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4th grade and before basically all I listened to was some Star Wars soundtracks and whatever happened to be on the radio
5th through about 8th grade consisted of a lot of crappy metal with some good metal, and some pop rock stuff.
In 9th grade I started getting into punk, first NOFX and Rancid and eventually Dead Kennedys, The Clash, The Misfits, etc.
In 10th grade I continued my obsession with punk, discovering Television, Richard Hell, and of course, post-punk. So I obsessed quite a few months over Pere Ubu, Wire, Bauhaus, Joy Division, Mission of Burma, etc. etc, and then one of my friends turned me on to grunge, which led to Mudhoney, Green River, and ultimately Husker Du, Meat Puppets, Minutemen, Pixies, Sonic Youth, Dinosaur Jr., and most other alternative bands of the 80's.
11th grade I think is when I picked up math rock, shoegazer, indie rock in all its various forms, jazz, hip-hop, post-rock, stoner metal and doom, noise and noise rock, and generally a greater appreciation for singer-songwriters, especially those with avant-garde flourishes like Jim O'Rourke.
Which brings us to this year, 12th grade, so far my recent discoveries have been Violent Femmes, Mos Def, John Zorn, Magnetic Fields, and a couple others which mostly fit into the categories mentioned above, and a new-found love for garage rock, particularly garage revival/garage punk bands. And I've found myself going back and listening to more hardcore punk which I haven't really been too interested in since 10th grade.
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