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Everything has a start. Your musical taste appeared from somewhere and because of something.

A song, a whole band, a style.


Mine was Calexico!

Principal songs who catapulted me from not listening to music at all to a headphones-all-the-day-on-the-ears guy:

Calexico - Pepita
Calexico - Black Light

dEUS - Fell off the floor man This song was sex to me. It still is.

My older siblings were the main sources of my first year or so of music. They either gave me a CD or I *cough* stole it, and it was my first real taste of having music. It was really limited, though, although I did get some good artists. Fast forward a while and I met palemoon and sidke, who got me in to j-core. J-core has led to all sorts of other electronic music like breakcore and IDM, which I am /so/ glad to have discovered. The community in general has really widened my music taste, which I am seriously glad about. My music library has at least doubled, if not /tripled/ since I got here. Thanks, everyone. :3

Yeah, my older brother got me into Rage Against the Machine. Sorta spread out from there, I suppose.

Playing a demo of THPS I got from Pizza Hut. Goldfinger's Superman was the greatest thing in the world for me.

Back when I got my first CD-player a hundred years ago, I borrowed some CDs from my parents, one of which was Gutterflower by the Goo Goo Dolls. Still one of my favorite albums ever.

The first thing I was really into musically was late 80s/early 90s post-hardcore. First wave emo, so to speak, and I have much love for pretty much anything from around the revolution summer of '85.

Moss Icon - Guatemala
Indian Summer - I Think Your Train Is Leaving
Rites of Spring - For Want Of

Those are in order of importance to my early musical experimentation. Looking back, it's easy to see how my tastes developed into a love of emotionality in music. Either through instrumentation or lyrics, really, that's where I've always been and will probably continue to stay.

Sounds kind of cliche, but it's true: my father's old Rubber Soul vinyl.

Red Hot Chili Peppers
Incubus
Linkin Park

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Flight wrote:Linkin Park

Oh, yeah, that too. I suppose in truth I got where I am by going on some sort of musical journey with my best friend over the years. It was something like Backstreet Boys to Linkin Park to Limp Bizkit to Slipknot to RATM to Incubus and then at Incubus all the good shit happened.

Mute Monk wrote:Sounds kind of cliche, but it's true: my father's old Rubber Soul vinyl.

Goddammit exactly. I had listened to Rubber Soul at least a thousand times before I was six.

I wish my story was better. My Dad listened to nonstop early Metallica (Not EARLY Metallica, but Justice and Black, mostly), the Pink Floyd live double CD (echoes? or is that an actual album.), and stuff from the Cranberries. My Mom listened to tons of Blur, Bon Jovi, and AC/DC. Oh, and Guns N' Roses.

So, needless to say, I sprung from sour roots. The first band I obsessed over that I still listen to today is =w=eezer. And shoegaze got me into most of the stuff I'm into now.

Flight wrote: Linkin Park

Pretty much.

My parent's music collection, which basically consisted of what I like to think of now as "Golden Oldies": The Beatles, The Who and two double-sided CDs of hits from the 60s are what I chiefly remember from my early years.

Despite this, Hips Don't Lie by Shakira is the foundation stone of my musical taste today. Go figure.

Seneschal wrote:Despite this, Hips Don't Lie by Shakira is the foundation stone of my musical taste today. Go figure.

Amazing.

When I bought my ipod. I got more interested in music after I joined this community.

Hardcore punk, actually. Got me into all that, then metal. Then, a random purchase of GY!BE's f sharp (I liked the cover) kinda got me into the experimental stuff. Back when I was 'just friends' with my wife, she introduced me to a load of electronic music.

At a younger age, my dad would often make me pick an album at random from his collection, and we'd listen to a song or two from it. Of these included Slanted & Enchanted, You're Living All Over Me, Daydream Nation, and The Best of Sade.

I actually used to listen to some really different music to what I do now. There had always been really terrible music from my mother in the house, so I would listen to bands like Limp Bizkit (I know!), Rammstein and Korn. I started getting into rock and funk when I got into high school and listening to bands like the Red Hot Chili Peppers and Led Zeppelin. After I became friends with "krusch", he introduced me to a lot of good indie music and a hell of a lot of good underground hip-hop. My tastes since then have spawned from there, and now I tend to like most kinds of music, from Metal, to Jazz, to Psychedelic Rock, to prog, and even the odd western tune.

Rise Against's Siren Song of the Counter Culture
Snow Patrol's Songs for Polar Bears

A strange combination but these were the first two albums that started my interest in music

Tunco wrote:When I bought my ipod. I got more interested in music after I joined this community.

So you bought an iPod before you started getting seriously into music?

Anyway, me.
My first touch with music were some 80's pop that my father often listened to (he still does!). I remember my favorite being Classix Nouveaux.
Then I started school, and when I was ten (or nine, but something like that) I started exploring music myself. First I listened to some hip-hop which I don't listen to nor appreciate at all nowadays, then some stupid pop, and it all kind of stagnated... until I was 12, when I got a bit more serious, and dropped all of that.
I started loving Red Hot Chili Peppers (they're still among my top three). My sister borrowed a CD with some music, and I fell in love for one more time - Metallica and Nirvana. There were only few songs from both, but it didn't stop me from exploring further; Metallica is my favorite today, and Nirvana is... great, too. Today, beside the previously mentioned, I listen to variety of bands, such as System of a Down, Tool, Iron Maiden, Rammstein, Iced Earth, and few more.
Well, I wonder will my ear lead me to some other genre, or I'll stop my music journey at rock and metal.

EdoI wrote:

Tunco wrote:When I bought my ipod. I got more interested in music after I joined this community.

So you bought an iPod before you started getting seriously into music?

Yeah. I got more interested to it after I joined this community.

My parents, initially. They're both decently musical (play instruments quite well, and listen to a fair bit of music), so they thought it would be nice for their kids to have the same kind of upbringing. I did rhythm classes when I was only 2 years old. :D

As to the first music that I really liked, I'd probably have to say Weird Al. While I did like miscellaneous Classical and Romantic music, Weird Al was like a trend in our junior school, and I definitely caught on because I liked the music. Towards the beginning of the senior school, I started defining my musical taste as "modern classical" (I now know this to be technically called Neoclassical, but oh well), although a large part of it was soft-core pop, of sorts. Then through school I got a bit more into strange music, but also Classical/Romantic/Baroque - still kind of dislike listening to Medieval, Renaissance, and some modern music.

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Now playing: Rimsky-Korsakov - Russian Easter Festival Overture
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HARPO wrote:Weird Al.

You're such a weird dude, Lenny.

My stepdad liked Pink Floyd. My mom liked Erykah Badu. My stepmom liked Relient K. My dad liked some weird mix of Jars of Clay and Guns 'n' Roses.

I think I could trace it all from there.

Before I was really into the whole music thing, I remember making the discovery that half-a-dozen songs that I vaguely knew and liked from the radio were all by Matchbox Twenty, so that's a thing. I think the first song I ever downloaded was Unwell on WinMX.

2004 would have been the year I first started getting into the whole music thing in any real sense, and Franz Ferdinand would have been one of the bands involved in said music-thing-getting-into. I heard Take Me Out somewhere and liked it. I then heard it everywhere and hated it. I then downloaded it and liked it again. My opinion of the Franz was cemented when I heard and I fell in love with Darts Of Pleasure. Then there was like Muse and stuff which led to Radiohead and stuff. By the time I had listened to OK Computer I was pretty seriously into the whole music thing.