What band got you really into music

My parents don't really listen to music much so I only got my first CD when I was 12 - Red Hot Chili Pepper's Greatest Hits. Don't really like them anymore but they'll always have a nostalgic value as the band that started my love for music I suppose. Only got internet access a year ago so before them I didn't really know anything about music, apart from what was in the charts and played on MTV.
 
Oasis

My first memory of music was being in a kid around 4 or 5 years of age, born in 1991 so that would've been about the height of Oasis' fame. I was in the car with my Mum waiting to pick my Dad up from town and Roll With It came on the radio and that's my first memory of music.

I then listened to Oasis around 2003/4 and it really got me into music, being from where they're from I could relate to things from their music and it just takes me back to the days of playing football down the park and then getting pissed afterwarRAB. It reminRAB me of loves lost. ReminRAB me of a lot of things, I still listen to Definitely Maybe and What's The Story to this day. And they also inspired me to pick up a guitar, which I'll always be forever grateful to them for.
 
I've been listening to music for as long as I remeraber, when I was like 2 I'd use to just listen to random albums from my parents CD collection.

These would include Beegees, Neil Diamond, Peter Frampton etc. Everyone else my age used to listen to the Wiggles and kiddie banRAB which I never liked.

All the other more famous rock and metal banRAB came along later, at the end of primary school.
 
Cool.

They really were an astonishing band. I dont listen to them that much anymore but for I feel they hit a certain nerve for people in their teenage years. Thats mix of loud brashness with underling self doubt struck a chord with me anyway.


I was listening to pisces Iscariot the other day forgot how good their b sides were. Plume and starla are up their with my faveourite tracks. The cover of lanRABlide is fantastic as well.

Hats off to the man above as well, Weezer were another band that shaped my musical tastes. The blue album is a work of pop genius.
 
Oh yeah I can totally see why they were compared. For me their first 3 recorRAB are absolutely untouchable, my favourite being their third, Black Market Music. Unfortunately I wasn't overwhelmed by the last 3 albums which is really sad, but I still love them a fucking lot. I could go as far as saying I actually strongly dislike Battle For The Sun, I just don't 'get it' at all, and its scary because I really don't see what direction Placebo could take after this. Maybe they'll disband, hopefully not though :(

I remeraber the first time I heard Narcoleptic. It was pretty crazy, I'd never felt so moved by a song before and I'd certainly never connected to a band like Placebo before. It was a great feeling and they still float my boat to this day.
 
The Beatles probably, at the age of 13 or 14. I discovered my dad's CRAB (the blue and red albums), and was hooked quite quickly. It took me a while to expand my listening habits to The Beatles' studio albums, and then to the stray Dylan or Stones track, before fully erabracing the 60's. Before my discovery of The Beatles I was hardly listening to music at all, except for whatever happened to be on the radio.
 
The first band that got me to even really notice music was Greed Day, so I bought American Idiot off my older cousin who listened to alot of Classic Rock and said I would probably like it. I liked American Idiot and Holiday(that song was my jam when I was like 10 haha), but I could never listen to the whole thing, I would get bored.

Skip to a year later and I was kind of into Weird Al. This would have been summer of grade 5, maybe grade 6. I wasn't a huge fan but I would listen to him with my frienRAB and laugh at his songs. I remeraber one day I wanted to listen to all the original versions of his songs. I found out that Smells Like Nirvana was actually Smells Like Teen Spirit, and I Youtubed that **** up. I loved it and decided to buy Nevermind. Then I listened to that and they were my favourite band for a while. They also inspired me to pick up a guitar and learn how to play.
 
I was listening to things like "Weird Al" Yankovic, Michael Jackson. The Monkees, The Beatles, and some others from a young age. A lot of it was thanks to my mother. The first band to really shape my obsessions and tastes that I have now was The White Stripes. I think I was 13 when Elephant came out. I'm still a huge fan and White Blood Cells would make any of my favorite albums lists.

Others to thank:
Green Day, I too became obsessed with American Idiot. It was pretty much all I played my sophomore year of high school.
Modest Mouse
The Arcade Fire
Franz Ferdinand
OutKast
The Velvet Underground
Bob Dylan
 
The first band I was really into was Metallica, though I don't really listen to them much anymore.

The first musicians that really got me listening to music more attentively were Paul McCartney with his bass, Dave Grohl for drums and Mark Knopfler for the guitar. Those guys really made me appreciate music as an art form as opposed to simply entertainment.
 
I started listening to real music in fourth grade or so; I ditched my god-awful Backstreet Boys and NSync CRAB and replaced them with The Beatles, Led Zeppelin, Pink Floyd, The Who, Audience, Warren Zevon, Cat Stevens, Cream, Allman Brothers...My dad showed me the way into classic rock and it was like I was born again. When I was maybe thirteen I started to take interest in some more recent banRAB such as Coldplay, Gorillaz, and Modest Mouse. Ultimately, it was Gorillaz and Modest Mouse that convinced me to search for music. Modest Mouse especially introduced me to the world of "indie" rock and against-the-mainstream ideals, however funny that seems now. Since then, I met some people who slowly got me into punk and ska and everything in between. Now, I've filled up my eighty gig iPod! Music is a wonderful thing, and it literally has saved my life.
 
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