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Tristan_Geoff · 11-25-2016, 04:44 PM

Alright... *sigh*, here goes.

Early on in life, all I was really subjected to were church hymns, CCM, Country radio, and Christmas music. I think my first musical love would've been video game soundtracks like Yoshi's Island, Super Mario RPG, and of course, Donkey Kong Country. I first played that game in 2004, when I got it on GBA as a present the day my sister was born. I played that game nearly every waking moment, and I especially adored the aquatic level theme. I still love the **** out of every song on that game. Later on I would get the rest of the series as they systematically came out for the system, and I adored their soundtracks as well. I got a modded Xbox around 2004 as well, which was pre-loaded with around 150 original titles and emulators for Sega Genesis, MAME, Commodore, NES, SNES, some others. I really got into the soundtracks for these games too. Unfortunately, my brother was the one interested in skateboarding and I had no interest in it. Thus, I never had much desire to play Tony Hawk's Underground. But if I had, I would have a very different story here. Well, I did play Disney Extreme Skating some... and that game had some cool songs in it that probably shaped a bit of my taste.

Moving on of course, I didn't have much of a penchant for the Country or Gospel I would hear on a regular basis, though I liked some of the Elvis I would hear at times. But in 2009, that's when my tastes really started to begin developing. MJ had died while we were driving down to the beach for vacation. We listened to his songs the entire ride there, and something about the emotion of it really struck with me. I came to adore his music, getting a copy of Off the Wall for christmas that year. I especially loved Rock With You, Workin Day and Night, and She's Out of my Life, and I feel I can still put on that album and feel the same as I did the first time I heard it. The rest of middle school saw me getting into general 80s pop music via way of XM radio and my mom's CD collection. I grew to like Duran Duran, Tears for Fears, and Thompson Twins the most. In 7th grade, I set my radio alarm clock to the pop station, and for a few months was into radio pop. In 8th grade, I got into classic rock via the local rock station, and then from there got into grunge in 9th grade. The tail end of the year, I joined my first band, Nuclear Event. The guitarist knew a guy who could play bass for us and also had a drum set that I could use. The guy was rich as **** and practices had a neat atmosphere cause of the house. After like two practices I finally got that Green Day song down (Brain Stew) and accepted his offer to buy the set for 650. After a few months of playing I realized the guy was an ass and wouldn't give me any input or creative freedoms, as well as constantly demeaning me for my poor drumming (even though he can't play guitar worth ****, links if asked). I started getting into the general high school trope, pop punk and post-grunge. Breaking Benjamin was my favorite group. Then one day in 10th grade, my friend Nikki had brought her iPod classic to school and showed it to me, all the **** I had seen and read about online was there: Deftones, Incubus, Tool, Black Sabbath, Jimmy Eat World. All stuff I wanted to get into but never really got around to in my spare time. She gave me her flash drive to borrow and I copped all that ****. I also got into Primus around the same time, which was pretty influential regarding my tastes in experimental and noise later on. That summer I also got into my first real metal bands, and started my love for stoner rock. I got into Mastodon and Corrosion of Conformity.

The biggest impact of all, though, was meeting Neil. By the start of 11th grade I was already getting into punk, I was listening to Pissed Jeans, Melvins, Dead Kennedys, what have you. I was also getting into Velvet Underground and first learned of noise music, which I did enjoy at a surface level. But meeting Neil, I learned so much more of punk culture, getting into orgcore, further into stoner rock, his tastes mirrored that of mine but at a much deeper level. I started a punk band with him later that year, General Disregard, and we made some decent **** at one point. I even began actually enjoying hip hop by means of MF Doom, Aesop Rock, and A Tribe Called Quest. I started getting into some jazz too, mostly Thelonius. Early 12th grade I joined this forum and you all know the story from there.

tl;dr: All I heard early on was country, then I liked video game soundtracks like DKC, then I listened to 80s pop, then I listened to classic rock, then grunge, then pop punk, then post-grunge, then alternative metal, then more metal and more punk, then noise rock and post-hardcore, and then present times.