zachsd

Led Zeppelin, to the point that it took nearly a decade for me to return to them and be able to appreciate how great of a band they are. Looking back, I think I burned out on them before entering high school.

I even remember the specific song that really triggered it. On a car trip up to San Francisco via Big Sur from LA I must have listened to Going to California 100+ times on my little one-cd walkman. After that I started to get really into folk, like Joni Mitchell and Simon and Garfunkel, particularly Parsley, Sage, Rosemary and Thyme.

Before my Zeppelin phase I listened to The Beatles pretty much non-stop. The reason I don't say The Beatles though is because I wouldn't say they turned me on to music, they're music is just really ****ing catchy for a 10 year old. That's another band that took me a few years to come back to to realize how great they were.

Looking back I'm kind of bummed I never went through the whole early teen angst thing, rushing up to your room, slamming the door and then blasting Joni Mitchell doesn't really work.

Kirby

Linkin Park.

I remember 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.

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Ska Lagos Jew Sun Ra

Couldn't pinpoint it on a particular band. But, in general, Videogame music. I wasn't huge into alterna-rock(some of it, but not the majority) of the 90s and preferred what was coming out of my 16 bit SNES chip.

Badlittlekitten

Blur without doubt. I was about ten and the Britpop thing was at it's peak. I liked Oasis too but Blurs poppiness won out. Somehow their albums still sound fresh to me after all these years.

I wish I could reclaim the child like wonder of seeing a new Cd on the shop shelf and shrouding the songs with mystique and imagining what the songs would sound like from song titles alone.

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s_k

Dire Straits, I guess.
Dire Straits and a lot of live rockmusic I heard when I joined a group of hippies and punks when I was about 14 years old.

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Yabbicoke

The Beatles. One of the reasons being that they touched on so many genres, it made me want to explore them more extensively.

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DoctorSoft

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 friends and laugh at his songs. I remember 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.

METAShift

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.

s_k

Ah, Art. That's what it is.

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METAShift

Not sure if you're being sarcastic there...