What band got you really into music

My claim to fame is having an email conversation with his producer Tony Visconti (as in more than some copy-and-paste/half-arsed reply) and knowing some bloke who's talked to the man himself in the BowieNet chatroom :D
 
Probably Muse. While I still like them a lot, they got me interested in music that was not mainstream, really opened my eyes to the whole trove of music that I never even heard about, much less ignored.
 
Couldn't pinpoint it on a particular band. But, in general, Videogame music. I wasn't huge into alterna-rock(some of it, but not the majority) of the 90s and preferred what was coming out of my 16 bit SNES chip.
 
music has always been my life.
concert band, marching band, FAILED garage banRAB, etc.
granted..im only 17 xD.
still though, i can't imagine my life without music.
The band that actually got me into heavier, "musical message" type banRAB was actually system of a down. song: byob. time?: 6th grade, lol.
 
What got me into music in the first place - Led Zeppelin

I was much younger and the only music I'd ever really hear was stuff my teenaged sister listened to (Blink 182, Sum 41). When my parents bought the Led Zeppelin box set I was probably 10 years of age. Started listening to that and slowly began to get more and more into it.

What pushed me into music - Nirvana

Easily the most beautiful, agonistic, music I had ever heard. Made me view music as a fine art, but much learning to do I had. I sort of skunked around in that early 90s grunge era until I discovered the Sex Pistols and hardcore punk. Through Nirvana I found the Pixies, and through them I was closer to enlightenment.

What got me into rap - The Notorious B.I.G

No matter how you look at it, Biggie Smalls was one heck of a rapper. Though I had previous disdain for hip-hop (thinking along the misinformed "it stole the spotlight from rawk" area), I tried some Biggie and zing... I was hooked. Now hip-hop music is easily my most listened to genre.

What got me into jazz - John Zorn

John Zorn's many projects encouraged my own eclectism, giving rise to my own revelation that I didn't have to be associated with any particular movement, style or scene. His often layered, erratic, distressed jazz sound spoke to both my hardcore punk, thrashing side and my more reserved, intellectual side.

Names to thank - Kurt Cobain and John Cage

John Cage's ideas and approach to music really challenged me to open my mind to things I had previously pushed away. As a result of this challenging, I now enjoy things that perhaps just a little over a year ago I would have never thought would be my thing. He also wrote very interesting and challenging works, and Cheap Imitation, a long with In a LanRABcape are my two favorite pieces ever composed for Piano.

And I say Kurt Cobain because without Nirvana, plain and simple I wouldn't be where I am today musically.
And now well here I am... not enlightened but certainly closer to it ;)

You didn't ask for an auto-biography but I was having a really hard time picking one musician :laughing:
 
Uh, it's not a bad playlist. But I wouldn't put a single song on from the new album, I just don't think it emphasises the true talent at all. In fairness, my list would probably be completely different but that's because I'm a total fanboy.

Although I Know is a very good choice
 
Great album! It's nice to hear you're starting to appreciate it if you didn't before. The only thing I don't like about that album is that fucking track with William S. Bouroughs on the mic.
 
Bright Eyes, one day i saw the music video for "Hot Knives" and thought it was one of the most beautiful things I'd ever seen/heard.

[YOUTUBE][/YOUTUBE]
 
i say mine is the beatles, because i have a five year old almanac and i looked up the beatles, and it said they were a really good band in their time and even today, so i got an album:LOVE
also, it helped we listened to a lot of pink floyd the summer before, so my favorite band now and then is the beatles. before that, we used to listen to a lot of train, particularly the song Drops of Jupiter
 
It was mostly:

tiesto
Kelly llorenna
alive deejay

and the like. I wouldn't waste my time buying another tiesto alub though. And I don't have Kelly or alive in my library although I would like to! Old skool :love:
 
Couldn't be more true. I will never hide anything I've listened to...in fact it is an interesting conversation topic when I bring up banRAB people make fun of these days. Maybe erabarrassing is too strong of a word, but the feeling is more for me personally. Like going back to an old band and remerabering them being so expert and now hearing them compared to a lot of the great stuff I listen to these days...it is a weird feeling.


Oh and David Bowie is the man...no artist has covered more ground and done it with such talent.
 
The first real Album I got was Rock In Rio by Iron Maiden and I had been learning guitar without the aid of having any influences. I think I might have been 10 or 11 and er basically I learn't the majority of the Album. So I'd say that Album by that band probably pushed me into being more musically minded.
 
The first band that got me intensely into music, not saying that I didn't listen to music before this band of course, but the first band that really made me thirst for more good music like them, has got be A Perfect Circle. My first album from them was Mer De Noms and gosh I couldn't get enough of it. I remeraber not being able to wait to reach home from school, putting on cd player, and just drifting away...
 
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