Your music career as a listener, confession

deadnote

pre pearl jam i was listening to extreme , poison, mother love bone, alice n chains, gnr, wow pretty weird no female fronted ones on this list

ruberry

When I was 7-10 I listened to all the teen pop shit that was big back then; spice girls, backstreet boys, britney spears, etc. I was about ten when I heard californication-era rhcp, and I loved them. Gorillaz came out a little bit later, and I really like them. In about sixth grade I was very big on smashmouth and no doubt. Then I forgot about music for a few years in middle school, and when I was 13 or so I was a big switchfoot fan (gag). I actually listened to Green Day that year two (weird combination, I know.) Once I got an iPod about a year ago I just started downloaded music like crazy, starting with Radiohead, RHCP, and the beatles. Pretty soon I started listening to Pearl Jam, Nirvana, AIC, etc. And my music taste has been continually branching out since.

tonadax

i used to hear many diferents bands especially depeche mode, guns and roses, metallica, the police, bob marley and the beatles...

stpaulbrowncoat

My parents had a record collection that contained the soundtracks from various Broadway shows (West Side Story, Camelot, Man of La Mancha, etc) and the soundtracks from 2001:A Space Odyssey (still one of my favorite films) and the Star Wars movies. My Dad really liked ELO and (oh, the embarassing confession) I still like them a lot. (Let the flames begin...)
My two favorite bands are Pearl Jam and REM. I had the pleasure of living in Athens, GA for a few years and it was nice to share a town with them. Before PJ, there was the British band Lush (you should really seek out their albums: I'm particularly fond of "Spooky"), Traveling Wilburys, Metallica (never woulda thunk I'd like them...go figure), Matthew Sweet (guitar genius...got to see him live in '92), The Beatles, Peter, Paul & Mary, Bob Dylan, The Doors (I was obsessed in high school..) and Book of Love.
Oh, the shame. You can stop laughing now. Really, I mean it.

SlowFade

Ok, I have a published letter to santa at 4 where I ask for a rush tape, and a My first sony player. My dad always had good music around, so I had a early exposure to the beatles, stones, zepplin. George harrison's set on you is a huge song from that age as well.......

In the late 80's though, It was poison..I loved 'em.....got into the whole C + C Music factory and EMF(remember unbelievable?), then came guns, and well, Seattle happened, and ever since it's been underground music, give or take a mainstream band here or there

Coming back to life

Before Pearl Jam I used to listen to hardcore. That stuff wipes the floor with garage.

mdigenakis

1995- 11yrs old

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95-96- 1st year of junior high- Ten is purchased

96-99- don't really listen to much music, except the radio.

00-02- listen to alot of "empty music" through out High School, Hybrid Theory, Candy ass, Vapor transmission is purchased. a shitty part of my life i would like to soon forget. (lots of booze!!!)

03-04-college- trend continues, except for Pretty Hate Machine (still great) and Short Bus. "hey, these albums are angry for me, have you heard the Only Time?"

04-05- realize Ten was thrown in trash (accident) by mom while moving.
-Title of Record is purchased (damn good album)
-Title of Record leads to STP, Soundgarden, Neil Young and LZ purchases.
-Saw "singles" on HBO, Rearviewmirror purchase. "Hey, what ever happened to this band?". Answer: they have been rockin shit for more than a decade!!!
-Lost Dogs and many more PJ albums bought along a very short span

05- 06-Lots of great music in collection
-"empty music" thrown away by me on purpose.
-current listens include: LZ 2, Yank Hotel Foxtrot, Grace, PJ, Badmotorfinger, East rutherford 6/1/06 Bootleg, title of record, War, Rust never Sleeps
-^thats just the last couple of days (no, i'm not bipolar)
-Ramble on!

yosi1

I grew up listening to classic rock and oldies cause of my parents. Which I have to say was really awesome, and I'm totally thankful for it. However, at around 13 years old, I had to discover a little music for myself, and I actually bought Creed and Limp Bizkit (I already was getting into RHCP, STP, Nirvana, and Pearl Jam). Thankfully I made the smart move of selling the Creed cd to my friend for about 6 dollars, and just threw out the Limp Bizkit. I did make an awesome deal though, of trading a Cup o' Noodles for STP's Purple while at sleep away camp when I was 13!

soulsinging

Obi Once wrote:

Forgive me father for I have sinned. I started listening to Michael Jackson and George Michael as a young kid, my first vynil was MC Hammer (ooh the shame). After that it was hip hop, Run DMC and Public Enemy, but I was more into the music than most of the lyrics. I also liked things like GnR and Metalica. The 1st house music (Rotterdam Termination Force - Poing / De Rode Schoentjes) I liked, but it wasnt until 92 visiting London that I learned of the Prodigy, I loved the sound. Around the same time I heard PJ's Alive and was hooked, but it was after years of techno parties that I went to a festival in 2000 called Pinkpop to see Pearl Jam. That changed everything... I saw Oasis, Bush, Korn, Live and PEARL JAM blew me away. From that moment on the love for rock grew and grew.

it's ok, i too suffered the shame of an mc hammer habit when i was really little.

when i left hip hop behind i moved onto an interesting combination: bryan adams and aerosmith. more so the former. i still have a soft spot for bryan adams. as time progressed, i dug hootie and the blowfish and sherly crow. ah, soft rock.

then my friend gave me a tape that had nine inch nails, nirvana, pearl jam, green day, etc. and ive never looked back. ok, not THAT much. i still dig a good hootie tune

mwachsman

yosi wrote:

I did make an awesome deal though, of trading a Cup o' Noodles for STP's Purple while at sleep away camp when I was 13!

Very nice trade.

I was born in 1985, so I really wasn't old enough to be into music before Ten came out. Though I did grow up listening to classic rock, because that is what my dad would have on when we were in the car. Sadly, now my dad listens to country :(

Inkdaub

When I was a kid I wasn't allowed to listen to music unless it was Christian music. Petra was my favorite but I also liked Stryper. Outside of these bands, and probably because of these bands and the propaganda my parents encouraged about devil music, I didn't listen to much music at all.

My sister moved in with her friend and I would often go over to visit. It was there that I found myself looking through the rommates record collection and discovered A Farewell to Kings by Rush. Everything was different from that moment on.

Several years went by where I had to hide the non-Christian music I was now listening to from my parents. Sometimes My dad would find a record and throw it away but I was mostly successful. My favorites during these years were Motley Crue and Ozzy and Queensryche and Dokken...the eighties hair metal guys pretty much. It was good and I liked the music but it wasn't quite right, though I did discover Faith No More and Type O Negative at this time and they remain favorites.

I had a job as a night stocker at a Target for a few months after highschool. There I met a cool guy who knew about music I didn't. He introduced me to three bands...Ministry, Nirvana and Butthole Surfers. Again everything changed and these three bands remain favorites to this day.

This led to the Melvins, Soundgarden, Temple of the Dog and Pearl Jam, among many other bands. I remember a feeling that finally I had found the music I had been looking for.

That brings us to today. I just finished listening to Avocado.