Queen, it blew my mind at the time :yikes:

I'm sure we have a thread like this somewhere, but I think the first band I really started to listen to was REM. Perhaps also the Beatles.

I was about 16 or 17, when I first heard Slayer and it blew my mind. Up until that point I'd mostly listened to hip hop and been quite dismissive of metal.

The First Song & "Band's".. I Started To Listen To.
 

The first rock song I heard that I vividly remember and comes to mind right away is, Bad Company's - "Good Lovin' Gone Bad". I remember the moment back in the early '70s when it first hit the air waves & vinyls. All of Bad Company's albums were very popular here in this part of the Northeastern United States. And they stayed that way, in this area of the states, as one of the most popular rock bands until they dis banned.
The first Band's, "I started to listen to back in the day" was Yes, Rush, Genesis. Queen, David Bowie. All the Blues Rock bands of that era. Aerosmith, KISS, Van Halen, Led Zeppelin, Styx, Boston, Steely Dan.
Also at the same time, I was listening to Earth, Wind, & Fire. Ohio Players, Average White Band, Brothers Johnson, Isley Brothers, Rick James, Parliament/Funkadelic, Lttle Feat, Wild Cherry, and other genres related to R&B/Jazz/Funk/Soul. I feel lucky to have experience so much good music, from as far back as, the 50s, 60s, 70s, 80s, 90s, 2000.+ I had to do a lot of investigating with the music from the 50s & 60s, since that was before my time, which was the 70s. (Blah, Blah, Blah) I feel like there's so many bands I'm missing?

I grew up listening to all old rock and roll, but I distinctly remember listening to the blue oyster cult when I was 3 years old with my family on our boat.

The first artist that I can remember was Frank Sinatra, thanks to living with my grandparents who thought that Sinatra was still hot **** in the 90's/00's. I always thought that they were dumb for listening to someone "so old". That is, until I got older and started to appreciate good music (imagine, I thought for so long that bands like the Beatles and U2 were as good as it could get!) through some god-send miracle. I found an old Sinatra album and listened to it and enjoyed it immensely, all while being majorly nostalgic. That's when I learned that Sinatra is totally still hot **** and I was a dumb kid way, way back.

The Beatles

Elvis actually but he wasn't a band

Nickelback, when I was maybe 12 or 13. I now think they're just awful, but they really opened the door for me to find more rock and eventually metal.

I'm thinking Elvis. I was eight or so and heard him on Lilo & Stitch, and then, being the child that I was, wanted to be all cool like Disney characters and listen to Evils Parsley as well!

When I was younger I got System of a Down's Toxicity and listened to it religiously.

Don't listen to em much anymore.