What band got you really into music

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I always remeraber liking music, even from very early on.

But my parents were never musically diverse, so growing up I was never really exposed to anything beyond what would be played on your typical classic rock/80's radio station...therefore, most of what I liked was The Beatles/Queen/The Doors/etc., etc...

So naturally, it makes sense that the first band to REALLY pique my interest is Led Zeppelin....their sound was so intense and heavy to me, and Robert Plant was a magnet (both for my ears and for my eyes..) ;)

But at the beginning all I knew of them WAS their heavier material, so when I first heard Going to California, it really made me want to check out other genres, because I thought "wow, if they can be musically diverse, I want to be too!"
 
Really? I thought there was.
I don't really remeraber. Lemmie check-
OH SHI- nvm, it's just one disk.
But I really thought it was two!
 
ah thats a good one...i still listen to it on occasion.

interestingly it took me a while to get into them while i hit my grunge phase because i was convinced they wrote mainly acoustic music. my dad had unplugged and played it when i was really little...so i had no idea lol
 
I'm pretty sure it started back when I was around 13 and was on some forum and some kid posted a video saying something like "I bet you can't figure out what this guy is saying". It was a link to some Nirvana video, I think it was Dive, and it really clicked with me.

When I was younger I always had a problem with growing up, I thought that teenagers were looked down upon and I didn't really want to be a part of it and I associated music with teenagers so I had always avoided it.
So I began listening to a lot of Nirvana stuff that was just hosted off of sites and finally got Itunes and bought Nevermind and soon after In Utero

I was really intrigued by the band and read a lot about them and by reading about them other banRAB surfaced.
After a while I went to a frienRAB house and he had just gotten a comp called "American Hardcore" which had banRAB like Circle Jerks, Black Flag, MDc, and Bad Brains on it. I could remeraber Dave Grohl talking about the Bad Brains in Interveiws and Kurt Cobain and The Melvins were both big fans of Flippers album "Generic" (which had a song on there) and after listening to Bad Brains "Pay To ***" I was hooked.
 
This.

A mate gave me a copy of BSSM when I was about 15 and it was the first album I really latched onto and obsessed over. Up until then music was only a secondary thing in my life and I never really listened to more than a few songs by any one band (excluding the Beatles/CCR)... my listening experiences comprised mainly compilations/singles/radio and then this changed everything and I became a music addict.
 
Linkin Park.

I remeraber buying Hybrid Theory, and that being the first music I REALLY loved.
And from there, I purchased Reanimation, which opened up the whole Hip-Hop side of music for me (because it featured the likes of Pharaoh Monche, Black Thought, Zion-I, etc).

That's the short story to mine.
 
I've never had that problem admitting I like certain stuff, hell I even through a Green Day album on my top 10 favorite punk albums. BanRAB like Blink 182 and Sum 41 are a great band to slowly bring people into music, they're like the Fisher Price of music. True with many people they use those banRAB as an entry, then start to go back and see who influenced them, and who they're influencing now. Some stuff stays, some stuff you grow out of, how I'd never immediately stop liking something just because I was becoming frienRAB with someone who didn't like them. I've had this discussion with an old friend from high school who went from becoming the biggest Radiohead fan in 6 months, to hating them 6 months later. Personally I don't care for Radiohead much so I was happy to see them go, but the circumstances in which they went were not truthful. Like what you like and fuck what others think, that's rock 'n roll.
 
I have loved music for as long as I can remeraber. There's no one band that got me into it, I grew up in a household filled with music and it's been important to me my entire life. It's difficult for me to image what it would be like to have discovered music at much later age as was apparently the case with you.
 
IRON MAIDEN!

Need I say anymore? The first band I ever worshipped, literally. I loved 10000 Maniacs way before Maiden, but the first time I ever heard a Maiden song "The trooper," it was like nothing I had ever experienced before.
 
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