

then me & music kind of lost ways, good thing too the way it was heading! my re-introduction was sealed & passion cemented with the release of the use your illusion albums. with ten just around the corner & the industry about to embark on a scene that defined my tastes for life, the rest they say is history

then just as things were getting stale in the rock scene i began working in a record store which opened my ears to so many things that i wouldn't normally have crossed paths with. there is so much good music out there, it's just a shame it's burried under so much shit.

what can i say, i can superior taste when i was 8

but i also loved meat loaf (still a guilty pleasure) so maybe not

pjoasisrule

Ledbetterman10 wrote:

I'd have to say that I'm pretty much the exact same except for Oasis and Weezer. throw in my dad's CCR and the Beatles vinyls and that's how I got into music. I knew Offspring and Nirvana before I knew Pearl Jam. they were like the salad you eat before they bring out your lobster (or something like that)

Welcome to the 1994 HOOOOOOOOOOOOOO DRAFT!!!!!!!!!!!!

No way, I will forever remember that line, havent even listened to that record for years.

pjoasisrule

By the way, it feels damn good to be able to say that I listened to great music as a kid and most of it is still my favorite music today. Kids nowadays are gonna have to fess up to listening to horseshit like Fall Out Boy, My Chemical Romance, Nickelback, High School Musical, Hilary Duff, etc. etc. I get to say that my first tape was Weezer and my first cd was Smashing Pumpkins.

mdigenakis

Ten when i was in 7th grade. Then i stopped "listening" to music for a while, especially after i lost Ten. Then i bought Rearviewmirror when i was a junior in college on a wimb ("hey, i used to listen to these guys" was probably my exact thought) when i walked into the neighborhood record store. Thought the rest of the songs (non-ten songs i never heard before) sounded great (lyrically as well as instrumentally). I was sold.

CHANGEinWAVES

My parents... i grew up around a lot of music. (good music too)
My older cousins helped shift it slightly when they introduced me to Pearl jam in 1992. (still clear as day in my mind actually)
Damn I miss those cousins

reversedarwinism

My mom. I grew up in West Texas, but my mom listened to good rock music (led zep, neil young, heart, pink floyd, aerosmith, ect) I feel so blessed. Most all my friends grew listening to country and know every classic country song and singer, but that stuff is 90% lame then and now. I am so thankfull, Love you Mom.

Thorns2010

I'd have to say it was my older brother who got me into music. I still remember rocking out in his room listening to The Beastie Boys: Licensed to Ill album. He was also into Metallica a lot. So I heard that growing up as well.

Also during the summer's when growing up my family shared a cabin with some family friends, and so I got exposed to music that way as well. Most of the Seattle sound and all that.

I still remember my brother for my b-day one year buying me the Smashing Pumpkins: Siamese Dream, and Soundgarden: SuperUknown on cassette tape. Yup thats right, on cassette tape!

Also Green Day: Dookie was the first CD I ever owned, and Bush: Sixteen Stone was the second. I also know that Vitalogy was one of the first CDs I ever bought myself, the others were gifts.

I do know I never really got into Nirvana until AFTER Kurt died, and with Pearl Jam I always liked them, and half the time I hear Oceans I still think of playing Super Mario World at the cabin in the summer of '92. And on rare occasions when I hear Black, I remember how back in the day I thought it was weird that some dude would paint all the pictures black! Hehe, I didn't quite understand that one at the time!

LuthienTinuviel

Hitch-Hiker wrote:

Recently I started listening to the Offspring for the first time since in a couple of years and found I still really enjoy them. I realised that the band, and in particular the Americana album, are responsible for my interest in listening to and playing rock music. I think that through this I opened my mind to many other types of music and musicians which I previously would have discounted and never listened to.
The Offspring was where it all started for me - A couple of catchy songs (which in hindsight I consider to be among their worst) led me to buy an album which was far heavier (to my virgin ears) than I ever expected. But I loved it. Through that, I began exploring too many different bands to mention. And since then I've been on a never ending journey of musical discovery. It also made me pick up the guitar which ended up shaping my youth in a drastically different way.
So here I am 9 years later, a complete music fanatic and absolutely loving it.
So where did it start for you?

p.s.: The Offspring Rock!

it was the americana album for me as well...i think i was 12...some songs on it are really stupid...but better you get into rock music by teeny pop punk or nu (!) metal than not at all...

and the earlier offspring stuff is really good...the debut is one of my all time favs...listen to crossroads!

two years later i found out what rock music really is about...came across nirvana and pearl jam

lucylespian

Neil Diamond - Hot August Night

Leave me alone, I'm fucking old alrihgt, or I'll get dunks to hunt you !!

Hitch-Hiker

lucylespian wrote:

Neil Diamond - Hot August Night

Leave me alone, I'm fucking old alrihgt, or I'll get dunks to hunt you !!

Nooo! He'll wear his kilt again

Blyss

I wish i had a cool story to tell about how my parents listened to great records but i don't. I grew up listening to really awful music from mariah carey and whitney houston to my early teens to bad pop-rock stuff like the calling, creed, 3 doors down.

At some point i heard incubus and coldplay on mainstream radio as you do, and i picked up morning view, and a rush of blood and that led me to everything else. It just was like one artists led to another, and it continues that way. It can be good in many ways though that i never grew up around good music, always great artists to find, i only recently discovered artists like neil young, tom petty etc.