Morning View is like a lamer version of their first album.

Mr. Bungle's debut was one of my earliest loves though. My dad had it (he was totally ignorant of the rest of their stuff though).

I can't even like Limp Bizkit in a Ke$ha way. They're not only awful but boring too. I can at least mildly enjoy the odd Disturbed song once every year or so.

I wish both would be destroyed from my memory but if I could only pick one to go away it would be Disturbed.

My first CD ever was a single of that Mission Impossible theme song by Limp Bizkit.

I started listening to Nirvana and Korn and thought they were the best until I heard the pixies and gbv. Nowadays I've kinda been leaving my alternative roots in favor of experimental rock and that's pretty much where my taste is at now.

I guess my interest in music started when I was a kid when I would go through my mom's cassette collection and pick stuff out to play. Then I'd stand on her pool table and pretend I was a singer and it was my stage. This was ages 6-10.

From my mother I inherited Ace of Base, Celine Dion, KD Lang, Allison Moyet... and I never picked up the Bowie or Fleetwood Mac or anything like that because I was a GIRL and I can only perform GIRLS SONGS DUH, but those guys were in there and probably would have saved me from taking the scenic route to interesting music.

From there I used to watch this Canadian top-10 music program on our kids' network that played mostly britpop, and this was right when the Spice Girls exploded. From this I got S Club 7, the Spice Girls, Atomic Kitten, J Lo, the Backstreet Boys, Vitamin C, etc. At this point, I was too tall for the pool table, so my barbies were pop stars.

Eventually the Hit List went off the air and so I turned to my Canadian music provider (Much), and my friend introduced me to the music her brother listened to (which included Blink-182, Sum-41, Linkin Park, Rammstein, Avril Lavigne, etc.) so I did that whole thing where I abandoned fakey pop music (lol) for people who played in bands and wrote their own music. This was at about 13.

And then at 15 someone gave me a mix tape at school that included a pile of stuff from the pop punk/emo movement (My Chemical Romance, The Used, Brand New, Taking Back Sunday) of the oughts which I was NATURALLY swept up in as a tragic and misunderstood teenager.

And from there I discovered pirating music, so further interest in music was not really catalyzed by anything in particular. I just listened to a lot of things and as I grew older, I abandoned certain things (My Chemical Romance) and remained interested in others (Brand New), which led me to more things that I kept (Radiohead) or abandoned (Muse).

Having the annual mixtape is one of the neater things I've done with my time though. For most tapes you can kind of draw a path of how things progressed and you can pick out specific songs that led to the majority of the content on the subsequent tape. There are also some hilarious years where none of the content makes any sense at all. It's fun. I enjoy doing it.


I was tired! :laughing:

OMG I remember when you couldn't turn on Much without hearing In Too Deep, I Miss You, or Fat Lip.

Also it's funny you mention Brand New because I discovered them when I was 12 or 13 through my sister's old mixed CD collection. A lot of my early taste in indie/alt and emo came through stealing her CDs.

The first vinyl LP I owned was Dire Straits' Brothers in Arms. I won it in some kind of drawing as a kid.

I haven't listened to it since I was a kid but Van Halen's OU812 was the first album I ever pilfered from my mom's tape collection and it stayed in my Walkman for months. I kinda wonder if all that 80s rock didn't plant a seed in my brain that would leave me open to the likes of Motley Crue and Slayer. Probably still have a soft spot for it too.

God damn it it's on my computer and now I have to go listen to it.

Nope. **** my mom.