hobohunter48 Posted December 7, 2012 Share Posted December 7, 2012 This is inspired by the "Who was your first concert?" thread. There seems to be a certain couple of bands or albums that really click with you that make you really get into music for yourself. Mine were Alkaline Trio's Good Mourning and A.F.I.'s Sing The Sorrow. Who were yours? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blanchardoswald Posted December 7, 2012 Share Posted December 7, 2012 Early Rise Against, Alexisonfire, Moneen and Attack In Black got me into the music I listen to now. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dillhole Posted December 7, 2012 Share Posted December 7, 2012 Even though they suck something awful today, the first CD I ever bought was Green Day Dookie when I was 9. That opened the floodgates for me. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
konk Posted December 7, 2012 Share Posted December 7, 2012 Incubus was the first band I bought everything by; Morning View was first. Eventually I bought Places by Dashboard either because of MTV or rolling stone, but I didn't like it. There was this girl I liked that listened to total crap, but had a guy friend with good taste that told her about Dashboard. Then she broke up with me, so I started listening to it. Then I bought CDs with pictures of girls on the cover like SoCo and HRC. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fitterhappier Posted December 7, 2012 Share Posted December 7, 2012 One Christmas, I got the Beatles' Red/Blue album and that was the beginning for me. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
almightyseancore Posted December 7, 2012 Share Posted December 7, 2012 i can safely say that siamese dream and nevermind are both directly responsible for creating the musical douche bag that i am today. crapforgenius, hobohunter48 and abovetheearth 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mjglor Posted December 7, 2012 Share Posted December 7, 2012 Mellon Collie came out when I was 9 and my dad really liked '1979' so my brother got it for christmas and that was it. almightyseancore 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
travis Posted December 7, 2012 Share Posted December 7, 2012 First band I ever liked was Oingo Boingo, I remember being really little, like 4-5 years old and always putting that tape in my moms car. The first piece of music I ever bought with my own money was Pearl Jam's "Ten" on cassette tape. I still love both of those albums to this day. In like 6th-7th grade I started getting into punk music. My friend let me borrow The Vandals "Sweatin To the Oldies" and NOFX "I Heard They Suck Live" which were cool to start with cause I got to check out stuff from different albums from those bands. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
videogamesandvinyl Posted December 7, 2012 Share Posted December 7, 2012 Guns N Roses, Appetite for Destruction was the first cassette I got my hands on at a very young age. My uncle would give me their music and my parents would take it away from me due to the obvious foul language that most parents dont want their kids to hear. That's my all time favorite album and from there, I fell in love with music. Today, I listen to all kinds of stuff. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
¯\_(ツ)_/¯ Posted December 7, 2012 Share Posted December 7, 2012 green day dookie cassette tape was the first punk album I owned. listened to all my dads vinyl right around then too, Zepplin, T-Rex, Mot the Hoople, if you ever met my dad, you would not expect these albums to be the music he jammed. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
partysmasher Posted December 7, 2012 Share Posted December 7, 2012 Offspring - Smash and Green Day - Dookie for me, i remember having my mind blown by the "stupid, dumb shit, goddamn motherfucker" line in Bad Habit because i had no idea people swore that bad in songs. I must've been about 9 at the time. almightyseancore and ronniegwilliams 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
One Hundred Fifty-Two Posted December 7, 2012 Share Posted December 7, 2012 Sugar Ray "Floored" on Cassette in 1997 is the first album I remember buying. Before that I listened to the radio and whatever my parents liked. I guess around 1999 I got my first CD player, because I got The Slim Shady LP and Dr. Dre 2001 and the first NOW CD and Robbie Williams "The Ego Has Landed". Then by 2000 I was using Napster and I downloaded anything that came up when I typed Punk. And in 2002 I saw my first concert and it has been all downhill from there. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
One Hundred Fifty-Two Posted December 7, 2012 Share Posted December 7, 2012 You guys remember looking through the liner notes at bands that were thanked as a way to find out about new music? Can't do that with an mp3. nobodybrokeurheart, ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ and donttchange 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
