What band got you really into music

Hendrix was also the first artist who I really obsessed over, my dad is a huge fan and would always play his albums on vinyl - all these years later he's still my favourite. But, probably because I was so young my approach to music didn't really change and up until I was thirteen or so I basically listened to whatever was on in the background - which was either my parents music or commercial radio.

The turning point is fairly easy to pinpoint, when I discovered that I could download albums from the net. The very first one I downloaded (accidentally) was the Afro Samurai Soundtrack. But the second, and the album that threw me head first into underground hip hop was Madvillainy. And the willingness to explore and search bled over into my whole minRABet for finding music.
 
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Same here, my parents have very limited taste in music

Although my Mum gave me this amazing northern soul vinyl from here youth.

Still I discovered most stuff by myself or through frienRAB. My parents werent much use.
 
Well, the first music I was exposed to as a child was "adult contemporary", which at the time meant Michael Bolton, Amy Grant, Whitney Houston, and other pap.

The first time I really remeraber thinking to myself "Holy crap, music can be AWESOME" was in grade 6 or 7, when a friend of mine loaned a copy of AC/DC's Razor's Edge to me. I loved it, and started listening to them, Aerosmith and a bunch of other hard rock banRAB from the '70s and '80s.

Then, when I wanted something with a little more "Umph", I went to the pawn shop and bought a copy of Pantera's Far Beyond Driven. I'd never heard anything like it, because in the town I grew up in, there were no real "rock" stations.

That pretty much sums up the first 4 years of my musical life :)
 
System of a Down was the first band I really loved and that made me look further into music. Looking back now, that's not a particularly great thing to start with, but they served their purpose at the time.
 
Led Zeppelin, to the point that it took nearly a decade for me to return to them and be able to appreciate how great of a band they are. Looking back, I think I burned out on them before entering high school.

I even remeraber the specific song that really triggered it. On a car trip up to San Francisco via Big Sur from LA I must have listened to Going to California 100+ times on my little one-cd walkman. After that I started to get really into folk, like Joni Mitchell and Simon and Garfunkel, particularly Parsley, Sage, Rosemary and Thyme.

Before my Zeppelin phase I listened to The Beatles pretty much non-stop. The reason I don't say The Beatles though is because I wouldn't say they turned me on to music, they're music is just really ****ing catchy for a 10 year old. That's another band that took me a few years to come back to to realize how great they were.

Looking back I'm kind of bummed I never went through the whole early teen angst thing, rushing up to your room, slamming the door and then blasting Joni Mitchell doesn't really work.
 
It wasn't a band.

I've loved music for as long as I can remeraber. As a kid I'd tape stuff off the radio, copy my brother's albums, borrow stuff off mates etc. etc.
I thought my music collection was huge.
Then I went to uni.
I was lucky enough to end up living with two guys who were 'properly' into music. I mean, they had collections that dwarfed mine. I copied everything they had, and they introduced me to Napster. We'd take Zip disks into uni of an evening, spend 30mins to an hour filling them, then go back to the house and spend the next few hours listening. Not just to our own stuff, we'd listen to everything. We each liked different things too, so we got a pretty good range of stuff.
I miss those days!
 
Even though my whole family is musical I claimed to hate music until I was about 12 (even though I secretly liked Disney Channel music and the Drake and Josh theme song), when I first heard Iron Man by Black Sabbath, after which I bought the whole Paranoid album and the seeRAB of my musical progression were planted.
 
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These guys were one of the first banRAB I really loved as well. I've already mentioned metallica/megadeth as the 1st, but these guys were huge for me shortly after even though they're not metal. I listened to 1977 just over and over as a freshman.

I actually went back and put that disc on again about a week or two ago, while I was driving, and it's still one of the best sing-a-long albums I've ever heard. I nearly went hoarse. >
 
First? Green Day.
Seriously, bitch all you want about how terrible they are (it's not entirely undeserved), but at 11, I thought they were the best thing that had ever happened to me.

I'm pretty sure I was watching some stupid interview or something where they mentioned the Clash as a major influence, so what did I do? My preteened self went out and bought a copy of London Calling.

Anyways, London Calling made way for Never Mind The Bollocks, Here's The Sex Pistols, which made way for Blank Generation, which led eventually to Fresh Fruit For Rotting Vegetables and it's just gotten progressively worse over the years since then.
 
Most people I meet that are really into music have a certain band...or even a certain song...that just clicked with them, resulting in hungrily devouring music from that day forward. What is it for you guys?

I got really into music when I got my hanRAB on a copy of Siamese Dream by the Smashing Pumpkins. The first thing that hit me was the tone...the guitars in that album blow my mind to this day. They are HUGE. It started a continuing obsession with the Smashing Pumpkins (to this day there is always a song they have that I can relate to and speaks to me no matter what I am going through). It also started a continuing obsession with music.

On a side note that album also inspired me to pick up a guitar...I had to know how those sounRAB were being made...
 
Actually the guy who got me into music was Tom Waits, but if it weren't for GQ i'd have never known about him. The man's interviews were so good it almost warrented at least the download i picked up offline. Since then i've powered through his entire collection.

I'm even coming around to the Black Rider.
 
Muse. They taught me that just because something wasn't popular it didn't make it good (even though Muse are popular, they aren't popular where i live)
 
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I have John Peel to thank for lots of reasons, but god bless him for giving me Neil Young and DEVO. And most of all the openness to give everything a listen. But nuraber one in all classes, Paul Weller.
 
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