travis Posted December 7, 2012 Share Posted December 7, 2012 You guys remember looking through the liner notes at bands that were thanked as a way to find out about new music? Can't do that with an mp3. I did that with every single CD I bought back in the day. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
donttchange Posted December 7, 2012 Share Posted December 7, 2012 You guys remember looking through the liner notes at bands that were thanked as a way to find out about new music? Can't do that with an mp3. I still do this. But as far as the topic goes, dookie, insomniac, sublime s/t, oasis morning glory, 16 stone. Mid nineties stuff. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
donttchange Posted December 7, 2012 Share Posted December 7, 2012 I do remember on soulseek, when you can browse other peoples files, randomly downloading bands that showed up often. Found out about a few choice bands that way. Dont think theres a filesharing program that lets you browse like that anymore. Is there? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jonnystorm777 Posted December 7, 2012 Share Posted December 7, 2012 Linkin park, Fenix Tx, early saves the day and nickelback.......J/k about the nickelback! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
konk Posted December 7, 2012 Share Posted December 7, 2012 First cd I bought was Smash, but it didn't open me up to punk rock. I stuck with "alternative" for a few years. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thedillon Posted December 7, 2012 Share Posted December 7, 2012 spice gurlz Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kforkevin777 Posted December 7, 2012 Share Posted December 7, 2012 When I was like eight, I played Linkin Park's Hydro Theory and Meteora nonstop. After growing up a good bit, really the stuff that got me into music were Nirvana's Nevermind, From Autumn to Ashes' The Fiction We Live, Underoath's They're Only Chasing Safety, and Story of the Year's Page Avenue. Yes, this was in like 2004. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted December 7, 2012 Share Posted December 7, 2012 i think saves the day and the get up kids were the first bands to really send me in my current direction. at the same time, i was big into dashboard, nfg, and yes, even good charlotte. but with saves the day and get up kids (even juliana theory i suppose), i knew there was a much more legitimate sound at hand. then i thank jesse lacey and kevin devine for opening me up to a lot more, too. my love of artists such as built to spill, modest mouse, neil young, miniature tigers, neutral milk hotel, dead confederate, archers of loaf, colour revolt, etc.. these are all directly attributed to these two guys. either through songs they've covered or bands that they've toured with. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cymbalism15 Posted December 7, 2012 Share Posted December 7, 2012 I bought every single Backstreet Boys cassette up to the Millenium one, first thing I spent my own money on. My tastes have changed but that's about it, I still love my music and still spend way too much maintaining that habit converge88 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bigbruise Posted December 7, 2012 Share Posted December 7, 2012 I was all about Solid State records back in the day. So a lot of metalcore and such. Zao was my band of choice who introduced me to a lot of Hardcore and stuff. Every time I dies last night in town blew my mind. Norma Jeans Bless the Martyr also ruled back in the day. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
selfreliable Posted December 7, 2012 Share Posted December 7, 2012 My first album owned was Dookie. I was 10. After that I swiped my sisters Sex Pistols cd, Rancid - Let's Go and Rage Against The Machine-ST and I was hooked. Before that though my mom used to play Hank Williams Jr, Garth Brooks, Reba, Alan Jackson, Vince Gill all the time and I would say that really turned me on to how great music could be and made me search out music to buy myself. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted December 7, 2012 Share Posted December 7, 2012 Built to Spill's Perfect From Now On changed my life from the second I first heard it on. Nothing to me can ever compare to it. I would still be listening to the Beatles and wondering why music is so mundane if it wasn't for that. Niandra LaDes by Frusciante also changed my tastes for good. Before that album, technical proficiency at instruments and a pretty singing voice actually meant something to me. Funnny because John Frusciante is a prodigy. withengineheart 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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